Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., July 22,1898.
P. GRAY MEEK,
The Democratic State Ticket,
EpiTor.
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE A. JENKS,
of Jefferson.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM H. SOWDEN,
of Lehigh.
FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS,
PATRICK DELACEY, of Lackawanna.
FOR SUPERIOR JUDGE,
CALVIN M. BOWER, of Centre.
WILLIAM TRICKETT, of Cumberland.
FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
J. M. WEILER, of Carbon.
FRANK P. IAMS, of Allegheny.
Democratic District Ticket.
For Congress,
J. L. SPANGLER,
Subject to the Decision of the District Conference
For Senate,
W. C. HEINLE,
Subject to the Decision of the Dictrict Conference
Democratic County Convention.
So ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College.
Assaunnly, { J. H. WETZEL, Bellefonte.
Prothonotary, —M. 1. GARDNER, Bellefonte.
District Att'y,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte.
County Surveyor,—H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp.
Fortune Favored Our Arms.
It was more by good luck than good
management that Santiago is now in the
possession of the American forces and our
flag waves over that Spanish stronghold.
Bad leadership had placed General SHAFT-
ER’S army in a situation that would have
been attended with the most serious conse-
quences if it had not been relieved by the
surrender of the Spaniards, which could
scarcely have heen expected to occur so
soon.
That the bungling of the war depart-
ment had sent out the Santiago expedition
with too small a force was shown by the
deadlock to which its commander was
brought after the valor of the troops proved
insufficient to carry the Spanish lines. No
troops ever did braver fighting, but having
displayed a degree of heroism that reflected
the greatest credit upon their courage and
honor upon the nation and flag, they found
themselves foiled in carrying out a badly
laid plan of attack. They lay in mud-filled
trenches exposed to the enemy’s fire, alter-
nately scorched with a burning sun and
drenched with down pouring-rain, unpro-
vided with artillery, half-fed and with in-
sufficient medical attendance. In this sit-
uation they were hourly in condition for
the breaking out of the dreadful scourge of
yellow fever. Most fortunately for our
cause the Spaniards were also in a condi-
tion that prevented them from continuing
a long resistance, and to that circumstance,
and not to the generalship of SHAFTER, is |
to be ascribed the early surrender that re-
lieved our brave army from its really em-
barrassed situation.
It has indeed heen a lucky conclusion to
a badly managed operation, and though
there was no military brilliancy displayed
in gaining possession of the stronghold, we
may all rejoice that incapable leadership
did not cause a greater sacrifice of American
lives, and that fortune gave us Santiago
without cutting off thousands of American
soldiers by the scourge of yellow fever, or
the slaughter of a bloody assault.
ee S———
Mixed.
The following, which we clip from the
Philadelphia Times, would seem to indi-
cate that the state news editor of that pa-
per is just about as badly mixed in his po-
litical geography, as is its editor-in-chief in
his idea of reform :
It is announced that the Democratic lead-
ers in Centre county have agreed that W. J.
Zacharias, Chambersburg, and W. T. Om.
wake, Waynesboro, both prominent young
members of the bar, are to be named for the
Legislature by the Democratic county con-
Yehtion, which meets in Chambersburg, Aug-
ust .
That some new steering gear is needed
on the Times is becoming more apparent
every day.
——ALBERT EDWARD, the Prince of
Wales, fell up stairs on Sunday and sprained
his knee. Now if he hadn’$ been married
along time ago here would be a sure sign
that he would never taste the sweets of
conjugal bliss, but why not construe it to
mean that ALBERT EDWARD will never
mount the English throne. There is one
thing certain, that is if he don’t, he will
have made a place in history for himself,
for actually it would be a good subject for
debate as to whether he or JoB has had the
most patience.
: ——
—If it be true that Gen. CALIXTO
GARCIA has been killed the Cuban republic
has suffered a far more serious loss than
can at present be estimated. Gen. GARCIA
was a brainy man, just such an one as is
needed to cope with the perplexing ques-
tions that threaten to lose the respect of
the United States for the insurgents, who
have lately developed an inclination to eat
up our army’s rations, do no fighting or
work, and then want all the surrendered
' Spanish territory : for_their very own—to
- plunder and sack as their half civilized
natures prompt. r
—
——Mr. Prous INLOW celebrated. wash
day in Altoona Ly punching one of the
young society chaps of that city becaiise
the two disagreed over a keg of beer they
were trying to get outside of in a woods
near the city. Prous is a good name for a
statesman who fights over beer kegs, but it
isn’t half so fitting as the drapery he hung
on the other fellow’s physiognomy. The
society end of the altercation was able to
keep his name out of the papers, but the
P10Us looks on his face will proclaim him
to the world for what he is.
dtelmn
—Gen’l MILES’ gallant report of the sur-
render of Santiago, in which he gives all
the honor to Gen’l SHAFTER and his brave
men, is in marked contrast with Admiral
SAMPSON’S avarice in trying to usurp the
glory of Commodore SCHLEY and his men
for having sunk CERVERA’s fleet. The
loud mouthings of the fellows who tried to
besmirch Gen’l MILES for not being at the
front, when they knew he only remained
in Washington because he was needed there,
have ceased, for the disgruntles who try to
make capital out of every extremity real-
| ized that, in this action, Gen’]. MILES has
proven that when he is at the front he is
the very embodiment of an honorable sol-
dier.
—The vagaries of politics no man
knoweth. Two years ago the DALES—
AL. and CLEM. led the stiffest fight ever
put up for QUAY in Centre county. To-
day it is announced that CLEM. DALE is to
be a candidate for Congress in this district.
Everyone will understand that this is to
keep ARNOLD from getting Centre county’s
delegates and in that way to punish him
for not being true to hrother AL. in his
post-office aspirations. Of course CLE.
has no hope of going to Congress for while
he has evidently fallen out with QuAY and
ARNOLD he has certainly not fallen in
with HASTINGS. With all his faults he
couldn’t so far lose his self-respect as to do
the latter.
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Yankee Boom In Santiago Town.
Lively Crowds of Hustling Merchants and Chumming
Soldiers, Lately Enemies, Fill the Streets.—Span-
iards Pawn their Jewelry For Food.—Americans,
In Turn, are Purchasing Loads of Trinkets and
Putting Much Coin into Circulation.—Starvation
Period is About Over.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 19.—Santiago
to-day presents a hright and cheerful pic-
ture compared to what it did two days ago.
Over thirty steamers flying the stars and
stripes lie proudly in or near the harbor.
Small boats are plying briskly to and fro
on the blue waters. Several large steamers
—the State of Texas, Leona and Arkansas
—are alongside the wharves busily engaged
in unloading their large cargoes of supplies
and provisions.
In short, everything denotes bustle and
activity. To the graveyard appearance of
the city yesterday has succeeded to-day a
scene of life and energy, traffic and general
activity. The immense sheds along the
water front are already packed with mer-
chandise, and the large stores rented along
Mariana street are busy receiving goods
which are being steadily unloaded. Every-
where there are signs of a revival of com-
mercial activity and prosperity.
The change in the appearance is kaleido-
scopic, and a couple of days, when further
shipments arrive, will suffice for the nor-
mal business to revive. The trades and
business houses opened their doors for the
first time to-day, cleared their warehouses
and made ready for the receipt of goods.
All the stores are open this morning by
General McKibbin’s orders, but the saloons
remain closed for the present, in oxer to
prevent the possibility of a clash between
the soldiers in case of drunkenness.
The electric light plant is working. The
pawn shops are doing a rushing business,
their counters being crowded with people
of all sorts, color and conditions pawning
heirloom, clothes, dresses and furniture.
Officers tender their medals, spurs and
swords, and civil employes offer their tor-
toise shell, gold headed canes of office for a
mere song, which are in turn bought at
fancy prices by American soldiers, officers
or newspaper correspondents as relics of the
war. There have been more machetes sold
to our men as souvenirs than were laid
down on the morning of the surrender, and
crosses, service stripes and orders are cheer-
fully parted with for American cash.
Hundreds of American and Spanish sol-
diers who but a few days ago were shooting
at each other crowd the streets to-day,
meeting and mixing on the most friendly
terms. A general feeling of good fellow-
ship is evinced everywhere. victors and
vanquished apparently being equally re-
joiced that the strife and bloodshed are
over and that the horrors of the siege are
ended.
In the quaint stores, with their gaudy
displays of wares, the storekeepers eagerly
accept American money and courteously
receive American customers. The narrow
cobble-paved streets, grilling in the fierce
sunshine, are crowded from morning to
night by chattering groups of uniformed
Spanish soldiers and crowds of laughing,
rollicking men belonging to General Shaft-
er’s army.
ee —————
Progress was Fairly Good.
In the Recruitment for Volunteer Army Under
the President’s Second Call.—Our State Behind
Eighty Men.—The Worst of the Delinquents Is
North Ccrolina, Which Furnishes Only Fifty-Five
Soldiers.
WASHINGTON, July 19.—Fairly good
progress has been made with the recruit-
ment for the volunteer army under the
President’s second call for 75,000 troops.
The plan adopted by the war department
was to recruit all the volunteer organiza-
tions in thearmy up to their maximum en-
listed strength before entering upon the re-
cruitment of additional troops. The total
number of men required to fill out existing
regiments was 37,566, and according to the
latest returns the total enlistments under
this plan are 27,519 men. Indiana, Min-
nesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Is-
land, West Virginia and Wisconsin have
exceeded their quota, bus all the others are
behind in the supply of troops. Pennsyl-
vania is behind only eighty men. The
number required from that State was 4,163
and 4,083 have already enlisted. New
York was called upon for 3,704 and up to
date 2,733 have enlisted.
The worst delinquent is North Carolina,
which has furnished only fifty-five soldiers
to meet its quota 783. Other delinquents
are Colorado, Louisiana, Nebraska, Tenn-
essee and Virginia, each of which has sup-
plied less than one-half of the number of
men required. Alabama, Massachusetts,
Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon and
Texas have done very little better and all
are very much hehind in meeting the re-
quirements. Complaint has been made
also that in several of the States an effort
has been made to foist poor material on the
government.
The total enlisted strength of the regu-
lar and volunteer army to date is about
44,000 men, being about 18,000 short of its
legal complement. The volunteer army
consists of 183,000 men and is only 17,000
short of its maximum authorized strength
under the two calls issued by the President.
The total strength of the army, regular
and volunteer, is 227,000, as now organ-
ized.
| condition is critical.
Relief Ship Sailed for Cuba.
NEW YORK, July 19.—On board the re-
lief ship Resolute, which sailed to-day for
Cuba, were 73 male nurses, ten female
nurses and ten physicians. There were
also on board a rabbi and two Protestant
clergymen, who were sent by the National
Relief association. The medical supply
department is shipping to Santiago on the
Resolute 750,000 quinine pills. The trans-
port Massachusetts is expected to sail from
this port on Friday. She will be loaded
with 1,5000,000 rations here, and at New-
port News she will take on meat rations
that have been purchased at Chicago. She
will also take on troops at Newport News,
———
Gen. Toral May Be Tried for his Life.
Captain General Blanco Says the Surrender of
Santiago Was Unauthorized, So a Court-Martial
Will Take Place.
MADRID, July 20.—The government has
received a dispatch from Captain General
Blanco, in which he announced that he
had not authorized the capitulation of San-
tiago de Cuba, and asserting that the place
was surrendered without his knowledge.
As a result General Toral will be rigorously
tried by court martial.
ee —————
Asking for the Terms.
PARIS, July 20.—The foreign office here
confirms the report that peace negotiations
have commenced, and Spain is asking on
what terms peace can be made.
LoxpoN, July 20.—Sir Henry Drum-
mond-Wolff, British ambassador at Madrid,
bas been fully informed of the terms upon
which the United States Government is
ready to make peace.
—
Getting Together.
From the York Gazette,
Perhaps the most encouraging sign of the
political drift in this State is the attitude
of that section of the Democratic party
which joined the Palmer and Buckner
movement in 1896. The leaders of this
movement are one by one falling into line
for the ticket nominated at Altoona.
This action proves the wisdom of confin-
ing the platform declarations to state is-
sues. With a united Democracy, and the
prospect of gaining many votes from that
element of the Republican party which has
the foresight to realize that the very exist-
ence of the Republican party as a party de-
pends upon its defeat this fall and conse-
quent purification, the chances for Demo-
cratic success are bright.
There can be no gainsaying that Demo-
cratic success is the only thing that will
save the State from the most corrupt four
years in its whole history.
EI ——————
Brought Gold from Alaska.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 19.—The North
American Trading and Transportation com-
pany’s steamer, the Roanoke, arrived here
this afternoon from St. Michael’s, Alaska,
with 240 passengers and between a million
and a half and two million dollars’ worth
of gold. Of this amount, the Canadian
Bank of Commerce had 5,000 ounces and
the North American Trading and Trans-
portation company 20,000. Probably 50
per cent of the returning miners have for-
tunes averaging $10,000 each.
Bishop McGovern’s Condition is Critical.
HARRISBURG, July 20.—Bishop McGov-
ern suffered a relapse this evening and his
. He. had heen. mych
improved the past few days, but to-day
serious symptoms manifested themselves
and much concern is expressed at his con-
dition. The members of his family are at
his bedside.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—
—N. B. Spangler Esq., has been suf-
fering with an abscess ever since going back
tocamp at Chicamauga. He underwent
an operation the other day and expects to
come home until he is fully recovered.
—_—r
——Walter Bowes, who was arrested on
suspicion of having been the man who
robbed Grenninger’s honse, on last Friday
night, was given a hearing before justice
Keichline, on Wednesday evening, and dis-
charged because of insufficient evidence to
hold him.
ave.
—A tie vote in the Tyrone councils
lost the proposition to pave Pennsylvania
Ave. in that place from the railroad station
to the iron bridge over the Juniata river.
The Wainwrights, owners of the Ward
house property, offered to Pay one-half of
the expenses, but the council would not
accept the offer because of the danger of
establishing a precedent at that rate when
the property owners usually pay two-
thirds.
rr
——Wednesday morning at 2.45 Lewis
Leister, one of the proprietors of the Leister
house at Huntingdon, while entering the
hotel met a burglar who had gained ad-
mittance during the night. They grappled
and after a struggle during which Mr.
Leister was shot three times, one shot tak-
ing effect in the stomach, the burglar es-
caped by jumping through a plate glass
window, leaving his cap and shoes behind
him. It is supposed that there were three
of the burglars but Mr. Leister saw only
the one with whom he grappled and de-
scribes him as a dark, heavy-set man with
a black mustache. The bullet has been re-
moved from Mr. Leister’s stomach and the
wound, while serious, is not necessarily
fatal.
BOSE oe
——The Bradford girl who got married
the other day and wore fourteen garters
belonging to her fourteen girl friends wasn’t
trying to spring a rubber leg on her hus-
band, but was merely following out anoth-
er silly custom that says if a bride wears
the garters into the train and then throws
them out the car window to the owners the
girl who picks hers up first will be a bride
within six months. This custom will
hardly get to be very much in vogue. In
the first place it must be an embarrassing
ordeal for the new groom to try to look
disinterested while she pulls them off and,
secondly, there are lots of girls who would
cheat in the scramble. We have them
right here in Bellefonte who wouldn't own
their own if they were pitched out onto the
station platform.
——The timber on the John Irvin estate
near Curwensville was sold, last Friday, at
Clearfield for the sum of $57,000 to H. H.
McGee, of McGee's Mills, Samuel Small, of
York, and some Williamsport parties. The
new owners intend cutting the timber in
a short time.
“oe
——Charles Osner, a 7 year old Renovo
boy, was playing along the river bank in
that place, on Monday morning, when an-
other boy threw a stone that hit him on
the head. He fell, unconscious, into the
river and would have drowned had not a
man who was passing at the time rescued
him.
— re
—The second annual reunion of the
Reformed church in central Pennsylvania
will be held at Island park, between Sun-
bury and Northumberland, Thursday, July
28th, 1898. Music will be furnished hy
Fisher's orchestra and addresses will be
made by Reverends, Wm. E. Bushong, Geo.
S. Sober, M. L. Firor, C. Clever D. D.,
Miles O. Noll, and other prominent clergy-
men. A special fare for round trip tickets
has been secured and a splendid opportuni-
ty is given to spend the day socially. A
number of members of the Bellefonte con-
gregation expect to enjoy the trip.
—ote
GORDON-LYON.—A very pretty wedding
was solemnized on Wednesday at the home
of Mrs. Estelle Lyon, on east Linn street,
when her daughter, Miss Victorine, was
united in marriage to Dr. Alfred Gordon,
of Philadelphia, by Rev. H. Kline, of
Altoona.
The house was artistically decorated
with palms and cut flowers and promptly
at noon to the harmony of Mendelssohn’s
wedding march, rendered by Misss Ohn-
macht, the bride and groom preceded by
Alma Lichten, the brides’ little neice, en-
tered the reception room and took their
position amid a perfect hower of foliage
and blossoms. The bride looked exceed-
ing well in an exquisite gown of white
crepe de chene over white taffeta. It was
made with a full train, long sleeves and high
neck and trimmed with point lace. She
carried a bouquet of bride’s roses and lillies
of the valley. Her attendant, the dainty
little flower girl, wore a lovely frock of
red organdy and chiffon and carried a poke
bonnet of white daises.
After the ceremony and congratulations
an excellent wedding beakfast was served
before the newly married ones left on the
afternoon train for their home in Philadel-
phia which Dr. Gordon has already fur-
nished on the northeast corner of Pine and
11th streets.
The bride, who is the youngest daughter
of Mrs. Lyon’s family, is one of our most
accomplished vocalists and in addition to
being intelligent and talented is very much
liked as the number and beauty of her
wedding presents attested. For several
years she has spent most of her time in
Philadelphia, where the groom has been
practicing sifice” he gradtiated at the Uni-
versity of Paris. Among the guests, were
Mrs. Adolph Loeb, of Chicago, Miss Dora
Gordon, of Lebanon, and Mrs. Lichten, the
bride’s sister, of Philadelphia.
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SocCIAL DOINGS OF THE WEEK.--Though
the weather has beeen exceptionally warm
all week there have been a number of social
events to occupy the time of some of the
people and visitors in the town. They
have been small functions, but sufficiently
enjoyable to those who were there.
Miss Mary Sourbeck entertained the
Misses Maud and Minnie Schreyer, of Chi-
cago, at dinner on Tuesday evening. The
Misses Schreyer are visiting at the home
of Mrs. Minnie Harper, on west Linn street,
and are daughters of Charles Schreyer Esq,
superintendent of the Chicago and North-
western railroad shops.
* *
Mr. and Mrs. H. é. Quigley Esq., gave
a tea at their home on east Linn street,
Tuesday evening, in honor of their guest
Miss Adelaide Merriman, of Yonkers, N.
Y. Those who were there were Rev. Geo.
I. Brown, the new Episcopalean rector, and
Mrs. Brown, Col. and Mrs. W. Fred Rey-
nolds, Harry and Mrs. Keller, Katharine
Harris, John Blanchard Esq., and John
Shugert.
* *
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Quigley, Miss Mer
riman, Miss Katharine Harris, Miss Caro-
line Orvis, John M. Blanchard Esq.,
Thomas Mitchell Esq., and John Shugert
were guests at a delightful dinner party
which Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keller gave,
Monday evening, in honor of Miss Adelaide
Merriman.
*
*
The musical at the home of Mrs. Mose
Burnett last evening was the first of a series
of musical events that are planned for
Bellefonte this season. If the others prove
as charmingly successful as last night’s af-
fair they will be looked forward to with
really pleasurable anticipation.
The first of the series of summer dances
to be given in the armory will be on the
evening of the 29th inst. The dates for
the others have been fixed for August 12th
and 26th and September 2nd. Messrs Ed-
gar Burnside, Hard P. Harris, Harry Kel-
ler, H. C. Quigley, Edmund and Fred
Blanchard will have them in charge.
Chappell’s orchestra will furnish the music.
Miss Madge Gilmore entertained at
her home, on Spring street, on Wednesday
evening. There was dancing and cards.
The guests of honor were: Miss Alice
Hemler, of Harrisburg ; Miss Loret Gor-
man, of Philadelphia, and the Misses
Schreyer, of Chicago.
*
A dainty 5 o’clock dinner was
served to twelve of her girl friends last
evening by Miss Mame Ceader, of east
Linn street. It was for her guest, Miss
Gorman, of Philadelphia.
A BEE HUNT WITH A BEARIN IT.—Pro-
fessor Etters is not much older, he is not
any bigger, but he knows much more about
the excitements of the woods than he did
three weeks ago. After the meeting of the
school board in the early part of thc month,
at which he was successful in being chosen
principal of the Bellefonte schools for the
next three years, he concluded that the
proper thing to do would be to spend a few
weeks in the woods to recuperate his
strength and get into condition for the tussle
that awaits him when the fall term opens.
He has a brother who is a warden on the
Spruce camp preserve—one of the wildest,
healthiest and most delightful retreats, of
the kind, that can be found in any country,
and knowing that he would he a welcome
visitor he laid aside his schoolmaster ex-
pression, got into an outing-suit and, with
his bottle of snake bite and an extra flannel
shirt, struck out for Spruce camp. He is
not a fisherman and he can’t shoot, so his
brother who knows how dull it is in the
woods doing nothing, and how anxious the
professor is to learn new things, concluded
to teach him the science of hee hunting,
and on the second morning after his arrival
took him away up towards the head of
Panther run, where rattlesnakes are as
plentiful as bracken plants and ‘bear
and like animals live in unmolested
security—a place where hees are in abun-
dance, and help, when needed, is not to be
had. The two brothers soon succeeded in
discovering a trail, or as more commonly
| expressed, “‘strikin’ a bee line.”’ - Trees are
| scarce and brush and bracken are wonder-
fully thick, in that section, and it was but
a short time until the professor had lost
both the ““line’” and his brother.
Have you ever heen out on one of the
great, big flats, back on the Alleghenies,
where for miles upon miles, in every di-
rection, you are surrounded with scrub oak
brush a little higher than your head; where
the bracken weeds are thick as grass in a
meadow and about up to your middle;
where black-berry vines stretch their
scratchy lengths in every direction;
with neither a path to follow nor a tree to
guide you, and felt how desolate it would
be to be alone or lost in such a place? If
you have, you can imagine just the situation
the professor was in. He stood and won-
dered what to do. He looked up for bees
hoping they would show him the course
his brother had gone. He hallooed, and hal-
looed, but no answer came from that bushy
flat. He stood on his toes and tried to
look over the scrubby brush, but look, and
hallo, and stretch as he would he could find
neither trail of bees nor track of brother,
and after waiting until he knew there was
no hope of finding either, concluded he
was about as good as lost and struck out as
he thought, in the direction of the camp.
He had gotten but a short distance when
his dog, which like Rip Vanwinkle’s
‘‘Schnyder,”’ had ‘‘stuck to him,” and was
trying to lead the way home, came back at
the top of his speed with tail between his
legs, followed by a huge bear. Thedog ran
by the professor; the bear stopped less than
two rods from him; and then—the question
of surrender, fight or run came up. No one
knows what the bear thought, but it took
the professor less than a minute to decide
that the best thing for him to do was
to climb a tree. Trees, as we have
said, were scarce and the professor is not
much on the climb, but he struck out
quickly for a twenty foot stump that stood
some little distance away and by the time
he reached it bruin was at his heels. He
tried to climb, but slipped back and finding
the bear too close to make another attempt
concluded it was fight or die, probably both.
He had nothing with him but a small
hatchet and: turning his back to the.stump
awaited the attack. It was but a minute
until Mrs. bear, standing erect and with
mouth open, made for him. He struck
and missed, the hear came on; he struck
again and only grazed the heast’s nose but
sufficient to make it pause a moment, the
third stroke broke the hatchet from the
handle and luckily struck the bea: in the
mouth. It stopped to ascertain the dam-
ages that had been done and evidently de-
cided that a professor was a dangerous
fighter, or concluding that he would make
tough eating, turned tail and ambled back
toits cubs, which were crying loudly a short
distance away.
It ie scarcely necessary to state that the
professor waited not for its return. Briar
bushes and bracken, and Scratchy brush,
were nothing to him afterwards. Paths
were not looked for nor did it matter to
“ him the direction he was going, only so he
could get away and get away quickly, from
the stump that he conldn’t climb and the
growling bear. He ran as fast as brush and
briars would permit. He would run and
fall and get up and look back and run
again. Then he would look back and fall
and get up and run; all the time thinking
that bloody-mouthed bear was on him
ready to tear him to pieces. It Was a race,
as he thought, for life and didn’t end until
hours afterwards when he reached the camp,
breathless, done out, and scratched and
skinned as badly as if he had been chased
through a black-berry patck with nothing
on but an undershirt. He is well and safe
now, but has firmly made up his mind that
the science of bee hunting must find other
students than him, if it is not to become
one of the lost ones.
ee A ee.
——Mail agent Jacob Taylor, of Gear-
hartville, Clearfield county, took his wife
and their daughter, Mrs. Wade, out Huck-
leberrying last week and lost them in the
mountains. He didn’t do it on purpose,
of course, but he didn’t find them until
the next morning and they had the dis-
comfort and fright of staying in the moun-
tains all night. When found at 5 o'clock
next morning they are reported to have
been on their knees singing ‘‘Out in the
Mountain’s Wild and Drear, Away from the
Tender Shepherd’s Care.”
MARRIAGE L1cENsEs.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phans court clerk G. Ww. Rumberger dur-
ing the past week.
Harry Weaver, of Aaronsburg, and Ada
E. Breon, of Millheim.
Charles Diehl, of Bellview,
Rose Corman, of Rebershurg.
Dr. Alfred Gordon, of Philadelphia, Ya,
and Victorine Lyon, of Bellefonte.
Albert B. Smith, of Madisonburg, and
Eleanor Noregong, of Burlingame, Lycom-
ing county, Pa.
Ohio, and
—
SPECIAL EXCURSION FOR THE REFORM-
ED CHURCH REUNION.—The second an-
nual reunion of the Reformed church in
Central Pennsylvania will be held at Island
park, Sunbury, Thursday, July 28th, 1898.
For this occasion the Pennsylvania railroad
company will sell excursion tickets to Sun-
bury and return, limited to day of issue at
single fare for the roung trip, from Lock
Haven, Bellefonte and intermediate sta-
tions.
Train 101 which leaves Monta ndon on
arrival of train 1 leaving Sunbury 5:45 p.
m., will be run through to Bellefonte.
DESERVES TO SUCCEED.—The rapidity
with which the circulation of the Pittshurg
Post is increasing, not only hereahouts, but
throughout the entire western part of the
State, is evidence that the reading public
knows a good thing when it sees it. It has
always been a thoroughly reliable paper
both as to its news and its Democracy—
the one you could depend upon, the other
you could swear by—and since the begin-
ning of the war it has outdone itself in the
reliability of its reports from the front and
the early hour at which its readers were
given the fullest accounts of every move-
ment and every engagement of the army.
It has proven itself a political paper hav-
ing honest convictions and the manliness
to stand by them, and has demonstrated
its superiority as a newspaper in the extra-
ordinary reliability and completeness of its
war news. It deserves success.
CouNcIL MEETING.—The proceedings of
the council on Monday night were short
and of but little interest. All the mem-
bers were present. A number of the com-
mittees had nothing to report. The Street
committee, had done a little improving on
Howard street. The Water committee had
purchased a new pump from Jenkins &
Lingle for $92.00 to take the place of one
of the old ones which, it was said, was en-
tirely worn out. It had also received a
bid of $6.00 a ton for the old pipes and
iron about the water works. Collections
for market fees amounted to $19.40. Mr.
James Harris appeared in behalf of the
new creamery and cheese factory and asked
council to release them from the taxes for
the first three years. The following bills
were ordered to be paid :
Water works pay roll.. we $76.80
Street pay roll.. ..........
H. 8. Taylor, Col., tax
J. H. Wetzel, surveying. 7.00
Police pay roll... or. oT 35.00
Thos. Shaughensy, market clerk... . 1,05
C. C. Shuey, supplies for soldiers’ families.. 15.44
$216.57
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THE KIND OF WEATHER THAT FosTER
SAYs WE WiLL HAVE.—My last bulletin
gave forecasts of the storm wave to Cross
the continent from 12th to 16th, and the
next will reach the Pacific coast about
17th, cross the west of Rockies country hy
close of 18th, great central valleys 19th to
21st, Eastern States 22nd.
A warm wave will cross the west of
Rockies country about 17th, great central
valleys 19th, Eastern States 21st. A cool
wave will cross the west of Rockies country
about 20th, great central valleys 22nd,
Eastern States 24th.
Temperature of the week ending 8:00 a.
m. July 25th, will average about normal
in the northern and Pacific slope States and
below normal in the Southern States. Rain-
fall for the same period will be below in
the northern and about normal in the
Southern States.
The hottest part of J uly in the Northern
States will cross the continent from west to
east from 11th to 16th, and will be fol-
lowed by a cool wave from 17th to 22nd.
My temperature forecasts for the first
week in June were not good, but for the
last 23 days they were almost perfect.
To correctly forecast the rainfall of the
arid districts adjacent to the Rocky moun-
tains is one of the most difficult features in
meteorology. Thousands of people in those
districts will testify to the wonderful ac-
curacy of my rainfall forecasts for the crop
Season of this year.
—
Pine Grove Mention.
John N. Bailey has been confined to bed for
the past week with lumbago.
The steam thresher is heard on all sides
hulling out the grain which is not yielding
as prolifically as last year, nor is it as good a
quality.
Sheriff Cronister’s portly form was seen on
our streets this week. We are always glad
for Wharton's friendly visits but do abhor
his official calls.
Rev. R. M. Illingsworth, of Oil City,
joined his interesting little family here last
week and on Sunday morning he filled the
Lutheran pulpit in his usual eloquent style.
The venerable Wm. Hess came across the
Alleghenies from his Philipsburg home, last
week, to spend a week at the home of his
boy-hood on the Branch. For one of his years
he is jolly and hearty, but his gray locks de-
note the passing of time.
Pearl Randof, while removing a hay fork
from the rafters at the old H. M. Meek farm,
last Friday, missed his hold and fell to the
barn floor below striking a log and bounding
on a horse in the fall. Aside from a few
bruises and hurt back his escape was most
marvelous.
A. C. Ripka, one of Potter township’s push-
ing farmers and solid Democrats, spent Wed~
nesday on a little business trip here. He