VOL. LXXXII. SUNDAY ON THE PARK, Raliglous Services tn Auditoriam In After. toon "grge Gathering All Day, Grange Park had a larger popula tion on Bunday than it had for many years on that day. Saturday, all day long, camp cqiipmenta were arriving from all parts of the connty, and these were accompanied by members of farg- ilies of the most progressive, the most aggressive and the most prosperous farm rs. By the middle of the after- noon the temporary residences were in habitable Condition, all of them being well arranged and presenting = most home-like appearance, The Iarders, too, were heavily stocked from the larger supply of the choices: products of the farm in store at the permanent homes, Sunday wae a delightful day, the conditions being ideal for camp life. During the forenoon snd up to two- thirty o'clock the permanent resi- dents were receiving their friends who had come to spend the day with them, end view the camp. At 2:30 P. M. religious services in the auditorium were opened by Rev. G. W. Mclinay, of Dudley, sa former pastor of the Methodist church in Centre Hall. Psalm 101 was used for More Crops Per Acre, It has been demonstrated by reports from the national agricultural depart- m-nt that the soils of the United States are not wearing out, but that he crop yields are increasing instead of decreasing. The report declares that us a whole we are producing more crops per acre than formerly, This is undoubtedly due many factors; to better and more intelligent cultivation, more and better systems of rotation of crops, and in later years to the inteHigent use of fertilizers through measures of control in the bands of every individual farmer, In addition, we must recognizs the in- crease in farm animals and stock, the improvement in seed by selection and breeding, and increased density of population, which i« forcing atten. tion to more Intensive methods, Second, that =o far as information goes there is apparently no significant dif ference at the present time between the composition of the old agricultur. al goils of Europe and the newer agri- cultural soils of the United Niates, with respect to potash, phosphoric seid, lime and magnesia. The report shows an incredse in all cereal crops throughout the United States for the to the opening seripiu-e, and prayer was ; also offered by the minister. | The speaker for the day was Mises | Frances M. Schuyler, of Chicago, I11- | inois. Miss Behuyler is ope of the | most prominent women in the Baptist | Church, formerly president of the | Baptist Training Sehool of Philade i} phia, now an officer of the Woman's | American Baptist Home Mission So- | ciety, has for years been ac ustomed to | address, with acceplance, state | and national religious conve various themes, great 1 ii past three or four decades, ———————— —— Birthday Party, The other Friday evening a number of Mrs. Daniel Callahan, west of Cen- tre Hall, to do her honor on her The evening was pleasantly spent, and the refresh. ments were delicious, Those present wore Me audience of Centre county people, the | msjority of whom were farmers subjsct, Miss Schuyler was able to talk | most entertainingly to ber large sudi- | ence, who gave the best slteation un- i til the last words of her address were | #poken. Appropriate hymns were sung by a | volunteer choir. Mra. L. G. Rearick i sang a =olo and an anthem wis also | rendered by the choir... Prof. P. H Meyer conducted the musie MONDAY ON HE PALK Tenters Arrive In Large Hastling Visible | Exhibits Placed Numbers — General Everywhere, Monday morning it wes abit cloudy, but the clouds soon broke and the sun smiled on the hundreds of ten's on Grange Park. The Encampment management is always snxious for a fair Moaday morning, for that is the time the as. sembling is going on in hundreds of homes throughout Centre county, It ia the assembling of the many little things and great that go to make up a home fora week on Grange Park, and then, too, it is the day on which the journey to the Park is made, and when favorable weather does not pre- vail this work is greatly hampered As plated before Monday was a favor- able day for this program to be carried out, and before noon the wagons load- ed with camp equipments began to arrive. The Park was a busy place all day long Monday. The fakir, whose hands were tied for twenty-four hours previous, was up early aud began the arrauging of his wares, looked over hie stock of peanuts, candies, counted over again his strings of sausages, cones, ele, and then looked for busi ness which came slong later on, Many of the exhibits, both iv the ex. hibition building and those outside, were put in position Monday. Thue exhibits of farm implements are much larger than for some years; and the exhibits of machinery, buggies, wagors, elc , is considerably larger and more varied than heretofore. No attempt will be made here to give the names of any of the exhibitors, but the next issue of the Hoporter will eontain a full list, Camp life on Grauge Park has many attractions, Every one of the hun. dreds who are now living on the park are erjoying themselves very much more than those who go to the Grange Eovocampment and Fair but for a day. “This will be demonstrated in its full. ness to any one who goes from tent to tent and comes In contact with the dwellers in the white canvas homes. The Reporter headquarters were vis- ited by many who sought accommods- tions and the Reporter was glad to give them without cost to any one, Every man should have some re gard for his good opinion” of himself. When & fellow is afraid to think for Spring Mills, T. M. Gramley and wif: spent Sun- 8. I. Condo is having on exhibit a car load of veliicles at Grange Park, 8. L. Condo made sa business trip to Caite a number of people from this placs Sunday at Grange Park. Ellis Basfler and wife, of Madison. burg, were Spring Mills visitors on &pen’ Saturday, CU. E. Zigler made a business trip Nittany and Bugar Valleys lust week, John Weaver, of Pileairn., was a gueat at the home of W. H. Meyer last Thursday. Merchant ©. P. Long last week built a very substantial concrete walk from his sture to the * Bibby Houve.” Who will follow ? Miss Mabelie Long went to Lock Haven last week, where she will re. sume her studies at the Central State Normal Fchool. Among those who attendel the 1. O ©. F. picnic at Huoters Park on Labor Day were J. D. Wagner and C. C, Bartges from this place. The Lucas earpinter gang are st present engaged iu raising the roof and making other improvem nts on W. W. Neese’a residence. Allison Brothers started to ins'all new machivery in their mill last week, When completed they will have one of the best equipped and up-to-date syatems in the county, Among those from this place who are camving at Grange Park for the week are D. W Bweetwood and wife, Mra. Maggie Donachy and son Ben- Jamin, Mrs. M. B. Herring, Smith Brothers and O. T. Corman. After the closing of a most delight. ful wseation period the pupils of the Spring Mills public schools, greatly refreshed in mind and body by the five months rest, again assembled on Mon. day morning of last week in their va- rious school rooms, and with happy faces answered the roll call of the open- ing eession of another public school term. The ringing of the bell at 9:00 found the teachers in their accustomed places all looking in condition fora most beneficial and prosperous school year. The work of transferring schol ars from one room to another, the ar. ranging of seats and the nesigniog of lessons took up almost the entire day, #0 that sclual school work did not to commence until Tuesday, Althoug the exact attendance cannot be deter. mined st present, the indications are that the figures wiil be the largest ever recorded in the history of the school. Prof. F. 8B. Heneberger, the newly elected principal of the High Behool, entered upon his duties. Although the heavy attendance added to the many difficulties he was forced to con. tend with, he classified the sdhool in an acceptable manner and showed that bimeelf it's time for him to get mar- he is fally able and qua'ified to fill the THE OPENING OF SOHOOL Parents and Teachers, Shall Cooperate Generally nnd More Generously, Those parents who send their children to school, not merely to be rid of them under foot and round about, but to obtain an education that shall fit them to earn an honorable living, are just as much ®ncerned in schools as the children themselves. The average tescher becomes over tired of hearing the devoted parent éay, '* It must be so inspiring to feel that you are molding the characters of the future fathers and mothers of our land,” or else,' [an grand work that you are engaged in, and I trust you realize your solemn responsibility, and that everything you say and do leaves its indelible impression, for better or for worse, on the minds and souls of your young pupils at the most impres- sionable period of their lives," The teacher might well retort that the home environment may easily un- make all that the schoolroom makes in the way of character. The incul- cation of the most exalted of elhics at school is of little use if in the home vicious standards of living are tacitly mecepted, sloth and shiftless. ness encouraged, disobedienca tolerat- ed and selfishness unrebuked, But most fathers and mothers honestly strive to give their children bread instead of a stone, and desire that their offspring shall have educa- tional advantages superior, if possible, to their own youth. They have learn. ed, as time went on, the value of sn education. They have seen that edac. ation, after all, is more than three R's, the “a-b ab’s," the complicated bound- aries of foreign countries and the’ ex. c:ptions to the rules in the grammar, The lessons they learned in school code were between the lines of the printed book, and were taught io the play- ground, as well as in the recitation ronmas. It is a relief to an overburdened mother to know that from 9 until 12, and three more hours in the afternnon, ber young hopeful is out of harm's way, and is busy at some useful, or at least harmless, task, But if the child is merely sent to school #0 that the mother may enjoy some respite from incessant demands upon her time and attention, the home surroundings sre tnt likely 10 constitute an environ ment of the sort thet supplemen‘s the beneficent influences of the properly conducted If parent and teacher would en-oper- ale more geserally and more generous- ly, and parents woud take pains to inform themsalves of what goes on in the schoolroom by direct inquiry, in- stead of trusting to distorted and roundabout hearsay, the educational millennium would be at hand, ts i A ns school, Governor nantly (oming, Ex-Governor J. Frank Hanly, of Indians, who is making a tour of Pennsylvania this autumn under the auspices of the Peunsylvania Aunti- Saloon League in the interest of local option, will address a great Local Op- tion mass mesting in the Presbyterian church at Bellefonte, Seplember 19 1900, at 2:30 o'clock, Governor Hauly, who in Javuary last, closed au unusually successful térm of four years as Chief Executive of the Hoosier Biate, is easily the foremost local option advocate on the American platform. A ——— When I am wead, By Mo. E.G Hoffer, Marews, Wash i Hometime in the mist of the morning gray, They will gather around my bed, And tearfully glancing cach to each Will softly answer, They will bring the flowers in their beauty there And scatter them o'er my breast, And the pines will chant a requiem low For the troubled heart at rest she is dead il you are there that day, my friend, Will you bring the deeds Wo mind That used to fret and vex you 80, And the words | said unkind? Or will you forgive my failings then And wish me back in my place, Remembering only the Kindness done WAS you gaze on my still, white face, When you say good bye to me for aye Will you press my Him once more, And view the path so narrow and steep That my weary feet passed o'er; Remembering only the loyal heart Now stided as pulseless olay, And in your heart forgive, as you pause By my side, on that darkened day ? Or will you think of that other time When life's morn was bright and fair, With no shadow resting on my heart, No tinge on my nut-brown hair 7 The future may be “lone and dark As you tread its mazes through: But will it somfort your stricken heart Let there be joy In your heart that day That the battles for me are o'er, That my frail bark, so tempest tost, Has mobred ou the other shore, And when I am laid beneath the turf, Let your voloe with gladness ring. 0 grave, where is thy victory YO death, where ls thy sting 1 Dent heart, will you sometimes come to where The flowers by the grave stone grow, And bond your head with its weight of year To whisper to me so soft and low, * I'll meet you there in the land of God Beyond the bars of the sunset glow, i And together we'll walk the eternal ways, on Against Preacher Party Lenders. | Editor George Stackpole, of The | Lewistown Gazette ( Rep.), rails | against the Rapublican Committee of | Mifftin county for continuously nam- | ing preachers as chairman snd party [leadprs. The Gazette says that the preacher in politics was insugurated in old Mifflinseveral years ago by the | election of Dr. James M, Yeager to the Legislature, and that gentleman was subsequently appointed to be Assistant United States Marshall at $4000 a year for service to his party. Last year the Rw, George Joseph was made chairman of the Republican County Committee, and recently this divine was named for Bupervisor of the Census at a salary of $1800 for a few months’ work, The resigostion of Rev. Joseph from the chairmanship became necessary, and on Baturday last the County Committee chose an- other pastor, the Rev. A. CO Bleinbar- ger, to be political presiding officer. Hence the kick of the Gazette, —————— a — : Not a Mixture of Stimalatiog Drugs We want to smphasizs one porintright - Badger Feeds are pot eondi- ments nor mixtures of stimulating drugs, which foree grester results for a brief time at the expense of the physic- al constitution of the animal, They are honest combinations of grains and cereals which have long proved their valaoe in supplylog farm animals with the proper elements of nutrition for making milk, muscle and fl wh to the While they have no undue, stimulating ofl tence, they are especially appetizing sud like food for human beings, produce good results because stock relish them and they meet their needs to perfection, It's the same with live stock as it is with human beings, the things we like the b st do us the most good, here ~ best advantage. This ls one of the wetrets of the success of Ba igor Feeds. They are palatable, succulent snd especially nutritions. For sale by J. H aud 8. E. Websr, Centre Hall and Osk Hall, who just recsived s full car load of the feed, ——ag Barn Clarence Long's barn st Rebersburg caught fire early Wednesday morning of Inst week and was entirely destroy- ed. About twelve v'elock that morn. ing Mr. Long and W, B. Haines start. ed fi Lock Haven with a lot of peaches they had received Tuesday from Sayder County and had stored in the barn. At one o'clock the barn was discovered on fire and the alarm given. A few chickens were all the live stock burned, the horses, four in number, havicg been taken to haul the peaches to Lock Haven. Heller's barn, close by, was saved by the fine water supply Rebersburg has for fire Buarued in Me bersbarg protection. Mr. Long had about § 400 insurance on the barn. How the fire started Is a mystery, From Milihelm Journal, Mrs. William Dolbin and son, of Harrisbu.g, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Bartholomew, on Water Bt. W. Randall Masser, who is a civil and mining enginesr for the Vests Coal company, at California, Pa, ie spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, F. P. Musser. Harry M. Smith, who speat part of the summer with his brother, Robert J. Bmith, at Bmithtown, has accepted & foremanship io a large hosiery mill al Wilmington, Del., and has already taken chiarge of the same. A fi so —— Transfer of Ren! Estate. John L. Holmes et al to G. E Corl, tract of land in Ferguson twp, July 19, 1908: $300, Amelia Ulrich, et bar to Common- wealth of Pa., tract of land in Haines twp, August 19, 1000, $140 31. Thomas Foster, et al to Eis E Musser, August 7 1008, in Blate Col- lege, tinct of land, $400. Berjumin B. Kelley, et al to Peter Kelley, April 23 1904, in Worth twp, tract of land, $500, Barah A. Menee, et al to Jos, L. Peters, July 6, 1009, in Benner twp, tract of land, $470. H. D. Decker, et ux to H. E. Breon, August 25, 1909, In Bpring twp, tract of land. $200, E.B. Long, ot ux to A. J. Loug, September 1909, in Boggs, twp., treet of land, $1. Mary Murphy, et bar to Robert Fogleman, tract of land in Huiton twp, June 15, 1000, $25 C. T. Fryverger, ot ux to R. D. Big- elow, lot in Philipsburg, August 27 1909, $36°0 4 W. E. Hurley, sherift to M. C. Gep- hart, tract of land iu Taylor twp, August 30, 1900. $165, Bamuel Ard to W., W. Brauoht, August 81, 1909, in Penn twp., tract of land. $611. Harriet Diogesto W. W, May 8 land, « Brau obt, $2000. ———_ A APPA. NO. 36. YOUR BRAIN. Keep It Plastic by Not Overeating as You Grow Old. Up to a certain age the brain re- mains plastic enough so that if an in- Jury occurs to the thought brain the person can begin over ain and cre. ate new knowledge centers in the other bemisphere, This bas happened in many - cases where young people have lost certain powers or faculties by cerebral lesions and have afterward recovered these faculties by developing new centers in the other brain. It rarely happens after the age of forty-five, and the res son Is because most persons after pass. ing that age their brains with calcareous matter by overeating and destroy plasticity of thelr brains by filling them with f od waste, It all people past the age of forty- five wonld live on twelve OUnCes or fess of solid food per day we should find that receive ideas as readily at seventy-five as fifteen. You eannot do it, however, if Your brain is a hardened mass of waste matter. If you overeat you will be “sot” In your ways and a has-bees at fifty Keep your phonograph rec- ords soft and receptive.— Nautilus. A STAGE VILLAIN. His Reputation Clung to Him Outside the Theater. small to get accom hotel English # sald, because its proprietor soon clog the sOON one may new nt in =n night An actor unable was inoeda company one ion at in an town, rema iy slow person for him as the who had going e, recognized the i A villain In stoken a cash box, set fire t killed 8 dete race horse and betrayed the hero's sister, Put something did happen to manager of Alhambra in London in his Younger days Mr. Beott was a stage villain of the deepest dye, and one of his favorite parts was that of the wicked Levison In “East Lynne.” After Playing the character tights In Bias had for wishing to his and, knocking st the door of a house fn the next street, was greeted by the goad lady who opened It with a shriek and the subsequent exclamation “What! It's Levison the dirty vii lain Ye can't rooms in my ‘ouse! Get out or I'll call the periice!” London M. A. P. melodrama ¢ a house, tive, damaged a this really ficorge Scott, tive PINE the few GCCHEIONn a kK pox i he ow» g r change lodgings ave Steel Pen Helps Forgers. The crime of forgery has been facili tated and increased by the modern In troduction of gold and metallic pens, If you want an encore don't slog steel, says a writer In the Indianapolis News. The ~id fashioned quill pen was smooth and pleasant to with, though It sometimes balked and sput tered, but it did not lend ftself to skill ful imitations as easily as the metallle pen does, The crime of forgery doubt less has been promoted by the almost universal education of modern times In an age when everybody writes ard when many are skillful penmen forger- les are much more frequent than they Were centuries ago, when the person who could handle a pen was an excep tion. Many modern criminals make a living by committing forgeries, victim: izing hotels, banks, caphalists and busi ness men generally, Sn" write Domestic Economy. “Hey, mon,” exclaimed the braw, bonnie north countryman, “thrift is a wunoerful thing! “Yes,” replied bis English traveling companion. “You're right there. Now, I gave my wife a ten pound note to manage on last time | was away, and ~woild you believe it7—instead of ex- ceeding it she saved nearly a sover elgn out of it to buy herself a hat!™ “That's nowt,” replied the Scotsman. “My wife gives the kids ba'pennies apiece to go to bed supperless: when they're asleep she takes the ha'pen- nies off on ‘em ageean, and then she makes ‘em do wi'out ony breakfasts for losin’ ‘em! Hey, mon, that's thrift!”~ London Scraps, ; The Mendicant. There are those who ascribe the word “mendicant” to the silly appella- tion put forth as a conundrom, mean. ing a poor wretch beyond the power oft mending. But something very close to the term was In use as long ago as when Chaucer wrote his “Canterbury Tales” In the *“Sompnoure’'s Tale” this occurs: Therefore we “mendiants,” we saly freres, Ben wedded to poverte and continence, To tharites, humblesse and abstinence, o, The “sompnoure”™ of Chaucer was, of course, a summoner, or apparitor, and & person of low estate, and here we have, it Is believed, the origin of the word, which came into common em. ployment later, A How About a Good Back View? TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. The dates for the Union county fair, at Brook park are SBepteruber Zh to October 1st. W. K. Boauberger, circulation man- ager of the Dilleburg Bulletin, is on the park for the week. If it is good boarding you are after you will find it at the main bosrding house on the Park, James Decker, pro- prietor. W. Gross Mingle, manager of the Howard Creswmery Corporation, pur- chased a driving horse, The animal is 8 nice, easy mover, with good slay- ing qualities, The shower Thureday night extin- guiebed the fire in the Seven Moun- tains, but not until much damage had been done, The fire had epread from % point below Coburn to nesr Decker Valley, Lumberman J. F. Treaster, of Centre Hill, is making some great runs with bis automobile crossiog the Beven Mountains has no horrors for him, having made the run in remarkably short time, About seventy-five guests were served at the Old Fort hotel Sunday noon. Everything was as quiet sbout the hotel as about a well regulated home, and for this condition much credit must be given Landlord Royer, George W. Bmith, instructorlin the Reformed school, at Morganza, was in Centre Hall last week, and also a part of this week. He is holding a god position in the institution nsmed, ard from his appearances, the work agrees with him, Daniel Calihan and William Park ir, west of Centre Hall, each lost s horse last week. This makes four horses that died in a small territory, tre others being auimals belonging to Shem Hackenberger and Benner Walker. A Bell telephone has been installed in the residence of Daniel Houser and Robert Bloom, west of Centre Hal’, The connection was made with the Pine Btump rural line, a part of the rural systems of the Patrons Rural Telephone company. Mr. and Mrs, W, A. turned from their honeymoon trip Friday of Iss: week, and Saturday went to Burnham to remain over Ean day with R. P. OlJenkirk. Tuesday Mr. Odenkirk resumed his duties Be station agent at Glen lron. Henry Johnston. for more thsn twenty years an undertaker at Bisn. chard, died at that piace, aged fify six years. Surviving him sre his wife and two daughters. Mrs. Hugh Gloss- per, of Blanchard and Mrs. Shuman Williams, of Pleasant Gap. The house of Mrs. Mary Reardon, near Blanchard, was totally destroyed by fire on Baturday night s week, with all its contents. Mrs. Rardon was playing the organ when the lamp exploded, causing the fire. The house and contents were partially i The borough public schools will open Monday. The instructors sre Prof. C. R. Nefl, Centre Hall, prin. cipal; Miss Orpha Gramly, Epring Mille, Grammar; Miss. Helen ill isms, Beech Creek, Intermediate: Miss Helen Bartholomew, Centre Hall, Primary. All teachers hold certif. icates above professional, W. R Camp accompanied by hig daughter, Miss Lou and son Walle, and Mise Viola Sprankle, of Tyrone, were on Grange Park for a few hours Bunday, baving come here in an suto- mobile. While in town they were the guests of the Guise family. Mr, Camp was a resident of Centre Hall for a oumber of years, and while be finds Tyrone a good business point, Centre Hall and ite people are well thought of by him and bis family, Odenkirk ree “What a differences between the first day of school now and of the long ago,” says the Clearfield Republican, To day the youngster is either a fresh, a junior, a soph, or a senior. Then he was simply a common American boy, who read in the first, second or fourth reader. To-day he wears canvas shoes rmguet. Thea he went barefoot in Beptember, and car ried a stone-bruise on his heel and a sawed-off cant-hook handle for a base ball bat,