VOL. LXII. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR ¥ The only “back door” that suits the toddy sucker of the Gazette, it would seem, js the one that leads ioto the sa- loon. ES STA ——— The rumor circulated ! the Centre Hall RerorTer that Judge Furst, of the Huntingdon dis riot, intends to resign, is denied by the judge himself, says the Als toona Tribune. y Tanner is credited with the etymologi- cal discovery that “given leave to resign” is the better English synonym for “given the razzie-dazzle,” and 1s equivalent of “got the grand bounce, the exact " Tue Philad Times thinks if the death of Congressman Cox shall lead to the election of Daniel Dougherty as his sac- cessor, the House may not do as much laughing hereafter, but it will certainly do a good deal of listening. A ———————————— Manager Col, RB. H. Thomas is said to have made nol less than $10,000 profit out of this years Grangers’ Picnic enters prise. It is asserted that he gets 10 cents far every passenger carried by rail to the picnic, If this is correct the traveling public will be indignant over the “bleed.” ——————————— Dr. John Weist, of York, has invented a storage battery which with his improved incandescent electric light must, in time become of general use. It can be used n country or town and each family can run its own battery and make the re- quired electric current needed to light up any building. ISSA I SWE The biggest botch in our county affairs is that under Henderson and Decker. Had the Republicans put in such mer like Ww. McFarlane, Jack Thompson, Christ Dale, any of the Boals, or two of a score of other competent Republicans we might name, the county would not now be running into debt and the valuations raised by the incompetent board to hide 4be fact, The fact has been recalled at Rich- mond that General Mahone was the in- ventor of the “tissue ballot,” one of the first and the worst dbvices for carrying elections fraudulently. He was also the original bull dozer in Virginia. And yet the Republicans are now runniog him as the alleged champion of fair and free elections, says the N.Y. World, It is indeed fortunate for the public at large that Taoner's mouth was closed just when it was, That other lognacious individual, Foraker, has jast began oper- ations at the old stand. It would be cruel to let them both locse at the same time, Unfortunately Foraker must run his course for about two months yet, but after the November election his voice will not be aadible from the snow bank which will cover him. A — There have been strikes in nearly all branches of indnstry for nearly all cau ses, but it remained for an Ohio minis ter to inaugurate a gospel strike. A Colambiana county clergyman, who found pay very slow, took for his text the $79.50 that was due him, and ans nounced “No cash, no sermon.” Anat. tempt to meet the strikers demand prov- ed unsuccessful, and now il is stated that “Satan is dancing a highland fling in wild exaltation all over the doomed vils lage" Although the world’s fair will pot be beld nntil 1892, a great deal of interest has already been manifested. It matters not where it shall be held. It will, jundeing from present indications, bea success, and in fact the greatest exposi- tion this country has ever seen. The cities of New York and Chicago have made claims for the fair. New York wi'l likely be selected because it is the metropolis of the country, but the fact stands that Chicago is at work with a will, and her citizens are promptly re~ sponding to the request for money, RTI The sentence of twenty-three Hun- garians in Fayette County to one year each in the workhouse for participation in the recent riots in the Connellsville coke country will doubtless have a sal utary effect upon the lawless foreign ele ment in that region. It is the first in- Stance in the history of that section where such a number of persons have been convicted and sentenced for outs lawry. The mass of the alien population of the bituminous coal region is composed of Hangarians and Poles. They are c'annish and ignorant, and when aroused are vicious and revengefal to an extreme degree. The crime for which thas men suffer’was an attack upon employees at an adjoining mine whose demands had been conceded bat who the rioters ignor- aotly fancied were working in violation of a strike agreement, CENTRE lected. Under the pension laws of the United States no one has any right to claim or receive a pension who is pot, in whole or in part, disabled, by reason of woundg or disease received or contracied in the line of duty from supporting himself by his own exertions. The statutes are quite clear on this point. Section 4,692, after statiog such disability so incurred as the only ground of pensions, provides further that the pension shall continue only during tbe continuance of the dis» ability. If a wound was received in the line of duty and the recipient has wholly recovered from its effects he is not entis tied to pension. Section 4,093, io a clauce relating to officers, bases their claims for pension on “disability by reason of any wound or injury received or disease cons tracted while in the service of the Uni ted States and in the line of daty.” A second clause relat ng to men in the ser- vice, but not regularly mustered in, pros vides that the disability must be such us to incapacitate from “procuring subsis- tence by manual labor.” Similar lan- guag: is used in all the acts, Until this year these laws have been uniformly construed in accordance with their plain weaning. The attempt now made to construe them so as to give the pension commissioner an arbitrary power to give money from the treasury as he pleases. An expert in pension matters by long service in the bureau statesto us that formerly the pensioner bad to make out his claim by satisfactory proof. In this way frauduledt awards were to a large degree preven ed, Bat now in the ad. ministration of the pension office the conditions are reversed, and the burthen of proof is on the government to show that the applicant is not entitled to a pension. Of course’this is not down in the rules and regulations, but is a Tans nerism practically in force. When it is cousidered the bars have been let down in the way of evidence so that one diss honorably discharged soldier can swear another dishoporably discharged sol diers pension thsough, it would seem but little remains to be done except to fling open the doors of the treasury vaults and invite everybody and his wid- ow to back up their carts and cut a elice from Uncle Bam's surplus. Last month we had a sample of this on a small scale, with the result that the national debt wes increased seven millions of dollars. is - _——— Keep Young. That was the good advice given to the veterans at Milwaukee, the other day, when General Sherman said to them: “Keep young as long as you can.” The General himself isa conspicuous illustra. tion of obedience to this injunction, and also of the benefits resulting from it. Bat it has a much Wider application than to soldiers and commanders, and may be heeded with profit to themselve and sdvaniages to others by mullitades of men and women, No good reason can be given why any one should, as the years pass on, wheth er in health or not, put on the appearance of ivfirmity and old age, and almost af fect stooped shoulders, a feeble gait, a kind of despairing look, and a mumbling and discouraging sivle of conversation. As a matter of course the agility and pranks of youth are not to be expected; nor would they be comely. But to stand erect, look brightly and kindly on the world, speak with cheerful tone of voice, take an interest in all that pertains to human well being and to perform cheer fally all the daties of life, are within the reach of all and will be to the benefit of all who will cultivate them and resist the inclination to slovenliness, inattention and general indifference, The late years of many excellent men and women are clouded, dall and aninteresting, becanse of failure to make the most, by all proper methods, of the time that is passing away #0 rapidly. “Keep young as long as you can.” ns —— A A fA ———— At Plymouth the recent cave in at No 5 mine, owned and operated by the Dela- ware and Huadeon coal company. has proved more serious than at first an- ticipated, The surface injured covers an extent of over one hundred sores and affects the operation of all the mines owned here by the: company, Nos. 2, 8, 4 and 5 mines are all connected and the terrific pressare ‘of air forced through the gangways has wrought enormous havoe with the coal property, throwing out of employment over 2000 men and boys. It is impossible to state when these mines will resume work. Gangs of men were at once put to work cleaning the debris, but the constant rumbling and crackling sounds gave warning to discon tinue. A AGP SII HP 0 SABA Headerson and Decker, it is reported were to have a match game of quoits in the court house yard, one day this month, but have since heard something drop. The stakes were one day's com- missioners salary, The Farmer, Things look blue for the eastern far- mer. Western prices are downing him at every garper, and the prices of grain are still on the Low freight rates from the cheap lands, and less labor to raise any kind of grain in the west than in the east, are making it unremunerative for our farmers. Yet, what are they goiog to doabout it? it will take a half a century before the west will cease to control the markets. With larger population, more cities and towns, there will be a greater demand for farm products and the eastern agriculturist will begin to be himself again, Western wheat is being offered, delivs ered here, at 84 to 86 cents. High mix- ed corn at 424, Oats 26 to 28, These figures virtually put prices here down 75 decline. west, 24, to pay handling and freight for ship ment to eastern markets or to the mars kets in the coal regiovs. This is what wa say, makes things look blue for our farmers. Texas is selling wheat at 50 cents per bushel and corn at 20 cents, With cheap freights the lone star state can ship right into Centre own farmers, county and undersell our _- A A AI —— - The State Fiood Relief Commicsion held a meeting at Harrisburg on Friday, The chief difficulty is to settle upona basis for the final distribution in the Conemaugh Valley. The sworn losses there exceeded $8,000,000. Some localis ties have already obtained all that will be given them. This committee had sworn statements to show that the losses in the Conemaugh Valley, without counting those Cambria ron Works and other corpora. tions, aggregated about The committee a'so showed that £565 000 had been distributed among the that the losses ranged from §5 to $165,000 and that 190 people bad suffered to the extent of $10,000 and over by the barst- ing of the Bouth Fork reservoir, The commission adjourned three quar- ters of an hour after midnight, after hav. ing decided to distribute $1,600,000 among the flood sufferers of Conemaugh Valley, in addition to the sums received by them. It will go to over 4.000 claim- ants, under the supervision of Secretary Kremer, of the Flood Commission, in conjunction with the Johnstown Com mittee of Inquiry. Probably two weeks time will be required to complete the worx of distribution. A £8,000 000 sufferers, The fact was recorded a day or two ago in the press that 1564 Mormons had ars rived in New York from Earope and proceeded at once to Utah. The occurs rence has considerable significance. It would seem that the evil of Mormonism instead of dying out is receiving constant additions from the Old World, Of these last arrivals over half were women who had doubtless been led to believe by the oily saints that a life of ease awaited them in the home of the Mormons. These constant arrivals of recrnits is sig- nificant of another truth. The Mormons are not strong enough to perpetuate them- selves without accessions from the outs side. Doubtless many of the younger Mormons are leaving the fold as they come to see how pernicious is the whole system nader which they have been reared. It is certainly the duty of the United States government to prevent the importation of misguided people who come to our shore in charge of Mormons, It is an obligation owed not only to the deceived people but to this country to which Salt Lake City and ita practices are a disgrace. Farmers and others are complaining of their taxes in this county being higher, yet the number of mills ,is same as before. The thing was brought about by Heunderscsn and Decker, whose mis management is bringing the county into debt, so they thought of playing sharp to cover it, by adding to the valeaticn some 10 per cent, above what sworn as sessors made it, and that’s what makes your taxes higher. Ifthey would not trot to Bellefonte almost every dav, at $3 per day each, it would go a good ways to keep down expenses, But the county is being ran upon the boodle plan, differ ent from the days of Campbell, Wolf, Gregg and Greist, Truly we have a set of reform com- missioners, Centre county is likely to bring in a claim against Commissioner Henderson for lodging in the court house. The bill will be something like this: J.C. Hexorrson, Dn. To Co. or Canrax. To 241 nights sleeping in court house, 350... $54 5 The commissioner, from current re- ports, instead of going to the hotel, for reasons of economy, slept upon the table in the vault of the commissioners’ office, until the matter leaked out. The lowest charges at a Bellefonte hotel, for a night's lodging, are 85 cents, and surely Hen. derson wont kick when that is made the basis for the claim of the county in this matter. | y strike lias ended for the working~ From the outset the strikers as a rule have displayed an intelligent con- servatism as rare as commendable under The great London with a glorions victory mien, such circnmstances, and therein was the almost certain assurance of their ultimate triumph, Labor is and always can be of the industrial situas tion, within just and reasonable bounds, whenever absolute master intelligent uoity and action is supplemented of purpose by dignified its contests with capital, always with conscientious regard for the law, and orderly conduct of The leader of the London strike has led his great army to a victory as complete and far more siguificant than many trinmph that shaped the destiny of nations on the battlefield. Are the workingmen of the new world capable of learning the lesson it conveys 7 a historical has - og - A general strike of all the miners in the district about Brockwayville, Dnbois, Reyuoldeville and Punxsutawney, Penn, is liable to take place this The that haye been adjoining regions is the Al ope time scale ruled that section, of the diggings below the scale ois irritated and now that the is prosperous aad demands elsewhere bave been successful, the efs fort is on foot to secure a raise of from five to ten cents in the Erie and the Rochester and Pittsburg colleries. Five thousand miners are in the district that is threatened, week. advances in the scale granted in the ground for the demand. the Columbus bat the men at some little them, Wers Aways a coal trade 1” The nominatica of M. Associate Jue M. Musser for ige, was a slap of the l iy little at the Dales, who bave oneof the best Republican family records in the county workers, inf These -giways true, active gen. tial and intelligent, qualities feeling against them by new comers and striplings, who wish to shine as bosses, and George Dale under, the man bave caused a jealous enowed really fil for Associate Judge and the actual choice of the Republican masses. The fight in the party against the Dales has been no- ticed for a number of years, and is an outrage and insult to the old stand-bys.| Let them resent it at the polls, .—— The Mifflin county democratic con | vention was held in the court house on | 16. The following ticket was nominated :| Associate judge, Samuel Killen; pros thonotary, James Dorman; register and | recorder, 8 D. Coldren; district attorn: yl M..M. McLaughlin; director of the poor, H. J. Taylor; county surveyor,| John 8. Swigart. H. J. Fosnot, editor! of the Democrat an Sentinel, was elected | chairman of the county committee and | by resolution the said chairman was! made a member of the state central] committee, | - i At Bpmerset, Pa, on Monday noon) Joseph and David Nicely, convicted of! the murder of Herman Umberger, esca-| ped from the county jail. They shot) Deputy Sheriff McMillan, twice, and hel is now lying at the point of death. News of the escape spread rapidly and ina short time a well armed posse was or- ganized and started in pursuit of the murderers, They were eurrounded in a piece of woods and were recaptured. Lynching was prevented with difficulty. fc pe - Tanner went. Now let Henderson and Decker hurry up their resignations and go too. -———- The London strike is over, and the strikers came out victorious. It cost ten million dollars, A AAA TAA INN If the Gettysburg ceremonies had not been wet, we'd concluded that the weath- er regulator was prejudiced against our picnic, * - weve A 11 that desirs bargaing in boots or shoes, go to Mingle's shoe store in the Brockerhoff house block, which is the place to get anything in that line at low- est prices and every article warranted, or money refunded, if not found as rep- resented. Mingle keeps none but first class goods, a —— a “ “Robin's Farewell,” Caprice for Piano, by Fisher, is a new musical publication that will become a standard favorite among our progressive young pianists and would advise all sach to add it to their collection of popular and favorite pieces at once. You can’ t help but be lensed and please others with it. hn. Fisher, publisher, Toledo, Ohio. pr! only 50 ota, For Bale. Two fine coal stoves, a Morning spuare, and a Morning Light, roun use only a few months, at a Suited alike for parlor or sitting room. Can be soon at Retin shops, Centre Hall. ona A I A A Centre Hall Mills, Fine grauulated corn meal and No. 1 re flour, at the Centre Hall mills. Also | grades of flour, feed corn, hard and soft coal, ets or in exchange. Cow se. 100, 19. 1889, it has been Nevada as statehood. proposed to add Utah to a way of smuggling it into Occasionally Providence does some- thing exactly right, even in the estima- tion of a sharp business man. One of these times was when he placed a vast and rich deposit of pefroleum in the Rocky mountains nearly a mile above sea level, whence it can simply flow through pipes over any distance with- out baving to be pumped. This new find is in British Columbia. The government survey for irrigation purposes will include the land lying be- twoen the mountaing along the Pacific coast or a short distance inland from it, and what is called the line of twenty inch rainfall on the Every dis trict getting less than twenty inches of rain will be included in the arid lands tract. The twenty inch rainfall extends from Bismarck, D. T., to Corpus Christi, Tex. east, A genuine electric vegetable has been discovered in India, in the depths of the forest. If a leaf is broken off, the hand breaking it receives a strong electric shock. No bird or insect ever alights upon this strange plant. It shows all the prop- erties of an electrical machine, deflecting the magnetic needle when it is brought near to it. In a rain storm the electrical properties disappear. The magnetic en- ergy is most powerful at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Btrange to say, none of the magnetic minerals are ever found near where this plant grows. A Twelve Mile Shot, The professory of gunnery at Wool- wich Military academy, England, sent this problem to the artillerists of the world: Given a gun with a caliber of 8.2 inches, a projectile weighing 380 pounds, the angle of firing being 40 degrees, the velocky at the start 2,875 f2et per second, and bow far will the shot travel? The gun was wound with wire, Ar@illerist mathematicians everywhere bent ‘their heads to the solution of the problem. Once more #§ is a feather in the cap of the modest United States that the man whose calculation came nearest the First United States artillery. Capt. Ingalls is instructor in ballistics at Fort- ress Monroe, The calculation was to be for the mean or sverage distance trav- eled by two shots. This mean shot is called by artilleritts the “jubilee shot.” Capt. Ingalls’ figusés came within 166 yards of the jubilee shot, and within 11 yards of one of the shots, . The altitude reached and the actual distance traveled by the shots are, how- ever, matters that directly interest the public. The fact that the journey of the mean shot was 12 miles and 83 yards is rather startling. The projectile also shot upward into the air fo a height of 84 miles. Shots can be safely fired froma ship at an angie of 18 degs. Suppose wo should quarrel with some of the des- potisms of Europe, and some fine morn- ing one of their ships should stop seven or cight miles outside of New York or Boston and begin to pepper those ports with little 880 pound shots? Oliver Wendell Holmes, The merry old boy who wrote the “One Horse Shay” reached his 80th birthday this 20th of August. He him- self wrote to Julia Ward Howe a few months ago, on her T0th birthday: “It is better to be 70 years young than 40 years old.” Dr. Holmes himself, though one of the most industrious men of his cen- tury, shows us how to be 80 years young. In fact, it is this eternally youthful quality in the famous author that attracts us so. It is like the sparkle of champagne. The greatest blessing an old man or woman oan pray for and strive for is this unfading youthfulness of soul. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in that year prolific of famous men, 1809, in an old gambrel roofed revolutionary house which is still standing. It took several years for the young poet to find out what he did not want to be. His family designed him for the church. He rebelled against it with all the force of a poetic imagination, chiefly because of the general dismalness of the preacher of his childhood—"‘a clerical visitor with a sad face and a wailing voice.” He also studied law for a year and finally settled down to medicine, The medical profes sion know him as a marvelous anato- mist and microscopist. We outside know him as the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the man who wrote the weird and terrible novel, “Elsie Venner,” but most of all as the author for youth, whose work is full of humor and joy and brightness, as well as sweetness, As a writer of poetry for special occasions he certainly bas not his in the English language. One of his sayings which especially tickied the fancy of our British ocousing is this: “Give me the luxuries of life and 1 will dispense with a UO TOO 5A BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY. An Institution of which all Members of the Community are Proud 301 Students Registered Last Year—400 the Nugaber Expected this yeas, Ground will be broken ina few days for a new Gymgagium, and for a Chemical Labgya- tory, Parents, give your Boye and Gok a Good Education. It may be the only inheritance you oan loaws Umm. This College is prepared to do as good work as any Col- lege in the State. Read of its advantages: Good tion. A healthful location, beautiful erem« ery. Spacious buildings, large grounds, ample appliances. A large Library, open oll dny. A large Museum used for study. Excellent literary societies, Expenses below the average. A moral, Christian community. Practical instruction in al} sciences, - An Astronomical Observatory, which is nsed by the students, 11. Equal advantages to men and wo men. teachers, thorough Iinstesc the 10. 12, Free scholarships to aid the needy. 13. A large body of loyal Alumni. 14. A strong denomination to furnish financial support. 156, A Faculty ambitions to keep thelr institution at the head. 16, Students who come to work. 17. The instruction is #s thorough as at any college in the Middle Stages, There is no longer any need of par ents sending their children $0 dis tant schools. The total value of the hit a mide #EAll stadents not prepared for Cel. lege classes may enter Bucknell Acade- my, or Bucknell Institute, in which in-
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