VOL. LXXYV SURFACE FACTS IN POLITICS, The Only Solution Is to Roate Both Repub Henn Factions, party in Pennsylvania, comprising the best intelligence of the party, its most thoughtful membership and those | most devoted to the welfare the | State and its people, are generally in a state of discontent, promising opin re-| volt against the continued domination | in the State aflairs of the Republican | machine or organization, divided at] this time into factions of more or less | power. The feeling is strong among Democrats and indepen lents, but among party wen of the straight- | est sect, that there is only one remedy, | and that is the lesson of a stinging re-| buke at the polls that will the party and put it on safe ground, It prevades all parts of the State. 1 js more demonstrative in the cities] nd great centers of population, but it | is fally as earncst and in | the rural conuties and among the farm- | ing population. All contidence of re-| medial measures by what is called re- form within the party bas disappeared, | and the unmistakable demand is for N thorough house-cleaniug by the defeat | of the party, and the renovation, so far as it is possible, of the legislatire]] and executive departments the | government and the great nicipalities. In the war is seen that the defeat and the overthrow of oce boss will work no permanet or reform in conditions, for the cessful faction or wiil business at the old stand and game corrupting and demoralizing | way. That the | past for the last ecsntury in State politics. ed by substituting Elkin and Stone for | Quay, Qiay, with a fresh installment of pledges, dicers’ oaths The temper of the people of Penu- sylvania at thissupreme crisis in the | of not alone | discipline | aggressive of Htate mu of faietions it of one fac it su boss continue | in the] is the quarter of a experience of i What is to be gain- or by continuiog “false as | history of the State is not to be pall in the tl Le ated or cured by a mere change ruling factions, They originate corruption and decadence of the partly One is as bad as the other. The i mating principle is the same, the sorption power patronage. | There will same legislative corruption an i deg dation—the ex wi hold the years, and the judiciary, demoralized, fail to con fidence of the people. It is an appreciation of facls by the people of all parties in Pennsyl- vania that is the fountain of the deep- | seated feeling and purpo LOCALS, James Sandoe, who recently return ed to his post of duty at Pit been iil. Miss Lizzie Bible, of Centre Hill spent Bunday with Mr, and Mra. T. I, Moore, at this place. A regular meeting of Progress Grange will be held Baturday noon in Grange Arcadia. tsburg, has alter | George Meyer, of Coburn, father of | Merchant W. H. Meyer of this place, | spent several days in Centre Hall last | week, | Bruce Mitchel, who came to his| home at Lemont from Pittsburg | threatened with typhoid fever, has fully recovered. Mr. and Mrs. John L. King are con - fortably quartered in the McCauley | property on Main street, which was reroofed, repainted and generally re-| paired within the past month. There is no truth in the repcrt of | the marriage of Frank Fisher, of| Boalsburg, who at present is located at Norristown, but indications point to a ceremony to take place in which Fi er will be interested, A large number of shade trees were planted in Centre Hall during the past mouth, The town is often spokep of by strangers in a very eom- plimentary way on sceount of the abundance of shade trees, but there is room for more. — Communion services will be held next Bundayin the Reformed church ut Centre Hall in the forenoon snd at Tusseyville in the afternoon. Pre paratory services will be held at Tusseyville in the afternoon and Centre Hall in the evening, Saturday previous. A flock of wild geese passed over Centre Hall about eight o'clock Tues day evening. From the peculiar calls of the geese, those who are acquainted with goose parlance declare the web- feet were lost. There was either a flock of a thousand or else the geese hovered over the town, being attract ir AN He. S————— NO. 18. A I ———————— UNTY NEWS. TOWN AND CO HAPPENINGS OF L FROM ALL There Isa mue! in the fact that Corporatio f smment vard Creamery plant at y 1 ! 4 1 § i Vi It entre k Mon. to visit been ill drove 1 } former's ti I BOome Comn ta 4 3 » T 5 1 4 x REESE, : W513 Wolf, ebersburg, 1" of Or KOIDE e iuto ths ? v I time, if wu ountry w Fifth Church lie edi 3 iaid 8 1 e will cos Christophe J ilian, i rolls at strong, of aced has been pl 4 a month ar meid- tism for 1 is yIOL there I bead or aif an bow, i, which tation, and intone. i, even re ports papers, und. the res. naicate + before oted to ris are flowers, "an Val. Mon- and appoint. f the let. the take Nprit ire Sprin UE afternoon Fi 13 « sfternoon. amley Hiram Darst i} Dur i » Hiram #1 iL “ae AGU nis i AS 0 o bad « X inonths wil h Bail ! 5 / 5 irned to i day of been in er home it inst weed poor health. Limes, unly, i im- aur it 2 net od N. paid Fonte, a when entre with , and Aas a a adusle of (quite a youi uite freqgue SUCCess 10 - v x JEW York EW % 3i 8 Much of the have 3 of corn high winds of the soil of aud those who plo ied the in pre- hie ex- unsatisfac- become rinniog 1 plow- OF i ey agrye jue wrt ground is tarned. week relieved top jor} gi ay and have a very s0d i oo wet are sullering del paration of the san bed. The bw ’" » ef 8 Dr. W. H. unday will officially declare vacant the Presbyteri- ian pulpit at Jacksonville, where Rev, was pastor pricr to his Frankfort Springs, Beaver Dr. Schuyler will preseh for I. Crow the Relormed Schuy going lo county. Rev, H. in ternoon. He and Mrs. Schuyler will spend the night with Rev. and Mps, Crow, who «nee were pupils of their's at New Bloomfield. James A. Keller, «I near this place, has returned from a month's trip to Virginia, North and Sosth Carolina. His impression« have been favorable and unfavorable. Tue people he ade mires—they are or, hospitable, kind: their meth ds of farming are entirely antiquated, snd suggest the farmer to be dilatory, sloven. Mr. Keller has been sshed to give his im pressions of the South through the Reporter, aud it is likely that he will do so, Cleve John H. Glasgow, of Philadelphia, who was formerly of Poller township, and who has gone through many of the chairs In Philadelphia politics, conpliments the Reporter on the boost it coniiouslly gives Centre Hall and surrounding country, and expresses a hope that the people in turn will show an appreciation of the Reporter's efforts, Ly giving it their support. Mr. Glasgow has just re turned from a trip to Florida to gain strength lost by a severe attack of flammatory rheumatism, which from January to March.