Demorvatic; Jai: i
Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Nov. 30, 1894,
P. GRAY MEEK, EpiTor
Does Centre County Want a Poor Farm ?
The question of doing away with
the overseer system in Centre county
and establishing a county home for
the poor is again being agitated after
a lapse of fifteen years. The poor di-
rectors of Rush and adjoining town-
ships have taken up the question and
will endeavor to secure the signatures
of two-thirds of their fellow officials in
the county, so that they can go before
the court and have the question sub-
mitted toa vote of the people at the
February election.
In the event of the question carrying
i the popular
said that the Senator intends to op
pose such an appropriation. If this is
true, it is to be regretted that be hax
not been properly impressed by the re
sult of the recent election. The over
whelmirg majority by which he wes
deteated should teach him that neither
himself ner his party was benefited by
the attitude of oppcsition he assumed
toward the Democratic tariff and iuv-
come tax. He has rather reason to
believe that if those Democratic me 8
ures had received the hearty support of
himself, and of the otner disatfected
Democratic Senators who impaired
their object and delayed their passage
expression against the
Democratic party would not have been
as pronounced as it has been. The
income tax is the farest and most
equitable form of taxation. It is
greatly needed to supply the sources of
reveoue which have been impaired by
bad Republican fiszal legisiation.
it will be necessary for the county
Commissioners to purchase a suitable
farm, erect buildings and equip them |
with all the necessary paraphernalia,
the same to be paid for by an issuance
of bonds. They will elect each year a
superintendent of the home and a phys-
ician, constituting themselves its
board of managers. The county Treas-
urer to be treasurer of the home.
The advisability of such a course
should necessarily be carefully consid-
ered before it is adopted. Many argu:
ments can be offered both for and
against the plan. There can be no
doubt that the concentration of all the
poor funds expended in the county
would provide a better home for pau-
pers and serve the purpose more di-
rectly through the hands of the Com
missioners than by being apportioned
out by the overseers of the various
townships. Under a concentrated
management a poor farm could be
made almost self-sustaining, as is done
now in 33 of the 67 counties in the
State. And statistics show that where
eounty poor houses are maintained the
tax rate is one half lower than where
the over seer system is in force.
But with all these advantages the
WarcHMAN is not in favor of a plan
that will make districts, when paupers
are hardly known, pay taxes to keep
indigents in other parts of the county.
Through Penns valley there are pre-
eincts where there is practically no
poor tax necessary and it would be un-
just to force residents of that district
into thelpayment of taxes to keep peo-
ple in others. However, it would be
reasonable to put the question to an
election test then let the districts that
vote in favor of a county home go
ahead and build one for themselves.
This plan would be entirely practicable
and fair. For afterwards if other town.
ships should desire to change their
methods they could be admitted to the
home by paying a proportionate share
. of its organization expeuses, which
could be used toward raising the bonds
* that had been issued. The WarcaMAN
will have more to say on the question
in its next 1ssne.
A Slight Improvement in Business.
Though the pre-election Repub:
lican promises that gulled unthink-
ing Democrats to desert their party
- are by no means being fulfilled, yet there
is a slow and sure increase in the vol-
ume of business that is reported by the
trades agencies. Laboring men who
were promised $1.25 a day, if they would
vote the Republican ticket, have not
gotten it, nor will they very soon, but
with the general increase in business
there is bound to come an increase in
prices all along the line, and it is but
natural for labor to expect its share.
Dunn’s Trade Review for the week end -
ing, Nov. 24th, contained the following :
There are some changes for the bet-
ter. The gain is slow, and in some di-
rections not very distinet, but the signs
of it are a little more definite than last
week. The most important of them is
larger employment of labor, answering
a better demand on the whole tor manu-
factured products. Much of this is due
to the unnatural delay of orders for the
winter, which resulted from prolonged
uncertainty, but it means actual increase
in earnings and purchasing power of the
millions, and so gives promise of a larger
demand in the future. Prices of farm
products in the aggregate do not im-
prove, but the prevailing hopefulness is
felt in somewhat larger transactions.
It must be born in mind that Damo-
cratic laws are now in operation and
* will be for two years and a half to come,
80 let whatever of prosperty or distress
that is noted in this time be credited to
the Democratic party. We are not like
the Republicans who blamed a Demo-
cratic administration for the effects of
their McKINLEY bill, while it was still
. operative. We want to stand wholly
on our own merits.
Senator Hill andthe Income Tax.
There is & report that Senator HiLn
There should be no hesitation ta grant
ing the appropriation required for the
operation of the income Lax law.
Carlisle and the Income Tax.
The Secretary May Not Ask for an Appropria
tion to Carry it Out.
W asuiNgTON, Nov, 27.—It is re-
ported that Secretary Carlisle will de-
vote at least a paragraph of his an-
nual message to the income tax by
calling the attention of the lawmakers
and the public to the fact that Con-
gre-s at its last session failed to make
an appropriation to carry out that por-
tion ot the Gorman Tariff bill. It is
not thought that the Secretary will
commend that an appropriation ‘be
made at the coming session, but that
he will content himself with laying the
tacts before the members of Congress
for such action as they may desire to
take. Although it cannot be stated
with positiveness that the income tax
could not be collected, it money should
be appropriated for the work, yet no
official of the Treasury Department is
willing to express the opinion that the
Internal Revenue Bureau could as-
sume the great task of doing the work
which, in Secretary Carlisle's letter to
Congress last session, he said would
necessitate the appointment of at least
250 deputy collectors and an expense
or $500,000.
The Secretary of the Treasury can
find a very prompt method of nullity-
ing the Income Tax law if he cares to
do go, by simply following the preced-
ent established by himself in the case
of another provision of the Gorman
Tariff law. He has nullified the pro-
vision relative to the free importation
ot alcohol, to be used in the arts, for
the reason that he has found it im-
practicable to frame regulations that
would prevent fraud under the pecul-
iar wording of the law, and also be-
cause Congress made no adequate ap
propriation for rendering this portion
of the law operative.
The only appropriation that was
L made by Conzress for the collection of
the Income Tax was $9,000, given in a
joint resolution rushed through Con
gress in the closing hours under the
argument that it was needed for the
general purposes of the Internal Reve-
nue Bureau and not especially for the
Income Tax law. This money is all
gone now. Exactly one-half of it was
set aside for the salary of the so-called
superintendent of the Income Tax, an
official not known to any law on the
statute books.” Secretary Carlisle, in
the exercise of his discretion, deemed
it right to nse the money to pay the
salary of an offlzer who had been legis-
lated out of office by the Dockery law,
and he has devoted himself in a gen-
eral way to arranging the preliminaries
for all the new class of work of the In-
ternal Revenue Bureau.
The method of starving a law to
death by withholding appropriations
has been practiced before now with re-
‘gard to internal revenues. During the
war a law was parsed that -the Secre-
tary of the Treasury declared to be in-
operative, because no appropriation
was made for it. Congress was 87 in-
formed, and regarded the reasons as-
signed by the Secretary of the Treas
ury as good, and the law was effectu-
ally starved to death, The opponents
of the Income Tax have only to make
a united and determined opposition to
an appropriation and they can defeat
it.
Capture of Port Arthur.
Japanese Torpedo Boats in Front.— Troops in
the Rear—Chinese Made a Desperate Defense.
LonpoN, November 24,—The Cen-
tral News correspondent at Shanghai
says, the fall of Port Arthur has creat-
ed great excitemeut in the native
quarter of Shanghai. The news of the
capture of Port Arthur by the Japan-
ese was brought from Che Foo yester:
day by a British steamer. No details
of the fight have yet been received,
but all accounts agree that the Chinese
fought gallantly - and desperately.
Some of the officers and men in the
forts refnsed to surrender and were all
cut down by the Japanese.
The Star publishes a despatch say-
ing that the Japanese torpedo boats
engaged the attention of the forts
while the troops closed around the
forts at the rear. Then the torpedo
boats made a sudden and disconcerted
dash and succeeded in getting inside
the harbor. The Japanese artillery in
the rear kept up a continuous fire upon
the Chinese forts and the iofan:ry
made a succession of attacks upon the
outer defenses, which they captured.
After the first onslaught by the Japan-
ese the resistance of the Chinese is
inten 1s to fight the income tax in the
next session of Congress. An appro- |
priation will be asked for the purpose |
of carrying out the provisions of the |
nome tax law, which was neglectel |
at the lag’ session, and without which
the law will be in-operative, but it is
| tended Port Arthur,
said to have been feeble and finally
the Chinese troops became panic
stricken and fled. :
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Central News save it is estimated that
14,000 to 20,000 Chinese troops de-
It is supposed
that two Coines: warships were eold
at Port Arthur.
Eckels on Finance.
Currency of the Country Confused by Experimen-
tal Law.
New York, Nov, 27.—-In an article
entitled “An Essenual Condition of
Prosperity,” contributed to the Decem-
her number of the North America Re-
view, which will be published 10 mor
row, Hon. James H. Eckels, comptrol-
ler of the currency, contends that there
“can be no hope of nodisturbed and
substantial prosperity to all classes ot
the American people unless and uniil
the whole currency and banking sys:
tem of the country is formulated into
one harmonious plan, in #hich each
part shall be absolutely sound in prin-
ciple and the embodiment of monetary
science. American financial legisla-
von has been of the most pernicions
character, and tad legislation in the
feld of finance must always exert a
destructive influence on business,
There is scarcely a single act upon the
statute book affecting our currency
svstem which has not been placed there
simply to meet some emergency that
conlironted the country at the time, in
the beliet that a difficulty might be
bridged over.”
He cites as anexaimple of emergency
measures the greenback. The green-
back measure he claims, fosters a sen-
timent for fiat money, in which he in-
cludes silver tree coinage. The na-
tional bank currency measure, he
claims, was also an expedient to pro-
vide a market tor the government
bonds. It was valuable as affording a
perfectly sound currency, but not suf-
ficiently elastic. The Bland act and
the Sherman silver act are reviewed as
mischievous measures of temporary ex-
pediency.
The currency system of the county
resultirg from the constant passing of
experimental laws has become so coon-
fused and unsound that Mr Eckels
wonders not that we have satfered so
much financial disaser during the
years of its construction, but that we
have suffered so little, “It is not at
all surprising,” he says, ‘that each
morning the first inquiry that address.
es itselt to the business men of the
country anxious to satisfy himselt as
to business conditions 15, Have a
thousand dollars of gold come into the
treasury, or have a thousand dollars of
gold gone out of the treasury ? Noone
fluence upon the country’s prosperity
which such uncertainty breeds. It is
an uncertainty which calls a halt upon
every new undertaking, and blocks
every avenue of trade in which a busy
people are engaged.
Sensational Divorce Suit.
It Startles Both Political and Social Circles in
Several Eastern Cities—The Defendant a Lead
ing Candidate for United States Senator From
Delaware.
WiLMINGgTON, Del, Nov. 26.—Mrs.
Rosalie Addicks, wife of J. Edward
Addicks, the leading Republican coa-
testant for the United States Senators
ship in this State, has filed a libel for
divorce from her husband in the ‘Su-
preme Court of Newcastle county.
In her libel Mrs. Addicks charges
marital infidelity as the ground for the
application and names Mrs. Ida Carr
Wilson as co-respondent. Mrs. Wil-
son lives at Miraflores, a handsome
county seat at Claymont, Del., adjoin-
ing Mr. Addicks’ home farm. Mrs,
Addicks’ application is for absolute di-
vorce, with alimony. Her counsel are
William E. Hilles, of this city, and
John J. Johnson and H. S. Cattell, of
Philadelphia. Herbert H. Ward, of
this city, is counsel for Mr. Addicks.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says :
J. Edward Addicks was seen this after-
noon at the Union League Ciub in re-
ference to the charges made by his wite
in her libel for divorce. Mr. Addicks
was not disposed to talk on the subject,
but when pressed for a statement fo
his side of the case, said ; :
“The charges are entirely false; a
trial of the case will demonstrate this.
That is all I have to say.”
The news that Mrs. Edward Addicks
has begun suit for divorce will un-
doubtedly create a sensation in social
and business circles in New York,
Boston and Newport as well as Phila-
delphia, where both Mr. and Mrs. Ad-
dicks are well-known, The utmost se-
crecy has been observed by the attor-
neys representing the wife, and very
little can be learned as to the nature
of the allegations contained in the libel,
which was filed in court in Wilming-
ton more than a month ago. The news
would not have become public to-day
were it not for the fact that the court
rules required that service should be
made aod the notica in court by the
last Monday in November. Summons
to answer the charges was therefore
served upon Mr. Addicks on Saturday,
and he acknowledged the service, no-
tice thereof being filed to-day.
To Europe By Balloon.
Professor King Planning for a Trans Atlantic
Trip by the Air Line.
Professor Samuel A. King, the =ro-
naut, is about completing the plans for
a balloon trip to Europe. He says that
a balloon properly adjusted can re-
main in the air for the length of time
requirod to make the trip. One of
enormous dimensions will be construct-
ed especially for the purpose.
It will be filled with hydrogen gas
from an immense apparatus coastructed
expressly for the purpose, and 120,000
pounds of fine iron, 130,000 pounds of
fine sulphuric acid, forty bushels of
lime and twenty tons of ice will be con-
sumed in the process.
The ascension will be made as thesun
einks in the west on the day announced, !
provided always that the wind favors a
direct approach to the New Jersey !
coast. No attempt will be made. to use
the drag-rope until reaching the ocean, !
or pesibly far out upon it. Thea the
pounds or more of water ballast taken
in by means of bags carried for the pur-
pose will put it well down upon the
waves for th: ocean part of the voy-
age.
can overestimate the detrimental in- |
Seven Express Robbers Caught.
—— |
Surrounded in the Antelope Hills in Teras—
Murderersas Well as Thieves.
Fort WortH, Tex., Nov. 26.—The |
first definite n-w< of the attempt to:
hold up the Gult, Colorado and Santa |
F=- Station and Wells Fargo Express |
office at Canadian on Fridav night last
reached here yesterday. Five pack-
ages of money, consigned from George
Isaacs, Kavsas City, to George Isaacs,
Canadian, and purporting to contain
$425,000, arrived at Canadian on Fri
day might, Within forty-five minutes
after the train came in a band of rob-
bers attempted to rob the station.
Sherifl M-Gee of Hemphill county,
who was there alone, attempted to
stand the robbers off. He was shot
and morally wounded. He died ot his
wounds on Saturaay wight. The rob:
bers escaped unhurt. A posse was
made up on Saturiay morning ani a
search for the robbers begnn. Word
has reached here that the posse eur-
rounded the bandits in the Antelope
Hills, in Cheyenne county, and after a
desperate fight captured seven of the
party. Particulars are not obtainable.
A relief party containing surgeons,
has left for the scene. The robbers
were heavily armed and well mounted.
A reward ot $4,000 has been offered for
their capture.
Princess Bismarck’s Death.
Had Long Been a Sufferer but the End Was Not
Expected so Soon--Kept Her Real Condition
Secret—The Prince Broken Down With Grief
VarziN, Nov. 27.—Princess Bis-
marck, who died at 5 o'clock this
morning, had for years been a sufferer
with a bronchial trouble and gastric
catarrh. Eighteen months ago she
was found lying in a faint at
the foot of her bed. These fainting at-
tacks were repeated from time to time,
The immediate cause ot her death was
dropsy complicated with heart disease.
The disease rapidiy became worse dur-
ing the last few days.
The Princess was cheerful to the
end. She tried to deceive her hus-
band as to ber real condition. She
spent much of her time out of bed.
Dr. Schwenioger and Dr. Crysander
regarded her case as hopeless a month
avo, but concealed the truth from
Prince Bismarck.
Cleveland's Foot Still Weak.
. WasniNaTON, Nov. 27 —As the pres-
ident is still obliged by his physician's
orders to refrain from using his strained
foot, he did not come to town to-day, so
the regular Tuesday cabinet day was
abandoned, there being no urgent busi-
ness requiring attention
Foot Ball Scores Yesterday.
At Lock Haven, Bellefonte Acade-
my 6, Lock Haven 10.
At Pittshurg; The Pennsylvania
State College 14, Pittsburg Athletic
Club 0.
“At Philadelphia, University of Penn-
sylvania 18, Harvard 4.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—J. W. Stover, of Millheim, kill-
ed two pigs, on Thursdav, the combined
weight ot which were 939 pounds.
——The Philipsburg papers say the
coal business is very dull and the like-
lihood of there being a merry Christmas
for the miners is duller still.
--—0n Monday evening Bellefonte
0dd Fellows received a fraternal vigit
from Canton lodge of Lock Haven. A
pleasant evening was spent in the hall
in the Crider building.
Lecture Ar HUNTERS AND PINE
Grove MiLLs.—Dr. McKinley's lec
ture, which was necessarily postponed,
is now arranged for next Monday eve-
ning, Dec. 3rd, in the Buffalo Ron
Presbyterian church, and for Tuesday
evening, Dec. 4th, at the Presbyterian
church at Pine Grove Mills.
Cuange oF TIME ox BExcH CREEK
RAIL-ROAD.—On the new time card of
the Beech Creek railroad, effactive No-
vember 26th, train No. 33 runs through to
Patton and ttain No. 36 starts from Pat-
ton The Beech Creek road continues un-
der this new schedule the excellent local
and through service that hes been fur-
nished in the past.
—-—Before this session of court sheriff
Condo, had twenty-three prisoners in
bis keeping. Two of them will go to the
penitentiary, one will go to the Danville
asylum, a young Irvin from Bald
Eagle valley; Annie Simpson will
be sent to a home for incorrigibles
in Altoona, four wiil be released and
three will more than likely spend a few
years in the Huotingdon reformatory
--—-The Central rail-road Co. of
Penna. is fixing up both dams in the
Hecla park, and expect to do a big
wholesale ice business daring the win-
ter. Chutes will be arranged to run
the sawed ice right off the breast of
both dams into the cars and it will be
delivered 1n this place at a surprisingly
low rate. Already the company has re-
ceived orders for fifty carloads that will
be shipped to distant points.
——Rev. Miles O. Noll, pastor of the
Reformed church of this place, has ac-
i also.
cepted a call to serve the Raformed peo-
ple of Carlisle, a charge which pays a
larger salary and has only one church.
‘While here Mr. Noll preached at Zion
He will move to his new home in
tima to begin his work there by the first |
here.
— On Saturday evening the 8ih,
the Methodists will have, in their lecture
| room, an entertainment and sociable, for
the benetit of the Sunday school library
fund, which which will be well worth
attending.
Lee Woodcock and Philip Waddle will
sing and the others who have promised
to take part are stars of the same mag-
nitude.
—— A brave but misguided scrub
foot-ball team from State Cullege is here
to play our team this afternoon.
are nice young fellows and we are sorry
for them. The ones who escape with
their lives will doubtless get back to the
college some day to tell the story of the
slaughter. The dead will be held for
identification at Haworth’s undertaking
rooms. — Philipsburg ~~ Ledger.—Editor
Williams has doubtless changed his
opinion since the defeat of the Philips-
burg team by the score of 10 to 0.
——Irvin Speer, plucky and lucky
as ever, is away down in Morgan city,
La., putting in electric plants on sugar
plantations. He has erected eighteen
in that vicinity, but is coming north
as soon as his presen: contract is fin-
ished, for the country is very un-
healthy and Irv. would sooner move
than be an angel. He has had a hand
in every electric light plant of any
size on the Pacific coast. He has
worked in Alaska, Chili, Texis and
every one ot the Rocky Mt. states,
and could no doubt do better by the
West than did Harper's pet, Richard
Harding Davis.
MARRIAGE LICENCES. —Issued dur-
ing the past week taken from the docket,
Jeremiah IL. Rachau, of Cedar
Springs, and Bertha V. Mechtley, of
Nitiany.
William Fetterolf, of Gregg Twp.,
and Martha Emerick, of Potter Twp..
Geo. M. Walker, of Milesburg, and
Almira McCloskey, of Romola.
Harry H, Tressler, of College Twp.,
and Nettie Benner, of Benner Twp.
Wm. C. Kelly and Mollie Saylor,
both of Spring Twp.
Frank Tharp and Regina Gettig,
both of Harris Twp.
IN THE WAKE OF DIPHTHERIA.—
Realizing what an awful scourge dipth-
theria is to an afflicted community and
wishing in some way to express their
sympathy for those bereaved the Spring
township school board held a special
meeting, on Saturday Nov. 24th and
passed the following resolutions :
WhEREAs it has pleased an allwise Provi,
i| dence to send into our schools that dread dis-
ease diptheria. That we.therafore extend our
heart felt sympathy to the bereaved parents in
their distress in the neighborhood in which
the schools have been closed.
Also that when the schools open again that
we require a physician’s permit from both
teacher and pupils from families affected with
said disease.
MURDERED NEeArR THE TYRONE
DEPOT. —An unknown man was found
dead in the woods, about a quarter of a
mile above the Pennsylvania rail-road
depot at Tyrone, on Tuesday morning.
Beside his body was a broken razor and
a four inch gash under the left ear told
the cause of his death. The spot where
the body was found is known as “Camp
Ratreat,”” where tramps put up during
their stop in Tyrone between trains.
Everywhere there was evidence that a
struggle had taken place and it is be-
lieved that the tramps got into a drunken
fizht on Monday night and killed the
man.
THE SENIOR ASSEMBLY.—At the
Senior Assembly in the armory of The
Pennsylvania State College this evening
the following ladies will be patronesses :
Mrs D. H. Hastings, Mrs. F. S. Shep
pard, Mrs. W. A. Buckout, Mrs. J. M.
Smith, Mrs. H. T. Harvey, Mrs. J. B
Johnston, Mrs. H. P. Glover, Mrs. O.
F. Delo, Mis. W. P. Duncan, Mrs. Geo.
W. Atherton, Mrs. T. W. Kinkaid,
Mrs. M. E Kilgore, Mrs. R. M. Foster,
Mrs. J. A. Rohrer, Mrs. J. E Colt,
Mrs. J. F. Wilson, Mrs. Cyrus Gordon
and Mrs. Edward Smith.
Stopper & Fisk’s orchestra will fur-
nish the music for the dance which will
doubtless be greatly improved by the
addition of a barp. Among the dances
will be found both of Bellefonte’s young
composer’s pieces, Mr. Lee Woodcock’s
“Oranje B ven” and * Keystone March.”
Brokrk His Lee WHILE CHASING AN
UNRULY ScHOLAR.—Teacher William
Gentzel, who has charge of what is call
ed the Forge school in Spring township»
located at the Valentine iron works, met
with a most painful accident last F'ri-
day. He Leard one of his scholars using
profane language and told him to stop,
but the boy swore all he more. Then
the teacher started after him and the
youngster ran away. Gentzel ‘gave
chase and it was while running as fast as
he could that he steppad on a stone that
turned, breaking his leg in two places.
The break was so bad that part of the
bone protruded through his flesh and
stuck clear out through his clothing.
Dr. Geo. F. Harris, of this place, was
rope will be lowered, and a thousand ! of the year. Mr. N)ll has been consid- | called and set the injured member and
, ered one of Bellefonte's best ministers "the sufferer is getting along as well as
and he bas certainly done a great deal can be expecied.
lof good for his church during his stay been excruciating indeed with his leg in
' such a terrible condition.
His pain must have
John Powers, Hard Harris, |
ET EE EE EA EE ST NE A EE TP TY ETE TT ET A SE EE SE RIMES
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE —D bby Foulk
a pretty little girl and daughter of Joshua
Foulk, of this place, attempted to «nd
ber life on Monday night, by drinkirig
laudanum. Her intention was frustrated
by the prompt work of antidotes and
the girl is alive and well to-day, but un-
happy as ever over some gay Lothuario
who don’t love her as she thinks he
should.
InstituTe WEEK. —The forty-eighth
i annual session of the Centre county
They |
teach®r’s institute will meet in the court
house here during the week of Dec. 17th
to 21st. Last week we published the hist
of instructors who have been engaged,
but omitted the evening entertainments
since they had not then been fully ar-
ranged for. They will be as follows :
Monday evening, “Bound to Win,”
Hon. Henry Houck ; Tuesdav evening,
“Conversers and Orators,” Dr. A. E.
Winship ; Wednesday evening, “The
Spirit of the Teacher,” Dr. A 8S.
Draper ; Thursday evening, “Patrick
Henry,” Dr. L. I. Handy, of Newark,
NJ
Thursday, December 20th, wiil be
Directors day and it is desired that as
many as possible be present when the
meating 1s called to order at 10 o'clock,
a. m. in the High school building, on
Bishop street.
AN Act oF KINDNESS. —On Saturday
night the dwelling house of James Au"
man, a short distance on this side of
Hublersburg, caught fire. As the house
is locatad very near to the C. R. R. of
Pa. tracks the crew of a train on that
road noticed the first glimmer of the
flames and thinking that the danger was
possibly unknown to the inmates of the
house the train was stopped and run
back. The trainmen then jumped off
and running to Mr. Auman’s notified
the family that the house was on fire.
They had not even thought of any such
danger and were entirely unconscious
that their house was being consumed by
flames at the time. The warning saved
them, however, for with the prompt
application of water the fire was ex-
tinguished and the family was happy
again, while the train sped on down the
valley.
Such an action as this was on the part
of that train crew is certainly deserving
of the highest praise, for had they not
taken the trouble to inform Mr. Auman
of his danger his house would have been
in ruins to-day. He feels deeply indebted
to those who thus averted such a catas-
trophe and their action will be com-
mended by everyone who reads these
circumstances.
BELLEFONTE'S ENTERPRISING FLOR-
1ST.— Mr. George Baldwin, late head
gardener at The Pennsylvania State
College, whose flower store, next door to
the WATCHMAN office, has been the cen-
ter of attraction among lovers ot rare
plants ever since he opened in Septam-
ber is daily enlarging his stock. His
new hot houses at the rear of Parrish’s
drug store, on Allegheny street. have
been completed and are being put in
readiness for the culture of all kinds of
foliage and flowering plants.
A green house is'a new thing in
Bellefonte and from the growing trade
which Mr. Baldwin is enjoying prom-
ises to be a paying venture. It cer-
tainly is a much needed store and we
trust that Bellefente will encourage it
into permanence. All kinds of cut
flowers, chrysanthemums, carnations,
roses etc., are constantly to be saen
bedecking his display windows with
their lovliness and attract the attention
of pedestrains on west High street He
will have an extra supply on band for
the dance at the College to-night as
well as for the holiday season. He will
grow all kinds of flowers in his hot
houses so that he will be in readiness to
fill orders of any kind at all times.
Ur 10 DATE oN THE WEATHER --
Mr. Foster says in his latest obser va-
tions . “My last bulletin gave forecasts
of the storm wave to cross the continent
from the 21st to the 26th, and the next
will reach the Pacific coast about the
27th, cross the western mountains by
the close of the 28th, the great central
valleys from the 29th to Dec. 1 and the
eastern states about Dec. 2. The prin-
cipal feature of this disturbance will be
the severe cold wave following it, which
will be accompanied by extensive snows
in the northern states.
The first storm wave of December will
reach the Pacific coast about the. 2d,
cross the western mountains by the close
of the 4th, the great central valleys from
the 5th to the Tih and the eastern states
about the 8th.
This disturbance will be of more than
average force, and will be followed by
cold weather. The coldest waves of the
month will cross the continent from
Dec. 1 to 4, end 7 to 10. Warm waves
will cross the western mountains about
Nov. 27 and Dec. 3, the great central
valleys about Nov. 29 and Dec. 5 and
the eastern states about Dec. 1 and 7.
Cool waves will cross the western moun-
tains about Nov. 30 and Dec. 6, the
great central valleys Dec. 2 and 8 and
the eastern states Dec. 4 and 10. The
average temperature and rainfall: for
Dacember and the general character of
the incoming winter will be given in
my next bulletin.” -