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THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, . . . Editor.
Csstee Hann, PA. March, 26, '84
The following is very sensible and is a
matter to which the Rerorrrr adverted
Over a Year ago:
The following card, signed by all the
ministers of Newport, is worthy of no-
tice: “We, the undersigned, believing
that the custom of feasting in the
house of mourning, after funerals, results
in more harm than good, desire to give
notice that, as a rule, we decline to “re-
turn to the house for refreshments,” after
funeral services, We also affectionately
urge our people to avoid arranging for
Sunday funerals.”
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
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forf rom those of the United States. Eng-
land has an oppressive system of agra-
rian laws ‘which differs radi
free land policy of the United States. In
England the old feudal system still pre-
vails
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land in his own right. In
can become a land-owner. Poor, mis-
governed Ireland is the dominion of the
aristocratic landlord, and she bears fruit
in her wretchedness and misery. When
England is compared with Germany,
Austria, Spain, protective nations, with
institutions very closely allied tothose of
paupers in these countries than there are
in England. What sort of a showing is
this for protection ? Moreover England
had paupers before she adopted a free
trade policy. John Stewart Mill, one of
the greatest philosophers and thinkers
England has produced, speaking of the
subject of paupers and free trade, says
that “no great improvements in the lot
of mankind are possible, until a great
change takes place in the fundamental
constitution of their modes of thought.”
In his opinion no change in the condi-
tion of the degraded workingmen of his
country could be expected, until they re-
ceived a moral and intellectual training,
and could think for themselves. Such a
thing as the mere change of free trade to
protection could not have any percepti-
ble effect either way upon ignorant work-
ing classes. To elevate and improve
their condition they would have to be
reached some other way. In this he is
correct, and his testimony remains un-
disputed.
Nor are the United States by any
means free from paupers. The census of
}880 show that we have 88,665 paupers.
Now then, let us institute a legitimate
comparison between the states contain-
ing the protected manufactories and in-
dustries, and those states engaged in ag-
riculture, stock-raising, ete., which are
not protected. The Eastern and Middle
states by census of 1880 had a population
of over fourteen millions, with 56,066
paupers ; while the remaining states and
territories, with a population of thirty-
five millions, or more than double that
of the principal manufacturing section,
had 32,599 paupers ; giving a ratio of one
pauper to every 260 inhabitants in the
protected states, against one pauper to
1100 inhabitants in the unprotect-
ed statés. Or to take a more specific com-
parison, let us compare our own state,
whose wealth consists chiefly in protect-
ed industries, with the state of Texas,
where there are but few protected indus-
tries, and where the people chiefly fol-
low agricultural phrsuits and stock-rais-
ing. In 1880 Pennsylvania, with a popu-
lation of 4,282801, had 12646 paupers;
for the same period Texas, with 1,501,749
inhabitants, had 533 paupers ; giving one
pauper to every 339 in Pennsylvania
against one pauper to every 2.984 in Tex-
as. A comparison with other states would
show the same condition of atfaizs. Now
these figures and facts prove just this,
that where there isa high protection
there the most paupers are to be found;
and that a high tax, instead of bettering
the condition of the people, realy helps
to grind them down. What other con-
clusion can be found ?
Then again, protectionists tell the
workingmen of our country that if the
tariff is abolished or altered, they will be
compelled to compete with the cheap la-
bor of the world and England's pauper-
labor. The fallacy of this is very
easily proved. The American farmer is
taxed for his harness, for his farming im-
piements, for his clothing, medicines,
certain necessary articles of food, ete. If
he has the good fortune to get a crop
safely through droughts, grasshoppers,
bugs, worms, storms, ete., after tilling the
ground with heavily taxed implements,
and reaping and threshing it with an-
other set of heavily taxed machinery,
then he must take it to market in a tax-
ed wagon and with taxed harness. Final.
ly his grain is shipped to market over
rails taxed 685 per cent. The price of his
grain is regulated by the supply and de-
mand of the world, and he must seil his
grain in a cheap market in competition
with all grain producers of the world,
while everything he has used in rroduc-
ing his etop has been purchased in a dear
market. And yet the American farmer
is by no means a pauper,. Not only this,
but practical experience has shown that
skilled workingmen have nothing to fear
from either cheap or pauper labor. High
priced American Jabor produces many
things which are sold in countries where
labor is very cheap and where the same
articles are produced. Take for instance
the manufacture of firearms. The United
States can even undersell England al.
though the machinery and raw ma
for producing these firearms are heavily
taxed. Switzerland would like to be pro-
tected against the importation of our
cheap clocks and watches. Spain with
cheaper labor yet than England, wants
on some articles in which
d is underselling her. England
has nothing to fear from the Chinese in
starting rival manufactories and under-
selling her, and yet Chinese labor is
cheaper than Fingal . In the Uni-
ted tates the skilled w of the
North have nothing to fear from chea
labor of Southern negroes, Why is this
Simply because intellig and skill
never need fear ignorant and cheap la-
bor. There will always be work for the
trained and intelligent workinguan
And yet protectionists, in face ofall these
facts, have the audacity to say that if the
Democratic party 8 in i
avery
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HOW SPOOLS ARE MADE,
The birch is first sawed into sticks
four or five feet long and seven-eighths
of an inch to three inches square, accord-
ing to the size of the spool to be pro-
duced. These sticks are thoroughly sea-
soned. They are sawed into short blocks,
and the blocks are dried in a hot-air
kiln. At the time they are sawed a hole
is bored through them. One whirl of
the little block against sharp knives
shaped by a pattern makes the spools at
the rate of one per second. A small boy
foeds the spool machine, simply placing
the blocks in a spout and throwing out
the knotty or defective stock.
The machine is automatic, but cannot
do the sorting. The spools are revolved
rapidly in drums and polish themselves.
For some purposes they are dyed yellow,
red, or black. They are made into thous-
ands of shapes and sizes. When
sees a spool of thread “100 yards” or |
“200 yards,” these words do not signify |
| that the thread has been measured, but
| that the spool has been gauged, and is !
one |
| supposed to contain so much thread
When a silk or a linen or a cotton firm |
| wants a spool made, it sends a pattern to
the spoolmaker. The pattern gives the |
size and shape of the barrel and of the
head and bevel. These patterns deter-
mine the amount of thread that the spool |
will hold. One factory tums out 100,000 |
gross of spools per day, and consumes |
2,500 cords of birch annually. Thirty- |
five hands are employed in the mill |
During the Winter 250 wood-choppers
are sometimes employed. i
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PORESTS AND DRAINAGY,
Cover a table with a thick stratum of
spongy moss and pour on a gallon of
water. The water will coze through and
trickle down the table, but very slowly,
day by day, and that process of filtera- |
tion will continue for a long time ; four
hours after the table will still be dripping
wet. Then remove the moss and empty |
the same gallon pot on the centre of the |
table. This time the deluge will pour |
down in a thick rush and four hours
later the table will be as dry as if noth- |
ing had happened. With the same dif- |
ference of result a rain shower acts on a |
wooded and treeless conutry. The forest, |
with its net-work of moss and roots, ab- |
gorbs nine-tenths of the moisture, and |
yields it slowly in brooks and perrenial i
springs. A naked hill permits it to pour |
down in rapid deluge, brooks swell to |
torrents and rivers to seas; but in the |
Summer time those same rivers shrink |
to shallow creeks, their head waters in |
the treeless mountains have run dry. |
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ff THE USE OF COFFEE IN BRAZIL.
According to the statement of the Viee
Director of the Rio Janeiro Faculty of
Medicine, it appears that in Brazil, where
great quantities of coffee are used, and
where all the inhabitants take it many |
times a day, alcoholism is completely un. |
known. It is further stated that the im.
migrants arriving in that country, though
beset with the passion for aleohol, eon-
tract little by little, the habits of the
Brazilians, acquiring their fondness fi
drinking coffee and their aversion for |
lignors ; and, as the children of these im- |
migrants, brought up with coffee from |
their early years, never contract the fatal |
habits known to their parents, it woald |
seem that the number of drunkards in |
the connfry is in inverse ratio to the |
amount of coffee consumed. A Somtl
American correspondent of the Medic al §
Times confirins the above statements
asserting that the number of cafes in the
large cities of Brazil—where multitudes
of persons, from the highest down to the
lowest classes, go in to take a eup of tha
delicions beverage whicih none but Bra.
zilinns know how to make properly
enormons : while drinking saloons or bars
are very few, and their patrons fewer
still.
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A PERFECT PIECE OF MECHANISM,
The BEaglish Mechanic nays : ** Althongh
tha average speed of teins in the United y
States is 20 per cent. below the mean
speed of trains in this country, all things
considerad, the service controlled by the
American engineers compares favorably
with any in the world. The American
engineers at first copied English builder
and made locomotives with single drivers ;
but, aa is their wont, they quickly made
improvements, and we are not disposed
to dispute with Mr. Edwards the dictam
that the American locomotive of to-day
is ‘one of the most perfect pieces of
mechanism wrotght out by the hand and
mind of man.'"
A LEAP YEAR SPOILED.
Tt is explained that the year 1900 will
not be a leap year, although it is divisible
by four without & remainder. In order
to make calendar and solar time agree as
nearly as they can be got for many cen-
turies fo come, the Gregorian calendar
drops three leap years out of every four
centuries, and theses onilséions are upon
such leap years as will not divide by 400
without a remainder—although they can
be divided evenly by 4. The year 1600
was « leap yoar, but 1700 snd 1800 were
not, and 1900 will not be.
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if & man have net found his home in
God, his manners, his forms of speech,
the turn of his sentences, the build (shall
1 say?) of all his opinions will involentar.
iy santos 108 in brave it out how
will
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two-h orse, iron axle wagon. Ju
A newly born male child was found a
fow days ago in the Juniata river at
Bridgeport with a piece of rope wound
tightly abont its neck. The supposition
is that the body was sunk in the river
with a heavy weight, which bad subse-
quently became detached trom its fasten-
ing. Saspicion rests on a young woman
who recently came to the vill and
whose whereabouts since been
shrouded in mystery.
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~The famous clothing house of
Lewins & Co, otherwise known as the
fore
age,
have
joining counties.
They keep no garments to deceive, and
sented.
| HARDWARE
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| BLAC
Heating Stoves,
In addition to our extensive sto
STOVES.
sk of FARMERS, BUILDER
5 &
Cooks & Ranges,
| CROWNING GLORY,
| FORT ORA
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full assortment of Fire
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STLAKE AND
WELCOME
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HOME.
ges the VICTOR & APOLILA,
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in Krie county, to poison their respective
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Latest styles and best quality Se-
dora hate, ouly $2.50 at the Bee Hive,
Nnt extensive advertising but genuine
The
est ohemical skill employed in
mannfactore, and sald on an
guarantee, Diseatisfie «dl buvers can have
their money indeed. Sold by J.
Murray. tf
ref)
SAN TYP
Mackerel !
MACKEREL,
s
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Lent call
.
who are
sv
f choose
Those desiring
Mackerel during
onthe ane rely od,
considered by epicures to
carry the
$i
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Fi HEST AND FINES]
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TURKEY
FRENCH
Evaporated A
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SP
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&
IALTY
FINE T}
and once
£5
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Java Coffee
Give it atrial
— WINTER GOODS-# -
Cost,
DRY GOODS & NOTION
PARTMENT
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always complete and prices will e
pare with all legitimate dealers,
Bellefonte, Penna.
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An Old Soldier's
EXPERIENCE.
“ Calvert, Texas,
May 3, 1882.
“1 wish to express my appreciation of the
valuable qualities of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
8a a cough remedy.
“ While with Churchill's army, just before
the battle of Vicksburg, 1 coutracied a se
were cold, which terminated in a dangerous
cough. I found no relief till on our march
wo came 10 & country store, where, on asking
for some femady, 1 was urged 10 try AVER'S
Cunney Preronai.
#1 did so, and was rapidly eured, Slope
then 1 have kept the PReTORAL constantly by
ma, for family use, and 1 have found it to be
an invaluable remedy for throat and lung
diseases, J. Ww. Wairiey,”
Thousands of testimonials corfily to the
prompt eure of all bromehial and lung
affections, by the wpe of AVER'S CHERRY
Pretonat. Deing very palatable, the young:
aw gllidron take It readily,
FRETARED BY
Dr.J.C.Ayer & Co, Lowel), Mass,
AJ. Gove. Omard
80d by al) Druggists.
t FYONFECTIONERY and EATING!
| 8 HOUSE, wt SEARFASY ROOMS |
tush’s block, Meals et all hours, from |
early to late trains, Lunch without cof |
fee 10 cts, Lunch with coffee 15 cents
Hegular meals 25 cts, Oysters in all stye,
WOLY & SON
AT THE OLD STAND
NT HALL,
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CARRIAGE WORKS
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Ababa
H Centre Co, Penn's,
re are kept
GIES
PHAETONS,
SPRING WAGONS,
-&KE,,
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Repa jone
» 3 $
Reasonable rales
‘ops of any style made fo or-
der, with prices
tv § ] le ad
ty. 1 have recently ad-
JORSE SHORING
di Ig oq
ded
y the smith de
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riment, ander
nervision of a very sk
and obliging blackemith,
1950! EY]
RTOVES TINWARI
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i Patent Iron Boofin itd
‘any build
a is MH «
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Call and ses
of
we than shingles,
Everything in the line
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COOKING BIOVES
COAL STOVES
RANGES
PRICES LOW ASTHE LOWEST!
TINWARE
ore on hand snd made
| of all descript to
order, 12dec.y
rCIew
NEW DRUG STOR:
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I' SPRING MILLS PA.
Sitnated in the North-east Corner of the
wig HOT
DRUGS, SPIO]
Bi
PATE
FANCY GOODS.
TOBACCO & SEGARS,
CONFECTIONERY
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and
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a Specialty.
in apothecary of experiences
ng
stions will be accurately com-
E. AURAND, Druggis,
Spring Mills Pa.
VAXNIA
rep 2Ty
TPENNSY
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--dtate
Lom A Ge of
gins January 4, 1884
Ei i the
thy spots of the entire
pes y lad
of Study
s of Four Yours
© Course
fen
PROS |
AH Te
sexes, and
r Years
OURSES, of
Expenses §
cin Sred
GOODS
ne of Choice Fami-
y
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GROCER]
F GROUCKERELS
AND
AND
PROVISIONS,
PROVISIONS,
Such as
, COFFEES.
i SUGARS, SPICES,
CANNED GOODS,
i DRIED FRUIN
i MEATS
NUT2,
OYSTERS,
| FINE CANDIES.
(FISH, SYRUPS, ETC.
Together with
GLASS, CHINA, WOOD AND
WILLOW WARE, AND
HOUSEHOLD
SUPPLIES
OF ALL
KINDS,
living prices
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%
v5
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at the lowest Goods are
the very best kind.
MEAT MARKET,
pT i
BT os, Lunas, § 1b
Boek. New sdition «Mew bindiggs. ~ New liadtration
from new designs. Superbly joie Wp. Same low pice.
Adgeed to ail classes, Sells of sigh. Apeats doing big
, ERCEsLENT Thums, The handsome prospec
eve fund, Apply mow
B4any CARRERE & CO, 8 Northgth Se. Philadel
hig. Py. Alve other grand new books and Hibies
Ly, mmm
ELLER & BON.
DRUGGISTS. Bellifontn, Pa,
DRUGS,
CHEMICALS
Denier In
PERFUMERY,
FANCY GOODS, &e
Pure Wines and Liquors for medical
purposes always kept
Jo F. POTTER, Attorney-ut-law
Collections promtly made snd
special attention given to those having
Iands or proyerty tor sale. Will draw ud
and haves acknowledged Deeds, Mortgas
bonds &¢. Ballafonte, Pa
OND VALENTINE,
dys and sells Rent Estate on fair commission,
Vira Companies,
" » ry Companies,
“ "oe
an, eh A Combined o
fam SE
New Brockerhoff House.
ROCKERHOFP HOUSE,
) ALLEONENY #7. WELLEFONTE, PA
G. G. McMILLEN, Prop'r. :
Good Sample Rooms on First Floor,
DRUGS
ind retes to witnperes and jurors,
Beef of the choicest
, pork aud mutton, fresh
| on hand
cattle, veal,
and always
30 nov, tf
&
Bo Sa: {
ERLE] 3 ALL ELSE FANS,
Rl Boi. Jord by ares
for the work Tig class, Bend 10 conin
CONSUMPTION.
( : 1 ) or pease and we will mall pou -
R 0 { regal va ldabile tag of wl fonds at
will pot pou in the way of making more
moaned ta a few Jays than yon ever thought pos
#itile st ar ¥ bos sin ens, Capita) not required. We will
wart you. You oan work all the Sime or in re
time oniy Tae wntk is universally adap ted [to bi
sores, pontiy wed 0, You pan easily earn from 60
cents to $3 svery evening all who want
winny Lest the business, we make ‘his saparalie
offer (to ali who are sot well satis wa will
$1 to pay Tor the troabile of wiiting us, Fall pa
wlirs, dirsetious wie, , sent free. Fortunes wii
ade thoes who give their Whele titne to Lhe work
reat
Won't del Star,
now, a. rene SrINEON, $00 3 Portiand, ir ,
arene]
3
PRA foie of pris,
rari Sr BR
ser,
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Salen =
wiithen 1" ;
4h Eure ¢ #
TIRES &
AT
] Su: Fres Bue to and from all traine,
LARGE CROPS OF
CORN
GILARS, OAdn, RYE
HEAT,
KWHEAT, POTATOES, &¢,
Clan be Raised by Using
BAUGH’S
25 DOLLAR PHOSPHATE,
asi
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| This is a Real Ammoniated Dove
|Buper-Phorphate which WE Alone
{Produce by Means of Bp cinl Advan
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tages in Manufacturing. i
{an Acid Phosphate.
$25 per 2000 Lbs.
{In New Bags of 200 Pounds Fach)
| Price
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Free on board Cars or Bost is Phi
BAUGH & SON
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: Sole Manufacturers,
PHILADELPHIA, PE
&
ary
N'A.
Easy to use, A certain cure, Not expensive, Three
mon * srestiment in one package. Good for Uold
in the Head, Headache, Dizvivess, Hay Fever, &e.
| Fifty cents. By all Drogyists or br tall,
ET. HAZEUTINE, Warren, Pa
WARNTED !
4 CROSS. TIER,
| White-cak, Rock-oak and Chestnut, tol
delivered along the li
fu)
ne of low
For further
to Grove & Wolf at
{
Tyrone Railroad.
tion apply
¥ 4
mi NOD ir
eptre Hall
{or Wm. Wolf &
i » . fend six venls ‘or posiage
A I I'l Z 8 and receive frees costly box
- A wut goods which will bey you
fo more Boney Might away
than snyibing olee in this wold Adil, of wither ses,
succeed from Sret bhowr, The broad road forts
opens before Lhe workers, lanciulely sure
ouce, TRUER & Co., Asguvia, Baine
10 #
ldreen nl
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LEWISBURG AND TYRONE RAILROAD TI
TABLE.
Leave Westward
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us leave Leawishyo
F. M,,
% Jives i resi
of the 1 ibe largest
somest and best book ever
uw twice our ries
The fastest well lng bon
to agents. Al Inieiligept people want il
can Decoine & soos nl ag ent Terms free,
LETT BOOK Ce., Porvand Malse
PANG MILLS
Plaining Mill
ad I)
8ar-The place to buy your beste
s&and cheapest Building Mate"
s&r-rial is of
Jas. 8. Krape & Co,
Spring Mills, Pa,
{
who keep all kinds of
'FLGORING,
! GERMAN, &
SPLIT SIDING,
lg IRFACE BOARDS,
| WINDOW SASHES,
|SHUTTERS,
&c., &c.. &e.
Anything wanted mol ready
will be furniched on short no~
tice.
MATERIAL OF ALL
WAYS KEPT ON
13 1Tmny
KINDS Al-~
HAND.
1845. Mlastrated Hand-Bosk
For the Tarn ont Garden, 150 pages.
800 tiusrations snd Ben Pinte
it w hat wud tw
a fr rm SR
pian " ”! : - va w al
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when you want {to plant,
EXRDEN
FAS BRET SEL 3
VEGETABLE GARDEN FOR $1.00,
Bl ET fb he Sa Ted
: r LK. BLISS & SONS,
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