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vOL. LXXXI.
A TURN TO THE LEFT,
Uapltol Grafters are Declared Innocent of
Conspiracy and Fraud,
The unfortunate ending of the con-
spiracy trial at Harrisburg, in which
the Commonwealth was defeated In its
effort to establish the guilty conni-
vance of the persons on trial for the
Capitol plundering, will be regarded
throughout the State with more sor-
row than surprise. There is no ques-
tion of the fact that the taxpayers of
the State were despoiled of millions of
money. I'bere is no question that this
despoilment was accomplished under
the eyes of officials whose duty it was
to protect the public interest. But the
proof of guilty complicity and fore.
knowledge was not sufficient to satisfy
beyond doubt Judge or jury. This was
grose, stupid, criminal neglect shown
at this trial, but no absolutely proven
conspiracy.
There never would have been possi-
ble any Capitol plundering but for the
quality of the men chosen by the
people of Pennsylvania to administer
their affairs. As long as we send to
Harrisburg Stones, Pennypackers,
Harrises, Hardenverghs, Mathuses,
Bnyders and other political generals of
that ilk, who are bound to serve the
Organization first, and the Common-
wealth afterward, we must suffer the
consequences. The remedy is in our
own hands.
The Capitol plundering would have
been impossible under such officiale
as Stuart, Berry, Young and Sheats.
And Btuart, Berry, Young and Sheatz
would have been impossible but for
the plundering. They owe their
recognition to the temporary public
wrath and temporary gang panic. But
there is great reassurance for diseom-
fited grafters in the verdict of the
Dauphin county jury exonerating the
derelicts anid putting the cost of trial
on the State,
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Koarr-Meeker,
The marriage of John H. Koarr and
Miss Fannie Jane Meeker, both of
Centre Hall, took place at the Reform-
ed parsonage Wednesday of last week
by Rev. Daniel Gress. Thegroom had
been employed in Altoona for several
years by the Penosylvania Railroad
Company, but of late hss been about
Centre Hall, The uride, who is less
than seventeen years of age, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Maynard
Meeker, of near Centre Hall, and re-
gardless of her age is well schooled in
housekeeping. The young couple have
he best wishes of the Reporter.
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Fotter Towashlip Teachers
The Potter township school board
met at Centre Hill Saturday afternoon,
and elected the following teachers :
Plum Grove, T. L. Moore
Fine Stump, Claudia Wieland
Eariystown, John Fortney
Egg Hill, Viola Harter
Manor Hill, W,. W. White
Centre Hill, B. W. Ripka
Tumeyville, Luther Musser
Tosmeysink, 8 C, Brungart
Colyer, Arthur Fulton
Flelsher's Gap, Elmer Miller
Potters Mills ( Grammar }, Albert Zimmerman
Potters Mills { Primary ), Nellie Mingle
Cross Lane, Annas Stover
Pine Grove, Cora Hall
Cold Spring, Cora Brown
The mountain schools, above Potters
Mills, will be closed.
Farmers Week
The date for Farmers’ week at the
Pennsylvania State Cotlege has been
fixed for December 30, 1908, to Jan-
uary 6, 1908, inclusive, The winter
courses in agriculture will begin De-
camber 1, 1908, and close February 11,
1909, without any recess for the holi-
days. These two practical farm courses
of instruction proved to be very popu-
lar last winter, attracting nearly 500
meu from 50 counties of the state.
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J. D, Murray's Unasaal Offer,
“It isn’t often that I have faith
enough io the medicine put up by
other people to be willing to offer to
refund the money if it does not cure,”
said J. D. Murray to a Reporter man
who dropped into his store, * but I am
glad to sell Dr. Howard's specific for
the cure of constipation and dyspep-
sia on that basis.
“The Dr. Howard Company, io
order to get a quick introductory sale,
authorizes me to sell their regulsr fifty
cent bottles at half-price, 25 cents, and,
although I have sold a lot of it, and
bave guaranteed every package, not
one has been brought back se unsatis-
factory.
“Ope great advantage of this
specific” he continued, “is ita small
dose pnd convenient form. There are
sixty doses in a vial that can be oar
ried in the vest pocket or purse, and
every one has more meoicinal power
than a big pill or tablet or a tumbler of
mineral water,
“I am still selling the specific at
half-price, although I esnnot tell how
long I shall be able to do so, and sny-
one who is subject to constipation,
sick headache, dizziness, liver trouble,
Mesting of Progress Grange,
A regular meeting of Progress
Grange was held Baturday afternoon,
which was attended by a number of
members of the order from other
Granges throughout the county. The
purpose of invited neighboring Grang-
es wae to stimulate more intimate so-
cial relations, and to recount good
done by the order, and suggest good
for the order.
The chief speaker was C. H. Dildine,
of Orangeville, Columbia county, one
of the executive committee of the
State Grange. The speaker encour-
aged the farmers to more loyally sup-
port the order of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, whose chief object is to better
the condition of its members, He ar-
gued that farmers should take an act
ive part in politics, and the beginning
should be in the township caucus,
where ithe patrons should place ss
candidates its best material for public
office.
There were a number of other speak-
ers among whom were George Dale,
Willard Dale, George L. Goodhart,
D. K. Keller, Bamuel E. Gobble, and
others,
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The OUsaoada Thistle,
It is with amazement and disgust
that careful farmers from a distance
view the Canada thistles growing un-
molested in Peans Valley. The fre.
quent rains during the spring months
have developed this noxious weed as
well as the cultivated plants, until
their presence attracts attention in
many cultivated flelds and roadsides.
The law requiring the cutting of the
thisties is apparently a dead letter, but
it would be a blessing to the commun-
ity if someone would demand the en-
forcement of this statute. The re
sults from such an action would be
beneficial to future generations, as the
utter disregard for the spreading of
the thistle cannot but be detrimental
to the community.
Lost Their Hearings,
+ Friday morning Captain James A.
Quigley and William H Austin, of
Blanchard, and William A. Bridgens,
of Mapes, went tn Hayes fromr where
they went to the Walker branch of
Big Run and spent the day fishing
for trout, states the Daily News. In
the evening they thought they would
take a short cut across the mountains
to Monument snd catch the night
train. [ostesd, they landed at Eatons
old saw mill five miles from the sta
tion. It then was dark and they had
simply to build a fire and remain there
all night, and sleep under the clear
sky ; next morning bright and eariy
they resumed their journey homeward
weary and hungry ss hounds.
iti
LOUALS,
D. F. Luse and James B. Strohm,
the former secretary snd the latter a
director in the Centre Hall fire insur
ance company, attended a meeting of
the directors of that company Monday
it Bellefoote
Jotun D. Long, of Spring Mills, and
Samuel Biack, of Potters Mills, were
is town Monday morping. Both of
them are well advanced in age, and
carried arms in the unplessantness
during the early sixties,
Gettysburg College graduated a fine
cines of 64, the largest in the history
of the institution. The Board of
Trustees has accepted the resignation
of Prof. Charles E. Dryden, who occu-
pied the French professorship.
At the graduating concert of the
Beethoven Conservatory of Music, Bt,
Louis, Mo., held Monday, Miss Calla
Alpha Zsigler, a daughter of C, OC,
Zeigler, formerly of Rebersburg, com-
pleted her course as as post graduate,
Col. H. B. Taylor and family passed
through Centre Hall Saturday morn
ing in their auto on their way to Re
bersburg, where the former made the
memorial address at the services held
by the 1. O. O. F. lodge of that town,
Mr. and Mrs. William Stahl, sccom-
panibd by their children, of Altoona,
visited James 8. Stahl, near Centre
Hall. The Stahls are cousins, and the
Altoona man is a conductor in the em-
ployment of the Pennsylvania railroad
company.
Mrs. 8. RB. Kamp, of Lock Haven,
accompanied by her daughter, Miss
Edna, are on a western trip, snd will
spend the time in Illinois and Wis.
consin, Io the former state she will
visit her sister, Mrs. D. R. Sweetwood,
at Bymerton, and in the latter, her son,
Rufus 8, Lee, who is located at Mon
roe.
Beesness is beesness, remarks the
Milton Standard, The government
licenses » man to distill whiskey ;
then the courts license other men to
sell it; then the municipalities em.
who drink it; then the judge who
grants the license sentences the men
who drink the liquor to go to §
The Bunday School Convention for
the distriet of Centre Hall Borough,
Potter and Gregg townships was held
Friday in the Union church, Farmers |
Mills. The two ressions, afternoon |
and evening, were well attended, and
the program announced was closely |
adhered to. |
Appended is printed the address of |
Rev. Daniel Gres, the subject being,
“ Does the Bunday Behool meet the
requirements of religiou« instruction.’ |
The subject is one of general interest, |
and one that needs particular atten- |
tion. Rev. Gress said :
The religious instruction of the |
youth of our land is one of the great |
problems of the day, We hear lamen- |
tations on every side that the children
aod young people sre deficient 1n
things religious, that they lsck a!
knowledge of the scriptures. Where
shall we seek for the cause of this de. |
ficiency, if it be time, and what shall
be the remedy? We need not seek long
for at least some of the causes,
There is po religious instruction
given in the vommon schools to-day
as formerly in our own land. The
church and the public schools have
become separate iostitutions. Cate.
chetieal instruction of the youth is not
followed as it once was. Religious
instruction in the home is sald to be
on the wane. Greatstress is laid upon
iatellectual training in this present
age, and bat little time taken for any
other instruction. But education jaa
unit, there is no real; difference
tween education and religious educs-
tion, It is not possible to separate the
eiucation of the intellectusl nature
aod the physical from the education
of the moral nature,
All the faculties with which man
has been endowed should be properly
developed in order to have a full wind-
ed out man. Why should intellectual
training have supremacy to-day even
to the exclusion of training in things
religious? Did pot the impulse to edu-
cation come originally from the
church? After the father of the fam-
ily, the priest was the first teacher of
mankind. Every great religion has
been an educator to the people,
For centuries, whatever of education
Europe offered was administered by
the churches,
The Reformation broadened the pur-
pose of education. The church and
the apirit of the church ruled the in-
stitutions of learning. The Reformers
early devised the systematic methods
of imparting r-ligious instruction to
the young. The sgencies used were,
firet, the psstors, and secondly, the
schools, and in many schools religion
became the subject of education,
The schools of America were origin.
ally established as auxiliaries of the
churches. The church snd the school
house were built side by side, and the
pastors were the first teachers, the
school masters came through the
church.
In Germany, religious instruction is
a part of the regular curriculum of the
public school. In the elementary
schools there are from 30 to 32 hours
of instruction during the week and
from four to six of these hours sre
devoted to religion. All children are
required to attend the instruction of
their own religious denomination.
In Bweden religious instruction is
given during the eight months of the |
school year, the average number of!
hours during the week is five,
In France religious Instruction is
not given in the public schools, but
besides Bunday, Thureday is given to
the churches for the purpose of impart-
ing religious instruction in their own
buildings,
Now what ure the facts io regard to
the puvlic schools in our country?
First the public school is the child of
the christian school. The charch after
spending 400 years in developiog a
system of education for the people has
handed it over to the state for the
benefit of all.
The Sunday School has played an
important part in securing the public
school system. In 1791 the Bunday
Bohiool petitioned the legislature of the
state of Pennsylvania to establish a
system of common schools. But today
there is no definite teaching of religion
in the public school. The Bible is
sometimes read, but it is not taught
either as history or iiterature,
As moral teaching, the principle is
taught, but we canpot ask for the
teaching of religion in the public
schools, The reponsibility for religious
ifuitactivn rests upon the churches.
© object to a state religion, therefore
the problem must be solved by the
christian churches. Naturslly in thie
connection we think of the Hunday
Bohool. Doea the Bunday School meet
the requirements of religious instruc.
tion? Without question the Sunday
Behool is a factor of powerful influence.
One of its great values lies in the pei
sonality of the Bundsy School teacher,
Ita subject of siudy is the Bible. It
indispensable
be-
training of the lay members, It rein-
forces the responsibility of the home
as a religious institution. The work
it has done is in the highest degree
commendable, and it is fitting itself
for higher things. Nevertheless the
best friends of the Sunday School
must concede its limitations. There
are 16,000,000 children attending our
public schools, and are receiving their
tnteilectual equipment and discipline
for life, but many of them are not
belong developed spiritually or morally.
Our Bunday Be' ools havea nominal
but do not attend as regularly or for as
many years as the pupils of the publie
schools. The instruction which they
The methods of in.
struction sre often very poor. But
there are more serious limitations,
There are three essentials in every
educational process which the Bunday
Bchool cannot supply.
One of these is time. It is a Bunday
school. It is a school which convenes
butonce a week. There are but 30
minutes against 30 hours in the public
school.
A second essential is work. The
Sunday School meets on a rest day,
not on a work day. Everything in-
vites to rest. There will not be much
serious work done by parents or child-
ren on this day.
The third essential factor in educ:-
tion is continuity. There is a lack of
continuity caused by the break of
seven days between each lesson, and
that is a limitation for which there is
no remedy. If our boys and girls
would study history or geography or
arithmetic only once a week for a
short period, no matter how good the
teacher or how interesting the subject
from an educational point of view,
These difficulties in the Bunday Behool
are essential and constitutional. They
are not in any sense incidental. They
must be taken into sccount when we
measure the possibilities of religious
instruction of the Sunday Behool.
And is it not true, apart from some
catechetical lostruction, and some
other exceptions, that the religious
and moral education of the children of
America depends practically upon the
work of the Bunday School ? Is it
not inadequate in quality and amount?
While the Bunday School is doing a
mighty work, it cannot accomplish,
even with first clase methods and
teachers, the work which the re
ligious iopstruction of the youth re
quires. What can the churches do to
secure more religious education for the
children of the land? We answer
that we must secure a higher rating
aud a higher standard for the Sunday
School, and devolve a system of week
day religious instruction under the
direction of christian churches Re.
ligions leaders must join hands with
in asserting
the oneness of education, When you
send a boy to school you send the
whole boy. You cannot leave his
moral and spiritual pature at home,
nor set it aside for Sunday teaching,
The school stmosphere should be 8
continuous influence in favor of mor
ale and religion, Belief in God, the
the moral order of the universe, hon-
esty, cleanliness, justice,—these and
kindred subjects should be taught in
our public schools.
The church should give a higher
rating lo the Sunday school, and w-
cure a higher standard of instruction.
There is a demand for a higher type of
religious instruction today. Will the
church supply the demand? There
have been methods and experiments
tried to secure week day religious in-
struction, and herein lies the key to
higher religious instroction of the
youth,
Perhaps some of you may remember
of the resolution adopted st the inter.
church conference in New York, No-
vember, 1005 : ** Resolved, that in the
need of more systematic education in
religion, we recommend for the favor
able consideration of the public school
suthorities of the country the pro-
posal to allow the children to absent
themselves without detriment from
the public schools on Wednesday ot
some other afternoon of the school
week for the purpose of attending re-
ligious iostruction in their own
churches ; snd we urge upon the
churches the advisability of availing
themselves of the opportunity so
granted to give such instruction, in
addition to that given on Bunday.”
This plan followed out would mean
the giving of B or 10 per cent. of the
school hours to religion. Germany
gives from 12 to 16 per cent. The plan
recognizes the divided conditions ob-
taining in our land. Parents would
have he choice of sending their chile
dren to the church school in their
owu church building on
LOCAL AND PERSONAL,
Farngraphs Ploked from Efchanges of
Interest to Reporter Readers,
Millheim Jouwrnal—
Mrs. N. A. Hazlett, of East Nanti-
coke, is spending the summer with her
daughter, Mrs. Simon R. King,
Mr. and Mre. Frank Davie and
children, of Bellefonte, spent seversl
days the past week visiting relatives
in this place.
Lester Musser and Oliver Alter, who
are employed at Greensburg, are spend.
ing some time at their parents’ homes
io this place.
Mrs. Lizzie Kerstetter and daughter
Rath, of Lock Haven, spent several
days last week at the home of Mr, and
Mrs. Jewie Kreamer,
Mrs L.. Wynn and Mrs L. Roy
Wynop, both of Bunbury, spent sever-
al days last week with Mrs, W. J,
Throssell,
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hazlett, of
SBhickshinny, are visitin z at the home
of Mr. and Mre. Simon R. King of
West Main street,
Mre. Barabh Homan, of Ridgeway,
left Tuesday nfternoon for her home,
after a visit of a week or ten days with
ber son, George E. Homan, at this
place,
Earn and Wilmer Btover, of Aarons-
burg, went to Williamsport last week
and each bought a pew automobile,
They are fine machines and of the lat
est designs. Automobiles are getting
quite plentiful in this section.
Mr. and Mrs, P. H. Musser held a
reception for the members of the grad-
usting class '08 of the Millheim High
school at their residence on Main street
Friday evening after the graduating
exercises. About thirty invited guests
were present.
Friday, as Charles Breon was re
turning from Coburn with E. L. Au
man’s mill wagon, the horses became
frightened by the falling of the wagon
seat and started to run sway. This
bappened just east of the siasughter
house near town and at the first start
of the team Mr. Breon was thrown
from the wagon. The team kept the
road but at the turn into Penn street,
st tLe Bumiller home, they ran against
s tree and one of the horses was severe-
ly ivjured.
Keystone Gazette
J. F. Lingle, of Aaronsburg, sccom-
panied his wife to the Bellefonte hos
pital where she underwent a success
full operation,
Hugh N. Cryder completed arrange.
ments for th: purchase of the hand.
some residence on Lion street owned
by W. Harrison Walker, Esq , and
where he aod his bride-to-be, will take
up housekeeping upon his marriage in
the near future,
i. M. Gamble, C. T. Gerbrick and
C. Y. Wagner departed for Detroit to
attend the convention of the National
Millers Association. From that place
Mr. Gerbrick expects to go to Toledo
for a visit at the home of his daughter,
Mra L. C. Wetzel.
A portion of the machinery to be
used in the structural steel plant of H,
8. Moore has arrived in Bellefonte and
is veing set up as rapidly as possible.
It is expected that soon the remainder
will arrive and as quickly as possible
the plant will be made ready for oper
ation. It is not known just how long
it will take for the preliminary work
to be accomplished’ but it is certain
that within a comparatively short
time the plant will be in full blast,
Democratic Watchman—
John B. Mitchell, of Tyrone, and
Lot B. and Charles Callahan, of Sandy
Ridge, bought the company store of
the Sandy Ridge Fire Brick Company
and will conduct the same ss an in-
dividual enterprise in the future.
J. E. Parker waa arrested at State
College by constable Lathero, of "Al
toona, on two charges of skipping
board bills io Altoona, his former
location. He was taken to that city to
answer to the charges,
A. C, Mingle and A. Allison visited
Jobo I. Olewine in his mountain re
treat at Pat Gherrity’s, and report him
as having a» great time fishing for
trout, ete. He is feeling the effects of
the invigorating life in the Beven
Mountains. *
Major Richter, of Selinsgrove, came
to Bellefonte for the purpose of doing
some surveying at Scotia where the
Bellefonte Furnace Company is erect.
ing a new ore washer in place of the
one destroyed by fire last fall,
but the plau has
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
At the Bons of Veterans convention
held last week in Williamsport iL was
decided to hold the annua! convention
of the order next year at Miiton.
Under the recent adjustment of
salaries for postmasters, Postmaster
Btuart at State College will receive an
sdvance of $200, or $2,300 per year.
Prof. C. D. Koch, of Philipsburg,
state inspector of high schools has de-
cided to move to Harrisburg snd after
the first of August will make his home
in the Capitol city.
The Central State Normal School
commencement exercises will begin
Baturday and close Thursday. Tbe
commencement speaker is Dr. J. H,
Harris, president of Bucknell Uni.
versity.
The large barn on the farm of John
Nolan and Howard MeCoy, located
opposite Granville, Mifflin county,
was struck by lightning and totally
destroyed by fire. Daniel Knepp is
the farmer on the farm at the present
time.
Mr. and Mrs. Fraok Emerick, of
near Madisonburg, were in Centre
Hall Thursday of last week to visit the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Emerick. Mr. Emerick is a farmer,
and reports crop prospects good in his
locality.
A sneak thief entered the parsonage
of the United Evangelical church, st
Millheim, in the absence of the pastor,
Rev. C. F. Garrett, and took therefrom
the cash from a child's saving bank,
and the missionary money collected
and held by Mrs. Garrett.
Rev. J. M. Runkle, of Williamsport,
has accepted the pastorate of the Re-
formed church at New Port. Rev.
Runkle is a native of Potter township,
and is well known here. His many
friends and acquaintances among the
Reporter readers will wish him great
success in his new field.
George W. Mowery, of Burnham,
sccompanied by his son, Edward and
dsughter, Anoa, passed through Cen-
tre Hall on their way to Bellefonte
where the latter will stay for the pres-
ent. Mr. Mowery is under the inopres-
sion that the department of the works
in which he is employed will begin
operations within a short time.
The directors of the Centre Hall-
Linden Hall farmer telephone line,
one of the Branch Companies of the
Patrons Rural Telephone Company,
al their next meeting will declare a
five per cent. dividend on ite stock.
This is for the year 1907, the second
year's operation, the preceding year's
dividend having been but three per
cent.
Among the Bchaeflers who attended
the Hazel-Schaeffer reunion on
Grange Park last week, was J. IL.
Schaeffer, of Oregon, Illinois. He is
a son of Michael Schaefler, east of Cen-
tre Hall, and went west twenty-six
years ago, finally settling in Northern
lilinols. He brings a glowing report
of crop prospects from Illinois, and al-
80 tells of the great success of the
Pennsylvanians in his state.
Mre. Albert Eves and little son, of
Tyrone, lost their lives through the
explosion of an oil ean. It appears
that Mrs. Eves had taken an oll ean
from a heated chimney closet and was
in the act of unscrewing the cap when
the can exploded, throwing the burn-
ing oil over both the mother and child.
Both ran to the yard, but before assist.
ance reached them they were so hor-
ribly burned that death ensued several
hours later.
“The Legend of Penns Cave” print.
ed in several local papers last week is
the product of Hon. Harry W. Shoe
maker, of New York, and was pub-
lished in book form by that distin.
guished young gentleman, and distri.
‘gresaman
immediately outside of New York.
Last week Rev. W, W. Rhoads, of
Howard, known to many of the Re
porter readers, took his annual fishing
He was accompanied by W.
0. Rearick, of Milroy, Dr. W.