VOL. LXXXIII. COUNTRY CHURCH INSTITUTF, is the Church Doing All It Should for the Community ? I Theé church is on trial perhaps as never before. Both friend and foe are calling upon it to give new reasons for ita existence and support. Rev. T. Maxwell Morrison, formerly of Pennsylvania tut now pastor at Bellona, N. J., who has made a special study of the relation of the country church to its environment, and who has proved the scundness of his theories in his own church, is now, under the direction of the Department of Church and Labor of the Presbyter- ian church and Presbytery of Hunt. ingdon, making a tour of the churches, will be in Centre Hall, No- vember 7th, and Bpring Mills, Novem- ber Sth, to hold a Country Church In- stitute. Two sessions will be held at each place, one at 1:30 p. m., a ‘Round Table, '’ the other at 7:50 p. m,, a lec- ture on the ** Call of the Country Church. ’’ Prof. Alva Agee, of Biate (College, has promised that a member of its Feculty will be present at Centre Hall and assist. A cordisl invitation is extended to every one of any church and of no church to be present and take part, Some idea of the nature of the after- noon meeting will be gained by read- ing the following questions, Come prepared to discnss them, 1 What is the ehurch and its pur- pose 2 What should be the relationship of the church and community ? 3 What should be its relationship toward the other churches of the com- munity 4 Does the church owe any obliga tions to the businesa men of the com- muuity 7 £4 5 What benefits has the business world of the community received from the church ” How far ought the church to go in ita efforts to improve the social life of the community 7 7 What ought the charch to do for | the intellectual development of the community : fH a What can the church do for health of the community 9 What should be the position of | the church on the moral (questions of | the community 7 10 In whit ways can the church | cultivate the spirit of contentment | among the young people of the com-| mugity 7 i 11 What persons in the commun- | ity ought the church to labor most di’ | gently to help ? 12 What ean the church do to com- | fort the sorrowing 7 13 What methods ought and can the church use to reach and help all} the peopls in the community 7 14 What use is the chureh of its history 7 15 Isa yearly Old Home Meeting of the church desirable 7 16 Ought the church to take auy interest in the recreations of the com- munity 7 Ifso, what should be the nature of them 7 17 Is the pastor's salary sdequate for the present-economic standards of living How is it raised, and how paid 7 i158 What is the value of the farm lsud in this community compared with fifty years ago, and has the pas- tor's salary been increased in that time? Have the benevolences of the church increased proportionately with value of the land aod the high cost of living snd the new mosthods of farm management 19 To what extent should the church be muade a community center 7 20 In what ways can the church help the farmer to acquire a knowl. edge of the modern scientific methods of agriculture 7 21 Has the Jocal church any duty’ to perform: toward the nation at large, and, if so, what is it and what can it do? 22 What methods of evangelism sliould the chu ch adopt, snd how ' far and when should it carry them out ? 23 What methods are used in the benevolent work of the church, and what success is attained? Why be- nevolences at all 24 What organizations should the church have, and how can we perfect them 7 the » | making —_——— A ————— Corn Yields 155 Bashels, A week or two sgo the Reporter made the statement that James W, Hwab, of near Linden Hall, would have one of the largest corn yields to the acre in Penns Valley, snd that his neighbors judged the yleld would be one hundred and fifty bushels per acre, The corn has now been husked and measured, and the yield proved to pe one hundred snd fifty-five bushels per acre. And Mr. Swab says, it wasn'ta very good corn year either, Lame back comes on suddenly and is extremely painfal, [tis caused by ii of the muscles, Quick re- lief is afforded by ap Appiying Unambers Ilsin’s Liniment. by Murray & Number of Nails to a Horseshoe, Centuries ago there lived a farrier, Walter le Brun by name, whose dex- terity at the anvil on the occasion of a great tilting mweeting on the banks of the Thames was noticed by the then reigning monarch, Edward 111, who rewarded the blacksmith by granting him sufficient land adjoining the tilting green for the erection there- on of a forge. As quit rent he had to present annually to the king six borse- shoes and sixty-one horseshoe nalls. To the modern mind the number of nails would appear to be superfluous, but when it is remembered that the horseshoes of that period required ten nails aplece it will be seen that the calculations of Edward 111. merely al- lowed one over in case of accident. Furthermore, the shoes were all to be for the horse's fore feet, from which fact some historians draw the infer- ence that the animals ridden in the knights’ tournaanents were encouraged to injure each other with their front hoofs. —London News, “Correct to a T.” Our earliest quotation for this or for the kindred phrases “to suit one to a TT.” “to fit to a 1,” “to know oue to a T." is of 1693, Can any one help us to an earlier example? No ove of our many instances throws any light upon its origin. A current obvious cobjec- ture would explain “a 1" as meaning “a T square.” but to this there are va rious objections, We have no evi dence as vet that the name “T square” goes back to the seventeenth century and no example of its being called simply “a T,” and in few if any of Insts inces would the substitution of “a T square’ for “a T' make any toler: abl ¢ sense. The notion seems rather to be that of minute exactness, it were “to the minutest point” the evidence is mainly negative. examples can be found of "T square” before 1700 or of its reduction simply to “I™ of earller examples of “to a T" they may help to settle the actual —=london Notes and Queries our as Bat it or origin. The First Wire Nail. Although the wire nail is a small thing, it wonld be a big thing to do without. Probably no one could esti- mate the millions or billions or tril- lions—whatever the number may be— are used in a sliogle year. Yet the first wire nails ip the United States were made no longer ago than IST The first machine for their manufac: ture was brought over from Dussel- dorf and up mm Covington. Ky. Later this single machine was multi plied by four and a company Was or- Iu 1884 the manufacture of wire nails was begun in Beaver Falls, Pa.. and the product was already be- ginning to grow in popularity and use- fulness, Just a vear later a strike temporarily shut off the manufacture of cut nails, and the wire nail was in such demuid that the manufacturers were swamped. Prom that tice dates the supremacy of the wire nail.—Chi- cago Post, set The First Fireless Cooker. Soon after the battle of White Plains, N. Y.. while the American forces were drifting toward North Cas- tle, the lone occupant of a house, one of the Pierce families, on the Bedford road at Pleasantville, NX. ¥Y.. looking out of the window, descried a posse of Hessian soldiery comiug up the pike Having just placed a number of loaves of bread in the old Dutch oven, she bethought herself that #t wonld be to secrete them until the soldier band passed. She at once removed the loaves, which had already become heated, and ran up jn the at- tic and placed them between two feather beds, The soldiers arrived in due time and soon appropriated every- thing removable After their depar- ture the housewife remembered the bread exodus, ran up the stairs, and, lo, the bread was done to the “queen's taste!” ~Magazine of American His tory well Figure It Out. A beggar boy asked an old gentleman in the street for sixpence, “What will you do with it if I give you one?’ asked the old gentleman. “Turn it into ninepence quick,” re. plied the boy. “How? “Give me the sixpence and I'll soon show you." Thé boy got the money, darted off to a baker's shop and bought a three penny loaf, with which he returned to the old gentleman and handed: him back 3 penries, “How's this? You said you would make the sixpence joi ninepence.”’ “S80 1 have. The baker's got three pence, you've got threepence, and I've got a threepenny loaf. That's nine- pence. — Pearson's Weekly, Late Hour Explained. “What kept you until tus late hour?” asked the husband of his 8. Yragette wife. “Well, my dear,” she answered meek- ly, “you see it took us an hour to greet one another, the meeting lasted thirty minutes, and the rest of the time was spent In saying goodby.'-- Detroit Free Press, When Women Run Us. Friend—80 your detective force is a fallure? Chief Emma-—Yes; we can't find any one who ix willing to be a Bituner. plain clothes woman. Puck, > 5 7 PA.. MINISTER INSTRUQOTS HEARERS On the Political Qontest Throughout the State, iu Reformed Church. Appended are extracts from a ser- mon preached on the political contest throughout the state, in the Reformed church, Centre Hall, on Bunday even- ing, by Rev. Daniel Gress, the pastor : Christians ought to be read as living epistles of truth in the home, making home life purer and happier and sweet- er ; ought to be workers makiog the church more influential in the commu- nity as a spiritualiziog power ; ought to be interested in the betterment of the schools, so that the youth may be properly equipped for life's service ; ought to strive to set up a standard of righteousness in the state and nation, for righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproagh to any people. A christian who is a living epistie of truth, will help to place men in public offices of honor and trust who are true and upright, not men who are ruled by gangs and machines and bosses, but men who are ruled by the spirit of truth, bg a good conscience, who are living epistles of truth, snd who are willing to do the will of the people, and to serve the best interests of the state and nation. In the present political campaign in the state of Pennsylvania, there are three great parties ; two are boss rid- den this year, The leading candidates of these two parties have been brought before the people by what is familiarly known as the mschine, composed largely of McNichol, Penrose, Vare and a few others. The character of one has been shown to be not very savory, especislly pot savory enough to be in the highest office of state. He has been engsged in a gigantic swindling scheme, or at least has not been able to show that he was not He is not a member of apy church. How can a christian support him ? The other leading candidate was nominated by the machine snd liquor element st the Allentown Convention; was not the people's choice and Is doomed to defeat. One of these three parties stauds for reform in political matters of this state, a reform which is so much peed- ed. Fort the state of Pennsylvania is very corrupt politically. It ls not governed by the Republican party, but by the machine, Just ss other states have been governed by Demo craic machines and bosses, It is the highest desire of this third perty to overthrow some of thi corruption in politics in this state, and to insugu- rate a purer, as more honest and right- eous government, which would be a goverument by the people, of the people and for the people, Bowe such reform must come, if not thie year, it will come some other year. The common people will some time awake to their duty, and will do it. The common people must pay for the graft and corruption in the balls of state, by way of high taxes and various other ways. The common people must sometimes take as stand for reform snd righteousness in politics, The opportunity is offered this year, in this present campaign. A man stands at the head of the Keystone Party, who is God fearing, incorruptl- ble ;: one who has been tried and found true, not ruled by sny machine ; independent of boss-rule. And that is why he was not wanted at the Al lentown Convention aa the head of a great party. His election was feared, and the bosses knew they could not e¢mtrol him in the halls of state, If the state of Pennsylvania had pot elected Mr, Berry to the office of treasurer, a few years ago, the capitol graft scandal would never have been exposed. Other states of the Union look with admiration upon Penosyl. vania for the way in which she clean. ed house for awhile, The state owes the highest honor to the man who was instrumental in ex. posing this graft and corruption. It is a proof that he can do more such work ; that he will labor for purity, and honesty and reform, and upright ness, if given the opportunity by the votes of the common people, as govern- or of this state. Woodrow Wilson, one of the candi dates for governor of the state of New Jersey, sald in ac address the other Pennsylvania ? The have indorsed Mr. Berry and Mr. Gibboney as their logical candidates for governors of this state. And every christian who ls a living epistie of tbe truth can with a clear conscience sup- port the candidates who stand for re form and purity and righteous govern. ment and who will represent the of this commonwealth, © The minister sald he was not telling his hearers how they most vole on i Lr — NY YDARN tHE FLAG.” ISORDEN, No Tresson in the Wards, mental Eeonomy, Bat Govern shade stronger than that, employes who will obey the new in junction there will be nothing praise. The new orders are in with the government's policy of thousands of Government with new ones. were instructed of the Government, oranda and in the drafts of letters. Now the fing writing is to be darned. shops. BAe Argh bs, Pretty frosty weather, but then it ie also November, ing school at Waddies, was in Centre Hall over Bunday. The members of Progress Grauge will give their usual Thanksgiving Day supper io Grange Arcadia J. Q. A Kennedy advertises that he is making a busivess of repairing watches, jewelry, elc , and that he is capable of doing high class work. See his adv. Those who paid their taxes in time to get the percentage off, found some of the lokal taxes lessened, and none in- creased over last year. That sounds very good, and there is no compiaint on the part of the tax payers. companion in ber home at Linden Hall, Miss Ruth Ross, daughter of J. Hale Ross, fell in such a way as to break one of the bones in her limb at a point above the ankle. The fracture was reduced by Dr. E L. Kidder. Miss Bara McClenaban, who Is in the Harrisburg City Hospital, where she is recovering from a broken hip bone caused by falling off of a street car, is improving, and soon expects to leave the hospital, Bhe, however, may not return to her home in Centre Hall for some weeks, The present price of winter apples — fifty cents per bushel-—ias the best argu- places on almost every farm where ap- these now unsightly spots would yield handsome returns. By all means, plant apple trees, The Hearons Sisters gave their con- the Centre Hall lecture course, town, ing & few numbers each one of which was the best. leak, states the Freeport Bulletin, rvics was not required. { Continued om Previous Column.{ own conscience. tinued. POST CARDS TABOOED, W Fostinl Authorities Decide That Must He Enclosed in Envelopes, donning postal cards shall be sen - lectors, to cover any stipulated time, This ruling meavs that no ment of taxes may be sent on a posts card and that no second notices final notices may be sent on posts cards, ges companies, light companies other public service corporations, The result of the attorney's light notices and telephone ‘must be enclosed in an envelope been accustomed to send their month- | what would happen if the bill | mot paid, A A lp The Baliot Uns, scpiares for straight tickets, ing a square for a straight ticket for each of the following parties : lican, Democratic, Prohibition, ist, Iodustrialist, Keystone Workingmen's League, arranged succession named. The second column contsins three blocks with the names of Lhe candi dates for governor, lieutenant govern or snd secretary of internal aflsirs, the nomination for each office being in a block with space for the voler lo mark aller each name, In the third column there are blocks for congressional, senatorial snd as sembly nominations, Under a decision of the court there will siale lreasurer. ————— and in supreme be no election of » ilu — In Clemifield Dr. Blewart, Demo: cratic candidate for the State Beostor, has been closely progress and development of Clear. field. He ia a progressive, public forefront of any movement towards improvement or betterment of his home town or county. In addition to his interest in taken a promipent part in school matters of all kinds. board from the Firsl their treasurer a paying treasury of the school distriet. ——— i MM AMPA sylvania is concerned, ——— A— Democratic vote for stale senator, senate, aslection next Tuesaday. should be of the greatest interest to every true christian and moral re former. The existing conditions of this contest make it imperative that party lines should be obliterated this year, and that only such men should be elected to office who stand for civic righteousness, purity, honesty, and in- United States, will a9d every other moral reform elve to the welfare of the sist these ol jsots can be best obtained this old Keystone State this year we of this feature of the discourse. os These will be reliable. a Ss AI MOM A, The oid, old story, told times w out number, and repeated over over again for the last thirty-six years but it is always a welcome story # Murray and Bitoer, i 5 ede NO. 4 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. George Doll is preparing to erect ten-ton ice plant at Bellefonte, Drover W. J. Mitterling purchased a car load of sheep which he shipped to the eastern markets, Mies Bell Byers, of Chambersburg, {8 the guest cf her sister, Mrs, Ripks, io Centre Hall, Rev. C. C. Bhuey and Colling Joh « sop, of Bellefonte, spent Hunday and Monday at the home of Bhem Hasek enberg. I W. 1 Zschman, of Salons, super visory priocipal of the schools of .s- | | mar townebip, hes anpounced him- self a candidate for superintendent of tiie public schools of Clinton e unty. Bleckemith Mifflin Moyer Harry Relish drove to the Fg Keller farin, tenanted by John Heish, near Pleasant Baturday noon, and swapped horses, smith and the Nittany V doing the dealing. E R Shreckengast has {store for the sale of patent Lt Emory and NBraim ap, after. the Linck. niley farmer - Owe red med in the ronmn Girofl, went who recently BRIO gage in the drug business. M. Bhires, for many years a dent of Bpring Mills, bas moved seranton, where his business require his time. He ie distric of the Mutua: Benefit Company, which company represented for fifteen years, ren j- tas interests sg=nt Life lusurance he Las Two 'coons and a cub bear were tured on Nittany Howard Wells and both of Pleasant Gap was shot from the tree, the hunters expected a iarge ‘coon to fall, bat their disappointment was very agree abla, CR = Mountain by B ye d mpc When the cab Without a gun in his hand, Dairy man W, J. Bmith sightsd a large wild turkey gobbler crossing the pike lead. ing over Nittany Mountain, The bird was a monster, and traveled though on dress-parade, taking wing only when his pursuer came quite close, Mrs. William Bsuchwman, of non, sceompansed by her son Robert, came to Centre Hall Monday after- noon, to spend a week with Mes Anns Bpangler, an suot of the former. Mr. Bachman i« the second son, sand is employed in the state hospital Norristown. James A, Wensel, commissioners’ clerk in Clinton county, tendered his resiguation to the board of county commissioners, and OD, I MeNaul immediately elected his successor Mr. Wensel leaves the commissioners office to become the cashier of the new State bank, which will 2000 be started at Avis, that county. The Millheim Journal in issue printed this persons! notice : Mrs. EE. B. McMullen, of Millheim, and Mre. W. H. Philips, of Aaron: burg, left Tuesday to attend the meet ingof the Woman's Home sod For- eign Missionary society which con. venes al (} iakertown this week. Aller the meetiog Mrs. Philips will spend several weeks visiting relatives at Phil. adelphis and Mrs. McMullen will visit friends in that city, Harrisburg and Shamokin before returning home. The routemen for the various cream- etien in Penns Valley report the sup ply of cream to be keeping up remark ably well for this season of the year. The well-filled hay mows, oats snd barley bins, snd oveiflowing oorn eribe will all aid in greatly increasing the supply of butter and cream over the production of last winter, when the grains of all kinds were scarce and higher in price. The well-fed cow will return a profit just as certain ly as the poorly fed cow will Jose money to ber owner, Of course, the farmer knows all this, yet he needs to be encouraged to do ss well as he knows how, and if the present supply of eream is to be kept up, liberal feeding must begin now. |, Bad, poor and very good are the sd. actives that describe the condition of the o'd pike from the Old Fort to Millheim. Through Poller township, this important road i» in bad condi tion ; through Gregg township the road is poor, yet the township sathorie ties have been doing some work and no doubt intend doing much more, fu Penn township the greater part of the old pike has been reconstructed. rounded up and top dressed with fine. ly crushed stone, which are becoming firmly ubited, makiog a very desirable as lo a I. Se Woe its last
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