VOL. LXXXV. MR, BRYAN AND THE LTATE DEPARTMENT, Opposition to His Appointment COhlefly from Those Stale Departments to Ke- main A Subsidiary to Wall Street Cor. poration, Whether Mr. Bryan is qualified to be Sacretary of Btate can beat be de- termined by comparing him with the men who have held that office during the last fifty years. The present Secretary of Btate Philander C. Knox, who was consti tutionally disqualified for the office at the time of his selection and whose most notable diplomatic achievement was to turn the State Department in- to a collection agency for Wall street. Mr. Knox's predecessor was Robert Bacon, a partner of J. Plerpont Mor- gan. Mr. Baco 's predecessor was Elihu Root, the ablest man to hold the place in a generation, Mr. Root's predecessor was John Hay, who was a very able Becrelary of state but who lacked the physical vitality to oppose successfully the jingo policies of President McKinley's BUCCEEBOT, Mr, Hay’s predecessor was William R. Day, who was pitehforked into office for a few months after Jobn Sherman broke down. Mr. Day's predecessor Sherman, wa. was physically mentally incapable of discharging the duties of Necretary of State, but was appointed in order to create a cancy in the Senate for the benefit of Mark Hanna. Mr. Sherman's predecessor Richard Olney, who will be remember-/ ed chicfly for bis connection with the) Venezuela episode, and Mr. Oluey’s' predecessor was Judge Gresham, from whom much was expected and little is was John and va Was was obtained. Judge Gresham's predecessor John W. Foster, who fiaished Blaiue's term efter Blaine resigned from Har- rison’s Cabinet to head the couspiracy Was tion. And so the story runs. Biaiue, Bayard, Frelinghuysen, Blaine agsin, Evarts, Fish, Wasuburn and Seward— Mr. Bryan need not feel much ewmbar- rassed in such company, nor would any of that company feel embarrassed to know that Mr. Bryan was oumber- ed amoung bis successors, Great Hecretaries of State have besn few, and occasions that called for = great secretary of Stale have happily been even fewer, Mr. Bryan would pever be a salislactory Secretary of State for the champions of Dollar Diplomacy, or for millionaires who re gard the Diplomatic Corps us an sn- nex to the Four Hundred. But his at- titude toward foreign questions is the aititude of a vast wm-jority of Lhe American people, and we observe that the opposition to his appointment comes chiefly from people wao waul the State Department to remain a sub- gidiary Wall street corporation, ————_ —— > sre wood Morsing, Doe, Do you know Dave Geary? He lives on what is known as the Colye farm, south of the village of the saiue pame, surrounded ou ail sides by mountaius, Now Geary likes Lo buat, and he doesn’c have far to go untll he {8 in the best huutiog fleld to be found in the Neveu Mountains, As was sald before, Geary likes to hunt, and one morniog last week shouldered nis guu aod ofl he went (0 try bis luck, Traveling slong through a thicket he came BCross 8 large stu p He mounted it to survey toe sarrouud- fogs, and after doing so mused, Pres ently there came within arm's leugin a young doe, looked him over, sud then stepped back a little distance. The sight was pn unusual one, aud ns he was pondering over the gate laws, the largest doe—alive or dead—he ever gaw put in an sappearauce. Geary simply said, *' Aw go ‘way 1" And the doe went, but did uot retreat far, when the third doe came trippiug along io fantastic style, stopped uuiil Geary bia it good moroing. A few miuuies later the nunter heard acother noise in the brushes, aud presently there emerged his little puppy that took his tracks. nis was Loo uch for the farw- er-hunter, who talked the matier over with the dog, and it was unanimously agreed that the tempiations were (00 great there for a usu who bad respect for the game laws, ——— A SSAA Fruiv Growers Meeting. A meeting of the Centre County Fruit Growers Association will be held in Miulbeim, Friday and BSsturday, December 13: snd 14:h, Among the speakers will be Dr. stuart, of diate College, sud Dr, Murray, Ustawisea, LYKUS BRUNGART, President, ———————— AAAS Spring Muls hectare Courses, The date for the next number of the Spring Mills lecture course has been consoged from December 16: to Dec ember 18ih, Uourse ticket holders wiil please keep this iu mind, J.B MEYER, tecrelary. 4 THE BELLEFONTE HOSPITAL, False Charges Made by Enemies of the In- stitution Corrected, No institution in the county is as much misrepresented as the Bellefonte Hospital. Why it is no one seems to know. Why similar hospitals io other counties are so falsely represent. ed no one seems to know. The writer has heard it stated that the charges were extortionate, that the good food was all eaten by the nurses and that brought to the patients unfit to eat ; that the surgeons were a set of experi- menters, and had no regards for the patients, and a hundred equally silly assertions. Many of these tales were ridiculous that one could afford to notica them, but the Reporter is glad for the opportunify to reprint from the Watchman a statement of facts concerning the money charges at the institution, as follows ; People not understanding charges the Bellefonte hoapital would find it 8 very easy matter to the idstitution and as- certain definitely. As a matter of fact there are no charges of any sort au- thorized by the corporation excapt those for the use of private rooms, a BO Do the of telephone to amall fee for the uses of the operatiog room and the expense of a team the ambulance when it is used, Stories to the effect that have charged one hundred dollars and for minor opera. tion, when the patient has remained in the institution only a few days, are malicious lies, or patients been more a ” The highest priced private room in the institution is $15 per week, which includea the board of the patient and the attendance, of not exclusive, a nurse, Thus it will be seen that before the hospital could possibly have a bill of $100 against anyone he or she mus! occupied the for at paid $5 00 for the use of the operating room, if operated and $2 or $3 f the ambulance, if carried there in that conveyance, highest priced private room least six weeks, on, undergo as many operations as surgeons on duty deem necessary, and be hauled all over the couaty in the if they are unable todo so. Thereisa beds, but persons who feel that ward satiafaction of they cannol want (0 pay splendid care they receive al fonte hospital. If the patient enters the loatitution as a general patient and occupies a aflord a private room, yet for the something Belle ward bed, the services of the nurees, he or she prefers to pay the nominal charge of $7 per week, which ail should do who are sble, As a general patient, however, only the physicians and surgeons on duty at the time can attend them. No general or patient can have any other physician or surgeon attend him than the mem. ber of the stafl on duty. We surmise that many people get mixed right here. When a patient enters a private room it is done usaslly on the advice of his physician. All he pays to the hospital is, as stated be- fore, the small charge for the use of the operating room and the charge for the private room thal has been ocoupl- ed, whether it be an $8, $10 or $15 one, for the length of time that the patient uss rematoed in it. The Bellefonte hospital never charged for anything else and auy one who says it has is g'ving publicity to an untruth, The physician in charge of the patient, who enters a private room however, may charge that patient whatever he pleases, but that is his and the pa- tient’s business and the hospital bas nothing waatever to do with it, We are loath to think that any physician practiciog in Centre county would make an unfair charge for services rendered, The fee bill of the Centre County Medical Society fixea that, Iherefor we think it about time that persons circulating slories such as the one referred to at the beginning of this article get straight on the matter of the charges at the Bellefonte hospital or stop talking avout things they evi. dently know nothiog of, i — pL fn in men “fhe New Minister.” The above is the title of a play to be given in the Grange Arcadia, Cene tre Hall, on Friday evening, December 6.h, by tue Heidelberg League of the Heformed Church, of Boalsburg, under the auspices of the Christian Euodeaver Bociety of the Reformed Church of Center Hall, ‘I'here have been so many good re ports of this play that we should be glad of this opportunity to hear it “ An evening of fun and amuse ment’, is what the management clalmus on the bills, and from reports it isthat, Come and see what local talents can do. — A STA, Mr. and Mrs. J. Flon Btover, of New Derry, visited Mr, SBtover's father, ward Benjamin Stover, at Yeageriown, i WE ARE THANKFUL For Many Blessings. Great and Some FParticalarly Thaonkfal aod the Heasons. Bondi Persons Every human being has many rea- gona to be thankful today not only for the ordinary blessings—such as many of us think we are entitled to, but for special blessings. It would be im- possible to enumerate all the special blessings bestowed during the past year, but below are noted a few : Capt. George M. Boal can give thanks because President Taft put the Centre Hall postoflice with thousands of others on the civil service list, which means that as long as he is good he will retain the position he now holds, regardless of the political changs of the administration, The traveler through Centre Hall can be thankfal that the depressions in the road bed are not over ten inches, The community can thankful that tonight ( Thanksgiving Day) an opportunity will be given to hear the best male quartette that ever sang in Centre Hall, The community can be thankful, too, that the lecture course is made up of numbers that will be an uplift. Every tiller of the soll can be thaok- ful for the abundant harvests, the good prices obtainable for all products of the soll, the demand for his flocks and herds, the splendid seasons for harvest. ing. be The country at large-—these great PENNSYLVANIA DAY, Observed at State College on Friday Governor Tener and Renstor Among the Guests, Penrose The trustees, faculty and studenta of Pennsylvania State College on Friday entertained Governor John K. Tener, United States Benator Boies Pour State senators and representatives, many other State officials and friends of the school, with one of the mos! interesting programs in the history of the college. It was officially known as ‘* Pennsylvania Day’ aud attracted more than 1,000 visitors, Among the most prominent in the exercises of the day, in addition to the governor and senior senator, were Attorney General John CO. Bell, Representative George E. Alter, of Pittsburg, eandi- date for speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives ; J. D. Callery, president of the Pittsburgh Raliway Company, and a trustee of the college; former Congressman M, E. Olmsted, of Har- risburg ; Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart, of Harrisburg ; Dr. Nathan C. Beheefler, Biate superintendent of public ivstruction ; N. B. Critchfield, secretary of agriculture ; Auditor Gen- eral-elect A. W. Powell, and Walton C. Mitchell, of Pittsburgh, a trustee of the college, Other representatives from various counties were these: CU, L. Gramley, Centre ; Jonathan Courrier, Alonzo Moulthrop, Clearfield ; W. H. Klep- per, Clinton ; A, W. Mitchell, Je aid Erie ; Uaited Btates—can give thanks for | the possibility of the sdministration | by one in whom the world has confi] He is a man of the day this | Woodrow Wilson, the president-elect. | . Centre Hall give be- | cause to date it ie freed from monopo | denca. thanks Can boroughs in| | which the people were able to thwart | Itis one of a few lies i sant | : i the greed of corporations who here their representative to fasten # 0 Gh- | that private he conditions d drain taxpayers evarisstingly Center Hall can be thapkful for its | good school system-—the one branch | of the borough government that io the | past, with the rarest exceptions, has | and at present is securing adequate re- | tarns for the money expended. Center Hall can be thankfal i# the neatest, trimmmest town in tral Pennsylvania, It is so because ita people want it so and make it so The Center Reporter can be liberal it | Cen that thank. | patronage given it i This patronage extends | the paper, | to its advertising columns, and | commercial printing. This Great Nation can be thankful! that there is a William Jennings Bry- an, a son of Nebraska. It was he who dethroned the Bosses at the Baltimore eonvention, and made it possible for his party to elect ita candidate for President ; it was Mr, Bryan who had the conviction and courage to lash the bosses into a corner, and there they are now snarliog at him. The eriti- ciamas Mr. Bryan is receiving and the advice he is receiving comes from de feated foes—long standing enemies, CO. L. Gramley, the member-elect to the lower house of the state legisia- ture, can give thanks that he gave to the people a straight forward answer to certain questions put to him on the temperance question, The wisdom or otherwise of his position on these questions, ~it got him the votes, Boles Brown, a young man and the product of the southern section of Pot. ter township, can be thankful for the honeat hours of study he put in, for on account of them he scored one hun- dred points in the civil service exam- ination for mail carrier on rural routes, and was appointed on a route out from Spring Mills, —— A ———— Transfer of Heal Estate, Herman Holiz et ux to Sigmund Joseph, tract of land in Bellefonte. $5466 67. Sigmund Joseph trustee to Herman Holtz, tract of land in Bellefonte. $10 933 33. Bertha A. Cox to Charles R. Bitner, tract of land in State College, $500, Laura 8, Kephart to Harry H. Roan, tract of land in State College. Robert Bled et ux to Joseph L. Hol: lick, tract of land in Philipsburg. $900, John Confer to G. Antls Confer, tract of land in Howard twp. $1. Mary M. Brown to Penusylvania Rallroad Co., tract of land in Howard twp. $175, Elizabeth Laath’s Kxre to Joseph Long, tract of land In Marion twp. $320. George W. Gill to Pennsylvania Railroad Co., tract of land in Huston twp. $100, Henry Parsona et ux to Penn, Ralls road Co , tract of land in Unlon twp. $100. And this le Thanksgiving Day, Horsce 8. Dunn, Huntingdon : Faylor North, His Brosius, Jefler- Albert Davis and Harry Al I. CEsWALDS d WW. Fhomas, Luzerne ; Ralph Gibson, Ansel Uiman, Lycom- Puilip B. Newb ik r, Mout Ira E. Bhafler, John F. Z mms Northumberiand ; Robert ler, Robert Fray, Y Walter MeNichols, Liackaw The 5 arn #On ; worth, : Dav orge K. Brown, - oS. re : Alla program for Lbe day opened } They displayed the important activities of the college In thirty-five different flats, Following the parade a new building for the engioeering department was dedicated. Buperiutendent Schaeffer made an address and Dean John Price Its Uses.’ Governor Tener presented responded. At the Auditorium the formal Penpaylvania day exercises were held, President Edwin Erle Sparks intro- duced Governor Tener as the presiding officer. The governor said a new era for State College had dawned, He epoke of the splendid work sceom- plished by the college and insistea that the State should be more literal in its support, “Bo far as my in- said the goverpor, ** 1 will endeavor to see that this college gels the maximum amount of appro priation from the HSiste next year. Ihe msjor portion of the State money should be given to this college. We should prefer it above all other educa- tional institutions. ”’ Senator Penrose outlined how the college has made giant strides under the efficient management of President Sparks and promised to use his in- fluence in getting the college a good appropriation, A few remarks also were made by Representative Alter, Attorney-General Bell was the ors- tor of the day. He reviewed the his- tory of the college and touched a little on politics, Saturday sflernoon a reception was given Governor and Mra, Tener at the Women's building. Io the evening Warden John Francies, of the West- etn penitentiary, entertained the guests at his quarters on the site of the new prison, uear here, and Theodore Davis Boal, also entertained the party at hia Boalsburg home. ———— A ——— Weakening the Thinking, Just as soon as a man starts to swearing he stops thinking. Didn't you ever notice it? Well, just notice and see, We don’t endeavor to ex- plain it, but it is so. There must be some psychological explanation for it, ga for instance, just at that moment the devil gets into the brain and scrambles it up so it canoot think, It is just like him to do it, for his great. est hold in this world is murky and disheveled thinking, When a man wants to save his time or has a respect for the truth, he had better retire from a controversy just as #000 a8 his antagonist starts to swear. ing. There is no truth or suund argu ment after that. We are not de nouncing profanity as a wickedness, but only as an absurd and unpractiosl thing. It spoils legitimate contro. versy. JKven if the swearer_ls on the right side, he makes it weak, If pro. fanity was on everybody's lips, trath and wisdom would abandon the plan. ot entirely. ——————— I PA From now on uatll Spring the way to the coal bla will be well trodden, ® fluence goes, "’ po NO. 47 DEATHS Mra. Julia Dinges died at her home a! Boalsburg, Thursday night of last week after a short illness ®ith pneu. mounia. Mrs. Dinges was born at Boalsburg, 9, 1854 parents were David and Zipporah Young, On the 20.h of March, was married to Jereminh N. Dingess, at her home, WwW. H WH pastor of the Reformed church. Dinges died Angust 27 1909 The deceased spent all her lifetime at Mince October Her 1878, she by Rev (iroh, the Mr. who Boslsburg. her husband's death she visited several times with relatives at Tottenville, and New York, where twice ill which ended her life. is a brother, Israel burg ; Bieele, Brouse, Marah she was with disease Surviving her Yaung, of Boals. four elsters, Mrs. Harriet Bellefonte ; Mrs, Mary of Pinegrove Mills; Mrs, Williams, of Lemont; Mrs Margarel Bmith, of Asburg Park, New Jersey, and one haif-brotl Young, of Pine Hall. Funeral services were held on Ban- day the Reformed church, conducted by her pastor, Rev. NH. C. Mtover, by Rev. J. 1 Stlonecypher, the and of ier, (George afternoon io asuisted the cemetery adjoining the church. Mrs. Amanda Reed, late Reuben Reed, of at the home of her gon, Samuel Reed, at UU i of pneumonia, a account of wilh of Petersburg, widow the died nion Farnscsa, afl Bhe was called there grand. cough and pueumonia, from which three died io f of of her $ 1s LOE jliness rhildren whooping the short space two «he glckened and passed falle fay » her Jes. after having done e alricken 1iitle BIXiy-% Fort. $ » Mhe #as born liree years Her maiden aud she leaves } A. A. Kerlin, of and Mrs. Wakefield, Hae mourned by the following chiidrea: Samuel Reed, Union Furnaces; Blanche, Mary snd Biair, all of Petersburg. 8gO McAlavey's name was Hoover, Mra. Sharpsburg, Md of Pittsburgh. sisters, Hey is 8BisD of Os I'he remains were shipped by rail to Pine Mills and taskeu to the nome of the Reed sisters, where funer- were conducted. Barial was made io the new cemetery at Pine wrove Mills, (drove al services Edward Goss, son of the late Cyrus, and Alfaretia Goss, died at his home at Braddock after a lingering iliness of that muca dreaded and fatal disesse, tuberculosis, aged sboul twenty-nine Years, He was i t spens orn at Pine Grove Mills and most of his youthful days there, but for a few years lived with his par- ents in Center Hall, Bome six years to Braddock, where he was on the clerical force of the big steel corporation. He was a most trustworthy and faithful young man and was a favorite among the employ- ees, He leaves a wile, his mother and the foilowing brothers snd sisters : Mrs. Ella Smiley, of Altoona; Mrs, W, J. Kepler, of Pine Grove Mille; Henry (Goss, of Houtsdale; George A, of Pine Grove Mille, Joseph B.. Frank and Her bert, twins, Jacob and Roy, of Punx- sutawney, and Charles, of Harrisburg. Funeral services were held and bur ial made at Braddock, ago he went Mre. Haunahh Ardery, of Martha Furnace, died suddenly. She was a daughter of Daniel Poorman, and was born near Pleasant Gap. She was aged almost eighty-four years. Bhe leaves the following children : Mrs. 8. C. Read, of Clearfield ; E. E. Ardery, of Bellefonte; Mrs. T. B, Apple, of Bellwood, and Mrs. Arthur Johuoston- baugh, of Martha. Five sons and one daughter preceded her in death. One brother, W, H. Poorman, of Belle fonte, also survives her, William C, Corman died at the home of his mother in Bellefonte, Wednesday of last week, aged twenty- nine years, He leaves his mother, Mra. Caristo D. Koran, with the following brothers and sisters : Harry Corman, living oun the homestead slong the Jacksonville road ; More, Clement Harter, of near Jacksonville ; Mrs. Harvey Truckenmiller, of near Zion; Mrs. Paul Vonada, of near Altoona ; Otto and Earl Corman, at home, Mrs, Auna Bmith, of Milesburg, died at the age of sixty-four years She was the widow of Alfred 8, Smith, who died three years ago. Her maiden name was Anns M, Gengher. She leaves the following sons: WW, H, Bmith, of Altoona ; Claude W., A. 8B, Smith and Clair W,, of State College ; A. K. Bamith of Qol- umbus, Ohlo, and Lee R. Bmith, of Milesburg. Mrs, Fannie Carson, widow of John Carson, died in Buflalo Run Valley. Her age waa sixty-one years, % TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS F. P. Geary, the barber, on Sunday went to New Port to visit his parents. He returned on Tuesday, The W. C.T. U. of Philipsburg is circulating petitions remonstrating against the granting of liquor licenses — retail and wholesale—in that borough. The Bugar Valley Journal relates that while working on Howard Barn. er’s stave mill, Franklin, a son of Lewis Geyer, sawed off three of his fingers, Mre. F. O. Bairfoot, W. J. Bmith, Mra. D.W. Bradford and Mrs. B. W. Smith attended the funeral services at the burial of D. W. Reynolds, at Reedeville, Mrs. Kate Conly and Mies Rebeces” Derstine, who had been in Illinois for several months, returned home recent ly. They had a most delightful trip. Most of the time was spent in Free- port Lock Haven has a hairenipper, snd | a8 a result four or more pretty young {girls are minus their plaits or curls. Fhe villain, it is supposed, does the work at the theatres when the lights are turned out, John Bmith, who for a number of years conducted coal yards at, Lamar, | sold and his homes to William Mr. Smith was one {of the first to build a residence at fis business Miller, | Lamar station when the railroad was { built, | Among the Christmas numbers of {the womsu's magszines, The Ladies’ | World stands conepicuously for in | teresting readiog and artistic excel- nce. Toe cover is by Curisty ; every { feature iu the book is illustrated by { an artist of equal prominence, out The Reporter force now has among {ite numbers Miss Nica Slick, who Wok up the slick aud rule beginning of inst week. She, like all the other employees in thie office, is a graduate of the Centre Hall High School. She bids to become a speedy compositor. Messrs. Thomas and Fred Weber, of State College, have taken the contract 10 paiut Lhe exterior of the residence of W. B. Mingle, E«q , in Center Hall, the work to ve done this fall, The Webersbrothers employ W. 8. Slick, of Ceater Hall, and he will also assist in executing the work. A strong argument for the small farm is produced by Augustus Miller, of Logan towaoehip, in Clinton county, Here are his figures : From thirteen acres were produced 1400 bushels ear <4) two-horse loads of pump- Kigs, 5300 bushels of turnips, 200 large squashes, 50 bushels of potatoes, 500 bushels of applies, 4 bushels of beans and 4 bushels of buckwheat, Harry Burkbolder, a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, was the guest of his brother Morris Burkhold- er and sister, Mrs. Bruce Ripks, at Centre Hill, and also attended the Penusylvania Day exercises at State Coliege. He was located at Logans- port, laudiaua, for several years, but is pow at Pitsburg, where he is doing electrical engineering work, Prof. H, Eimer Bierly, of Chatta- noogs, Tennessee, is at present visit- ing relatives and friends in Brush Valley. Prof. Bierly is president of the Chattanooga lustitute of Technol ogy, su institution which bas recently been organized by the leading manu facturers of that city, representing the many varied industries, All the dif- ferent engineering courses and trades are taught. Among the most successfal hunters in this community are the Brooks brothers-—-Guy aod Emmet-—sons of W. 8B. Brooks, west of Centre Hall, Each of them killed the limit of wild turkeys, and together they brought home iwenly pheasants, and rabbits, ~well, they don't even keep track of the number. The young men are skiliful hunters, and their success is iargely due to their sure aim on the wing. Sauday there was a radical change in the temperature and general weath- er conditions. From an Iodisn sume mer we were plunged headlong into winter. BSoow fell for the greater part of Sunday and Monday forenoon, but most of It melted a: fast as it fell. By Monday evening, however, the mountains were snow-capped and the valley covered with an inch of the beautiful. There was a strong west wind both Sunday and Monday. Mrs, J. H. Meyer and sister, Miss Anns Weber, both of Boalsburg, on Saturday went to Huntingdon to pay & visit to their brother, P. M. Weber, and family, Mrs, Meyer, on Tuesday, went to Altoons to be with her daugh ter, Mrs. W, OC. Gettig, on Thanks giving Day. 8B. E. Weber, also corn,
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