VOL. LXIIL THE CENTRE REPO RTER FRED KURTZ, -= EDITOR Eppisnortics would be a better name than La Grippe, for the new disease. Eppisoortics is both more comprehen give and elegant, SSA —— The genera! opinion has now settled down to the belief that Henderson and Decker will be a tieon the number of days put in as Commissioners. BITS. The baby king of Spain being sick of la grippe, there is a big fuss made about it all arnund, yet there are ten thousand govereigns down with it in these United States, and nobody cares a darn. The Johnstown local finan ce commit: tee have prepared a bill for Congress, which will be presented by Colonel Scull, the repressatative for that district asking for an appropriation of half a million dollars for the parpose of dredg ing the Conemaugh and Stoay Creek. The Lock Haven Democrat favors Wm, 0. Heinle, Esq., of Bellefonte, as Chair man of the Democratic State Committee, and the Centre Democrat seconds the move ina strong send-off for Centre county’s efficient Chairman. The Re- PORTER votes Y gs, too, most cheerfully and endorses the move. The winter wheat crop never looked better in the west than at this time. The stand is enormous and the farmers do not believe that any kind of weather ean destroy the healthy and vigorous plant. This feeling is likely to resait in freer offerings of old wheat by farmers in the next few weeks, The same may ba said of the wheat fields in our state—they all have a most promising appearance. EIN, Royalty has its troubles as well as the rest of us mortals. With the Czar almost scared (o death by the Nihilists, the Czarina prostrated by nervousness the Saitan in daily dread of the how- string, Queen Victoria 1s laid up with the rheumatism, the Prince of Wales fretting over the London scandals, Rou- mania's Prince tottering on his throne and the infant King of Bpain in the shadow of death, royalty in Eorope is having its share of the ills aod tribula- tions ot humanity, The Boston Advertiser asserts that the duration of human life is increasing. That is, the average now exceeds that of a century orgiwo centuries ago. There has been, and is a steady though slow advance. This is conclusively proved by vital statistics officially kept in this country and Eorope. It is striking'y confirmed by the life ingarance compan ies. Men live longer in this nineteenth century, this blazing noontide of civiliza- tion, than they did io Lygone centuries, in the morning or twilight of human progress. evs ery turn he makes, If he wishes to par chase a suit of clothes, a shawl or hood for his wife,a pound of pails Yor his fence, a horse shoe for his horse, 8 chain or a tire for his wagon, a galion of paint for his barn, a tin pail for his dairy, a great part of the doliar goes to pay the high tariff on every one of those useful articles, If the farmer wants to buy diamonds or jewelry, the tariff is not so high; but these are luxuries which be does not need. On the necessities of life, however, which he must have, the tariff is high, aod the farmer pays the tariff, Yet there is an occasional half witted tramp, posing as a farmer, who blabbers to the farmer in favor of the tariff. After showing that friction makes perpetual motion impossible, Professor Hele Shaw reflects upon the state of affairs that would follow if friction were to ceases to act. The whole force of nature would be at once changed, 2nd much of the dry land and most of our buildings wonld disappear beneath the sea. Sach inhabitants as remained a short time alive wou'd not only be unable 10 provide themselves with fire or warmth, batwould find their very clothes falling back to the original fiber from which they were made; and if not de- stroyed in one of the many possible ways —no longer dimipated by friction through the sir, or by falling masses of water no longer retarded by the atmo- sphere and descending as rain—wonld be usable to obtain food, from inability to move themselves by any ordinary method of locomotion, or, what would be edually serious, having orce started into motion, from being unable to stop except when they came lato oollision with other unhappy beings or moving bodies Before long they, with all heavier substances, would disappear for ever beneath the waters which sow cover the lace of a lifeless world, waren, CENTRE What § |i Sufficient Protection. The Texan rancher Shepard owning 18,000 head of sheep on 80,000 acres of $2 land, who appeared before the ways and means committee, and in the in- terest of his fleeces, anc to fleece the consumers of woolen fabrics, declared that with “saffeient protection” this country con!d raise all the carpet wool used in it. When asked how much protection woald be “sufficient,” he replied; * Enough to raise the price of carpet wool to the price of fine wool,” The New York Times thus describes the feast to which Mr. Shepard and those for whom he speaks would invite the country: The greater part of the carpet wool imported and used in this country has an average value of about 10 cents a pound. Mr. Shepard and his association would have the dnty high enongh to compel the manufacturers and buyers of carpets to pay as much for coarse carpet wool as is paid now for the fine clothing wools of Pennsylvania and Obio—say 356 cents a pound. * This would re quire a duty of about 250 per cent. They would compel the people of the United States to pay three or four limes as much for carpet wool as is paid in any other couns try of the world. They would have them make fleeces worth only 25 or 50 cents each in the place of sheep bear. ing fleeces of fine wool worth $1 50. Why do Mr. Shepard and the Wool Growers’ Association go no further than this? We are surprised at their mod- eraticn. They should ask for laws mak. ing the importation of wool in sny form a penal offense, and compelling every citizen to bay 100 pounds of carpet woo annually at §1 a pound, In the committee, in his advocacy of dearer clothing, carpets and blankets for the peopie, Mr Shepard had the ebeerful co-operation of Congressman Bayne, who declared with sufficient pros tection we could raise sll the wool nec essary for the uses of our people. Every woolen manufacturer who testified declared this an impossibility. Since 1870 with heavy taxs8 on wool the number of sheep in Pennsylvania has fallen from 1700000 to 800,000, They bave gone to the cheaper pasture sof Texas and Colorado, Bat Colonel Bayne is a many sided man and when the sugar question cams up he was for free trade in sweelness, because the United States could not pro- duce the required quantities. The late Judge Kelley insisted in the last ela~ borate speech he made in the house on the tariff that we had sogar lands, that with “sufficient protection,” could supply the demand of the world, This may or may not be so, but no article on the tariff iist so fally squares with protection logic as sugar. — Pittsburg Post, - Belgium Drifting Toward An- archy. It is being seriously asked if Belgium is not fast drifting toward anarchy, and whether the Goveroment will be able to restrain the desperate workmen who every day give vent to their recklessness by deeds of violence and acts of incen diarism. To proclaim her weakness by calling for the assistance of other powers would be almost as fatal for the Gov- ernment as yielding to the strikers, but it is plain something mast be done. The morning after the destruction by fire of the Brussels Bourse and theater, the police were busy tearing down plas cards, some of which were printed with red ink aud signed “R, 71,” warning the monarchs, money dealers and usurers that their existence and professions were offeasive and insaltiog to oppressed peo~ plein want of the commonest necessities of lite, and that palaces, money temples and places of amusement would be marked for destruction until the cry of the masses for justice was heeded.’ A policeman, while removiag one of these placards, bad his head crushed by a stone and the crowd prevented the capture of his assailant. posi aig tims Had Enough of Civil Rights. Three well-known business men—A. W. Boggs of Chicago, E. D, Gilmore of Pittsburg, and P., E. Brandy of Tiflis, Ohio—reached Atlanta morning of 10, from New Orleaus, They were sul phurous in their language They took the Paliman sleeper in Orleans, and find. ing the lower berths all gone, =ere booked for beds above. The occupants of the lower berth proved to be four black members of the Lousiana Legislas ture, who were on their way to Wash ington, Though the three white men were Republicans and had voted for Har- rison for President they were outspoken in their denunciation of the presence of the blacks. The negroes talked politics all night, and when morning came took complete possession of the lavatory, stripping to the skin to wash, The white wen abandoned the fleid to them, and waited autil they reached sn Atlanta hotel before they touched tow! or pomp wai | PA., The appointment of Fiedler as post master of Bellefonte, will prove as big a blunder for the Republicans as their present board of Commissioners, De- cont Republicans are disgusted, and their curses over it are loud and deep while all Democrats think it simply an outrage. Mr, Harris, Lawrence Brown, or any one of a score of old line Repub licans whom we could name, would haye been an appointment both deserved and creditable. But a carpet-bagger and low black guard ! If General Hastings had anything to do with this it will cost him 500 Repub. lican votes in this county, if he ehould become the nominee for governor, It is an insult to every personal friend of Mr, Hastings in the Democratic party—and they were not a few. This new postmaster has been the lis beller, without cause or provocation, of scores of the best Democratic citizens of this county, who were not candidates for any office, and his conduct as a black. guard, in this particular, was of a degree to disgust all decent Republicans, It is the most unpopular, undeserved and disgracerul appointment that could have been made for the Bellefonte post office, If the Democrats of this county in need of anything to help our party this appointment of Fiedler would be a Godsend; his course bas done more to break the neck of his own party than anything else, snd this blunder is the cap-sheaf to its ruins, It is claimed that Fiedler got this aps pointment “because he {entre county Republicap, two years ago.” Nothing is farther from the tiuth-—the partial defeat of the tha! year, was owiog to dissatisfaction among Democrats, as last year's victory proves Fiedler's vile Gazelle was sown broadeast over the county two years ago and last year, In Pennsvalley, two years ago, it was sent to every voter, but it enconnier ed the Revonrrer here, and two years ago Pennsvalley rolled up one of most magnificent Democratic majorities, proving conclusively that the Gazi could affect nothing where it enconnter- od the Rerorter, and at the last election, Fiedler and his vil with the sistance of the Reronree was knocked into a three-cocked hat. The Gazelis to its party stall, stood made Democrats } ta oer a shoot 4 A8v has never been any good cos A oP Mp The baby king of Spain, Alfonso XIII who had the grip #0 severely, bas a long list of names. They begin thus: Al fonso Leon Fernando Maria Jacobo Isidore Pascalo Antonia. He was born at Madrid on May 17, In respouse to an official summons the most impor tant people of Spain assembled af the palace to await the accouchement, The event was of more than usual imporiance even in royal life, for Alfonso XII bad died on the 25th of Novemb-r precesds ing, leaving no male heir, The country waa politieally torbulent, and Conserva. tives and Monarchists hoped that the Queen would bring forth a son, believ- lag that such an issue would do much to prevent disorder, if not revolution. Con sejadmtly the birth of Alfonso was bailed all throngh Spain and the colonies with satisfaction, The little magnate had hardly been clad in his firet garments when he was proclaimed King, The Queen at that time was Alfooso’'s elder sister, Maria de las Mercedes, her mother, an Aus. trian Archdachess by birth, acting as regent. Her regency was continued af. ter the birth of her son. According to the most recent constitution of Spain, dopted June 30, 1876, the succession 10 the throne will devolve upon Maria de las Mercedes again if the Rint dies. » cl It soared 8 decision by the Illinois Supreme Court to obtain admittance for colored children to certain pablic schools, heretofore held sacred to the whites, On 8 inst. some colored children ad- mitted to the high school under protest and assigned to no classes, were attacked at recess and driven away. This has eveatad intense excitment, and aa oni break and bloodshed is feared. The school board is doing all in its power to evade the law as interpreted by the Sa preme Court, and seems determined that no negro children shall be admitted to the high school, This is a rank Republican state, and if it were ina southera state what a how! could go up from Republicans in Illinois and other states, i8NG, AAA AI The Clinton Democrat thinks in eles cting Geneval Harrison President of the United States the Republicans made as big » mistake as Harrison himsel! made the other day when be shot a hog in mistake for a coon, while out hunting, This misadventore has caused the coun try to indulge in a broad smile at the President's exjenee, but his awkward ness as a shooter is a fit illastration of his politice awkwardness as Chief Ex. ecutive. He has been mistaking hogs for ooous ever since he assumed office a ar oH . Nubderibe fof (he Rirenvns, Winter Resorts, It is poasible in our big country to go from midwinter to midsummer in two dayw' time, from almost any quarter of the Union. Winter resorts are becom- ing as popular as summer ones, and as crowded. There are all the year round hotels, indeed, at the seashore and else. where, whose winter prices are double those of the summer. Those whose lungs are weak, and who wigh to avoid a northern find great relief in the pine regions of the winter, Carolinas, notably in the of Asheville, N. C. neighborhood Florida, land of alli- gator ie orange grove, is perennially love Littl that the old Spaniard thou ht the fountain of youth | wis there, dy. wonder I Point Comfort, too, is al most EE winter resort, giving regions in winter is the coast of southern California, dotted with Beautiful resorts ars along the Pacific, where the a cough may linger a few weeks or months, and under the infla- Pe aon ence of the soft airs from the sea and the rich and nourishing fruits his cheeks will grow round and full, his nights rest- ful and dreamless, The cough will leave Such Santa Cruz. Califor- him and new life will come to him, spots are San Diego and Living in these places is cheap. { HOLE lities to the hot springs of Arkansas, San | 4 mountain region of unparalleled beauty in the heart of the California orange groves, If people along the Atlantic coast want to get away from fogs and snows they fiit away to Bermuda, a sixty hours’ by from New York. Here, is said, almost unknown, the inhabitants live on fruits Among the vegeta | gigantic Bermuda onion, as) id flavored ss it is big. It is claimed | that those at plenty of Bermudal will not as ¢ fe ir any other) Bermuda the! gus ais Obispo is in ride it 0 fevers are epetables is the who Ors } BPH ak of. At wWaler is warm surf the year around. in the snot, he temperature The ly beautiful mon wend ia aot ri similar ranges wbout it is} is visible fty feet below the Nassau, Bahamas, ightiu something vor band 55 degs, Ls IS InGescribed transparent thirty to 0 that Erowing surface, Farmer George. D. Conway, { the has found some letters from Washington that had never been pub lished, and given them to the world in book form. It was supposed we knew Moncure the papers G SOCIELY, dier, love, writing to his girl the most execra- ble rhyme ever perpetrated even by young man in love, but it was reserved for Mr. Conway to show us Washington the farmer. When he was president, after the slate duties were over, Wash- with his own hand long letters to his farm manager, telling what to do with this horse or flock of sheep and that turnip field. It was before the days of stenographers and pretty typewriter girls. It may perhaps be a consolation to farmers in our time to know that the father of his country was as hard up for money as they are, that he bad to bor- row constantly, and was put to it to meet his expenses at times. Yet through all no life for a gentleman but that in the country, upon his own estates. New Year's day, 1800, saw the comple tion of an important work on Staten Island. The first train was run over the the railway drawbridge that crosses Arthur Kill from New Jersey to Staten Island. This completes what is for freight practically a new through route from the west. Grain and cattle cars will comme to the badge, cross the Kill and be run upon a great pier at BL George, on the north end of Staten ls land. There they will be unloaded by direct transfer of their freight to steam- ships that await them at the pier, Soon the north end of Staten Island will be Arthur Kill bridge is 500 feet long. The draw span is 500 feet in length, making it ome of the longest draws in the world, 1890. The Gulf | Stream Not Guilty. Captain Henry I Phicking, the hydro. grapher of the navy department at Wash. ington, in writing of the remarkable change in the climate, in reply toa communication from a resident of Wells aston, sumarily disposes of the gulf stream theory. He says: “We have no reports of observations to show that the course of the gulf stream has. for a con. siderable length of time, differed greatly from its mean position, and we should have received such reports had there been such a change. This direct evi- dence that the mild weather along the coast is not cansed by a change in the course of the gulf stream is supplemented by the fact that continuous mild weather {has prevailed far in the interior to the |westward of the Alleghenies, where the effect on the weather of even a consider {able change in the course of the gulf stream must be inappreciable.” > The Storm. There is twelve to eighteen inches of snow in the western end of Wyoming territory, This has crusted, and with the freezing of the water holes, cattle, sheep and hoises are perishing all over the range. An owner has receiyed word from his ranch in that section that {scarcely an animal that could not be fed Horses have worn their hoofs to the quick trying to beat through crusted snow. Cattle and sheep are simply helpless. Game has been driven from the mountains, and antelope have been killed within the city limits of Ev- anston, while stock has drifted to the railway, | would survive. Cairo, Ill, Jan. 18. —A tornado last might struck the east side of Clinton, Ky. | demolishing fifty-five houses and killing {nine people and wounding fifty-three. From other northern and western secs tions there are accounts of damage done {by Monday night's storm. ct Brazilian Solders Mutiny. New York, Jan. | respondents of C. {Ri 0 1580 14.—~One of the cor. R. Flint, writes from Janeiro under date of December 23, “The outlook here just now is not reassuring. Last evening paris of two regiments of artillery mutinied and tore up the republican flag and hoisted th old imperial lag; and it required all the other regiments, cavalry, infantry and {artillery to subdue them. They fought at the Bao Christavao artillery quarter, till after 12 0’ dock, and 100 of the rebels were killed and wounded before the rest surrendered. To bay twenty one of ring leaders were shot, None of the coms missioned officers were in the mutiny but all the non-commissioned officers were. The trouble wes owing to the dissatisfaction of the soldiers with their pay. The police are paid two milreis a were promised the same, 1tis said that a number of old conservatives and liberals bave been tampering with the soldiers and were at the bottom of the row last night. ma ———— —— Here is an example of coolness and rare presence of mind worthy of imita- tion. Early on Friday evening last, Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Ann Arbor, chairman of the inter-state commission, was sitting reading in his library when his coachman, with a double barreled shotgun in his hand, entered. The judge was satisfied from his appearance that be bad become insane, but betray ing no alarm, heasked him what was the matter. The negro replied that he bad decided to kill the whole family as they talked too much and let him no time to think. The judge betrayed no alarm, and told him he agreed with him, and that he would attend to it. By the use of consummate tact, the judge succeeded in mollifying the mad- man until he at last laid down his gun, and, at the judge's suggestion, left the room, Assoon as he was out of hearing, the judge telephoned to neighbors, and in a short time, a deputy sheriff placed the coachman nnder arrest, An awful tale of misery comes from the mining district of the upper Lievre. Canada. Of a family that consisted of a father and mother and five children, only one remains, diphtheria having caused thejdeath of the others. Recently, the two youngest children were attacked with the disease, and soon died. The neighbors of the afflicted family there upon forsook them, and would not go pear the house, The other three chil dren, one by one, succumbed, and at last the mother, worn out by nursing and watching, died also. The father had to dig the graves, make the coffins and bury the dead without any assistance from his fearstricken neighbors. i 5 MSI MPS The failure of the fron firm of Curtin how encourages the material interests of the country, That Boe apd oi the have Hypnotism and Science, Dr, J. M. Charcot, of France, is at the bead of the scientific investigators of animal magnetism, mesmeriam, or hyp- notism, as it is now called, Dr. Charcot prefers the name hypnotism bocause it does not commit to any theory. Charcot defines hypnotism to be sleep artificially produced by mechanical means. He writes in The Forum of his experiments on human beings with a cold bloodedness that only man is able to attain. His experiments are always conducted with subjects, for one reason, because practice of hypnotization is | the scientific bysterical tho ¥ DO means free from danger, though what especial grudge he has at hysterical subjects, and on that them operations, he does not explain, In producing the hypnotic state, usual me thod | is the patient quietly while the orofeor holds some , shining object like a silver coin in front of and slightly his and four to six inches account selects for his the to sit ic for small above eyes away from them. The patient gazes steadily on the object. The eyes are thus subjected to a strain. In a few minutes they begin to wink, then more rapidly, then the lids droop and finally fall, as in sleep. The patient becomes as in a sound sleep. the state of lethargy. lids with the finge i they will remain open and staring. The and more quite unconscious, Charcot calls this Pull open his eye- ect is now in ond state, that state, if his fists be subj what Charoot calls the sec: £ ! cata leg In £1 his 3 Bed, they will remain in that con- dition, and his face will assume an ex- pression of the most anger. If his arm be raised in t! ir, it will re- main thus rigid tii] brought d- operator. His muscles where they are placed. The patient is now ready for the third stage, that of somnamb By rub- bing the cataleptic person briskly upon top of his Charcot says he makes him pass into somnambulism. In somnambulism the patient has the ap- violent n Uy the remain fixed ulism, the head, He hears and on about him, pearance of being awake, and yes at will, which uld notdo. But abnormal consciousness. He hears and sees just what the operator tells him to, nothing more, is ap- parently merely a vehicle for the mind and will of the operator. If the hypno- tizer gave him water and told him it was wine and he was intoxicated, he would immediately act like a drunken person. His five senses seem also to be quickened in some abnormal way, This much science has learned of the mys- tery of hypootism, soos what is g ; open and shut his in the other states he co it Can « is an The figures of the Railroad Gazette of Saturdsy, as to railroad building in the United States in 1880, show that 5300 miles of main track were built in the United Blates, 827 miles in the British possessions and 434 milesin Mex- ico. Although this is a smaller amount of new road than has been built ic any one year since IB8§, it is larger than there was reason to expect from the prospects early in the vear, The average new mileage built in the United States per annum for the five years, 15885-1889, inclusive, has been about 7500 miles, and for the twelve years, I1878.1889, inclusive, about 7000 miles. The ads ditional mileage is well within the re- quirements of the country, and at least as much more may be built this year with. out any danger of over-building. It has been well known ror a long time that the Southern States would build more than any other group of States. They con- structed east of the Mississippi 36 per cent of the total, and west of thal 18 per cent, or more than half the railroad construction of the country. ———————_— isn The Czar, having learned of the shoot ing of the Russian exiles in Siberia, has it is said, ordered the culprits to be tried. It is understood that in this he acts upon some suggestions received from Berlin. It is expected that the Vice-Governor of Yakoutsk, Ostashire, whose savage order for the exiles to march without supplies, was the origin of the trouble, and the police official Olessofl, who ordered the m assacre, will be severely punished. The Pension Department at Washing ton hae upon its rolls the dames of twenty- seven widows of Revoluuonary soldiers who bave been regularly paid pensions up to the present time. Three of them are 97 years of age and two 96, The youngest is 71. arn, ay Washington, Jan, 16. ~Walker Blaine, exammer of claims of the state depart. ment, and eldest living son of James G., Blaine, secretary of state, died suddenly 30d Without premoniiion a the fama 1 residence at o'clock A attack of grip. by in I AAS no. For Rawr. ~A farm in towastin in uabip, ib gosd ondion: Hor Rrihe Ta LS eration |i rE ;
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