VOL. LXX.
WASHINGTON LETTER,
THE DEMOCRATS ENTERTAIN THE
HOUSE
Speaker Reed Gots a few Flings, and Sever.
al Democrats are Trying to Square
Themselves with their Party
WASHINGTON, April 19.—There|
were probably few Democrats present |
at the last session of the House who |
did'nt feel a little bit ashamed of the |
proceedings. Bailey,
of Texas, rose to a question of personal |
privilege, and after having read an ed-
itorial from a Washington paper, that |
claims to be Democratic, calling him
in effect a tool of Mr.
nounced the writer
and malicious liar. Later Representa-
tive DeArmond, of Missouri, arose also
to a question of personal privilege, and |
made a speech explaining his attitude
towards the Republican policy of semi-
weekly adjournments, and disclaim-
ing that he and the
thought as he did, had rebelled against
the Democratic leadership established
in eaucus, and virtually charging th at
it was the other Democrats who were
acting in opposition to the caucus. As
if that were not enough for one short
sitting, Representative Burke, of Tex-
as, also made a personal explanation,
calling the meetings of the House
‘great national farce’ and saying that
so far as his own action was concern-
A f
this was nuts for the Republicans and
Mr. Reed took good pains to allow the
Democrats to do as much
they wanted to do, so
talked against other Democrats.
Representative
he de-
Reed,
an infamous
us
Democrats who
a
il §
ii L$ 2
ed, he had consulted no one,
»
talking as
t
long as hey
A UE
majority voted for the three day ad-
Journment just the same, and carried
it.
The treaty negotiated by
ministration, with Great
fining a portion of the bound ary line
he last ad-
i
aio, de-
between Alaska and Canada, will nev- |
By |
the
er be ratified in its present shape.
a pretense in liberality in
U. 8B.
giving
giving
about fourteen square miles of
territory (which we already had a
gal claim to) the wily English diplo-
mats made a trap which was intended
to cost the U
having in that section, by shutting out
. =, all the territory worth
our claims within what is known as
ler
section with the 141st meridian, ane
our “thirty mile strip” and its is
came very near to succeeding too,
the treaty would
some time ago had not Senator Stew-
art objected.
have been
Mr. Stewart objected on
the general principle that the matter
was too important to be hastily dispos- |
ed of, and now that the contents of the |
treaty is understood, he is being con- |
gratulated for having prevented the
Senate making a blunder,
According to current gossip, ex-Rep-
resentative Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, |
must be a queer sort of a duck. The |
story goes that he took advantage of |
Mr. McKinley's financial obligations |
to him to that he
should be appointed Assistant Secreta-
ry of State. When the promise was
made, Mr. McKinley did not know
that Storer was not on speaking terms
with Senator Foraker, or with either |
of the Republican Congressmen from
Cincinnati, and now Storer insists on
that appointment made, al-
though he cannot get the indorsement
of either Senator, or any one of the
Congressional delegation. He has re?
fused to accept a foreign appointment, |
because his rich wife wishes to figure
in the official society of Washington, |
It is said that Mr. McKinley has told
Senator Foraker that there was noth-
ing left for him to do but nominate
Storer for the place, and that he add-
ed that any fight made on the nomi-
nation in the Senate would not be re
garded by him as a fight on the ad-
ministration. The nomination ill
almost certainly be rejected, and Stor-
er must know it, yet he insists on be.
ing nominated,
Certain Republican Senators, among
them Mantle, Carter, Shoup, Warren
and Burrows, have demanded of the
Republicans of the Senate Finance
Committee that a duty of not less than
two cents a pound shall be placed on
hides and that the duty on wool shall
be raised to meet a scheduie submitted
by them, and the demand is AcCom pa-
nied by a threat to defeat the tariff
bill if their wishes are not complied
with. It is clearly within the power
of these five Senators to defeat the tar-
HY bill, but it is not the opinion of
those best informed that they will
make use of that power to such an ex-
tent. They are simply exercising
their right to make a big bluff in the
interest of the products of their slates,
in order to get as much of the protec-
tion swag for thoir constituents as pos.
sible, but in the end they will take
what is gives them and vote for the
bill. :
Having satisfled themselves that
force a promise
being
|
[the Democratic steering committee,
| mittees will all be filled in a few days.
will stand substantially as they did at
{ the close of the last session. An agree-
{ ment might have been reached before,
but the Republicans wished to punish
| the silver Republicans for supporting
ryan, and the Democrats insisted
that it should not be done, and it was
not done,
Bp oy
Greece Fighting for Her Rights
The Greco-Turkish war is the resu
of the failure of reform
tre:
pledges.
ity of Berlin imposed certain obli-
gations of reform upon Turkey, which
that government promised faithfully
to execute,
I. It gave territory
irecee. Turkey never yielded the ter-
The
to
Those promises were ig
nore certain to
{
ritory. powers obligated them-
that the Sultan earried
out the reform plans,
their duty. Pledged
SeIVes >a
They neglected
to the
Christians in the Ottoman empire, the
protect
powers stood idly by while those Chris
tians were slaughtered by scores of
thousands
but
work
The powers did nothing
talk until the Cretans
out their own salvation, witl
Greek aid, and then the powers inter-
fered in the oppressor,
treaty breaker, and with their
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behalf of the
Lieavi
artillery and most murdero
jectiles fought against the Chri
The very Turkish batteries
il whiiel
Sunday
Greeks destroyed on
built at a point which Turkey wi
cifically prohibited from fortify
the treaty
are fighting for their
1
¥ 3 po
of Berli
un.
solemnly guaranteed by
rights which the
i
tse]
powers h
them, but whi pax been |
i promise |
cruelly broken.
-
.
Cansing a Sensation
White township, ( ounty, |
sensation so trance |
Tillie |
D.T
several
friends
to Heaven are cone
I daught
:
has been | i
visit
the twelve-year-ol
“aith, who nr
months, has been ast hing
des Tip
sraons who died
marvelous
tions of Hq LYE nd n
he she
. and
visited the heaven-
Defore s Was
bias |
Ue says
been in a number of trances in
meh her irit has
3 $0
i region describes
V whe ]OECUT
the way her mother, who die
years ago, was dressed when
£
i
aithough the child did not see he
parent before the interment.
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mother during one of
ribed
said she saw Ler
her trances,
brother who died before she was born
She also des i
and the description was so accurate
that the bewildered father was fright-
Hundreds of
visited the Faith home and conversed
ened, neighbors have
with the child, and to all their
remarkably
ues
tions she has given ACCU-
\
The supreme court of the state, in a
that
“stickers” have no rightful place on
rate replies,
Wc ip np
“Stickers are llega,
§
dia
decision of much interest, | Is
the official ballot, and if allowed, in-
validate the ballot and the election
This |
. Blank
ficial vot-
received to control the result.
be expected
1
ing papers for the purpose of writing
in the name of any one desired to be
voted for, and name is not
To allow stickers would dis-
regard the letter and spirit of the law.
Stickers have no place on a secret bal-
lot. They are themswives evidenes of
outside influence in making the
allot,
whose
up
ey VER
Wneeimen for It
The following has been sent out by
the press committee of the Pennsylva-
nia division L. A, W,
An analysis of the Hamilton road
bill, which recently passed the senate
clearly shows its advantage to the
farming element. First, the election
of three supervisors without compen
sation, enables the farming districts to
secure representative farmers as super-
visors whose only motives will be the
welfare of their co-workers u pon an
economical and systematic basis, One-
half the tax is more than a large pro.
portion of the taxpayers desire to work
out, and the one-half cash will build
Some permanent roads by contract: in
fact, the whole bill provides for an ap-
plication of business princi ples to road
work which will at once reduce the
taxes in townships where permanent
roads are not wanted and in others
build a little macadam each year with
the amount that now each year is wast.
ed. The office now is sought by in-
competent men, and the farmers are
paying large sums for which they re-
ceive no return. The name it carries
with it is a guarantee of its being
framed in the interest of the. farmers,
for they have no more loyal friend
i
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SCHOOL FUND DISTRIBUTION,
Farmers Endorse the Scheme Suggested by
Governor Hastiogs,
The existing system of distributing
the public school fund is not likely to
be disturbed by the present legislature,
The farmers have been trying for years
to bring a change that will give them
a larger of the
The nearest they ever came to it was
slice appropriation,
two years ago,
The present system it is claimed, dis-
eriminates against the smaller districts
and the Phila lelphia and Allegheny
delegations will agree to none of the
pending propositions.
Governor Hastings suggests that the
appropriation be distributed by divid-
ing third the
«third on of the
1
On cquany among
BCLIOOIS, On the Dasis
school p pulation and the balance
the basis of the taxables,
This « 1emie has been en lorsed Oy
the farmers and R spresentative Bmuith,
of Ded! bill to
measure has |
edu
introduced
T
been brought out of the
rd, has
i
irry it into effect, He
house
Lo
22,
18
I7.
CAPITOL BILL PASSES.
NOW COMES THE OPPORTUNITY
FOR PLUNDER.
The Bill Passed by the Legislature to Kpend
Over Hall a Milllon.—No Limit Placed
on Furnishings
to 30. for
concurrence in the house amendments
for his
It then went to the senate
and then to the governor
uature.
The bill was taken u
ng session on a special order for third
Mr
if Bedford, promptly moved to
sig
reading and final passage, Smith,
or
to committee of the whole to
by limiting the cost of furnishing
lecorating the building to
After a short debate the motion
Bae 1
a vole of 8]
Mr. Robb,
' Gs
yy yo.
£..11 . 1
0] ioliowed
Alleghany,
{ Hnmiitiee,
00 ©
ini
Two were reported |
T +11 . i 1
Phere are still thre other bills
the committee,
and then recommitted. One provides |
for the distribution on the basis of |
This,
€ districts more {
schools, it is said, would give
#01 han their total}
i
school eX penis H,
Another bill provide this aif
the
gmon
one-hit
1
distributed equally |
ot is and one-half on the
“1 f" i + $4 1 # to * :
average annual school attendance.
one-half
th |
:
SCHools, one-four
altar To
attendance,
th
irief Notes.
fal ¢
field |
don't |
The large tannery at Clear ®
why
advance ag {pet
The Lock Haven
around there?
no
Normal w
The Odd F
near Sunbury, was op
RIOWSs
to the institution, Odd Fellows’
Jon from SEVen cou
nties are intere
in the home a itio
Organiz
assessed annually $1 per membe
A
bier
big battle
iI8 looks
r
y in close proximity.
w and
The legislature at Harrisburg is not
efforts are being made |
to create more new offices. The prom- |
have important Refor:
{
weied now proves i
to dec
iV tax ps
Captared a Bargilar
M. J. Artman and Edwin Paul, esq.,
had a very exci
3 ting encounter with a!
burglar in the cellar of Artmuan's store |
in Milton, a f
few nights ago. They en- |
forced. Mr. Artman seized s hatchet |
while his friend armed himself with a i
and the the |
In the found
tough looking customer, who, on find- i
club, went down
they
pair
steps, cellar al
iron and made an attack on his assail- |
ants, Mr. Paul pointed his club at the |
intruder and the latter threw up his|
in the dim
light mistaking the elub for a gun, |
surrendered,
}
An officer was called and the burglar
was taken into custody.
a
Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage licenses have |
been issued the last week:
Wm. W. McGee, of Magee's Mills,
Clearfield, county and Bertha E. Long,
of Howard, Pa.
Arthur C, Young, of Hecla, Pa. and
Emma M. Minnick of Nittany, Pa.
George E. Seibert and Nora B.
Thompson both of Benner Township.
John H. Crossmire, of Curtins works,
and Candace Bridge, of Marion Twp.
John H. Maffet, of Osceola, Clear
field county, and Alice J, Fleck of Ju-
lian, Pa.
Heory H. Clark, and Maud C. Bit
ner, both of Eagleville, Pa.
Rev Oliver Govnal, of Apolla, Pa.,
and Phoebe Ann Lamb, of Philipsburg,
Pa.
John 1. Grey, of Half Moon Twp.,
and Nannie C. Woodring of Port Ma-
tilda,
A SAAN
Mrs. A. Inveen, residing at 720 Hen-
ry street, Alton, IIL, suffered with sci-
atic rheumatism for over eight months.
She doctored for it nearly the whole of
this time, using various remedies rec
ommended by friends, and was treat-
ed by the physicians, but received no
relief. She then used one and a half
bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm,
which effected a complete cure, This is
published at her request, as she wants
otners similarly afflicted to know
what cured her. The 25 and 50 cent
sizes for sale by J. H. Ross, Linden
Hall, 8, M. Swartz, Tusseyville, Wm.
with a motion to go into committee of
the whole to amend by juseriing a
iause providing for an annex to the |
east wing of the proposed building to
Lo
be fitted up atl a cost not eX 0
.
v
=, 000 with a plant to furnish heat
buildings.
Mr. Harris, of Clearfield. a!
spoke
Wf Northumberland, took a fall
He said he did
3
out
the bill,
not
ff the colonial style of
If
i
this plan was followed ou
be followed in the
Mr. Nesbitt said he
irnishing
knew the
bie 1
nat t rn Die
i
wd of ti
€n years from now the i
not pr
Mr. McElhany, of
insylvania will be ti
inv's work.
ror §
ng ti
ie commission unlimited au-
10 « x pend the slates money In!
The ar
Robb’s moti
the bi
furnishing the building
Mr,
down
Id be limited,
m1 voted and
saged to the se nate,
The
He erection of a © kpitol on
The
€ supervision
meastre appropriates §
the
be old sullding. work is to be
0
a
mission comp wed of G Wernor,
treasurer, auditor general.
pro tem. of the senate and speaker of
The building is to be ready for |
Lhe
the meeting of
8
legislature
next
is to be furnished under the direct |
¥
of
the board
The
is
public
buildings
and grounds, cost of furnishing
’
IR Gover. |
week
tinlimited.
Wc ify op
The Locusts Cry Again,
that
The ery now is the seventeen |
world this year, and
you will doubtless hear this rasping |
An ex-|
engagement |
By June July |
screech throughout the land.
“His
geciion
Inst
in
change says:
with this was i880, when!
considerable damage to vegetation.” It
teen year locust is a serous scourge
Ihey subsist on roots and fibres when |
in the earth, in the grub state, but eat |
but little if
ground,
anything, when above |
The chief damage they in-|
on trees, making grooves in which to
They cut
swath in this line for about six weeks.
then they and their
deposit their eggs. a8 wide!
perish, larvas,
is transformed from
again makes hisdebutas a screeching
locust,
A a nisi
Laughter is Healthy,
It is said that every hearty laugh in
which a man or woman indulges tends
to prolong life, as it makes the blood
move more rapidly and gives a new
and different stimulus«to all the organs
of the body from what is in force at
other times. Therefore, perhaps the
saying “Laugh and grow fat” is not
an exaggerated one, but has founda-
tion in fact. No truer words were
ever uttered than those which state so
clearly, “Laugh and the world laughs
with you; weep, and you weep alone,”
The jolly, wholesome, happy-harted
people are those who have most friends
and see the best that life holds out to
them.
A IM SO HRA
Two years ago R. J. Warren, a drug.
gist at Pleasant Brook, N. Y., bought
a small supply of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy. He sums up the result as
follows: “At that time the goods
were unknown in this section; loday
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a
household word.” It is the same in
hundreds of communities. Where
ever the good qualities of Chamber-
lain’s Cough Remedy become known
the people will bave nothing else. For
sale by J, H. Ross, Linded Hall; 8. M.
Swartz, Tusseyville, Wm.
ww m——
NO. 19
BLOW AT OFFICE HUNTERS,
| Postmaster General Gary Makes an Import
| ant Ruling About Small Offices.
| Postmaster General Gary is credited
| with the adoption of a new policy re-
| garding fourth-class postmasters in of-
| fices where the total muneration in the
course of the year does not exceed $100,
| Mr. Gary holds that in such a small
| place the postoffiee should not be con-
| for political
declined
{sidered a thing reward,
{and has already to appoint
offices
incumbent's
several Republicans to sucl
i where the Democratic
time has expired, because the appli-
| :
{ cants had not the endorsement of any
erable number of the patrons of
General Gary has notified several
representatives that this poliey will be
strictly carried out, an:
be that in Democratic di
fhe the
are Democrats,
majority of
office
Jeris
HW
in the postmaster during
wi fO118 Vos
next four vears,
el tl
Lancaster Constables Lectured,
At the Lancaster court on Monday
nthe « ade
eturns Judge Brubaker gave
far} When «
3 y 3
w hie i their
i
them
onstables m
usual
a
ive eclure, ily con
1
:
en K-easies’’ or so-called “elul
"
answered negatiy
The Court then .
£
: +4 .
ised them of
Judge :
©
int
fis
HW
rmation
thie
formation
and will |
law,’
th
i
DEIr returns
NK
Come to im
- -> —
Base Ball Suits and iii yoles Free
It is safe to that nearly
es
or
member of generation
itl ¢ g ail
BE either of base ball
But how to get
wi
' solves both. , Which
» ball |
makes |
it
to the amateur |
the
will
interesting
mse ball club receiy ing greatest |
te set of the finest National League }
Jall uniforms. This includes |
Base
trousers, and the whole outfit will be
The whole out-
fit will be given absolutely free to the |
rec the i
I details
club ring greatest |
of
every |
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he Press’
day.
of
Any number
a iri}
post-
age stamps to “The Press,” Philadel- |
phia, i
msn
Dont's in Farnishing the House.
Do’nt confound liking with taste. |
Don't put borders on carpets for
small rooms,
Don’t hang chandeliers or lamps in
Dou’t be chary of rich warm tints
in a northern room.
Don’t buy what suits the fancy, re
garcdless of their combined effect.
Don’t select anything because itis
fashionable, but because it is good.
Don’t have any apparent, much less
any regular, arrangement of furniture.
Don’t believe for a minute that ex-
pensiveness is essential to beautifal ef.
fects,
Don’t make a table a pivoted point
from which the rest of the furniture
radiates,
Don’t use decided patterns for up-
holstery if you have for wall and floor
coverings,
Don’t make a narrow door narrower
with a heavy drapery. We drape too
much.
i fA rR.
Of Interest to Odd Fellows.
The Central Pennsylvania Odd Fel-
lows association will hold the largest
demonstration in its history on the 25,
of this month, in Mt. Carmel, Pa. The
Ioeal enmmittee are making extensive
eparations to receive the visiting
a The various mining opera
tions will sunpend work on that oceas
sion and the railroads have given a
special low rate of fare. A large num-
ber of cantons, encampments and sub.
ordinate lodges from Schuylkill,
Local Jots and Plenssantries
Advertise in the Reporter, everybo-
dy reads it,
Johnny Hosterman isstill the cham-
pion cycle expert in this part of the
kingdom.
Bpeer
‘almer bagged 52
them
other day ; he hooked
Bpeer one of ‘em.
There has been nothing unfavorable
to the grain fields and fruit crop thus
far ; all safe yet.
There is nothing so unsucee
that which never succeeds and ends in
a miserable farce,
mountain sides are f
this
The
flow #]
waler filling the o;
wings Irom
I wo work
oo F¥
sid
or fine |
all at tl
1 ¢
iii LARC
"in this offi
r 0
FONE «
Some fine trout hay
Penn's ereek and oth
Ho one as vel caught ¢
f
ill aA Weer,
$ f
VO Ir
Pe rh ips
0 Le looking
over 100 trout,
1 : H
there is a little sil
Potatoes {
continue plenty
market and can be had for 10 ar
E i
sliced potatoes and fried, make a cheap
ove
cents per bushel Ze dashe
and royal dish.
Dr. Sum Musser, of Aaronsburg, in-
iis field
the
county,
forms us the general health in}
about
the
alarmingly for the doctors,
That's
tice is good.
Tuesday morning, 20th,
coldest on record for some in
April Thermometer at places,
was about same as here, down to 20.
was the
date
EF
ail
Fhe peach crop was badly damaged.
There is something funny about the
If the subseri-
finds it dated
if the editor ex-
amines it and finds it in arrears he will
sigh.
it and
ahead he will smile :
examines
The Centre Democrat
another scholarship contest tn the
Lock Haven Normal. Miss Violetta
Wolf, of this place, will make an ef
fort, with the assistance of friends, to
win the prize,
has opened
The most harmonious water compa-~
ny are the trout and chiubs in the drug
store aquarium ; each fish wags its
tail without meddling with any other,
and a lesson might be learsed even
from the trout and chubs,
We heard of a boy, the other day,
taking his first lesson in fishing ; with
rod, line aud grain of corn on the hook
he made a cast among the chickens of
the barn yard and soon caught a hen.
Very soon after he caught a durn good
licken’ from the “ole man.”
There are some bad board walks in
town which may cause a suit for dam-
Ages any hour. Perhaps the walk
committee has no form for notifies.
tion ; if so, apply at this office, we can
supply three sent tc annoy and signed
by one having a very ragged walk all
the time. \
es
One Way to be Mappy,
I= to attend to the comfort of your
family. Should one eatch 5 slight
cold or cough, eall on R. E. Bartholo.
mew, Centre Hall, and G. H. Long,
Spring Mills, and get a trial bottle of