VOL. LXII.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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£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.
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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
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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, |
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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.
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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,
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-
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,
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“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
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