FRED KURTZ, ~-
~ EDITOR
The Philad Press can now adjourn its
fight sgainst Cameron's reelection for Bix
years, when there will be another oppor-
tanity.
I SITE SOR
The Williamsport Sun looks handsome
in its pew dregs. It is one of the most
spirited and interesting dailies in the
interior of the state,
PIO.
Graoger Thomas is not in favor of
granger Taggart for U. 8B, senator—he
favors Cameron. Granger Thomas likes
wise does not favor a granger low tariff,
but an anti granger’s high tariff. There
gre some queer grangers, too.
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Treasurer Gramley fills the office tc
which he was elected with every evie
dence of competeney. He is a life-long
farmer, but is not out of place in his new
duties, and a proof that a farmer can do
some things as well as others.
AF SETI,
Cyrus Goes, in leaving the Treasarer’'s
office, goes oat with the credit of having
been a faithful and obligi. g official and
a gentleman. If the Republic«ns alw.y-
nominated their beet wen, it would be
to the general good.
The same praise belongs to the retirs
ing Recorder, Mr. Harter.
Eogineersiare busy surveying the line
for the proposed railway from the coast
to Damascus, At present they are at
work in the mouantsins immediately
north of the Sea of Galilee.
The engineers are giving Centre Hall
the go-by on this survey for some reasons
and we will not be a station on the route,
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A western patriot, refused a pension
of $3 per mon th the other day, saying
he was well enough from the injuries
received in the army, and his conscience
would not permit him to accept a pens
sion any longer. If other pensioners.
similarly restored were to do likewise,
the national treasury would gain thirty
million dollars in one year.
Over 1,000 more coke oveus involving
+3 many mea are idle at Scottdale. The
Schoonmaker and Southwest companies
will put out twenty five per cent. of
their active ovens. Many small opera-
tors are also closing down. The Frick
Company has fifty per ceut. of its ovens
idle already. Business is at a low ebb.
The American Manufacturer last week
says that there has been considera-
ble discrimination in the matter of rates
on Northern and Southern pig iron,
The threatened strike among the mins
ers in the Clearfield region is lizely to
pass over at least until spring. If the
30 000 miners in that field were to strike,
it would be « bad affair for them and for
the business men o! that region, and its
injarions effects would be feit in all ad~
joining counties. A strike of such mag.
nitude in the mids: of a rigorous winter
would eanse nntold suffering, and we
look for wise eounse! to prevail,
On Thursday an endeavor will be
made by the fiiends of the elections bill
to briog that measure to the front again,
and it is possible that they may be sne-
cegafal. Oa the Democratic side there
is no feeling of security and a prominent
Democratic senator said on Sunday fhat
he believed the Republicans had enough
votes to agaio bring it before the senate,
Qurionsly enough it is easier to find on
the Republican side, senators who be
lieve that the bill is dead. The closure
rule issaid to have been abandoned.
The compulsory school wh proposed
by the Democrats ia Illinois, with the
approval of a legislative caucus, is a
much more reasonable measure than the
one it 1s iotended to displace, which
aroused the bitter opposition of the Lue
therans of the State. It provides that
no child under 14 years of age shall fail
of 16 weeks’ schooling in public or pri-
vate school every year, snd provides
simple machinery and effective penalties
for violation of its requirement,
Pattison’s administration would do its
self credit by honoring one of the ablest
sad most active Democratic leaders of
Centre county with the position of deputy
recretary of the commonwealth, in the
person of D. F. Fortney, esq. Mr. Forts
ney is a gentleman io the prime of life,
thoroughly conversant with public affairs
of sound and quick jodgment, and of
strict integrity.
Mr. Foriney did moble work in the
ate campaign in behall of justice aml
the people's interests, and bas all his
life-time devoted his time snd voice to
the cause of Democracy, withons troab.
ling the party for office. A recoguition
of is services, by Gov, Pattison, would
be doing the right tring to the best kind
of aman.
CEN TRE
The Methodist Women.
The total vote of the Methodist laity
on the question of admitting women as
delegates to the General Conference has
been much larger thao it was supposed it
would be. Itseems to have reach near»
ly 400,000, three-fifths being in the
affirmative,
This is a very handsome majority, but
it does vot settle the question by aay
means. be wivistry bave yet to exs
press their opinion on the subject. Three-
fourths o/ them must favor the innova-
tion, and two-thirds of the next General
Conference must concur to briog it to
pess It Is probable, however, that the
ministers will reepect and follow the de~
cision of the lwity, and that the Con-
ference will authorize the change in due
course; for in the Methodist Chareh, as
ia all others, women are in the majority
of the membership, and their iofluence
over their pastors is always wonderful. If
they show a strong desire for the exten-
sion of their privileges, they are sure to
have their way, and the vote of the
churches indicates very clearly that they
want aud intend to take part in the ec.
clesiastical legislation.
It may be assumed, therefore, that
hereafter the General Conference will be
0 posed of both men and women dele-
gates; and if the women assert the power
of their majority in the communion, the
Methodist policy in the future will be a
feminine rather than a masculine policy.
Bat it is not likely that they pusi fo thag
extreme at an early day, even if they
ever undertake to exercise the authority
which namerical superiority gives
them. Undoubtedly a few women
delegates will be elected, but they will
quietly assent to whatever is the judg-
ment of the men in the body, not thrust-
ing themselves forward or pressing any
theory of Church government.
sc A fn Ho AAS
The recent action of the treasury des
portment with respect to the duty on
common goat-hair has caused dismay
among the high tariff men of Philadel
phia. The unforeseen imposition of a
duty of 300 per cent upon raw material
that bas hitherto been admitted free
gives a chill tosome of the manufacturers
whe contributed large sams to the great
fond raised by Wanamaker in the last
days of the Harrison campaign. Messrs.
Dolan, Dermon acd Br.mley, heavy
carpet manufacturers, appeared before
Secretary Windom the other day to plead
for a reversal of the ruling. Abont 3,000 «
000 pounds of common goat bair have
been used saonually, with carpet wool,
by the manufacturers of low-priced
carpets and blankets in Philadelphia sad
elsewhere. A duty of 300 per cent bars
out this goat-bair, and there is nothiog
to take its place, Consequentiy the lows
priced goods will go out of the market.
“Chespness is synonymous with pasti.
pess,” raid Saint McKinley,
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Tha Times specia'!: The flat bas gon e
forth from Speaker Reed that no finan
cial legislation will be considered by the
House at this session of Congress. Re-
presentative Cannon told a close friend
of his to-day that nothing would be dove
in this direction by the present Congress,
This course bas been decided upon ss
a meas of revenge for the treatment re-
ceived by the Force bill in the Senata.
Tuis will please the Democrats in the
House more than is imagined by Reed.
They hope to transact this legislation
in the next Congress, which will be
overswhelmiogly Democratic in the
House and “silver” in the Beoate, It
would, in fact, give them what many be-
lieved would be a valuable plank for use
in constructing the platform to be used
in the next Presidential campaign. There
is no doubt that the President would
veto such a bill and the Democrats would
then be in a position to come forward
with thirds majority vote and pass it
over his veto,
misao A SPI AP —————————
Ia the five yours from 1888 to 1800
both inclusive, there were 38,083 miles
of railway built in the United States, of
which 20,112 miles, or more than one”
haif, were in the Southern and Souths
western States. That is what might
have been expected in yiew, of the fact
that the Buth, prior to 1886, was less
amply provided with railways, in pro-
portion to area, to population, sed to
wealth, than the North, Of the railway
mileage constructed daring the year
1890, 3, 181 miles were in the South and
Southwest, and 2,800 miles elsewhere.
The year's work brings the total mileage
in the United Siates to 167,256, or more
than safficient 'o span the world six
times.
HL RN A
Dr. H. 8.Tenbar, the man who was
famous so long for baviog fasted forty
# mthwest of Clinton, Mo, He ohallen-
gen Signor Bacei to sit down with him in
the matter io a cinety day fast on water
only, or, if Bucci prefers, let the fast con-
HALL. PA “"
The Redskins Will PII
Fred Lepante, a balfbreed ranchman |
ed a letter from an Indian relative at
Pine Ridge saying that 363 Indians, io-
cluding women and children, have thus
far been killed by troops. The letter
farther says that the Indians will now
continues thegwar to the bitter end to
avenge the killing of their women and
children, Parties in Monday from the
Cherry creek country say that the In-
diaps there are still keeping up the wails
ing and lamentation over the killing of
women and children, and that the friend-
ly Bad river Indians fear an attack.
- lie»
Judge Maver, of Clinton county, has
refused to grant a liquor license to a wo-
man. He says that women have no busi.
ness behind a bar dealing out liquor to
men, and that running saloons is not
their mission, There is a great deal of
truth 1n that statement, and Judge May-
er's action will be generally commended.
A woman who goes into the saloon
business is mious all the traits that go to
make up womanly character, and a sas
loon ran by a woman would be likely to
do more harm than half a dozen estab-
lishments with men behind tbe bar. The
Judge, in rejecting the application, said
that he did not relish the idea of baviog
a woman brought into court for violating
the liquor laws, because he would be
obliged to deal with her with the same
severity that he would deal with a man.
Women should not be encoarsged to
seek an opening in such a business, and
this ruling will go a great ways towards
Preventing it,
A on Mm
A comtittionsl convention will sare
ly be called by the legislature this win.
ter. This much is sesured by an accord
of sentiment among the elements which
will control the legislature and the ads
ministration at Harrisburg. The ballot
reform people favor the convention bes
cause they demand that the provisions
of the present constitution be changed,
which prevent a secret ballot by require
iog the numbering of the ballots.
There is aleo a corporation inflaence
in favor of the convention which hopes
to get the convention to go into a whole-
sale constitutional revision and cut out
the provisions againt special legislation
and corporation contract. At any rates
convention is assured, and it will be hed
at once, the members to be chosen at a
special election and its work submitted
to the people at the next general elec-
tion in November,
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Last Monday Senator (Quay introdaced
a bill in the Senate whish is iatended as
a substitute for the Force bill, The
measure differs from the Hoar-Lodge-
Daven port bill ino many particulars, buat
principally in the last section, in which
the President is given discretionary pows
er to suspend babeas corpus and employ
sn armed force at the polls,
The general impression seems to be
that the Senator did not prepare the bill
with the idea that it would become a
law, but that his object was primarily to
antagonize the Hoar-Lodge bill, and
generally to sccentaate the feeling against
Federal control of elections by making
the idea so odious as to bring out a fresh
batch of vigorous protests against the bill
and thus effectually bury it bayond all
hope of resurrection.
A ta a
The Altoona Tribune is responsible for
this, and we are glad of it: “It is folly
to expect the business of teaching in the
common schools will ever become the
permanent oosupation of any considera-
ble number of men and women so long
8s the teacher receives less wages than
the ordioary laborer. In places like Al«
toona, Holidaysburg and Tyrone, Where
the term is long and the wages fair, the
teachers mav devote many years to
teaching. Bat the short term and low
wages bring a succession of amateurs in-
to the business.
The checkweighmen of Division A
met last Wednesday night in the Potter
building, at Philipsburg, to count the
votes of the miners for and against a
srike. In consequence of some mis
understanding respecting the resolutions
on the circular issued, which seemed to
have confased a large number of mioers,
the committee decided that an intelli.
gent vole had not been given. It was
then resolved that no record be made of
the ballots cest and that a vote be again
taken. It is said thatthe vote stood five
to three in favor of a strike, but with a
better understanding of the resolutions
submitted to be voted upon it is expects
ed that a different return will be made.
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The Doctor And Postmaster
talking about 8 case of serious illness, doe
{known as the American Harvester Com-
the!
gone to pieces after an expenditure of]
$500,000 incurred by its originators, |
But the interesting part comes out that
a woman had a great deal to do with |
breaking the trust, This woman is Mrs. |
McCormick, of Chicago, the widow of]
the great reaper manufacturer, whose
son, Cyrus H., was president of the (rust, |
Mrs. MoCormick was always opposed to
the trust. She is the heaviest stocks
holder in the McCormick Reaper Com |
pany, and takes great pridejio the mam- |
moth institution founded by her hus. |
band, She demanded that the McCor.|
mick company withdraw, It withdrew]
aod the trust wéat to smash, The ex.
periment has been a very ‘costly ons |
and those interested in farthering it feel |
deeply chagrined at the resuit. The
hardest rocks against which the trust ran |
were the decisions of the supreme courts |
of Illinois snd New York—tae former!
in the gus trust and the latter in the #u-|
gar trust case—that one corporation may
not legally hold stock in another corpor-
ation for the purpose of controlling it,
Atlanta Constitution: It is said that
John Wanamaker has lost $2,000,000 by
going into the cabinet. This places our
gifted president somewhat in the attitade
of bunco steerer,
Cincinnati Enquirer: Although
Hampshire has been siolen from the
party of tha people, democratic gover-
nots smile at each other from Connectlis
cut Massachusetts, Nebraska and Penn
syivania.
New York Herald: Ounce in a while a
politician complains because the newspa-
pers tell lies sbout him. It would be
very rough, though, if the newspapers
were mend fjtheir ways and tell the
truth about them.
Philadelphis Record: Geaeral 0. O
Howard says that oar first mistake ia
dealing with the Indians was in making
treaties with them as with separate na-
tions. He might have added that our
next mistake was in no t keeping such
compacts when made.
St. Louis Post Dispatch: The iucompe.
tency of the new Indian agents appoint.
ed to pay political campaign debts, and
the swindling operations of the Indian
burean rings, account for the starvation
and the spoils system comes mn for =
large share of the responsibility for all
the the blood that has been shed, or is
yet to flow in the necessary efforts to
suppress this Sioux revolt by military
means.
Harrisburg Pairiot: According to the
census there are one hundred and forty
religious bodies in the United States, yet
where is the man who, as he chases his
hat which the wind is carrying into a
muddy street, will not say “damnit?”
ny sn Ap
The Indian trouble bringsinto menlion
the district called “Bad lands,” which a
correspondent describes thas:
The Bad Lands of Dakots are compos.
ed of a white clay, which by the action
of rains, has been cut into hillocks. They
are not high, seldom more than forty or
fitty feet; but it is up ove and down an-
other the whole way. You cannot follow
the water courses, for there or none; a
gully, forty feet deep, with a foot and a
half of mud at the bottom, isthe nearest
approach to a water course in the whole
region. At every few yards yon must
stop and, with spade and shovel, cut a
path down the side of a hill in order to
descend, and then up the side of the op
posite in order to get up again.
The mud is as sticky as tar, and in
going a few yards the wheels of a wagon
become solid round cakes, and ali the
mules that you can hiteh to it will not be
able to pull it a foot further. Then the
spades ars brought and the wheels clear-
ed, the operation being repeated two or
three times in a hundred yards. The
extent of the Bad Lands in Dakota is
probably a hundred miles from north to
south by fifteen to thirty miles wide; and
if the Indians find a better stronghold
country the plainsmen would like to
her of it.
Now
Public approval will follow the deci.
sion of the Georgia Bapreme Court that
i costain Baptist Society must pay the
salary of its preacher, even though the
church building must needs be sold to
that end, There is no good reason in
or business corporations, should not pay
bills as they contract, while as a ques:
tion of morals the obligation is even
more incumbent upon them, And above]
all, they oaght to pay the minister.
A AL A IO
‘on scheduled time.
—
Good substantial clothing for very
little money at 8. Loeb's.
~The town has had an influx of in-
surance agents the last few days.
ee Are you going to the inauguration
{of Gov. Pattison on Tuesday next?
~==[)0 you want hauling done for
pretty nearly nothing? 8. W. Emith.
~~Agron Harter is the only juror
~ «Mrs. Maria Blabig will sell
{stock, and implements at public sale
Thursday March 20,
farm
on
{to lose one of valuable
{death a few ne Ago.
iis horses by
~The entire gtock of Musser’'s shoe
store, Bellefonte, must be sold before
{Feb. 1, There are bargains thers,
— Boots and shoes below actual cost
at Musser’s shoe store, Bellefonte,
a bargain before it is too late,
Get
—We bave had a three days storm
Monday, Tuesbay and Wednesday, with
quite a cold atmosphere,
~=Boots and shoes below actual cost
at Musser’ s shoe etore, Bellefonte. Get
8 bargain before it is too late,
—{3ive Lewine, Bellefonte, your or-
der for a suit. He has one of the most
experienced catters to behal, A fit is
guaranteed.
— Wesley Henney returned home
last week , from Altoona, where he bas
secured a job as biacksmith in the new
car shops, Centre Hall loses a fine me-
chanic.
~The Philad. Branch is thorooghly
reliable, and Lewins has in stock a line
of clothing that leads in quality and |}
vices. Satisfaction always given.
—Col, Henry Wolf, one of the old-
est citizens of Brush Valley, died
Toesday, Dec. 24, 90, at home nesr
Wolf’ Store, after a lingering illness dary
ing many days,
~~] owing makes eaits to order, par-
ties can select their own goods from
samples, Satisfaction guaranteed in aii
respects, and at prices 25 per cent lower
than elsewhere.
low
on
~The Journal, Loganton: While
playing the part of Sania Claus at the
Ev. church the eveniog before Chirist-
mas, James Breon had a first
Henry Karstettier,
~The Philad. Branch is thoroughly
reliable, and Lewins has in stock & line
of clothing thas leads in quality and low
priced. Satisfaction always given.
fight with
—~-]t sometimes happens, when =
young man and young lady are engaged,
that the evgagement is broken, but it
oftener happens that the young man is
broke,
we good warm bool or shoe is need
ed by all during this winter weather,
A. C. Mingle, Bellefonte, keeps a com-
plete stock and at low prices. Gum
boots, shoes, etc, a speciality.
~The Centre Sunday school society,
which met at Millbeim last week, decid
ed that their pext meating should be
held at Centre Hall on the third Toes
day in April, continuing until Thursday
evening.
~ Fire at Lock Haven, on Friday last
destroyed the handsome residences of C.
8. McCormick, Esq, together with all
the contents. The entire loss will ag-
gregate to $10,000, upon which there is
$8,000 insurance . +
, ~==Those people, who were pursuaded
by the mild weather of the past few sea-
sons to ven'ure the prediction that our
own climate was changing and cold win.
ters were a thing of the past, will have to
revise their yiews,
~The boys are nightly making use
of the excellent coasting on the hill snd
crowds are to be seen and heard in their
sport. The rain on Sunday which froze
made the hill almost one cake of ice and
they come down with lightning speed.
wwe Mies Rebecoa Royer, living with
her brother, Mr. Henry Royer, near
Centre Hill, died very suddenly on Mon-
day. Bhe was aged about fifty years.
Her funeral took place on Wednesday,
Rev. Fischer officiating.
— Home one says: A ten years of
deal, at 15 he knows as much ae his fath-
er, at 50 he knows twice as much, at 30
he is willing to take his advice, at 40 he
begins to think his father knows some.
thing after all, at 50 he begins to seek his
advice, and at 60—after his father is dead
~ho thinks he was the smartest man
that ever lived.
«There has been filed in the Recors
The Republican kick, just now, against
Cemeron because he bas no ability to
display on the floor of the senate, comes
rather Jate and is thin, The Republic
in the face of it pronoanced him a great
Peunsy ivanian, and gloried in his elec
der's office of Centre county a lease for
999 years, conveying the Beech Creek
Railroad to the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad. This is another
elsbihun of 4 cowpeting ie for tie Penne
sylvanla system, It !
dighty miles ur road, ©
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“ne. cia Announcement.
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B J. Kendall Co., publishers'of “A Trea
ties on the Horse and his Disease,’
which will enable all our gubscribers to
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by sending their address (encloging 8 two-
cent stamp for mailing same) to De. B
J. Kespary Co, Exossuvrcn Favs, Vr
This book is now recognized as standard
authority upon all diseases of the horse,
as its phenomenal sale attests, over four
million copies having been soid in the
past ten years, a eale never before reach.
ed by any publication in the same period
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It is necessary that you mention this
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This offer will remain open for only a
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wn
Nebraska's Three Rulers.
The gubersatorial
nnchanged,
nized by all of ti
Governor Thaye is
at the head of the Btate goversme: It
is evident that Governor Boyd's warrants
will be * Suditor and
Treasurer, while Governor Thayer will
not be able to have supplies for his milis
tiamen, pendiog the settlement of the
controversy by the Bupreme Court,
situation
Boyd
officers
remains
Governor iB recog
e Bilate while
r #131} he
t.
ingists that
houored hy the
ssn isi A SI A
Workmen in the New Jersey potleries
are threatened with a reduction
per cent, in their wages, Iron workers
in South Chicago have been shut out;
Fall River mill operatives have struck
because of insdequate waprs, and more
Pennsylvanic miners have left off work
for thesame reason, What as splendid
thing for wage workers the McKinley
Tariff bill is proving to be ! The work
ing men were promised that it should
raise their wages. Incidents like those
noted above show how beautifully that
promise is being fuifilled. locreased
cost of living and lessened wages—that is
all that the workingmen has gotor will
ever get ont of the McKinley business,
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of 334
~ ln Elk county the jurors drawn
for January court were notified to not
appear, as there were so few cages down
for trial, and they had been continued,
The same thing is reported from Clinton
county.
— Barnum Bas spent four hundred
thousand dollars 8 year in advertising
Wanamaker pays a man ten thousaud
dollars a year jast to write snd superin-
tend his advertising, and yet there are
plenty of people in business who do not
advertise,
EE en
Polters Mills.
All the young boys have their heads out to see
which way the wind is coming.
Most of the young folks are having sieighing
parties. They bad two last week.
Mr. Willie Spangler and Mis Lizzie Black,
while on their way home from ithe concert, at
Contre Madi, ot Fridey evening, gol p00 & DOW
bank and upeet, | re not hart,
Mr. Samuel 4
lle Black met
with an socident ou thei same Pom the
concert last Friday evening. As they were cross
ingthe ralroad a sled came up behind them
whith frightened ihe young horse Bam. was
driving, it ran into a snow bank, the sicigh got
fast which caused the horse to rear apd then
throw himself, breaking the sleigh badly, bus
Sam. is a good horseman sod kept him from get.
ting away.
Mrs. Paltz is seriously ill with little hopes of
recovery.
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Minreied.
KLINE-V ANBY SKIREK «Jun, & 186], ai Centre
dall, by Rev. W E. Fischer, Albert Kline, of
Chiosgs, IlL., and Mamie Vanbuskirk, of
Richmond, Va.
ins ———_
Died.
ROYER. ~Near Centre am.
Rebocea Roy
er aged, 5
Well Known.
There is iy no business house in Western
Rl righed he gry fe to the public Tos this and
joining states as the one we are about 10 3 Shek
of, Well known for square and honest dealing
well known for keeping the snd most
Yompitie stuck a ane en known jor
ipping safe very, either
Rereny outabl ish
ment of Max