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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