— The Centre Bemocrat, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT is pub # devery Thursday morning, at Bellefonte, Centr py, I's TER ME Unsh in SEVIRBIO wrsessssosmresssssssianses y 50 If not paid (n adyanctw wae: 2 UU ALIVE PAPER ~dovoted to theinterests of the hoe people. payments mndewithin threo months will be con dered Lb advauie, No paper will be Hscontinued untilarrearages are paidexcept at option vt publishers. Papers going out of the county must be pakd foc in ndvance, Any pomsonptocuting us ten cash subscribers will resent acopy free of charge. ’ Var ef blur makes this paper an un. asually relinbi vod profitable medium for Aavertiting. We have the mus tample facilities for JUB WOR nd are prepared to priv all kinds of Books, Tracts, rogrammes. Posters, Cummercisl printing, &e. in the tost style ana at the lowest possible rates. All advertisements for a lows term than thremonths counts per line fur the first three insertions, and b iline for each additional insertion . Special aotices vue-half morw Bditorir! notices 16 conteperline Locar Norges 10 cents per line, . liberaldisconnt is made to personsadvertisinghy quarter half your, oryent asivilows: BPACROQCURPIED. fues this LL UT Sim, 710] 10 | 1 wi 10016 or b inches). LR TT 1) RO wv a S——— ——— — - Foreign advertisements must be paid for before in Bertion, except on ugly contracts, when half-yearly ments’ | advance will be required, Lirica Novices, 15 cents per line each insertion. Nothing inserted for less than 50 cents, Business Norioss. in the editorialcolumas, 15 cents or line, sach insertion. —— DIRECTORY. DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICERS. Congress, Hon, A.G. Cunrix, Bellefonte, Btate Senator, Hon. W, A. Wastace, Clearfield, Representatives, Hon. J, A. Woonwanp, Hon, L. Ruoxs, Pr aident "Judge 49th Dist, Ceatre and Huntingdon Mon. A, 0. Foner, Bellefonte. ~Awociste Judges, Hon, ©. Munson, Hon J. B. Suryn, r Douaty Commissioners, A. J. Gamer, Jno. Wour, Jno. Haxvansow, Commissioners’ Clerk, G. W, Ruxassona, + Sheriff, W, Mites Warken. Deputy Sheriff, Wy. Duxexax, Prothonotary, L. A. Scuasrrea. Treasurer, Cus, Suren. Register and Clerk Orphans’ Court, J. A. MeCramn Recorder, Prank E. Biss. District Attorney, J. CO. Mevan, Coroner, Dr. H. K. Hor, wOounty Detective, Capt A. MurrLan. NASA CHURCHES, Presbyterian, Howard street. Rev. Wm. Laurie Pastor Services every Sunday at 1030 4. Mand 7 » wu. Sunday School (Chapel) st 330 ». x. Prayer Meeting ( pol) Wednesday at 7-30». un. M. E Church, Howard snd Spring Streets, Rev. D. 8. Monroe, Pastor, Services every Sunday st 10.30 4. x. and Tr. x Sonday School at 2-30 ». x. Prayer Moeting Wednesday at 7-30 », x, Bi. Joha's Protestant Episcopal Ohurch, Lamb and Allegheny streets, Rev. J. Owwald Davis, Rector. every Sunday ot 1030 a.m, sad Tr. x Prayer Mesting Wednesday snd Friday evenings. Bt. John's Roman Catholic, Bast Bishop Street, Rev, P.Mesrda Pastor. Mass at 6 and services 19-30 4. x, nx Reformed, Linn and Spring streets, Rev. W. H..H Buyder Pastor. Services ew ry Sunday at 10-30 4. » and 7». wm, Sanday School at 2-30 ». x, Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening at 7-30, Lutheran, Bast High street, Rev, Chas. T. Steck, Pastor Services every Sandsy at 1030 A. %. and 7» ®. Sunday School at 3.30 », x. Prayer Mesting at 1-30 Wednesday evening. United Brothern, High and Thomas Streets, Rev Wertman. Pastor, Services every other Sunday ot 1030 a.m. and 7 r. x. Sunday School at 9 4. n. Pray. or Mosting Wednesday at 7-30 ». x. A. M_E Church, West High Street, Rev. Norris, Pastor. Services every Sunday morning and svenis, Y.M. O. A, Spring and High Streets. Geners Meoting and Services Sunday std» wu. Library and Reading Boom opes from 8 4. %. to 10 ». x, daily. LODGES, Bei'sfonts Lodges No, 208, A. ¥. M., meets ot Tues iy + ght on or before every fall moon. Bale * Chapter No. 241, meets on the first Fri Ay night of every month, Constans Commandery No. 33, K.T., on the second Yiday night of every month. Centre Loi No. 153, 1. 0. 0. F. mest every Thurs lay evening at 7 o'clock at 1. 0. 0. ¥. Hall, opposite tush House. Bellefonte Encampment No. 72, meets the second aad fourth Mondays of seach m ath in the Hall op posite the Bush House, Bellefonte Council No. 279, ¢ of U. A.M. meets every Tuesday evening in Bush Arcade. Logan Branch Council No. 141, Junior Order U. 4A M. meets every Friday evening. Bellefonte Conclave No. 111, 1. 0. H. meets in Har ris’ New Building the second and fourth Friday eve ning of snch month. Bellefonte Fencibies Co, ““B." 5th Reg.N. @. P. moots in Armory Hall every Friday evening. Bill Nye's Advice to Girls. I am sorry to note that within the past few days several more people have married for a joke, among them 8 young lady, near Madison, Wis, who was out for a walk, and at the suggestion of a party named Foss, married him. The young lady, whose name was Foster, realizing that she slab, the gummy joist, the select feno- irg and its finishing lumber, ia order to flee to the ars of a stranger. Matrimony is, in all cases, a se. ious matter, but it is doubly serious when itis tampered with in a flippant and aod triflicg maon r on the start, only to bring sorrow, chagrin, complaint, auswer, joinder, rejoinder; surrejoind- er, butter, rebutter and surrebuttery inharmony, parsimony aad alimony at last. Ob, girls, why will you do so? Why will you forget the sheltering arms of your parents to take up arms against a sea of trouble? Why will you turn your back on the lumber business to mariy a man without change of of canes to his back? Why will you weary of the old home to seek outa stranger who will break your North American heart and send you down, perhaps, toa damp and undesirable drunkard’s grave. Try to get acquainted with the man whom you propose to wed. As you get more thoroughly acquainted, try to get a whiff on his breath. Bee that be is temperate. If you find that he loves the flowing bowl, and that his bot breath as it courses through his clenched teeth storches the cotton in your ears, draw your- s2ifto your full height, crack your heels together twice in rapid succes- sion and go away. Bit Nye. Counterfeiting Napolean. Boucher, a famous violinist during the first quarter of the centnry, bore a singular resemblance to Napolean in countenance and figure. One even. ing at St. Petersburg he played a concert, where the czar, Alexander IL, was preseut. Monsieur Aoucher, said the czar as the violinist was presented to him I have a favor to ask of you, It is an affair, he continued, as Boucher bowed, unconnected with your pro- fession, [ sm wholly at your majesty’s ser- vice, answered the violinist, Well, come to the palace to-morrow morviog at 12 precisely. You shall be shown into my cabinet, and I will then tell you the nature of the fa- vor, which, if you will grant, will greatly oblige me. The next day Boueher, on present. ing himeelf at the palace; was ushered into the czar's private cabinet. The czar immediately led him into an ad. joining apartment where he saw on a sofa a small, three cornered hat, a sword, the usiform of the Freoch im. perial guard, and 8 cross of an officer of the Legiou of Honor. I will explain the favor I have to request. All those objects you see there belonged to the Ewperor Na polean, but I did not expect tv find the ltkeness #0 stromz ms itie. My mother often regrets that she never saw Napolean, and what I wish yu to do isto put on this dress and I will present you to her. The czar withdrew sod left Bouch- er to array himselfin Napolean's uni. form. When he bad dressed he was led to the apartment of the empress mother, The czar assured his mother that the illusion was complete, sad that she might say she had seen Lhe great man.~— Youths Companion, a ———— A Noble Sentiment of a Famous Man. The following eloquent passage from Governor Gordons speech at could marry Fom without changing | Cleveland is not calculated to please the letter on the tidy which she had already made, preparatory to keep- wavers of the bloody shirt : “I shall not detain you by any defence of my- ing (house, did not stop to consider | self. nor shall I attempt to reply to the great responsibility which she as- sumed by marrying an unknown man but boldly launched herself upen the great foamy sea of matrimony, Much has been said about this im- promptu method of marriage, but still people go on encouraging divorce by harriedly sequiring a husband from the great five cent counter of humanity, Miss Foster, it seems, was the daughter of a millionaire who edits a saw mill in Wisconsin, and who coald have boerded her as long as she lived, To the casual observer it would seem (hat no temptation could woo a young lady from a home where all day long she could hear the squeal of the complaining saw mill and the snore of the planing mill, turning out matched flooring, 2x4 scantling and dressed culls, and yet Mis Foster for. got the buzz-saw, with which she has been prone to*monkey, the gentle skid, the xxxx shingle, the moist iu wl gpa i I # the unwarranted, ungracious and un- gentlemanly attacks upon my charac ter. At Appomattox on the night of the Oth of April, when the air was still murky with the smoke of war, before we had been paroled, I sat on my horse and gathering around me the remains of my shattered army, I began to breath the reunion of my coudtry, I defy any man to put a floger upon one word which has escap- ed my lips since that time inconsist- cot with that declaration. God knows we have suffered enough by war, We do not want aay more of it, but | have sometimes thought I would be willing to see one more war that we might march under the stars and stripes, shoulder to shoulder, against a common foe. If I could call the lightening down to-night, I would blast forever this horrible feeling sectional bate, R ih cpt —— ~The grading along the east side of Linn street adds greatly to the appear ance of that street, By VAR ANR 8) - Items of Interest. An electrician in Boston has invent ed a fire-nlarm signal-box by which each policeman can he known on turning a key, his name and number beivg sent in. The system will likely be adopted, It also registers the time a message is sent. In fact, it does everything but bring the patrol wagon. Iron making is prospering in the South. At Sheffield five furnaces are in course of erection, at Birmingham seven, and at Bessemer two. The great trouble there is the want of coke and prospecting is going on fir the purpose of finding the right kind of coking coal. An elertric yacht has just been built with the Edison appliances. The armature makes 1000 revolutions per minute. The criticism has been made that the rotation of the dynamo creates oscillation, The Panama Canal builders are im- porting negroes from Liberia as they have been found to be proof against every disease of the canal locality, The Paonama graveyard is » very large one. Minneapolis is becoming & very important maoufacturing centre in the Northwest. Among the industries are boots and shoes clothing, paper, glass, brick, leather, and all kinds of planing-mill work. The reason is that power is cheap and the surround. ing country is being built wp very rapidly. The flour and lumber in- dustries foot up $40,000,000 per year. Large quantities of Southern hard woods are crowding their way into Northern markets. Poplar is being shipped to nearly every State north of the Obio. Yellow pine is being shipped more largely every year, and cypress and sap are coming into more geveral use, It bas been estimated that between 200 and 300 saw mills will be erected within the next six months in the Southern States. Pine land is belog bought up both North and Bouth, and it is a difficult matter now to flod a large tract within an easy distance of a market, In certain portioos of Mexico » laborer can buy & peck of corm or wheat for a days work, and a sheep for a week's work: A mule repre sents » years work. Karl Gerhardt, the sculptor, receiv ed $8750 for his statue of Putnan, re- cently unveiled at Brooklyn, Conn. The body of a woman buried st Coxsackie, N. Y. eight years ago was exhumed a few days since for rebur- ial iu suother cemetery, when it was found to be petrified. The features sppeared natural. ‘Where have you been Mr. Boosby? asked his irate wife early in the morn. ing. returns. Humph ! that's a pice cupation for a man like you. “My dear, don’t you care nuzzin’ about er hic) plitical vitshasan ? you ought to. know ‘boot zhe returns.” “I know sll I want to about the election re- turns ln your case they mean return home tipsy every time; now take off your boots and keep quiet or I'll eal] wa." — Washington Oritie. Baits have been entered at Reading against the Bohemian Oats Amocia- tion by a namber of Berks county farmers, who allege that they have been swindled in their transactions with the association. Alfred Bheets, of Haddonfield, has offered a reward for the capture of » tame wolf that came from Nebraska, and which escaped from the house » few days ago. At Kaoses City, Mo, on Tuesday morning & citizen heard water run. ning in the bath-room of his house Examination showed that a burglar had plundered the house, taken off an old suit, emjoyed a bath, put on some new clothes belonging to the house. owner, and escaped. A young man at Tila, O, courted a young lady until 1 o'clock ip the morning. When he started to go home he found the door fastened with wires so that be could not open it, When he tried to crawl ont of 8 win- dow he was arrested as a burglar and had to be identified by the girl. Since the first of the month 10,602 men have gone on a strike. Coal beds are belng found in Mexi- 00 4000 feet above the ses. Rolled steel oar wheels, will soon bo made at Norristown, projected. Elephants as Lumbermen § Lazy and clamsy-looking as the ele - phaut appears in our menageries, where it is merely an object of cuariosi- ty in Asia it is as useful an animal as the horse, and is, indeed, employed in a greater variety of ways, There are a few, if any, tasks which a horse can be trusted 1o per- form without careful and constant guidance; whereas an elephant is fre. quently given as much independence of action as a man would have for the same work, This is notably the case in the lumber yards of Rangoon and Maulmein, where the eatire operation of moving and piling the heavy timber is performed by male elephant with- out any special supervision by the keepers, The logs to be moved are teak wood, which is very heavy. They are cut into lenghts of twenty feet, with a diameter or perhaps a square of about a foot. An elephant will go to a log, kneel down, thrust his tusks under the middle of it, curl his trunk over it, test it to see that is evenly balanced and then rise with it and easily carry 1t to the pile which is being made, Placiog the log car. fully on the pile Biu vat watchin’ the leckshust in its proper place, the sagacious ani- wal will step back a few psces and measure with his eye to determine whether or not the log needs pushing one way or the another. It will then mak? any secessary alteration of po- sition, Io this way, without a word of command from its mahout, of driver, it will go on with its work. To do any special task it must of course be directed by the mahout, but it is marvelous to see how readily this great creature comprehends its instructions and how iogeniusly nt makes use of its strenght. If a log too heavy to be carried is to be moved a short distance the elephant will bend low, place his great head against the end of the log, and thea with a sudden exertion of strength and weight and throw his body for- ward and fairly push the log along; or, to move the log any great distance, be will ercircle it with a chain and drag his load behind him. As a rule, howeves, the work of dragging is dove by the female ele- phants, since, having no tusks, they cannot carry logs as the male ele phants do. A man could hardly dis- play more judgment in the adjustment of the rope or chain around a log, nor could a man with his two hands tie and untie knots more skillfully than do they with their trunks. i — A —— Olassod as Contract Labor, Postmaster Harrity attempted to play s joke on Superintendent John L. Grim of the Customs Inspectors yesterday, but, as it turned out, the fun which he expected to have was enjoyed at his expense by the Superin- tendenl. In company with a party of friends Mr. Harrity went down the river and boarded the incoming Red Star Line steamship Nederland. When be attempted to land at the dock Buperintendeot Grim quastion, ed him as be did the other passenger asking his name, address and other particulars. Mr. Harrity told who he was, and said be had come from across the water to fulfill an agree ment which be had made to conduct the Philadelphia Post Office. “Ah, I see; contract labor,” said Superintendent Grim. “You may stand aside here.” “Yes, I am under contract to run that Post Office, and I intend to do it’ said the Post master. A couple of inspectors were sum. moned, and, amid the laughter of his friends, the Postmaster was placed in their charge. The Superintendent then walked off without a smile on bis face. The Postmaster stood for some time on the wharf shivering in the chill wind and guarded by two Inspectors until matters began to look dublous. Surveyor of the Port Joho M. Campbell, however learned of Mr. Harrity's predicament, and ne rushed down to the wharf to vouch for his American citizenship and secure his release. Mr. Harrity still maintains, though, that he will run the Post Of fice as per contract. A — ———T— A———— ~Foglish Spavin Linimaent remove Four more silk-mills have been |v Wea Wen 00 WHEN YOU = For this S=day Strike Clock, with Alarm Attachment, yr IT FOR 54.00 At FRANE P. BLAIR'S. 15 tf We have now on exnibition and ssle the largest snd most complete assortment of SCARPETS,< ever shown in Bellefonte, at the very lowest pric.s, which at any aod all times can be relied on. Lace Cartaios in great variety with all the fixtures belonging thereto. Window Blinds and fixtures, in fact everything in the House Keeping line, incloding Sheeting, Pillow Casings, Tickings, &c., &e., &e. We handle the +ROCHESTER CLOTHING < And are the only Clothing dealers in town who do, and will 5. sell you a well made good fitting suit at the’ same] prices asked you for slop shop trash. Try it once. S. & A. LOEB. Booxrax's Arica Satve. ~The Best Salve inthe world for Cats, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Totter, Chapped hands, Chilblaint Corns, and al skin eruptions, and posi. tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfne- tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. Zxuier & Sox, ~Mingle’s shoe store, «We are now prepared to do all kinds of plain and fancy JOB PRINTING and BOOK BINDING, All work warranted, snd satisfaction BLANK BOOKS of all descriptions made to order, and all kinds of magazines and peri- odicles the best siyle and for Call at the Cuxran
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