VOL. 1X1Y.. THE CENTRE REPORTER - = EDITOR FRED KU RTZ, Mat, Quay is net dead yot es political boss, and the Republican convention at Harrisburg furnishes sufficient proof to fully substantiate this, A The Republican bosses are hitting Harrison under ‘Ye belt wherever a chance is given. Grand Pa’s bat should come into play now. The Farmers Alliance in Kansas asks every farmer to contribute jnst one cent to the campaign fund. The Alliance may be able after the first collection to get a corner on buttons, It is rumored Wanamaker will resign from the cabinet, baving cant °d the diss pleasure of his boss, Harrison, who is dis- pleased with John because of his impli- cation in the Philadelphia frands, The government experimenting with a rainsmaking machine in Texas, It is a success, but to raise the wind to produce the rain costs $5 000, aud is not likely to become popular, Quay still maintaine his position as boes of the State, ss the proceedings of the Republican convention at Harrisburg this week demonstrated, notwithstand- ing his overwhelming set-back last fall by bis party. IT The Altoona Tribune celebrated its an- niversary by appearing in an entire new dress. The Tribune is one of the news jest daily papers published in Pennpsyls vania and its prosperity is evidence of this. The general sentiment throughout this county does not seem to be in accord with the Constitutional Convention, Nine of Bellefonte’s most prominent at~ torneys recently in an interview by a reporter, gave their views for not sap- porting the movement. In substance, they t hink an enforcement of the pres- ent law will meet all requirements The Philadelphia papers that were in it do not appear to relish the snits brought by Attorney General Hensel to recover the 40 per cent commission on advertising divided with Bardsley. The Inquirer is very indignant at the attorney general's conduct, calling it “blafl’ and “buncombe, declaring that it is “no. body's business” what became of the money which the newspapers chose to pay as a bonus to Bardsley for the ads vertising, and expressing ils belief that Mr. Hensel can never recover a cent of it, SE Some crank has proposed a plan to pension all the emancipated negroes, claiming that this country deprived them of their rights for two or three centuries, and now in justice should provide for them, Ex-Minister Douglass is out in a letter approving the plan. While that isn’t enough to kill it, of course, the scheme is so utterly absurd that no sen- sible man will give it notice except that of ridicule. Pensions are very popular in this countiy, increasingly so, but the old soldiers have the call on them end it willbe many a long day before the emancipated slave gets into Uncle Sam’s purse, The representation in the Democratic State convention, based om Governor Pattison's vote, is largely increased be- cause of his heavy vote. The last con. vention had 368 delegates; the coming one will have 461, on the basis of one delegate for every thousand votes and an additional one for every portion Until proper rules of organization and conduct of business there is an advans tage in a large number of delegates. the people are more fully represented, and there is less opportunity for intrigue. In Ohio there are 700 delegates to the Democratic State convention, in Indiana 1,600, in Kentucky, 1,200, and in other Western States equally imposing name bers, A ————————— Washington wants the Democratic na. tional convention, Mr. Dickson, the Demooratit national committeeman for the District of Columbia, is using every bit of influnce he can command to that end. Itis claimed he has secured the written approval of three of his fellow committeeman, Messrs. Barbour of Vir ginia, Pasco of Florida end Ranson of North Carolina, and he feels justified in putting down Gorman of Maryland and Kenna of West Virginia as on his side for local considerations, With these seven votes as good as secured at the outset of his campaign he is very san guine of the result, Washington is the most unlikely city of the Union to get the convention, It has not an electoral vote back of it, Chicago, St, Louis or Cincinnati are the most probable. De troit and Indianapolis present claims, but are too small to accommodate a con _CEN TRE As to Pensions. The demagogues who are using every endeavor to capture the soldier vote would make it appear that only Republis cans have ever done anything in the way of pensioning soldiers. Their argu- ment is that only under Republican ad« ministrations were soldiers able to get their just dues, while the truth is that chiefly under the present administration hae the treasury been opened to those who are not entitled to the bounty of the government says the Harrisburg Patriot, That the Cleveland administra- tion took as good care of the true soldiers as did any other administration at the same time preventing the fraud that hae become characteristic of the pension bureau of to-day, can be easily demon- strated, General Grant was the idol of the sol- diers. To him and his administration would veterans natarally look for most recognition. In 1869, the first year Og Grant's incnmbency, there was paid out for pensions $24,422 884; in the last year of his first term this increased to $30,% 169,341; and in the last year of his second term it fell to $28,351,600, Ian other words, the eight years of his presidency resulted in a loss to soldiers of $71,284 in pensions. Hayes went to the White House in 1877, Ia that year the pension disbursements amounted to $28,580,157, and in 1880 it increasad to $57,240,540, In 1881, under President Garfield, this fell to $5 0,626,539, and in 1584 there was paid oat 857 273,537 a small increase over the preceding administration. In sixteen years of Republican rule the pension list increased $28 850 643, In 1585 when Cleveland became presi- dent, soldiers received in pensions $65, 693,707, and in 1888 $79,646,146, or an in- crease over the previous administration of $22372609. That is the record of four years of Democratic rule, These pen- sions were believed to be just and proper all undeserving claims being rigidly exe cluded, Since then, however, the effort bas been made by Republican office hunters to get the soldier vote by having honorable men declare themselves de- pendents upon public charity, and many of them were led by demagogues to do 80. Many others lied and obtained pen- sion by fraud, which was practiced by the pension bureau as well as by the applicants, until in 1590 the payments for pensions amounted to nearly $106. 500,000, and is estimated at $1186,000,000 for 1801, The Democratic administration was the first to realiy and properly recognize the claims of soldiers, and their claims ware properly recognized when properly advanced. All applicants who were de- serving under the laws got their deserts. Bat that administration made no bid for the “soldier” vote by pensioming camp followers, sutlers, fireside soldiers and men who got a pain in their jaw reading war news to their neighbors. In those days a pension was the decoration of a heroic warrior—his badge of the Amers ican Legion of Honer. Now no one knows what many of them are, HT ————— The following clipped from the New York Recorder plainly voices the senti- ment of all honest Republicans in the state, and is without doubt but that the Republican party is not in harmony but is divided and Quay will again be “vin- dicated” at the coming election, Penne sylvania is a doubtful state amd the Democrats have full hopes of electing their entire ticket. The Recorder says when politics are run, as in Pennasylva- nia, upon Moute Carlo principles, what more apt than a doubtful state? We bave the noisome rumor that Mr, Quay will lead the campaign this year as chairman of the Pennsy lvania stats com- mittee, We are to have another cam- paign of vimdieation. Delamater was not enough, Bardsley is forgotten, Another turn at the wheel. The color may be red. Mr. Quay at the head of her campaign this year means that Pennsylvania becomes an extremely doubtfnl state and that Republicans all over the Union are forced into an atti tude of apology. The reasons which compelled the withdrawel of that gens tleman from the national committee make his leadership of the campaign in Pennsylvania a political scandal, This is no year for vind ications, for a reforma~ tory canvass, for board of correction campaigns, If thisis to be the contri bution of Pennsylvania to Republican ism~—if we are always to find her in the attitude of explanation and vindication ~better for Republicanism generally that she be no longer doubtful, but as hopelessly Democratic as Texas or Mae ryland. This is what the Grinnell (Ia) Jnde- pendent says McKinleyism has done for the farmer: “One and one-half cents per pound for butoher stock; $15 to $20 for a good fat cow is what this commun« ity is getting for animale that it cost from $12 to $25 to winter, and this high price comes from the protection from the vention crowd, pauper cows of British America. Great is the McKinley bill” HALL. PA. A correspondent recently inquired of the Philadelphia Times requesting a clearly put statement of the meaning of reciprocity and the resultof the reciproc- ity treaties which go inte effect Beptem- 1st, as to the price of imported articles to consumers in the United States. The editor of the Times in reply says rew ciprocily is simply free trade, with oc cassonal variations from free to fair trade and every movement made in the line of reciprocity is a direct blow at the vitals of the McKinley tariff, True, reciprocity. treaties are authoriz- ed by the McKinley tariff, but that feat- ure of the measure was an afterthought and was forced into the bill in the Sens ate, after it bad been contemptuously re- jected by McKinley and the House lead- ers, simply because Blaine bad broken the backbone of the McKinley iniquity. Blaine's public letters to Senator Frye declaring that the McKinley bill would not give the farmers a market for an additional bushel of wheat or pound of pork, compelled the monopolists to choose between accepting reciprocity or the defeat of their bill. Blaine was the one statesman deyelop- ed in his party by the long dispute over the tariff revison. He saw that the Mc Kinley bill, its increase of taxes on the necessaries of life, would doom the party to defeat, and he countered on McKinley with free trade simply sugarscoated by the enticing title of reciprocity, and now since the monopoly tariff has been res jected by the people in every section, the defeated monopolists claim reciprocity, or free trade, as the main feature of the new tarifl, Reciprocity is based on the free or fair exchange of the products of different countries. Free trade is its basis, and when entirely free trade is departed from it is by reciprocal terms for fair trade for the mutual benefit of producers and copsumers of both countries, Reciprocity must, therefore, benefit consumers in the United States by free admission of raw materials and also benefit our producers of the commodities we can best supply to other countries in return; but there is not a principle of feature of reciprocity that is not at war with every principle on which the Mes Kinley tariff is based. - Teating Assommodalions, The picnic committee ha arranged for a tall supply of tents for the picnic in Beptember, in Grange park, having bought many new and suitable ones, so that ail who desire can secure them at the following rates: 12x12 feet wall tents, Hoored, $5 00 each; 9x10 feet wall tents, floored, $2.50 each. To be assured of tent sccommodations, they should, as much as possible, be engaged in advance, Tents will be put up by the committee ready for tentholders on their arrival on the grounds. Those intending camping will bring camp equipage, lamps, bed clothing, chafl ticks, etc. The raliroad company will carry all articles free pertaining to camp equipage, for those coming by rail, Straw will be furnished at a nominal price for filling bed ticks, but no loose straw will be allowed in the tents. A Religious Convention, The State Cenvention of the Christian Endeavor societies is to be held in Wil linmsport this fall and will be a big ¢ Tair. Philadelphia alone sends between five and six hundred delegates, At the na- tional convention in Minneapolis in July the delegates numbered 50,000, constitut- ing the largest religious convention ever held in the world. Between 1500 2000 delegates are expected in Williamsport, #1 a Blate affair. A Pioniced in Grange Park, The Evangelical Bunday school of Le~ mont, pioniced in Grauge park, Centre Hall, on Saturday last, The school ar- rived in the morning by train and were about one hundred in number, but were largely reinforced by our residents, The day opened very gloomy but about tem o'clock cleared up and gave the picnic. ers delightful weather. They returned on the 4.28 train, rfter enjoying them- selves 1 only picniocers can, A tii. RA To Reach the Public. John Wanamaker, one of the most suc- cessful advertisers in the United States, said recently in an interview: “I never in my life used such a thing as a poster dodger, or handbill. My play for fifteen years has been to buy 80 much space in a newspaper and fill it up with what I want. I would not give an advertise ment in a newspaper of five bundred cir- culation for five thousand dodgers or posters, MON SO Appointed Assistant, The gradual increese of the business at the Centre Hall railroad station hav- ing become too large for Arb Katberman to perform, the superintendent has ens Clinton County Demoorats. The Democratic primaries for Clinton county take place next Saturday. There is but one candidate for constitutional convention delegate William H. Clough. There is no contest for this nomination because the sentiment is that the convention proposition will be voted down by the people. The majority of the Democratic lawyers, including Judge Mayer, Hon. 8B, R, Peale, C, 8, McCorms ick, T. C, Hipple and T.T, Abrams, are opposed to the great expense attached to it, together with the uncertainty of obtaining any of the reforms contem, plated by the friends of the measure- The candidates for register are James C, Smith, the incumbent, H. T, Jarrett and Frank Lanks; for associate judge, James W. Orawford, the incambent, A. M, De Haas and Captian James 8S. Hall, and for jury commissioner, Alexander Flannigan William Allison, Jr,, and Johan Q. Deise, The nominee for judge will probably be the man who will take the most posi- tive position in favor of granting liquor licenses only to legitimate hotel keepers, Both Lock Haven and Renovo have be- come rum-ridden, and crime has increas- ed. ——— vo —— i —————— Bitten By a Rattlesnake On Batarday of last week, Wm. Lights ner, of Baccaria township, Clearfield county, was bitten on the wrist by a huge rattlesnake, when some distance from home, and having no whiskey with him he took his knife and ent out the flesh into which the fangs had been sunk, then he sucked the wound effectus ally, bandaged his arm, and beyond a slight swelling he suffered but little exy cept from fright. -— ——————— Lunch Counters. Both the Lutheran and Presbyterian Ladies Aid Bocieties purpose having lanch counters at the picnic, where meals sic, can be obtained by the hungry. The societies are making efforts to raise money for liquidation of church debts and this means will be resorted to. If you benefit a geod cause thereby. I ——————— Had Thirteen Rattles, George Wells, the teamster, showed in the mountains a few days ago. They were thirteen in number, and his snakes ship was over three feet in length, and very fat, George has killed several ratilers this season, one of them having seven ratilers, which he killed about a week ago, near the reservoir, i The Can Exploded, Lloyd Wiser, aged 5 years of Wayne township, Mifflin county, was making a fire in a stove on day last week and sos cidentally permitted an oil can to come contact with the fiames, The can ex- ploded and the burning oil was spilled all over him. He run and screamed for help when his mother tore his clothes from his body but he had inhaled the flames and the fire had done its work, He died within twenty-four hours. s——— i —— Larger Attendance. We are informed by a member of the order, that the attendance at the plenic this year will greatly exceed that of last, especially will it be so with those who expect to camp upon the grounds. Last year 150 tents were found sufficient to meet all demands. but this year it is likely over 300 will be occupied, and over that number will be ordered. Zs Invitations Iseued. Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Miss Ella Harpster, of Cen. tre Hall, and Mr, Homer O. Barr, of Jeannette, Westmoreland county, Pa. on Tuesday evening, September lst, at eight o'clock, at the residence of Mr, J. F, Harpater. The Best Ever Grown. The Pennaylvania exhibit of tobacco at the big fair in Chicage will, it is said, be obtained im Clinton county out of this years crop. A better of tobacco than is growing in little Clinton at pree sent never was grown. The weather has been favorable since the plants were set, and the growth has been remarkable, Lock Haven Republican, Ee To Erect More Buildings. A large consignment of lamber was unloaded on the pienio grounds this week, which will be used in the erecs tion of several more exhibition build. ings. Work will be begun on them as soon py possible. Be Registered, Thursday, September 3, is the last day upon which a voter can register to e nv title him to » vote at the election which will take place Tuesday, November 3d. The lists are now at the several election polling places. sl - exiry, Contes nit, Lenney's 1891, BY THE WAY, It is said that there are no baldheaded tramps. If this be so the way to avoid a head that resembles moulded tallow or a billiard ball is easily followed, I am of the opinion that there are more who lose their hair from luxurious living, im- proper care and bad ventilation than over study. Those that become balds headed from too much study are rare— extremely so, "Ly Base ball seems to have completely captivated the young blood of the tows while those of a more dignified turn and finer apparel are carried away with crouguet, It is a healthy sign of the times when attention is given to sports and amusements which are refreshing to the spirits, conducive to physical devels opment and a grateful relief from the mo. notony of the daily routine of work. Base ball bids fair to endure as the na- tional game. Its only rival in populari- ty is foot ball, but that is as yet distines tively a college game and the rigor and severity of training necessary and the violence with which every interesting game must be largely made up, hinder its acceptance into popular favor. Base ball bas been reduced to a profession with a degree of cleverness and ingenuis ty in its execu tion that is incomprehen- sible to the casual observor, Bat it is nevertheless the greatest game in Ameri- ca and a love for it seems innate in every native born. Base ball players are like poets in that they are born mot made. Some boys ex- hibit a degree of awkwardness on the field that is strikingly amusing. The contortions, gyrations and apparently painful manoeuvres that they go through in the simple acts of throwisg and catching are enough to amuse a cynic. Then there are others with possibly no more practice or experience who display an ease and grace in the play that are pleasing to behold. Croquet isan old game—our grand fathers played it, and it still retains much favor, It is not a game for those in whose|veins flows the/flery blood of youth and life. It is closely sllied to skill bat it is slow, deliberate and devoid of many intricate points to wrangle over, Boys must growl, wrangle and dispute, and =a game that lacks opportunities for such indulgence must necessarily be umpopus lar with them, Bat it suits those of olds er habits and natures and our middle aged sports are spending lots of time (nothing more, I hope,) on it. rs ¥ The true test of genuine American pa~ per currency is to hold the bill up the lighteo that you can discern two lines running parallel soross its entire length; these are a red and blue silk thread ine side the paper; no counterfeit has them, LL" AT LAST, He bad wooed, but never kad r-ked consent Of this madd to his wife, They went toa Nusrat ong night, And when Peuing soda there, Through his awkwardness, jhe cork ¥ Ok fight, Nearly hitting maiden fa Bot she did not shrink as — missile near To ber very forehead With a rippling laugh she cried, “Oh, dear, aie yop a at laatt” ss » Lying is like war, a necessary evil. Don't understand me, however, as com- mending the malicious lie, the one that does harm or in any way injures the feelings of a person, but there isa species of lying that seems reslly necessary. as much so as truth and just as good in its effect and result, We live a life of com~ promise and reciprocity. In our social life, in our mingling together we tell more lies than truths, Imagine the state our social life would be in if we never deviated from the paths of immaculate veracity and told the plain, unvarnished truth every time! Leia person try it and he will soon be dubbed as impolite, uncouth and even brutal. The more pols ished, suave, entertaining a person is the more lies he will have to his credit. But there is an excuse for much of it and the lying that is done by way of compro. mising or smoothing over a delicate mat- ter is more in place than the cold trath, The courtesies and amenities of our ex. istence which we so constantly employ are barmiess and even less significant if possible, than the “guilty” or "not guils ty” of the culprit. I agree with a prom- nent writer of the day when he eays: “We may be as artificially polite as poss sible without violating any canon of eth fos, just as we may tell children fables and stories which are widely improbable without doing them or ourselves any harm, We may sven go further, and imagine ourselves in sueh a position as that to tell the truth would be cruel and brutal if nothing more. The truth must often be dilated, for, like pure oxygen, it is too strong for common use, Trath, it used to be said, lies at the bottom of a well, and it is safer and better to let it lie there than to house it in an impossi- ble palace and employ it in services which can lead only to trouble, confus- "NO. 32 The ‘‘Jew” question is up again, this time in the form of a complaint by the American Hebrew against the publishers of the Century dictionary for its offensive definition of the “Sheeny.” Here is the opaque way in which the dictionary de~ fines the words, *‘Sheeny (origin obs scure,) a sharp fellow, hence a Jew: = terme of opprobrium, also used attribu- tively. (Blang.)” I must admit this is rather an insulting definition, in which the lexicographer expressed his persons al bias quite as much as Dr, Johnson did when he defined “a pension” as “a #um paid to a hireling to betray his county.” Why a “sharp fellow” must necessari- ly be a Jew is hard to say when so many fine specimens can be found among Christians. Some one says this insult- ing word is derived from the French for dog,a pet name which for ages was given by the Christians to the Jews. In the gorgeous novel Ivanhoe, the insulting epithet is freely given to the meek and long suffering Isasc of York, Even that paragon of Christian chivalry, the baughty Templar, Brian de Bois Guilbert, can say nothing more courteous to Isaac than “Jew dog,” and “Unbelieving dog.” In the nations of the East, “Sheeny” means a Christian, and the complimentary mame by which an American or 2 European is saluted in Mohammedan countries is “Christian dog.’ Thus the law of retaliation trave els round the world; snd hate begets hate, and wrong begets wrong. But another authority gives this as the accepted origin of the name, In the middle ages the Jews used to curse their enemies with the expression, Misah Meschiua, “Mayest thon die one of the five judicial deaths,” This curse became very common, and the English catching the terminal sound from the people who used it, applied it or its corruption, shee ny, to designate that people. chien, LovsGer. ————— A A MP A Bafe Investmont, Isone which is guaranteed to bring you satisfactory results, or in case of fail- ure a return of purchase price, On this safe plan you can buy from our advertis- od Druggist a bottle of Dr, King's New Discovery for Consumption. It is guaranteed to bring relief in every case, when used for any affestion of Throat, Lungs or Chest, such sas Consumption, Inflammation of Lungs, Bronchitis, Asthma, Whooping Cough, Croup, ete., otc. It is pleasant and agreeble to taste, perfectly safe, and can always be depend- ed upon. Trial bottles free at J. D. Mar- ray’s Drugstore. ssi SAI MP——— Fostival, The Ladies Aid society, of the Evan- gelical church will hold a festival in Wolf's park, Centre Hall, on Saturday evening, next, August 20th, All are in- vited to attend. Proceeds for benefit of the church. Beoring the Tips The latest fud for ycung ladies is a handsome tablet to be carried on the street on which to score down the num» ber of Liat Lips they get from gentlemen friends. Where It Is. The new post office, Cato, recently es- tablished in-this county, is about fifteen miles north of Milesburg, out in the ridges, It will be a great convenience to the people of that remote region. New Top buggy, never in use, will be sold cheap. Apply to, or address, S W. Bmith, Centre Hall, Pa. we] igs Kate Reesman is again able to be out, and we hope her health wii continue to improve. «The attendance at the Penn Cave camp meeting next Sanday will be large. Nearly all express their intention of going down, , ~ «No ssrvioss were held in the Re- formed church om Sunday evening on account of the absence of the pastor, Bev. Eisenberg, at the dedication of the new Reformed church at Millheim, wee No shelf worn stock is thrust upon customers at A. C. Mingle's shoe store, Bellefonte. His large trade enables him to consiently keep new goods, and ale ways of the latest styles and at very moderate p an all customers admit. —_— citizen has a bob- tailed cow which gives sour milk and the papers of the town are unable to une derstand why this is. Probably one of the Reroxren's readers can inform them as to the cause of this freak of nature. ~e[}0 you want to secure genuine bargains in clothing and gent's furnish ing soit Lewine, at the Philad, near Farmers Mills, one day last week, lof cholera infantum. Mrs, Smith wes on a visit to ber motherdin.law, Mrs, Isanc Smith, where the child was taken i. The beds wan wun to wilimpatt ome de aad mhautey. a"
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