THE CENTRE REPO FRED KURTZ, cid RTER Editor TERMS.—One year, $1.50, when paid in advance. Those in arrears subject to previous terms, $2.00 por year, ADVERTISE MENTS, —20 cents per line for three insertions, ad 5 cenw per line for cach subse- quent nse tion, Other rates made made known on application, CENTRE HALL, PA., THURS. Feb, 15 ASSEMBLY, We are aut ler, of Fergu for Assem Democratic horized to announce thatJ. W, Kep- mm township, wili be a candidate ly. subject 10 the decision of the County Convention The Quay case has again teen post- poned. The way of the transgressor is had. ht - Seven thousand working men, who have been engaged on buildings in course of construction in Chicago, have struck. sneer a—— Show us the farmer who has been struck by McKinley “prosperity” and we will show you the fellow who struck Billy Patterson. silt re — Puerto Porto. The President has ordered that it shall be spelled, Puerto Rico. The Senate says it should Rico. We join in with the good sense of the Senate, Va. be spelled Porto SR or Be dh ih ie A a public mind thirty-five years ago, when the record was fresh, and it is well to recur now and then to the mar- velous manifestation of patriotism made in the sixties, The losses in the Spanish-American war and the Philip- pines have been considerable ; the sac- rifice to be made by Briton and Boer in Bouth Africa is sure to be serious, but the losses on both sides in the Civ- il War to the present generation read- ing the story of existing wars is al- most incredible. According to the fig- ures from the record there were killed Rr WR Sind in the Civil War on the field or by fa- tal wounds, 110,007; disease, 199,720 ; other causes, 49,708, making the grand total of 850,528, It is believed that the deaths attributed to disease is too low death list approached 400,000 itself would constitute a mighty host, eclipsing in numbers both of the arm- ies confronting each other in South Africa, without considering the Con- federate death roll. ANOTHER RES lp '"UBLICAN VICTORY. ago declared a quarterly dividend of $20 a share. As the capital stock con- sists of a million shares, it will require $20,000,000 to meet this disbursement This is probably the largest cash dividend ever paid by any American corporation to its stockhold- ers. It follows a $10,000,000 dividend paid in December last, $33,000 000 paid for the year 1809, and $30,000,000 paid in 1808, to stockholders, ——————— vs The Germans and the French are re- Jjoicing over the British disasters in their battles with the Boers. Perhaps a scrap then Johnny Bull will look on from an upper story window laugh. ——— Bc lp itp a New England states has gained him many friends, and mentions the names 2g0o who have now come out for Bryan. a - Governor Roosevelt, of New York, has written senator Tom Platt, flatly refusing to a nomination for Vice President on the McKinley tick- Platt and his machine had a little accept et, scheme to get rid of Roosevelt by put- ting him on the vice presidential shelf but the Governor is not yet ready for shelving. ———— Some of the Philadelphia ballot-box tuflers have been heavily salted for their work. Those of the fifth ward received their from Judge 5 su ie] sentence gan and Pearce each toa fine of $500 and two years in the eastern peniten- tiary. There is batch of others to be tried yet. - eit mms In view of the plentiful strewing of 0 bills amoung Montana legislators a some members get. 10 and 15 $1000 bills $1 by seat io the Senate millionaire Clark to purchase ting as many as for forbidding a candidate for the Senate paying a legislator more than five or ten dollars for his vote?, This would give a poor man an occasional chance to slip into the Senate, t i heir votes—why not pass a law fli — The grip ha Germany, throughout that country, and now Serlin to-day every bed in every hos- pital was occupied, and the hospital physicians, huodreds of whom have been stricken with the malady, are scarcely able to care for their patients, i es fi Dr. Leyds, the diplomatic agent of the Transvaal, has returned from his visit to France and Germany. He says that the report that he obtained a promise of intervention is an English subterfuge for the purpose of discover- ing the real object of his visit. He ad- ded that the defeat of British troops in South Africa might be the least disaster that would happen to England before the war was over, ieee State Librarian Reed in his annual report for 1899 says there are now in the library 100,555 books and 6,788 pamphlets. The library building with all its contents, is an expensive piece of elegance for the taxpayers of the state not one out of a hundred being benefitted as it is out of their reach. By it the city of Harrisburg has about all the use of the library at the expense of the state, CAI A PA AAA New proof has been found of Phila- delphia fraudulent election methods and how they manufacture big major- ities to order. Tax receiver Roney has made the astounding discovery that out of 30,000 poll tax applications only some 2.500 were genuine, Whole- sale forgeries of powers of attorney were presented, the fraudulency of w hich was so palpable that their offer. fog was offensive as weil as criminal, That's the way they have been runing things in the Quay-ker City. Here are some suggestive figures eon- cerning the Union losses during the Civil War. These exhibits dwarf those of all subsequent conflicts, and they are pot likely to be exceeded by those to ube place in Bouth Africa. Time Whence this magnificent “prosper- j ity” of the oil trust? | the consumers of oil by doubling the Oh, gets it from i price of the illuminant. See! Just within a few days the Trust has put another rise on oil, - Wp Tells Traths Woman's Sphere, Cardinal Gibbons us to the i i i § i i it 1 § 5 The ent Cardinal Gibbons, {in his sermon, in the Baltimore i thedral, Sunday, 4, pronounced golden | truths many day. i em Cae fitting women at this He said : “I regard ‘Woman's Rights,’ women | and society leaders in the higher walks of life as the worst enemies of i ye » { male sex. They rob women of all that is amiable and gentle, tender and at- her i grace of character and ing in return but rob of her innate her boldness tractive ; they nothe- give masculine {and brazen effrontery. | bitually | rights and prerogatives and have not They are ha- preaching about woman's a word to say about her duties and re They her ¥ withdraw which sponsibilities, from properly belong to her sex and fill her with ambition to for which neither God nor nature ever in- | tended her. “Under the influence of such teach- those sacred obligations usurp positions ers we find woman, especially in | er circles, neglecting yigh- ber household j duties, never at peace, unless she is in | perpetual motion, never at peace un- a state of morbid exeite- She never feels at When she to the restraints less she is in ment home unless she is abroad. is home the chafes at irksome her. She frets under home is and and responsibilities of domestic life { Her heart is abroad : in | imagination in some social triumph it is exulting Lor reveling in some scene of gaiety and Her afflicted comes home to find it empty, or occu- | pied by a woman whose heart is en pe | ty of affection for him. ill at Hence arise disputes, quarrels, | dissipation, husband She is i! ease, | I speak the sober truth when I affirm | that for the i : i | the responsibility," i casa How Grain Will Shrink Farmers rarely gain in holding on i i i { when the shrinkage is taken into ae- threshed, will shrink two quarts to the the most favorable Hence it follows that 94 cents a bushel shrinkage alone, as $1 in the following February. Corn shrinks much more from the time it is first husked. One hundred bushels of ears, as they come from the field in November, will be reduced to not far from eighty. So that 40 cents a bushel for corn in the ear, as it comes from the field, is as good as 50 in March, shrinkage only being taken in- to account, In the case of potatoes—{aking those that rot and are otherwise lost—toget h- er with the shrinkage, there is but lit- tle doubt that between October and June the loss to the owner is not less than 33 per cent, Bm AA PASAY Will be Discharged, An order just issued from the adju- tant general's office at Harrisburg pro. vides for the houorable discharge of various emergency troop organizations, that were called into service to tempo- rarily occupy the place of the national guardsmen who entered the United States volunteer service in 1808, as fol. lows: Beventh, Eleventh, Seven. teenth and Nineteenth regiments; Battery F, Beohud Sheridan Troop and Second Govergir's Troop. The order also disbands $arious companies of the new regimenks and announces the disbandment Bf several companies of old that failed to measure Ie up to the stanBard on recent inspec: i { fioll of Honor, High SBchool—Edwin Bartholomew, Domer Imerick, John Hosterman, *Witmer Lee, John Stover Mary Foreman, Helen Hosterman, “Grace | Lee, *Estie Ocker. Grammar Sehool, D, W. Geiss, Teacher—*Mabel Arney, *Pearl Ar-| ney, Mary Barner, Grace Bool, *Ma- | i i { ' i i { | Emerick, Leila Huyett, Guy Jacobs, “John Kparr, Clara Krape, *Annje Lutz, Muariou Miller, Bruce Rowe, Charles Runkle, *Bertha Strohmeier, *Wm. Woll. Secondary School, F. A, Foreman, Teacher—HBruce Arney, John Coldren, | Roy Clements, Harry Durst, Harry Miller, Clymer MoClenahan, Harry | Nearhood, Rufus Rearick, John Rowe, | Wm. Stump, Laura Barner, Myrtle Clements, Clair Durst, *Lena Emer- ick, Jodie Rearick, Susan Rearick, Laura Runkle, Helen Sandoe, Primary School, Auna mew, Teacher—Anna Condo, Keller, Rosie Krape, *Isabell Nina Snyder, Orvis Barner, Musse Coldron, Carl Long, Harry John Runkle, Roy Stiffler, Wi oy ~-For the next two weeks Aikens’, | Bellefonte, will hold a grand Muslin | Sale, giving the people an opportunity | to secure splendid bargains io this line, | Every article offered will be up to the No shoddy, no trash. lartholo- | Reah lowe, Bl on rev———— for the Cough There is no better medicine than Chamberlain's Remedy. Its pleasant and | prompt and effectual make it a favorite with mothers and small child babies taste cures ren. It quickly cures their coughs and | colds, preventing pneumonia or other It used serious consequences, also cures of single to It not only cures croup, but the croupy cough appears, will prevent the attack, f whooping cough it fies the tough mucus, making it easier to exy in tens without croup and has been § thousands of cases + failure so far as we have been able learn, when given as soon as In cases o Hque- welorate, and lessens the severity the paroxysms of wiviog that disease all dange For sale by J. H. Ross, Linden Hall: 8. M. Swartz. Tusseyville; F. A. Carson, Pot- Mills; H. F. Spring Smit I. 3. hb, of leg ous and fre quency coughing, thus « v of tf Consequences, Rossman, Centre Hall, Kale Register, of Ing west $i lea shomis west of Cen head young MIwe harrows ¢ atl 1 o'clock near Potters Mii farm lwopleme Bale to begin at 10 en, Ruo'L. MA HB Ripka, one mile of i horse, 4 mileh cows, head | lie, horse wagon, corn soraper, sud er articl James J. Lohr, suc's RCE weal oth -W. A. Kerr, about one mile east of | Centre Hill, horses, mich onws. young caitie, and a lange jot of good farm implements, | MARCH 14. -W. ¥_ Spangler. one mile west of | Potters Mille: horses, cows, hog , young cattle, i and a fo ine of farmi g implements: miso | househo Wm. Gobeen, Auc't, i f i goods MARCH 15 Daniel PP. Homser, west of Contre Hall; § horses, 5 cows, 16 head young cattle. bead hogs, wagon, plows, hatrows, and other farm Implements MARCH 16-8 P, Hockman, on the Krape farm 135 miles north-west of Spring Mills: Cattle, farm implements, sheep, goods, eto, | MARCH 17-J. R. Bible, 1 mile north of Potters | Mille horses, mich oows, young esitle. sheep, | and a complete line of farm implements, Tear: iy ail as good as new, Wm. Goheen, Aue’, MARCH 19-W, H. and A E. Mesver, on the Bar. pey Wagher farm, near Centre Hill: 110 bead of live stock, milch eons, youne cattle, all farm implements and machinery. Bale at 9 a m. MARCH 20-W. C. Farner, st Colyer: horses, cows, young cattle, hogs, and complete line of farm implements, also household goods, Wm. Gobeen, Aug’ MARCH 21. —Alffed Durst, one mile west of Pot. ters Mills; horses, 20 head of short horn cattle, and ether articles, MARCH 27 James W, Loo, at Farmers Mills. 6 head of horses, 16 head of onws and oung oat tie. 10 bend sheep, 2 head full bl « Poland hogs, mower and lot of other farm implements. Wm. Goheen, auet. MARCH 20 «DD. J, Meyer. 2 miles south of Lin- den Hall; ® horses, § oolts, 15 cows, 30 head of young cattle, 8) head hogs, long with large Hoek of new farm implements. Wm. Gobheen, ues. : a | horses, | household | 1 BATT TIT TTT GLA AN What is Celery King ? It is an herb drink, and js a positive cure for constipation, headache, nervous disor ders, rheumatism, kidney disoases, and the various troubles arising from a disordsred stomach and torpld liver. It Is a most ble medicine, and ts recommended b> Phitinne enerally. 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