v RESPIRA AE A Sh JOB NOSES MILLIONS, BTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE BRADFORD OIL FIELDS. a. How a Xochester Pill Man Found Financial Suceessselushing the Drill in the ValloysGoing 200 Feet Deeper, The Flood, Job Moses was a country boy, horn some- wher up about Leroy, N. Y., who drifted into Rochester, whip still in his teens, to make bis fortune. Im 1862 he bad made it, and a bag one, out of a patent pill that be or some one else had invented, About that time Oil Creek wax in its glory, and the news papers teemed with mecounts of the fortunes to be made out of oil. The stories fired the imagination of the Rochester pill mus, and hedetermined to ry bis hand at the new soiree of wealth, Upin the northern part of McKean county, Ed state, and the southern part of Cattaran. yus county, N. XY. lies a valley which wos hen and is yot-one of the wildest. amd most forsaken sections of cguntry to ‘be found east of the Mississippi. Through this valiey, then gison ap to Mumbering, Clirles Minot, who ased to conduct the Evie road sometimes for profit, but weastly for pleasnre and lory, had for some ramson built a branch rosd whic bh ran through Bradford—which ‘thes boasted three houses, a blacksmith shop, a school house and = tavern—and termine’ at the little lumiser camp of Gilesville. Job Mawes looked over the fled. studied the maps and! fdoally made up his wimd that the valley theough which Minot liste railyo d ran was tnderiaid with owe vast son of As time passed on be baemme as on fate that his conclusions were 1icht. | to put himself into an illegal position.” The | EXILED TO SIBERIA. »# Mow Justice Misearries in aha | Fate of “Suspects.” | Mr. Borodin, a well known writer for the Russian magazine, “Annals of the Father- land,” was banished to the provinces of Ya kutsk on account of the “dangerous” and “pernicious” character of a manuscript foand in his house by the police during A search, This manuscript was a copy of an article upon the economic condition of the province of Viatva, which Mr, Borodin had sent to the above named magazine, but which up to that time bad not been published. Mr, Borodin went to Eastern Siberia in a con. viet's gray overcoat with a yollow ace of | diamonds on his back, and three or four | months after his arrival in Yakutsk he had | the pleasure of reading in the “Annals of the | Fatherland” the very same article for which he had been exiled, The minister of the in. | terior had sent him to Siberia merely for | having in his possession a “dangerous” and “pernicious” manuscript, and then the St | Petersburg committes of censorship had cer- | tified that another copy of that sae manu i script was perfectly harmless, and had al | lowed it to be published, without the change of a line, in one of the most popular and widely circulated magazines in thw empire, A gentleman named Otchkin, in Moscow, wasaxiled to Siberia by administrative pro- Oess in 1885 merely bacanse, to adopt the language of the order which was issued for his arrest, be was “suspected «ef an intention | high crime which Mr. Otebkin was “sus | | pected of an intention” to oammit was the | | aking of a fictitious name in place of his ‘own. Upon what ground he was “suspected | { ‘of an intention” to do this terrible thing he | never knew. ! tain ay | i Une | day beshowed up in Bradford, fensed somo | thousands of acres, and sony badin well under way. The simple minded r:tives, who had thought him eccentric from Je fist, sot Lim downes a lunatic when be odlil th m that the earings of the railroad Which ran post their door would soon be fmeroused twenty fold, and to this opinion lacy ching for many a lung year. PUSHING THR Dasa. When Moses began preshing the drill in the valley many of the oil kingwof to-day were unknown and unbeard of t Roe wed upon and Capt 1 LEX) as a fortune, Poter Grace Jud. Vandergrift bad not theewar. Col Dyer was ena farm Maine. The Nobles mov the Standard Oil company of Rusia, were miking Pittsburg. Lem and The Willets were cutting loge up in Allegany o any, and ( Young was working for themat £40 » The Fishers and Phillips had their fort make, while Joo Craiz was not vet of fof the pimer, and Joba MeKeown was still ing tools along the ores You returned from Gown in barrels in nes ta dress resolution, sunk hale after ie in his leases but with no show of oil. Thon he woke up cue morning to find that the the usandy he bad made out of pille tn Bo bestor had van ished into the hols he hail been punching Another exile of my sexjuaintance, Mr, Yo. was banished merely because be was | a friend of Mr. Lee, who was awaiting | {trial on the charge of political conspiracy. | When Mr. Z——'s cage eame to a judicial {investigation he was found to be innocent | Wladimir Sidorski (I use and was acquitted; but in the meantime Mr. Xo, merely for being a friend of this fn. nocent man, had gone Siberia by adminis ative process, In another case a young student, called | a fictions name), | | “Was arrested by mistake instead of another | | stupid blunder: but his protestat in the woods and fidds about Bradford, and | that he was a poor man. Disappointed, but not discouraged, he went $0 Kew York, and | with an eloquence barn of « earnest oss sun eeaded in obtaining from the apitalists whe gave him a bearing money with which te continue his search. This was in 1595. Ones back on his field of eperations A new idea struck him. all of his wells only 90 fen deep, the bow zon at which oil was found along the creek Perhaps thers might be a produ ing sand still further down. Fo mm one of i i marked eynically: “Jt d Up to that tine be had drilled | his wells : 30 feet dooper, and was rew arded with a } fifty barrel producer. Another and another told the same or a bother story Mows had i from window or lamp are resposil found the oil Seld for whioks beduad so long | been searching, Every well be sunk gave Bim rich retaras. The news of his success spread abroad and the tide of oildom turnec slowly toward Brodford. A Year later it had increased to n flood, and the fact wns free ly sdmitted that no such field had aver boeg Struck before, Lands whitch two venrs before bad Deen almost worthless sold for more than & prince's ransom. But Moses had it all un der lease and was abs to make his own tems. His thirteen yours of waiting netted him millions, He lives in New York now, joys life, and always has a spare £80 to loan ta any of the boys whe happen to get broken | the mtropolis. — Philadelphia Times Getting Rid of a Sedfellon. Tere will be an immense crowd assembled in this city on the occasion of the mations! encampment next Septeniber, and there will unquestionably be a large sumber of people crowded into a single restr. For the benefit of mich as may find t“smesizes in unpleasant company, I will relats the measures § 0k to protect myself on the occasion of the Cali. i li FE Bail gs 4 While sewer gas is not said to have caysnd the diphtheria which carried off Gov. Beaver's little son, the examination of the executive i531 h nt iH f i E " 1H i {aabound, To enlarce the « i a noble steadiness of glance it must 3 : : ’ { and to Siberia he wae sent. For twelve years Job Mees with dogged and a different Sidorski named Victor presenes in Moscow was regarded by body as “prejudicial to s Whose social order.” Viads nur protested that be was not Victor, that ! he did not know Victor, and that his arrest | of a Ons were of in the place of Victor was the result noavail. The p pied in unearth and look | ing after “un ¢ to devote | any time to a tr ome verifleation of an | imsignificant stodent) i There must Lave been MneLuing wrot bout him, they argued, or he wo mve been ; A } and the s LR : go with hin is 1 | too much ocon mig 1» When the eon voy officer exlled the roll of the outgoing ex be party Viadimir Sidorski failéd to answer to Victor Bidorski's name, and thé officer With a curse, cried: “Victor Sidorskit WW ky | don’t you answer to your name” i “It is not my name,” replied Viadimiz, “and I won't answerto it It's another Si. dorski who ought to be going to Siberia ™ “What is your name then Viadimir told him. The officer eoilly erased the name “Victor” in the roll of the party, inserted the name “Viadigis® and re 5 Mn Ll make a do bit of difference! seorge Kennan ia The Century, Treatment for Weak Eyesight, Near sighted, small or blink havo spo ng eye shod i never t POX pees 1 of 4 + STE i bontets and fron #t pouring inte the face | inferior, peering, sncertain ev ich | yo and t dered strong and general bealtl proved Dyspersia weakens the eves, andl good treatment for this is juid food™ for Six weeks, with evarse toasted crackers, meat broths, and grape Judes or lemonade #f it can be borne. The use of grapes lemnons, and sub rosa, of garlic and « none, has great of fect on tho eye. Tusan and proveancals. | indeed all southern nations, ows their | smooth skins, rich hair. and large liquid eyes | fo their diet of fruits, light wine, olive ail | and the great regulating food, onions and to- moioes. Chilly sarreundings contract the | eyes with the rest of the flesh and injure ex. i pression, | Wonk eyes and disordered stomach or kid- | Deys exist together, and these must be set | right before the eyes am good. The cool douche across the loins and constant use of green parsiey are the best remedies A Jet of weak salt water—a teaspoonful of alt to a half pint of water —playin or spraying the closed eye enlarge the size of being careful not to fret or § ti Hi ® Hit : H] i 5 i’ i i Hi: 8 £ § a { } f “They have a in Paris” as is it like chewing gum boxes at the o . you drop a nickel in the slit and a stick of In this of pennies and then that amount of gas isat sesvico, If you want more gas suust go Iu Jo the box.” + “That is a some | I = —— a CR B. & B. NEW FALL DRY GOODS, In Largest and finest assortment, opened every day, The value of Dress Fabries which we will off er the present season, will be unequalled, To maka room for new arrivals (we have no now being room to store them away) we have put sacrise Ing priees on all Swamer goods 1a over An Extensive Lot of Satines At Unheard of Prices. These goods at tess prices than Cal ie. French Sathnes now 20 are much cheaper foes, and will ware twice as long 2 nud 300, French Satines now 10 P20, Dohme st ic Natines reduced wo Te. Jk Yardawide Ballstes & OH Juet owe half price Lawns, ¥x An Extensive Line of AMERICAN SUITINGS In 24 30 36 Inch wide, satiable for Heese Dresses for Wa and reduced from 1230, now the pries ls be or sdaool wear, at 12;e Superior value Make our store your head juarterswhen in the | CIty suring the Allegheny ( otuly Centennial Cebbration, September 24 to 3, onaty of rex Hind ee Our Fall and winter Catalogue, omodat ions x12 Inches, containing a review of al s and Newest Paboios of for best and newest in Irs tf Mode ian, lowest faonmin line, be ready about October Land will se GARY fires logue is insted ti thee : ¢ Order Department and #7 our aston ; al a distance hens Pins ves of tention given to ORDERS BY MAIL. wrtie nt belne in eld _ ¢ p | Majolica Pitchers, 0c: BOGGS & BUHL, 115, 117, 119, 121 FEDERAL STREET ALL Et H EN Ye PA. DIAMOND Linseed OIL WORKS | THOMPSON & (CO. Genuine Old Process OILCAKE MEAL FURNITURE, Job Office. .... Ol. 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Qliston Oo., Pa Winter term of 12 weeks opens Twesday, Jan, 3, a "Si term of 14 weeks opens Toenday, March nw, Beginning with the winter term, Jan, 3, 18a, Rowt, farnished room andgood board for only $2.50 [ixtraotdinary BARGAINS IN IRON-STONE CHINA AND TABLE GLASSWARE. W. I. Wilkinson, et Dealer in CHINA, GLASS, «wi Queensware, ALLEGHANY STREET, i | Covered chamber it * Goblets, “ 1 Cotes otphtents furnished or 38 conti seen Bellefonte, pa. Is veiling ALL KINDS of Crocker, und Table Glarsware wi LOWER prices | than ever known in Bellefonte, as the { following list will show : { Best quality, Iron Stone Chins: ! od not to eraze Toa Sets (68 pirces) - . 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Tea Sets, n Blue, Black, Brown or pieces £5.00-—regulny price £7.00, Full assortment in Maiolica and Fancy Claret Croods, Xe, Bohemian Vases height 10 inches, $1.00, and thing else just i al desire to E8Y { this advertisement : 10 every reader of £ want your Cysiom, and in reaching out for itl { am Ibe gixe vou the (restos ly pire Pry i Your mofley once yet Evite {0 Otanined, {and examine the goods and 11 do not fulfill strictly all 1 | 10 prin being LOWER than ever big | fore | eard, | donot ssk vour patronage, | the Call r amount of goods | can sell Iuwer prices can and WiLL sg MADE. Respectfully, W.R.CAMP Manufacturer and Desler FINE UNDERTAKING and Embalming A SPECIALTY. No. 7 West Bishop St., Bellefonte, Pa. REWARDED are those who read this Decorated | ta oh THES ce “CENTRE DEMOCRAT. ONLY $1.00 PER YEAR. !N ADVANCE. every. | a5 Cheap in proportion, | OFFICE IN OLD CONRAD HOUSE the price, | claim at | BELLEFONTE PA, W.H. WILKINSON, Agent BOOK BINDERY AND —f THE BELLEFONTE BOOK | = hives | BINDERY Is now in successfu! operation, Par- ties desiring a first-class job at 'Bed-Rock Prices Should give ws & gall. 3 Pisin aod Fancy Binding on short notice. Old Books rebound, repaired, and renovated. Mag- azines, Pam- phlets, Periodi- cals, Papers, Sheet Mu- fc, ete., bound in any style. Patronize Home Institutions and Howe Industries. Give us a fair trial, WE GUARANTEE OUR WORK, FRANKLIN H. HOUGH, SOLICITOR OF AMERICAN & FOREIGN PATENTS, 925 E, 8t,, Near U.8. Patent Office WASHINGTON, D, 0, Sand sketch or model for Free opinion as $0 pat sntability No Agency in the United States w job J puri | opt All kinds of lettering in Gilt done, Prayer Books, Hymuals, Pocket Books, Satchels, &e, lettered. en 3 conn THE Job Department ! Is complete, and all kinds of Job Work done neatly and with dispatch. 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