VOL. LXXX].
TREASON IN THE WEST,
I'he following article is copied from
The Plaindealer, a Taft newspaper
dealing with the tariff
over the wall and give its support to
Bryan:
There would be no talk of increased
freight rates over the railways if the
railways could buy their steel ails,
bridge material, steel cars and other
necessary material in an untariffed
market. And there would be no more
talk about a reduction of wages. Ils
not go long ago that Charles Schwab
testified before a Congressional com:
mitiee that steel rails could be manu:
in the European markets at §16 per
ton with a small profit to the Ameri
can manufacturer. No man belter
than Mr. Schwab knew at the time
whereof hespoke, A Republican Con-
gress has had plenty of time since that
day to have lowered the tariff, but
through some influence the barons
have been able to prevent such legis-
lation, The masses will have a chance
in November to seleet men for Con-
gress favorable to readjustment of the
tariff on lines equitable toail. Are
you ready to lay aside politics for the
moment and mske a fight for your
own interests? You don’t drive a pail
that is not tariff taxed. The window
glass in your windows, the teacups
you drink from, the water pitcher, the
iron in your stove, the griddle you
bake your cakes on, the kupife aud
fork with which you cut the beef you
eat, the shroud in which you bury
your dead, the tombstone at the head
of,the grave, the matches you barn,
the needle with which you stitch on a
button and the button itsell are all
tariff taxed. The blanket you sleep
under, if it be wool, pays a hyndred
per cent, No human bLeing escapes
the tariff tax. The tariff tax per cap:
ita in this country bas risen from $1.50
8 hundred years ago to $12 50 to-day.
Don’t you think it is time to takes
few dornicks from tue top of the tarifl
wall and give the consumers an oppor-
tunity to see over? If you do, vote for
8 Dewocrat for Congress this time.
The Republicans have had their day
in Court and have dallied. McKinley
warned them. Give Taft a House of
Representatives friendly to the con-
sumers of the country.
The voters of Centre county will not
expect a man as well known to them
ss W. Harrison Walker, the Demo-
eratic candidate for congress, to spend
bis time makiog s personal canvass
here, when he has a territory to cover
as large as many of the foreign coun.
tries. This congressional district is
oue of the largest districts in the state,
and is composed of the counties of
Centre, Clearfleld, Cameron and Me.
Kean. If Mr. Walker were obliged to
make a complete canvass at home, he
would not be able to do anything in
any of the other three counties in the
district. The mentioning of these con-
ditions will be ample to satisfy the
voters of Centre county that the course
Mr. Walker is pursuing is the proper
one.
ss fie E————
The sensor of the Public Ledger edi-
torial writer must have intrusted his
work to an understrapper Friday of
last week. Io that issue an editorial
appeared not at all flattering to Uncle
Joe Cannon, the boss of the lower
house of Congress. It is astonishing
how a newspaper once fair on impor-
tant topics—political or otherwise—
can become so narrow as is the Public
Ledger during the present campaign.
The worst political outlaws are shown
more respect, in both the news and
editorial columuos of the Public Ledger,
than Mr. Bryan. Possibly the Pablie
Ledger intends outdoing a class of
newspapers it formerly held in con-
tempt.
Governor Btuart was not equal fo
his opportunity when he failed to
name a Democrat for the vacant
Judgeship in Berks county. There
should be nonpartissnsbip in the
choice of Judges, and it would have
been setting an example of non-par-
tisanship for 8 Republican Executive
to name a fit man of the opposition
party to sit on the Bench in an opposi-
tion county to fill a vacancy occasion
ed by the death of an opposition
Judge. All this goes without breath.
Ing a word agalost the Governor's ap-
pointes,
Fred Bmith, the farmer from Rush
township, is the man the farmers in
Centre county cen well afford to supe
port for office. He is" intelligent, and
has every qualification needed for a
model sheriff. And he is big enough
to hold a prisoner, once he gets hold
of him.
Men of good moral character are
needed in the Legislature. J. (,
yer, Eeq., is a man of character in
LOUAL EVENTS O ©" 1850,
| Reprinted from the Files of the Reporter
to Kefresh the Minds of the Older
October 30—~The Loop church was
re-dedicated Sunday, the sum of $1500
| having been expended in remodeling
the edifice. The dedicatory sermon
was delivered by Rev. John Tomlin-
son. Rev. W. H. Groh, Rev. J. K,
Miller and Rev, Koser were also pres.
ent. The pastors in charge were Rev,
W. E. Fischer and Rev, B. M. Roeder.
Rev. J. G. Bhoemaker was present-
ed with a handsome gold-headed cane
by the Awsronsburg Bunday school.
The presentation speech was made by
Prof. Apple, of Lancaster, Rev. Shoe-
tnaker will take charge of a Reformed
tission about Ewporia, Kansas,
November 6—By being thrown from
a wagon Jonathan Bearfoss, of Centre
Hill, received a double fracture of the
left arm. Dr, Alexander was called to
attend the lad.
The name of 8 town in Clinton
county was changed from Young
Womanstown to North Bend.
The Harris township school direct irs
bave established a graded school in
Boalsburg.
November 13—Friday uight Thomp
son's store ul Potters Mills was robbed
of some $50 tn cash, a lot of postage
stamps, and nearly $2700 in notes,
M. M. Biogermsn, of Laurelton,
will open » tinware business at Spriug
Mills.
November 20~Rev, J. F. DeLong,
of Williamsport, bus been secured to
follow Kev, Shoemisker on the Aarons.
burg Reformed charge.
While building a fire in the school
house in the mouutsin above Potters
Mills, a bullet just grazed Charles P.
Hughes, the teacher of that school.
[be shot was fired from the outside,
Last Friday while Henry Keller,
wife and oldest daughter, of near Cen-
re Hall, were drivivg vear Reynold’s
mill, the horses took frigut, upsetting
the wagou sud threw the occupants
out, bruising them somewhat. A
wagon was vorrowed to make the trip
bome, sud on reaching Mann's axe
factory, the horses again frighténed,
and again upset the rig, throwing the
ladies into the creek, but no injuries
were received.
Messrs. John and Israel Btover, for.
merly of Hsives township, now suc
ceseful farmers in Michigan, are visit.
ing their friends about their former
bome, but are #» well pleased with
Michigan that they have no desire to
return to Pennsylvania to live,
Emanuel Bmith has just finished a
bhaudsotne house in the lower end of
town.
Married-October 23, Uriah Bpang-
ler, of Newton, Kansas, and Miss Hen.
rietta O. Hosterman, of near Rebers-
burg. George M. Bilvis, of
Aarousburg, and Miss Emma A. Wil.
low, of Millbheim. . . October 30,
Frank McCoy, of Milesburg, sud Miss
Emma Allison, of Potters Mills,
September 25, William T, Stratton and
Miss Annie M. Boal, both of Coleville,
November 11, John R. Close, of Mil
roy, and Miss Aounle Smetzier, of
Sprucetown. November 13, Isasc
Stover and Miss Maria Kauffman,
both of Zion. . . September 18,
John I. Markle, of Bellefoute, and
Miss Jennie Rossman, of Centre Hall,
————— A ARIA,
The finances of this county have
always been better under Democratic
administration than under Republican
rule. That isa matter of history,
The present board has paid off the
indebtedness a Republican board left
behind, No Demo3ratic board of
county commissioners ever obliged its
successors to pay its debts. Bo much
for Democratic mansgement, and that
is a great deal.
A ——
If the voters of Centre county have
in mind favoring deserving young
men, they are asked to weigh the case
of George FF. Weaver, Democratic can-
didate for Re sister, He is a one armed
man, and has been obliged to struggle
during the whole ot his life. Practi-
cally all his earnings have been de
voted to aiding his parents in retain.
log an humble home,
———————— fo A ATTAINS.
There is absolutely no argument
sgaiost the principal of local option in
a free country. For local option is
neither prohibition nor license, but
the popular privilege of declaring for
either,
Bober men are needed in the Legis
lature, J. O. Meyer, Esq , has always
been a sober man,
n=
—
Bouth Caroline had its second pri.
mary trial, and elected E., D, Bmith
United States Senator to succeed A.
C. Latimer, deceased. Bmith ls a
mighty good man, and bad twenty
thousand votes above his opponent,
ex-Governor John Gray Evans.
Honest men are needed In the Legls-
lature, J.C, A y Eaq., bas a repu-
.
EDITOR GAZETTE :
Spring Mills, Pa., Aug. 31.
5
swer.’
has about as much idea of taxation as a
It is enough to make a horse la
electric light, water power, steam, etc.
tax, varying from $2.00, and all persons
tional of the whole volume, gross, of bu
obtains a large revenue from tax on orig
from liquor licenses, moneys at interest
mentory, and collateral inheritance taxe
All corporations pay a tax of five
telephone companies, joint stock associa
mills upon the dollar, upon their gross re
The corporations may well provi
¥ ’
very much more, and have a soft snap or
i
or any other citizen who owns re t
whether farmers or not, pay on the
county, school, road and poor tax.
None of the corporations in Penn
There
Centre county belonging to rails
or poor tax,
ad
for any purpose, other than
the capital stock of the «
on its capitol stock to the state
county, school, road and poor |
rpor stion, and
, While t
IUrPOSES
The Gazette's corresponden
gregate assessed value of real te
taxes paid by this real estate for all
rate of millage on the value of ¢
The assessed value of pe
0,301,570,287.00. Taxes onp
millage is occasioned by the fa
taxes are assessed for county, h
few horses and cattle must put up {
personal property owned by corporat
but is counted as part «
.
small millage to the state, and for
taxes for local purposes, « {
The system of taxation in 1
whole system is in favor of the
There is no
porations should no
and poor purposes, as w
and lot of the city
reason why the real estat
t be ase
as the :
hous? ir borougl
den.
porations are based on the cost
amount of taxes to pay, and the traveler
When the rates are fixed all these matte
As an illustration of how this wor
Congress was providing revenue o « Arey
so the Court held that the sender must p
ceipts given. The Government got the re
It is the same way with all taxes
Government. All tariff is added to, and
If the Government is extravagant, intern
on to meet the expenditure. A billion d«
the nation becomes bankrupt.
It is proposed in another article t
Stories of Famous Hymae,
From week to week the Reporter
w ill publish the stories of a few of the
most popular hymus. These stories
are based on facts, and will be inter.
esting to the average reacer,
“JESUS, LOVER OF MY s0oUL",
Everybody knows something about
Charles Wesley as the author of such |
beautiful hymns as “Hark | the Her. |
aid Aogels Bing”, "Arise my Boul, |
Arieé,”. and “O for 8 Thousand Ton- |
gues to Bing,” but more especially do |
they know him ms the author of)
“Jesus Lover of My Boul,” one of the |
best loved hymuos in the world, if in |
deed not the best-loved. Fora long!
time it was not generally known how
the hymn came to be written ; for
Wesley himself bas never, so far as is
definitely known, sald a word concern.
ing Its origin. The following story,
however, is generally accepted as the
true one,
QOune day, not long after his conver.
sion, Mr. Wesley was sitting by an’
open window, looking out over a
and beautiful fleld flooded with sun.
shine. As he looked a little bird flit.
ting about in the fleld attracted his
attention and also the attention of a
hawk which came swooping down up-
on it. Greatly frightened, the bird
darted here and there, endeavoring
valoly to find a hiding place which
the great level fleld could not afford.
At last, however, it saw the open
window and the man sitting by it,
The hawk was now slmost upon it,
and in its extremity it flew in and
with beating heart and quivering
wings found refuge with Mr. Wesley,
Mr. Wesley himself was at that
time suffering under severe trials, and
was feeling (he need of a refuge in
i in. Nein
A TAXPAYER,
roceeds to answer, and “ what an an-
The fellow who writes the answer
donkey has of Latin.
from various sources.
whether railroad, gas,
is the mercantile license
80 engaged shall pay one mill addi-
ging The state
Courts of
Then there
¥ nota § Hiv
transacted annually,
inal writs, issued out of the
other papers recorded, also
y letters of administration and testa-
> mills on their capital stock. Some
telegraph and
or limited partnerships, by the
must pay eight
tions
in the state,
seeipts,
i party to boast that
Thi
there
iw
i8 no tax
but it is
80)
»
le all the revenue the state needs, and
the farmer
of the state,
n of their real estate,
rect tax, in place of road.
ity,
sands of dollars worth of real estate in
1 taxes, ompared ¥
wv
estate owners
YiVania pay any cour
school, road
estate is counted as part of
therefor nly pays five mills of taxes
$i {f
IC 10
g : The
i5 $2086 197.041.00.
975,075.76,
. 2
HOWILE ag-
The
and the average
slaty
5 is $47
is 15 mills,
orate property for taxation is
property is $14 963,156.72;
This great difference in
of personal property no
Ihe farmer's
vast amount of
f these purposes,
corporation which pays only a
es. If the eo
3 taxes
rporations paid
would be
1
188,
all the
r, 8chool, road
iorses and cattle, or the
last fellow must bear
other
ping up road beds,
the bur.
carrying cor-
the
bill.
adds and all
ete., and
thn ¥
ship {ont
Quy £
be
$
the Spanish War, it
AF Tired
of Nuss
3t the
IS Aare nsidered
Ks it will remembered that when
imposed a tax
The express
cent internal
the package pay for the stamp, in
ed Up in Court for doing
This though the law did
stamp to all re-
venue, but the shipper had to pay for it.
raised for the support of the National
included in the price to the consumer.
al revenue tax and the tariff is piled
oan
J an express company
A One
haul
Ax.
ay the t
» discuss county finances and taxation.
comparison, witha flash of inspira.
tion be picked up his pen and wrote,
**Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,”
aud so on until the prayer—for prayer
it wa 1—took the form of the hymn In
which thousands of sad and weary
persons have found joy and comfort in
time of trouble,
Another interesting story is told of
this hymn bys Boston paper. One
evening, the story goes, an old Civil
War veteran was telling how he had
been appointed to picket duty one
dark night of 1864. “It was fright-
fully dark,” he said, “the enemy was
near, the country full of pitfalls, and
I knew that my life was in momen-
tary peril. Of course I had faced as
great risks more than once before, but
somehow out there alone I began to
think of the dangers that surrounded
me til I was almost 11: & state of ner-
vous collapse. To alm my fears I
began to sing ‘Jesus, Lover of my Boul’
and by the time I had finished the
Inst stanza I was again calm and fear
less”. While be was telling the story
oticed the un
usual interest of an old fellow sitting
near by. At the close he asked : “Did
ou say that
I 19477 Yeu Wall any fe
was a member of the Cot:
stationed in Atlanta. ORIeraie Ary
was out Nesooncltating I chanced
akon
a sentinel of the army
ror to shoot him. As
brought nto shou
ever T hoard hits siogian der, hows
‘ ‘Cover
defonceless :
With \he shadow of thy w
Instantly I dropped
thought that I couldn’
eat ait Lae
ng’
11 that
.
3
(s Ii.
. NO.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Will D. Bhoop. has scceptc? a
position as clerk in Fauble's clothing
store, Bellefonte, and went to that
town last week,
Al. B. Garman has concluded to
make Tyrone his home for the present,
baving closed up his business affairs
in Bellefonte, .
Dr. P. H. Dale purchased a new
driving horse, business being too brisk
for one horse to do the work. During
the past few months he used a second
borse from the livery,
A visit to Florida and other south-
ern states by Mr. and Mre, George H.
Smull, of Bmullton, impressed the
couple very favorably, Mr. Bmull has
real estate interests in the south.
Where tomatoes weighing two
pounds can be grown there ought to
be no complaint of drought in that
section. That is what the proprietor
of the Coburn house, L. E-Stover, did.
The Eungard Brothers last week
purchased a new fifteen bLorse-power
traction engine, which will be used
for threshing grain. The old engine
will be used for hulling clover seed
and baling hay.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL,
Paragraphs Picked from Exchanges of
Interest to Reporter Readers,
Millheim Journal—
& Dale Musser left for Moshannon
Monday morning, where he has been
engaged to teach school during the
winter term,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. B. Hartman
#pent several days during the past
week with relatives and acquaintances
at Williamsport,
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Meyer, of near
Coburn, left Friday morning for a
week’s visit and sight-seeing at and
about Pittsburg.
Mre. Busan Cummings, who spent
{the summer with relatives at Jean-
| nette, returned to her home in this
pice Tuesday evening.
On the premises of W. F. Colyer, on
Penn street, there grows a most pro-
lific pumpkin vine. There are fifty.
one pumpkins on this vine ranging in
size from a cocoanut to as bushel
measure,
Mr, and Mrs, Cornelius Musser, of
Zion, visited the gentleman’s aged
father at Penn Hall, and ths lady's
mother, Mrs. Ambrose Haines, near
Woodward, for several days during
week.
Mrs, Bpeidel, nee Maggie Ruhl, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. William
Kreamer, at this place, and her
brothers, four of whom reside in Bugar
Valley. Bhe is accompanied by her
viece, a daughter of Mrs. Leah Zeigler,
who was also a Ruhl.
Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Braucht and
children, of Dewart, are visiting rela.
tives and Triends in the vicinity of
Coburn. They arrived at Coburn on
Tuesday, after a ten days’ outing at
Atlantic City, Philadelphia and New
York. They were accompanied on
their trip by Mrs. W. L. Hosterman,
of Coburn,
Absolom Harter, who has been
workiog at Harter, West Virginia, re-
turned to his home at this place on
Thursday. He passed the seventy-
fifth mile stone of his life on July 24,
snd stated that he was the recipient
on that day of seventy-five presents
snd among them was enough of
tobacco to last him the balance of his
days.
The Jew is the most incurably intel-
lectual of all mankind, says Mabel
Agnes Lorenz in the October Rmart
Bet. He may be starved in body and
mind, but hunger cannot kill the
sppetite for learning, and prosperity
seldom comes to satisfy it,
Frank Bloomster, of Kane, who had
expected to be in Centre Hall during
the Grange Encampment and Fair, is
vow laid up in the Kane Summit
Hospital, having undergone an opera-
tion. His condition is very favorable
snd his friends anticipate speedy re-
covery.
Emanuel Roan, of Filmore, last
week bought the E. C. Fye farm in
Ferguson township three miles west
of State College. The price was $8,500,
which included this year's erops.
With his son-in-law he will occupy
and till the broad and fertile acres
after April Ist, "08,
J. Li. Tressler, of Linden Hall, and
Abper W. Alexander, of near Centre
Hall, each had the misfortune to lose
& good milch cow, last week. The
apimal belongiog the former
choked on an apple, and the other
broke into-s corn fi:dld and ate a
too large quantity of green corp,
William Rossman, of Spriog Mills,
is assisting Station Agent W., Frank
Bradford to take care of the extras
work at the Centre Hall railroad sta-
tion during the Graoge Encampment
and Fair. He is a young man at the
business, but is the making of the
kind that the Pennsy advances when
opportunity presents itself,
R. U. Reamer, for twenty-five years
conductor on the Lewisburg & Tyroae
railroad, is taking a vacation this
week, which time is being spent
smong scquaintances in the lower
portions of Peuns and Brush Valleys.
Mr, Reamer will drive from one point
to the other and meet those, in their
own homes, whose tickets he has oft.
times punched on the Liain,
A connection with the Edison Elec
tric Light Company, in Altoona, for
a period of eighteen years, has
placed John O. Scholl, at the head of
the engineering department, and he is
filling that position with great credit,
Last week Mr. Bcholl made a trip to
Centre Hall to visit his’ mother, Mure,
Rebecca Scholl, acd his aunt, Mrs,
Lucinda Weaver, the latter being ill,
Industrial conditions in Altoona have
been improving slightly during the
past month, according to Mr. Scholl's
observations.
The schoolma'am is the guiding star
of the republic. She takes the bants
ling fresh from the home nest, fall of
his poute, his pets and his passions,
ungovernable in many cases, 8 rams
pans, riotous little wretch whose own
mother often admits she sends him to
school purposely to get rid of him.
The school-ma’am takes a whole car
load of these anarchists, half of whom
singly and alone cannot be handled by
their own mothers, and she is expects
ed to put them in the way of becom.
ing useful citisens.
8. B. Bhirk, of Springfield, Missouri,
is east, having come here to join his
wife and mother, Mr. 8 J. Shirk,
who have been east for some weeks
among friends. Mr. Shirk went west
with his father, Reuben Shirk, now
deceased, twenty-four years ago, and
of course in that span of time .
in sand about Centre Hall have been so
numerous that it was almost impose
sitle for him to recognise anything but
the old familiar landmarks, Mr, Shirk
A ————————
Fisher-Gearhardt,
A wedding under rather sad and
paiofal circumstances was that on
Saturday of last week of Charles E
Fisher, of Boalsburg, and Miss Emma
uvearbardt, of Danville The engage-
ment was announced du the spring
and the wedding day was set for Mon-
day, September Il4th, sud arrange
ments were being made for a big wed-
diog when the bride's mother, who
bad been ili for some time, grew suds
denly worse, says the Watchman,
Realizing that death was immioent
she expressed a wish to see her daugh-
ter married, consequently the wedding
was solemuized at her bedside on
Saturday. And the nuptials took
piace nove Loo soon as Mrs, Gearbardt
died on Bunday and was buried on
Wednesday.
The bride is a young lady of many
accomplishments, chief among which
is her talent for music. For several
years past she has been an instructor
in music at Bucknell University. She
has frequently visited friends in Belle-
fonte and has always been regarded a
very charming woman. The bride
groom is well known all over Centre
county. He ls a traveling salesman
for the Harrisburg Casket company.
Early this summer he was a candidate
on the Republican ticket for the nom-
ination for the Legislature but was
defeated by R. B. Taylor. For a time,
at least, Mr, and Mre. Fisher will live
in Danville,
to
Teachers Institute,
The date for Teachers Institute in
Centre county has been set for the
week of December 28th, One of the
evening lecturers will be Benator Gore,
of Oklahoma, the only blind man who
ever sat in the United Biates Benate,
Senator Gore is not only Very popular
on the Democratic side of the upper
branch of Congress, but is an orator of
great distinction.
IAI A ——
School Opens Monday.
The borough schools open Monday.
It is the duty of parents to see that
their children are in attendance the
first 225, aod that they are not absent
for trival reasons at any time during
the term,
A A».
Ee ir]
again supporting Messrs. Dunlap
Weaver for Commissioners. They
took care of the tax payers during the
past three years and will do _so again,
The county's finances are 0. K., and
that is more than could be said of the
condition of the county's treasury |\®® railroad passenger conductor, his
when they want into office. {run being between Kansas City, Mis
This js Grange week in Centre coun: | pecially those born and. reised
odd My