VOL. LXXII. WASHINGTON LETTER. — NO CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO GO TO MANILA, Regulars to be Sent to Keep Up the Fight- ing Force. ~The Demoorntic Issaes for 1900, WasHINGTON, June 5.—Mr. Me Kinley has given the country another exhibition of a lightning chsnge of mind. After allowing those who talk- ed with him during several days Lo get the impression that he was about to call for volunteers for the Philippines, he suddenly changed his mind and an- nounced that the cabinet had decided not to call for volunteers, but to re- place the volunteers now in the Phil ippines, with regulars, and to author- ize Gen. Otis to enlist natives. It is believed that the principal factor in bringing about this lightning change, was a cablegram from Prof. Schurman, president of the Philippine Commis- sion, containing a fairy story an- nouncing the early surrender of Agni- naldo. Similar fairy stories by the same author were the basis of the hope of early peace indulged in by the Ad- ministration, some weeks ago. The rainy season, which lasts three months ison in the Philippines, making it impossible for Gen. Otis to worry Aguinaldo much for that length of time. That's why no early surrender is at all probable. Hon. A. J. Warner, President of the Bimetallie League is in Washington. He said of the probable Democratic platform of next year: “I'he Demo- cratic party will stand by platform. The money plank will be made as full and as strong as if there were no other issues. I would be in favor also of making a declaration against trusts, as if that were the only and the same with our declara- tion against imperialism and the Phil- ippine war. Neither question can be said to obscure or take precedence of the other, but all combine to make an issue that I believe the people will sup- port.” jssue; Whatever may be the defects in oth- er branches of the government service, and they are numerous enough, every- body knows, Commissioner Duell, of the U. 8. Patent Office, is conducting that office with more satisfaction to inventors, patent lawyers, and every- body doing business therewith than has been done fora Jong time. He has the business so nearly to date, that C. A. Soow & Co., Washington's most successful firm of patent lawyers, make the positive announcement that they can secure patents for inventors in from four to ten weeks. Representative Gordon, of Ohio, who is visiting Washington, talks in- terestingly of the poiitical situation in his state. Heszaid: "Whoever thinks the Republicans are invineible in Ohio this year, will be badly fooled. There never was a time when the party was so badly split by factional dissepsions, as now, and if the Democrats are awake to their opportunity, they will beat Senator Hanna's candidate for Governor. I have no idea who will be named as the Democratic candidate, but we have plenty of good material to draw from. Ohio is naturally Re publican, but the people do not take kindly to political bosses, and they are going to show their resentment at the polls this year. In Austria, a process for making ar- tificial cotton out of the fibre of the fir tree has been discovered, and reported to the State Department, by the U. 8, Consul, at Reichenberg. He quotes a descripiion of the process, concluding as follows: ‘Artificial cotton ean be produced so cheaply that the genuine article can hardly compete with it, and one cannot say that it is a sham, for it is composed, exactly as the nat- ural cotton, of pure cellulose.” The Consul says: "In a country such as this, where forests of fir trees abound aud are made perennial, by constant replanting as the large trees are cut down, and where all the cotton used in the numerous factories must be brought from far India, and the U. 8,, such a device should be profitable.” This is decidedly interesting, but ijt need not alarm cotton growers until it is known to have been put into prac tical use. It may be like the chemical process by which real diamonds can be made, which work all right, but the made diamond costs more than the natural diamond of the same size sells for, which renders the process useless to the commercial world, The friends of Representative Sher. man, of New York, are claiming that he was buncoed by the Henderson- Sherman Bpeakership combine, into which he entered a short time ago; and there appears to be foundation for the claim. The somblne bas already that the admiuistration was a party to it, having decided that Sherman's friendship for Reed, and Reed's influ- ence over him, made him undesirable speakership timver, There may, of course, be a slip up in the program, but it is the general Impression in has the Bpeakership elinched, and pre- dictions are freely made that Sherman will find it advisable to withdraw in Henderson's favor, long before Con- gress meets, in order to get Payne's place, at the head of the Ways and Means Committee, which carries with it the floor leadership of the party. The withdrawal of Hopkins in favor of Henderson, is believed to have been the work of Joe Cannon, who his old place at the head of the mittee on Appropriations, and has probably been promised it, although | some say that Hopkins after Com- is self, te in the Wrong State, In the latest Senatorial campaign in Kentucky the opposing candidates in one of the southern districts, Dr. Har- rel and Mr. Clark, who were conduct- ing a joint debate, had an amusing ex- perience. When they went to Keys- burg to fill their appointment to speak they found nobody at all to hear them. | Everybody had gone to Red river to | fish. The candidates followed the way | the people had gone, and when they came to the river found quite an as- | semblage on the opposite bank. Har- | rel mounted a stump and began to ad- dress them at long range, found that his voice would up at that distance, he requested them to wade out in the river and | nearer. Instead of doing this, | they =ent a skifl and ferried the candi- dates over and then sat patiently down and listened the When i the speaking was over the candidates | were informed that they had speaking in Tennessee, but soon | not hold 80 to speeches, been ts AI MY AHI The Puke The puke is indige to all mates. He thrives alike the bleak winds of the north under | the scorching rays of the tropical but he grows fat and ‘sassy’ on malarial miasma betwixt and between He is made up of thirty parts each o gall, ignorance and deceit, and the re- maing ten parts are gall, deceit and ig- norance. His gall prompts him to pose as a leading citizen, his deceit gets | him into the church where he plays] the hypocrite, and his ignorance leads pulling the HIOUs in and «13 t eli- | i cold sun, § the | *1 fi in ters, and by all classes. He is usually | a booby and always a coward and he lives to prove the truth of the old say- ing that “*a fool is wiser in his conceit than a dozen men who render a reason.” tn tht The Big Engine There is being built in the Junima shops at Altoona an engine of the lat est improved pattern. It will be a fly- er as well as a heavy puller. The en- gine will beat the Reading express this summer between Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Its driving wheels are to be eighty-four inches in diameter, a foot higher than the tallest engineer on the road. The class “*L" engine is equipped with drivers four inches smaller in diameter. The pew engine will have a great boiler capacity and will have double doors at the fire box, a new feature in locombdtive building. It is confidently expected that it will attain a speed of seventy miles an hour without undue exertion. Ri Another Andree Mossnge. According to a dispatch from Man- dal, the most southern town of Nor way, two boys, on May 14 last, found on the north coast of Ieeland a small cork case, containing a slip of paper, dated July 11, 1897, signed “Andre, Strindberg and Fraenckel,” and bear- ing the words: “All well. Thrown out at longitude S81, latitude un- known.’ Professor Andree’s brother thinks the case was probably one of the letter buoys with which the Andree expedi- tion was provided. I A SA. I was seriously afflicted with a cough for several years, and last fall had a mote severe cough than ever be- fore. I have used many remedies without receiving much relief, and be- ing recommended to try a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, by a friend, who, knowing me to be a poor widow, gave it to me, 1 tried it, and with the most gratifying results, The first bottle relieved me very much and the second bottle has absolutely cured me. I have not had as good health own Can METHODS DENOUNCED, Stirring Resolutions Agninst Seltish Politi onl Methods, During the last week a circular let- ter was sent out to some Democrats in the county advocating the Democratic voters to support A. J. Greist, of Un- { lonville, for County Commissioner, at the Democratic primaries to be held next Saturday. The circular was signed by “Taxpayer,” the guthor not wishing to publicly indentify himself with the move, yet it is known [from what quarter the document emenates, The document was intended for Lhe defeat of Daniel Heckman, of Benner board of County Commissioners, whe nation for a 8 and courtesy always accorded the members | of that office by his party. When the intent and motive of this the guation cond term--a usage indi was held in| Fortney's office, at Bellefonte, The at- in former Senator Heinle was elected to preside, with Robert F. Hunter and Charles RB. Kurtz, secre- taries, A resolution was was unanimousl meeting was party circles, including all the county chairmen. presented which y adopted, and will be to the convention pext Tuesday, calling change in the rules, The substance of the resolution i is that all candidates to be considered at the Democratic party, must register atl a time determined upon, for a and pay to ithe ¢ ounty chairman a registration fee, Another resolution and adopted, * was presented ‘condemuing cal methods not in accord with the methods of the party, and to strike down candidates regularly aunnoune- a. 3: Mr. Greist has not any politi countenasced this effort to use him as a tool to club hon- est and faithful Daniel Heckman, disrupt the party. Mr. Greist and hins in which he publicly disclaims all con- He does not wish to become a party to move to de- Commissioner, backed only i selfish motives, and which every hon- demn when he learns the true facts, Col. J. F. Weaver, of Milesburg: Isaac Frain, of Marion township, and other Democrats were solicited by the “Taxpayer” to enter the field { to defeat Mr. Heckman in his canvas, | but they refused point blank to be { fish polities al methods, fA A PRESIDENT THOMSON OF the Penna Railroad, Dies Monday Eve, Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died of heart failure, at his residence, near Philadel phis, at 7.30 on Monday evening. He was ill two weeks but his death was unexpected. Frank Thomson served his spprenticeship in the shops at Altoona, and left the shops when 2) years old, remaining with the rail road company, he rose from one posi- tion to another until he was chosen to be its head, one of the mightiest corpo- rations in the world, He was born at Chambersburg, July A ——_ A py Electioneering Over. This week ends the travels for the Democratic candidates in this county, snd next Tuesday's convention will determine the fate of each. There will be no lack of disappointments and ma- ny honest efforts, sandwiched with broken promises. Thus it ever is. The county has been thoroughly canvassed; dishonest methods were not in play as much as in former years, as far as we can learn, and this is grat- ifying. Now let us hope that the oft. complained-of Monday evening dick er, trade, swap, sell-out, slate fixing, ete., at Bellefonte, will not be resorted to next Monday evening, and no cause given for complaint and dissatisfac- tion, Let Harmony and Fairplay be the watchword, We have good material for] a strong ticket, aud only unfair methods will cause dissatisfaction, Let the real choice of theyDemocratic masses be the nominees and all will bow in submis. sion and tip their hats to the ticket. Wise action by Tuesday’s convention will result in 1800 Democratic majority in November. AS AA SAMA SABRI. It is thought that the most obliging in the state of Missouri lives at Bethel. He recently put a tel- : in his office and announced EK 8, 1899, NEWS DOTS, Murdets and suicides were in plenty | again within the past ten days, France, Belgium, and cther jean countries hold their elections : | Bundays. A Large Attendance of Delegates from the | LUTHER LEAGUE SESSIONS. FIFTHANNUAL CONVENTION HELD IN THE LUTHERAN CHURCH. i i § i i i i i i i inferent Counties Report of ithe Sessions, | 4 4 {a child by faith cure. the General | from lows, The fifth annual convention of | Central District Lutheran League, ! covering the counties of Centre, Clin-| ton and Union, was held in Centre | Hall on Toesday and Wednesday, in the Lutheran church. The opening ington to Chester, Pa., over the session was held on Tuesday evening. { mington & Baltimore RR. A large number of delegates were pres. At Randall ent, Tuesday | 474 payme outs to Cuban soldiers, wireh was filled with | | rejected 37, ou 4. at the opening | 44 | session, and a cholr composed of voices | [from the different church choirs in | i the town, rendered excellent music. Henderson, ted speaker of the next house, | made by a train, Be Guiness, Colonel arriving in the town The ef | an interested audience 1 afternoon, that day brings the total up to 417. | Loubet was attacked by a mob, and count struck him on the head with choir | Hing session was called to or- {der by Rev. C. B. Gruver, The | rendered a fine selection, which was | cate. | followed by devotional exercises led by { Dryfus’s return to Frauce | Rev. J. M. Rearick. Walter Kerlin, | ordered, with rank restored | president of the local League, deliver | tial liberty ; A ed the address of welcome, which was | from his wife to him, reads : * responded to by Mr, B. F, of | est kisses from all.” Cak Hall, At The convention was urday, with sn address by Rev, legheny An enrollment of the jority of called for and forty They | Quay. represented societies Bellefonte, There still Boalsburg, Shiloh, Pleasant Gap, Pine | (44 malcontents | at Santiago, and the i The opel has bx and allowed. 2 be Homan, t i Ad 8 favored Liruver. then C. B. delegates of Luze and Westmoreland, tl inthe counties Fae, Aa was responded. Bad day for the machine, of being in are threails , the Grove Mills, Centre Hall, Penn Hall, Millheim, Balona, BL. | i.e oo Renova, Ha- cendiary Snydertown. A committee TI ) 1 ¥ the . hoe eo | Hague, was appointed to make a selection and | United Stat i ti 1 filteq Hiales ant 38 present the « yi at the | i for act The local press is un- lassey ville, the Paul, Rebersburg ven and § 2 neorsiiip on account oi Lock articles printed. peace congress sitting in to nominate officers [League it before iventi me oid wars 100. hoir | has adopted a plan of Choir | 4 x i between the nations to the future by MOrning sessio #y rendered seve 5 3s ® ai Tin and arbitration. the session ended. Wednesday tion opened with devotion by Rev. I'he following nom- | inations were present tion by the Clement Dale, Presidents, Homan; Kerlin; ( Spangler. The Filipinos were driven in a wil by ex hauste mara CoOnven- General Hall's men i starved, d to the conven- | | charge was up 8 mountain side, President, | ing deep in rice fields at every Vice | our men heroically pressed B. F. pletely routing the enemy. Recording Secretary, W.M.| Monday there was a Rev. W. M. | French chamber, The treasurer's report was | | boys and bullies in our read and being satisfactory was adopt- | sionally have, ed. | in denunciation Various topics were discussed by the i which speaker of the , exercises | | charge Leisher | were and . at ston commitiee: 3 YEP, Ewy., Bellefonte; Rev. C. T. Alkens, on n uproar in somet hi " . ti. or. Secretary, ng like The royalists indulged of President Loubet and the 5 was expelled caused a wy Tt sone, é iconvention, The original program | yalist to | after a flerce outburst, the absence of delegates who were as | ei : : : BE : . Girls Fight With: — { was not strictly adhered to, owing signed topics for discussion. At the Wednesday after interesting essays were read Winifred Wolf, Mrs. C. T. Prof. Klepper and Miss Painter. topics discossed were touching work of the League and f ment of its work. The closing session was held on Wed- nesday evening, when the convention adjourned. The place for holding the next convention has pot yet been de cided upon. MS Dropped the Dag noon session | Centre county girls may sometimes by Miss | fall into jealousy, but they never yet Alkens. j carried it to so sharp an edge as did The | | two in Paris, Jeanne Leroy, 16 years on thel old, and Juliette Volant, aged 20 years, or the 1 | who are patients in the Browssais pital, the result of a bloody duel they fought to settle a quarrel about a young man. The place selected was a vacant plot in the rue d’Alesia, There were sec- onds and a few intimate female friends the combatants, The fair duelists removed their cor- sets and went at each other with big knives. There was no attempt at sci- ence, of course, and both were terribly weiler- 4 - Tuesday morning about the wife of J. F. Harrison, the baker at Bellefonte, discovered a burgler in their bed room. She jumped from the bed and grabbed the man, who had taken a bag of money from under the pillow of her husband. She caught the man by the wrist, and he dropped the bag and escaped out of the room. Mr. Harrison was in a stupefied condi- tion, and had evidently been chloro- formed by the robber before reaching for the money. La AIA HRA Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses were issued during the past week: 1. E. Miller, Minnie E. Rausch both of Madisonburg. Adam Barr, Jennie Cooper, both of Snow Shoe. John H. Decker, Port Matilda, Effie Thomas of Bellwood. Harry F. Williams, Martha, Lizzie Richards, of Harper. Chris D. Young, Margery S. Barlett, both of Bellefonte. 8. 8. Walk, Millie Gerhart, both of Blue Ball. o'clock, when the police, who bad heard of the aflair, rushed in and stopped the fray. ——————— AA] To New Law for Bacbers, mms vation in the shops all over the state. Under the new law it will &= peoessa- steam bath every time it is used, while the razor must be dipped into an antiseptic solution before being ap- plied to another man’s face. sons are to be shaved with lather from be used with each customer. A fresh towel will also be provided for each person shaved. Combs, brushes and other implements must be steamed and thoroughly cleansed, In order to secure the enforee- dy. A Novel Trip, %. 8. Latshaw, a school teacher at Howard, started Friday on a novel tour of the south for the benefit of his health. He ia traveling by himself in a complete house wagon. Itis a home on wheels including a kitchen, dining room, sitting room and bed room. He expects to spend several months trav. eling in this way and believes that it will help him greatly. Western Crop Prospect, From information gathered by over 600 correspondents scattered through- out Nebraska, Towa, Northern Kan- sas, Northern Missouri and Northeast ern Colorado the indications are that ike whens lide suffered frome srintet affect the yield at by the factory inspectors oo is done ple in poor circumstances than any other one cause. To be successful one that when a favorable opportunity pre time. A prudent and careful man will his best horse going for a doctor and NO. 23 LOCAL ITEMS, | Cutlings of More than Ovdinary Interest from Everywhere, The Inquest | Not labor kills us ; no, nor joy ; The incredulity and frown, The interference and annoy, i The small attritions wear us down, The little gnat-like buzzings shrill, The hurdy~gurdies of the street, {The common curses of the will— | These wrap the cerements "round eur feet. {| And, more than all, the look askance Of loving souls that cannot gauge The numbing touch of circumstance, The heavy toil of heritage. | It is not Death, but Life, that slays ; The night less mountainously lies Upon our lids than foolish day's Imporiunate futilities. i B. Money Coulls, T i time. i The week. he cornfields have made up lost Valentine furnaces staried last i Int) v 834 » nion count bicycles have been assessed. Claude B. Hess, of Ferguson, granted a pension, $0. Commencements are all the come berries and the 4th of July. Walter Garrity a few days ago killed The reptile sported was of =i ; next {a big rattle snake. 11 rattles, ; 107 The Altoo. crop will the birds : the cherry Good news na Tribune be i From Juniata county we : | mation th SAYS arge in that county. have infor- ere will be considerable of a peach crop over there, selling at How Birawberries are bushel the people there must be, ad. fairly promising §1 per happy in Belinsgrove. Z. Ripka informs us crops look in the mouniain re- ers bank. &4 ankle of TP gion back of Pott Rev. Rearick’s appointments, Suan- day, June 11: Centre Hall, 7 p. m. ; Spring Mills, Tusseyville, 2 Pp. m. Monday afternoon’s storm did much damage in Mifflin county, twisting off destroying fences and damage by 10a m. ; trees, bail. Candidates dare p it utting in their last week. The people {are remarkably quiet and every candi- date hopeful. and best licks this or 1 A rattling thunder gust passed over this section a little after noon, Mon- day, subduing the heat and benefiting vegetation. of There are still some last year's crop of potatoes in the valley, which farmers would be glad to sell at 35¢ to 40¢ per bushel. George Reish returned from a trip to the lower end of Nittany valley and informs us the wheat fields there look far better than over here, There is a law prohibiting the sale of fire arms to boys under 18 years of age, and yet it is well known that the law is almost daily violated. The Pittsburg Dispatch, 3, mentions Centre county as having a “chronic candidate for judge.” There may be room for such thrusts in Allegheny— let us alone. The semi-monthly pay day of the Cambria Steel Co., of Johnstown, on Saturday, was the largest in the histo- ry of the corporation. Over §191,000 was paid out to over 7,000 employes. We acknowlege the receipt of an in- vitation from the Trustees and Facul- ty of Central Pennsylvania College, New Berlin, to attend the exercises of Commencement week, June § to 15. At Pottstown, Pa., among some oth er things he purchased at sherifls sale, John Falhirenbah found an old boot in which were 40 silver dollars. Moral: Always bid on an old boot at sale, it has more luck than a horseshoe, Hon, James Milliken, of Milroy, formerly of Bellefonte, has donated a thousand dollars to the endowment’ fund of the Presbyterian hospital, Phil- adeiphia. He also several years ago donated the Milliken collection to the Lewistown library. The lifting power of a growing plant is one of the most astonishing things in [nature Beans and acorns often lift heavy masses of earth in their struggles to reach the light. Mushrooms have displaced flagging stones in a number of instances. “The Outlook” is publishing this summer three series of articlesof un us- ual interest and readable qualities of Cuba,” Lyman Abotits | "Hebre
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