h 4 > nN Adetermined to hide nature under a The Centre F. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. UEQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUE OR POLITICAL. '=Jeferson — TERMS: 81.50 per Avram. ir Advan VOL 8. BELLEFONTE, PA.., THUR . SDAY, FEBRUARY » 8&6, Js (J 9] The Centre a emoreat, Terms$1.50 per Annumin Advance FRANK E, BIBLE, Editor. HiGgeEER is still there. —————_—p_— — THREE cents a meal is what it costs to feed a soldier's orphan, and still Higbee is State Superintendent of Schools. : ———- Tue tendency of the sir back to the original fig lesf costume mother known as“society.”” Decollete is the word which describes the nudity of fashion- belt sex to get of able ladies. For instance a broad of ribbon with shoulder straps neck-lace of diamonds is decollete. This costume which gets as near to the dress uniform of Adam's better half as “society” will allow at present, will we hope be reformed. The shoulier straps are an incumbrance and of no use, as the belt will stay up without them, the diamonds of course are ornamental, We are in favor of the greatest liberty in female coslume consistent with com fort and decency and while we would like to see the shouider straps abolish ed we epter our emphatic protest against ‘‘society” doing awsy with its The old and liber diamonds, rakes tines of *‘society’’ complain that the present costumes are shocking even to them. This should not deter “society” from abolishing the shoulder straps. The opposition of male “society’’ comes from the fact that the decollete costume leaves nothing for the imagination. The most vivid imagination will soon tire, and turn away with disgust from the comtemplation of the female figure un der a necklace of diamonds. But what of that, society was not made for rakes and libertines alone. [fthat class be- ciety let it exert comes disgusted with so and dixmond costume 's fig-leaf its imagination on the ballet girls of the opera, they are certainly better and more chastely dressed then the belle's of society. Nor should the press of the ountry complain of the ’ pi of society when husbands and fathers janetion the new departure. The word “decency” used some years ago is now obsolete and banished from “society's” dictionary. If “society” 1s £ ag be houses, leaf and diamonds, society should confined tos certain classs of and not obirudeilself on the great mass of people who are not “in society,” Tne Rule of Syndicates. In this era of Syndicate rule and corporate robbery when Legislatures Courts and the press are but the in | struments of oppression, new devel opments of syndicate outrage appears each day, and each more startling and outragecus than those that preceded. If Pennsylvania has been outraged and plundered, her laws set at naught, and her courts made a mockery, infamy reached in the developements of the Philadelphia Record. have the crowning is The systematic plunder of the State by the heartless soulless syndicate controling her or. phan schools is the most cruel blow that has ever been struck at her honor and the welfare of her wards. The grand object of the State in educating the soldier's orphans to become useful sous aud daughters of a grand o.m- mon Wealth was long ago forgottey and plunder substituted, Every attempt at investigation has been frustrated until a fearless newspa- per took the matter in hand, and now the inner workings of an infamous band of public thieves is laid open to the light of day. Prof. Higbee stands in an unenviable light and common decency would seem to dictate to him the propriety of a resignation of his high office. Every man convected with this great scandal should be brought to speedy punishment. When Superintendent Higbee's attention was called to the fact that the children Were illy fed, clothed and housed, he remarked : “I guess they get more than they would have received at home.” Just think of such cattle as ighee at the head of the orphan ools of the great state of Pennsyl. vanla, “ve 18 most manifest in what is | and a | “minimum” | 1 “Isms.” A petition was not long 8g0 Pre |inuendos of this class of journals the sented to congress for the abolition of | the purest and most chaste of a ccmn- the office of President on the grounds | munity are unprotected. They bave that our government was te nding to become the vehicle of personal abuse monarchy, The petition was not largely signed. Nor was it remarkable | immorality, panderers to the vicious | for the prominence ofits signers. The | passions of the young and teachers in | remarkable feature about it is that | ihe great school of vice and crime. | the petitioners were all foreigners. | Against this class of papers all the | This fact alone is a refutation of the | railing of the pulpit are unavailing. | charge. Had our fore ign friends pre- | The remedy seems to be only in their sented their petition to the German or | suppression. Sunday journalism of English parliaments or to any lative body of Europ : for the abolition literary efforts of the seandal monger | of the Kingly office they would doubt- | and black-mailer. Our societies forthe aud immorality overlo ked entirely. less e're now be languishing in durance supression of vice another fact will to | strike the average Amcrican citizen |class of this The and that is that so many foreigners | | cal paper of a ommu uity is a safe guard, and its efforts are di- | liberty guaranteed to every pereon | pected towards the suppression of any vile. Just here arems have literature un- | are unable to distinguish between the always who seeks the protection of our flag, thing i: jurious to the public morals, and the license to commit outrage, There numbers of families | which is prohibited by our beneficent are into which a local paper never oO gO¢ | laws, where the vilest of vile Sunday papers | { The Nihilist, Socialist, Communist and Dynamiter, while the natural nut TT 1 are to be found. The efforts of a local paper in behalf of its community are The r growth of Tyrauny in Europe are the | geldom appreciated. editorial order in of no natural enemies of law and Nine out of classes are foreigners, with in his papers patronized more by parents the San love for our form of government than | day paper would be f prophet is without hone fel 1 If the i own | America. ten thes® | ountry. cal wer more ound in { tor the depotisms that have driven | households. them to our shores. The demand for | | while absurd in itself simply shows | have received at home." | | Hionre Cn — Some Reasons For It | the abolition of the presidential office the tendency of the different foreign : — “isms” in the country to anarchy. | Mr. Wm. H. Vanderbilt bequea worse. The unwholesome leaven of |, 410 New York City Y. M. C | Cruel as is the government of a single | | . ' ! despot the rule of a mob is infinitely | “isms’’ which permeates our foreign [the sum of $100,000. Mr. Niblo, a p pulation is cured by the liberty few years since, gave to the library of which they exercise of doing and say- | the same Association, 8150.000. Other | ing about what they please so long as gifts of large amounts have from time they commit no outrage against law | to time bx en made so that the Associa- and order. This is the safety valve | tion is in receipt of an income from of the office of President is about as far | congratulate our fellow workers in from the mind of the American » i ! | ple as would be the anarchy of com~!30 wisely directed in t wo— | New York, and hope that their efforts, he past may the means of saving Nihilist and Dynamiter, is a loafer | and helping many more young men. munism. The Socialist, Communist, | continue to be whose superabundance of time is de- | $300.000 in a large city, with five voted to agitati yn or He lives by his | six branches to support, is not a large He sum, and from what we know of the be a martyr, but runs away at the | practical character of the works done wits, or runs a saloon. wants to first oportunity. He is opposed to | in the past, other munificent gifts will aw and order, and desires an equal | soon be forthcomming. It may be division of the wealth in the creation | asked. possibly, why the New York of which he bad no part. Altogether | Association is 80 often remembe red in he is an unique character to whomall | the wills of w althy men. The reason | “isms” are alike. The one object of | is nct difficult to find. his life is discord. The oppressions of 1. The Association has been peculiar- despotism are less disgusting to him | ly faithful to its mission. All irrele vant than hovest toil. The bread he eats is | Work has been re solulely set aside and earned by the sweat of another man’s | nothing but work for young men has he been undertaken. This harmless, confronted with the majesty only of the past two or three years, bat brow. Left severely alone is 18 not true of the law he is a coward, history of the Association —A—— rn ii - i The Sunday Paper ate of its organization until Board matler the of of their minds The Sunday paper is exciting siderable comment and the pulpit has There isa wide diflerence between “Sunday” and no opportunity has been allowed taken up the question. juests constantly on papers just as there is between daily 0 pass unimproved. in Some are commendable and | the Board have thought of the Associa to The ton and urged the the Sunday paper which is filled with Sat. | Fe*ult is now being reaped. urday’s news and with The lawyers papers, others claims, and are be condemned, whole- 3. The work has b.en growing ’ : ; y Ff Yé4 N«¢ i i of i some reading matier supplies a want year by year. New branches of work pure and is a welcome visitor in every well | bave been undertaken and the war regulated house-hold. The Sunday pa- has been carried into the end my’s per which has gathered up the crimes COUDLTY. and scandals of the fweek, and pre- | mends itself to thoughtful business | sets them to its readers in the warm men, and to him that both is given, so glowing colors of the newspaper scav- that the work aggressive may continue, enger is & moral leper and no more fit | There is a all this for for the perusal of a family than a lewd |eVery Association. We cannot all woman would be for the guardian | **Pect $100,000 legacies, but by faith- of a family's morals. Unfortunately | ful; definite aggressive work, we can | the latter class of Sunday papers has | * commend our cause to thoughtful \#prung up all over the country and | capitalists that they will come to re | is found in the hands of our boys and | ©08nized Our Associations as immense- | girls. The social vices and scandals, | Promising channels through which | the crimes and gossip, real and imag= | they may spend the riches entrusted to | inary are mioutely reported by local | their keeping.— Baltimore Bulletin. | correspondents, and gaudily dressed (up by a corps of lascivious writers whose object isto get as far beyond the confines of literary decency as the readiog public will tolerate, Each lesson in a ———— SBoLpixr’s orphans are starved in Pennsylvania while a syndicate pock- ets 890.000 each year, Tux H — WY AT—— igbee out. - — | issue is anxiously scanned for a local | sensation or crime, From the lies and | {and slander, the gutters of filth and | The ogress 1 om. [he progressive idea com What Ex-Oler's Paul Says. — [= oy acknowledge that I west into the business to make money,’ suid James L., Paul on the 19th iustant, originally in an interview with a Record reporter the Chester Springs Soldier 8 Orphan with | me, and I admit that I have made mon - | oy with the schools," age, “It was a business veoture Then he contin- the ticorge W, | Wright and John I, Gordon. of Mercer county, and I bought the property for £10000, I held a third ivterest in the ned: “lI became connected with | Mount Joy school in 1877. | place, an o yet. The deed as record. | Our people. legls- this class offers a wide field for the | I ice, and do yet The deed as 1 nd I y led in Lancaster does not contain my name a) one of the i ' and purchasers of the property. was thought best by my partners mysell that my name should not appear in connection with the ment because | wan then Manngs holding the position of Chief Clerk at the Department of Soldiers’ O phans at Deo here until Jag- Harrisburg I entered the riment R08, and femained t nl vary, |856, a period of seventeen year By aired OF I and tha acti cler ys with rs are Chis House of Harrisbur wm, of the miatives at W. Wright, one of my partners Mount Joy sol. I beea ! 2 - {eonnecled with the Chester Springs g, and Gecrge } in the Sche t ne Schon) Tune last, seven months be- fore resigning my position at Harrisburg I want to say that during the nine years I was Chief Clerk at the Soldiers’ Or phans' Departme the Mount Joy nt and a part owner of School | never took ad vantage of my position to obtain favors for that institution, i have looked after the welfare of the children as well as anv man could do. and much better than some would do were they in my position. If I received more m mney for the care of the orphans than should have been pac that is not my fault, If the per appropriation of £115 for children under 10 years and $150 for over 10 vears of the uire into the matter and set If the Record thinks that being CApila age is too large, then Legislature should ing it straight. money is wasted gantly expended in the maintenance of these schools, I do not think any good purpose will be gained by publuh- it to the Let to quietly ing entire world, R have the matter adjusted (0 the satis faction of the wd go Harsisburg and concerned, the be all By publish- ing articles on subject a great ury done to the schools il not suffer because vindicated when Ah In mn is held, But a blow will Le struck =a h school people will think that they are nothing but money making concerns, and the orphans will stuffer in conse the small 5 1 received £5000 in 1880 from the Mount It is uence of propriatior cannot recall having Joy School. trae | received divi- dends from time to time, but I cannot now tell the amount; bat l think that they amounted to £5000, { any checks were made out to me and do not marked ‘to loan’ they must have been in the nature of advances, ruch as any business man requires at times when he gels strapped for funds.” - Dend Candidates. — Within four months death has rc+! moved a name from every Democratic | presidential ticket since 1864 —Me. | Clelland of 1864, Seymour of 1868, { Brown of 1872, Hendricks of 1876 and 1884, and Hancock of 1880. There are only three left, and the old man of Greystone, who was set aside five years ago on account of his years and failing health, bas lived to write telegrams of condolence for all of these, and is to day perhaps in better health than he has been for years, The Republican candidates have shown more vitality, General Free mont still mingles in society and at. tends to a little business, Hannibal I have not wrong- | others | and exirava- | | h { Hamliu is older than Mr. Tilden but a great dea! strooger, Mr. Hayes con tinues to take interest in the farm and hun yard, and makes better speeches {than he did while he was president, Wheeler who was on the same ticket is living quietly at Malone, aod Pres Arthur As far Blaine and Logan no ident York. body is liable ta look in nften Reen in New them Ex Upon ns dead for some years to come — a — Tre Soldier's Orphans’ Sehonls of Pennsylvania were anee the pride of Under the inspiration of a noble sentiment the Stote undertook Lose little to care for and to e lucate ones who had beep made fatherless by the war of the rebellion. Bot what wis once Pennsylvania's glory is now its shame. Patriotism and generosity have been imposed purp H grand ho humanity and st 1; Though the i twenty Jandt VOArs ag siatore mainly hment of a men whoes aces are well Known the lobby at Harrisburg it Slrange ¢ may scem, yet nevertheless it is true, a syndicate headed by ex Senator 8) ) George Wright, of Mercer, Pa., profits at the rate " of about £50000 a wear upon the management of four schools, { located at Monnt J wy Mercer, MoAL- listerville and Chester Springs. Official discrimination, neglect and corruption have in that of Government known as the Department of Soldier's prevailed branch the State Orphans. The express requirements ; " law have been literally disregarded y ‘3 . "nha : . h ad the Sts | nny. 1 1 the State Inspectors have permitted for the unruly element. The abolition | nearly $300,000. We rejoice with and | ° | the State out of one penny, and : J I flagrant abuses to creep in, so that uot received that treatment which the State conte mpla the children have ted and for which it roundly paid. When the fact was called to the atten- [tion of the State Superintendent of Soldier's Orphans’ Schools, E E. Higbee, he turned abruptly on his tev, heel and exclaimed “I guess they get more than they would have re. | ceived at home.” The following letter is fram Goerge {| Wright, the chief of the syndicate of { plunderers Mercer, Pa., Janaary 30, 1884. — **1 find that the Jast eoffee bought very poor, and have this day ordered other to Mount Joy. While I donot want the poor thrown out i lo not want you to use it next week. See that it is put out of the way sure. It is not a fair sample of what we usual- y use by any means. You will likely have some visitors from the G. A. R. encampment, which meets at Lancas. ter City next Wednesday, February 6 You need not be surprised if members drop in on their way to or from the en- campment. I need notsay more caly see the cook and all other departme ais, and bave no mistakes anywhere. | much fear trouble from this encamp- ment for Mount Joy. If frozen feet, toe-nails dropping off, itch, ete., do not warmup our (x. A. R. friends [ shall feel that I am no prophet, All these matters are sure to be investigated and brought up at the encampment ; 89 get in shape to meet charges and receive visitors. | forgot to caution Sherbin in whiting him yesterday about next week. Talk it over with him and matron, and get to work and | in shape, | ————— — vation Higbee resign? Wire star — — | Sir Charles Dilk has notified his | | constituents of his determination to mek their suflrages and that he pro | poses to live down popular clamor against him, This is noble in Sir Charles he ouly blighted the home of a common fellow, Crawford by name and made an out-cast of Crawford's wife, why shouldn't he “live down popular clamor.” TW A— i —— Dv Bors, Pa., Feb, 20, Joseph John- ston, one of the men implicated in the robberies here, has basen oaught, and in default of $500 bail went to nil, Part of the stolen goods were recovered. Condensed News Mitton, Feb, 20.—~The engineers on the proposed Milton & North Mountain to with the two railway have completed their survey town and eect 4 junction J great trunk lines below Centre street. They are also industrious! work ad well. at securing the righ of w Ay for the rc p succeeded very f Lhe right of way has ghler every the distance cated Sena Joseph a bank The strike in & MTiOous the oR ilerests here, In the wped the shipments the eighty re which yet re- , and which it is ex- and locks +d would have bee n n shipped by the vigation, will probably re time, ye 3 Fed, A). ~Lounsel for nis Railroad company the appeal which will the decision of the h makes that com- pany amenable to the provisions of the supreme court, wh new constitution, will delay the en- forcement of the new constitution io the matter for at least two years, 20.~Yseult Dudley, r 0 who shol OU Donovan RB S88 & year ago, mmitled to the Middle- town insane asylum, and who w a8 « is greatly improv ed, and will soon be released Wirkixarox, Del, Feb, 20. A ful survey of the peach orchards of the CRT peninsula for a week after the cold snap of the fifth and sixth instant has con- vinced the most experienced growers that the er wp of 1886 is about dead. Reap Pa., Feb. 20.—Owing to the prevalence of diphtheria and scarlet fe ver in the norther rtion of this cour ty, a number ublic schools have been « om pelle i to close CHarraxon Tenn. riy this mornin A, February » 2 the second section of afreight train on the Western and Auantie railroad ran into the rear of the first section causing a serious wreck. : A train haod named Barnell was killed and two others were injured. Fy an - , — s¥krorp, Oat, February Mrs. old lady, aged 70 years, ng near here, was burned to desth lay while endeavoring to light a Gallavan, an New Youx, Fel 23.~Fire this morning ia house at No 174 Divis death of Minnie Rosenberg by suffocation. The damage to the buildiog is slight, raary tenement on street, caused the Wasninorox, February 23.—After the passage of the bill appropriating $250, 000 for the monument to Gen. Grant, the Senate resumed the discussion of the educational bill but without action adjourned, Puttaserrwia, February 23.—<The hearing of the petition of Hugh Penny to prevent Franklin B. Gowen from | Obtaining possession of the Reading | second series consolidated Gves,” was |lorday at the request of Mr. Gowen, | postponed. In the meantime the court {bes ordered that the bonds should remain in the hands of the receiver. Ricunoxn, Mo, 23. Notices are posted in the several mines operated by the Scullin coal and mining company , at Richmond and Camden, to the effec t that on and after the 1st of March th o pay for mining coal will be reduce d rom 4 cents to 34 cents per bushel, The miners have as yet taken no defin, ite action in the matter, but it is under. stood that the rates will not be acoept-
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers