THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Prov’ TERMS; One year, $1.50, when paid in a “ance, Those in arrears subject to previous erms. §2 per year, Advertisements 20 cents per line for 3 inser ons.and 5 cents for each subsequent insertion Centre Harr, Pa, Taurs, Fee, 7, 18890, HOW TO SIT A HORSE. An Old Cavalryman's Pointers to an Iw experienced Rider. “The best riders in the world,” said an old cavalryman, who was giving a greenhorn some points on equestrianism, ‘are the Mexi- cans, Buffalo Bill's cowboys are splendid riders, but the Mexicans are better still. And their superiority is in part due to the kind of saddle they use. That low English saddle you've got there,” he continued, *I couldn't ride in. It isn't fit for a man to ride in. Now, the great beauty of the Mexican saddle is tha: a man sitting in it has Lis legs al straight down beside the horse, like a cle pin. A Mexican on heels and shoulders nearly in line, lanted firmly in his stirrup Bim and pointing straight al i, with the borse. Our McClellan sadd be as good as the Mexican saddle if bad the stirrups placed a couple of further back. As it is, a mu McClellan saddl to bend knee in the style knee bent your feet pointed strai **This pos riding mas ment to allow his casual pr be had already said, “is horseback ion of the ter continued, is the thing. And nine-t riders you see about the street roads every day have their t angle of 45 degrees f horse. 1 have a firm seat, and d cise half as much as th properiy.” “How is it the way the t I much to do good riding who bappened to be on hand inquix “To sit firmly on a hors to time have with the said, *‘you must grip your knees. Not with mind, tor with the thig! alone, Now, if you de pointing stra possible to Ms grip your toes ( You grip the horse with that ye from the hips instead of t ment a little you'll But bo you wi } yet As a consequenc with he body en oorses moti + t ahead, « and you will legs aud when vou grace in inste: keep their hem parallel habit of r them very ung best and Gen. Ashby, v I never saw a man who on horseback, Of over all the furnitur astride his higl hanging straight do he were sitting in a rocki: same time it is al him. Heiscl pan ridi short stirrups, his his toes turned out, has jumps sudder He isin acr position, and is almost sure to be thrown ward on the horse's neck or over his head." Washington Star, A Virginia Beauty. Porter Ashe has mad: : most beautiful woman he Richmond, Va. This is sig of Freddy Gebhard Langtry at Long Branch last su was the cause of the sestimental which ended Freddy's : alone for England. He was lowed by the Li who br i amiably, and they are together again during the actress’ present tour That Ashe should his mind that the ever saw lives ficant, because he was a in the wt i in else than Mrs. Langtry, after last su: devotion to her, indicates either rose or outspoken honesty, “Is it really true, Mr, Ashe,” he was asked, “that you found such a wondrous beauty in Virginia?” “It is true enough,” be replied, “1s she Amelie Rives! [have hea she to whom you have awarded the “No. 1 have seen the authoress ¢ certainly bandsome. So area gr Virginia girls. 1 don’t believe in the Union that has such beauty in its women as | i 3 ter is visiting there and she wrote to me if 1 would come she would show me the hand- somest wotnan in the United States [| went -pot for that reason, mind you-—bnt I did see the young lady to whom she referred.” “And her name was —— “She must be nameless. I fancy that she wouldn't care to be exploited as a professional beauty.” Mr. Ashes use of the term “professional beauty” recalled Mrs. Langtry to my mind, and 1 said: “Well, is she more beautiful than Mrs. Langtry?” “Yes; there is no doubt at all about that.” {lara Belle, iit was airn, i she is I ¥ i The Divining Buperstition. The number of shalls sunk and the other prospect work done in the Digek Hills in the past ten years through the divining and other electric machines i» not known, but it is actually perpiexing to contemplate them. As a rule, they have proven signal failares, Notwithstanding this fact, these humbugs aire as much in vogue today as ever in the past. The Leadville Journal of a recent date says that at lcast 90 per cent. of all the fool ish prospecting and mining recently done ean be distineily attributed to this ignis fatuus, Like all humbug, it has done its share in giving legitimate prospecting a great set back. We have bad a loug series of such experiments. The first was the witch hazel rod, which, passed over the ground, in- dicated by twists and turns the presence of lodes. Others sunk suafts {n solid granite under the direction of spirits. Sill others attemped to penetrate the depths by electri cal forces of one kind snd another, but in no instance that we Lave ever heard of has the, result been different from that first defined as De oriass in Leadville. ~B8an Francisco Sn i gw a . A TOUGH TOWN. T WAS NEWTON, KAN, NOW A NICE AND ORDERLY CITY. For Downright Cussedness and Cold Kill- ing It Had No Equal—The Gun Settled All Disputes~—It Was Death to Be Marshal, Nobody ever knew of a tougher town thap Newton, Kan, was in the early days of its existence. Nobody knows of a more lovely or more peaceable city than that same place is today. In the spring of 1871 the terminus of the Santa Fe railroad was at Emporia. It was determined to build to a point seventy-five miles further west. The object was to catch the Texas cattle trade. On the 14th of April, 1571, the writer reached the banks of Sand creek. Two men were found camped there, There was not a foot of lumber in what is now Harvey county, Kan, These men were the pioneers of the town that Capt. John Selastian afterward named Newton. Six weeks later there was a population of 1 X). The history of the town for its eight months is a story of lawlessness ry 2.0% {rst and blood that has never been equaled on this continent. Other places, mining camps le towns, Lave kept up the music of the pistol a greater length of time, but for lownright cussedness and cold killing belt. As soon as it own that Newton was to be the end of 1 for a year, and that it and ontt New. became the was tobe a point, gnm- and tineves flocked there by hundreds many men, business, went there, too, but the of the 1 wears the railroad whisky sellers, att shinning allie snipping ers af respectable seek 8 at majority uew comers were iangerous, PREACHING They IN A GAMBLING DEN. nicrated thers migrate ther i L k least a dozen gambl n the main street, keep open day time and nig all the time, One of hol ery known kind of g A sight tat is not often wit preacher went Thayer, and bold div with lay and ' was capable of Wis seen in this A Methodist the re- ne Srvices, to place, “Doc” ion to and the bar send every gambling Mr of the Hahn, Man ’ f y be had finished his sermu the story of the card table lotailed were appoing was a Texan ns McCilug two b lend scattered make a around ene who digs that be has mn on the side a of the long horn did it in a novel way. wowing that the fight would man, Riley by mame, went prepared to make himself Heo bad four six shooters on him. At the first pop of a gun he deliberately walked ip to a Texan and shot him in the eve; then ing Lis two arms between the arms and of the dead man, he made a human bar @ and shot at will from a safe ambush Alter the fight onded he went out, mounted a horse and left. The dead at the big killing were speedily disposed of, the wounded taken care of BOSS OF THE “SIDE TRACK." Mike Fitzpatrick kept a dive that he called the “Bide Track.” The unlucky chap that got in there found himself side tracked until bis money was gone Some of the decent people were bold enough to protest against some of his robberies, among others a prom. ipent merchant. Mike did not like any in- terference with his business, and ope morn. ing he loaded himself a little fuller than usual with his vile whisky and started out to do a little slaughtering. The merchant was sought, but happened to be out of the store, Mike went up the street terrorizing every- body and walked into a saloon, Thers he saw the city's police judge, George Halliday, and without the slightest provocation or a word of warning be shot him through the heart. The marshal, Jack Johnson, bad been advised that Mike was on a raid and had started to capture him. Seo ing Mike coming out of the saloon, Johnson took a rest for his Winchester rifle on the well curb and shot him down, This was Newton's last killing. In an hour after ward the citizens had formed a league and the suspicious characters were notified to leave. They left. Only a fow incidents are wentioned ; only a few of the shootings de- tailed. Tom Carson, a nephew of old Kit Carson, was sent for and came to take the tnarshalship of the town. He stayed three weeks. The toughs had it in for him, and to save his life bo skipped. “Wild Bil" (J. HL Hickox) tried to be marshal, He couldn't do it. Marshal King was killed in the d of bis duties, and sitogsthor it was the tough. el town on record. The who seen the lovely city today, counties occur, this no tHarvey) in the state, with its business, its opera houses, its street oars, gas and water works, and talks with its law aud wide awalo citizens, little dreams of the scenes of blood witnessed in ita infancy, Omaha Herald TITLE Snap. I vi ns CRITSCISING: A PICTURE. Suggestions to the Painter of George and the Cherry Tree. “Your charge against Mr, Barker, the artist bere,” said the judge, *'is assault and battery, I believer” “Yes, sir,” “And your name {8" “Potts; I am art critic of The Weekly Spy” “State your case,” “I called at Mr, Barker’sstudio upon his in- vitation to see his great picture, just finished, of George Washington cutting down the cherry treo with his hatchet. Mr. Barker was expecting to sell it for $10,000. He asked me what | thought of it, and after I had poiuted out his mistake in turning the head of the hatchet round so that George was cut- ting the tree down with the hammer end 1 asked him why he had foreshortened George's leg so as to make it look as if his left foot was upon the mountain on the other side of the river.” “Did My. Barker take it kindly?” asked the judge. “Well, he looked a little glum, that all And then when I asked him why he put the guinea pig up in the tree and why he painted the guinea pig with horns, he said that it was not a guinea pig, but a cow, and that it was 10t in the tree, but in the background n I said that if I had painting ( Washington I should not have given | complexion of a new brick, 1 should given him two thumb should have tried not t round so that he could see his head to his left'ear, wouldn't yout?" | and 1 heen on each y slew his right round the back of And Barker said, ‘Oh, ic, you . and I wo ares RRow, said, ‘No, 1 bave painted oak and 1 in't doubt whe wouldn't WO i as to woods was a fact ir Georg: { boat, « ton's father taking a smoke” “Which was it? asl “1 don't know; Barker ¢ and I told him to abandon ti thing RNC WAS i fix the r who y bo might reco whatever make it the while be « ange the guinea pig for the ca n g." ang “Did he then Wedded to His Hall Sister. Wells, a far living in girl, was cared for by family named Em Two laug Was years ialer or grew up ir Somat knov the fas F, and there th ball brother Wella mate friends knew tory, and be had n tives niways Bars ago in Cie fell in love at first * have one sith, as she was khown, bt and were soon n child, a year old, a: aly vered their relationship a few days ago by a word dropped 1 i were ina quandary for a timo, but have decided to continue to live as wan and wife sarriod d oi chance v the wile 1 t New Ballding Materials. A patent haz been granted fora process of manufacturing boards, bs or plates, chiefly applicable to the usual building purposes of wail and ceiling linings or and also as a lining for ice chests, flues and the like. Each board or plate is chiefly com- posed of the following materials: A large number of small tubes, cither specially made of paper or other suitable material or formed f vegetable stalks. These tubes are uni formiy distributed, so as to form a number of cores for the semi-liquid mass which is subs sequentiy cast in. A plastic mass, consisting of plastic mineral matter, such as burnt gyp- sum, cement or Lime and finely divided solid particles of organic origin, such as small woke, wool hair or feathers, with or without the addition of a liquid binding substance, such as glue water or a mixture of water with alum, green vitriol and soluble glass in the following relative quantitios:~Gypsum oment or lime, fifty parts; small coke, ten parts; wool, hair or feathers, one part: bind. ing substance, consisting of alum, vitrioland soluble glass, one part. —New York Telegram. In Love with a Plaster Cast. The story of Endymion is more than par. alleled by a case that cocurred recently in Paria. Eugenie Bloe, a lad of 14 years, fell in love with a plaster cast of Venus in his fa ther's house, and would stand gazing at it for bours. His father found that it caused him tor neglect his studies, and wo, in a rage, broke up the image. Eugens went to his twisted a sheet about bis neck and st: led himself. It was a genuine case of falling in love with an ideal. St. Louis Globe Detmo- crag, coverings, The London Schools. board schools in London employ about 4,000 teachers, while the church schools, ep. dowed schools and private schools employ 4,000 more, and there are 5,000 governesses teaching in families, There are, in round wumbers, 16000 women teachers, with up ward of 8.000 male teschers, in that city, The board employs balf as many men as wo- at is, from 3,900 to 4,300,—Journal # ¥ $ ow we SNAKE-KTLLING HOGS. | TWENTY-TWO PORKERS DESTROY 600 BERPENTS IN ONE HOUR. he Terror of Black Mountain—Old Abe Xockhart Pots His Wits to Work—A Battle More Desperate Was Never Be- fore Beheld, A desperate and almost indescribable bat- tle between ahborde of rattlesnakes and a | bunch of hogs occurred a few days since on { Abe Lockbart's place, at the foot of Black | mountain. This branch of the Allegheny | ted as the bome and rendez | vous of thousands of b and | of the dusky brown species, which have been | looked upon with dread by the bh ers from | the fact that they have always been ceedingly aggressive and dangerous. For Years this mountain bas been the terror and fAread of the people of the vicinity, and it is lom that any traveler or hi 1" the temerity heretofore to cross the rid | OF near a point, 86 numerous a: | deadly have been the pols { Dut that { the fact | imported | the long nosed, lank, long le which from | has been rattlesna certain GOs replies, bas all been chang that old Uncle Abs from North Carol { hogs, their el | have been identified under the ti | diggers, ! annoyed | ex | mi | the mu {| the species above descril | in pens, where he kept | treated T™THE C When the ¢ mated a their pens, | an acre, loose corn, Jim and ( Within a of the the trail of om of hogs broke Ix reefs were I BhaKes, | ites to pieces. This he kept up for retreating but ocnoe for a breat brief rest, when back be went st it agsin an hour © snake bel In less than i BOL Go ng left sad succesded in rege bogs had fla hia boys the hogs ner ft alive : Lia LE Loe i them became so 8 Jong snakes the Iny de the dead bodies of wornies had rested, when they aroused selves, and, Jod by the old boar, they porkers the until them began and then exposing a rattier which had hidden bis body away from his porcine enemies rush, and in a Jilly that rattier was & little bits too small to recognize In an hour and a bailf not a living could be found, and the hogs were, to all ap- pearances, as sound and hearty as ever. made a trail of corn back to the house, but the hogs did not follow, seeming to prefer the flesh of the snakes to the corn. Ever since of food, and where once no man found. The pigs had cleaned them out fight, and not one hog was hurt. Cincinnati Eaquirer. Wouldn't Be Outdone, Another story which Gen. 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