The Cor CENTRE HALL, PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1901, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, y NO. 40, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. VOL... LXX1YV. SCIENCE MAY COMBAT TRUST, The second briquette-making plant in this country has been es- tablished at Stoekton, Cal, the first being in Chicago, and the product of the California factory bids fair to become as popular, the San Fran- cisco papers report, as like fuel in European countries. These papers claim that the Stockton briquette is far in advance of anything of the kind ever before placed on the market. Coal screenings or slack and oil are the chief components of the product. The process of manufac ture is very simple, and the materials are, of course, inexpensive. The cost of briquettes is about the same as that of common forms of fuel. A ton of the new product, however, it is claimed, will last as long at least as one and a quarter tons of coal. The heat efficiency, too, is said be 50 per cent greater. With all these alleged advantages it is gurpris- ing that more use is not made of the mountains of coal slack and sereen- ing to be found in every coal-mining district in the country. It will start in one of these days as a competitor to trust coal. DEATHS, BEMI-LOCAL NEWS, MRS. GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW, Bunday evening at 7 o'clock life fled from the body of Mrs. George Barthol- omew at her home in Howard, after suffering for one week from an abscess on the lungs. The funeral took place Wednesday, Rev. Frick, of the Dis- ciple church, of which deceased was # member, officiating. The deceased and her husband, who survives, for many years lived at Hublersburg, but fifteen years ago took up their re<dence at Howard. The marriage of this couple took place May 7, 1846, the deceased’s maiden name being Catharine Trausue. The fumily consisted of six children. The dead are : Frank, who was scciden- tally killed at Centre Hall ; Mary E , of Philipsburg, and Sarah, who died in infancy. The surviving children wre : Rebecca, wife of Rev. M. 8B. Ro- mig, pastor of the Lutheran church at Shanksville, Somerset county ; Kate, wife of Elmer Ertle, of Howard : Jennie, at home ; and W. H. Barthol- omew, of this place, The deceased was originally a Lutheran, but when Howard became their home the Lutheran church was located at a point too distant for her farms in Indiana gounty, located near to attend regularly as was ber custom, “3 Nugl ited with th Covode, planted 1,100 small peach trees a v d w s | : . no 8 os ny ng yo. With ihe {last spring and this fall he gathered . ODRrewn- ; Jisciple Christian Chapel congrega- | peaches off the same trees. The fruit is on of Howard. large and of excellent variety, Ihe age of the deceased wasseventy- three years and thirteen days. All Parents Should Become Acquainted With the New Law, The new compulsory law is much more strict than those which preceed- ed, and provides proper penalties for violations. Below is given a very complete digest of the act. Parents and all readers should carefully read it, and assist and sustain the school di- rectors in the inforceiment of its pro- visions : 1. Children between the ages of eight and sixteen years must be sent to a day school in which the English branches are taught continuously throughout the whole term ; but the school board may at its June meeting reduce the attendance required to 70 per cent. of the term. 2. Children between the ages of 18 and 16 years who can read and write the Euvglish language iutelligently may be excused by the bourd if they are regularly employed in service. 3. Pupils may be taught in private schools by legally qualified teachers, but the teacher or priucipal must re- port non-attendance to the proper Happenings In Central Pennsylvania Cull. ed from Exchanges, A ten-year-old child of John Glant, of Milton, was abducted Su nday night, Bhe was found on the fair grounds later, and said she had been carried there by two men. Miss Eloise Behuyler, of this place, is teaching the pi sary school at Bai- leyville during the illness of the regue Accidentally falling against a meat | lar teacher, hook, Jacob Lilley, a butcher, ot Mun- cy, was hung up as if he were 80 much meat, the hook penetrating the lower and upper lids of the right eye, the sight of which he will lose, Reuben Page, of near Linden Hall, was a caller Tuesday. Mr. Page is a veteran of the sixties and was engaged in any battles, A. P. Luse is having his house one Ng with brick, and the work is being per-_j formed by Wm. Wolf, of Bellefoute, 7 who has a good reputation as a me- chanie. The casket containing the corpse of a seven-mounths’-old boy, son of John O. Barkenstoek, was thrown from the hearse into the road at White Deer on Sunday. The horses hitched to the hearse ran away and created consider. able excitement, THE PHILIPPINES A POOR INVESTMENT. Chairman Hull, of the House military committee, interested in private speculations in the Philippines, returns from those islands very much out of surts at the way they are governed. The grievance appears to be the forbidding of grants of franchises by the local authorities un- less they are approved at Washington, which is inconvenient for those in hunt of valuable grants. Chairman Hull says this policy has thrown most of the “business” in the islands into the hands of Europeans, largely English and Scotch, who hold concessions under old Spanish con- tracts, which they insist are still valid. “I think it is high time,” he is quoted as saying, “to inquire whether we intend to spend $75,000,000 8 | authorities the same as teachers iu year for the maintenance ofan army and a government in the Philip-| public schools. pines, chiefly for the benefit of the foreign nie chants in trade there.| 4. Any person employing children 1 believe that tor some years at least we mus. «....( to keep an army [shall furnish, on or before the third of about 40,000 men in the Philippines. Just now we have about 43,-| Monday of the school term and quar- 000. 1 should prefer to have 10,000 more soldiers in the islands than terly thereafter, to the superintendent are really needed than to have 1,000 too few there.” The grievance of | of schools or to the secretary of the Congressman Hull appears to rest on the fact that American operators | school board of the district where such are at a disadvantage. Is not this the general trend of matters in the |children reside, the name, age, place "hilippines! In its foreign commerce Spain, England and Germany | of residence and name of guardian of Miss Laura Barner, of 855 Erie avenue Williamsport, says the Will- inmsport Sun, has gone to Bpring Mills, to spend a few days with her uncle, William Pealer, J. D. Hubler, will move from Penn Hall to near Bellefonte, this week, where he will be employed by Col. Reynolds to do blacksmithing for the Rockview farms, Some time ago a cow belonging to Ammon Dreese, of Beavertown, pick- ed up an apple along the road and choked to death. Last Saturday sev- eral of the rest of his cows broke into the apple srehard and got an over dose which caused the death of two more, Punxsutawney News: Frank Row- lew, who owns oneof the finest fruit Corman Spicher, son of John Bpich- er, of this place, is home from Phila- delphia for a thirty days’ vacation. Mr. Bpicher is a substitute mail carrier in Philadelphia, and bids fair to be- come regularly installed. Mies Anna Ewing, of Newton Ham- |ilton, bas taken over 2,000 figs from | her tree and will get as many more if { the frost does not kill then before mar- The delegates to the Reformed Byn- od in session at Philadelphia left Wed- nesday, and with the exception of Dr. every person under the age of sixteen JOSEPR C. BIERLY, lead the United States, simply because they can undersell us, and the Philippine tariff exacts the same rates from Americans as foreigners. Hence, as Mr. Hull says, we are maintaining an army of 40,000 men on the islands, and expenaing $70,000,000 a year for the benetit of foreign merchants. Politically and financially we have done nothing but blunder in the Philippines since we entered on the conquest of the islands. Mr. Hull says of conditions on the islands: “The people of Samar, where American troops were recently massacred, are all hostile u 5. A ny principal, teacher, parent or onder the law shall be fiued nor more more than five dollars for Joseph C. Bierly, a highly respected and well-to-do citizen of Miles town- ships, died at his home two miles west of Rebersburg Sunday at 12 o'clock. The deceased, who was a man of good constitution was ill two months with sciatic rheumatism, His keting. Figs do not ripen all at once, son till frost kills them. The trees have to be buried over winter. Albert Carothers, employed in the Ly, attempted to stop his machine by G. W. Hosterman, they expect to re- turn Wednesday of next week. The There will be no free bridge across the Busquehanns river at Lewisburg The indebtedness of Northumberland county is too great age was sixty-eight years, Mr. Bierly was a member of the M, E. church, and the burial rites of that church, Rev. Haven being pastor in charge, were performed over his re. mains this (Thursday) morning. The deceased was a blacksmith by trade, but twenty years msgo went to farming, which occupation he has since followed. It was his intention to move to Rebersburg next spring, where he had just completed a new dwelling for his own use. The family, besides the widow, who each succeeding couvietion, aud may be sent to jail if the five is not paid. 6. Fines collected are to be paid to the treasurer of the school district. 7. Attendance officers (to be paid not more than two dollars per day) have full police powers, and may arrest truants without warrant and place them in proper schools. 8.38pecial schools for habitual truants ; may be established by any school dis- | trict or by two or more districts acting | together, 9. Assessors of voters must make, in & book provided vy the superiote. dent | of puolic instruction, a correct list of | all children between theages of 6 and i I years, with age, sex, etc., and also | names of children employed, ete, and | catchiog the belt but his hand going | to Issue bounds except by a vote of the between the cone and the belt it took { people, and the measure would not be him through, turned him upside down | favored by a majority. and throwing him into a pile of tires | Edward J. Lucas, who for some cut a gash four inches long on the top | time held a position with Lewin & of his head. Co., Bellefonte, is employed by a large clothing house in Philadelphia. He isason of W. H. Lucas, of Centre Hill, and adds another young man from Potter township to the employed in Philadelphia. to us. The interior of none of the islands is extensively developed. A great part of the islands is suited for guerrilla warfare. The conditions are such as we would term peaceful in this country, but it is not a con- dition of peace, because these brigands and highwaymen are constantly dashing out of their retreats to strike a blow when they can do so to the best advantage, and then fly back to cover. The substantial business men of the islands and the more intelligent are now thoroughly in sym pathy with our regiwe, and aredoing all they can to bring the remainder of the Filipinos to the same attitude. Bat they are a very small per cent of the whole, and the process will necessarily be slow.” A staff correspondent of the New York “I'ribune” who has been making a study for sometime of the Filipino character, reaches the conclusion that, like the Chinese and most other Asiaties, it is unfath- omable. Still his pictare is interesting. The Filipino isan Asiatie, out and out, we are told, and has acquired merely a veneer of civilization. As an Asiatic “he remains treacherous, cruel and vindictive: as touched by Spanisu civilization he can be generous, hospitable and truthful.” As far as moral makeup is concerned, he may be said to possess none, or to be “crippled and deformed” He displays a certain childishness of character trom the cradle to the grave | he has no seriousness, no tenac- ity of purpose ; he cannot reason logically or see things in proper light. It will require generations to change him, to imbue him with American ideas ; to make a man of lum, according to our notions of manhood. It is true that there are Filipinos who are capable of attain. ing distinction in any ofthe professions-—in law, in medicine, in the church and in literature. Excluding the savage tribes in the archi. pelago, the Filipino population is avout 7,000,000, of whom, according to the estimate of the archbishop of Manila, about 6,000 have had a college education or have studied in high schools. Of course there are many more who know how to read and write, but the number of both classes compared with the wholly illiterate is infinitesimally small. The average Filipino knows nothing about political liberty, self-govern. ment and the public welfare. He cannot understand how a winority can live under the rule of a majority and enjoy equal rights, “The great mass of Filipinos,” observes the “Tribune” correspondent, “con- ceive on political liberty to be the right of the wajority to rule and imprison or cut the throats of the minority.” The establishment of a regular army post at Somerset, Pa., is now consid- ered a probability, Congressman W. H. Graham and a number of others Visited the site Monday. While they will not admit that their inspection of the ground had anything to do with is a sister of Prof. Heury Meyer and plans of an army post site, the report is circulated that such steps are being Mrs. Busan Miller, consists of two | k | taken, p 4 count of an injury sustained to one of children—Prof. Henry E. Bierly, of | : : Rev. Wm. E. Steckel was installed | 1,4 fingers, and the latter was the Tallahassee, Fina; and Rev. Edward Bierly, who resigned his pastorate | #8 pastor of the Milroy Presbyterian | suest of Miss Elizabeth Stuart, return the same to the county comumis- | Bear Boston to help care for bis father | church on Wednesday of last week. i Rev. Bergen presided and propounded | sioners. {during his illuess. Prof. Bierly i arrived home Wednesday noon, constitutional questions. Rev R. F Wilson delivered the charge to the! 10. Commissioners return a certified | i people and Rev, Wm. H. Decker! charged the pastor, Rev. J. F. Pol copy of lists to secretaries of school boards and send a statement to the su- lock, of Lehigh Presbytery, preached the sermon. Mrs. B. H. Arney and Miss Grace Smith spent a few days at State College with the former's son Miles, who for {some weeks, has been a sufferer on ac- GG. F. Weaver, of Penns Cave, was a caller Monday, having come to town to deliver some corn. When driving through town on his home- ward trip, be was unfortunate in los inga tire from one of the wagon wheels which was not observed until he had driven quite a distance. The marriage of Miss Gertrude Irwin, oldest daughter of late Wm. Irwin, and sister of D. Allison Irwin, of Jucksouville to Elmer C. Ross, of Lemont, took place Wednesday after- noon st lo'clock. It was a quiet wedding on sccount of the recent death of Mr. Ross’ mother. Only the relatives of the immediate families were present. ELLEN JANE HARVEY Mrs. Ellen Jave Harvey, wife of W. I. Harvey, of Flemington, died in the Lock Haven hospital Friday evening, She was the daughter of James Lucas and was born at Marsh Creek, Centre county. She was educated at the Soldiers’ Orphan school at McAllister- ville and later in life was united in marriage to W. I. Harvey, who sur- vives her with two sons, Ives at home, and Ellis, a student at State College. She also leaves the following brothers aud sisters : Mrs. W. J. Ult, of Will- lamsport ; Mrs. Allie White, of Alpivo ; Clark, of Lock Haven, and John, of Lemont, Tue funeral took place Monday at o'clock. Interment in Highland cemetery at Lock Haven. —— WM. STUMP. ~~ William Stump died at his home in Roxtoun, Virginia, a short time ago, from the effects of an injury received while shoeing a horse, mention of which fact was made in the Reporter at the time. Mr. Btump went to Vir- givia about twenty-six years ago and bas since been engaged in farming. He leaves four children to his first wife,’ namely, Jerry Stump, of Centre Hall; Mrs. Levi Stump, of Tussey- ville; Mrs. Calvin Rossman, of Sigler ville, Mifflin county; Mrs. D. C. Kel ler, Ventre Hall. The widow also sur- vives and is a sister of Samuel Strong, of Potters Mills. perintendent of public iustruction. 11. Behool boards may before the first of February each year autho! ize attend- ance officers to make this enumeration. 12. Teachers are required to report immediately pupils who have been ab- seut three days to the attendance offi cer, superintendent of schools, or sec- retary of school board, who shall at once begin proceedings against the of- fending parties, 13. Superintendents of schools, secre- taries and attendance officers are liable to a fine of §25 for each neglect of duty. 14. The state superintendent may withhold one-fourth of the «tate appro- priation from: any district where the law is not enforced. 2 As the state superiotendent has power to withhold a part of the state appropriation from any district which does not enforce the law, and as he can easily ascertain the facts, it will be a mark of wisdom in a school board to see that this law is enforced. But directors who are interested in the education of the children will see that they attend school, not because of the risk of losing money, but because it is best for the children. George, eldest son of Lewis A, Hau- hert, who resides about one mile north of Mexico, Juniata county, while en- gaged with asteam thresher on the farm owned by C. B. Horning. Esq., in Milford township, that county, had bis left band caught in the cogs of the pump convection of the engine, crush. ing the band entirely from the arm. The arm was amputated about mid way between the wrist and elbow, Raymond, the eight-year-old son of Oliard F. Martz, residing near the toll gate at Lewistown, met with a serious accident. At the noon hour in front of the school bulding he with other boys hung on the back part of a pase ing wagon, when his leg swung be tween the spokes of the wheel and it was severely twisted. He was taken bome and Dr's. Parcels and Swigart summoned, who on examination found both bones of the leg broken be- tween the ankle and knee, Glen W. Schofield, a young hunter and trapper of Penfield, Clearfield county, caplured a bear a few days ago that weighed a trifle over 400 pounds, The bear was caught in a trap. Bruin bad dragged the trap and a heavy log fasts ned to it with his fore foot fast in the trap for a distance of two miles, Che hunter attempted to kill the bear with a tomahawk, but the blows had little effect, but a bullet from Scho- field’s gun reached its right eye and it dropped dead. Tuesday morning of last week bur- glars entered the home of James Schaffer, at Burnham, Mifflin coun- ty, by using a hatchet. They pried up a window and after rummaging all through the lower part of the house and getting all the silverware piled up on the table ready to bundle up they went up stairs and secured Mrs. Schaf fer's and their daughter Elsie’s pocket books, when Mrs, Scheafler heard them. She awoke her husband; he bad his rifle in his bed room and the : across the hall in another Jutridgn: he crossed the hall he saw Prof J. Frank Meyer, professor of physics, hygiene aud botany in the Lower Merion High School, pear Philadelphia, was proflered a govern ment position to make scientific re. searches. The position, although a good one with many opportunities for advancement, was declined. Prof, Meyer is a son of J. 8. Meyer, Esq., of uear Penn Hall, FINAL CENSUS COUNT. The final census report on the population of the United States by sex, general natively and color, has just been printed, and presents some facts and figures that sbauld have an enduring place in memory. As tw the matter of sex, the report shows that the males in the United States number 39,059,242 and ec ustitute 51.2 per cent of the to- tal population in 1900, while the females number 37, 244,145, or 48.8 per cent. There is a slightly larger proportion of Zewales now then 10 years ago. In all census reports there is shown a sligh. »atural lead in the male population, but the large excess of 1,800,000 males nthe United States is largely due to the excess of male immigration. There are, or were in June, 1900, in the United States 65,843, 302 native born persons, and 10,460,085 foreign born, the latter ele- ment constituting 13.7 per cent of the total, against 14.8 per cent ten years ago. The toreign born show an absolute increase during the dec- ade of 1,151,994, while the native born have increased in 10 years 12, 081,637. : As to color and race, there are 9,312,585 colored persons in the country, of whom 8,840,789 are negroes. There are two million more foreigners than negroes. The indians are set down at 266,760, the Chinese at 119,060, the Japanese at 85,986. The Chinese and Indians show a slight decrease since 1890—the Chinese of 6 per cent and the Indians ot 2 per cent. The negroes have increased dering the last ten years 1,352,000, or 18.1 per cent, while the white increase has been 11,- 824,618, or 21 per cent, but it showd be remembered that the negro in- crease has been 11,824,618, or 21 per cent, but it should be remembered that the negro increase is by birth, while the white increase is largely aided by immigration, Uf the tial white population 56,740,739 are native whites, con. stituting 74.4 per cent of the total population, and 10 250,063 foreign whites, constituting 13.4 of the total population. Native white per- sous are in turn subdivided into 41,053,417 of native parentage and 15,- 687,822 of foreign parentage, constituting, respectively, 53.8 per cent, and 20.6 per cent of the population. J The native white clement has increased 28 3 per cent and the foreign whites only 12.2 per cent since 18900. The native white ele- ment of foreign parentage has increased relatively twice as fact as the native whites of native parentage. The last is an important fact to bear in mind, showing a greater birth rate among those of f birth than those born in this country. Foreign parents, according to this state- ment, have twice as many children as native born parents. In another column will be found census figures relating to Cen- tro county that should be caretully : PR y { . The many friends of M. T. Yocum with Koorr & Rath, of Reading, manufacturers of shoes, congratulate him on his marriage to Miss Annie Schuler, of Reading, which took place on October 1. Mr. Yocum has many good personal qualities, and his genial disposition won for him a host of friends and business for the house he represents, to say nothing of a most excellent little wife, Stewart Decker, of Altoona, Natur day, came down from that place to the home of his father-in-law, Samuel Ertle, in Georges Valley, where the former's wife is lying ill. Mrs. Decker had been visiting at her home sod took sick a week or more ago. Mr. Decker is employed in the Pennayl- vania railroad shops, and is from near Potters Mills, being a son of Ex-Commissioner John Decker. Messrs. T. F. Gramley and John H. Breon, of Spring Mills, were callers at this office Saturday, having come to town to attend a of the L—— Not Theorizing. “Our friend fnith, of the Centre Hall Re. porter, is a great theorist, He figures out that be- caase, T. G. Wilson, of that place, recently raised & potato stalk that had four finely developed po tatoes, weighing five and one half pounds bang. ing to it, that he ought to have 1.175 bushels to the acre. To get this number he figures eighty hi'ls to the square rod aud each hill yielding as many poiatoes ss the one mentioned above. But don't you know, Wesley, that you have no more right to expect such a yield than you would to imagine that if your old cat had kittens in the bake oven they would be tea biscuits "— Dem ocratic Watchman, The calculations given are correct, and were made to show the very large yield in pounds of marketable tubers found in that particular hill. The ex- cessive yield per acre at a glance proves that the yield of the hill in question is about ten times the normal-—more than that, for the average potato yield in Potter township, and other sections in the county, is less than one hun dred bushels. Theory is a poor stimu- Innt for a potato stalk. I AAG A SAT Box Calf, Patent Leather, Enamel, Patent Kid add Viel Kid shoes for fadies at §2.00-Yeager & Davis, Belle: 15AA: BUFFINGTON, Isanc Buffington, of Penn township, died at his bome one mile west of Mill- heim, Inst Friday aud was buried at the Heckman burying ground, in Gregg township, Sunday afternoon. The funeral was in charge of Rev. Buck, of the United Evangelical church. Miss Bertha White, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Harvey White, of Bellefonte, died at M¥ll Hall, Thursday avening of last k, from a complication of diseases. She was ninteen years old, She was highly esteemed by her many friends. HE
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