VOL. LXXII.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
TROUBLE ON FOOT WITH THE CU-
BAN ARMY.
Alger's Polley in the Isiand will Cause =
Revolt, ~The Interesting Fight for
Spenkership Honors,
WasHiNGTOoN, May —Washing-
ton is decked out in Inauguration tog-
gery for the three day Peace Jubillee,
which begins tomorrow, and the addi-
tional beauty given by nature furnish
another argument in favor of changing
Inauguration day from March to about
this season of the year, when Wash-
ington is at its best, both for looks and
for the comfort of visitors,
Mr. McKinley is finding the hot wa-
ter in which he has been ever since he
has got back to Washington much
more uncomfortable thsn that in
which he bathed at the hot springs.
The mess in Cuba, where the Cuban
army is almost on the verge of open
revolt, is not conducive to his peace of
mind, but it is no more than might
have been expected from the policy
that he has allowed Alger to attempt
to carry out over there. Some go so
far as to charge that Alger is trying to
drive the Cuban army into revolting
for purposes of his own, although it is
diffignlt to imagine what purposes he
could have that would be served by
such a misfortune as that would neces-
sarily prove to be.
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When Mr. McKinley went away he
expressed the opinion that Aguinaldo
would surrender and peace be estab-
lished in the Philippines before his re-
turn, but he found things very much
as they were when he left Washing-
ton. Aguinaldo is still trying to nego-
tiate and is still being refused by Gen.
Otis,
Friends of the several candidates for
Speaker are trying to force Mr. Me-
Kinley to declare himself and there is
a sort of understanding that in order
to square himself in both the east and
west, he has said that either Sherman
or Henderson would be perfectly ac-
ceptable to him. This understanding
has resulted in the formation of a com-
bine of Henderson and Sherman sup-
porters for the purpose of shutting out
all other candidates. Payne is in
Washington kicking hard against be-
ing left out in the cold, and declaring
that he intends to remain in the field
until the last, regardless of orders from
Boss Platt, Mr. McKinley or anybody
else. The friends of Hopkins also de-
clare that he will not allow himself to
be frozen out. Itis all very well for
these gentlemen to talk, but the ques-
tion is how can they help themselves;
as soon as it becomes generally known
that peither is wanted by the adminis-
tration, neither will have any support
ers left.
The most amusing feature of the
Speakership campaign is the frantic ef-
forts of what may be slangly called the
“Heed push,” to retain their grip up-
on the plums in the House organiza-
tion. Their Iatest was an appeal to
the ex-Czar to defer his resignation un-
til after he is elected Speaker and has
named the committees. Whatever
else he may be, Mr. Reed is not a fool.
not a few believe that to have been his
a ghost of a show to be elected Speak-
er when it would be known that his
only object was to put the organization
of the Committees into the hands of
his friends and then get out.
Although everybody knew that Sen-
ator Kean, of N. J., was a railroad and
corporation lawyer, and therefore nat-
urally inclined to favor trusts of all
sorts, he surprised many by publicly
_declaring, while he was in Washing
"ton a day or two ago, that the people
of New Jersey would not support any
party that condemned trusts, because
the trusts organized under their state
laws paid so much money into their
Treasury. Surely it is tizae to do some
hard thinking when a Senator public-
ly states his belief that his state has
been bought by the trusts—to be ex-
act, Mr. McKean's words were: “The
annual revenue from the tax on the
‘capital of all corporations created un-
der our laws now amounts to between
$500,000 and $900,000 You can readily
see that the people who benefit from
this influx of wealth are hot apt to be
antagonistic to the corporations that
contribute it.”
According to current gossip, Secreta
ry Alger is ungrateful along with his
numerous other faults, He has an-
nounced himself a candidate for Sena-
tor McMillan's seat, and the latter has
dent is bound by promises to keep Al-
ger in the Cabinet, unless he will vol-
untarily resign, but is determined to
get even by keeping him out of the
Senate.
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Disorediting American Meat Produets.
American meat products may
discredited the world over, as they
have been at different times hitherto ;
but in the present instance, as in for-
mer instances, it is not the truth-tell-
ing of the General of the army that |
has wrought discredit, but the busi-
ness folly and greed of the packers
themselves, who, as often heretofore,
have again been attempting to sell
poor goods, and have got caught at
their game,
Every American meat-handling
tre in Europe knows this game of our
American meatpackers of old.
nections by supplying by far the best}
meat products known to the European
trade, and then, as they think the
market may bear it, they proceed to
cheapen and discredit their goods un-
pean by-word. After that, the w hole |
expensive business of re-establishing a |
good name and a trade has to be done |
all over again. It isa fool way, but]
unhappily, it is the American way as |
to many exported products,
What some of the packers are known |
to have done in supplying meats to]
our army in Cuba, many of them do |
and for many years have done con- |
sistently in supplying meats to the |
markets of the worid.
It is this, then and
(ien. Miles has said or can say,
“is discrediting American meat prod- |
ucts the world over.”
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Bicycle Paths. :
The interest of owners of bicycles in |
Centre county is more or less engross- |
ed with the appointment of three bi-
eycle side path commissioners for Cen- |
tre county, and the assessment of one |
dollar tax on wheels. Cause for re-
mark has been occasioned by ignoring
this side of the county on the board,
and that little expenditure can be ex-
pected on the Penns Valley side unless
demands are made that the board can-
not ignore. By the law Penns Valley
will contribute over one thousand dol-
lars to the fund for building bieycle
paths, and it is ouly reasonable to ex-|
pect that at least this sum be expend- |
ed in fitting up our roads slong with |
other parts of the county. As the |
present sentiment stands, the greater]
part of the fund will be expended |
around Philipsburg and Bellefonte, |
and other districts will come in at the
tail end. The commissioners have or-
dered the assessors to make a return of
every wheel in the county. With one
dollar up sgaiost every wheel of soy
and every grade and quality, many
do not look kindly upon the law when
no direct benefit is fortheoming. The
appointment of another commissioner
when a vacancy occurs on the board,
will be insisted upon ss a member
from this side. There is a prevailing
impression that only residént taxables
ean be assessed with one dollar, but it
takes in every wheel whether owned
by women, children or migors. The
assessment covers every wheel by
whomever owned.
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Entertainment Tonight,
The F. oneert Com»
pany will give an risiniment in
this evening. A quars
tette, composed of excellent singers,
assisted by one of the finest "Uello
players, will delight the audience. ©,
D. Davis, Professor of Elocution, will
intersperse the music with five selec
tions. Admission 25 cents; children
under 12 years, 15 cents. Doors open
at 7.00 o'clock. Proceeds for the bene
fit of the Reformed church,
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Marringe Licenses,
The following marriage licenses
were issued during the past week:
Geo. W. Harper and Angie Bates,
Ferguson twp.
Seif Nagg and Rosa Karoly, Clar
ence,
Clayton Brown and Bertha SBpotts,
Philipsburg, ~
Geo. 8B, Schenck and Anna
low, Blanchard.
Undertakers to Meet,
The eighteenth annual convention
of the Peennsylvania Undertakers’ as
sociation will be held in the court
house in Bellefonte, June 7th and Sth.
This association is the largest of any
state in the union and upwards of 300
delegates are expectad.
Putting it in Shape,
The Swasiety is being put in credita-
and M. College 1
orale
Wins
NEWS JOTS.
Our forces drove 800 Filipinos from
their intrenchments.
There are new assurances the war
away out there is near its end.
The next Republican state conven-
| tion is likely to be two-thirds Quay,
A fire cleaned up the business heart
of Dawson City, on the Yukon,
one million dollars.
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a freight ear in Philadelphia, in which |
16 horses were burned.
Senate is to have a law passed by con-
gress, that only a plurality of a legis
lature shall be required to elect a sena-
The boss is so desperate, if it were
possible, he would use military force
to be seated.
The Quay lieutenants held a slate
| convention by the seashore, end of Inst
{ week, and fixed upon the men fo be
The report of a decision by the Uni-
| ted States Circuit Court, that ‘‘the di-
i rectors of a bank are not liable for the
| mismanagement of funds by the presi
i dent, who takes advantage of his posi-
| tion to speculate,” is not true, hence
i tre liabilities of directors remains as
| heretofore, and justly so
Admiral Dewey has left Manila for
{ the United States, receiving a goodbye
boom from all the cannon in and about
| the harbor. He will sall leisurely and
not reach this country before three
months, He will be given a score of
receptions in this country, and all Eu-
Mediterranean intend to salute the
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Stopped Work
stopped the
reservoir on
The boro council has
work of repairing their
the water plant. The lining
sin on the west side has been torn out,
and over half of that on the lower side |
was removed whenthe
dered to stop.
aen
and the
dismantled condi-|
a loss to Know |
days
stands in a sadly
tion. The counell is at
how to make repairs,
do not know what to do.
to consult some one who has
perience in that line, but such
s article,
bers of the council state that they “are
any one’ and several to
come before the body and tell
what to do. With the town
$10,000 in debt on this sccount, this is
any but a flattering prospect.
requested
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Laws Not Enacted.
A subject for comment to those ina
position to take a comprehensive view
of the state is the lack of general recog-
nition given to legislative acts, so far
as pertains to the several statues’ ful-
fillment.
There Is a compulsory educational
iaw, for instance, and only in certain
counties has there been steps of any
moment taken to enforce its require-
ments. The bicycle side-path law too,
bas thus far met with response in com-
paratively few counties. The new
statute providing for the employment
of prisoners as roadmakers is a meas-
tre that has been observed in scarcely
any of the counties, and jail inmates
need feel little alarm over the prospect
that they will have to earn their sup-
port by making roads. Yet this law
would seem to insure good results if
properly carried out. It provides that
the judge, sheriff and commissioners
of each county shall constitute a board,
fully empowered to compel prisoners
to work on the public roads, as the
Inw directs. Preference ia to be given
to the public highways radiating from
the county seat, and when work on
such road shall be completed a distance
of five miles, then some other main
turnpike is to be similarly improved,
«Philadelphia Press,
Fearless Anna Long.
On the north fork of Marsh creek
lives Mrs. Anna Long, who supports
‘herself and her demented husband on
a little farm of twenty scores, which
she cleared, and now cultivates with
her own hands. She is a robust, fear
less woman, During the past winter
she shot three wildeats, which she
caught molesting her chickens, and
500 | slong toward spring was awakened
‘one night by her dogs, which were
LOGAL AND GENERAL TOPICS
INCIDENTS AND EVENTS OCCUPY-
ING THE PUBLIC MIND.
Happenings in the Town snd the Surround-
ing Country of Timely Interest to All
To Test the Schoslfund Cut,’
Governor Stone's strike at the school
fund is not to go unchallenged. It
has received the condemnation of the
| people and seems settled that legal
proceedings will be instituted in the
Bupreme Court to test the right of the
Governor under the Constitution to
veto a proposed amendment to the
Constitution, and also to appoint a
United States Senator. In addition to
these proceedings it is reasonably cer-
tain that legal measures will be taken
in some form to test the power of the
Governor to reduce the school appro-
priation, It will probably be done by
{ the proper cilicer of some school fund
applying to the Court for a mandamus
upon the State Treasurer to pay the
full amount of money appropriated by
the Legislature for his distriet,
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New System of Registering Deeds,
One of the acts passed by the recent
legislature and approved by the gover.
nor, is to establish a new system for
the registering and recording of deeds
in all counties of the state having over
5000 inhabitants, The new law makes
it compulsory that every deed trans
ferring real estate, be first registered in
the county commissioners office. One
of the objects is to prevent fraud ang
error in valuations and assessors’
returns, The longer this
law is active of course the greater the
| number of real estate transfers will be
| recorded, and finally the in
records
i real estate. The practical result will
be to increase the valuation in the
| county, and bring more money in the
| shape of taxes to the county treasury.
Co AN,
Birds | ns Weather Forecasters,
kind of
:
| If you want to know what
| weather we are going to have, watch
ithe birds, When they stop singing
{suddenly it is time for all little boys
{and girls to seek shelter, for there is
If all
| going to be a thunder shower.
i the birds begin to pick their festhe
| wash themselves and fly to their nests,
Parrots and canar-
| ies dress their feathers and are restless
| and wakeful in the night before a
storm. If the peacock cries when he
goes to roost, there will be rain before
i morning. Robins will perch on the
{ topmost branches of trees and whistle
when a storm is coming on.
A On MM AUS Ais —
A Million for the State.
The admission of Henry C. Frick,
Saturday, that the capital stock of the
Carnegie company will be $250,00,0-
000 is interesting in more ways than
one. It gives those seeking invest.
ment an idea of the amount of stock
that can be subscribed for, and relieves
the minds of those owners of small
steel plants who feared the competi
tion of the immense corporation with
$600,000,000, which has been discussed
in connection with the Carnegie con-
solidation. The state will receive one
million dollars as bonus on the charter
of the new company.
It will not be long until the machine
bosses get this million into their pock-
ets.
i look out for rain.
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No "Phone Connection With Union Co,
The hoped for telephone connection
with the good people of Union county
will not be established. The independ-
ent company of Union county does not
think it will pay them to extend their
line from Glen Iron through theunin.
habitell mountain district to Wood-
ward to make connection with the
Commercial line at that point,
We are sorry to learn this, since it
is so desirable to have telephonic talks
with folks down that way, a conveni-
ence that all longed for.
Vd A Seedioss Orange.
Not content with having produced a
hybrid orange that is likely to thrive
in a comparatively northern climste,
the United States department of agri.
culture is now engaged i4 evoluting an
orange that shall be seedless, and
whose peel will come away as readily
as the skin of a banana. This, too, it
is said, will be able to withstand con
siderable degree of frost,
SA MY AR ———
Planting a Big Crop.
Our hustling business man, farmer
lumberman 8 Huyete is putting out six-
7 Mountain farm
A World for the Explorer.
The report of Commander Todd, of
the gunboat Wilmington, shows that
he ascended the Amazon river 2,100
miles from the Atlantic, and that had
he not run short of coal he could have
continued 300 miles further, or within
about 100 miles of the Pacific ocean,
What an incomparable voyage fora
river ! Had his coal held out he would
have sailed on the stream almost across
a continent. He would have eovered
a distance as great as from New York
to Salt Lake City. And what an em-
pire the Wilmington explored ! All of
Brazil, although the republic
States, contains a population of but
from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000, or about
that of New York and Pennsylvania
combined, and not mote than a third
of the whole number are whites.
climate of the Amazon Is not bad, the
forests are beyond the dream of avar-
ice when the lumber supply is in
mind, the plateaus that are fit for
herds and flocks are like our own prai-
ries, and the water transportation that
is at hand insures the cheapest freights
in the world.
The man who looks upon the grow-
ing population of the United States
and frightens himself into the belief
that the earth is rapidly filling up has
no idea of the room that is left. The
voyage of the Wilmington was to a
new world, and one that contains land
and resources enough to sustain a
greater population than is gathered
yet on the American continent. We
listen to the exploitation of Africa and
the far away unknown lands, but in
America there is pleptp of room for
the explorer and settler.
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He Made the Aunouncement
A prominent Detroit minister, who
is noted for siraightforwardness of
speech, was soaking the announce.
ments the other Sunday, when one of
the ushers of the church walked for-
ward and handed him a note. It an-
pounced the death and funeral of one
of the old members of the church, who
had not attended regularly of late
years, or kept up his dues. The mio-
ister took the note, read it and went
on with his snnouncements, as fol-
lows: “The young people’s society of
the church will meet in the chapel on
Monday evening. The ladies’ sewing
after.
noon with Mrs. Jordan. 1am request.
ed to announce that Mr. So and So
died early this morning, I am also
requested to announce that the funer-
al will be held in this church Tuesday
afternoon. Mr. So and So will be
present in person for the first time in
eleven years. The usual morning of-
fering will now be taken.”
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He Salted the Calf
A Jeflerson county farmer recently
hired a very inexperienced boy out of
the Reformstory to help about the
place. One morniog he told the lad
to go and salt the calf in the pasture,
The boy took about a quart of salt and
rubbed it all over the calf, working it
into the hair. A gang of colts in the
pasture scented the salt and got after
the ealf. They licked the hair all off
the calf”s back and tried to lick the
hide off, too. The farmer tried to
catch the calf and wash it off but the
creature, thinking he wanted to lick,
too, kept out of his way. The boy,
calf and farmer are all unhappy. The
colts are the only ones that got any
fun out oft.
This was like the Irishman who was
told to grease the carriage, an hour af-
ter reported he had greased it all over,
except where the wheels were 1ast, not
knowing how to get ‘em loose.
Went Naked to Be Saved.
John Polosky, a milkman, at Mill
ville, N. J., erazed by religion, created
a sensation by serving customers with
milk from his wagon, in a° nude con-
dition. An officer Who was sent for
Polosky found him wandering about
the farm without any clotheson. The
man declared the world was coming
to an end and only those who went
naked would be saved.
A Candidate for the Job,
A new candidate for a job with the
Oshkosh fire department wrote thus;
“Hereby I put in my application for a
job in the fire départmeat. I can run,
Jump or elime like a cat, and have no
NO. 21
LOCAL —
Cullings of More than Ordinsry Interest
from Everywhere.
The Larger Prayer,
at first I prayed for Light.
Could I but see the way,
How gladly, swiftly, would I walk
To everlasting day !
And next I prayed for Btreng th,
That I might tread the road
With firm, unfaltering feet, and win
The heavens’ serene abode,
Aud then I asked for Faith.
Could I but trust my God
{ I'd live enfolded in His peace,
Though foes were ull abroad.
| But now I pray for Love,
Deep love to God and man ;
A living love that will not fail,
However dark His plan.
{ And Light and Strength and Faith
Are opening everywhere !
| God only waited for me till
I prayed thie larger prayer.
~Hdns Desn Cheney.
A new business is on the tapis.
A laundry is open for wash and pol-
ish.
Queen Victoria was 80 years old yes-
terday.
Candidates are beginning to breathe
hard.
Cool spring thus far ;
of warm days.
The recent ¢ool days held back the
corn somewhat,
only a couple
Not = great deal of sickness in the
county just now,
Elijah Bharp, Bellefonte,
sion increased, §8 to $12
had pen-
jo
The grass crop is safe and there will
be a large crop of hay.
Mrs. Bairfoot is adding a stylish bay
window to her residence.
The wheat that escaped freezing last
winter, is picking up finely.
An old and true saying, "It's a poor
game that two can't play at.”
Dan Keller thinks cherry crop is
damaged to considerable extent,
Note change in rr. timetable on the
main line ; no change on our branch.
Persons whose labels show dues of
over a year, please send the needful.
All the ministers of this town are ex-
perts at catching trout, all but one us-
ing bait.
On Monday last a heavy snow fell in
Yorkshire and Westmoreland counties
in England.
Harry Harper
W. H. Bartholmew advertises exeo-
utor’s notice upon the estate of Mrs,
R. E. Bartholmew
All last week was cool enough for
frost, but Providence warded it off by
a nightly mantle of clouds.
Cold weather did harm to corn in
parts of Miles, and gave it more or less
of a check in other sections.
Frank Bradford is improving his
home with a fresh coat of paint, yel-
low tint and light trimmings.
Rob Mench, merchant st Aarons-
burg, took a wagon load of potatoes to
Bellefonte, which brought 58¢ per bu.
The blame for the awful wreck near
Reading, per the train dispatcher’s tes-
timony, was due to reckless running.
The Kansas City Star: Generally
the good man who has just gone wrong
is the bad man who has been found
out.
Huyett's cattle ranch in the Seven
mountains starts with 35 head, to be
increased as chances to buy present
themselves.
Rev. Rearick’s appointments, Sun-
day, May 28: Centre Hall, 2 p. m. ;
Spring Mills, 7 p. m. ; Tusseyville, 10
a. m,, communion.
A destructive hail storm, with
chunks of ice, visited Saline county,
Kansas, Monday night, killing cattle
and destroying crops,
Joseph Morrison, convicted of mur
dering Harry Daugherty at Belleville,
was refused a new trial by Judge Bai-
ly, and will be hung.
Reports from Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio, speak of a poor wheat crop. Late
spring, unfavorable weather and the
Hessian fly are the cause,
The elm tree is full grown at the age
of 150, ash at 100 and the oak at 200
years. The growth of an elm is about
two and a half feet per annum ; that of
oye are told. an “expert” was here