State College. ae PENN’A. STATE COLLEGE. Located in one of the most Beautiful and Healthful Spots in the Allegheny Region ; Undenominational ; Open to Both Sexes; Tuition Free; Board and other Expenses Very Low. New Buildings and Equipments LEADING DEPARTMENTS OF STUDY. 1. AGRICULTURE (Two Courses), and AGRI- CULTURAL CHEMISTRY ; with constant illustra- tion on the Farm and in the Labor. 2. BOTANY AND HORTICULTURE; theoret- ical and practical. Students taught original study with the microscope. 3. CHEMISTR with ‘an (Jusmally full and horough course in the Labora! , : 4. CIVIL ENGINEERING ; ELECTRICAL EN- GINEERING ; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING These courses are accompanied with yoy exten- sive practical exercises in the Field, the Shop and the Laboratory. 2 : : 5. HISTORY ; Ancient and Modern, with orgi- nal investigation. 6. INDUSTRIAL ART AND DESIGN. . 7. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; Latin (optional), French, German and English (requir- > one or more continued through the entire 9; course. : 8. MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY ; pure and applied. . 9. CHANIC ARTS; combining shop work with study, three years course; new building and equipment. ne MENTAL, MORAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Constitutional Law and History, Politi- cal Economy, &ec. ; 11. MILITARY SCIENCE; instruction theoret- ical and practical, including each arm of the ser- ice. x 12. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT; Two years carefully graded and thorough. Commencement Week, June 14-17, 1896. Fall Term opens Sept. 9, 1896. Examination for ad- mission, June 18th and Sept. 8th. For Catalogue of other information, address. GEO. W. ATHERTON, LL. D., President, State College, Centre county, Pa. 27-25 Coal and Wood. Eovasp K. RHOADS. 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ECT ——— Waves Sweep a Town. + Perhaps 100 Persons Drowned in Guthrie, Okla.— Flood Was 20 Feet Deep.—It Demolished Houses and 2,000 May Be Homeless.—The Cottonwood River Turned Into a Torrent that Came Upon the City With a Cyclone’s Roar.—Negro Settle- ment Swamped First and the Finer Residential Part of the City Afterward.—Unprecedented Rains Caused the Sudden Rise of the River. A great flood swept down the Cotton- wood River valley, at Guthrie, Oklahoma, last Thursday, and toppled over hundreds of dwellings like cardboard boxes. Two thousand homeless people are shiv- ering on the bluffs west of the city or housed in the homes on the part of the city which lies high and dry on the hills. A hundred or more persons have been drowned, and thousands have lost their all. The flood swept through the residen- tial part of the city. The river was unusually high and watchers were on the look out when sud- denly they were startled by a terrific roar from up the river valley and were soon convinced that a terrific flood was com- ing. The fire alarm was given and the police- men rode all over the town near the river warning people and telling them to flee for their lives. Some thought the roar that of a cyclone and sought theig caves ouly to perish a few minutes later. Others stopped to save things until it was too late, and very few would at first believe that any great danger was threatened. With a mighty roar the flood came down the valley a mile wide, twenty feet deep in the channel .By nine o’clock the water was thirty feet above the normal level of the river, and the once placid stream was a raging torrent across the entire valley. The property loss will be fully $100,000 in the city, and will reach in the hundreds of thousands in the country. Up and down the Cottonwood valley for many miles everything is swept away, and it is believed many more people perished in the country. The railroad tracks are swept away south of town and badly damaged north. The railroad tracks are on the east bank Across is the valley running through the western part of the city and in it is much of the finest resident part and a small business sectién, where there were about twenty stores, several mills, warehouses, &e. In less than twenty minutes from the time the fload struck the city this entire section was inundated. and within an hour the water was ten feet deep and hundreds of building were floating away. Not only the meaner structures, but fine residences, store buildings, a large cotton gin, and other structures went into ruins or floated away down the stream With the first rush went every bridge in the city. The few boats were crushed or carried away, and nothing could be done to help many who fell or were swept from places of refuge and were drowned before the eyes of horrified but powerless specta- tors. ‘ By Friday the Cottonwood and Cimaron rivers were not yet within their banks, and searching parties went out in boats and rafts to coast both banks for sixty miles from Guthrie, or farther, if necessary, to search for the dead bodies known to have been carried down stream. Thieves and pillagers looted the wreck- age last night, entering many of the dis- mantled houses in the ahsence of their owners. (Guards were placed. everywhere possible, and there were ‘threats of tynch- ing any of the guilty ones, but none were caught. . No additional bodies have been recovered since last evening in the vicinity of Guth- rie. . Farmers along the bank recovered a large amount of live stock and furniture, and are gradually bringing order out of chaos. The destitute are being cared for in good shape. : The body of George Owen, who was swept down while saving others, has been found where it sank, caught fast in a small tree. Mrs. Fannie Ruffin, colored, was found buried in the debris in her own door yard. Several more bodies are reported found on the Cimaron. Hundreds are at bodies. work hunting for General Miles’ J nnket. Simply a Very Pleasant Journey to Greece for the Veteran Officer. General Miles dearly loves a junket. He has procured an order that he shall pro- ceed at once to the seat of war in the Gre- cle Sam learn all there is of the art of war as practiced in that quarter of the globe. If the purpose were really to acquire valuable information for future use the United States would send a younger man, but the purpose is simply to give General Miles an agreeable outing at the expense of the United States. General Miles prac- tically certifies to the country how useless he is in the office at Washington which he now occupies. If he had any real duties to discharge, if his presence were worth anything he could not be spared on this wild-goose chase to Greece. = If General Miles were a young officer and, having witnessed operations of grave moment in which novel methods of con- ducting warfare were employed, would re- turn home to make as full and satisfactory a report as McClellan, being then a captain of engineers, made of the operations in the Crimea, there would be some sense in what he makes a mere expensive junket of no utility and of some considerable expense to the United States.— Chicago Chronicle. To Ome Junket, $6,000. This is How Representative Spatz Foots Up the Grant Trip. n Representative Charles B. Spatz, of Berks county, in g letter to the Reading Eagle, makes this interesting statement concern- ing the Legislature’s trip to the Grant monument exercises in New York : “Of course we didn’t see much of the parade, or hear any of the speeches, but that mattered listle to the solons, so long as they were well provided with all that’s good to eat, drink and smoke. There was certainly an abundance of all that, and the Senators and Assemblymen knew just how to put it away. I am told the junket will foot up $6000. Quite an item. But then it was a great day, a great Republican day, and it had to be observed. ’Tis a pity the bill of expenses will not be itemized, so that it could hesent out to our constituents for their edification.” It Looked That Way. He—My only inberitance is brains. She—1Is someone holding you fortune in trust ? | sunshine enters. of the river for three-fourths of a mile. |. cian archipelago and for the benefit of Un- | ‘Forest trees For Health, Wealth and Beauty. t . The planting of trees on country high- ways, hillsides and waste lands would be found a most valuable factor in the econo- my of the State, a fact which has been too long ignored. The law which exists in many countries of Europe, when a man may not fell a tree except hy an official per- mit and replacing such by sapling from the nursery, would not be an unwise rule, for at least our older States. The question for the planter of trees is, which are the best and most desirable va- rieties to plant. In my opinion the Orien- tal plane. ‘‘PlantanusOrientalis,”” known also as the Oriental Sycamore or Button Ball ; the last name is on account of the globular arrangement of its seeds, which are preserved hy remaining on the tree un- til spring-time. For beauty and sturdiness it would be difficult to find their superior in the closely-built portion of the country. Among its advantages are to be mentioned rapid growth, clean trunk, ability to withf. stand successfully hard usage, thriving well, whether planted by the running stream or in opening through a patent or asphalt pavement, and subject to the an- noyance of sewer illuminating gas. Its crowning characteristic is a wide spreading top, branches far apart and large leaves, thus affording plenty of shade, and at the same time allowing a free circulation of air, preventing undue moisture. The leaves are not attacked until a last resort by insects and do not fall until the frosts of autumn come. * * Another useful city tree, quite popular about forty years ago, but which has fallen into disrepute on account of its mal-odor- ous bloom, is the ‘‘Alanthus,’’ or ‘‘Tree of Heaven,’’ probably so named by the Chi- nese, from whom we have the tree. This species has a wonderful vitality, and speci- mens of it may be seen growing in small yards and passage ways where little or no It would seem as thewgh the members of the Flowery Kingdem had learned in that over-crowded country the art of thriving, even as the celestial, under adverse circumstances. A fact concerning this tree but little known is that the fe- male bloom is without odor, and as the tree is easily propagated by suckers of young trees from surface roots, the sort de- sired may be easily obtained. This tree is to be recommended only when more desir- able varieties would not thrive. The North Carolina poplar has and enjoys almost a monopoly at the hands of city tree planters. It is a fair tree and after it has outgrown the ubiquitous tree slayer takes quite gol ve of itself. It has a bad hab- it, howevek,/of beginning to drop its leaves early in July and usually by the end of August caterpillars have come for those remaining. ‘Now; it would pay any state to hire a competent man, by the year to travel and disprove this statement. These trees suffer from borers,” which cause it to be easily broken by high winds. They are amongst the first to be attacked by insects, neither do they make a handsome tree except un- der. the. most favorable circumstances ; while for timber they arc comparatively worthless. The sugar of rock maple, on wo started for the place at once. Bicycles. = e Bicycles. Attorneys-at-Law. WE DON’T GUESS - or take for granted. The mechanical’ : features of our bicycles are all proved. COLUMBIAS, gion, 1 We know that Sales Room and Repair Shop Crider’s Exchange. 42-11-3m Murdering Women and Children. ~_ Cuban Settlement in the Country Wiped Out. Neither Age Nor Sex Spared. Horrible details come from Sancti Spiritus, Havana, of the total destruction of a small village ten miles from there in the middle of the month. The village con- tained 150 persons, who had received per- mission from the commandant at Sancti Spiritus to remain there and grow crops. On Weyler’s visit to this section he was in- formed of this, and it was intimated to him that the Spanish Governor there had received money to allow them to remain. Weyler gave orders immediately to Capt. Diaz, the noted guerrilla leader, to remove them. Diaz with a force of 300 men Arriving there at night he stationed the men around the settlement, completely compassing it. The houses throughout the village were then fired upon simultaneously, and as the poor, screaming, defenceless creatures emerged from the buildings they were shot down like dogs. The Spanish guerrillas spared neither age nor sex, and when morning dawned there were over 100 bodies lying among the ruins of the once flourishing village. Diaz made report that he had been attacked by Cubans, and that some pacificos had been killed during the fight. But the exact facts in the matter were brought to the | Cuban Junta in Havana by a courier, who gave the story in all its tragic details. the contrary, is a hardy and beautiful tree, furnishing in addition to sugar the highly- esteemed ‘‘Bird’s Eye’ or Curled Maple. The Norway and the sycamore maples are both desirable and sturdy trees, particu- larly to be recommended as lawn or orna- niental trees. The pin oak, with its cone. shaped head and drooping branches and leaves, which cling during the winter, is very effective where little shade or height is desired. Probably the most valuable from a financial view is the black wal- nut. This tree is a moderate grower and fairly graceful, and one which would well | repay its planting on abandoned farms and waste lands, if the planter be ‘young and healthful, or desired to leave a fortune to his family larger or smaller, according to the number of acres planted. The chest- nut and black locust are both rapid growing ornamental trees, and furnish val- uable timber, the latter being used in shipg building, and commands a good figure: A tree but little known in this country is the Ginko or maiden hair, so named from the shape of its leaves, which resem- ble in outline those of the fern of that name. This tree, like the alanthus, is al- so a native of the ‘‘Flowery Kingdom.” It is vigorous, though slow of growth, and very ornamental, with itsdeep green leaves and lovely shape. It seldom fruits in this climate. . Its fruit is highly esteemed by the Orientals, who use it much after the man- ner that the Occidentals use pickled olives. The tree is also unique, possessing as it does the leading characteristic of both great divisions of the vegetable kingdom, to wit: it has the outward growing trunk of the exogens, with the parallelled veins of the palms or endogens. ® Ea The following is from a London encyclo- pedia, published in 1790. Under the de- partment of ‘‘Forestry,’’ is this statement : should not be lopped This should be a maxim to be closely adhered to by all who have do to with shade or forest trees. To verify this state- ment you have but to observe the trees on the streets of this city. The heading back or lopping causes a luxuriant growth of tender shoots, which are easily killed in winter. The wound made by the saw or hatchet invites decay and borers and short- ly the last state of the tree is much worse than the first. ‘Forest treesshouald not be lopped.” This rule, if applied to the oc- cupation of the tree trimmer, his occupa- tion, like that of Othello’s, would be gone, and in both cases humanity would be the gainer. + Of the evergreens the Arbor vite isa large and hardy family of beautifully varie- gated foliage. The hedge of Arbor vite. ‘Thuya occidentalis,” is particularly use- ful for this purpose. It may be kept at any desired heighth by trimming or maybe allowed to shoot skyward, affording an ex- cellent wind break. } In conclusion, I express the desire that the closing of this and the awakening of the new century will mark a renaissance of arbor culture, due and care will be exercised to replace the dead and dying trees of our streets with the- MILESBURG, PA. A. A. KoHLBECKER, Proprietor. 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