p VOL. LXXIII. WASHINGTON LETTER. THE PRESIDENT NERVE FAILS HIM ONCE MORE. He Mas Already Made a Change of Front in the Settlement of the Claim Against the Turks — He's a Quitter Sure. WasHiaroN, April 30.—The broad streak of yellow down the backbone of the McKinley administration, the ex- hibition of which disgusted so many Americans during the weeks which immediately preceded the war with Spain, is again in full view of the world. The present exhibition is con- nected with our relations with Turkey. Only a few days ago, all of the well known disseminators of semi-official news, in Washington, were singing a song of jingoism and filling the news- paper men with thrilling stories of the red hot demand the administration had made upon the Sultan of Turkey, to settle those long-standing mission- ary claims at once, and intimating that if the spondulixs was not at once forthcoming, an American fleet would be sent into the Turkish waters to for- cibly collect it. These stories were du- ly sent out, but they didn’t fire the country even a little tiny bit, the peo- ple not being in a jingo humor. But they did something else. They brought an intimation from Russia, in the po- litest diplomatic language that there were reasons which made it incumbent upon Russia to object to any forcible collection of claims from the Sultan. That threw Secretary Hay into a blue funk, almost as bad as would have fol- lowed a snubbing by an Eaglish lord, and straightway the yellow streak in the administration backbone was un-| covered, to add to the gaiety of nations | and to the humiliation of Americans, aud the official announcement madé that this government had at no time intended to go beyond diplomatic ino- sistance in trying to make the Sultan pay that claim. A famous American wit once commented upon sn exhibi- tion of a yellow streak by a public man by saying: ‘“God Almighty hates a quitter,” and it is well know= to every observing man that the American peo- ple also hate a quitter. The Senate seems to be pretty near- ly unanimous in one thing at least— that the U. 8S. Senate has no authority to investigate a state legislature's qual- ification to elect a U. 8. Beoator. Al- though the temptation to go behind the action of the West Virginia legis | lature which elected Nathan B. Scott, to the Senate was great, there being plenty of evidence of crookedness, only three Senators — Pettus and Morgan, of Ala., and Turner, of Wash., voted for] the motion of Senator Pettus to send the resolution declaring Scott entitled | to his seat back to Committee with in- structions to further investigale his election. Senator Allen rebuked Senator Chandler for his apparent anxiety to railroad the resolution reported from the elections committee, declaring Sen- ator Clark, of Montana, not entitled to his seat through the Senate when he said: “Every man must realize that it is asking a good deal of any one who occupies a place in this chamber to take the mere conclusions of a Com- mittee, without an opportunity of read- ing the evidence upon which those conclusions are based. I am not inter- ested in this case one way or the other, but the Senate cannot expect to dis- pose of it in two or three days when it has taken the Comnmittee three months to hear witnesses and reach a judg- ment. That would be ridiculous in apy tribunal.” It is strongly believed that the resigna- tion of Senator Clark will make a vote unnecessary on this resolution, al though he still declines to talk for pub- lication, Democratic Senators have decided that the army reorganization bill eon- tains so many objectionable features that they will not allow it to go through the Senate, and notice to that effect has been served on the Republi- cans. Among the striking features of the army bill are provisions for mak- ing Gen. Miles lieutenant general (put in to catch Democratic votes) and Gen, Corbin major general; for the increase ic leader, who never minces words when he has anything to say, declared the army bill to be full of rascality. The Republican leaders will allow thg Nicaragua Canal bill to pass the House this week, simply because they saw that they could not prevent it, but their present program Is to hang it up in the Senate, for fear that its passage would not be pleasing to Eng- land, which is already somewhat dis because the Nicaragua Canal Treaty has not been ratified. Btill, the country is expected to believe the re peated assertions of administration men that there is no secret understand- ing between the McKioley administra tion and the English government, Whatever the administration may be able to do in the House with the ship-subsidy job, the scheme will not get through the senate at this session. | The Democratic Senators who opposed this scheme have received unexpected | support in their fight against it, from Quay’s Republican friends, who in- tend to let Hanna, who is the most active pusher of the job, see that they resent the successful deal by which he kept Quay out of the Senate. These Republican Senators would probably not vote against the subsidy bill if put to the test, but they will probably | quietly help the Democratic Senators | to prevent its reaching a vote, which will be practically the same thing. sei — A Decision on the Poor Law An act was passed by the legislature of 1893, providing for the payment, by counties having no almshouse, of all costs incurred by the several poor dist- | ricts in caring for paupers whose legal A native of Woodward, this county settlement is unknown. Judge Olm-|gho was murdered on Saturday stead, of Potter county, declared this of week before lust by James Lenhart, law to be uncoustitutional, and under [at Lewisburg. Motz was stabbed his decision th» Potter authorities re- fused to pay sa svats to poor dist | ricts. Now the sup. c.ue court has de- | cided the act to be valid, in a case from | Armstrong county,/and the supreme | court has virtually aflirmed the deci- | place, is quite feeble. The widow o sion. The law recognizes ic is right | John Rishel has been low the past te that all needy, sick or injured indigen persons should be cared for without the delay necessary to determine their legal settiement and the county is ex- pected to bear the expense rather than each township where such help may | accidentally be required. NEWTON MOTZ. in a few minutes, Those on the Sicklist, days. enabled our townsman, The balmy spring weather has A. Kerlin, 0 stroll a square or two from home- may it soon Rev, Rhodes =. be miles, lumbago and ventured to preach and | thinks this week will see him | mountain fishing trip. George Flory A Month of Sandays, . x 1 h of Sundays” ” still keeps to the house, broken down £ N Ay: 8 fy pE- { month of Sundays’ is an expres | physically. sion commonly used to signify a con-|" 5. aged Mrs. Krebs, of Ferguson Siderale length of age but A Jo |twp., mother of Judge Krebs, is seri not last long as is usua ysupposed. In| oo reality, a month of Sundays is exactly Edgar, a son of Ira Brungart, of Re- the same length as any other month, bersburg is ill of pheumonia : . sburg, . namely, thirty-one days, every day of The aged widow of John Sholl, the Be Week being a Sunday with some |... of Mrs. G. W. Hosterman, has Bytes. ; been ill for some time and her advance The first day of the week, pod every led age leaves scant hope for recovery. one knows, is a Christian Sunday; | Wm. Colyer is still troubled with Monday is the day kept sacred by the | , 0. flection. Greeks; Tuesday is the Persian day of rest; on Wednesday the Assyrians wor- ship; Thursday isa holy day among! mu. following marriage licenses the Egyptiavs; the Turks keep Friday, | were issued during the past week: and the Jews Saturday, as their SBab-| yo oi © Betz and Alice Harter, bath. | both of Walker. Wm. J. Howley and Christena Cea- der, both of Bellefonte. George Rapsock and Lizzie Federal, both of Gordon Heights. John Morrison and Edna Campbell, | both of Bellefonte, H. A. Bowers, State College, and Re- becca Albright, Axemanun. Wm. Fradford and Lizzie J. JRishel, both of Farmers Mills. C. M. Harter, Bellefonte, and Bessie May Harter, of Walker. Claude P. Borden and Markley, both of Snow Shoe. James St. Clair, Karthaus, and Edith B. Zimmerman, Bnow Shoe, Maurice Lewis Monash, New York City, and Lena Baum, Bellefonte, Reuben Miller, Yarnell and Hattie Ravoley, of Clarence. Thomas O'Neil, Osceola Mills, and Bridget Sullivan, Powelton. Ef LATE NEWS NOTES, In a coal mine in Utah 90 men were killed by an explosion. There were numerous strikes Tues day amoog all classes of trades iu many parts of the country, the strikers num- bering thousands, men wanting better pay. The British have been halted by the new Boer general, Botha, who sudden- ly checked the advance of General Hamilton. Roberts rushed French forward to the rescue, and Is massing a heavy army to sweep away the Bo- ers. ———— i ———— Ww Underwent an Operation, Lowell Smith, brother of the Bmith Bros., Bpring Mills, underwent an op- eration at the Jeflerson Medical hos- pital, Philadelphia, last week. Low- ell was suffering from an enlargement i ..' EH Marsiage Licenses, meacmifmeitf ems ei— A Good School Tdea, Superintendent Foose, of the Har- | | risburg public schools, many years ago | i principal of the Aaronsburg schools, | proposes a plan that promises well. He asks for the establishment of a | special sehool for ine orrigible pupils | | and “chronic offenders.” His idea is to have a separate place for those who have demoustrated that they are not A strong and competent teacher coald be assigned to this charge, and it is caleu- lated that the pupils generally would be intimidated from being relegated to the school of discipline, In the smaller towns there would be too few of the incorrigible ones to war- rant a separate school, but the plan might work well in the larger towns. |. ~~ A Wife ss a Witness. “ The old common law notion that a woman practically loses her identity as a separate individual when she mar- ries, was again disabused in a case be- fore the superior court this week at Pittsburg. The action was one appeal- ed from Lackawanna county, and the point at issue was the competency of a wife as a witness in a suit against her husband and berself. Judge Orlady delivered an opinion that the wife has at last attained a separate existence on the witness stand, and her testimony must henceforth be treated as if it came from a person with a mind and will of her own, and not from a mere auto maton without will or conscience and wholly respousive to her husband's touch, _ a Gettrude Will Arrive Saturday. v. Behuyler, D. D., of Shellbu with his family, will arrive on Batur day and take possession of the Presby- terian parsonage, and in the future Rev. Schuyler will fill all the appoint ments on the charge. Dr. Schuyler comes highly recommended. We sary. An incision was made by the specialists, and it was discovered that he had a tumor growing on the ab- dominal artery, and that any attempt to remove the tumor would necessari- ly prove fatal, tism was the work of a demon within aman, Anyone who has had an at. tack of sciatic or inflammatory rheu- matism will agree that the infliction is demoniae enough to warrant the be Hef. It has never been claimed that Chamberlain's Pain Balm would cast out demons, but it will cure rheunma- tism, and hundreds bear testimony to the truth of this statement. One ap- plication relieves the pain, and this quick rellef which it affords is alone worth many times its cost, For sale by J. H. Ross, Linden Hall; 8B. M, Bwartz, Tusseyville; F. A, Carson, Pot. ters Mills; H. F. Rossman, Bpring ® of full recovery. Presbyterian Services, Rev. Hichuyler, D. D., will preach in service at Bpring Mills at 2.00 p, m. A —— Infested by Thieves, Mills; J. F. Bmith, Centre Hall, try store being loated. AWFUL DESTRUCTION OF OUR TIM: BER LAND. | Thousands of Acres Burped Over in County, ~The Loss will be Uner $100, 000 —-Alr Ladon with Smoke, | many years have been raging in | part of the county for the past | age to the timberland, { thousands of acres, burning und entailing great ex pense to the caunty. ly two weeks the mountains have been burning without abatement, and ing the sun for days. Brush mountain, east of Centre Hall was burning furiously last Friday ob- scuriug that section of the valley with smoke, A high wind was blowing all day, and with dry brush and leaves on the ground, it spread rapidly and only rain would check its onwardren. These fires are a regular spring and fall occurrence, damaging thousands of acres of timber, and have entailed a loss of hundreds of thousands of dol- lars in the past. In some cases these mountain fires are the result of care- lessness, while in the majority of cases hey are attributed to spiteful and evil lisposed persons. There were fires also in the Tussey mountain section and in the mount- ains northwest of this place. From Saturday to Tuesday the coun- ty was enveloped in a cloud of smoke which was penetrated by the sun with a deeply bedimmed face, with far less | brightness than the moon, On the south side of the the Seven mountain region, the fire spread over the entire Underwood | tract to the 'pike and crossing over | swept down through Poe valley. The white oak flat, in the same tion, was burned over; it belongs to our neighbor, lumberman Huyett, of | whose forests about 500 acres were cov- ered by the fire, The Tom Decker and John Decker | tracts got a baptism of fire, time Tom Decker’'s buildings, the old Foust hotel stand, was surrounded by | the fire. The Adam Smith tract, between the Huyett and the Decker tracts, was | burned over. Mr. Huyett on Bunday ha out fighting the fires. In where it was possible to engage men, there was battling against the fires on | Sunday, and burning against the ap- proachiog flames. In the Woodward narrows the fire was conquered by hard work of the battling men. The north side of Nittany mountain was burned over a distance of four to five miles, The west end of Nittany mountain, took fire at the foot, and spread to the top, extending from near State College east to near McBrides Gap, on the north side. From the mountains this side of Milroy the fire spread into the Seven mountains up to near Pat Garrity's. In the Narrows beyond Woodward the forests were on fire but a force of men succeeded in getting it extin- guished. The fire from the Nittany side cross- ed the mountain and overran Greens valley. All the mountains around Bellefonte were scourged by fire, The fire spread over the whole Me- Brides gap district. The territory of the Nittany Rod and Gun Club was overrun by the fire up into Greens valley a mile opposite Centre Hall north, and their fine clubhouse near Hecla endangered, and no doubt many of the quail and pheas- ants with which the preserve was stocked perished or were driven away by the flames, The Lindenhall lumber company’s extensive territory in the mountains south of that village was severely dam- aged uy the fire, and the whole force of about 40 men had several days of hot experience fighting the flames, The mountains near Pleasant Gap were ablaze to alarm the citizens for the safety of the village and men and women turned out to ward off the dan- ger that threatened the village. Fortunately thus far the Reporter has learned of uo lives being lost or buildings being burned although there were some narrow escapes of both. The fences around the flelds of Pat Garrity west of his buildings have all been burned. The sawmill of John Decker is in constant danger, valley, in Se0C- | or «2 men been clouded with smoke, Oaly a rain will put out the flames. The mountains around Suowsh out, the mountains are on fire, In all the counties adjoining Ce mountain fires have been raging. is singular that these forest fires hup- | time, as a general thing. Mountain fires raged in Be huylkill, | caster, Wyoming, Columbia, {umberiand, and Pike, counties, | | Bunday were sprea« them. the Seven {advancing alarmingly there were reports that fast, longing to Kulp & Thomas, of Milroy, have been destroyed. day was offered for men to fight the fire, with but few takers, In Clinton county the Glen Union Lumber Company turned force of workmen to fighting the flames, which threatened their cut timber, flames. Representatives of the State Forestry Commission sent men over lands already purchased, and also over tracts about to be purchased, Glen Union, to protect them. Mountain fires are raging in Union county. es Memorial Day Services, {at a recent meeting, made arrange | ments for the proper observance of Me- | | morial day. Prof. John D. Meyer will | deliver the address of the day at Cen- | tre Hall in the evening. For speak- | | ers at Georges valley, Farmers Mills, | pointments will be made later. The | {| Memorial sermon will be preached by | Farmers Mills to the Post, by Rev. W. Kerschner. The services at Uen- | tre Hall will be held in the evening at { the usual hour. »” i {V —— i - Jalled Under School Law, Edward C. Hammer, convicted of refusing to send his child- | ren to school, in compliance with the | | compulsory attendance law, was sen- | {tenced toa fine of two dollars and | | costs, amounting to £51 65, | able to pay this he was taken to jail. | | This, it is declared, is the first | onment of this offence in eastern Penn- | sylvania. s——————— Sudden Death of an Aged Man, Joshua D. Mitchell, { | i ! : i : one of Miles-| ! died very suddenly on Sunday after-| i noon of heart disease. He was aged! | over 84 years and was postmaster of | Milesburg under President Garfield's administration. He leaves a wife and several children. Mi — A Large Egg. Miss Martha Wilson, on Church street, can boast of a pullet which quite frequently furnishes her with an egg of an unusual and extraordinary size. Bhe showed us a fair sample of the “fruit” this week. The egg meas ured four inches in length and six in circumference. ——————— A —————— A Pity to Settle so Soon. A notable case was argued before the Superior court at Pittsburg this week, involving the division line between the counties of Huntingdon and Mif- flin. The question has been in dis- pute since the formation of Mifflin county, nearly one hundred and twelve years ago. Married, On Bunday evening, April 20, Mr, William Bradford, son of George Brad- ford, of the Old Fort, and Miss Lizzie J. Rishel, the accomplished daughter of M. L. Rishel, Esq., of Farmers Mills, were united in marriage at the Lutheran parsonage, Centre Hall, by Rev. J. M. Rearick. On Sunday evening at the Reformed parsonage, Centre Hall, by the Rev. Geo. W. Kershner, Mr. James Runkle to Miss Regina Royer, both of Tussey- ville. I consider it not only a pleasure but a duty I owe to my neighbors to tell about the wonderful cure effected in my case by the timely use of Cham- berlain’s Colie, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy. I was taken very badly and procured a bottle of this remedy. A few doses of it effected a NO. LOCAL ITEMS, 18 from Everywhere. i i i A School 1dyl, | Ram it in, eram it in ; i Children’s heads are hollow, | Blam it in, jam it in ; Still there’ % more to follow Hygiene aud history, Astronomic mystery, Algebra, histrology, Latin, etymology, Botany, geometry, Greek and trigonometry, Children’s heads are hollow. Rap it in, tap it in; What are teachers paid for? What are children made for? Ancient archaeology, Aryan philology, Prosody, zoology, Physics, clinictology, Calculus and mathematics, Rhetoric and hydrostatics, | Hoax it in, coax it in ; Children’s heads are hollow. ~Behoboth 8, Herald, Leaves are out, and blossoms here, All around dame nature's cheer, The fields have living green, God's hand in all is seen. Nothing but smoke ! Pretty : A covy of chicks. Boake stories are getting ripe. Michael Stover, Philipsburg, was al- lowed a pension, $10. | Whew ! at times the dust flies along { our streets like a through freight. And the fires are still ragiog—in some mountain districts with a roar { like thunder. j About 130 communed in the Luthe- ran church, Sunday, | bers were added. and 6 new mem- Elijah Coldren, one of the | men in Soyder county, died | Brove, aged 94 years. Elias Motz, an old resident of near | Woodward, died of paralysis on Thurs- [day last, leaving a widow. Examine your label, dear reader, .|and if it shows not paid up, kindly do the handsome by rem tting. oldest in Selins- { The Centre County at | Bellefonte, July 25 and will | be equal to the greatness of the county. Centennial, 26, 1900, or ard Rebersburg’s Sunday schools on last Sabbath raised the handsome sum of | #100 for the starving people in India. “That's the way Carist would do it.” { The Lutheran school contributed $75 SiO, Geo. W. Adams died at his home in | the east end of Brush valley ; | respected member of the { church. | Every day during the mountain fires {charred leaves and flakes of burned | material were sailing in airand lodg- | ing in town. Rev. Rarick’s appointments, § {May 6: At Centre Hall, 7 p. m. i Johus, 2 p. m. { munion, 10 a, m. A well 203 feet in depth, was drilled by Alf. Krape, for Samuel Musser, at Fairbrook, striking a stream of water. Al is now drilling a well for Frank Bowersox, in same locality. A 250-acre tract of white pine and hemlock primeval forests, in eastern Brush valley, it is reported, has been sold by the Jonathan Walker heirs to D. E. Mishoe of Philadelphia, for §20,- 000, Farmer Glace, a Jeffersonian Demo- crat above town, filled his big fish-bas- ket with all big trout one day last week from the stream that flows by Oakhall and Lemont. When Glace don’t catch any it's because the fish are “not in it.” George Shaffer, a sage of 90 years, is Madisonburg’s oldest inhabitant. He lived a useful and upright life, and is a direct descendant of the pioneers of Brush valley and in his boyhood saw and had a taste of early settler’s life, The Shaffers have an honored record to look back upon. A special meeting of West Susque- hanna Reformed Classis was held on Friday at Jacksonville, to receive Rev, Harvey Crow, from Westmoreland Classis, and instal him as pastor of the Nittany Valley charges. Rev. T. Derr, pastor of St. Lukes Ref. Church, Lock Haven, preached the sermon. Sunday afternoon, 22, during the heavy thunder storm, three cows graz- ing in a field near Beech Creek station were killed by lightning. They had their heads through the wire fence nibbling at the grass on the outside, and the lightning striking the fence mn along the wire and reached them with fatal resuits, The Millheim knitting factory that was erected over ten years go, but never knitted a stitch, has at he was a Reformed Sunday St. Georges valley, com- The investment, thus far, tous 12, Sis eoterprising
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