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Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 20, 1895.
P.GRAY MEER, - -
Epi1TOR.
To Our Subscribers.
Next week you will not receive a
copy of the WarcamaN., The reason,
of course, most of you know and is be-
cause country journalism has not yet
out-grown its longing for a period of
relief from work during the cladsome
holiday season. :
With this issue the fortieth year of
the WatcnamaN’s existence is complete
and when it greets you again it will be
to begin another, in the future of which
we trust there is much of prosperity
and happiness for all.
It becomes no man to be glvomy or
“\ lowncast at this glad festal season.
Though fortune has passed you by and
may-haps death has added a bitter
sting to the cup of sorrow, already ov-
erflowing, there is still the consolation
that to all a Christ was born, and that
in the end His love will count for more
than all the treasures wealth can buy.
We wish you all a season of happi-
ness and good cheer and hope to greet
you again on the morning of January
3rd, 1896.
A Minister with Backbone.
It is gratifying to observe that the
only power that is making anything
like a creditable showing in the misera.
ble Turkish embroglio is the United
States. While the great European
powers have been displaying a shutlling
policy that has been ineffectual in re-
straining the atrocities of the Turks
in their treatment of the Armenian
(‘nristians, the vigorous protests of the
American minister TERRELL, and the
energetic measures he has adopted,
have secured protection for the persons
and property of American missiona:
ries that has excited surprise and
admiration throughout Europe. He
is being = recognized as the only
diplomatic representative at Con-
stantinople that is displaying the
qualities of a sturdy backbone, in deal- i
ing with the Sultan, and he bas as
tonished the other ministers by secur-
ing compliauce with his demand for
the punishment of the Turkish officer
who was responsible for the failure to
protect the property of American mis-
pionaries at Marash, in Armenia,
This is the minister who has been
charged with neglecting American in-
terests by those whose reckless par-
tisaniem has made it a political object
to misrepresent the foreign policy of
the CLeveLanNp administration. Bat
developments are showing that at no
point in our foreign relations are Amer
ican interests allowed to be injured, or
American honor to be sacrificed.
The President and the Currency.
The Preeident’s message does not
please the Republican leaders, and it
was not expected that it would; yet
there are members of the Republican
party whose good sense is no doubt
favorably impressed by many of its
suggestions.
It is pot surprising that so thor-
oughly unfair and unscrupulous a par-
tisan sheet as the Philadelphia Press
should declare that ‘not only does the
President propose no plan of increased
revenue, but he inferentially indicates
that he doesn’t want any.’” The Press,
itself, draws this inference from its own
intentional or muddled partisan view.
The President has sufficiently demon-
strated in his®message that the reve-
nues need no other legislation than
that which will reform the currency.
As long as we have a system of cur-
reacy that imposes upon the govern:
ment obligations that are ‘redeemed
without redemption and paid without
requittance” embarrassment of the
treasury is inevitable. If Congress
will follow the advice of the President
by remedying this defect in the cur-
rency, either by the plan he suggests,
or by some other that will attain the
same object, it will be all that is nec
- essary to be done in behalf of revenue.
If the revenues were twice what they
are the treasury would nevertheless
continue to be subject to the drain of
irredeemable obligations, and to the
fluctuating menaces incident to eo de-
fective a system of currency as that
which has grown up under the tenure
of Republican administration.
The President, with every appear-
ance of sincerity, offers to assist Con-
gress in putting the currency in a con-
dition that will contribute to the sta-
bility, instead of causing the disturb:
ance of business. :
———————————
—— CLEVELAND'S latest message to
Congress, on the Mo~RroE doctrine and
its bearing on the Venezuelan ques-
tion was applauded by all parties when
it was read ou Tuesday There is
no mistaking Grover ia it. He is
tor the Union first, last and all the
time,
ty, Gubernatorial Contrast.
There 1s something almost ludicrous
in the tribulation Philadelphia is hav-
ing over the exactions of the traction
company. The old city was never stirred
up as she now is by the increase of
street car fare that has been enforced
since that company secured control of
.1 all the lines. To say nothing of the
great strike that has completely bhlock-
ed traffic in that city for the past three
days and threatened life and property.
The newspapers of the city are over-
i flowing with wrath on tbe subject, and
{ meetings are being held for the ex-
pression of the fiercest indignation.
The meeting of the citizens in the
academy of music lact week to express
| their sentiments in regard to the trol-
ley extortions, was one of the largest
ever held in that building. It was
equally as large as the gathering that
filled that structure when Hasr-
NGS rallied the enthusiastic Republi-
cans of Philadelphia in support of his
gubernatorial candidacy.
One of the leading speakers at last
week's meeting was ex-Gov. PATTISON,
and the line of remarks he adopted
should have induced some queer re-
flections in the minds of that audience.
Among other remarks, he called up
the fact that a bill consolidating the
Philadelphia street railways, thereby
opening the door to monopoly, was
passed by the Legislature (of course
Republican) during his administration.
It was similar to the one signed by
HasTiNGs, but he vetoed it. chiefly be-
cause it was unconstitutional, but also
because it was injurious to the interest
of the people in that it would enable a
consolidated corporation to practice
extortions upon them. The state con-
stitution prohibits the purchase and
consolidation of competing lines of
railroads, and the Governor construed
this provision as applying to street
railways as well as to others, the prin-
ciple involved being the same, the pro-
tection of the interest of the people.
The Governor's address should have
made a deep impression upon that au-
dience, the majority of whom, in their
blind partisan fanaticism, had helped
w defeat him for the mayoralty of their
city lees than a year ago, and rejoiced
he stood before them he called their
attention to the fact that he had pro-
tected them from the rapacity ot a cor-
porate monopoly to which they have
been sold out by the Governor for
whom they rolled up an unprecedented
majority.
Nicaraguan Barbarisin.
Approval can be accorded to a lynch-
ing that recently occurred in Nicaragua,
although, on general principles, that
method of punishment is to be con-
demned. In this particular case it ap-
pears that an American named JoserH
HEersyAIER went to Nicaragua with the
object of engaging in an enterprise, and
had $2,000 in gold in his possession.
Upon its being discovered by the na-
tives that HERsMAIER had this amount
of money, a party of eight of them
broke into his residence, at night, mur.
dered him and got away with his treas-
ure.
This crime created great indignation
among the American residents who
had but little hope of Nicaraguan jus-
tice bringing the offenders to punish-
ment. Cune of the suspects was ar-
rested and imprisoned, but the others
easily managed to escape. The Ameri-
cans, being fully convinced that
there was no chance of punishing the
offenders in the courts, broke into the
jail, seized the only prisoner that had
been arrested for this great crime, and
lynched him. Who can condemn
this great act of violence, when proba-
bly it was the only measure of justice
that was possible in the case ? The
lyochers were arrested, but not pun-
ished, the miserable apology for a
government, however, being careful to
confiscate the residue of the murdered
man’s estate which the scoundrels who
had robbed and killed him had not
gotten away with,
It may point a moral to remark in
this connection that it was to redress a
wrong somewhat of this kind, in addi-
tion to an outrage practiced upon their
consul, that the Eoglish seized the port
of Corinto, about & year ago, and held
it until reparation in damages was se-
an act which the yelping Republican
jingoes represented as an outrage upon
the Mo~xroe doctrine, and attempted
to hold the CLEVELAND administration
| responsible for not interfering. These
miserable partisan fauit-finders would,
for a political purpose, misrepresent
the true object of that great American
doctrine, and prostitute it to the pro-
| tection of a set of semi-barbarians,
———Next year the WarcuyMax will
be better than ever. Are you cne of
ite readers ? If not, why don’t you
subscribe at once and keep well posted
in all matters political, general and
local ? There is nothing of the sense-
tional or slanderous to be found in its
columns. Always clean, bright and
reliable,
over it as a great party victory. As:
cured from the Nicaraguan authorities,
Intelligence and Suffrage.
A great deal otf unjust criticism has!
been expended upon that part of the
new state constitution of South Caro
lina which requires intelligent votieg
by providing that the right of suffrage
shall be exercised only by those who
can read and write. It was asserted
that the object of this provisicu was
to disfranchise the negroes. This po-
sition cannot ve maintained in view of
the fact that the intelligence qualifica-
tion applies to both races, and that it
will exclude from the polls quite a
number of what are classed ae the
poor white trash.
Some may question the policy of
abridging the right of suffrage, but it
cannot be charged that in this South
Carolina case it has been Jone with
the object of discriminating against
any particular race; but as there is
the greatest amount of ignorance
among the negroes they will, of course,
be the most affected by the restriction.
The same constitution, however, that
imposes this qualification, shows an
earnest disposition to make all the
citizens qualified volers by making
ample provision forthe education of all
classes and races. If the object was
to disfranchise the negroes there would
be no arrangements made, at great ex-
pense, for their educatioa.
——The President's message ae.
sumes almost the importance of a com-
mission to CHANDLER to show, now,
whether his jingoistic demand for war
with England was all wind or a genu-
ine desire to slake his blood-thirstiness.
Quaker City Held by Mobs.
Many Scenes of Violence When the Various
Street Cars Started to Run.—Over 100 Ar,
rests Made.— Strikers are not Taking Part in
the Disturbances.--State Troops May be Need
cd.~The Employes of the Union Traction
Company will Endeavor to Tie Up the Phil.
adelphia Street Railways To-day.
PniLADpELPHIA, Dec. 16.--The meet-
ing of the Amalgamated association of
street railway employe: to-night decided
to order a strike on all the lines of the
Union Traction company, at 4 o'clock
to-morrow morning. This was a rati-
fication of the decision made by the Exec-
utive committee earlier in the evening,
when ex-Gov. Pattison and Thomas
Martindale, representing a citizens’
committee, pleaded in vain with the
members to attempt another arbitration
with the company. Of the 0,100 em-
ployes, 4,500 are members of the asso-
ciation, but is believed that fully 95
per cent. of the entire force of the com-
pany will refuse to man their cars in
the morning. This strike will tie up
every line in the city excepting the
Arch street line, and the Race and Vine
street lize, which are not controlled by
the Union Traction company.
PaiLApeLruia, Dee. 17.—Philadel-
phia is all but at the mercy of a gang
of hoodlums, and the traction strike is
not yet 24 hours old. To-night nota
street car of the Union traction com-
pany is running, and that company
controls every line in the city with the
exception of two comparatively short
cross-town lines.
Over 100 arrests were made to-day,
and nearly all the prisoners were beld
for a hearing to-morrow. One youth,
not a Striker, was held in $4,000 bail
for cutting the rope on a mail car. He
will be 8 government prisoner. Large
details of police are on duty at every
cor stable and at points along the prin-
cipal thoroughfares.
J. J. Sullivan, president of the Elec-
tric traction, one of the branch lines,
was recognized by a mob at Fourth and
Market streets this afternoon, and the
clothes were almost torn from his back
before policemen rescued him. ;
The police were absolutely unable
to control the mob violence of to-day.
From early morning until dark, as
each branch line made desperate ef.
forts to start, howling mobs surround-
ed the car, stoned and hooted the mo.
torman and conductor, smashed the
windows, cut the trolley ropes "and
wrecked all possible destruction. Then
the attempt was abandoned. The strik-
ers took little if any part in the work of
destruction.
BATTLE AGAINST VIOLENCE.
The city’s executive declared to-night
in unmistakable terms that the strike is
no longer a contest between a railway
company and its employes, but a battle
between the city and violence, and the
city will win, if it takes the United
States army.
THE CITY RESPONSIBLE.
Separate letters were sent to the mayor
this afternoon by Mr. Welsh, Mr. Sulli-
van and William H. Shelmerdine, pres.
ident of the Peoples line, declaring that
the city and county would be held re-
sponsible for the value of the property
destroyed.
It it impossible to learn to-night
whether or not an attempt to start any
cars will be made to-morrow. On the
dozen divisions of the company to-day
an aggregate of about 56 cars werestart-
ed out. The total number in the ser-
vice of the company is 2,500, and the
entire road covers about 500 miles and
over 6,000 men are employed. About
5,000 of these are out.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18.—The sec-
ond day of the traction strike ends with
every wheel yet at a standstill. Excite-
ment has been ata high. pitch all day,
but the formidable police arrangements
prevented any serious outbreaks. The
calm was not natural, and mora violence
is expected at any moment. A few cars
were run to-day over branch lines,
guarded at all points by armed police-
men. In many ingtances they carried
their revolversdrawn. The mobs were
no smaller, but they respecjed the
gleaming weapons. Some few attempts
to stone cars were made, but they had no
grave results. Trouble will surely
come the moment an effort is made to
operate the cars without this heavy
guard or at night.
At midnight both sides appeared to be
firmer than ever. The strikers declare
that they are gaining recruits “every
hour. :
MR. RUTHVEN'S BLACK-LIST,
(Continued from page 1.)
do a lot—ready for anything on earth
—? He stopped hearing the roll of
carriage wheels. “That's the doctor.
Well, I'm glad he’s come,” said Tony,
“but I’m sorter sorry too.”
“So am I,” said Ruthven, “I don’t
Lave an opportunity to talk with a
man like you often, Tony. What's
the matter with my staying longer ?
I've lost my train; I can’t get away
to-night ; it will hurt this ankle like
the mischief to be jolted over that road
in the dark. If—’" He paused, a lit-
tle embarrassed.
_“I’d be proud to have you stay here
for the night, sir, if you can put up
with my accommodations—"
“Capital accommodations,” inter-
rupted Ruthven. “It's a bargain ;
we'll finish our talk. Oh, come in,
doctor’ -
The doctor was rather surprised at
the picture of Ruthven propped up in
chairs with the pipe of peace in his
hand ; but he examined the sprain
with professional gentleness and re-
ceived Ruthven’s notification of his in-
tention of staying at Tony’s with pro-
fessional calm.
“Lend me a bit of paper and peacil,
and I'll make a list of things you
might cend back,” said Ruthven ;
“gince Tony and I are going to make
a night of it, we may as well lay in a
stock.”
Tony looked after the paper, and
flushed a little. Then he bit his lip,
remembering just how his cupboard
shelves looked.
“I’m not going to sponge on your
Christmas provisions; Tony,” said
Ruthven.
After they were gone Ruthven did a
strange thing. At least it would have
been such to most men, though it
seemed only part of the humor of the
situation to Ruthven then and after
warde. He deliberately explained his
business to this workman, who had
been a stranger to him until that night.
He showed him how small a margin
of profit there was in any business un-
der the condition of the times, He
figured out materials and work, and
amazed Tony with many facts which
he had never known, until his feelings
forced their way in the question.
“Why didn’t you explain it to us
that way ? We'd never have struck if
you had.”
“I wish I bad now,” said Ruthven.
“The trouble, it seems to me,” said
Tony, “is many times that the men
aud the masters don’t get near enough
to see each other's position. The men
don’t realize how much brains it takes
to run a business ; they thick they're
ranuving things themselves, when they
ain’t, any meore’'n a horse runs a
wagon.”
They talked until late. When Ruth-
ven became hungry Tony made sup-
per. His contribution was the bread
and some toasted fish—to tell the
truth, his own proposed Christmas din-
ner. Ruthven had a bottle of cam-
pagne, but Tony declined it.
“I don’t hardly ever drink, and I
promised myself I wouldn't take any-
thing until this riot was over.”
“Well, it’s over,” said Ruthven ; ‘or
the same thing ; but if you won't, we'il
take coffee instead-”
And Tony sat smiling, looking at
his employer drink up at a sitting
what was to last him for the next
week. He admired Ruthven in the
whole-souled way that working men
still can admire their heroes ; his quick
mind followed Ruthven’s analysis with
a delight in every step; his eyes spark-
led with appreciation—and Ruthven
liked it. He told Tony of his early
youth, of his struggles, of his mother,
of his wife. He took out the photo-
graphs in his breast pocket and show-
ed them. On his part, Tony brought
an enlarged photograph of a smiling,
delicate little woman .and a sturdy
boy.
Ruthven looked at it long and care-
fully. “There's a pretty woman, and
a good one too. Tony, you are to be
congratulated,” said he. :
“I knew you'd see it,” said Tonv ;
“you always do see things.”
“Not always,” Ruthven answered,
rather wearily ; and Tony, noting bis
pale face, insisted on his going straight
to bed, although he himself was keen-
ly enjoying every moment. He had
built a fire in the bedroom, and he put
Ruthven to bed with the tenderness
that makes some men nurses by na-
ture.
Ruthven was long awake. The
chimes were playing Christmas carols.
The last tune was ove that his father
often gave out from his pulpit and his
mother loved. She used to singit over
the baby’s cradle ; and he could see
ber rocking the cradle and lifting her
finger to hush him as he would run in-
to the room. The forefinger of her
right band was cailoused by needle
pricks, and the joints enlarged by toil.
He had seen just such hands, delicate
and toil-marred, clasped over piteous
little bundles, that afternoon. The
thought of them affected him strange-
ly. Though she was a gentlewoman,
she was a working-woman too, his
poor, brave, loving mother, who died
before he was rich.
The words of the hymn rang out of
the music :
“All men are equal at their birth,
Heirs of the earth and skies ;
All men are equal when that earth
Fades from their dying eyes.
'Tis man alone that difference sees,
And speaks of high and low,
“And worships those and tramples these
4 While the same path they go!”
Some fine thread of feeling, such as
had not thrilled him since he was a
boy, dreaming a boy’s beautiful im-
possible dreams, ran through his veins
now and set his heart to a half-forgot-
ten tune. ‘‘I suppose that is the les-
son of Christmas,” he said to him-
gelf, “and this queer attraction that I
feel for the good fellow out there, who
has tiptoed in here twice to keep my
fire going, and is using up all his little
stock of fuel for me, and whom I no
more dare offer anything tothan I dare
offer to cut his throat—that 18 just the
man in me recognizing another man!”
Helay motionless, seeing his mother’s
face so plainly that it startled him. “It
is not strange,” he said, finally, “that
they go wrong if no one bothers to
teach them better. When it comes to
that, why in thunder shouldn't I show
a little sympathy for my own men 2 I
Jeelit!” Then he added, just as he
used to add when he was a little boy
penitent for boyish mischief. “Yes,
mother, I won't do so any more.” And
80 fell very soundly asleep. When
Tony woke him, it was broad day-
light, the pain in his ankle was gone,
and the carriage was waiting for him.
Tony had prepared eggs and toast
and coffee. Both men were rather
silent after the expansion of the night
before.
“I'll pack away the dishes,” said
Tony, “I-—in fact, I got to goto a
meeting of the men at ten,”
“Have you?’ eaid Ruthven. “Why,
| £0 have I. And, Tony—Merry Christ-
as !"”
| hank you, sir,” eaid Tony.
The men had gathered in a sullen
mood. Somehow it had been noised
among them that Ruthven was in
town. They hardly knew what to ex-
pect ; but the general story was that
i the factories were to open and that
there would be a long black-list. A
tew of the more reckless spirits talked
of prolonging the fight, flinging aloat
a hundred baseless rumors, each” 43
profeseional strike-makers use to blow
vigor into a dying flame. Ruthven
had contracts on hand, he must meet
them, he never could get together such
a body of skilled workmen as be had,
and the like stories. To these most of
the men returned only a gloomy sil-
ence. There were loud calls of “Tony!”
“Davis!” “Tony’s the boy !”
As if'in answer, Tony and Ruthven
entered the hall. Every man jumped
to hie feet as Tony assisted the man
with him (who walked with a cane) up
the platform steps and rapped on the
table.
silence unbroken even by a cough,
“you all know the object of this meet
ing ; I have the honor to introduce to
you Mr. Ruthven.”
Then Ruthven made the first speech
of hislife. He eaid, looking over the
audience and supporting himself by
the edge of the table : “Boys, don’t
you think you have rested long enough?
The whistle will blow the day after
Christmas, and we will ‘let the strike
be ended. You will all be welcome,
and Mr. Davis here will explain to you
that we have gone over the wage ques-
tion together, and he is satisfied that,
for the present, I cannot give you bet-
ter wages ; but he is good enough to
gay you all know me to be a man of
my word and when the times warrant
it the wages shall be raised. That is
of Christmasto me. [I suppose
the turkeys are rather low to-day, but
I think with roast pig and beef the
grocers can make out to give each mar-
ried man a good dinner, and they will
see io the single men. Mr. Davis and
I have seen the butchers. That's all,
except that T wish you all a Merry
Christmas !’
The men looked at each other ; then
a gimultaneous impulse rolled a cheer
out of every throat. There was a break
in some of the voices, coming from a
relief so deep the men could hardly
realize the change. In the midst of
the cheering a man made himself
heard. He was moving that thestrike
be declared off by a rising vote.
The man who put the vote was Tom
Brady. Davis adjourned the meeting,
but not a man left the room ; they
crowded around the door to look at
Ruthven as he went out. .
“] guess they'd like awful much to
shake hands with you, sir,” said Tony,
“but I'm afraid it would hurt your
ankle—'’
“Not a bit of it,” said Ruthven. “I
mean to be better acquainted, and this
is a good time to begin.”
The first man that Ruthven greeted
was Tom Brady himself. Brady was
choking so that he couid only gasp
profanely something about having been
a drunken fool yesterday.
“Yesterday's wiped out,” said Ruth.
ven ; “we’ll all take a fresh start.”
But for Tony’s vigorous elbows
Ruthven could hardly have gotten
away from the crowd, and he could
hear them cheering him far down the
street. As they drove along Ruthven
took something out of his pocket and
tore it up slowly.
“It just somethingI have no nse
for,” said he. It was the Zoar Wagon
Company black-list.— Harper's Bazar.
A Stunner for the Jingoes,
WasHINGTON, Dec. 17-—President
Cleveland in a message to congress to-
day regarding England’s reply on the
Venezuela dispute says ‘that the dispute
bas reached such a stage as to make it
incumbent upon the United States to
take measures to determine with suffi-
cient certainty which is the true divis-
ion line between Venezuela and British
Guiana. This done, says the president,
it will be, in my opinion, the duty of
the United States to resist by every
means in its power as wilful aggression
upon its rights, the appropriation by
Great Britain of any lands we have de-
termined belongs to Venezuela.
An Easy Job’
From the Clearfield Republican.
Among the countless useless offices
established by the recent Republican
Legislature, an exchange note of clerk
to the State Economic Zoologist. Miss
Mary Rbone ot Centre couaty, is the
lucky person to fill this important (?)
office and she has already reported for
duty. She is the daughter of Worthy
Master Leonard Rhone, of the State
grange, and she will receive a salary of
$1,500 a year. ‘The office is a sinecure
aud about all she will have to do will
i be to report now and then at the De.
partment and draw her salary.
-—You can buy as good a cloth
{lady’s cape at Lyon & Co's. for $3.50
as you pay $4.50 for elsewhere.
“Gentlemen,” said Tony, amid a
all—only this is a special sort.
Reduced Rate Tickets to Atlanta Ex-
position via Pennsylvania Railroad.
December 19 and 24 are the last days
on which tickets for the Atlanta Expo-
sition will be sold by the Pennsyiva-
nia railroad at reduced rates.
These tickets will be good for ten
days.
Rates and time tables can be ob.
tained on application to ticket agents,
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
MARRIAGE LiceNses.—Following is
the list of marriage licenses granted by
orphans’ court clerk, G. W. Rumber-
ger, during the past week :
Jchn W. Dale, of Benner township,
and Annie E. Tressler, of College town-
ship,
William S. Scaif, of Chester Hill,
Clearfield county, and Rebecca Walker,
of Rush township. =
Philip L. Stere, of Union township,
and Arvilla Lueas, of Snow Shoe.
J. Collins Mattern, of Half Moon
township, and Candace B. Woodring, of
Worth township.
William IH. Calvert, of Williamsport,
and Fannie L. Butler, of Axe Mann.
Clarence W. Adams, of Philipsburg,
and Susie Rowland, of Dudley, Hunt-
ingdoa county, Pa.
John F. Miller and Ma Ball Best,
both of Meadisonburg.
Prilip Grenoble, of Pine Grove Mills,
and Bella Corl, of State College.
Albert Dillen and Susan Shunkweiler,
both of Philipsburg.
Wm. Byron and Sarah Ashurst, both
of Philipsburg.
Eugene Heverly, of Lewistown, and
Annie Stuart, of Spring township.
——Good morning, have you seen
Zeller’s holiday goods ?
——The largest assortment of men’s
dress overcoats, that can be found in the
State, from $3.50 to $18 a piece, at Lyon
& Co's.
Foster PREDICTS SNOW FOR CHRIST-
MAS.—My last bulletin gave forecasts of
the storm wave to cross the continent
from the 16th to the 20th, and the next
will cross the Pacific coast about the
20th, cross the west of Rockies country
by the close of the 21st, great central
valleys the 22nd to 24th, and the
eastern States the 25th. This disturbance
will occur during the coid part of
the month, and this storm will bring
the blizzard kind, followed by very cold
weather. Precipitation will extend to
nearly the whole of North America,
principally snows in the north, snows
and sleet along the fortieth parallel and
cold Tains in the south. The warm
wave will cross the west of Rockies
country about the 20th, great central
valleys the 22nd, and the eastern States
the 24th. Cool wave will cross the
west of Rockies country about the 23rd,
great central valleys the 25th and the
eastern States the 27th. >.
The last weather disturbance of De-
cember will reach the Pacific coast
about the 26th, cross the west of Rock-
ies country by the close of the 27th,
great central vallays the 28th or 30th
and the eastern States the 31st. Tem-
perature will not go so low with this
disturbance as the one preceding and
precipitation will be less. The coo]
wave following will soon give way and
January will come in under a high tem-
perature average. Warm wave will
cross the west of Rockies country about
the 26th, great central valleys the 28th,
and eastern States the 30th. Cool wave
will cross the west of Rockies country
about the 29th, great central valleys the
81st and eastern States Jan. 2.
Some people will not forget the great
storms, eold wave and blizzard that
crossed the country Nov. 22 to 26, the
date given in my bulletin for this dis
turbance, but they might overlook the
facts that these severe storms were clear:
ly predicted in the bulletin of Oct. 9,
which said : “This disturbance will
bring in the coldest part of the month.”
The general forecast of this month was
low averages from 21st to 28th.
—A boy's fine chinchilla storm
overcoat for $4, worth $5.50, at Lyon
& Co's.
Pine Grove Mention.
To all a Merry Christmas.
Gossip has a Christmas wedding slated,
guess ?
At the Saturday evening meeting of the
Pennsvalley I. O. O. F. a number of friends
from State College were present.
Prof. G. W. Weaver, of Curwensville is
in attendance at his father’s bedside, who
has been seriously ill with heart trouble,
but is now better.
The mossbacks are home without the
sign of a trophy. They tell wonderful
stories about the game they wounded ,but
how strange it is they did not bring any
of it home with them.
The Lutheran church and Sunday
school will hold the usual Christmas en-
tertainment on Christmas evening, while
our Pine Hall friends will have their cele-
bration on Christmas eve.
Dr. Alexander and wife, of Potters
Mills, were welcome guests at father.in.
law H.R. Smith's, on Main street, the ear-
ly part of this week. On account of the
doctor's practice he returned home while
Mrs. Alexander remained to cheer her in.
valid father, who is helpless from paraly-
sis but is able to speak quite distinctly
now.
The W. J. Meyers carriage works, one
of our most prosperous industries, has
been crowded with orders all season, ex-
tra time is worked in several--depart-
ments and from present indications the
' prospects for a large trade next year is