Bellefonte, Pa., November 13, 1903.
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Com mercilalism Renewed.
President ROOSEVELT’S message to the
extra session of Congress is characteristic
and peculiarly Republican. ‘‘I have con-
vened Congress, he says, ‘‘that it may con-
sider the legislation necessary to put into
operation the commercial treaty with Cuba,
which was ratified by the Senate at its last
session, and subsequently by the Cuban
government. I deem such legislation de-
manded not only by our interests but by
our honor.”” MARK HANNA could hardly
have expressed the principle of commercial-
ism in government better. It is precisely
the system on which the ship building
trust was organized by Mr. SCHWAB. It
is putting interest before honor.
When every principle expressed in the
Declaration of Independence was violated
by the conquest of the Philippines, if that
has been achieved, the justification offered
was that it would promote commerce with
the Asiatic countries. Commercialism took
precedence to every other consideration
then- and according to the President’s
message it is the paramount idea in the
matter with Caba. Honor comes in in-
oidentally. But the strategic advantage in
military operations, the coaling conve-
piences in naval affairs and the trading ad-
vantages in commercial affairs are the most
important. ‘‘Not an American interest is
saorificed,’’ writes the President, and yet
it is falsely called a reciprocity treaty.
The government of the United States is
in honor bound to conserve the commercial
and political interests of Cuba. When we
interposed to sever the sovereignty which
bound the Island to Spain we pledged the
world to that effect. By that interposition
we deprived Cuba of the unrestrained
markets which she had enjoyed for three
hundred years, and left her with a sur-
plussage of products, the fruits of her iu-
dustry, energy and capital, to rot on her
hands. And yet when the President of
the ‘United States, the custodian of the
honor of the greatest government on earth
asks, Congress in an apologetic message 0
maintain the honor he declares that it is
for interest first and afterward for principle.
» All of a Kind.
The Reading Evening Telegram in hunting
for a reason for the defeat of Judge YERKES
in Buoks, and the failure of the Lehigh
Democrats to elect so admirable and worthy
a candidate for" Judgeas they had in Mr.
HARVEY, concludes that both ‘‘were Gold
Democrats’’ and “‘deserted their party dur-
ing that memorable ocontest’’ and that
“many Democrats in both counties had
neither forgotten nor forgiven those deser-
tions, and took the opportunity to get even
last Tuesday.”’
In its diagnosis of the trouble in Bucks
and Lehigh the Telegram may be right, but
if it is, the Lord help the kind of Demo-
crats they have down that way. They
must reason that because it was wrong to
cut a Democratic ticket in 1896, it is right
to do the same thing in 1903.
While the writer of this worked
and voted for Mr. BRYAN, each time he
was a candidate, he has never yet been
able to see a particle of difference in the
Deniocracy of the men who voted against
him, and of those who have cut their ticket
since, no matter what their excuse may be.
And if the defeat of Judge YERKES and
Mr. HARVEY is attributable to the reason
given both Bucks-and Lehigh are full of
professed Democrats who have placed
themselves in exactly the same position |
that they objected to these candidates oc-
cupying.
They have simply done themselves what
they censured others for doing and are
consequently no better than those they
censure.
Bryan is Pleased With the Decision
on the Bennett Wiil,
Nebraskan Will Not Receive the Money Di-
rected to ‘be Paid Him in Sealed Letter—
Judge Rules Out Missive.
The charge of undue influence against
~ William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska in the
drawing of the will of the late Philo S.
Bennett, of New Haven, under which he and
his family were to have the use of $50,000
personally or to be distributed for charit-
able and educational purposes, was dismiss-
ed last week by JudgeL. W. Cleaveland
of the Probate court. The will in its en-
tirety is admitted for probate, Mr. Bennett
being fouud perfectly capable of drawing
the instrument.
As the same time the sealed letter, to
Mrs. Bennett, left with the will and con-
taining the request of Mr. Bennett as to
the granting of the $50,000 to Mr. Bryan
fs declared legally to be not a part of the
will.
Without the letter the will leaves the
$50,000 in trust to Mrs Bennett. to be dis-
posed of according to the terms of the
sealed letter. With the letter not admitted
to probate only future legal proceedings
can determin e the effect of the letter on
Mr. Bryan’s chances of receiving the
$50.000 left to him.
William J. Bryan, after reading the de-
cision, issued the following statement:
“The decision isin my favor on all the
moral questions raised by the heir: and*
against me on the technical law pointe
only. The Court, in effect, declares that
the bequest would have been good if it had
been made direct, as Mr. Bennett suggest-
ed, but that under the decisions the letter
cannot be probated in the absence of proof
‘showing that it was actually in existence
at the moment when the will was executed.
I am much better pleased with the decision
than I would have been if the Court bad
declared for me on the legal points and
against me on the moral questions.”
"and crawled part way under.
America’s Richest Daughter Married.
The Wedding at '8t. Thomas'—Duke of Roxburghe
Weds One of America’s Richest Women—But a
Small Number of Guests Were Present.
New YORK, Nev. 10.—The Duke, of
Roxburge, the seventeenth peer in the
court of St. James, was wedded to Miss
May Goelet, daughter of Mrs. Odgen Goe-
let. of this city, at St. Thomas’ church at
2:30 this afternoon. The bride was the
richest unmarried woman in the United
States and is reputed to be worth $25,000,-
000 in her own right. The ceremony was
performed by Bishop Doane, assisted by
Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires, rector of the
church. Bishop Doane, of Albany, pro-
nounced the benediction. The Goelets are
in mourning for the late Sir Michael Her-
Pennsylvania Complete Returns.
Complete returns of the vote cast on
Tuesday for State Treasurer give Mathues,
Republican, 513,762, Hill, Democrat, 228,-
611; Mathues’ ‘plurality, 280,471. For
Auditor General, Snyder, Republican, 500,-
411; Dewalt, Democrat, 230,505. Snyder’s
plurality, 263,906. Snyder ran 13.000 be-
hind Mathues. The official vote will alter
the foregoing figures but slightly.
The vote for Judges of the Superior
Court has not yet been computed in all the
coutities, and it may be several days before
the exact vote for the judicial ticket is
known. ° :
The following tables give the complete,
thoagh not official, vote for State Treasurer
and Auoditor General.
bert, and the services were simple.
St. Thomas’ church was beautifully decor-
ated for the occasion, the floral scheme be-
ing to make the interior of the edifice as
small as possible, and to make the charch
like an English chapel. The feature of
the decorations wae the pulpit, which was
a mass of orchids and asparagus and white
roses and the altar stalls were hung in
white lilies. On thealtar stalls were hang
ropes of white roses, tied with satin rib-
bons. In and about the chancel were
groups of palms, shrubs and plants. From
the tops of stone columns were hung bask-
ets of English primroses.
The gathering of invited guests was
watched by eager crowds, who lined Fifth
avenue near the church. Interest, of
course, was all in the bride and groom
Miss Goelet, on the arm of her brother,
Robert, who gave her away, was gowied
in a remarkable Worth creation. It is
made of Irish point lace, in rose design.
The lace was given to Miss Goelet by her
mother. The dress is made on a founda-
tion of rich satin, covered with white tulle.
Miss Goelet wore over this a tulle veil
caught with a coronet of orange blossoms.
The bride wore no jewelry save a pearl
necklace. :
The bridesmaid wore pink mousseline
de sole, trimmed with ecru lace, and car-
ried muffs of pink roses. The best man
and ushers wore bouttonieres of gardenias.
The wedding service was the Episcopal
marriage service, after which the wedding
party repaired to the Goelet mansion at
608 Fifth avenue, where 200 invited guests
attended an informal reception.
A view of the wedding gifis, which were
rich and rare and in great numbers, was
had. The presents are said to aggregate
over a million dollarsin value. The Duke
and Duchess of Roxburge will spend part
of their honeymoon at the Goelet house in
Newport, R. I., and then later proceed to
Floor’s Castle, the duke’s palace in Eng-
land.
Fifth avenue in the vicinity of the church
was the scene before and during the cere-
mony of excitement and disorder unparal-
leled at any of the previous great wed-
dings in New York. From the church to
the Goelet residence, a distance of five
blocks, the avenue was a surging mob,
numbering fully 10,000 persons, mostly
women, whom a force of 200 policemen was
powerless to hold in check.
Before the service began several hundred
women gained entrance to the church and
seated themselves in the galleries, from
which they were forcibly dislodged by the
arrival of the bride.
When the carriage containing the bride-
to-be and her brother, Robert Goelot, near-
ed the church it was surrounded by wom-
en who stopped the horses and in sheir ef-
forts to see the bride clung to the carriage,
some of them getting on the steps and
thrusting their heads through the open
windows.
Mr. Goelet valled to the police, but it
was some moments before the ball dozen
policemen who rushed to the rescue were
able to drive the curious women back and
enable the carriage to proceed.
When the carriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cor-
nelins Vanderbilt, which was just ahead of
the bride, reached the canopy leading from
the curb to the church the crowd of women
—banked up twenty-five deep on either
side—rushed frantically forward, carrying
the solid lines of policemen with them, and
for a moment choked the entrance. They
were forced back only to again rush for-
ward when the brides’ carriage came up.
By this time policemen from other points
had been collected there, but in spite of
them a group of half a dozen women stoop-
ed down and lifted the canvas of the canopy
They clung
to their positions, notwithstanding all the
efforts of the police to pull them away,
‘and several of them managed to keep their
heads under the canvas until the bride had
passed up. A patrolman caught one very
well dressed woman by ove of her ankles
and dragged her along the walk, she still
clinging to the canvas, until she was forced
to loose her hold. She was lifted up, smil-
ing and satisfied. She had seen the bride.
On the Fitty-third street side of the
church fifteen well dressed women crawled
down into a coal hole leading underneath
the chancel. They could not seeanything,
but they could hear what was going on
above. - Policemen had to get in and drive
them out.
Four hours after the ceremony Fifth ave-
nue was still crowded with carious women,
many of whom were laden with spoils from
the church decorations, for after the invited
guests had left the mob crowded into the
chureh and proceeded at once to tear the
chrysanthemums and lilies from the pew
entrances. In a few minutes they began
to break the leaves from the palms aud be-
fore they conld be stopped the charch was
despoiled of many of the floral decorations.
>
May Give Gorman Missouri.
Senators Stone and Wetmore Working for Their
‘Maryland Colleague.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8.—Senator
W. J. Stone and Colonel Moses Witmore,
of Missouri , will send the Missouri delega-
tion to the Democratic national conven-
tion for Senator Cockrill, of Missouri, for
President. Stone and Wetmore are for
Gorman really, hut they want te get the
delegation for Cockrill as a favorite son
and then throw it to Gorman at the proper
time.
Senator Cockrill has consented to allow
his name to be used as long as it will not
interfere with his candidacy for the senate.
Chicago for Convention City.
Both Democratic and Republican Leaders May
Favor Selection.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8.—Senator
Hanna, chairman of the Republican Na-
tional committee, expeots to call the com-
mittee together early in December, prob-
ably about the 10th.
It is probable that the Republican con-
vention will go to Chicago. San Francisco
people have offered big inducements and
St Louis wants it, but it is argued that
San Francisco is too far, and that the
World’s Fair at St. Louis will make that
city impracticable. Chicago people expect
that the Democratic National Convention
will be held in their city also.
senator shall succeed Senator Morgan.
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Adams.............. 1778 1699 1837 1813
Allegheny...... .. 80754 T7145 18892 20932
Armstrong....... 3437 3327 1839 1784
Beaver, 3910 3836 1486, 1463
Bedfor 3142 3051 2255 2272
Berks.. 4881 4649 9072 8737
Blair... 8217{ , 8199 4005 3931
Bradford 2799 2682 1010 90
Bucks... 8691 8591 6781 6791
Butler... 2379 2340 1467 1443
Cambria. 8965 8829 7830 1712
Cameron 458 435 222 204
Carbon 2979 2846 2566 2475
Centre © 2094 2075 2093 2108
Chester. 6026 6067 2296, 2097
Clarion...... 1388 1301 1736 1653
Clearfield 7249 6848 6224 6196
Clinton... 1903 1780 1773, 1711
Columbia 1092 10056 1998 1937
Crawford 4117 3947 2211 2133
Cuniberland,... 3820 3808] 4092
Dauphin.......... 13415 12949 3702 726
Delaware 10614 9490) 1347 1776
Elk..... 1404 1321 2985 2943
Erie . 6218 5870 3022 2953
Fayett 3460 3396 2377 2357
Forest 485, 457 220 220
Franklin... 3148 3050 2177 1272
Fulton... 698 658 866 1828
Greene... = 1112 1090 1901 1883
Huntingdo: 3053 3059 1297 1272
Indiana.. 3173 2950 736 725
Jefferson 3584 3372 1781 1780
Juniata.. 1320 1271 1134 1096
Lackawanna... 11001, 10997 6492 6423
3089
‘818
1257
10549
14110
3697
436
1964
859
2449
1793
10€1
6641
5070
1303
34444
843
use 449
Schuylk 9781
Snyder.. 720
Somerset. . 2357 2303 819 810
Sulljvan......... .. 614 564 691 655
Susquehanna... 3374 3341 2052 1985
Tioga.... ey 2785 2700 1312 1285
Union... 1448 1417 585 589
Venango. 3563 3448 1232 1185
Warren. 2278, 2233 930 885
Washington..... 6024 5984 3087 2818
Wayne............. 1193 1278 1302 1030
Westmoreland.| 8834] 8103] 5219] 5229
Wyoming......... 1340 1268 1109 1086
Xork............... 6280 6093 6597 6360
513762] 500411 228611! 236505
Mathues’ plarality, 280,471.
Congress Convenes.
The Two Bodies Met in Extraordinary Session at
Washington. Cannon Elected Speaker.
‘WASHINGTON, November 9.—The honse
of representatives of the Fifty-eighth con-
gress held its first session and except for
the naming of committees whiceh will follow
laser, organization was completed... Joseph
G. Cannon, of Illinois, whose elevation to
the speakership was assured months ago,
was formally elected speaker and inducted
into office.
plause of Democrats and Republicans alike
when he took up the gavel of authority,
the demonstration being most complimen-
tary to the newly elected speaker. He
was at once at ease in the speaker’s chair,
having filled it so often temporarily during
his mauy years of service in the house.
The old officers were re-elected and the
customary resolution adopted providing
for the appointment of a committee to notify
the president and senate of the election of
a speaker and clerk, anda committee to
join a senate committee to notify the presi-
dent of the presence of a quorum in the
two hodies. The hour of meeting was
fixed for 12 o’clock.
The rules of the Fifty-seventh congress
were adopted for the Fifty-eighth cougress
by an aye and nay vote, after a brief dis-
cussion, during which the minority voted
to secure an increase in the democratic
representation on the committees.
The drawing of seats in which old and
new members alike take deep: concern,
occupied a greater portion of the day’s
session.
A pretty compliment was paid the: lead-
ers and veterans of both sides, they being
permitted to select their seats withont
drawing lots. :
Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, offered the follow-
ing resolution: El
‘Resolved, by the House of Representa-
tives, That the president be requested to
communicate to the house,|if not incompat-
ible with the interest of the public service,
all correspondence and other official doqu-
ments relating to the recent revolt on the
Isthmus of Panama.’”’
It was agreed to.
A bill giving congress the right fo regu-
late trusts was introduced by Representa-
tive Palmer, Republican, of Pennsylvania.
Representative Sibley, Republican, of Penn-
sylvania, introduced a bill to increase the
pay of rural free delivery carriers.
By Mr. Tawney, Minnesota, to prevent
the giving of premiums.
Mr. Wanger, of Pennsylvania, introduc-
ed a bill to establish a military park at
Valley Forge.
Mr. Mahon, of Pennsylvania, introduced
a bill making $12 the minimum pension
per month of all pensioners who have reach-
ed the age of 63.
The senate was in session only about fif-
teen minutes. A resolution was adopted
to notify the President and house of repre-
sentatives that the senate was ready to pro-
ceed to business. No other business was
transacted.
At the caucus of Republican senators teo-
morrow, a resolution will be offered de-
claring that the committee an inter-oceanic
canals should be a majority committee,
and that the chairman should be a Repub-
lican. It is likely to be adopted, in which
case the committee on committees, when it
reports, will provide that a Republican
It
is supposed that Senator Hanna will be
named for the place.
The Cost Per Head for Murdering Our
Own People.
From the Commoner (Lincoln, Neb.)
Our exports to and imports from the
Philippines during the last ten months
amount to about $16,000,000. Even if the
profit amounts to 25 per cent thie is only
$13.00 apiece for each of the 306 dead
soldiers brought over by the Kilpatrick.
But human life is cheap when measured by
the imperialistic standard.
Mr. Cannon received the ap- |
Fortune in Main Skunks.
Skins Shipped to Philadelphia and Oil Valuable
Medicinally.
BANGOR, Me., Nov. 8.—It will no doubt
surprise many people to learn that the
despised skunk is worth twice as much to
Maine as is the much admired honey bee,
but such is the fact ; and, counting things
at their actual worth, the skunk is worth
about as much as all the deer killed in
Maine in a season. The skunk is valuable
both for his fur and for the oil that is in
him, and both the fur and the oil are in
ever-increasing demand.
‘Fashion in furs regulates the price of
skunk skins. Four years ago the coas of a
dark skunk was worth from $2.50 to $3,
and the demand exceeded the supply.
Since then the muskrats has come into
favor. and the price of skunk skins has
fallen to about $2 for the best. When,
however, there are a dozen fat skunks to
be had on every acre of meadow land, when
.a hardwood club is the only weapon need-
ed for killing them, and when every fat
skunk contains at least a quart of oil, worth
$5 a gallon at wholesale, theo is money in
the business. : .
Most of the skunk pelts are shipped to
Philadelphia firm, where they are made up
|into furs for export to France and Ger-
many, in which countries they pass as
monkey skins. It is estimated that Maine’s
revenue from skunks amounts to $150,000
or $175,000 annually, which is double the
sum derived from all the honey bees in the
State, and certainly more than all the
8,000 deer shot are worth to the men who
kill them. From 100,000 so 150,000 sknnks
are killed in Maine every fall.
The demand for oil is steadily increas-
ing and the price has advanced 50 cents to
$1 a gallon within a year. The natives
prize the oil for its virtues asa cure for
rheumatism and etiff joints, and large
quantities of it are hought by country
traders and sent to druggists out of the
State. .
«It is estimated that the annual produc-
tion of skunk oil in Maine exceeds 25,000
gallons, and the quantity is increased by
adalteration with ‘the fatty oils obtained
from hens and woodchucks, a deception
which has proved most profitable to the
skunk magnates.
The Growing Pennsylvania State College.
Within the last few years The Pennsyl-
vania State College has grown so rapidly
as to become the sixth or seventh in the
United States in the number of its engi-
neering students. The Freshman class
just entered numbers upwards of 280, of
whom 227 are in engineering courses: 6 in
| mining engineering, 52 in mechanical engi-
neering, 71 in civil engineering, and 98 in
electrical : engineering. The total number
in attendance is about 650, and the increase
has been so large and so rapid as to tax the
| accommodations of the College to the
utmost. The erection of a temporary dor-
mitory, capable of accommodating 40 stu-
dents, relieved the congestion at the open-
ing of the session, and the completion of a
track and club-house, now under way,
with rooms for 35 students, will insure
comfortable provision for the remainder of
the present year. . The probability is, how-
ever, thatadditional temporary dormitories
will have to be erected before the opening of
the next college year, and, fortunately, the
ample grounds, withanample plant for
furnishing steam heat and electric light,
will make such quarters entirely comfort-
able and attractive.
The auditorinm, the funds for which
were contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Charles
M. Schwab, at a cost of upwards of
$150,000, is now in daily use, and is one
of the most beautiful and effective college
buildings in the United States.
The library, for which Mr. Andrew Car-
negie has given $150,000, is well under way,
and is to be dedicated next spring. '
The dairy wing of theagrioultural build-
ings, for which the last Legislature appro-
priated $100,000, is still further advanced,
and is to be dedicated early in January,
1904, when Secretary Wilson, of the U. 8.
Department of Agriculture, has promised
to deliver the address. Two additional
laboratories have been fitted up for the
department of electrical engineering, and
a temporary frame building has been erect-
ed for the foundry. Additional room for
the mining department has been found. by
rehabilitating the old mechanic arts build-
ing, and eight instructors have been added
to the teaching force in the several depars-
ments.
Looking for a Friend.
She was fat and about 40, wore’ a silk
dress which she did not care to spoil, and
had no umbrella, says the New York Post.
Consequently when it began to rain ous-
side she looked around the department
store: for the best place to spend the time
until it shonld clear again. A particularly
inoffensive-looking young ‘man presided
over the blanket counter, and she seated
herself on the stool in front of him, and
asked to be shown blankets. The young
man pulled down rolls of covering, red and
yellow, fine and coarse, smooth and fuzzy.
Finally when the sun came out again,
he bad shown her every piece of blanket-
ing in the store with the exception of one
roll. i
“I didn’t want to buy any,”’”’ she ex-
plained. ‘I thank yon for showing them
to me. I was simply looking for a friend.
The young man cast off his exterior of
humility and said with some energy but a
great deal of politeness:
“Well, if you think your friend is in
that other roll, I'll be glad to take it
down for you.”
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
THE]HALL REUNION AT UNIONVILLE—
On last Saturday, in the capacious parlor
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hall,
at Unionville, were assembled a large num-
ber of guests awaiting the glad summons,
‘‘please step out to dinner,”’ and as the de-
lightful aroma of roast turkey and the
usual accompaniments pervaded the room,
‘Andy?’ Bell and Ed. Hall moved uneasily
oa their chairs and fumbled with the
lapels of their coats, with their fingers;
watching all the while with eager eyes for
the dining room door to open as if unable to
contain themselveslonger. And we might
add ‘‘there were others.” In due time the
welcome invitation came and the long table,
that was loaded with all the delicacies of
the season, calculated to tempt the appetite
of the most fastidious epicure, was soon
filled and for the space of one hour the
“wittles’’ on that table kept on evaporating
like mist before the morning sun; while
joy was unconfined and mirth and jollity
was the order of the day.
It was an ideal turkey dinner, gotten up
in the highest style of culinary art or in
the more modern expression of the elite,
‘‘domestic science,”’ in honor of the Hall
families. Four brothers, John Hall, Jessie
we SRR oo
Hall, Robert Hall and Aaron Hall—pioneer
settlers of Union township—were represent-
ed by some of their descendants at this
carnival of good things. Twenty-nine
guests were present to wit :
Mr. and Mrs. J. Newlin Hall, of How-
ard ; Mrs. Eliza Halli Peters, and son Clif-
ford, of St. Paul, Minn. ; in whose honor
the dinner was given and who was making
ber first visit to the home of her girlhood
in twenty-nine years, Mrs. Mary Hall, of
Driftwood ; Mrs. Mary Hall Holter and
Miss Susan Hall, of Howard ; Mr. and
Mrs. S. A. Bell, of Bellefonte ; Mr. and
Mrs. A. T. Hall, D. C. Hall, George P.
Hall, Miles Hall. Mrs. Sarah Hall, Miss
Betsy Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. T. Hall, G.
W. Rumberger, wife and daughter Marian,
Mrs. Margaret Brugger, Mr. and Mrs. Jobn
P. Brugger, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. E. Brugger
and their son Cornelius, Mrs. Malissa Bing
and the venerable Wm. Iddings, all of
Unionville and vicinity. on ay
Like an oasis on the desert this grand
occasion will ever remain a green spot in
the memory of all who were present.
A, GUEST.
LU Hetil
WHAT DES MOINES DoES.—The follow-
ing clipping from the Des Moines, Iowa,
Daily News, of November 4th, will interest
some of the older residents of the. county
who-remember ‘Squire Baker, of Howard,
and recall when his son Sam ‘struck off
West to make his fortune: «i
Twenty years ago last March Sam Baker
came to Des Moines from Cummings, Iowa,
where he had lived fourteen years. While
Mr. Baker is not an old man by any means
he has nevertheless seen thirty four years ot
Towa history. For a number of years Mr.
Baker has been bookkeeper and confidential
secretary to the board of park commissioners
and served one term as auditor of the city of
Des Moines. 3 .
As a bookkeeper and accountant Mr. Bak-
er is ranked with the experts. Among his
friends he is known as a man of genial dispo-
sition with positive convictions on some
things. He enjoys a good joke, likes his |:
friends and above all has no excuse for shams
or anything that savors of dishonesty. Asa
politician Mr. Baker keeps abreast of the
situation but for the past few years has not
taken a very active part but his judgment on
the results of a city election is banked on by
those who have trusted in his judgment in
times past.
There are two things that take the greater
part of Mr. Baker's attention'mowadays, his’
family and the Des Moines: parks: He is
proud of both, His family consists of three
beautiful daughters and two able sous, all of
whom are grown and on the road to a com-
fortable situation in life. The boys hold
good positions. Mr. Baker can be pardoned
for the pleasure and pride he takes in his
family and nothing delights him more than
to visit the Des Moines parks and point out
their natural advantages.
To tell the truth we were a little skeptio-
al as to just how well Sam has succeeded ;
because you know the position. of ‘‘book-
keeper and confidential secretary ‘to the
board of park commissioners’’ of a ‘town
like Des Moines didn’t sound - very great
when we read over it the first time. But
right here is the very matter we want to
call attention to.
Des Moines has a population of about
68,000 people. She has fifteen public
parks and squares on which she expends,
annually, about $83,000,000. Think of is,
you Bellefonte people ! Think of it, you
who would rather have ash heapsand weed
patches on the streets in front of your
doors and have the vacant. lots adjoining
you made public dumping grounds rather
than pay. a cent of tax toward beautifying
such places; when Des Moines, Iowa, pays
more than one dollar each for every man,
woman and child living in the city.
Yes Sam, is doesn’t matter much how
large your salary is you are well off in be-
ing a resident of such a progressive place.
Spring Mills.
The cold snap of last week was a decided
reminder of winter.
Election day here was remarkably quiet,
dull. No one seemed to take any interest in
it and of eourse the vote was light.
The supervisors are busy on our roads.
The approaches to town are now in a very
fair condition and the traveling community
can well rejoice.
Last week some miscreant poisoned a valu-
able dog belonging to Miss Ida Condo, of our
village. The dog was a great pet, very gen-
tle and a friend to everybody, and the act is
regarded as simply a piece of vile scoundrel-
ism.
Next month Magnus Duck will move his
roofing and spouting business to the building
formerly occupied as a meat market, on the
main road to the railroad station, a very de-
sirable location. Previous to removal the
building will be considerably improved and
enlarged. .
Hunters in this neighborhood are meeting
with some success in a small way. Rabbits
seem plentiful, but as yet no large game has
been secured. Of course the old *‘fish story’’
of I shot at twobears but they were too far
off, and I came very near capturing a big deer
(only didn’t) are the yarns frequently re-
reported.
Hublersburg.
Supt. Gramley was in town on Tuesday.
Lydia and Gertrude Yearick visited friends
at Zion Sunday.
Charlie Noll, youngest son of Harry Noll,
is suffering a slight attack of typhoid fever.
Frank Correll and Lew Swartz, of Easton,
attended the funeral of Mrs. J. L. Walkey
Thursday.
Mrs. J. H. Sharp has gone to New Jersey
to visit a daughter. She expects to be gone
a month.
Mrs. Ann Davis, who has been at the Berg-
stresser home for some time, returned to her
home at Philipsburg.
Several of the hunters who were to the Al-
leghenies came home Sunday bringing with
them a four pronged buck. It was shot by
Wm. Bartley.
Mrs. Amanda McClain made sale of her
personal effects last Saturday and quit house-
keeping. She has gone to Bellefonte to be
employed at the home of the Josephs.
The German Medical Co. gave nightly an-
tertainments in the old Presbyterian church
for a week. The handsomest baby contest
was awarded to little Grace Williams. It
consisted of twenty seven pieces of silver
quadruple plated. The entertainments were
very entertaining and well attended. The
company consisted of Mr. Monroe and wife
Trixie and Mr. Lionel. While here they
made many friends who were sorry to see
them leave.
Pine Grove Mention.
The corn is about all eribbed in this sec-
tion.
Will Grove and wife, of Altoona, are visit-
ing friends here.
Miss Roberta Meek, of Fairbrook, spent
Saturday in town shopping.
Miss Mary Bailey is spending a month
with Mrs. Arthur Bailey, in Washington, Pa.
Hay baler, Will Mothersbaugh, is nursing
his left hand in a sling on account of a felon.
Mrs. O. G. Martz and little son are here
from the mountain city for a two weeks’
visit.
Squire Duck, one of Millheim’s represen-
tative men, and his wife were here on Mon-
day. :
Will Collins, who was in from Pittsburg
last week on a rabbit hunt, returned home
Monday.
Will Fry, of Pittsburg, came home Wed-
nesday to join the army of nimrods already
on the mountains. i :
A goodly number of Odd Fellows from this
section attended the faneral of I. J. Condo
at Boalsburg on Tuesday.
Ex-prothonotary W. F. Smith and deputy
Arthur Kimport were among the strangers at
the Fortney funeral on Monday.
Aunt Mary Hess, who made a prolonged
visit with relatives in Altoona, is home
again much pleased with her stay.
Mrs. R. M. Krebs is visiting her brother,
Albert, at Clearfield, where he is holding
down a fat job and getting along nicely.
Mrs. John C. McCracken and her bright
little son Henry are visiting grandfather
McCracken’s in the Glades this week.
The Baileyville creamery plant is being
improved with a fresh coat of paint. Ernest
Rothrock, of Tyrone, is doing the job.
Squire Hess and wife, of Bellefonte, Jacob
Bottorf and wife, of Lemont, and Frank Mc-
Farlane and wife, attended the Fortney fun-
eral.
M. V. Minie, of York, is quartered at A.
M. Brown’s where the Messrs Brown are
showing him a good time and plenty of
game.
Wm. H. Brouse and wife, and their little
son, Willie, came up from Boalsburg to spend
Sunday at the old parental home on Main
street here.
Samuel Eyer, a member of Co. E, 45th
Regt. P. V., is here from Iowa settling up the
old Eyer estate. He is hale and hearty for
one of his years.
Mrs. H. M. Stover and daughter Luella
are down from Bellwood looking after their
earthly possessions here, which needed their
personal supervision.
Ora Krebs returned from the city last Sat-
urday where he endured an operation in the
German hospital. The operation was a suc-
cess and his ultimate recovery is expected,
Cards are out announcing the marriage of
our friend George Gardner to a New York
lady. The marriage took place on Tuesday
the 10th inst. George is of a marriageable
age and is deserving of a good frau.
Samuel Hazel, the wool dealer of the
Houserville Woolen mills, registered at the
St. ‘Elmo Monday. Sam is a straight laced
‘Democrat and while here discussed the out-
come of the extra session of Congress.
The nimrods have, thus far, not been very
successful on the first week’s hunt. The
Shingletown crowd got one deer, shot by Pet
Hoover. The Modocks got one young buck,
shot by Wesley Meyers. The Green Brier
party have two fine deer to their score.
David Ross Gregory and his uncle Richard,
of Mooresville, two of the most prominent. -
stock dealers in the State were circulating
among the farmers here the beginning of the
week. What they don’t know about bovines,
sheep and swine isn’t worth knowing at all.
Merchant Oliver Giboney is about selling
his large stock of merchandise to Wm. Sweet,
of York state. He is a son-in-law of William
Meyers and is said to be a splendid business
man. Mr. Giboney’s health is not the best is
why he is selling out. The change will take
place Jan. 1st, 1904.
Rev. G. W. Fortney, of Suffrens, New York
is shaking hands with his legion of friends
about here. He is an elegant pulpit orator
and very popular with his parishioners. He
is another credit to the old Pine Grove aca-
demy and was here on account of the death
of his elder brother,James.
Mrs. Evans, of Kansas, is visiting at the
home of her cousin Mr. arid Mrs. J. R. Smith
on Main street. She will be remembered as
Mollie Philips. It is twenty years since she
went west and she was very much pleased
with the great changes in the town that had
taken place in her absence. 1
Our young farmer friend, George Potter,
had an experience one evening last week
which it is not likely he will ever want to
repeat. While driving home from State Col-
lege in company with his brother-in-law,
Henry Houser, his horse frightened and
started to run away. It collided with anoth-
er buggy and the consequence was a very bad
wreck. The two wheels of his buggy were
broken all to splinters, but fortunately no
one was hurt seriously in the mix up.
Isaac Ward, known to his old chums here
as ‘‘Buckam’’, is visiting his mother. He is
here helping her to arrange for a comfortable
winter and making himself useful in keep-
ing the wolf from the door. Mr. Ward was
a student at Pine Grove academy and after-
wards was one of Ferguson township’s best
school teachers. For some years he has been
one of McDonald’s foremost citizens and
when there is one of Rockefeller’s right bow-
ers. He is superintendent of Allison and
Duncan oil producers and his leisure mo-
ments are devoted to photography. He is
introducing the very latest photographs viz :
carbon sepias platinam which can’t help but
please the most skeptical.
Rev. David Young Brouse, a former Pine
Grove boy, and his wife nee Maggie Murphy,
enjoyed a drive over the mountains and the
beautiful Kishacoquillas valley to our town
last Friday. They are now enjoying the
hospitality of their old friends here. On
Sunday morning the Reverend ably filled the
M. E. pulpit at State College; at 2:30 o’clock
he preached to a filled house at Pine Grove
Mills and toa crowded house at Fairbrook
in the evening. There he assisted Rev. Heck-
man with a protracted meeting in which
much interest is manifested. Rev. Brown is
a fluent talker and one of the most popular
young divines in the M. E. conference. His
religion is thoroughly imbued in him and his
preaching is the kind that ‘abideth. They
returned to their home at Port Royal on
Thursday morning,