VOL LXII. —————— SI SOTA IT FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR Lynn, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, had a ten million dollar fire. 80 acres of the business part of the city were destroyed We have a ietier fiom a Republican who was a candidate for the nomination for Associate Judge which sets the letter from the Commissioners’ office in the shade, ——————— Some one wanted to kaow what the Gazeite means by the term “Mackeral wrapper.” That's plain—Fiedler is a mackeral and gets done up in the Reror- ter pretty often, I ——— We imagine that the Gazelle man realizes by this time that his hog meths ods of conducting a newspaper as well as his other methods outside of it are not at all appreciated by the decent people of Centre county. ’ RARE. The other day a Republican told us he thought of buyinga spelling book for the Commissioners’ office. We suggests ed he send with it the 2nd Commaad- ment for the benefit of Henderson, while a third party thought the VI might be sent to the jail at the same time. TEES Sheriff, and present head Commissioner Henderson, was ready to take a bet that he could emoke a cigar nine inches in length and six inches in circamferance, in one hour. Henderson has done bigs ger smoking than that, he bas smoked Centre county out of its surplus and into debt. TO There are about one dozen newspapers in this county, of all parties, and only one, the Gazetle, has the brass to insult the decent people of the county, by de- fending the wrongs the Bheriff and Com- missioners are guilty of. The Gazelle was inflnenced by a dishonest printing contract to defend these faithless offi. cials. Shame! but what better can be expected from the sot who runs the cors rupt sheet ? fight. It is nice and easy to be a Pann. sylvania Congressman just now, The Junior Senator saves the Congressmen so much trouble by doing their thinkieg for them! He selects their appointess, tells them how to vote and in a general way relieves them of their political and men~ tal responsibilites. The people of Centre county, of all parties, admit it was a great mistake flo elect Henderson commissioner instead of H.C. Campbell, and Jefeatiog Greist in stead of Henderson. In the language of an €x Commissioner snd a Republican, the present board never had ita Jike in our county; and in the language of lead- ing, old line Republican of Harris towns ship, “We Republicans are just as much ashamed of these Commissioners as you Democrats are,” there is all truth, It is gratifyiog to record the fact that the accomplices of “Red Nose Mike” have received at the the hands of the Italian courts a partial ponishment, at least for their complicity in the murder of Pays master McClare. One was sentenced to imprisonment for life and the other for twenty years. Had these murderers not been guilty of crime In their own land it is doubtful if they would have received anything like adequate punishment for the brutal crime which they committed in Pennsylvania. Ewen the Philadelphia Press doesnot be- Heve that William Mahone, who insisted on being governor of Virginia against the will of the people, was beatenlby frand. It attributes Mahone's defeat to a revolt againet him and then it says, “bad he been defeated by eight to ten thousand there would been good ground for saying thst he had been cheated out of the elec. tion; but when the majority mounts to 45,000 it is too big for any such claim.” Now that it has told “the truth about Vir. the truth about Ohio and Iowa. ——————— Rev. T. De Witt Talmage and his party are in Athens Dr. Talmage has secured a cornerstone for his new church in Brooklyn from Mars Hill, where 8t. Pan) preached to the Athenians. Dr, Talmage preached there on 21 to many people taking as his text: “Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill and said: ‘Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitions.” Later in the day Dr. Talmadge had an interview with Premier Tricoupis. He had an audience with Queen Olga and ex-Empress Victoria, of Germany. ~ CENTRE\ Intends to Reform, Glory! Fiedler thinks he will reform and quit drinking. The lectures in the RerortTen have brought ~ood fruit, and pow there is hope for him, This prospect of the man reforming, we have from the following, which acts ually took place, while he sat at his desk fretting over the disastrous defeat which he helped bring upon his party in this county by running a whiskey and swine campaign. One of his acquaintances stepping in, invited him to go with him and take something, To this Fiedler at once replied, “No, I won't take nothing. I intend to quit doing that.” That's the best undertaking he has yet made and we will do all we can to help eave him. It is a pity that he did not see the ers ror of his ways a little before the elec tion, then Billy Fisher would have re ceived one more vote for Associate Judge, and the gallant Prohibition army could have boasted one more recruit from the ranks of Captain Whiskey. But it is better late than never. Now let the man be zealously looked after by those immediately around him, as the Rerorrer claims the credit of getting him thus near the anxious bench. jrethren, now take brother Fiedler in care, and try to save him. Let every member of the W.C T. U. haste to the Gazetls office with a pledge and each one get his sigoatare to it— now's the time these good women can get him to sign. Then to encourage him, let them give him an occasional carriage ride on pleasant afternoons to show him they are sincere and love him. This will make his evil companions keep AWAY. Then let the Y.M. C. A. take him in hand; let the members go there, stand on his pavement, under his door and around him at his desk, that the temp- ter don't have a chance to get in his work. Go to him boys, and encourage him “not to take nothing and quit that.” Strike while the irun is hot. Then if there is a Salvation Army any- where within one hundred miles of Bellefonte, let it be ordered to the seat of war, at the Reronter’s expense, and and let these do their best to save Fied- ler, and cheer bim on in his resolve “not to take nothing anymore and quit that.” Yes, bring on the Salvation Army, and save him, Then let Bro. Lawrence Brown come in with bis powerful temperance tracts, and put them where they will do most good. Yes, St. Lawrence, great among the pure water streams, put your tem- perance tracts nader Fiedler’s plate at breakfast; shove them under his hat while he sits at dinver, and mail them too so they reach him at supper, and don't forget 10 have 'em under his pil- low. Sleep with him, Lawrence—come to our aid, with your temperance tracts, and help save the man. When all these aids have put in their goed work, we will appear on the scene to test the convert 's firmness. We will ask him to go along and take something —aod if he replies as he did to the real tempter aforesaid, and says, “No, I won't take nothing, I will quit that,” then he issafe. Bot if he lacks firmness and goes with us, there shill be no harm, for we will go with him to Garmans and propose to set ‘em up for two, then Gar man will say, as he once before did to Fiedler, “No, he can’t have anything, we must obey the law,” and he is yet safe. Now then all philanthropists to work. YMC A-~W.C.T. U.—-8 A~and Lawrence too. with the Reronren on the home stretch. The man must and gan be saved. Bro. Fiedler is on the snxious bench—now keep up the fire, A IMA The smuggling of opium and China- men into the Uuited States is a flourish ing business in the far Northwest, The Chinamen slip in from British Colum« bia in violation of the restriction ast, and many of the Celestials are agents for the introduction of opium. Puget sound furnishes abundant means for evading the vigilance of the customs in- spectors and revenue cutters, and the force of these stationed there is inade~ quate for completely guarding so ex- tensive a coast line. Of course there is pecuniary inducement for people to en. gage in this species of smuggling. To begin with, there is the price obtained or bringing the Mongoliaas from China; fhen there is the large fee of the boat: men who make the trip from British Columbia. A few of these have been arrested while trying to take Ohinamen to Washington Territory in their smaly vessels, but presumably more havs plied their vocation unmolested. There is opium, which pays a daty of about 120 per cent on its value. The specific rate is $10 a pound on the prepared article, and last year oo this and crude opiam the duties amounted to considerably over a million of dollars, The Washington special of the Pitts. burg Post says: There is an unpublished story in reference to the trio of candidates for the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania. It is not generally known that General Hastings bas practically withdrawn from the eld. The general may plead not guilty to the charge, but it is stated on good autbority that a compact was made between Hastings and Delamater con- tingent on the result of the late election for State treasurer, This is the story: When [Hastings and Delamater met before the last electioy each agreed to give way to the other on certain conditions. If Boyer's majority would be kept above 35 000 Delamater would have a clear field as far ss Hast" ings was concerned. If the majority fell below 35,000 Delamater was to withdraw in Hastings’s favor. The majority was almost twice the established standard. and General Hastings is alleged to have withdrawn in Delamater's favor. He was regarded as a perfectly fit and up- right man, bat the desire to shelve him is said to have been increased by the fact that in Center county, his bailiwich the Republican majority fell 000 votes, The question that now arises is, what is Major Montooth's position? Ig he sincere in his protestations of running independent of any help outside Allegheny county or did he come to Washington to fix up things with Sen- ator Quay? It is said the major wonld accept the nomination of lieutenant gov ervor, and is willing to leave the field to Deiamater if he is assured that he will be given the nomination for lieutenant governor. This theory seems plausible, - ry of Captain Ledyard Ellsworth, of Hart ford, Conn, is the inventor of the smoke ; less and noiseless gunpowder. This in. vention, it will be remembered, was soe- cessfully tested in Europe some months ago, and has caused great discussion in the military circles of Europeand Amer. ica. He says he has disposed of a share of his great secret to Carl VanAund_ eriitch, of London, a representative of the German government. Van Auderlich, according to Captain Ellsworth, has the exclusive right for all countries except the United States, Mex ico and Central America. The contract farther provides that if before November 1, 1888, the purchasers should Ellsworth they desired buy the remaining right they could do so for $500,000 cash and $10,000 a year for % years, No= the European contracting parties claim that on October 12, they sent Ells. worth at his home in Hartford a letter closing the option on the remaining rights, This letter was not received by Captain Ellsworth, who was then in the West and it is a question whether, by the terms of the contract, this acceprance, neither received nor receipted for, can be held as binding. If it can, it is said our govern- ment is debarred all knowledge of the secret of this new explosive. Captain Ellsworth bad always been something of achemist, and after the war tarned his attention to preparing a powder that would be both smokeless and noiseless. In 1870 the desired end was reached. Since then it has been materially impro ved. In 1870 he offered to make tests of the new powder before of- ficers of the national government but Cap. tain Ellsworth says they wanted to know the formula for the preparation, and he refused to give it. Subsequently he had correspondence with government officials of various countries, and after the recent sham battle at Hanover the secret was bought by Van Auderlitch, inform to Brazilian revolution is obtaining currency in diplomatic society. Dom Pedro was, it is said himself the prime mover in his own deposition, He had endeavored to resist his son-in-law’'s active hostility to the anti~Clerical party and had other reasons to be dissatisfied with him. Furthermore, his Majesty was by no means ignorant of the popular movement. He beet that if he should outlive the re- publican advance his daoghter would be unable to cope with it, more pars ticularly under the pernicious guidance of her husband. He therefore, like a wise and philosophic monarch, antio- ipated the inevitable, and thos 'at least saved the prospective bloodshed which he felt would have come with resistance if not in his time certainly in that of his successor, Hence his easy and calm ce of the situation. Henderson Glad. We have it straight that Hendd¥son glad the letter from the Commissioners office was printed; he thinks it knocks Decker out, just what he secretly wished for,as he wanted Johnny to make a blander in order to direct attention from his (Henderson's) mulishness and impu- dence Between the two Bro, Decker is ten pegs better than Henderson, but you can’t make the big fool see it, sleeping in the court house has given him an at~ tack of big headednens, Too Much. Professor W, O, Atwater, director of the agricultural experiment station at Washington, read a paper before the American Public Health association in Brooklyn, in which he declared that we Americans eat too much by half. His paper was a thoroughly convincing one, He showed how Americans eat far more than Europeans. Especially we eat too much meats and sweet stuffs. Dr. Je- rome Walker had found that children were much better off for not eating all their appetite craved. The true rule has been declared to be to eat just as little as will satisfy the hunger, without consulting the appetite Following this rule, the quantity of food can in time be lessened one half, with the greatest advantage to the general health, over his muscles it is a sigp he is eating up at Fat, according to the latest school When one begins to lay on fat too much, and he should slack OTIC, of hygienists, isa disease, and a thorough i ly uncomfortable and unsightly one. Other doctors at the meeting declared with equal force that we dress too heav-| In fact, we| put too much both on the inside and outside of We clog the skin and weight ourselves down by our thick and ily and warmly in winter is heavy clothing, and give nature no sort to keep us warm. Conse quently nature weakens and we suffer. What did prehistoric ancestors, who bad no clothes at all to speak of, do? They certainly did not freeze to death or we would not have been here. No! Light clothing and brisk exercise, which warms us from the inside instead of the of chance our outside, and a light quantity of food, is the way to be healthy, wealthy and wise. Cook Atkinson. Mr. Edward Atkinson is known as the fairest idealist of his time. Lately, how- ever, he has put one of his best ideas into the shape of an apparatus which may He| calls his contrivance the Aladdin oven. | > : { : 1 Its design is to utilize the heat of an ordi-| revolutionize old cooking methoda. nary kerosene lamp for cooking, and the | design is wrought out effectually. While| one sits and reads by a lamp, or does other work, his food is thoroughly and | deliciously cooked by the heat given off | from the lamp at the same time. The | oven is constructed of wood pulp, faced | All kinds of food may be cooked with the apparatus. The saving in fuel, dirt, ashes, space, smoke and hullabaloo can hardly be computed. i with tin Mr. Atkinson, unlike many reformers, | He also delivers lectures, exhibiting it in opera uses his own machine at home tion. One was given before the Ameri- | £ san Public Health association recently i Will the Mormons Leave Utah? | There is rumor of a vast movement! among the Latter Day Saints to gather] together their household goods, shake the | inhospitable dust of the United States from their feet and migrate in a body to some realm where each Mormon may have as many wives as his conscience dictates. Negotiations to this end have been in progress with Mexico, but for some reason they have been broken off, and now the Saints are looking elsewhere. It is said the Argentine Republic has offered them handsome terms, the preju- dice against many wives not extending, apparently, to the South Americans. Mr. E. G. Sprague, an artist who spent some time sketching in Utab, asked a Mormon boy of 18 who the president of the United States was. The boy replied that it was George Q. Cannon. It is not unknown thas the Prince of Wales has expressed doubts whether he would ever reign over England. Recent reports of his health seem to justify his doubts, even though there should be no political revolution in England—not yet awhile. It is said now that the prince certainly has Bright's disease. Strange it would be if, like Emperor Frederick, of Germany, the English crown prince should go to the grave in the flower of manhood. What would England do then? But Victoria bids fair wo live many years yet. She appears to have a better constitution than her weakling male descendants, probably because she has taken better care of herself. Her greatest shortooming, next to her avarice, is said to be a weakness for British ale The negro question in the south be comes more and more serious. It amounts simply to this: There nre several millions of people in the south in a state of pov. erty, ignorance and shiftlossness. The color of their skin is of no consequence, one way or the other. They are increas ing in numbers] they swarm in idleness through the southern cities, where there is not work sufficient for them. What, in time, will become of them and the white people in whose midst they are? Plainly the thing to do is to educate them and put them to steady work, and make them doit. The best statesman: ship of the whole country must grapple with the subject ARAB RS 0 There are now 200,000 tramps in this country, 60.000 of them boys. This, too, is at a time when city schoolhouses will pot accomodate the pupils sent to them, The two facts go well together. Columbus Day. Bome of the newspapers have been re- marking that Oct. 12, 1802, would be the great day of the World's fair in Amer- ica, because that will be the four hun- dredth anniversary of the very day on which Columbus sighted cur continent. A correspondent of The Philadelphia Ledger calls attention to the fact that this would not be correct. According to the Julian calendar, old style, the 12th would be the right date. But the Julian calendar counted 11} minutes too much in a year. In a century this amounted to three-quarters of a day. The Julian method of reckoning time was adopted 46 B. C. At the discovery of America the dates were 8§ days be- hind, In course of time this would knock Christmas, Thanksgiving and even Fourth of July all out of kelter, The calendar was ten days behind at the time of Pope Gregory. In 1582 he rectified it by simply adding out of his supreme authority ten days to the cal endar, making Dec. 15 Dec. 25. What- ever popes said went in those days, and all the countries of Christendom grad- ually adopted the Gregorian or correct calendar, except the Greek church coun- tries, Russia and Greece. These still reckon time by the Julian method, and are now consequently twelve days be- hind the true time, All other important dates and birth- days have been changed to suit the new style. This must be also. The true Columbus day is Oct, 21. Our State Legislatures. We learn in a paper by Mr. Albert Bhaw, in The Contemporary Review, all about our American state legislatures, We learn that in a legislative session of twenty-four months in our states no fewer than 25,000 laws are passed, In the early days of the republic, Mr. Bhaw tells us, the Americans had no great faith in written constitutions, and so left mostly everything to their legis latures. The result was an era of wildly legislation. States were plunged into swamps of debt and had imposed on them no end of cranky, senseless laws. Then the people rose in this unrestricted legislative power. They put into their state constitution just what a legislature might and might not do, thus protecting themselves from the rapacity and folly of their own law. From having almost nothing now to put almost everything into it Our state constitutions are becoming more and more legislative. Mr. Shaw is of upinivn lbat a study of ing as they do about every topic human and divine, would be most instructive. In this he is right. One would especially learn what not to do in legislation, Taxing Real Estate Alone, The Boston Executive Business associ- ation have recommended to that city the adoption of the single tax system. They recommend that taxes be assessed on real estate alone for city revenues. For state revenues they suggest the taxation of inheritances and legacies. It is their judgment that an income tax would also be advantageous. It is significant of the progress made by the single tax idea in a few years, that some of those who recommend the system for adoption are among the heav- jest real estate owners in Boston. They are of opinion that putting taxes on real estate alone, and releasing other proper. ty, would give a great boom to the manu- facturing and commercial interests of the city. Taxes could not be evaded as they are now, and, all being paid of ne cessity, the amount would be larger than is now raised for municipal purposes. Therefore, they believe the rate per thou: sand could be lowered. If anything could curdle the blood of a French absinthe drunkard it would be the report made to the Paris Academy of Medicine on this intoxicant by Dr. Ca deac. Genuine absinthe he declares tc be one of the deadliest of poisons, affect ing the spinal cord and causing epilepti- form convulsions and death. The only reason it does not oftener produce death in a short time is that the ordinary ar ticlo imbibed by the absinthe drinker is some years insisted that the men of the French nation are deteriorating rapidly. t. Interesting Clippings. Alexander C, Lanier, the oldest son of Mr. Lanier, of the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co, New York, will be married to Mrs, Btella Beening who was once thonght tobe the handsomest lady in Indisna. Mrs, Seening has been a widow only six monthe, but she and Mr. Lanier were sweethearts when young and engaged to be married but he went to Europe and she married Mr, Beening, a wealthy Hoosier, Mr. Lanier swore he wonld never isarry any other women, and for forty years he kept his word, A curious story connected with the Brazilian revolution is obtaining currency in diplomatic society. Dom Pedro was, it ie said, himself the prime mover in hie own deposition, He had endeavored to resist his son-in<law’s active hostility to the anti-Clerical party and bad other rea- sons to be Jissatisfled with him. Fors thermore, His Majesty was by no means ignorant of the popular movement. He felt that if he should outlive the re- publican advance his daughter would be unable to cope with it, more particalarly under the pernicious guidance of her husband. He, therefore, like a wise and philosophic monarch, anticipated the inevitable, and thus, at least, saved prospective bloodshed, which he feit would have come with his resistance; if not in his time, certainly in that of his successor. Hence his easy snd calm acceptance of the sitoation, Among other things discovered by Stanley on his latest expedition is that the Victoria Nyanxa extends southerly to within 1565 miles of Tanganyika, To the average reader this does mean much, yet it represents & story of suffering and triumph and romantic rchievement in the history of explorstion which the world will cherish NO. 47 —————————————— eH Talmage is in Athens, where he was granted an andlence by Queen Olga and Victoria of Germany, mother of the Em- peror, and also by Premier Tricoupie, He preached on Mars Hill, were Paz! met the assembled wisdom of the ancient city and has obtained from there a cor- ner stone for the new tabernacle in Brooklyn. Trust Talmage to get all there is to be had out of a visit abroad. pm—————— Brussels, Nov.2 —Hon. George H Pendleton, ex-minister of the United States to Germany, died in this city last night. He succumbed to a stroke of spoplexy. His death occurred in the Hotel Bellevue, where he bad been lying sick for sick weeks. His two daughters were present when he died. Mr. Pendleton was from Ohio and had been a congressman and sevator and was 8 candidate for vice president when MClellan ran for president. En st, An agent of an English syndicate is seeking for options on all the threshing machine factories of the United States. They will be after the bakeries next and have control of bread, ss they are getling control of the beer. Happily the distil« leries are still our own, and with whisky we retain a great relic of our freedom, sss AAPM Married. On the 12th inst, by Rev, W. H. Stover Mr. Reuben O. Bracht, of Penn township, and Miss Mary L. Gates, of Poe Mills, On the 17th inst, by the same, Mr. W" H. Oyster and Miss Lula Weaver, both* of Penn township. On the 17 inst., at the residence of J. 3.Evans, near Pean Hall Rev. D. M. Wolf, Mr. W. Harvey ly, of Pean township, and Mies Zerby, of Gregg township. On the 26th i at the Latheran ey BL itzler, Mr. Hen) B. oll, of Millheim and Miss Virgie Stover, of township, A —— Died. On the 20th i ter of James of nes township 28 days. Rath, an infant Kate Winkeblech, aged 1 month and I find Ideal Tooth Powder sav 8 exception the best I have over asi With its aid I keep my teeth very clean and white, which I was unable to do with any other powder I have ever tricd before. So tuys Ferdivand £. Chartard, Baltimore, buy and use Ideal Bs fhe will Posi ? We can thoroughly soos ommend it. R. E. Nichols, Dentist, Hae lina, Ideal Tooth Powder is in my fan Just hat iis pid indicates. engra X34 is piven with each Two DottionT Price $5 wants per bottle. AT A a . Either of the foll
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