--gtantial Beworra tan Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance. Bellefonte, Pa., June 17, 1898. P. GRAY MEEK, - a Ebpitor. Democratic District Ticket. For Congress, J. L. SPANGLER, Subject tothe Decision of the District Conference For Senate, W. C. HEINLE, Subject to the Decision of the Dictriet Conference Democratic County Convention. v (ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College. Assembly, { 5“ WETZEL, Bellefonte. Prothonotary, —M. 1. GARDNER, Bellefonte. District Att'y,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte. County Surveyor,—H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp. The Democratic Ticket. The Democrats of the county in past years have had many good tickets to sup- port, but it is many, many, years since they have had a better one than that pre- sented by the convention on Tuesday last. Right here at the beginning of the con- test we make the assertion that when the Democracy, qualifications and character of the men named for county offices become personally known to the voters of the county, that the convention’s work will be most enthusiastically approved and the ticket receive the earnest and united efforts of every Democratic voter. For Legislature both the men are excep- tionally well qualified for the position. Mr. FOSTER has served one session and during that session creditably and satis- factorily represented the interests of the county. Although it was his first term in the Legislature he was one of the most in- fluential representatives there, filling places on three of its most important com- mittees, and largely, through his work, se- curing the full amount of appropriations required for the State College and Philips- burg hospital, both of which institutions are in this district. To his credit it can be said that in no way can his name be con- nected with any of the scandals that dis- graced the last Legislature, or with any of the stealings that gave that body the repu- tation of being the most corrupt assembly of representatives that ever met together. He did his duty and did it well, and was al- ways at his post ready and willing to serve his constituents. The people of the county will see that such representatives are returned. Mr. WETZEL, the other nominee for As- sembly, is an attorney in this place and one of the most popular young men in the county. His election last year to the of- fice of county surveyor over an unobject- ional candidate, when all others on the ticket with him were defeated by sub- majorities, attests this.” He comes from a family of Democrats, baving eleven brothers, every one of whom is an active worker for the party. His abilities no one will question, and his character is without blot or blemish. In anything he undertakes he is as conscien- tious as he is earnest, and as a representa- tive of the people of Centre county he will put forth every effort to see that their in- terests are properly guarded. We predict for him one of the largest votes cast for any candidate on the ticket, and we add to that prediction the additional one that when he returns from Harrisburg it will be with the reputation of having filled the position with great credit, not only to him- self but to the people of the county as well. For Prothonotary the contest was heated and exciting. All the candidates were worthy the position, eminently qualified to fill it, and had warm earnest friends ad- vocating their nomination. The choice fell to M. I. GARDNER, who is well known in all parts of the county, having twice before, been a candidate for the position and both times submitted to the action of the con- vention, that defeated him, in a manner that proved his democracy and went far toward securing him the support he re- ceived on Tuesday. Mr. GARDNER is a native of Howard, and comes from a family that has for years and years, devoted their time and energies to the success of Demo- cratic principles without asking any recog- nition or receiving any reward. Shortly after attaining his majority he came to Bellefonte as a clerk. After the reorgani- zation of the Valentine Iron Co. he was made chief clerk for the company, a posi- tion he filled acceptably until the closing down of the works about a year ago. He is admirably fitted for the duties of the of- fice he seeks, being an excellent penman, a careful, methodical, obliging, gentleman whose every effort will be put forth to do well what he undertakes and to treat with courtesy all who have business at his of- fice. He enjoys the confidence and es- teem of every one who knows him, and when elected will prove one of the most efficient and obliging officers ever elected to the position. Mr. N. B. SPANGLER the nominee for district attorney, is a native of Potter town- ship, a son of Mr. GEORGE W. SPANGLER one of the most active Democrats of that locality. He read law with ORVIS, BOWER and ORVIS, and has built himself up quite a lucrative practice in the few years he has been at the bar. For two years he acted a3 chairman of the Democratic county com- mittee, devoting his time and energies to ad- vancingiDemocratic principles and winning for himself a reputation as a Democrat that others might envy. Heisa young man of excellent attainments, well versed in crim- inal law and a most persistent worker in any cause he undertakes. He is deserving and will receive the support of every voter who admires real worth and desires in the public prosecutor’s office a worthy, intelli- gent and conscientious official. At present he is a private in Co. B, Pennsylvania vol- unteers at Chickamauga, and as the repre- sentative of the soldier boys, will receive such an overwhelming vote, that the indi- vidual who attempts to contest with him for the place will not know himself as a candidate when the returns come in. To complete the ticket Mr. HORACE B. HERRING, of Gregg township was chosen for county surveyor. He is one of the best Democrats and one of the best known young men in Penns’ valley, and everyone who knows him admires his sterling integrity, his high character and his manly qualities. He is a son of the late lamented SAMUEL HERRING Esq., than whom the county had no better citizen or more reliable Democrat. It is not a big office that Mr. HERRING has been selected to fill, but as he is one of the kind of men who do well everything they undertake, he will perform the duties of the surveyorship with the same care and fidelity that would be given a more impor- tant and lucrative position. : All told, taking qualification, character, worth and merit, into consideration the Democracy of the county havea ticket they may be proud to support, and one that is deserving of the best efforts of every Dem- ocrat to elect it. All of Them Deserving. That the men who presented themselves as candidates for nomination on Tuesday last, and were defeated, were good Demo- crats and deserving of recognition, is prov- en by the fact that everyone of them ac- cepted defeat like men and went home de- termined to assist their competitor in se- curing an election. It is under misfortune and in defeat that you can best measure a man. He who turns up smiling after de- feat, determined to do for those who were successful, just as we would have expected them to do in case he had been, is the man everybody admires. He is full of that kind of manliness that makes men, and carries with him that respect from others that lesser men may well envy. The man who cannot be a Demo- erat in adversity as well as in prosperity is not the kind to ask honors of the party. There was none of these kind of candidates before the convention on Tuesday and now that its work is over each of the defeated aspirants will be found doing his best for the success of those who were successful. All honor to the defeated candidates ! Congratulations to the Democracy of the county ! All is harmony. The Finishing Days for 9S at State. The largest class in its history was grad- uated from the Pennsylvania State College on Wednesday morning and with the fare- well of those thirty-three young men and their one class sister the thirty-eiglith--an- nual commencement at State was brought to a close. The baccalaureate sermon in the chapel on Sunday morning at 10:30 really marked the opening of the commencement week. It was delivered by the Rev. L. M. Colfelt, of the Oxford Presbyterian church in Phil- adelphia, who took for his text 1st Sam. 14-6. Having been in constant touch with the members of the class of ’98 for over a year, as an instructor, Dr. Colfelt talked to them with an earnestness that can not but have left a lasting impression on those who are even now in the struggle for an honor- able position in the world. MONDAY AT COMMENCEMENT. Monday dawned with weather that seemed anything but propitious. Rain fell in torrents for most of the day, but it did not prevent the arrival of numerous stran- gers who beseiged hotel man and boarding house mistress on all sides for rooms. It was raining so hard at 3:30 that the annual inter-class athletic contest had to be post- poned until Tuesday morning. As it had been the only event scheduled for the day Monday contributed nothing to the success of commencement, except the Junior ora- torical contest in the chapel that evening. The chapel was effectively decorated in national colors while the rich green of great spreading palms seemed to give the impression that nature—always so rarely beautiful at State College—had stepped in- side to display her handiwork. The presi- dent, Dr. Geo. W. Atherton, presided at the contest and Rev. G. W. White, of Mil- roy ; Rev. Jas. L. Denniston and Prof. F. L. Pattee, of State College, were the judges. The first speaker introduced was Victor Milton Weaver, of State College, whose subject, ‘‘Perseverance Wins,” led him into a series of allusions to such ex- amples of it as Bruce, Demonthenese, Lin- coln and Goodyear. Mr. Weaver was easy on the floor, his gestures natural and ef- fective and might have been a prize winner had he put a little more thought into his oration. Francis Martin Carpenter, of State College, delivered an oration on ‘‘In- spiration’’ that was evidently very careful- ly prepared. After reciting incidents with which Webster, Ruskin and Sydney Smith were connected he painted some beautiful word pictures of what inspiration, pure and lofty, can accomplish. Mr. Carpenter lacked force, however, he did not seem to enthuse with his work and left, what other- wise was an excellent production fall for the want of an effective delivery. “Up Guards and at Them’’ was the theme of the oration delivered by Newton Wells McCallum, of Renovo, Pa. He took up Wellington’s famous command to his famous old guard and made it the nucleus of a series of pretty thoughts expressed in an easy, graceful way, but still lacking that force that makes so much for oratory. Harry H. Mallory, of Chicago, followed with an oration on ‘‘The First American.” It gave him an opportunity to display a rich, expressive voice, an enunciation that was almost perfect, and a pleasing manner on the floor. He traced the first American from Adam, of course, and did try (?) to make his hearers believe that the Garden of Eden must have been in America but the most of his time was given to an effect- ive crimination of our government for its treatment of the Indian. Mr. Mallory’s oration showed originality all through and even without his effective delivery could not well have escaped the notice of the judges. The first prize winner, Dan Ells- worth Carpenter, of State College, was the next orator. He spoke on ‘‘Judge Lynch and his Influence,” and there was no one at the contest who gave it any attention who did not realize that it was the best oration of the night. Mr. Carpenter has a fine inflection in his voice and seemed to have his whole heart in his subject, so en- thusiastically did he present it. Of course it was a plea for the people of the United States to stop and consider before the evi- dent growing disrespect for the law draws us into the vortex of anarchy; a plea that is being made every day by the press, but scarcely heeded, but Mr. Carpenter’s ora- tion was full of sound thought and was easily the best. The last speaker was William Harry Thompson, of Bower, Pa., who eulogized the ‘“‘American Sailor’ in a pretty oration which he delivered in an easy style. He recalled Decatur, Bain- bridge, Perry, Farragut and aroused con- siderable enthusiasm by his reference to Commodore George Dewey and Lieut. Hobson. On the whole the contest was entertain- ing, but was not nearly so close as that of last year. In fact the work of the contest- ants for several years past has been such as to emphasize the misfortune that befell State College when her two literary socie- ties were deserted by the students, who are still laboring under the delusion that so distinctively a technical school has no use for a place where men can become prac- ticed in public speaking and learn how to say what they have to say in a way that will command attention. FINE WEATHER ON TUESDAY. After the thunder showers that had had such a dampening effect on Monday there came a perfect June day. Clear and cool was Tuesday. If anything just a trifle too cool for the comfort of the maidens who were resolved to show off their fine summer gowns at no matter what cost to their com- fort. Withal it was an ideal day and it brought out the crowds of strangers who had hitherto been kept indoors. Early ‘in the morning the great campus was astir with sight-seers and former students who were back for a few days to renew old acquaintances and look over the scenes where they had spent so many happy hours. _ At 8:30 there was the annual meeting of | the Alumni association at which many of the graduates were present. The nattss of establishing an alumni scholarship was taken up by the association and left in the hands of a committee to formulate plans for maintaining the same. At the election of officers the following were chosen : Presi- George R. Meek ; secretary and treasurer, Prof. Geo. C. Butz; historian, Prof. W. | A. Buckhout. The associations vote for trustee was cast for Judge Cyrus Gordon, of Clearfield. At the annual meeting of the trustees business of importance to the College was transacted and Rev. Dr. L. M. Colfelt, of Philadelphia, was elected a trustee to serve out the unexpired term of Hon. Francis Jordan; of Harrisburg, whose failing health and advanced years have made it impossible for him to be actively interested in State College any longer. The retire- ment of Mr. Jordan was a matter of pro- found regret at State College, where he has been so much admired and of so much use. At the meeting of delegates and alumni, later in the day, to elect trustees, the old board was re-elected. The next event of the day was the alum- ni dinner, served in the armory. Covers had been laid for four hundred and twenty five guests and there were that many there. The dinner was seived by B. C. Achenbach, of Lock Haven. During the two hours that the people were at the tables Fisk’s orchestra played and the occasion was made one that can not but have left a de- lightful impression. Gen. James A. Beaver, president of the board of trustees, acted as toast master and after he had called for order he spoke briefly of the growth of the Pennsylvania State College which the next day would introduce to the world a larger graduating class than the whole institution had numbered when president Atherton took it in hand. To show that the class was no mere fancy he called for "98 to rise and give the class and college yells, which it did with a dash. Dr. L. M. Colfelt responded to the toast, “The Pennsylvania State College and the World” in a way that was entertaining to all. Mr. Harrison, acting director of the department of road inquiry of the U. S. Dept. of Agr., responded to the toast to “Good Roads.” During his remarks he told of the fact that the U. S. government pur- poses building the model country road for the supervisors of Pennsylvania to study at State College. The model road will be built there soon. A. P. McCreary, of Osceola, as past president of the alumni association, toasted that body and then E. V. Rawn, of Roanoke, Va., spoke for his classmates in '98. Dr. Atherton concluded the list of speakers and those at the tables left to wit- ness the exhibition drill on the campus. A FLAG PRESENTED TO THE CADET CORFS. When the cadet corps had been drawn up previous to being passed in review be- fore: Dr. Atherton, acting commandant in the absence of Capt. Pearson, U. S. A., re- | called to his regiment for the Cuban war, and Maj. J. H. M. Andrews, a handsome silk flag was presented by Dr. Atherton, Col. J. P. Coburn, Mr. McCurdy, Mr. W. P. Humes, and Gen. Beaver. The presentation speech was made by Col. Coburn and at its conclusion the cadets were drilled. They showed that even in the absence of their regular army commander they could execute diffi- cult evolutions and go through the various drills with the precision of regulars. The last strictly college event of Tues- day was the presentation of ‘‘the Rivals” by ‘‘the Thespians,’’ the dramatic organi- zation at the College. The play was pre- sented in the chapel by the same caste that appeared here early in the spring. A crowded house greeted the boys and en- couraged them to extra effort in their work. THE CLASS OF 98 GRADUATES. With Wednesday morning came the fin- ishing touch for the commencement week and then it was that the class of 98 made its last appearance at State. The program was as follows : 1. Music, Overture, “America,” Patriotic Fantasia, - - =... = Arr. by Tobani. 2. Invocation: The Rev. James O. Denniston. 3. ORATION, - Woman's Part in Our Rebellion, Frank Troxel Beers. 4. Onramox, - ic - The New Education, Edward Bowman Espenshade. 5. Music, “Entr’ Acte from Coppelia,” Delibes. 6. OrariON, A Glance at the Twentieth Century, Harry Groff Huber. 7. OraTiON, . - -iife ow Frank Andrew Kaiser. 8. Music,“Second Hungarian Rhapsody,” F. Liszt. 9. Varepicrory OrarION : Charles Alvin Brown. 10. Music, “Moto Perpetuo” (for string instru- ments, ) iii - - - - Paganini, 11. COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS: The Hon. John Stewart, Chambersburg. 12. Music, “La Tourterelle, Morceau de Salon,” Eilenberg. 13. Conferring Degrees and Awarding Prizes. 14. Music, “Popular Airs,” (selection,) Mohn. “Star Spangled Banner.” The first honors of the class were taken by L. L. Ansart, A. Frederic Blair, Chas. A. Brown, R. Lewis, A. S. McAllister Mabelle Thompson. Second honors went to E. B. Espenshade, A. A. Gallaway, J. W. Gray, F. A. Kaiser, E. Van Ness Rawn and Rufus Tracy Strohm. It will be observed that Fred Blair, one of the first honor men is a resident of Belle- fonte and Rufus Strohm, a second honor man, formerly lived here. The degree of master of science was con- ferred upon Elizabeth B. Meek, of Belle- fonte, and William S. Sweetser, of State College. The degree of mechanical engi- neer was conferred upon Joseph Walter Simmers, of Phoenixville. The members of the class of 98, with the courses in which they were graduated, are as follows : General Science Course :—Thomas Beaver, Bellefonte. Latin Scientific Course :—Charles Alvin Commercialism, Brown; - McKeesport; -Mabelle- Thempson, Lemont. Course in Agriculture :—Jons August Fries, State College ; Augustus Otto Hies- ter, Harrisburg ; Junius Denniston Hus- ton, Gastonville ; William Alan Hutchin- son, Warrior’s Mark ; Edward Van Ness Rawn, Roanoke, Va. Course in Mathematics :—Louis Loomis Ansart, Wilkesbarre. Course in Philosophy :—James Henry Mil- ler Andrews, Harrisburg. Course in Chemistry :— Frank Troxel Beers, Emporia, Fla.; Ambrose Nevin Diehl, Seitzland ; Martin Adolph Taylor, Lanesboro. Course in Civil Engineering :—John Elvin Clapper, Martinsburg ; Edward Bowman Espenshade, Lancaster; Albert Austin Gallaway, West Newton ; Frank Andrew Kaiser, Wilkesbarre ; John Richard Wat- kins Keenen, Sunbury; William Hugh Kennedy, Philadelphia ; Milton Burt Mor- gan, Alden ; Loranda M. Moser, Bath; William Horace Owens, Tarentum. Course in Electrical Engineering :—Wil- liam Pearsol Cochran, Lancaster ; Joseph McMeen Curtin, Roland ; Joseph Wilson Gray, Pittsburg ; Clarence Benton Kaiser, Mifflinburg ; Addams Stratton McAllister, Covington, Va ; Charles Alexander Meches- ney ,Greensburg ; William Arthur Thomas, Lynn ; James Wallace White, Greenshurg, Course in Mechanical Engineering -— John Seaman Albert, Philadelphia ; Lea- ton Trate Bechtel, Reading; Allen Fred- eric Blair, Bellefonte ; Henry Smyser Da- vis, York ; Leon Griswold Dodge, Lancas- ter ; Harry Groff Huber, Greensburg ; Raymond Lewis, Blairsville; Charles Frederic Sponsler, Lykens ; Clay Sprecher, Lancaster ; Rufus Tracy Strohm, Centre Hill ; Leon Evan Thomas, Pittsburg. Course in Mining Engineering :— Matthew McWhinney Cadman, Edgewood Park ; John William Campbell, Ashland ; Leon- ard Carter Crewe, Sparrows Point, Md. The events not distinctively part of the program during the week were the dances and athletic sports. On Monday night the different fraternities all received and the many pretty club houses at State were scenes of most delightful parties. On Tuesday night the Adelphi dance at the Inn was the one event. It was so fashionably managed that dancing was not begun until 11 o'clock and the advance streamers of a new day’s dawning had shot high from behind old Nittany ere the last of the guests had retired. Wednesday night the Juniors’ farewell to the Seniors was given and proved to be a delightful assembly. There were several hundred dancers and the great armory looked gorgeous in its patriotic decorations. The music was fine. At the annual inter-class sports that were held Tuesday morning no records were broken. There was very little interest manifested in them because the supremacy of "98 in nearly every event was so notice- able as to make the contest void of the ex- citement of being close. During the sports the alumni hase ball team succeeded in downing the College nine for the third year in succession, the score being 8to 7. On Wednesday afternoon State played the Carlisle Indians—rather the Carlisle Indians played with State, as will be noticed by the score of 18 to 5 in their favor. The Indians were too much for the blue and white and scalped them very effectually. On the whole commencement week was delightfully successful, though it was appar- ent to every one that there were not nearly so many people in attendance as there had been the year previous, which was the largest ever known. There were plenty there, however, to enjoy the good times and to scatter to the various parts of the State to tell the people that here in Centre county they have an institution of their very own which they are just beginning to know and be proud of. Baccalaureate Sermon to the Class of '98 of The Pennsylvania State College, BY REV. L. M. COLFELT, D. D. ISam. 14: 6. “And Jonathan said to the young man that hore his armor. Come let us go out to the army of the uncircum- cised. It may be that the Lord will work forus. For there is no restraint of the Lord ta save by many or by few.” History does not record a more quixotic enterprise than that of Jonathan and his armor bearer as they scaled the cliff in the face of the Philistine garrison and laid about so lustily as to precipitate a panic in the enemy’s ranks more disastrous than any battle. But the entrance to Santiago har- bor has just witnessed a deed which shows that the race of heroes is not extinct and that America can count on her youths making as utter self-sacrifice in great emer- gencies as ever glorified the traditions of brave men. The intelligent, cool, careful manner in which Lieut. Hobson ran the Merrimac into that narrow inlet and corked that bottle, regardless of sunken mines and the point blank fire of Spanish bat- teries, was as gallant a deed as ever was celebrated in the song or story of any nation. The history of mankind whether military secular or religious re- solves itself ultimately into the record of the distinguished service of a few individuals. The hope of the world for physical and moral uplift is in those rare souls who, imbued themselves with knowl- edge and nobleness, flash into the profound torpor of their age and nation the force of their own convictions and the passion of their own resolves. It is for this rare and distinguished ser- vice that the college-bred man is called by all the obligations of his superior culture to especially volunteer. I. First the educated man can render distinguished service by cherishing an ex- alted ideal of life. It was for an ideal that Columbus hung his lanthorn on the prow of his ship and crossed the dark and un- known main. For an ideal Thomas Jef- ferson wrote the Declaration of Independ- ence. For an ideal the Harvard college boys went charging up Ball’s Bluff to cer- tain and bootless death as pluckily as ‘‘the 600’’ rode into the jaws of hell at Balaklava. For an ideal Dewey stormed Manila and ‘the guns are thundering now at Santiago. The world has a right to look to the Colleges for its ideal men—men of distinguished manliness in which there shall be no meanness, no baseness—but who can stand amid all the temptations to petty selfishness, strong and tender and true. Let others practice their little pru- dent virtues and run after the cheap and tawdry prizes of the world, but the edu- cated man owes it to his generation to transcend the beaten paths, to fashion his life in the grand manner and make it a masterful stroke for mankind. II. The college-bred man can render distinguished service by dignifying work. Every workman, though his work be ever so humble, should perform it so thoroughly that he will be not a mere workman but an artist. Never will work occupy its proper plane until it becomes a religion. Laborae est ovare, to work is to pray. In the Tait gallery in London are too pictures by Millais. The oneis of a knight deliver- ing a maiden who has been robbed and bound to a tree in the forest. The other is ‘Luke Filde’s Doctor.”” The first is the knight errantry in the middle ages. The other is the chivalry and romance of the 19th century. You see the cold dawn breaking "and the weeping parents are by the bedside of the sick child. And there is the brave, tender doctor who the night through has been here battling with death trying to save the child’s life. Christ is at work through this professional man in the pursuit of his duty as truly as if he were in church, on his face all night worshipping God before a crucifix. I care not whether you are painting a sign or painting a Madonna—keeping a toll-gate or a nation’s treasury—playing a comedy or acting a tragedy, you can make it a dis- tinguished service. Buying and seeking work and wages must be converted into Divine sacraments of human fellowship. The fate of civilization turns upon the problems of gospelizing commerce, Christ- ianizing industry, tranfiguring lowly work with lofty principles. It is for college-bred men to go into the industrial world with the eternal law of love written on their hearts —sworn to rectify the unnatural convie- tions of rivalry and distrust—bridge the gulf between master and workmen, and usher in a divine political economy and an industrial brotherhood. III. The college-bred man is obligated to distinguished service as a citizen. Amid the urgent politiéal problems of our time the people lift eager voices of appeal to educated men for guidance and inspira- tion. If the highest intelligence can give no direction—if the oracles are dumb or give ambiguous responses in the hours of national crisis, what hope that the exigent question of natural life will he solved wisely and well. Now educated men in the past have been too prone to cccupy a position of independence, in politics, and that independence has been of the negative stationary and cynical kind rather than positive aggressive independence. An- other tendency of the educated man in politics has been to become enamored with single reforms—forgetting that political evils are characterized by a wonderful solidarity involving a mighty network of causes and effects. They single out some pet evil and surrender themselves so com- pletely to this one idea that from men of broad instincts they degenerate into cranks, narrow-minded, impracticable, and lacking in common sense. They permit no liberty of judgment or range of opinion. When they get a chance they drive legisla- tion into hurtful extremes, and, alas! when by co-operation with other agencies of political reform, educated men in poli- tics might do something for the common weal they too often are totally incapable of that co-operation. When the educated ceases to be a mere objector and scold— when he recognizes that he is but -an atom in the mighty body politic and that other atoms know as much perhaps as he does—when he realizes his own insig- nificance in spite of being an educated man—he will awaken less resentment and accomplish more good. The educated man should not be so insistent upon fighting his own pet evils which, perhaps, neither the people nor political parties are ready to move against. He should be broad- minded and adaptable enough to take up with any and every reform which is to the front at the time and most likely of suc- cess. And no matter what the point of in- struction may be, political evils are so in- terlaced that the reform of one means the lessening of all. The educated man should go into something far deeper than the struggle between the office seekers or be- tween classes. The great national spectac- ular. questions, protection and free trade, silver and gold, and foreign affairs—these are not the deeper, more vital questions. The questions which finally adjudicate the great national problems must first he set- tled in your township—your ward. The way you govern your village, your munici- pality, will settle government for the na- tion and the world. Until we solve the problem of the government of the greater city we are little fit to add the govern- ment of Hawaii or the Philippines. In the limited civic government all the larger questions of honest administration, sound finance, popular education, economy, virtue for the nation at large are decided so far as they can be by politics. The edu- cated man may render distinguished ser- vice by helping his neighborhood to a bet- ter and more abundant civic life. V. The educated man may render dis- tinguished service fo the Church of God. In no age of human history has Christ called so urgently for heroic men—for men who believe God. National beliefs about God there are in plenty but belief in God is rare. Few Christians have faith that men can do as Christ tells them. The impracti- bility of righteousness is the great heresy of our time. Meanwhile money is the solvent of all earthly ills and the great un- loved masses are daily growing in numbers and influence. But for the few rare souls sheltered within the churches who have not yet bowed the knee to Baal, methinks the Almighty hand would gather light- nings from his heavens and hurl destruc- tion on the head of the church that so fails to do his work. Surely the Holy Ghost is striving with groanings which cannot be uttered—crying out with strong agony for men struck through and through with the passion of Christ, who will follow Christ whether he leads in absolute self dedi- cation. Where shall the Christ look for knight errants of the gospel and warrior angels who will storm the mountains of sin and fight the battles of everlasting righteousness—if it be not among College-bred men ? And now as you leave these Academic halls to take your place amid educated men I would fain make my last word a call to you to volunteer for distinguished service to your age and generation. Go forth burning with high enthusiasm to shame the false ideals of men, to defy the tyranny of public opinion—to trample under foot the base omnipotence of gold—to make life more simple—homes more pure, the aims of society nobler, with aims to rise abave the average. Many are called but few are chosen. Be God’s chosen. Be men ! I ————————— Company B. at Chickamauga. CaMP THOMAS, June 12th, 1898, EDITOR OF WATCHMAN : With the thermometer ranging from 100° to 115° we are still marching over the hot- sands of Georgia, drilling by companies by regiments and brigades. The volunteers are fast being whipped into line and will be ready for active service at the front ina short time. All are anxious and willing to obey the orders that will carry them to active action, rather than rémain here impatiently awaiting orders to move. Gen. John A. Wiley has been assigned to this division, the 3rd, and we were all pleased to know that he had been appointed our commander. Gov. Hastings reached camp Saturday June 11th, accompanied by his private secretary, L. E. Beitler, Col. W. F. Reeder and others, they all called to-day at Company B’s. quarters. N. B. Spangler has been detailed to return to Bellefonte to secure 31 recruits for Com- pany “B.” Maj. Kennedy and Maj. Me- Namara have been detailed from the 5th Regt. to take charge of the recruiting parties. Maj. McNamara will accompany Spangler to Bellefonte. Chas. H. Kase has been detail- ed to act as orderly of Division hospital. W. F. Barnes and Latimer Curtin have been ap- pointed scouts for Co. B. They are instructed every day by a scout who has been in the regular service and under his instructions are progressing finely. A letter has been received from Boyd A. Musser and S. S. Taylor con- taining $25.00 to be used for purchasing ice. The citizens of Philipsburg sent, by express, several large boxes of necessaries and good things for the boys from that town, and sev- eral boxes for the company in general. Prof. Geo. B. Snyder received a number of song books from the ladies of Centre Hall. For all these kindnesses the boys have voted a re- solution of thanks and I am sure the interest taken in our comfort and welfare is fully appreciated. At this writing a game of base ball is in progress between the 12th Minn., and the 5th Regt. Company B. is represented by three good players known to all the readers of your paper, corporal, S. M. Graham, cor- poral Pat Rine, and private George P. Miller. The health of the regiment is remarkable considering the number of men and the heat they are obliged to endure. In Company B. every man is ready forduty and itis hoped that the rumor, prevalent here, that we are to be recruited up, equipped, and sent to the front will come true at once. VOLUNTEER. ——The 43rd session of the Pennsylvania State Teachers’ Association will be held at Bellefonte, July 5th, 6th and 7th. There will, no doubt, be a good attendance of teachers and friends of education, and the location promises enjoyment, while the program means business and profit. ie Al ese. — Bellefonte is the Mecca of Pennsyl- vania teachers this year. On the 5th, 6th and 7th of July the State Teachers’ Associa- tion will hold its 43d session, which prom- ises to be large and interesting.
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