VOL. LXII.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, -~- EDITOR
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DEM. CO. COM,
ns
Bellefonte, N. Wann .
‘ B, Wassemnrnss
woule M Bower
Patrick Garroty
Joseph W Gross
JW MCormick
M I Gardner
“ WwW. W...
Contre Hall Boron
‘ td
i'nionville Borough.
Benner. cosines
Bogus, N P.veiies
WP
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College... ane
Curtin... ass 5 A 8 Delong
Ferguson i " . wy I MCormick
wel Harpster Jr
Halfmoon..
Harris
Howard
Huston
Liberty...
Marion
“A public office is a family trust.”
Harrison.
SI RE.
i.
150 salod
last Sanday
re were arrested forse li
At Cincinnall mn
keeps
pg ligoor
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This summer's hig waters tcok
flood of
ing a flood of new bridges.
old bridges, and now we are hay
TO TS
“i
Pittsharg Chronicle-Telegraph:
¥ 1 6Y
Seems a4 more iii
ularly enough, it
matter to distri he Johnstown
This
nte
lief fand than it was to rais» it,
out of the usual order of things.
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institutions
The
known as the “syndicate
g¢oldiers orphans
achools'” have
been closed by the commission in charge
of the wards of the state, and the « hile
those estabs
The
commission has The
next thing for it to do is to see if the res
maining schools cannot It
seems that they have outlived their use~
dren will be transferred to
lishments that are to be continued.
started oat we'l
be closed.
fulness as it were,
RE SIRI TI
In any toy shop canbe found a regis
ment of nicely painted tin soldiers brave
and gay looking, which can be bought
for ten centa. Fe of these, equal in
pumber to the N. G. of this state, would
cost $4. Why not
’
county, and have them take the place of
irty
buy a set for each
, Ye leped the Na
iraining
thatother ¢ xpensive to
tional Guard fPa.
the tra sury t
being gircase i around.
“Hat.”
a ———
i.
to cry
The contest for the president judge.
ship in Lycoming coonty,is still going
on. and is likely to end about the time of
the expiration of the present term, nine
years hence- Judge Meizger occupying
the bench all the time.
eontestant bad now better withdraw and
’
The republican
gave the enormoos expense of the inves
tigating commission and enter the race
again in nine years, which would seltie
it more satisfactorily then the commis.
sion which would have
yet anyhow to settle it,
to sit nine yeara
I ——— TIA UO —
From an Illinois mining district comes
an a'most incredible aceonunt
Congressman Lawler
of starvas
tion, has just res
turned from an investigation of the con.
dition of affairs in the Braidwood regions
and reporis it as most horrible. In one
a died in the
town and the flesh was stripped from the
bones in a few minotes and eaten by the
famished people. The breasts of mothers
nursing their infants, he says, have lit
erally dried op for lack of nourishment,
and children may be seen with the skir
hardened and dried clinging to the bons
es of thar faces,
EE. ee ————————
instance, he says, horse
London advices say the harvest news
with which the week opens shows that
the situation of the worlds breadstafl
supply is mach more serious than was
expected a fortnight ago, when the rise
in prices began here. Russian official re
ports now admit that the wheat crop is
the worst in many yeare, but they strive
to take the edge ofl the announcement
by the declaration that the Government,
in consequence, will iedoce railway rates
on grain freighits, 80 as to prevent a food
panic, inside the empire
A cyclone in Hungary snd Northern
Roumania, not only destroyed the grain
still standing, Szegedin, Mobacs, and
other centers that the bulk of the grain
harvested a few weeks ago was also de
stroyed. The Austrian Ministry of Ag.
rienlture officially announced the day
before this storm that the grain crops of
Galicia and Silesia were a total failore
. and those of Bohemia and Moravia very
The proposal to ad
Wales,
miliarly known as Tammy, is the al
the income of the Prince of
sorbicg topic of conversation in
Britain ins pow,
The idea is to take the amount; named
from the taxpayers an ually to support
Prince Albert Victor and Princess Lion
ise children of ths Price and g
dren of Queen Victoria,
The London radicals heid
mass meeting on Sanday last
against this bounty to people
it,
done nothing to deserve
tiged i
very plain talk was 1nd
gpeakers opposed to the
It was intimated that
deeply in debt that he cannot
himself,
All this shows that U
allowance.
extricais
ie loyalty of
average Englishmen of the middle
lower classes 10 his sovereign and to
§
royal! family has reached a very Ie
sta
PW
litt
ie
£
and
k
that, nowadays, very
taken in that divinity that
iT bed LTE .
TL AILS are gelling
be held at a very large dine
hedge » king. Iu
to
un
subjected to the same criticism
parisons as the common herd,
(Great Britain
financially fre
There
around,
MI a
are not enough thrones
i
i$
not ¢ ugh roval families
nish suitable matches rthe «
increasing
descendants, an:
brood wetoria’s
y come
. x if
burden upon a ps , hail
tury ago,
r progeny
Fin business in at
fairly comfo but that wasn't
tyie,
her way of me
thor noon
OL peop
she bad and lo
the tr
the expense of k
neces
be sad dled
16 bine Britons to
eeping her family i
of life
very
ries apd luxuries She
mises
$f wm
& IRONS
to tell the plain truth, a
d the hoarding o
By her fraitfulness
she hase saddled a burden upon her peos
old woman, ar
is her ruling
rE SiANn
} ie
ple that is onerous, and itis no wonder
that the Radicals have waxed strong and
bold, and are likely
to defeat the pros
posed ailowance for her grand
to
Toya
children when the question comes a
vote in the Commo
Here are
bill for annual |
heavy
ty ander whi
Great Britain
i the tax rid
are
DOW groa
complete, bat near en
incess Beatrica
Duch nf Cam
Duchess of Me«
Duke of Cambri
Duchess of Teck
Duchess of Albany
Miscell
esd
One p
. ——
It looks as
commissioners
for all it is
every
thongh
were
worth, by
Every
the Republic
farming
putting
Monday morning
with grip sack they can be seen moun
ting the train and returning Saturdays.
Tax payers are noticing this and protest
loudly against the indecency
in the history of the county,
To the credit of the Democratic com-
missioner, Mr. Fiedler, it must be said
that he is not trying to gut the taxpayers
at the rate of three dollars per day for
nearly every day inthe year—he
to have a sense of whatis becoming in
this regard, and he is not noticed bob-
bing around Bellefonte hall as much as
the other two commissioners,
an
the office
in about
day.
unknown
HOLINS
In the name of the taxpayers, we pros
test against this indecency.
Years ago the commissioners were
seen in the office only during court week,
with very few oxtra days—now it is
about every day io the year,
A good many citizens are
hear of their resignations.
The taxpayers are bleeding at the rate
of $0 per day for the defeat of A. J, Greist.
besides suffering other shortcomings,
firm incompetency and greed,
Wet:h the railroad trainsand see these
chaps travel to and from the county crib,
-
Late News
In a ekirmish on 20,in Egypt 60 ders
vishes were killed,
A dispateh received to day from Nagas
gaki states that a dreadful earthquake has
ocenrred in the western portion of the
island of Kiou-Sion, The town of Ku-
nmmoto was destroyed. A great number
of people perished. A yast amount of
property was also destroyed.
The Investigation in West Virginia on
the contested govnership, is resulting in
ready to
bad.§
favor of Fleming, Democrat,
ihe Family Record.
that |
it of
¥
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'
dent Harrison laid down the
|
Bhortly after his inauguration, Presis
rule !
i
satiasfacti n ot
a public office is to please yourself while
init.” Here is the of
pointments, revised 1
family list
to date by
indientes
aps
tl Als
bany Arpas,
Brot}
an
wer Ben is “pl
ead
Ygetling aaniglactic na’
AL LNs 18
1. The p
resident's hrother,
™ vo. 1 :
The president's brother-in-law,
3. The president's father-in-law
he
president's son's father-ins
snt's wife's cousin,
son's wile's con
nephew,
aughter’'s bir
tiers |
president's brother's sor
Fre ied BONS LS
I'he presiden
or's wife
ntend
Her Letter was a Will
Tho last
>
w ¥ iy !
#4
against her!
his very name
by Judge Over at
& long battle
Harriet Slatop
chief enginee
pany, was
A. Kno
cial nati
James
sal
ter several year
Mra, Knox died over a vear ag
ing iu her desk a letter disposing
jewelry, mu
Her hasband re
pey, &c., signed
‘Harriet"
groand that the signature wos
cent. Register Conner decided
agcmittiag t
ion establist
1 makes
Ii Ssesss
The resnit of the French elections for
~ 3
general, or
councils what here would be
mn
called county offi
of Phe dough
ha ed, After
carefully selecting S8 cantons out of 142
in which to test hi
cers, will probably make
an end Bounlangism.
General been equelct
popularity, and al
ruuning a8 a ca
he has been
ndidate in many
successful in only
is will probabl
the government to fix an earlier date for
the general elections for the Chamber of
Deputies ard end
twe.ve of then Ti
Il nncertainty as to
fature of the Republic. Under the pros
ceedings of the court
his property will
and he be
rights,
against Boulanger,
confiscated
of all
soon. be
will deprived civil
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The South Fork Clab bas been
Lewis McMullen, Faq, on Saturday
brought suit against the South Fork
Fighiog Club on behalf of the widow and
eight children of John A. Little. The
dameges claimed for the loss of the lats
ter's life are 850.000. Jolin A, Little was
aman for the 1. H, Smith
Wooden Ware Company, and had reach.
ed Jolinstown the day before the flood.
He stopped at the Hurlburt House, snd
from this hotel only four people escaped
alive, Little was a resident of Sewickley
and extremely poapuolar among his asso.
ciates, After his death a number of
drummers made up a purse of $2,000 for
his widow and children,
ened,
traveling sale
dif
AL §3 per day,
Every day,
Two Commissioners,
Are making hay.
With grub in gripeack,
To Bellefonte they rack,
Regularly everyiMonday,
Till Saturday stay,
Making hay,
At 83 per day.
Seo "om got on and off at the stations,
With $3 a day for their rations.
Twas a blundering trice,
To defeat Jack Greis;
Now they're plundering away,
At 83 per day,
These two court house mice,
Peace, Troubled Souls!
To the live oitizen in the actual swirl!
of life, nothing fs more amusing the= |
the doleful, pessimistic lucubrations of |
college professors and presidents who sit
in their easy chairs in shaded scholastic
bowers and know about ss much asa
kitten of the real, throbbing world about |
them,
ips how to discipline giddy young men, |
A college president knows per
ough he is not always successful in |
1
LOK
’ 3
ana
Enclid. But when thes
smiling
aver
the
y summer and tell
to
the dogs, we beg to submit respectfully
that they don't know anything about it. |
Students
and orate
gularly that world is
going
under them catch their cue
in the same dismal tones
Now, wo are not going to ruin.
tatesmen in these dave, And
honest, unselfish,
Man's Spiritual Evolution.
ssor Alfred Rus Wallace
Darwinian theory of
ell ne
EVO
$4 :
{re to belief in the
ture and origin of On
man.
it is powerfully in favor of
€ ou ¢
Cif BBEOT
Wallace writes a book in
ipport of this position. The work is
LBW LISIN.,
arwin in aq
¢
i
man
olution
nal forms, up
the hu-
Bp to tix
ution,
the
YE Tu
Pon
£4 vy uf Be
SA100e Pall
thus far, Professor Wallace
yf. Ho affirms there aro
ulties in the nature of man that can-
i the mere theory
rie for life,
As illus-
trations are mentioned the musical, meta
sthematical and artistic fac-
nowhere a higher power, the
spiritual power, has stepped in, and in-
tr
oduced thess into that
range piece of
work we call man, Professor Wallace,
no less scientific than Darwin himself,
ad vances arguments to prove his ground.
The bo a comfort to orthodox
believers who, hesitating between science
mid lik
work will
and
to find some
ground where both can meet,
Lightning Transit.
* vg * ¥
Lnveniion
3 in quick trans
1 is one to take
away the breath
this rapid age. A system has
been adopted by the Electro-Automatio
, of Balt
claimed that mail and light freight of all
kir is can be
company more, by which itis
transported at the rate of
three wiles a minute, 180 miles an hour,
Light tsaius, of the motor
car and one or more camying coaches,
will be sent through the country by elec-
tricity at this fearful rate of speed. There
will bs no human attendants on the
train, It will be controlled.and directed
from the generating stations. The rall-
way track is twenty-four inches wide,
thy eighteen feet long,
and pointed at both ends, to do away
atmospheric friction. For the
same reason the cars fit into one an-
other telescope fashion, thus giving a
smooth, regular surface to the “The
malls New Yark andy Omaba
will be carnied in a night,” ithis said,
through this amazing new devdflopment
of man's genius, Special rails} are de-
vised to keep the train from fl ying the
track. The system has bein fully
tried at an experimental stegion in
Jaltimore, with a track two 1ufles In
circuit. The train astends a grade here
of 108 feet to the mile easily and per-
fectly. The originator of this stupendous
invention ia Mr. Dawid G. Weems, of
Baltimore. It is expected that ere Jong
a plan will be perfected by which the
present steam railways can be utilined
for electric transit,
consisting
motor Car
with
between
Eight years ago in Portland, Me. 00
little organization was formefl calledithe
Society for Christian Endeavor, Its aim
was to make professing Christiana 'be-
come setive workers for wood among
their fellow men, fuculcafing by exzwn-
plo as well as precept the w ays of purify,
peace and good will, Fhey depended
largely on the weekly pw.yor meeting fo
foster the spirit of love4aud holy living.
The society now has half a million meth
bers in different the Union, antl
has just held its arfowal convention ln
Philadelphia. Meormbegs take a pledge
to attend prayer mediing every week
and take some part in it, praying or
speaking. They pledge themselves
to daily prayer, Sibletreading and Chris-
tian life. The movement is said to be
filling tho chv rolyes with enthusiasm.
There seams fio bo a fatality in the
name of Johne# yun, New York as well
ns Pennsylvand a must hereafter connock
Democratic County Committee,
Ata meeting of the De nt
mits held atl the comin
onie on
pt I's
Lion «
Hel
Binge
[#
Ms
for 13
NA iY, 4
ATURD.
oie
4
4
the rules governing the
gates apd the County «
Are
Miven
of
$
the
lertions and shall be in
Democratic voles east
trict st such ol ion
nd
propo
0 each dis
tion for delegates tore
the annual
tom «hall be held 2
ral e
freed
Aas in enc
pi {wo o'clock bom. on sald «
ying unt six o'clock p.m. The deleg:
wo elec ied shall meet in County Convention in
the Court House, at Bellefonte, on the Tuesday
following at two o'clock p. m
resent the
i" £ In
the cen
at r ei
h and eve
¥ §
Aes
3. The said delegate election shall be held
by an election board, to consist of the member
of County committee for cach district and two
other Democratic voters thereof who shall be
apoointed or designated by the County Com
mister. In case any of the persons so consth
tuting the board shall be absent from the place
of holding the election for a quarter of an Jor
after the time appointed by Rule Second tor
the opening of the same. hie or their place or
places shal: be filled by an election, to be con
ducted viva volee, by the Demoeratic volers
present at that time.
4. Every qualified voter of the distriet, who
at the late general election volel the Demo
eratic ticket, shall bas entitled to a vole at Wwe
delegate election : and qualified elector of
the district who will pledge his word of honor
to support the Democratic ticket at the next
general lection shall be permitted to vote at
die delegate elections,
& The voting at all delegate elections shall
be by ballot : upon which ballot shall be writ
ten or printed the name or names of the dele
gates voted for together with any Ingtruct ions
which the vote may desire to five the dele.
gate or delegates. Each ballo. shall bo re
ceived from the person vol'ng the same by a
member of the eyection board, and by him de.
seibied In A box or other receptacle provided
for that purpose, to which, Lhe box oF other re.
coptacio no persons bat members of the board
shall have accons,
6. No instractions shall be recsived or roe.
feed unless the same bo void wu the
ballot as alos, in Rule Fourth, hei]
‘the namo with | disaster, »
wy
such instructions if vot sd upon the hailot be
binding upon the elEntes ices one alt
O Shah!
1t is said that the easiest way to house
olean a palace in which his dark skinned
| majesty, the
| been visiting, is to set fire to it and burn
It that
| when be bas had enough of any course
the remains
ble. There
shah of Persia, has been
fs furthermore said
it down.
hurls
of it, dish and a
china, with its coat of
arms, which has been for so long among
| the most costly treasures of the dukes
| and earls and “markisses” of the British
nobility.
|| Nevertheless, go it, Nasr<d-Dini Shock
| the stony, staring British matron to the
It will do her
| marrow of her bones.
| good.
{i “I am aware already that one horse
| can travel faster than another,” said his
vited to witness a horse rane. He thought
something, and resented it accordingly.
There was only thing that did astonish
im in the whole round of entertain.
ments the royalties of Enrope prepared
for him. This, with gentle pride wo
mention it, was the whistling of that
jolly and pretty American woman, Alice
Shaw. No wonder! Alico Shaw could
whistle a scowl off the row of Olympian
Jove himself.
But it is on the woman questien that
this original and independent thinker
comes out strongest. When he visited
Europe ten years ago he said confiden~
tially to Emperor William at Berlin one
day: “Why don't you send away that
ugly old Augusta and get a young and
prety wife?” Fancy the old emperor's
foclings! “Get me another Jot of
women, I've seen all these before,” Nasr
od-Din remarked the other day to the
Prince of Wales, who had invited the
samo princesses and duchesses to meet
him the second time. Being introduced
20 one of them, he told ber bluntly that
fon was “too old.”
, when bo is dressed in his best
togs, his majesty is worth over a million
wollars as ho stands, owing to the gore
{geous jewels ho plasters all over hime
wolf, Success to you, Nasr-ed-Din!
Sullivan was arrested in New York, on
Wednesday and will be taken to Mis-