VOL .LXI1V. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR Let us see if the enormous coffee crop will bring down the price of eoflee HA ES — Cleveland for President and Kerr for Auditor General are more than Demo~ cratic possibilities, A It is not trax that Sanley and his wife are at outs, The tribe of liars is not yet extinet, RS — Edge informs the people there is a large crop of grain in this state The REPORTER ahead in that, A ——.———— The Batler county treasury is empty. Jost the fix REPORTER'S treasury is in, and our eubscribers can help it by paying up. In the past eight days were frightful railroad disasters. 50 killed in France; a number killed and many mangled near Dayton, and several killed near Gallion, Ohio. Secretary was just three weeks (Pa.) the Dudley says Quay cannot resign. Quay is no doubt holding himself down tight on his chair with botii hands, so he can’t get up and leave it, which he is so anxious to do. The Pbiladelphia Times says that when there is a bona fide American tin plate factory which can turn ont enough staff to cover a hen house the high tariff men shonld roof one for Major McKinley not necessarily for publication bot as an evidence of good faith. The Congo cavibals got hungry the other day for a real, old-fashioned feed, and had served up 40 or 50 natives who were friendly to the Europeans. They had scarcely finished picking their teeth before they were pounced down upon by | Europeans and Arabs who made | if Can- An- some he caunibals food for the valtures, have such birds ian Coogo nibalism is not to be encouraged. they thropophagi are slightly out of date Since the McKinley bill passed, with increase import taxes on i the prices of wool have fallen while the imports from abroad have largely in- creased, on the the WoO The compensating duties on woolen fabrics have enabled the woolen manufacturers to advance prices. So, es a consequence of McK inleyism, the fare mers are getting less for their wool and paying more for the wooleus they coa- sine i ————————— The first six months of the year under the McKinley bill show that pig metal production in the United States has fall- en off 1 888.000 tons, or 26 per cent, The decrease in Pennsylvania has heen 636,- KK) tons. The prodoction of Bessemer steel iogots in the same time has fallen off 21 per ceut, and of Bessemer steel rails 41 per cent If there had been ap increases in the game proportion how the McKinly bill would bave been glorified. As it is the protectior ist press talks in whispers, The bureau of American Republics lias received information from Gostema la that the coffes Whrvest for 1590 will reach 700,000 quintals, representing $16, 000,000. In the ten years the produc tion has more than quadrupled, The Earopean market, however, will be large ly supplied from the Brazilian harvest which is 9,000,000 bags this year, The harvest was 4.200000 bags a year ago. Why don’t coflee come down same ae wheat when it is plenty? The master of the State grange has is- sued his regular manifesto, giving warns ing to parties what they mast do. It's too bad these gems are not heeded, things will go to the demnition bow~ ways unless the counsels of our wise men are headed, and the two great par~ tiea will be bosted If one epistie goes nnheeded, let another, and another follow until the statesmen of the land quake ia their boots, It is now P. T, Rynder’'s turn to issue his accustomed proclamation, es chief of the greenback-union-labor party, de. manding a nomination upon some tick et, or threaten to smash things general. ly. Providence has not forgotten our fare mer friends, than whom there is no more useful and indostrious class on earth. Bountiful harvests have been sent the farmer, and he breathes freer, knowing that he has been favored with enough and to spare, With the pros. perity of the farming class all others are benefited; when crops are a failure or prices driven down to the edge of ruin by the gamblers, the entire country safe fers, and the grain sharks and specols- tors alone thrive, We hope with a bountiful barvest our farmers will have Fair Play. In some quarters hands are raisad in horror at the idea that the farmer is about to raise a corner in wheat, in or- der to raise the price. We do not bes lieye in corners, but if the farmer for once gets a chance at su corner, it would not be surprising, nor could oae think it uanpatural, if he took it to get up a cor, interes... Without cor neriog anybody, the farmer has been cornered all around for the last twenty years, ard a corner by him in wheat is ner in nis owa not a bit worse than the continual games of corner played by the speculator every year. It would be far better that the farmer had the benefits of a corner in 4 heat, than to let the gambler and heart- lees speculator have it. The farmer has been preyed upon on all sides, The speculator has shorn him of bis just earnings- on his grain: the hayfork swindler has robbed him by fraudulent papers and notes; the patent right swindler bas bled him shamefully thro his games; the bogus implement agent has fleeced him by his shams; the contemptible Bobemian oats swindler bas robbed him io honeyed words out of thousands, in Centre county alone the farmers have beer robbed of $30,000 by the oats swindle. A coruer to get ten or twenty cents more for his wheat cers tainly makes the farmer respectable aiong side of the patent-right and Bohe~ mian cats swindlers, But, we do not apprehend any appres ciable wrong to any one from a coruer in wheat by the farmer —it is the other ras, cals and their stool pigeons, that want to be watched, and who corner and rob not only the farmer, but all other classes. We think, that at the coming grange picnic, and at every succeeding picnic, one address should be delivered expos ing and denouncing theswindlers, show. ing up the patent.right swindler, the farm buying swindler, the oats swindler, and cautioning farmers to be on their guard agaiost such scamps, It is astons ishing that some of those who are leads ers amoug the patrons, are found the ins timate friends of the worst swindlers of the farmer, With such associations it is no wonder that farmers get hoodwinked. Any farmer who will associate with one who is notorious as a swindler of his brethren, certainly does not deserve the confidence of his fellow farmers, —————— Quay as a Resigner, Senator Quay has resigned many pubs lic positions, says the Philadelphia Times, He resigned the Beaver county Prothonotaryship in 1861 to enter the army; he resigned his army commis-ion to become Assistant Commissary Geuer- al of the State under General Irwin: he resigned that office to become Colonel of the 13th Penna. regiment; he resigned his Coloneicy to become Military State Agent at Washington; he resigned that to become Saperintendent of Transports ation and Telegraphs; he resigned that when elected to the Legislature, the one position he filled without a resignation, Quay next resigned as Becretary of the Commonweaith under Covernor Harts ranft, to become Recorder of Philadel phia; he resigned the Recordership to take the Chairmanship of the Republis can State Committee; he resigned that to accept the Seoretaryship of the Com. monweaith nnder Governor Hoyt; he re- signed that when Hoyt declared for the Independents in 1882; he resigned the State Treasurership in 1887 to accept the United States Senstorship, and now he is reputed as contemplating a double resignation of the Senatorship and of the Chairmanship of the National Come mittee, Although Qoay has been a most pros lific resigner of public positions, it would be well, in prepariog to swallow his re- ported resignations of the Senatorship and Chairmanship, to observe the pre. caution that is often found on prescrip tions—"to be well shaken before taken.” Daring the last few weeks Quay has als lowed the newspapers to do a vast deal of resigning for him, but when jammed inton corner by an Associated Press agent and forced to say something, he said that he might resign the Chairmans ship of the National Committee. - The corrapt practices of Philadelphia officials, we remarked in last week's is- sue of the Reronrer, are being imitated in some of the counties, and we think the infection can be found in every couniy. While conversing with a proms inent citizen of Union county, the other day, he remarked that attorneys and the prothonotaries often manage to keep control of costs which properly belong to witnesses, and , that it has become diffi cult for parties to obtain costs due them, and that many such sums go into pooks ols that are not entitled to them, the parties to whom they sre due, being bafs fled and put off until tired making fare ther demands, then the lawyers and ofs ficials make a steal of them. These evils, and others, run ints all counties fair prices for all their surplus products. sod there should be a general shaking ap to correct sach practices. The Farmers’ Wheat Trust St. Paul has been made the headquar- ters of the movement by the United Far mers’ Alliances of the country, to corner the entire wheat crop of the United States. At No 317 Wabash street, for several days, a large force of employes hus been engaged in sending out circulars, with the view of having not only the Alliance men of the United States, but all classes of farmers, keep back their wheat crop until the bears have all been killed off and prices have been advanced to a high point, the State Press Burean are working together rean, the Reform Press Bureau and endeavoring to anite the farmers of the United States io 8 gigantic wheat trust in which the producers shall be stock- holders and by which the speculators and wheat buyers will be squeezed to the wall. : At the head of the M. minent Alliance man. A ing the benefits of combinant ic movement is George Muller, editor of the State and a pro- circular recit n and arg- ing the formation of the “trast,” have been made publi The cirenlar esti mates the wheat crop of 1801 in the United States at 500,000,000 bushels. The promoters of the farmers’ wheat trust be held back by the farmers for from four to eight weeks, by which time it is thought that prices will have gone sky- ward. Lists bearing the names of secre- States are now in the hands of Mr. Mul A Mountain Wedding, Rev.J. W, White, a brother inlaw { ex~Governor Beaver, pastor of one of the {churches at Milroy, was recently con {fronted with a case full of hymenial iperplexities, A couple came over the {Beven mountains from Centre county to [the parsonage, desiring Lim to unite {them in marriage. Their license was is~ [sued in Centre county, and a question {ar se io the reverend gentleman's mind | whether it was not the intent of the state law that the ceremony should be performed in the county in which the [license is granted, for an opinion ana he thought the preacher was right in his view, Captain Moore, justice of the peace at Milroy, but At this juncture a hap~ was also consulted, both the others, |py thought entered the parson’s mind, adoptivg which would place himon the safe side. Bydnving to the top of the third of the Seven he would {reach the dividing line between Mifflin mountains and Centre counties, fw found Stepping across the I'he couple were g,and after a long drive the patties themselves at the boundary. line Rev, White at once proceeded to solemnize the union of Edwin Rhul and Maggie Burrell, of {Spring Mills, The groom, Edwin Ruhl, is the son of Mr. David Ruhl, proprietor of the Spring { Mills hotel and is a very popular young { man, and his bride, Miss Barrell, is a 1% to be congratulated npon the success of his choice of a better half. The couple the Alliances of Illinois, Kansas, Nebras. | IP RR— wv ! More beauties of MeKinleyism ! The Canadian newspaper Hardware, publish | ed at Toronto, has an editorial article, under date of Jaly 18, discussing the | reasons why American pig lead is sold/ in Montreal at $3 60 to 83 75 per cwt | while the price of the same article in| New York is $4 40 to $4 45. The reasons! is we have on this side of the line a duty of two cents a pound on pig lead. Th in| enables the producers to charge the Am-| erican consumer more for it than they! could otherwise get. So of course they can afford to sell to Canadians for Jess, | Americans are taxed that the Kanuocks! may have cheaper lead. The same thing! is done with many articles, i Thos instead of javoring Americans, | i the M'Kinley tariff favors the Britisbers | i -—— G. A BR Encampment At Detrois i Foeamp. | ment for 1801 fell to the fortunate lot Detroit. The encampmant proper will commence August 3d and terminate Aug-| ust 8th, For desiring to visit | what must each year grow more and | more interesting, a gathering of the war! veterans, the Pennsylvania Railroad will sell excursion tickets at a rate of one! first class limited fare for the round trip going and returning by the same! rout.e Excarsion tickets will also be sold al one and a half cents per mile, short line distance, going by one route and re. turning by another. These tickets will be sold from July 31st to Aogust 3d, in- clusive, and valid for return passage to 18th, inclasive. The return limit on the tickets may be extended by depositing then with Joint Agent of Terminal Lines at Detroit, but will not, however be good for any portion of return pas sage later than September 30th, - Was Worth 810,000 for a fow Minntes, John Baily, of Ante’s Fort, found an express package recently containing val- uable papers and money to the amount of $10,000, The packege was found on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. As it bad teen carried by the express compa- ny it is supposed that it wes dropped from the car. The finder of the package made the matter public at once, and the package was turned over to the express company. The selection of the G. A. G. those -—— a“ Tee Croam Festival and Sociable. The ladies’ of the M. E. church, of Centre Hall, purpose holding an ice cream festival, in Wolf's park, on Saturs day evening, August Sth, to which all are invited to come and buy ice cream and cake. The funds to be applied to. wards cancelling the debt yet remaining on the parsonsge at Spriug Mills, nimi MD I Missin Many journals are seeking for a fittihg term for executioh of murderers by electricity, Some propose electrocution, electrocized, &c., hut none seems satis factory. The Rerorter would suggest A term that is both elegant and suitable; let it be called “electioneered.” How many have been killed off by election coring in days gone by. Quay has resigned the chairmanship and the Nat. Committee has accepted his resignation, : Dudley, treasurer, of blacks-ofsfine fame, has aloo withdrawn from the coms the future. They have the best wishes of all for future happiness. - Marriage Licenses, Following is the list of marriage I censes issued during the past week from the register's office Bellefonte: Michael Coshon and Roza Bercowech, both of Spring twp. Martin R Broner; Union twp, and Hanvoah M, Luces, Boggs twp. Gieo, Skyler and Emma Bame, both of Millheim, Andrew Kosnes and Esrea Arze, hoth soow Shoe Daniel Simon and Busan Winters, both of Rebersbarg, Peter Durez and both of Ashcroft, Pa. --—— Williams Grove, of Prudence Quenet, The Grangers' 18th Annual Ioter-state Picnic Exhibition, at Williams’ Grove, Camberand county, Pa., under the com* mendation of the National Grange, and the upavimous support of every state Grange in the United States, will open August 24th, 189], and continue in ses. sion six full days, > Quite Popular. Paddy mountain tunvel, and Cherry Run, down the railroad, have become quite popular as a resort for campers out, both places have been occupied for sev have fine grounds for tenting. EE cm— To Cure Bloat It will interest farmers to learn that a tablespoonful of pulverized alum and chimney or pipe soot will instantly re- lieve a cow bloated from esting green clover, -o-——- It Was to be His Last, Engineer Frank Woods, who was kill~ ed near Howard, on Wednesday morn ing, intended taking a vacation and leav- ing on a trip to Atlantic City that moras ing. li in Young Cattle for Bale. Five or six head of young cattle for sale, Apply to 8, WW. Smith, Centre Hall, A Rolling Stone Gathers no moss; neither does the dust light on the Philad. Branch’s new stock of clothing for spring and summer, as customers keep it moving at figures which captivate all, ~Bellefonte’s big celebration cost $660.66, of which $148 wey expended for the entertainment of Sheridan Troop. After paying all the expenses the com. mittee has left in its hands $154 84, wee (300d shoes, at very low prices can be found at A. C. Mingle's shoe store, Bellefonte, and a very large assortment to select from. He handles no shoddy goods and full return guaranteed, we No shell worn stock is thrust upon customers at A. C. Mingle’s shoe store, Bellefonte, His large trade enables him to constantly keep new goods, and al ways of the latest styles and at very moderate prices, as ail customers admit. =A Philadelphia woman is being prosecuted under the old law against common scolds, The law is a good one and should be more frequently enforced. Nothing is more aggravating in a neigh borhood than a woman who takes it upon herself to make the lives of the mittee, people wiserable by her tireless tongue. BY THE WAY, To be unerring in points of politeness and cultured demeanor is a “consumma- tion devoutly to be wished,” but which a comparative few attain, But perfection in these matters is almost im- possible, there is no reason why & person while himself ridicale should be & boor and allow herself to be a butt for the those who are better informed. stance, | have often noticed public eating bourses who will give their orders, resd the papers while the ands are being prepared. eat them when are or of For in- people in vi almost digested, put op their over-garments and then as a last act, pay the waiter. Bome people will go into a restaurant, order refreshments, stand and sit and enjoy hour, conscious that the clerk or waiter has other customers awaiting their turn them. Anyone who able breaches of good manovers and com mon decency scarcely deserves to be classed as human, It is sn encroach the time of the attendants which po one has a right to ask, and the perpetrator deserves to be snubbed or to be “fired out” with as muoch for politeness as his actions showed. Pay for what you order immediately—then enjoy it and you will thereby avoid the stigma of being classed a boor at the same time save the atiendant a big amount of profanity. * ® » LEAVED CLOVERS I know a place were L #1 the cherry bloon And down unde Where the fot ment on regard 11 i $ like gold wilh show sum pret leaved clovers grow s leat is for hope, and on 1 one Is for love, you k (od put another one it if you search, you w Bul you must have Ix faith, You must love and be strong —and so, Ma work, if you walt, you will find the place here Whe four-leaved clovers grow $F » Using the slang phrase “to fire out’ brings to my memory that a recent aus thority ascribes its anthorehip to immor- tal Shakespeare, This is refreshing for a phrase which is so generally used and which evidently fills an aching void, eminently dessrves an illustrious parent- age. Itis in one of his sonnets which nads, “Till my good angel fires my bad one oul.” There is another bit of slang, though not as old, that is found to have suthor- #hip, or at least patronage, worthy of re- spect. When Alexander Suwarofl, one of the best generals of Catherine III of Russia stormed lemail in 1790 be an- nounced his success to the empress as follows, "Praise be to God, and praise be to you; the fortress is taken and 1 am in ¢ where they grow pe, and you must have » There is a new business coming into existence, the importation of water from the river Jordon for baptismal purposes, It is needless to add that as yet the ine dustry has for its patronage only the rich, and, of course, until there is dilis gent competition in the trafic the poor- er classes will have to do with common cistern or spring water and be satisfied with an inferior quality of baptismal res generation. Ere long we shall see this sdvestisement in the drugstores, “ Water from Jordon River, only legitimate bap- tismal water extant.” The business was given a sudden im puise by the recent christening of a roy» ul baby, daughter of the Duke of Fife, the grand child of the Prince of Wales, The court circulars are careful to inform an anxious world that: The chirstening water was brought from the river Jordan by Lord Rawton, who recently returned from the Holy Land.” This ought to confer a special grace upon the roysl infant, but those who are sympathizers in the scheme or prospective patrons had better not tell the faot that the Prince of Wales was himself baptized in water from the Jordan, in which case it evident'y didn’t take, Commenting on this state affair, Gen. M. M. Trumbull very pertinently remarks: “There wasa hope lingering in this democratic world that the sacraments at least would res main of equal quality, and that fashion would not stimulate pride instead of hu- mility, by providing a superior sacra men'al article exclusively for the rich; but our trust was vain. The church must make i's ordinances lotarious and exclusive, therefore booths for the sale of water from the Jordan must be built in Vanity Fair, The Eucharist will be- come aristocratic also; and the royal snd rich will not partake of Holy Communs jon until they know that the bread is made from wheat gleaned in the fields of Boaz, and that the wine is pressed from the grapes of Naboth's vineyard.” . NO. 29 There is a large number of children in thins place who know shout the gossip of the stores, the glang of the mreet and other demoralizing gences than they do about the glories of a well ordered home expected fromchildren thus reared than more induls What eles can be that they will become veritable loafers ? Are they any better that todsy ? No osychologists deny that it is the pressions received in childhood are the lasting ones, Are the who would see their sons and werlthy satisfied that the impressions which stores, barber ehops and places will incoleate than im» which parenis famous eimilar their offepring ET refined in are the proper ones? I he pe not the child tha! is surrounded hy admon- ile proper employment who will prove a joy i and elevating influences and is ished as to the value of time and forever to his parents; while the child who is allowed to grow sleepy on the counters of the stores, in the corruption of the thoroughfares will invariably velop into a worthless, aimless man, disgrace to his parents, and be never anythiog but a human parasite if pot a criminal actor in the dramas of life, Keep your children st home during the evenings and teach them to ap pre ciate the advantages with which every troe home abounds and that culture and honor are the climacteric of oan. the ideal lovsoen, —— le Lines to Atlantic City. The Pennsylvania Railroads twin ines to Atlantic City—the West Jersey and Camden and Atlantic Hailroads now operated asa doubletrac famed far and ne vania’s Double Lines to The P. RK. R Doud : a a line, ar wide the Pennsyl, the Sea, have long been known se the old sand reliable route Atlantic City: The Camden and Atlantic Railroad was the pioneer, and for a long time the oanly route, to what has now become one of the most popular and attractive seaside cities of the world. Many Philadelphians well remember how in the earlier vears of the first railroad they traveled slowly and inferior cars to Atlantic City, when one or two trains a day more than sufficed accommodate the entire volame of traffic, and many of them may also recall the ill-success of the railroad venture; which wes so proncunced, that at a meeting of the directors the proposis tion to take up the rails and sell them for scrap iron was gravely discussed. Wiser counsel prevailed; however, and from this homble origin sprung what is to~day the moet complete and best-ap. pointed system of railway leading to any seaside resort in this country, The West Jersey and Atlantic from Newfield to Atlantic City was built and inaugurated with FUCORER under Peansylvania management, the Camden sand Atlantic was acquired, and the two lines consolidated into the Penn- syivanis's [Donble Li Thee is skill and vigor vania Railroad is coe ihe roads wa, of each line vc xveilent condi- tion. Laid with steel rails stone ballast: ed, fitted with that greatest of time savers—the track tank-—protetecd by the block~ signal system, its physical condis tion can only be compared to those blue ribbon sections of the main line track that attract the admiration of the chance traveler and provoke the unstinted praise of the railway expert. For the complete exquipment of this splendid roadbed the great resources of the Pennsylvania System are freely drawn upon, The choicest passenger coaches, parior cars constracted express ly for this service, and stalwart hard. coal durning locomotives, desigaated as the Pennsylvania Standard, are provide od. The speed of such trains on such a road.bed is whatever the management choose to make it, but in the exercise of a wise and conservative jaodgmeat the maximaom of seventy-five minutes for the run from city to sea has been adopt. od. Thisis as fast as the fastest trains in regular service in this country or abroad, and is quick enough to meet the wishes of the average traveler, These trains speed down to the sea over one track and up on the other, with no obstruction, but with a clear clean sweep of track always ahead. Safety is the prime essence of this plan, ani com fort is assared by reason of substantial, equipment, a clean well balissted, firm- ly. established roadebed without dust, locomotives without cinders. These characteristion, briefly outlined, form the basis of the w and well earned ularly of this first class route at At- ty. The high favor in which this roule is held is by no means local, bat extends to all sections of the land where the in- fluence of the Pennsylvania Railroad is felt. A large number of trains from the east, west northwest, id Jouth- n - to in to coospicaous nes io 1 Nea. aes al “ wit + that Penue yi- IR in for conveyance to Philadelphia prompt convey nm the provision of these amutpaned t of travel, the Pen in Railroad Company bas not only od in greater measure than any other Shiaalty by theses, bat has nae x
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