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VOL. LXXII.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
PINGREE SOUNDS ALGER'S DEATH
KNELL.
MoKinley Will be Yoreen to Compel Alger
to Resign, Texas is Prospering and
is for Bryan.
WasHiNaTON, June 26.—Unless
some of the shrewdest politicians in
Washington aremuch mistaken, the
death knell of Algerism was sounded
when Gov. Pingree announced his
deal with Alger to try to put the latter
into Senator McMillan’s seat. Secre-
tary Alger, who has just returped to
Washington, is said to be as mad as a
hornet because Pingree gave out the
deal before he was ready to have it
made public. He wished to remain in
the Cabinet and to make as much use
as possible of the many plums at the
disposal of the War Department, be-
fore the deal got out. Now, friends of
Senators McMillan and Burrows say
that if Alger doesn’t resign voluntari-
ly, they have the means to compel Mr.
MeKinley to ask for his resignation.
Some think that Mr. McKinley will
do that without any compulsion, not
only because of his friendliness to-
wards Senator McMillan, but because
of his dislike for Pingree on account
of his free criticisms on several ocea-
sions of McKinleyism. At any rate,
every body is again hoping that the
end of Algerism in the War Depart-
ment is near,
Hon. R. M. Finley, the popular
Comptroller of the state of Texas, is
enjoying a visit to Washington. When
asked how things were in the lone
star state, he said: ‘Texas is enjoying
a fair share of prosperity. The crop
prospects are fine, and there is a great-
er demand for our unimproved land
than there has been for a long time.
The next census will show that we
have a population largely in excess of
three million, which in intelligence,
morality and thrift will vie with the
citizenship of any state in the Union.
Gov. Sayres is making a fine record,
and his administration is popular with
all classes. There is but little going
on politically, and we will not have
any excitement in that line until next
year. The state is overwhelmingly
for W. J. Bryan for President, and a
solid deligation pledged to him will be
sent to the next Democratic National
Convention.
Judge Nash and Boss Hanna's man
Dick, were hobnobbing in Washing-
ton, when news of Governor Bush-
nell’s open attack upon Hanna, Nash
and Dick, and his incidental attack
upon Mr. MeKinley reached them.
They had intended to remain in Wash-
ington until Mr. McKinley returned,
but all plans were at once abandoned,
and they rushed back to Ohio, to as-
certain the extent of Bushnell’s follow-
ing in his open revolt against the Han-
na machine. Private advices indicate
that the revolt will be strong enough
to give the state to the Democrats, un-
less they put up a weak ticket, which
is not likely.
If there isn’t a job concealed in the
erection by a private party of a build-
ing for the use of the Census Burean,
the signs are all deceptive. From the
day of his appointment, director Mer-
riam insisted that only a building
large enough to put practically all the
employes of the Burean on one floor
would answer. That shut out every
existing building in Washington.
Then there was talk of the bureau
erecting a temporary building upon
government property, but the account-
ing officers of the Treasury ended that
by deciding that no part of the Bppro-
priation for the Bureau could be used
for such a purpose. Then the shadow
of the job became visible. Offers were
asked from owners of lots large enough
to erect the sort of building required,
The only one that suited Director Mer-
riam was submitted by a man who be-
eame rich as well as familiar with jobs
while holding office under the old Gov-
ernment of the District of Columbia.
It was accepted, and a lease made for
five years, which is likely to be extend-
ed to seven or eight before the Census
work Is completed, at an annual rental
of $25,000. The ground upon which
this building is to be erected has been
used as a coal yard for years, the rent-
al hardly being enough to pay the tax-
es, and it is claimed that $100,000 is to
be spent in erecting the building.
Even if that amount were to be ex-
pended, the lease would still bea very
profitable one, when it is considered
that money is going begging, when
‘the security is as good as this, at 4 per
cent.; but an expert who has seen the
‘rough plan for the building says, it
will not cost much, if any more than
ww
-
ly all the strest railways and all of the
electric light companies of Washing-
ton, to become its President, and an-
nounced his early resumption of his
duties as Military Governor of Santia-
go. Inasmuch as General Wood was
fresh from a conference with Mr. Me-
Kinley when he made that announce-
ment, it is inferred that he has receiv-
ed some definite promise of further
preferment of some sort, if he will re-
main io the army. He is now a Brig-
adier Gen. of Volunteers, but that
pays less than one-fifth of the salary
offered him. His rank in the regular
army is what it was when he was
made Colonel of the Rough Riders,
New Rale for Townships.—-To Be
erned by Commissioners,
Township government in
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lutionized by the law which goes into |
effect on January 1, for the classifica- |
tion of townships with respect to their |
population into two classes. A. J. |
Cassatt, the new president of the Penn- |
sylvania Railroad, who has deeply in |
terested himself, is said to be the fath- |
er of the act, i
Under the new law townships of the |
first class are those having a popula- |
tion of at least 300 to the square mile. |
All other townships are assigned to!
the second class, i
mst fe 5 Mf ml A BS
Otis Will Need 130,000 Men.
invalided by the climate. He is of the |
opinion that it will take from 100,000
to 150,000 soldiers to properly subdue
and hold the islands. He also says |
that the Peace Commission was an ab- |
solute failure, and that
its work from |
the start was without effect.
Unless troops—thousands of them-—
are sent to the aid of our men there
they will be driven back into Manila |
in the course of the next few months,
during the rainy season, he says. Our !
men simply cannot stand the climate, |
Fifty per cent. of them will be inecapa- |
citated by sickness, and the territory |
overrun will have to be abandoned, |
and Manila will be in a state of siege |
again. i
Our officers and soldiers have ac- |
complished wonders, and have proved |
themselves the best soldiers in the |
world. But nothing decisive can come
of it because our men were not in great |
enough force. As a matter of belief |
the Filipinos think they have the!
Americans licked already.
NEWS ITEMS.
Thirty-three cases of yellow fever are
reported from Santiago.
The President has awakened to the
situation and decided to send 15,000
men to strengthen Gen. Otis,
The Pomona Grange of Tioga county
representing 2000 grangers, fired hot
shot at Governor Stone for culting
down the school appropriation.
The Transcaspian region of Asiatic
Russia is threatened with famine, ow-
ing to the prolonged drought and al
plague of locusts, i
The wife of kidnapper Barrow, for
playing a part in the stealing of litile |
Marion Clark, has been sentenced to 12]
years in Auburn stale prison. The
husband, a week previous, received 14
years. Not a bit too severe.
recede ens eisai
VYeadetin 'rayer Answered,
The widow of Tom Baker, leader of
one of the factions of the Baker-How-
ard feud, has ber wish fulfilled. She
became the mother the other day of a
boy, her iwelfih son. On June 11 Mrs,
Baker said :
“I bave prayed to God that my un-
born child may be a boy, so he can
belp his 11 brothers in the work of
avenging their father's death. 1 shall
teach all my boys that their aim io
life is to slay the men who are respon-
sible for poor Tom's murder.”
These family feuds have caused a
great deal of trouble and violence in
Kentucky.
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Judge Pershing Resigns.
During his long term of service in
the SBehuylkill county courts, Judge
Cyrus L. Pershing has made for him-
self an enviable reputation as an able
jurist and an upright Judge. His re
tirement is rendered necessary by ill
heaith and the infirmities of age, and
it will be regretted most by the people
who know him best.—Philad. Ledger,
The above is in adeord with the ex-
pressions of scores of our exchanges,
Judge Pershing is one of the ablest
and purest jurists of our state. We
have known him many years and are
proud of many expressions of esteem
from so noble a personage.
son sa
Sticks to the Long Johns,
There is as big a difference between
“Long Johns’ and John Long, as be-
tween a potato and a man, and we
have both the Johns in Centre coun-
ty, long and short.
A Clearfield county farmer is still
raising the same kind of potatoes he
first planted when he settled in that
county fifty-four years ago. “Long
John" is the variety, and the farmer,
who Is now 84 years old, still thinks it
is the best tuber grown. At the time
he began to raise these potatoes there
were but three varieties known.
For the Housewife,
Do not sweeten fruit juices until af-
ter the straining is done ; otherwise a
part of the sugar will be wasted, It is
best to strain very acid juices through
Contes linen, cotton or ch
The act provides that the County]
January 1 next. The new township |
government will go into force on the!
first Monday of March.
new township officers are to be elected
on the third Tuesday of February. |
tion.
ceive any salary, nor are they
to any other office.
urers, Assessors and Auditors are also |
provided for. |
The new Township Commissioners
are clothed with extensive powers, in- |
cluding the opening, grading and |
maintenance of highways, the curbing |
and paving of sidewalks, the establish- |
ment of sewer and drainage systems, |
and the abatement of nuisances, the |
maintenance of a night wateh and po- |
lice force, the arrest and imprisonment
eligible |
the regulation or prohibition of shows,
circuses and public entertainments,
The Commissioners are also given au- |
thority to levy certain taxes, to bor-|
row money, to prescribe fines and pen- |
alties, and to generally regulate the af- |
fairs of the township by laws and ord- |
inance. The Board of commissioners
is also authorized to elect a town clerk
and fix his salary.
Bo far as townships of the second
class are concerned the act provides |
that they are to be governed as hereto- |
fore under existing laws,
7”
“When God gives a man a wife and
six children, he has done a great deal |
for that man, But when he givesa
man a society woman with a poodle
dog, He has thrown off on him. These
society women look upon children as
a nuisance. I have bad some of these
society women shake bands with me,
I bad as soon shake a dead fish's tail.
Would not give one of your old sock
darned women for all the society wo
men in the country. Between cutting
off the top of the dress for the ball
room and the bottom for the bicyele,
these society women will soon have no
clothes left. Some people say you
shouldn't speak this way before mixed
audiences. Your old sisters wear high
closed collars around their necks,
That's modest and comely. But de
liver me from the society women who
wear their collars around their waists,
You preachers don't talk that way, do
you? You talk about the sweet bye
and bye. You ought to talk about the
nasty now and nbw.”’
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Kam Jones Says:
Quay Pats Up for an Organ,
A Belinsgrove special says, Geo. W,
Burns, editor of the State College
Times, stopped off in that town on
Monday on his return from New York,
where he went, he said, to buy a print-
ing press, with which he intends to
fight Quay’s battle in Centre county
to the bitter end. He made the fur.
ther statement that Quay had furn-
ished the money for the press.
This, with the Gazette, would give
the Quay wing two organs in this
county.
With this additional Quay organ
there should be the happiest happiness
among our Republican bretheren,
Ns Moo AN
Gen. King's Opinion of Filipinos.
Brigadier General King, who re
turned from the Philippives a short
time ago, in a letter published a few
days ago states that the capability of
the Filipinos for self government can-
not be doubted, and if given a fair
start they could look out for them-
selves infinitely better than our people
imagine. He says they rank far high-
er than the Cubans or the uneducated
negroes to whom the United States
has given the right of suflrage.
Horses Died,
Farmers Edwin Stump and John
Conley, east of town, each lost a valus- |
DEMOCRATIC STANDPOINT.
A Correspondent Takes s Clear View of the
Great Battle now On in the Republican
Ranks. ~The Base Ingratitude Shown
Hastings by Some who Recelved no
Little Favors from His Generous
Hands —A Bitter Fight Waged,
10 the Fditor af the Ri Porter: —
the Republican ranks. My business
requires me to travel all over Centre
Republican State Convention.
General Hastings isa bitter parti-
bitter contests in the county. While
he don’t openly quarrel with the De-
made him Deputy Secretary of Agri
culture. Two years ago Hamilton
told the people of the county in his
speeches that Quay was so corrupt he
wouldn't have him darken his door;
now, Hamilton is sounding Quay’s
praises fram the office of the Secretary
of Agriculture, Chambers, whom
Hastings also took out of obscurity and
made Deputy Revenue Collector, now
turns up with a position whose salary
is $2400 per year, and whose duties no
one is able to find out; and Chambers
is spending all of his time and a good
deal of people’s money in trying to
down Hastings. Chambers went to
Harrisburg and made Governor Stone
believe that he carried Centre county
in his pocket, and Btone gave him a
position worth $2400 a year, with in-
structions to bring down the dele
Chambers expects to lead Mil-
people's
money which he is gelting, still Hast-
5
He was a fool for trusting them.
These infamous, repul -
returns for favors re-
have
expected. They will send, if they can,
ture,
given to Hastings on his return
Harrisburg he publicly
I find much sympathy for Hastings
over the county; the sympathy th at
always comes to a brave man who is
office:
al political
Jellefonte and
county. We think
his political enemies, and he apparent
ly had no way out excepting to fight
out,
The opposition to him made a seri
nominate and elect two of his person-
His friends
would have been no contest
not
say
entered
Their person-
lected the two old soldiers, Captain
Williams and Captain Gowland, and
put them in the lists,
Miller is a carpet bagger from Ohio,
who came here but ten years ago. He
is a vender of patent rights and is re-
ported to be traveling the county elec-
tioneering for delegates, but ostensibly
selling a new patent rat trap, |
When Hastings was invited by the
Bellefonte Grand Army Post to deliv.
er the Memorial address, last month,
it is said that Miller protesied vehe-
meatly agaiost it; that it would give
Hastings undue prominence. “Count
me out,” said he, “if you invite Hast-
ings.” The Post proceeded to count
him out by a unanimous vote, exocept-
ing Miller's. This is Miller's siyle of
ral-liap polities. Has. ngs naturally
does not want two personal enemies to
80 to the Slate Conveniion to misrep-
resent Lhe sentiment of Centre county,
because, you may lulk as you please,
he has the confidence and respect of
the best men in both pariies. His
fearless and independent efforts to
stand by Lhe people while he was Gov-
erpor, are not forgoulen. The best
proof of this assertion is that no news
paper in the stale, Democratic or Re-
publican, has been able to pick any
flaw in his adminisiration. All ad-
mit that it was able, fea less, and ab-
solutely bonesl. This is what puts
the “free Beer and low SBehool appro-
pristion” erowd down on him and will
beat him if they can. They are prom-
ising everything for delegates against
him including census enumerators,
whose selection they have no more
power to control, being under civil ser
vice rules, than they have the naming
of the Princes in the Corea Islands,
From a political standpoint Hast.
ings has made many blunders in Cen-
tre county. He seems to be color blind
to friend and foe. His appointments
to office while he was Governor, have
nearly all turned up against him, and
it is no wonder that his feelings are
hurt,
He appointed Beaver to the Superior
Court, when the salary was a God-
send to the latter. He nominated
Love for, Judge, and presented him
with a thousand dollars, in cold cash,
to help him along. Both of these ju-
dicial functionaries have turned up
against him. He gave John M. Dale,
the Bellefonte lawyer, a Receivership
friend or foe when he can help a neigh-
He unfortunate
people suffering from incurable dis
eases, from Centre county to the differ-
sent scores of
ment, and there many families
throughout the county, who remem-
ber his big hearted sympathy for their
loved ones, He was the first of all the
states to answer the demand of the
Government for troops in the Spanish
war, and Pennsylvania's quota was
first in the field. He never left a Reg-
iment from Pennsylvania, or any oth-
er state, pass through Harrisburg with-
out furnishing every soldier in the
troops, at his own expense, with a cup
of coflee and a sandwich. He organ-
ized the first state hospital train, that
went to the Southern Military Camps
to bring home Pennsylvania's sick and
dying soldiers and set an example fol-
lowed by nearly all the northern states,
He culled out the stricken Pennsyl-
vania soldiers from every hospital in
the country and brought them home:
and arranged to bring back the dead
tor interment at their former homes,
In other words, Hastings has shown
himself to be a kindly, tender hearted
man, without enough sense to tell the
diflerence between friend and foe when
he could do them a favor. He is now
reapifig the fruit of his inabilit, to
distinguish between friend and trait.
or. In this regard he is a poor politi-
cian, and as politics go he is liable to
be sacrificed on the alter of his former
friends. But there is no gratitude or
sympathy in politics; political grati-
tude is said to be a lively appreciation
of favors'yet to come,
One thing is certain, however, that
Hastings is traveling along hard lines,
for which he is mostly responsible
himself, and if “Rat-Trap Miller” and
Dunwiddie are elected to the Republi-
can State Convention, the Democratic
nominees may go to sleep in Centre
county, because, they are sure to have
no future trouble Fe that source.
OBSERVER,
are
Judge Bell va, Bridge Bulld¢ing,
Judge Bell, of Blair county, uttered
a protest against unnecessary bridge
building by the county commissioners,
in court at Hollidaysburg. Last year
the county expended $27,032 for bridg-
es, and the court holds that this is too
much, and that the law imposes no ob-
ligation upon the county to build
bridges over rivulets and creeks where
the construction can be easily done by
townships and boroughs.
Bad management keeps more peo-
plein poor circumstances than any
other one cause. To be successful one
must look ahead and plan ahead so
that when a favorable opportunity pre-
sents itself he is ready to take advan.
tage of it. A little forethought will
also save much expense and valuable
keep a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colie,
Cholera god Diarrhoea ia the
house, the shiftless fellow will wait un
his best horse going for a doctor and
have a big doctor Lill besides;
pays out 25 cents, the other is
NO. 26
LOCAL ITEMS,
Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere.
Hand and Heart,
Give me the man who loves his work,
However hard it be,
Who only thinks it mean to shirk,
And hates the hireling’s plea ;
Though hands and face be hard and
brown,
That were a trivial thing ;
Who wears his duty like a crown
Is every inch a king,
No honest labor ean disgrace
The man whose heart is true ;
He scorns himself and not his place
Who can consent to do
In any mean, half-hearted way
The smallest service given.
The common tasks of every day
Are all ordained of heaven,
Is thy task lowly ? Lift it up !
Let it be wisely willed.
Who cares bow poor and plain the
cup,
Bo it be richly filled ?
Be it thy task to till the soil,
Or do the drudge’s part,
Fill thy poor cup of common toil
With nobleness of heart.
~Atanta Constitution
Rainfall last night, .77 inch.
Did you sniff the pew-mown hay ?
Cherries and berries are trump now.
Emanuel Noll, Bellefonte, has been
granted a pension, $6,
The recent rains keep vegetation
booming. All looks fair.
Cherries, from wagons, 5¢ a quart ;
huckleberries, 6c a quart.
The prospect is promising for a good
potato crop in this county.
Golden Eagle pic-nic, Milesburg Cas-
tie, at Hecla Park, August 24.
The next annual meeting of the state
grange will be held in Bunbury next
December.
Our farmers are busy making hay.
The quality is good and the crop above
the average.
Our next-door neighbor, Brisbin, has
erected a new porch over the entire
front of his house.
Lightning has done serious harm to
persons and buildings in many loecali-
ties within the past few weeks.
SBtrohmeler’s crimson rambler rose-
bush is the prettiest thing in town.
Thanks for the roses sent us.
We had immense hail stones, but
fortunately far less than adjoining
counties, hence little damage.
The wheat has ripened and many
farmers have started their binders.
The crop will be under 75 per ct.
Jonathan Shutt, late of Centrehill,
writes us from Clinton county he lost
two good horses within two months,
Subscribers in the mountain sections
can square Reporter dues with huckle-
berries, raspberries, or blackberries.
Farmer McClellan and Henry Pot-
ter, of Linden Hall, were among the
first to make hay middle of last week.
On 15, married at Stormstown, John
Stewart, of Sewickley, Pa., and Miss
Pearl, daughter of Rev. 8, Mattern.
Rev. Rearick’s appointments, Sun-
day, July 2: At Centre Hall, 7 p.m. ;
St. Johns church, 2 p. m. ; Georges
valley 10 a. m.
The Linden Hall Lumber Company,
now in operation about ten years, will
have work enough in their territory
for three or four years yet.
Arthur Lee is running the repair
and smithshop at the Reits lumber
camp beyond Linden Hall, temporari-
ly until the return of Mr, Snavely.
Buperintendent J. W. Gephart, of
Central R.R., is adding to the life of
Bellefonte by the improvements under
his charge and brought about by his
energetic spirit.
G. D. Wilkinson, of near Williams-
port, has a contract to peel 6,000 cords
of bark in the Black Forest region. He
employs 120 men, 20 teams, and his
pay roll is said to be $1,500 a week.
The wife of Thomas J. Smull, jr., of
Mackeyville, died at the home of her
father, Capt. Samuel Bennison, in
Walker township, on evening of 19th,
aged 25 years. Death caused by ineip-
ient paralysis,
Had a terrific thunder gust, 4.30 to
4.45 last Friday afternoon, 23. Hail as
lncys aa hickory nuts and walnuts fell,
there being no wind, the hail came
down straight and no windows were
broken, nor were they so plenty as to
do much damage to crops,
Daniel L. Evans, son of Rev. I. K.