Bewoaiflatan Bellefonte, Pa., May 30, 1913. A P. GRAY MEEK, EpiToR Terms oF SusscrIPTION.~—Until further notice paper will be furnished to subscribers at the flowin rates: Paid strictly in advance . $1.00 Paid before expiration of year - 1.50 Paid after expiration of year 2.00 A AAS Fourth-class Postoffice Places. Hon. CLYDE H. TAVENNER, a former valued Washington correspondent of the Washington and other Democratic jour- nals of the country, now representing his home district in Missouri, in Congress, gives us the following facts relative to the qualifications and appointments of fourth-class postmasters which we know will be read with interest by the many who are looking for these public “plums.” Q. What was the Taft order pertain- ing to fourth-class postmasters? A. It was an executive order made on Oct. 15th, 1912, placing all fourth-class postmasters under Civil service without an examination. Q. What was the effect of this order? A. It meant each fourth-class post- master in the U. S. then in office would hold the office indefinitely regardless of his fitness or qualifications, vacancies of course to be fi based on a competitive examination. Q. Wherein was this order unfair? A. It put postmasters under Civil service who had received their appoint: ment by virtue of political considerations and took no account of merit whatsoever. Q. What is the “Wilson Way?” A. President Wilson, on May 7th, 191%, Jmed an ecutive order, Sm, ing t order, w provides in all fourth-class where the compensation is $ there shall be held an Shel competitive examination by the Civil Service Com- mission, the result of which shall be certified by the Commission to the Post. master General. The Postmaster General shall appoint one of the three receiving the highest rating. Q. How are they a nted when the compensation is under $180? A. By the Postmaster General based upon a report made by a postoffice in- spector. . Q. Who holds these examinations? A. Local examining boards are ap- pointed by the Civil Service Commission to conduct the examination. Q. When will these examinations be held? A. It is impossible to tell at this time; but they will be held as soon as the De- partment can take care of the work, and as the needs of the service require. Q. Where are examinations held? A. At the most convenient point. Q. How does one make application for examination? - A. After an examination is announced | VELT “gets drunk, and not infrequently.” | the applicant secures, upon request at the local postoffice, form 1753, which is the proper blank to be filled out and which contains full information pertaining to the examination. Q. What is the nature of the exami- nation? A. It covers elementary arithmetic, penmanship, letter writing, copying tests, together with statement as to facilities for transacting the business of the office. Q. How can one get more complete information pertaining to this matter? A. By writing to the “Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C.,” asking for copies of form 1752 and 1759, which contain instructions to applicants and rules and regulations goverhing appoint: ments, or by writing your Member of Congress. The Tariff Lobby in Washington. was a gathering of farmers for the os- tensible purpose of discussing the ques- tion of good roads. Mr. PENROSE was the principal speaker and explained the BOURNE project for co-operation between the National and State governments in the construction of highways throughout the country at vast expense to future generations. The Senator didn’t say that he concurred in the ambitious plans of his former Senatorial associate and he refrained from expressing opposition to it. Butit served as an excuse for his being at the meeting and making three speeches in one day. But if he was reticent upon the BOURNE plan of building roads he was garrulous enough on the question of tariff tax on wool. For many years Washington coun- ty has been the centre of the wool grow- ing industry of Pennsylvania and the farmers of that section have always been ravenous in their demands for high pro- year within half a century would hardly have furnished clothing enough to keep the population of Bellefonte warm dur- ing a single winter. But the Washington county wool growers want protection enough on their meager clip to buy wool- ens for the entire State of Pennsylvania with Delaware and Jersey added. And Senator PENROSE fondly coddled this absurd selfishness upon the part of the Washington county wool growers. He assured them that chairman UNDERWOOD and the Democratic majority in Congress have no higher ambition than to hold the noses of wool growers to the grind- stone until their nasal appendages are literally effaced and that nothing will prevent that dire result except the res- toration of the Republican party to power and the re-election of Mr. PENROSE to the Senate. It is stated that the meet- ing on Thursday was the beginning of a campaign to cover the entire State and it may be expected that in each locality he visits the local industry will be the subject of Senator PENROSE’S solicitude. Roosevelt’s Libel Suit. Public interest is largely centred at present upon a small city in northern | Michigan in which THEODORE ROOSEVELT is prosceuting an editor for libel. In { October of last year, when the presiden- | tial campaign was at its height, the Iron | Ore, a weekly paper published in Ishpe- , ming, Michigan, of which GEORGE A. | NEWETT is the editor, published a state- | ment to the effect that THEODORE ROOSE- i i The, newspaper was Republican and was essays were submitted ten of Mrs. John S. Walker; corresponding sec- were selected by the W. C. T. U. retary, Miss Isabella P. Hill; treasurer, as eligible for the contest. The contest Mrs. Lewis A. Schaeffer; civic chairman, | t the kindly generosi Congress- notified. Dr. Hayes went to Pittsburgh was held in the new High school building Miss Mary G. Meek; charity chairman, |, By ’ ay.ot on Monday but as everything was being last Friday evening before the following Mrs. Roger S. Brouse; educational chair- | done that it was possible to do hereturn- judges: Dr. George E. Hawes, John man, Mrs. John Porter Lyon. ca ed home and went out again on Tuestlay, Blanchard Esq, and J. Dorsey Hunter. A new line of work was adopted and being with his brother when the end but has been located in Pittsburgh for some years. In addition to his brother, Dr. Hayes, he is survived by two sisters, , Mrs. Samuel Orwig, of Harrisburg, and , Mrs. Paul Reish, of Mifflinburg. The latter went to Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening, but her brother was dead when she arrived there. The remains were taken to Mifflinburg yesterday where the . funeral will be held and burial made to- tective tariff taxation upon wool. The | entire wool clip of the county of any one | day. | I SEIBERT. — Rev. Samuel W. Seibert, father of Dr. J. L. Seibert, of Bellefonte, | died at his home at Newport, Perry coun- | | supporting TAFT for President. ROOSE- | i VELT had made a speech and assailed the local Republican candidate for Congress | with considerable asperity. A man in | the audience denounced ROOSEVELT as a : liar and TEDDY abused him roundly. | Out of this incident the accusation against ROOSEVELT grew. Soon after- 1 ward ROOSEVELT declared that for the | reason that so many people believed that | he drank to excess, he would sue the first | responsible man who made such a charge , against him and “settle the slander for yall time.” Subsequently his attention | was called to the publication of Mr. | NEWETT, who is a man of considerable | means, and the suit was entered. For | one reason or another the trial was de- | President WILSON has indulged in a Jaye) and now. It was begun on Mon- good many innovations since his elec. | 93Y in the court at Marquette, Judge tion, some of which were rather startling, | RICHARD C. FLANIGAN on the bench. At But he has done nothing quite so striking | this writing it is in progress. as his statement the other day Aeon, | There are a good many reasons for ing the lobby which has been organized | thinking that THEODORE ROOSEVELT is . and is being maintained in Washington | NOt a drunkard. He never fails to keep with the view of inducing Senators in | a1 engagement to speak and he is al- Congress to betray their obligations in| Ways in condition. A drunkard could the matter of tariff reform. As an os. | BARY Wainrin eh 2. Shou Othe teemed contemporary says, “when a Other reasons President of the United States finds it Justi the Seougation. He is Stomper. necessary to protest against the activity | speech, erratic in action of the high-tariff lobby in Washington, lent is Svan Many Sven wi) have conditions must be pretty bad.” They casually imagined was are very bad and it is fortunate that we | drunk at the time and by his own confes- have a President who has the courage to | ion the impression that he drank to ex- openly denounce the evil. | cess was widespread. But the Michigan The right of selfish men to importune | ©ditor may be convicted for all that. Senators to vote for or against pending legislation is unquestioned and if the tariff lobby had limited its activities to legitimate endeavor, there could have been no complaint and would have been no protest from the President. But the President declares that “there is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby,” and the just inference is that it is being used to corruptly influence the votes of Sena. tors whose inordinate cupidity may move them to betrayal of their obligations be- cause they can justify the recreancy by alleging local interests as the motive. Such men must be admonished against temptation. The WILSON tariff bill was mutilated by such agencies and the people were sub- sequently taxed to the aggregate of bil- lions of dollars in consequence. It is the duty of the Democrats in position to pre- | vent the recurrence of that crime against , ROOSEVELT has taken such an army of distinguished witnesses with him that the country jury may be hypnotized. ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. Goop NEWS FOR BENNER TOWNSHIP. —On Wednesday night the Legislature | passed by a vote of 170 to 2 the bill in- | troduced by the County Commissioners of Centre county to tax the new state penitentiary lands in Benner Twp., for local purposes. The State has taken over property formerly assessed at $132,772 and it seemed a great injustice to make the balance of the property holders in Ben- ner Twp, make up the $1726.00 that ' those properties paid for road, poor and 1 school taxes in the township. | The bill will probably carry in the Senate and the Governor will sign it, | though it may later be declared uncon- | stitutional, if taken into the courts, as the public to assert themselves and Presi- | cjagg legislation. dent WILSON has set the example. The people have no lobby to set to work | against that ot the tariff mongers and the only hope lies in the rectitude of their representatives in the National Legisla. ture. If integrity fails some other force must be invoked and the only other avail- able force is publicity. President WiLsoN has pointed out the danger and the public may do the rest by watching. ——— fp rss ~—Dr. Weston is already planning the Y. M. C. A. Star course for the season of 1913-14 and one of the attractions he is making a strong effort to secure is a lecture by Richard Pearson Hobson, the hero of Santiago. Mr. Hobson has es- tablished a nation-wide reputation as a lecturer and would undoubtedly draw a large crowd. ty, at noon on Tuesday, following a gen- eral breakdown in health. He was eighty- nine years old and was born at Wood- stock, Va. but during the past thirty years had been a resident of Newport. He was a clergyman of the United Evan. gelical church and had served asa pre- siding elder. He was also president of the First National bank of Newport, a position he held at his death. Surviving him are two sons, Judge William L. Sei- bert, of New Bloomfield, and Dr. J. L. Seibert, of Bellefonte. He also leaves one brother in the west. Dr. and Mrs. | Seibert are in Newport for the funeral. I I REED.— William Reed, a resident of Philipsburg, was struck by a train in the New York Central yards at Clearfield on Friday evening of last week and injured so badly that he died in the Clearfield hospital at five o'clock Saturday morn. ing. He left Philipsburg on Friday morn- ing with the intention of going to Buffalo and just how he happened to be in the railroad yard is not known. Deceased was thirty-nine years old and is survived by his wife and six children; his mother, one brother and two sisters. The re- mains were taken to his late home in Philipsburg where funeral services were held and burial made on Tuesday after- noon. | | MCMULLEN. — Mrs. Anna McMullen, wife of Oscar McMullen, of north Alle- gheny street, died at the Bellefonte hos- weeks illness. She was born on January 11th, 1873, hence at her death was pital on Tuesday afternoon, after a od viving her are her husband and eight children, two sons and six daughters, two children having died in infancy. Funeral services will be held at her late home at}9.30 o'clock this (Friday) morn- ing. Rev.C. W. Winey, of the United Brethren church, will officiate and burial will be made in the Advent cemetery. I | WiLLIAMS.—Mrs. Ellen Williams, wife of G. W. Williams, of Ore Hill, formerly of Scotia, died on Sunday morning as the result of diphtheria. Her maiden name was Farber and she was born at Penn- sylvania Furnace forty-one years ago, being a daughter of Martin and Jane Far- ber. Surviving her are her husband and one son, Calvin, at home; her mother liv- ing at Scotia; one brother and two sisters, namely: William H. Farber and Mrs. Calvin Murtoff, of Scotia, and Mrs. J. Woomer, of Graysville. The funeral was held on Wednesday, burial being made in the Pine Hall cemetery. ~The Go Easy fishing club is plan- ning for a four or five days camp upon the banks of Fishing creek next week. Just how many will be in the camp is as ——The banks, postoffice and most of the business places in town will observe Memorial day today by keeping closed; the postoffice observing regular holiday and $20,000 for college extension work. It is now up to the Legislature and the Governor to make good. —On account of Mrs. Shelden’s ab- sence from Bellefonte, the Woman's ex change which is held in Temple court Wednesdays and Saturdays, will be closed both days next week. Upon re- opening it again for the public June 11th, the exchange will have been moved to the store room next door to Mrs. J. A. Aiken's, where it will be permanently located I ereafter. -—An engine running light with engi- neer Joseph Schell in charge and en route for Lock Haven, ran into the rear end of a through freight at Unionville about five oclock on Monday morning. The engine and cabin car of the freight were badly damaged and brakeman H. L. Berry painfully, though not seriously, in- jured. A dense fog was probably respons- ible for the accident. The track was blooked for two hours but was cleared in time for the morning passenger trains, —Have your Job Work done here. They awarded the first prize to Elizabeth the following club members were em- ,Kimport. It is the intention of the entine, chairman; Miss Anna Hoy, (W.C.T.U to offer these prizes each Miss Carrie Harper. year, as the interest shown this year is evidence that they are appreciated. The, The last meeting of the Study Class prizes will be awarded at commencement will be held on Tuesday evening, June! next week along with the other prizes. 3rd, at 8 o'clock, in the auditorium of The essay which took first prize is as the High school building. The subject, follows: “The Machinery of Politics,” will be in- | Smt troduced under the following heads: : INTOXICANTS ON ATHLETES. | "Origin of the Political Machinery;” | (By Elizabeth G. Eckenroth.] “Relation to National and State Constitu- i Success in any time of life demands a tion;” “Application to Local Elections.” + well trained body. A man in good, sound J. Thomas Mitchell Esq., being well pre- physical condition is better calculated to pared to do so, will present the subject. do any work he may be called upon todo The consensus of opinion is that the time ; than he who has neglected his body. devoted to study and discussion this win- | A boy without play means a father ter has been most profitable. This being | without a job. A boy without physical the case the work will be continued next training means a father who drinks. If year. A suggestive program, subject to | people have wholesome, well disciplined criticism or complete change, will” be : bodies there will be less demand for nar- considered on Tuesday evening, but this | cotics as well as for medicines. Some of will not preclude other subjects that may | our prominent young business men, after be offered by interested parties. , completing their college life, were of ' good, hardy physique, due to the large On Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3rd | amount of time given to athletics. and 4th, a School Exhibit of the work of * Our physical body is so closely con- the sewing class will be open tb the pub- nected with the brain that we cannot tell lic in the directors’ room of the High where one begins and the other ends. school building. More than twenty { In order to have a strong physical and dresses, cut and made by the girls of the | mental body we must abstain from the eighth grade, besides the splendid results use of all narcotics. | of the girls of the 5th, 6th and 7th grades, Take for example, two young, delicate will be included in the exhibit. The boys who had been chums since child- sewing school is under the supervision of hood. They both had high ambitions Mrs. John Porter Lyon, chairman of the and wanted to become great men. One educational department of the Woman's was fourteen years old the other fifteen. Club. She is assisted by Miss Ida Green, The first one immediately enrolled him- the head teacher, and a number of our self as a Y. M. C, A. member and started good women who spent their time once a in to take gymnastics. First he took week to the giving of instructions in sew- pulley-weights and by faithful exercise, ing to the girls. The girls are taught to morning and evening, he became strong. : sew on the machine as well as by hand. | Next he took exercises in the Indianclub| By way of encouragement, to express | swinging, then he began the exercise on your appreciation of this excellent fea- | the horse and swinging evolutions from ture, will you visit this exhibition? ring to ring. And then became a great , This attention is due to the teachers swimmer and basket-ball player. (He and girls who have so faithfully given | became a High school foot-ball player and received instruction during the past | and in the course of time a college foot- year. ball star.) After his college life he was admitted to the bar, and now is one of | the most prominent lawyers of New ou. York State. | GRAPP — KEPLER. — The marriage of But let us see what has become of the | Miss Sarah Kepler to Mr. Edward Hoff- other boy; he belonged to the Y. M. C. A. man Grapp, at the Kepler homestead PusLicity COMMITTEE, Bellefonte Woman's Club. ! and took gymnastics for a short time but (Sinking Fountain,) Pine Grove Mills, years, 4 months and 16 days old. Sur-’ he thought this was too tiresome. Then May 21st, was the culmination of anoth- he met some fellows a little older than er of those pretty college romances that himself and of a lower class. This crowd enliven the social life of our beautiful was just what our second boy thought , valley. was the ideal life. They did not work' The young people met while the groom any more than they had to, and every Was a student at The Pennsylvania State night they would go out and visit the College and the friendship formed at restaurant and here they would drink that time ripened into love during fre- and carouse till the wee hours of the quent visits after graduation. morning. Then leaving the saloon they | The groom is a son of G. F. Grapp, the would go out each their own way. When A Wealthy wholesale grocer, of Pittsburgh. time for them to go to work, they were | He entered The Pennsylvania State Col- too tired. lege in 1908 and graduated with honors The first boy was an early riser be- in 1911 in the course of civil engineer- cause he had a strong physical body, | ing. After graduation he engaged in the while at the age of twenty, the second Practice of his profession in Altoona, and boy was small and thin, with a very sal- low complexion, and was always so in- toxicated that he either had to be helped home or came staggering along by him- self. What a pitiful husband he would make for some good little wife. What a contrast between him and his boyhood. And what were the causes for the second boy's downfall? Bad com- pany, no exercising, and the repeated use of tobacco and liquors of all kinds. Good company, regular and constant exercising and by complete abstinence from the use of tobacco and liquors, led to the other boy’s high position in the world. Alcohol is not a stimulant. It at first causes excitement, and seemsto act as a stimulus but constant use of it effects the nervous system. Alcohol slackens the reins of control which each person ought to hold upon himself. One drink of an alcoholic beverage stimulates the muscles but when drink after drink is taken the control of the will is entirely lost, and we say the person is drunk. He loses con- trol of his muscles; his gait becomes unsteady; he staggers, falls and drops off into a drunken stupor. Athletic coaches never permit men to use any drinks containing alcohol. Many a man has been put off 2 team for vio- lating this rule. Alcohol causes a loss of muscular strength and leads to fatigue and to decreased quickness of action. A man can never do as much work in six hours, after he has taken a drink as he could do before he took the drink for the actual important substance of the nerve cells of the brain is exhausted by the use of alcohol. How much better would our country be if it were not for the narcotics that are used here? If every growing boy would take the good advice offered him it certainly would better the generation now and the generations to come. It was Milton who said: Oh madness! to think the use of Strongest wines and strongest drink our chief support in health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear, His mighty champion strong above compare ‘Whose drink was only from the limpid brook, later in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is now | engaged and where the young couple will make their home. Owing to the illness of Mr. J. M. Kep- ler the wedding was not as large as it would otherwise have been; but withal !it was one of the prettiest events of the | year. | The room was decorated with ever- | Breet; white chrysanthiemums and wild | flowers, and the altar was trimmed in | white silk. | Rev. L. Stoy Spangler, of the Lutheran church of Pine Grove Mills, officiated at | the ceremony and made a good impres- , sion on those present. The bride wore a heavy cream colored satin gown, veiled with gold brocaded chiffon. In her hand she carried a beau- tiful bouquet of lillies of the valley. Misses Mary and Kathryn Kepler were attendants on the bride. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Grapp and the near relatives of the bride were present at the ceremony. The young couple left on Thursday morning for their honeymoon trip on the Great Lakes, stopping at Niagara Falls for a few days, after which they will re. turn to Pittsburgh to visit the groom’s relatives and from there go to Cincinnati where they will be at home to their friends on June 15th. 9s * HEVERLEY—BARNHART.—John E. Hev- erley, of Orviston, and Miss Mary V. Barnhart, of Curtin, were married at the parsonage of the Disciple church at Mill Hall, on Monday morning, by the pastor, Rev. M. C. Frick. The bridegroom holds a good position at Orviston and it is in that place the young couple will 1aake their home. —The farmers of Centre county and their friends are cordially invited to make their annual visit to the School of Agri. culture and Experiment Station, Friday, June 13. The details of the various lines of experimental work which are being conducted will be explained and the prac- tical application of these results to farm practice pointed out. The visitors should assemble in front of the Agricultural . building at one o'clock in the afternoon. This they can do by faithful attention to the following directions: 1. Fine loose soul mixed wiih biack leaf mould iy possible. Keep the ground free from weeds. In dry weather, sprinkle water in the even- ing. If plants are too thick, thin them carefully, Never water the plants in the morning. Take the full length of the stems gathering flowers, Small bouquets bring good cheer when taken by little children to sick people. Pupils do well taking samples of flowers to their teachers. 9. Itis always in place to have flowers on the dining table as well as in the church and ' school room. I hope to be in Bellefonte some time in the summer and will call around to see as many flower beds as possible. MISSIONER. poe we oN reate sermon will be preached in the Presbyterian church on Sunday evening, June 1st, by Dr. George E. Hawes. Junior declamatory contest, Monday evening, June 2nd, at 8.15 o'clock.” Con- testants: Catherine Allison, Ruth Alten. derfer, Rebecca Fleming, Ruth Gamble, Nancy Hunter, Margaret Lambert, Eleanor Parker, Ruth Rapp, Sara Rishel. and Sarah Wetzel. Closing exercises of the Grades in the brick building will be held in the new building on Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock. Alumni reception to the graduating class in the armory at 8.30 Tuesday even- ing. Closing exercises of the Grades in the new building, Wednesday morning, at 9.45 o'clock. Graduating exercises of the class of 1913 in the new building, at 2.30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Commencement address on Wednesday evening at 8.15 o'clock, by W. I. Swoope, Esq., of Clearfield, Pa. A general exhibit of sewing, drawing, | painting, construction work, commercial papers, and science note books will be made on the first floor of the new build- ing, on Tuesday and Wednesday; and a special exhibit of manual training pro- ducts will be made in the basement of the new building at the same time. It is the belief of those in charge that these exhibits are worthy of special attention on the part of the public, as the teachers have taken great pains to show what can be done when working under limited financial resources. A most cordial in- vitation is extended the public, there. fore, to attend any or all of these exer- cises. Following is the program for the an- nual closing exercises of the South ward schools which will be held in the new High school building on Tuesday morn- Following is the program of the clos- ing exercises of Grade schools in the new Song—"Tripping O'er the Hills.” Ghost Drill, Flowers of the Meadow. Dialogue—"When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play. Song—"Good Bye to School.” Presentation of Diplomas. THE Houser REUNION.—The third an- nual reunion of the Houser families will be held at Rock View station, (formerly called Peru station,) Centre county, Pa., on Thursday, June 19th, to which all members of the family and their friends are ,cordially invited. For informatio address A. R. Houser, R. F. D. No. 2, Bellefonte, Pa. FARMERS’ INsTITUTES.—The County Board of Farmers’ Institute Managers will meet at the County Commissioners’ office on the second Tuesday of June, to arrange for the place where institutes are to be held this season. All of our people who desire institutes, ought to attend this meeting and present their claims. CurB MARKET NoOTICE.~The Market committee of borough council announces that the curb market will open tomor- row (Saturday) May 30th, and this no- tice is to farmers and truck growers to bring in their produce.
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