Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 9, 1398.
P. GRAY MEEK, - Ebrror.
The Democratic State Ticket,
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. TAMS, of Allegheny.
Democratic District Ticket.
For Congress,
J. L. SPANGLER,
Subject to the Decision of the District Conference
For Senate,
W. C. HEINLE,
Democratic County Convention.
sembly. | ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College.
Assembly, { 1H. WETZEL, Bellefonte.
Prothonotary,—M. I. GARDNER, Bellefonte.
District Att'y,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte.
County Surveyor,—H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp.
For Senator—W. C. Heinle.
The Senatorial conference for this, the
34th, district met in Lock Haven on Wed-
nesday, the 7th inst., and placed in nomi-
nation as the candidate of the Democracy,
W. C. HEINLE Esq., of this place. The
conference continued for but part of a day,
convening at three o’clock in the afternoon
and agreeing on a candidate at its second
session in the evening. There was no
wrangling or bargaining about the nomi-
nation. It was made, after a few hours
balloting for the different candidates, by
Mr. PENTZ of Clearfield withdrawing as a
candidate and his conferees casting their
ballots for Mr. HEINLE, after which the
nomination was made unanimous and the
representatives of each county pledged
themselves to do the best they could for
his election.
Mr. HEINLE is too well known in this
section to need either words of introduction
or commendation from wus. Since old
enough to take a part in politics he has
always been an active worker for the party
and has been heard on the stump in every
school district in the county. He filled
the position of district attorney for two
terms and filled it well He was Deputy
Revenue collecter of this district during
the first administration of President Cleve-
land, the duties of which he performed to
the entire satisfaction of the public and to
the credit of the service. He was twice
chairman of the Democratic County com-
mittee and both times led the party. to |
victory. He has the ability, the knowledge
of, "and experience in, public affairs, to
make an influential and creditable repre-
sentative at Harrisburg. He will do all in
his power to redeem the district; and if
the Democratic voters of the three counties
comprising it, who are sick of Republican
representation and rotten Republican rule,
add their efforts to his there should be no
doubt about the result in November.
Union Advised by the Demoeratic Can=-
didate,
Mr. JENKS’ open and manly declaration
that all sincere opponents of machine rule,
Democrats as well as anti-QUAY Republi-
cans, should unite in the election of anti-
machine members of the Legislature, is the
expression of a true reformer who compre-
hends the full extent of the work that is
to be done, and it has had a good effect in
arraying honest citizens, irrespective of
party, in a movement for a better order of
Legislators.
Acting upon his suggestion the Demo-
cratic Legislative conventions in Allegheny
county, last week, declared in favor of such
a union of anti-machine elements. Nomi-
nations were made in some districts on that
line, and in others they were delayed until
an agreement on suitable candidates can be
secured. This should be the policy in all
districts where it is obvious that such a
union is necessary for the defeat of mem-
bers who would be under machine control.
The outspoken declaration of Mr. JENKS
in favor of union against QUAY has had an
excellent effect upon anti-Quay Republican
journals. The Philadelphia Ledger speaks
of it approvingly, as follows:
“The Democratic candidate thus shows
that he not only perceives and appreciates
the evils of Quayism, but that he knows
there is a certain remedy for them. To get
rid of Quayism Quay must be got rid of.
To secure that result there must be elected
a majority of the Legislature invincibly
opposed to the re-election of Matthew Stan.
ley Quay to the Senate of the United States.
Mr. Jenks points the way to Senator Quay’s
defeat by suggesting the fusion in the re.
spective legislative districts of all voters
opposed to Quay and Quayism. He urges
that all good men, irrespective of party,
shall unite at the polls to prevent Senator
Quay’s return to the Senate. ’’
This is quite a differnet tone from what
the Ledger employed in speaking of Mr.
JENKS immediately after his nomination,
it having entirely abandoned the idiotic
machine invention that QUAY influenced
the nomination of the Democratic candi-
date.
The Philadelphia Bulletin, sinking all its
Republican partisanship on this question,
views Mr. JENKS’' union proposition as
favorably as does the Ledger, saying:
Mr. Jenks has now openly and positively
pledged himself to favor the union of Den-
ocrats and Independent Republicans on
anti-Quay candidates for the Legislature,
and “‘all good citizens, regardless of party,’
will depend upon him to carry out his dec-
laration in good faith and in ail earnestness.
‘The voters of both parties who are honestly
in favor of retiring Mr. Quay to private
life should meet each other in a spirit of
concession and compromise, should bury
all petty jealousies and local rivalries, and
make a united and determined effort to ac-
complish the end in view.
These expressions from reputable Repub-
lican sources indicate a disposition to unite
with true Democrats against the corrupt
politicians who are misruling the State,
and strengthens the prospect of purer politics
and better government for Pennsylvania.
The Machine’s Moral Depravity.
The expressions of Republican machine
leaders prove the low order of their politi-
cal morals. Though it is festering with
corrupticn they fail to see anything wrong
in machine rule.
Candidate STONE, for example, is un-
able to understand why there should be
public dissatisfaction with the last Legis-
lature ; but even if there should be occa-
sion to condemn it, which he won’ admit,
he declares that, as it is dead and gone,
there is no reason to be making a fuss
about it, but that the people should elect
another Legislature which in all probabil-
ity would be as much under the control of
the machine as the last one.
As this view, of the most corrupt body
that ever assembled in Harrisburg in a
legislative capacity, is taken hy the man
whom QUAY has selected for Governor, it
is easy to imagine in what light he would
regard the duties that would be imposed
upon him as the chief officer of the State.
Another illustration of the depravity of
machine sentiment in regard to profligate
State expenditure is furnished by the argu-
ment of Republican chairman ELKINS that
as the State revenues are raised chiefly by
taxes on corporations the people have no
reason to kick if money obtained from that
source is extravagantly and recklessly
used.
There could not be a more fallacious
plea for the corruptions practiced by the
QUAY gang. The public money, from
whatever source it may come, is the peo-
ple’s money, and it should be carefully
and economically used for their benefit,
and not squandered for the gratifications
and enrichment of machine politicians.
Besides, the people in the end have to
furnish this revenue though it may appear
to be collected from the coporations, for it
is upon the shoulders of the general tax-
payers that the burden of all taxation ulti-
mately falls.
Democratic Victories !
ARKANSAS <= VERMONT. -
On Tuesday last State elections were-
held in both Arkansas and Verinont. You
don’t see any Republican roosters out
crowing over the results. In fact one
would scarcely know that an election had
been held in either of the states if Repub-
lican papers had to be depended upon for
the news.
In the former, the Democrats swept every
thing— maintaining their usually large
Democratic majorities, for State, district and
local tickets, sending a solid delegation to
Congress, giving their candidate for Gov-
érnor an overwhelming majority, and
electing nine-tenths of the State Senators
and Representatives.
From Vermont the returns are given in
the following dispatch, which shows the
political current to be running in the same
way up in that Republican State that it is
down in Democratic Arkansas,
WHITE R1vER JUNCTION, Vt, Sept. 7.—
The result of yesterday's biennial election in
Vermont shows many great surprises, the
Republican vote having fallen off to an un-
precedented extent from four years ago. The
Democrats have not only made a gain for
Governor, but have elected 33 Representa-
tives in 179 towns heard from at noon to-
ay.
Returns from 172 cities and towns give the
following vote for Governor: Smith (Repub-
lican), 30,638; Molony (Democrat), 12,386;
Wyman ( Prohibitionist), 781.
Congressmen Grout and Powers are re-
elected by small majorities.
& De ————
A Republican Frost at Pittsburg.
Great Disappointment at the Opening Meeting of
the Republican Campaign.—A Small Crowd and no
Interest.
PITTSBURG, September 7.—The Repub-
lican State campaign was formally opened
to-night in Carnegie Hall, were speeches
were made by Gubernatorial Candidate
William A. Stone, State Chairman, John
P. Elkin, Webster C. Davis, of Missouri ;
Senator C. L. Magee and others, When
the meeting was called to order, half an
hour later than the appointed time, there
were not 500 people in the hall. Three-
fourths of these were delegates to the
eleventh annual convention of the State
Republican league of clubs, city and coun-
ty pay roll men ete.
Among the others were Democratic lead-
ers, who were after campaign material.
Business men, merchants and manufact-
urers were conspicuous through their ab-
sence. The small crowd at the meeting
confirmed the report that the great mass of
Republicans in the county will not support
Stone.
PITTSBURG, September 7.—With less
than 100 delegates present, the eleventh
annual convention of the State League of
Republican clubs opened in the Alvin
theatre to-day. Including delegates, al-
ternates and visitors, there were not over
400 people in the hall at any time. As the
opening to the State Republican campaign
the gathering, it is claimed, is the worst
political frost seen here since the revolt of
1882. The crowd attending the conven-
tion was so small and the attitude of the
voters generally so cold that the big mass
meeting for this evening in Schenley Park
had to be called off. The 2,000 chairs
which were reserved for the use of the
delegates and alternates, who it was ex-
pected would attend the convention, were
not occupied. Instead of holding the
gathering in the open air, where 8,000 peo-
ple can be seated, a meeting was held in
Carnegie Music Hall, nearby. The hall
seats about 1,500 and there were plenty of
vacant chairs.
Criminal Carelessness.
More Inhuman Treatment of Soldiers—Incompetence
Manag t and | te Arrang ts. Kill-
ing More Brave Men. Salt Horse and Beans Fed
to Sick Men. Brave Fellows go Insane From the
Want of Attention. :
Camp WIKOFF, Montauk Point, N. Y.
Sept. 4.—There may have been excuses for
the lack of supplies, for want of proper
food, for shortage in medicine, for the ex-
posure to which our sick soldiers were sub-
jected to and to the meager attention paid
them while before Santiago ; but what
kind of an excuse, can those in authority
give for the incompetency or carelessness
that subjects the starving, fever stricken
invalids of the army, who are being brought
home, to the hardship and murderous
treatment that awaits them both on board
the government transport, and at the
camps to which the are forwarded ? Two
transports arrived here from Santiago early
this morning and were unloaded this after-
noon. One of them, the Roumania, carried
600 convalescent troops from the hospital
at Siboney.
Some of these men tell frightful stories
of their sufferings en route. The condi-
tions were such that two of the soldiers
went so violently insane that they died at
sea. In addition to these there were five
other deaths. All of these unfortunates
were buried at sea. i
SHE CAME UP ALL RIGHT,
The ship that accompanied the Rouma-
nia was the Unionist, but as the latter car-
ried only 86 men, and all of them ‘were
mechanics, no suffering was reported.
In addition to the 600 convalescents on
the Roumania she carried Companies K
and L of the Ninth Massachusetts Volun-
teers. The Roumania sailed on the 29th
of August.
When one day out from Santiago two of
the sick men died and were promptly buri-
ed at sea. :
One the third day Private Paul Ww.
Friedman, of the Seventy-first New York,
had been taken from the yellow fever hos-
pital aboard the ship, grew insane. His
condition became rapidly worse until the
following day, when in his mad struggles
the poor fellow ruptured a large artery and
soon bled to death.
POOR FOOD CAUSED IT.
His comrades say that the reason he went
insane was because he did not have any-
thing to eat that was fit for a sick man.
Although he protested, the hospital at-
tendants persisted in bringing salt horse
and beans to his cot three times a day.
This dish soon grows disgusting even for a
well man when he has to eat it three times
a day. Private Friedman protested, but it
was useless. The pork and beans still
kept coming.
VICTIM FOESAW HIS DOOM.
*“The afternoon he lost his reason,’’ one
of his comrades said, ‘‘Friedman said to
me : “If I don’t get something that I can
eat I will go crazy.”
And sure enough—even before the vie- |
tim Himself anticipated it the prophesy
came true.
For four days the mother and brother of
this boy have been awaiting the arrival of
the Roumania. They had received the
word that the object of their affection was
on the transport. When she put into dock
Friedman’s brother stood outside the
quarantine lines watching patiently. He
bad secured a furlough for his brother, but
he came not.
A visit was then paid to the informa-
tion bureau. Asking a olerk there if he
knew anything of his brother’s: condition’! tat
‘or whereabouts; he reeeived -the following- ~matters.for.very. many .years,. bat...it -was
answer :
“You are the one hundred and fifth man
who has asked for information here to-day.
What’s his name ?”’
“Paul W. Feiedman, Seventy-first New
York,” was the reply.
OFFICIAL’S BRUTAL FRANKNESS.
Turning to a file the clerk fingered for a
minute and then remarked in an indiffer-
ent way : ‘‘Friedman went crazy on Sep-
tember 2nd, died the following day and
was thrown into the ocean. Anything else
I can do for you ?”
The brother looked as though he was go-
ing to drop. Great tears filled his eyes
and his lips quivered as he replied : “*No,
thank you ; that is all.”
He then staggered over to the depot,
where his mother was in waiting to re-
ceive her soldier boy son. The scene as
the terrible news was broken to her was
heartrending. In addition
Friedman another man went violently in-
sane on the troop ship Roumania and died.
He was Joseph Franz, of Company B, Six-
teenth United States infantry. His com-
rades say that he simply went crazy be-
cause.-he did not receive the proper food
and attention.
CAMP WIKOFF, Mentauk Point, Sept.
5th—Neglect was responsible for the death
of two soldiers here to-day, who, if the
proper precautions had been taken, might
still be alive.
These victims of mismanagement were
taken from the transport Roumania to the
detention hospital along with 350 others
who were sick. The officials at the hos-
pital were not notified to be ready to receive
such a large number of patients. The re-
sult was that sick men unto death were
compelled to lie on the dewey ground in
the early hours of morning, and two suc-
cumbed to exposure and exhaustion.
The names of these victims are Dorgan
Broomer, private, Company F, Twenty-
ninth Infantry, and Albert Pickworth,
private, Company D, Thirty-third Michi-
gan. Both were suffers from typhoid fever
and had extremely high temperatures.
IN POOR SHAPE FOR SUCH TREATMENT.
The conditions that confronted them
were shocking for men even in fair health.
None of the passengers on the transport had
been properly fed and all were in bad
shape. The debarkation of Broomer and
Pickworth there, when no accommodation
had been made for them, simply meant
death, swift and certain.
The detention hospital has accommoda-
tions for 450 men. When the sick from
the Roumania arrived there over 700 pa-
tients were in the hospital. Notwithstand-
ing this over-crowding, the hospital am-
bulances continued to drive up and unload.
The sick from the Roumania were laid
upon the damp ground and the hospital
‘floors. In the meantime the hospital offi-
cials were busy shoving the cots closer to-
gether and spreading mattresses and blank-
ets on the floor to accommodate the incom-
ing sick. After several hours of this work
the latter were gotten under cover, but not
before the two already mentioned had
succumbed.
PLEADED IN VAIN FOR A DRINK OF WATER.
The scenes during these few hours were
horrible. Those who had just arrived were
begging piteously for food ~ and water, but
the hospital attendants were too busy mak-
ing room to get them under shelter to pay
attention to their plaints. From a soldier
who was by Private Pickworth when he
to Private |.
died, I learned that his last words were |
“For God’s sake ! Give me a drink of
water.”’ : ;
It was given him, and when they picked
up his prostrate form to lay it on a mat-
tress, they found he was a corpse.
The detention hospital officials say they
are not to blame for the terrible condition
that prevailed in their camp for a few hours.
They clear their skirts by saying that the
large number of sick were rushed upon
them without warning.
ere ————
Startling Facts for the Tax-Payer!
A Looted Treasury and a Bankrupt Commonwealth
as Results of Machine Rule. Total State Expenses
Over $15,000,000, Now, as Agvinst $4,500,000,
Under Democratic Control.
.
HARRISBURG, September 7th.
There are two problems of serious im-
portance facing the. treasury officials of
Pennsylvania to-day. The first is how,
for the sake of the Republican machine, by
whose favor they hold office, the fact that
there is a practical deficit of nearl y $3,000,-
000 in the State treasury can be disguised
or explained satisfactorily to the voters.
‘The second is, how they can get the ad-
ditional money which will be absolutely
needed for the coming year’s expenses if
machine rule is to be continued, or unless
an anti-Republican Legislature shall be
chosen in the fall and shall proceed, imme-
diately after convening, to stop all the
steals and cut off all the extravagances.
As to preventing the people from learn-
ing that there is a deficit, that it is an ugly
one, and that it will sooner or later produce
no end of embarrassment both for the State
and its creditors, that is simply impossible.
The facts are too plain. The ordinarily
intelligent man has but to take up the re-
ports of the State Treasurer and Auditor
General and glance for a moment at the
figures to satisfy himself as to their melan-
choly and disgraceful truth. Each year,
for the four years last past, the appropria-
tions have exceeded the estimated expend-
itures, and the actual expenditures have
been greater than the estimated income by
from two to four millions of dollars. For
the year 1898 the Treasurer’s estimated in-
come, leaving the Sinking Fund out of
consideration, was $11,191,628, while he
found that in going over the 1897 appro-
priations and adding to their totals the
overdue payments on previous appropria-
tions, there would be needed, during 1898,
again omitting the Sinking Fund items,
the enormous sum of $17,346,823. That
sort-of financing, continued fora few years,
would bankrupt even a Standard oil trust.
Corruption and waste have been conspic-
uous in Pennsylvania's state governmental
not until BEAVER’S administration began,
in 1887, that the looters got things down
fine and entered upon their stealing and
Undoubtedly
there were moneys unnecssarily expended
from 1883 to 1886 inclusive under Pattison,
but the totals were nevertheless compara-
squandering by wholesale.
tively modest. The following, taken from
the reports of the Auditor General, show
the total expenditures during that period,
on current account—that is, less interest,
loans redeemed, and U. 8. bonds purchased:
VBSB i, hail $4,336,976.
1884 .. 4,383,515.
1885 . veer 5,068,782.
WBBON.L. na 4,367,751.
Pot. crisicnr sss ut .....§18,157,024.
Average each year $4,539,256.
During the same period there were State
loans redeemed, including the premiums
paid thereon, aggregating $3,290,427, and
United States bonds purchased under the
Humes act amounting to $5,305,814. These
items are not included 1n the above totals.
As an exhibit of how the machine has
learned to get away with the taxpayer’s
money since then, the following statement
of the yearly expenditures under H ASTINGS,
added to the actual surplus left over from
1894 in the general fund, and the deficit
that will show at the close of the year 1898
if the State Treasurer’s estimates are reli-
able, will be found edifying:
The 1894 surplus ........................ $3,807,747.
The 1895 actual expenditures
The 1896 actual expenditures
The 1897 actual expenditures
The 1898 estimated expenses A
The probable deficit................... 2,762,834.
$60,820,027.
.. 15,205,006.
4,539,256.
So that the last administration has cost
the State more than ten and a half
millions of dollars each year over and above
the yearly cost of the first Pattison admin-
istration. Again I say that financing of
Average per year 1895-98...
Average per-year 1883-86
that sort would quickly bankrupt even a
Standard oil trust.
What are they going to do about it?
They don’t know themselves. And, except
for the disastrous effect it is apt to have
upon the prospects of Republican success
in November, when the facts become gen-
erally known, as they certainly will, they
don’t care much. They are just now most
concerned regarding the threat of certain
school districts to the State’s right to hold
moneys that have been appropriated to
them and that are due under the terms of
the law. If that test should be made and
the decision be against the State, it would
not be surprising to see the treasury issuing
orders at no distant day, instead of cash,
in payment of salaries and other current
expenses. Of course, if that result can be
avoided, it will be; and in the hope of
avoiding it, the treasury officials are now
busily engaged in devising schemes to get
more money out of the corporations as tax
on their capital stock &c. This will be
done by raising the assessments, as made
in the Auditor General’s office, and if that
plan will not work, then they will be pre-
pared with a bill to accomplish it, which
they will urge upon the Legislature next
winter. If that Legislature is an anti-
machine body, as is now hoped, it will
address itself rather to lopping off expendi-
tures than to devising new tax schemes.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
STRAWBERRY FAD. — Raising straw-
berries in the winter promises to become a
fad with many of the ladies who take an
interest in potted plants. They can be
grown as easily, during the coldest weather
as any other plants, and much enjoyment
is had in giving them attention: Place a
pot in the ground, allow a young runner
to become rooted in the pot, and then cut
the runner from the parent plant. If these
plants are given the same attention in the
house, in the windows, as ladies bestow on
flowers, there will be early strawberries at
a season when they can not be had from
the outside bed.
——— ee
THE BIRCH WEILDERS OF SPRING
Twp.—The following is the list of teachers
who will preside over the schools of Spring
township the coming term, opening on the
26th inst. and continuing for six months.
Pleasant Hill —Grammar, Thos. Barnhart :
Primary, Miss Lena Baum.
Coleville.—Grammar, W. H. Ott; Interme-
Riss, Jas. Corl ; Primary, Miss Bella Barn-
art.
Valentine’s.—Grammar, - Wm. Chambers ;
Primary, Miss Georgianna Steele.
Yocums.—Grammar, Miss Bertha David-
son ; Primary, E. R. Owens.
Fishing Creek.—Harry Gentzel. -
Weaver’s.—Harry Hartsock.
Gentzel’s.—Samuel Brooks.
Axe Mann.—Grammar, H. G. Mease : Pri-
mary, J. Clyde Jodon.
Pleasant Gap.—Grammar, W. C. Smeltzer ;
Primary, Roy Bell.
Horntown.— Ambrose Sloteman.
Mountain.—Homer Gentzel,
Oak Grove.—J. F. Harrison.
>be
SWALLOW AND THE . PROHIBITIONISTS
AT HEecLA PARK. —Yesterday afternoon
the long advertised and promised great
meeting of the Prohibitionists of the coun-
ty, came off at Hecla Park. It was a re-
spectable gathering but not large, consider-
ing the curiosity there it is to see and hear-
candidate Swallow, and the amount of ad-
vertising that was done’ to get a crowd.
One thousand people is a very liberal esti-
mate:of the’ number present. They came
from both counties—Céntre and Clinton.
Before the ‘meeting was’ organized the
Prohibitionists of this county met in con-
vention and nominated the following
ticket :
Assembly, A. Y. Williams, Worth :
. WwW. H. Long, Howard.
Prothonotary, Albert Bierly, Miles.
This is all the ticket they made and we
are not informed as to whether they expect
to have congressional and senatorial candi-
dates in the field or not.
The meeting was organized on the ball
ground after dinner, with chairman Zeigler
as President, and a goodly list of vice
| presidents, secretaries, etc. Rev. Swallow
! was the principal, in fact the only speaker.
i He paid particular attention to the rotten-
ness and extravagance of the Republican
party in the State, and dwelt earnestly on
the great need of reforms-to save the tax-
payers from the robbery to which they are
now subjected under the rule of the boss.
His speech was well received.
————
FOSTER'S WEATHER PREDICTION.—We
failed last week to furnish Foster's guess
as to the kind of weather we may expect
during the present month: So far we all
know what kind it has been. Here is what
he predicts it will be for the balance of the
month.
Temperature of the week ending 8B a. m.
September 12th, will average below in
Northern and about normal in Southern
latitudes.
The second disturbance of September
will reach the Pacific coast about 7th, cross
the West lof Rockies country by close of
the 8th, great central valleys 9th to 11th,
Eastern states 12th. :
Warm wave will cross the West of Rock-
ies country about September 7th, great cen-
tral valleys, 9th, Eastern states 14th.
Temperature of September will average
below normal in middle latitude East of
Rockies, from Chicago to Ji acksonville, Fla.,
and Kansas City to Washington, D. C. All
around the section mentioned temperature
of the month will average above.
A cool wave will occur in Northern lati-
tudes about September 10th, and in lo-
calities, where frost usually ocour early,
light but unimportant frosts will ocour.
Another cool wave will pass over the
Northern states about September 22nd, ac-
companied by light frosts. Killing frosts
are not expected in September, and late
corn will probably have ample time to ma-
ture.
Most severe storms are expected not far
from 4th and 26th, and will be of great
force in Southern latitudes.
Generally September 1898 will be a mod-
erate month as to the weather, and on the
whole favorable to crops. No great ex-
tremes in the weather are expected and the
month may safely be set down in advance
as favorable to all interests.
GRANGE PROGRAM.—The 25th annual
encampment and exhibition of the Patrons
of Husbandry, at Centre Hall. on Grange
park, will open September 10th.
Sonday, Sept. 11th, at 10.30 8 m.,
preaching by Rev. Faus, of the MM. E
church.
2 p. m., services conducted by Mrs.
Helen Johnson, of Erie.
6.30 p. m., Christian Endeavor meet-
ing.
* 7.30, preaching by Rev. Rhoads, of the
Evangelical church.
A regular program will be carried out
during the week, opening on Monday
evening with a Projectoscope exhibition in
the auditorium.
Formal opening on Taesday morning hy
the officers of the County grange.
During the week the leading officers of
the State grange will be in attendance and
address the people.
Announcements will be made from day
to day. Among those who will address
the meetings during the week will be Sen-
ator Brown, of York: Dr. Atherton.
President of the State College ; Prof. Ham-
ilton, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture ;
Dr. Rothrock, State Forestry commission-
er; Dr. Fernald, State Zoologist, and Miss
Emma Brewer, of Delaware county.
There will be a special entertainment
every evening.
The hours of meeting will he 10 a. m..
2 p. m., and 7.30 in the evening.
You cannot afford to miss the entertain-
ments 1 the auditorium.
—e
To THE GRANGER PIcNIC, — There
should be no trouble in your getting to the
Granger’s picnic, next week. At least the
railroad companies have made rates so low
and will run trains so plentiful that there
should be no doubt about it. On Wednes-
day and Thursday, in addition to the regu-
lar trains special trains will run as follows:
EASTWARD. STATIONS.
P.M. A. M. A. M.
7.25 10.10 7.20 Lv
WESTWARD,
P.M. P.M. P. M.
.Bellefonte.... Ar 4.10 7.15 10.45
7.30 10.15 7.27 ......... 4.06 7.10 10.39
7.33 10.19 7. Pleasant Gap. 4.03 7.07 10.33
7.43 10.31 7. ..Dale Summit 3.54 6.57 10.21
7.48 10.36 7.47 .........Lemont.. 3.50 6.52 10.15
7.52 10.40 7.53 .... ..0Oak Hall. 3.46 6.48 10.10
7.57 10.45 7.58 ...... Linden Hall....... 3.42 7.43 10.03
8.10 11.00 8.15 Ar.Grange Park.Lv 3.30 6.30 9.45
STATIONS. EASTWARD.
Leave p. u,
Centre Hall (Grange Park) 8.20 2.»
Glen Iron.........ccoooro coh ad5 “er,
9.54 =F»
9.57 £28
10.03 =
10.00 S59
10.19 &£ S<
10.24 a
Tm 10.34 Za
EE
STATIONS, EASTWARD.
Leave ». um. P. M.
Centre Hall (G. Poy 8.20 & 0 8.20 2 =
Penn Cave... SBF. ga=F
Rising Sprin 38 = = 8.38 = 38>
Zerby..... FEZ 850 ESE
Coburn... SR 9.00 5
Ingleby ..... hat =EA
Paday Mountain. Eg E
Cherry Run...... 9.92 ©& §&
Pardde. a Sa” =
Arrive =2 RE
On all trains, a single fare for a round
trip ticket, will be sold..
£ To, >
METHODS OF DESTROYING THE “ HES-
SIAN FLY.—Dr. H. Fernald of the State
College and Zoologist has sent out a short
circular, suggesting methods in which the
Hessian or ‘“‘wheat fly,”” can to some ex-
tent, be exterminated. It is timely, and
to those farmers who have not crowded the
season and finished sowing their fal} crop
may benefit by the suggestions made : He
says :—
There are two broods of this insect each
year. The winged fly appears in August and
September, and searches for the young win-
ter wheat to lay its eggs on, and places them
on the leaf blades, anywhere from one to
thirty on a blade. In four or five days the
eggs hatch and the young maggots crawl
down the blade, enter the sheath and pass
down to the joint. Here they stay, sucking
the juice from the plant until about the end
of November, when they turn brown, and
harden. This is called the flax-seed stage.
In this condition they pass the winter. In
the spring, about the middle or end of April,
they change to the full grown form, the
winged fly. These, at once, begin to lay
their eggs as before, and the history as al-
ready given for the fall brood is repeated ;
the flies from this brood, appearing in Au-
gust and September to lay the eggs on the
winter wheat. This, in brief, is the life his-
tory of the Hessian fly.
TREATMENT.
From what has been given, it is plain that
there is no treatment of the seed which will
do any good, nor is spraying of any possible
use. Treatment here must be in other lines.
The best thing to do for the protection of
the wheat from the fly is :
1. Plant a small piece of wheat early in
August so that it may come up early, and be
found by the flies when looking for a place
to lay their eggs. This piece will, of course,
be full of maggots later. About the end of
September plow this under, and do not use
the ground for wheat the next year. By
this method the flies will lay their eggs in
this early wheat and as they die after egg
laying, few will be left.
2. Do not plant the wheat (except the
small piece just spoken of), until about Sep-
tember 20th ; by that time almost every fly
will have died, and there will be none left to
lay their eggs when the wheat comes up.
There is a tendency in Pennsylvania, as
well as elsewhere, for the farmer each year
to get his sowing done a little earlier than
the year before. This is directly favorable
to the fly. Wheat sown as late as September
20th, will make growth enough so that it
will not winter-kill, and this method has
been tried in states farther north than Penn-
sylvania for many years with success.
3' Some kiuds of wheat are less attacked
by the fly than others. Rolling the field,
with a heavy roller, when the fields are
smooth and free from stones, about the first
of October, is of value in some cases, Let-
ting sheep graze on the fields as soon as two
or three blades from each root appear, also
helps; the sheep eating the eggs of the fly,
along with the leaves. Crops on poor land
usually suffer most ; hence the use of ferti-
lizers to enrich the soil, aids in keeping
down the insect.
4. Where the fly is already in the wheat,
cutting a little higher than usual and plow-
ing the stubble under at once, will kill the
insect before they have changed to the wing-
ed stage. Burning the stubble is also bene-
ficial at this time.
SUMMARY.
The fly must be killed or starved. To kill
as many as possible, plant a small piece early,
as a trap for the fly to lay its eggs on, then
plow it under and thus kill the eggs from
which the spring brood comes.
To starve the fly do not plant until about
September 20th, so that the fly will die be-
fore it can find any wheat to lay its eggs on.
If both these methods are used together,
and if all who raise wheat in any region will
work together to do this, but little trouble
from the pest should occur.