» VOL II. BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1889. C—O SRAM SOS OSI O18 The Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - - EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price - $1.50 per year, When Pald in Advance $l «ow When subseriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Democratic County Committees, 1880 Bellefonte, N. W..nniiinsinse on. M. Bower “ 5. WwW. ween Patrick Garrety wdoseph W, Gross wed. W. MeCormiek wenn M. 1 Gardner «of Willis Weaver wu. W, Hartman wnnsennnnsd . BY, Ritger wesc. HL Riley Jackson Gorton PRA L. J. Bing ~dohn Mechtley Philip Confer webs F. Adams -H, L. Barnhart Daniel Grove ss nssssenerssnes To 8. Delon ~Join T. McCormick ~Samuel Harpster Jr, wasn. 000, B. Crawford J. C. Rossman J. A. Bowersox C. A. Weaver le Centre Hall Borough .. Howard Be Milesbur, me urg, 1s wrong 2 wW Unlonvi Be College cus... Curtin......... . METHODS OF PENSION AGENTS TO PLUNDER THE U.S, TREASURY. Anybody aud Everybody can geta Pension Under the new Admink tention The best Method of Getting Rid of the Surplus,—A Change Necessary, The administration of the Pension Office has become so notoriously seanda- lous that Corporal Tanner is within measurable distance of being ousted from an office which he appears to sub. | serve to his mere personal whims and extravagant ideas of how the Treasury surplus should best be expended, Secretary Noble is said to be so dissatis- fied with the Commissioner that he has a ‘tually demanded his dismig al, and a few days will show whether the Presi- dent will yield to his request or retain Tanner in a position for which he ap- | pears to have neither aptitude nor com- petence, | It is said that Quay, Dudley and Lem. | j on are back of the Corporal, and that %ts | this being so his occupancy of the office John Q. Miles ). W. Herring weed. A. Henderson woods of. Gramley wierd). bs. Meek «W, F. Smith Potter, N. P B. F. Arney “ AP + Goodheart Ruth. B. Poon “X.P . William Kerrin we lB. J. Haynes, Jr wee ced « N. Brooks T. Hoover Aaron Fahr MeCanley Levi Reese Worth ......ccocn.e ——— HEINLE, Chairman WMC DEMOCATIC COMMITTEE MEETING. The members of the Democratic Coun ty Committee will meet at the office of | W. C. Henile, Esq., chairman. on Sat. urday July, 27th at 11 o'clock a. m. for the purpose of making an apportionment of delegates and transact other import. ant business. A full turnout is desired. Editorial. i ima J Bs COMMISSIONERS WANT BOODLE, In order to conduct the affairs of Cen- tre county, the Commissioners must have boodle and lots of it. what makes the mare go every time. Our reform commissioners must have more money to keep the county agoing and are trying to get hold of all in reach. Decker and Henderson manage to put in about as many of the three-hundred and sixty-five days of the year as the law will allow and their only regret is that Sunday cannot be included for services rendered to the county. Henderson would willingly conduct devotional ex. ercises and could offer up a pathetic ap- peal for Divine favor and guidance—as long as there was three-dollars per day in it. Decker would not be do much of a success in that direction, as his eon. science would smite him, but could take a collection with good grace. e are getting off our subject. The commissioner's office has been run on reform (?) principles of late—the com. missioners putting in every day possible for service, entering up more time and milage than any previous board: em- ploy more help in the shape of clerks, and other attachees so that fundsand surplus in the county treasury is grow- ing less and less every day. Then the list of expenditures of late have not been such as will receive the endorsement of the taxpayers. We will have more to say ia regard to their expenditures later on, but sufficient to say that they are in need of more money, How will'they get it ¥ Ome of the recent efforts made to rajse extra fands comes to light from Fergu. son township. After the regular asses- sor completed his work ina fair and equitable manner, his task was not ap- proved. The commissioners notified him that the assessment of property in that township would have to be raised 8 per cent. Eight per cent of a raise on the value of property in Ferguson township was a big surprise to the citizens and taxpayers when they were looking for a Boodle is | will scarcely be interfered with upon [ the mere representation of his inability {to fill it. On the other hand it is assert- ed with equal force that President Har- | rison of the { Quay element, and that once he is con- vineed that it would be for the public benefit that Tanner should leave he will 5 entirely independent have no hesitation whatever in firing | him, The matter stands thus, and after the | President's holiday, probably the coun- | try will know whether or not frauds are { to continue part of the pension system | inaugurated by Commissioner Tanner. A Pennsylvania veteran who deplores | the prostitution of our honored soldiery to the devices of pension sharks. has | sent the Times an elaborate circular re- | ceived by him from J. C. building, Washington, DD. C._ that prac. { tieally invites every soldier of | grade, from veteran to bounty jumper | to make immediate application for an | increase of pension if already on the | pension roll. The eiredlar opens with the following invitation to make appli- | cation for an original invalid pension : “You will find enclosed an application for Original Invalid Pension. and if af. | ter reading my circular you think you | are entitled to a pension, please fill in. tor have some one fill in for yon, and [ then go before the clerk of some court of { record with two witnesses and swear to | the paper: and after having done so re- turn it to me and I will immediately ba- gin the prosecution of your claim.” On the page headed “special,” the following opening paragraphs furnish food for grave thought not only to hon. est soldiers but to all good eltizens : “Since the change of the national ad- ministration a much more liberal spirit has prevailed in relation to soldier's Cralle, Cralle every Interior has made decision after decis. ion opening up for favorable considera tion hundreds of claims heretofore ex. cluded by adverse rulings of his prede. cessor," “Now is the time to apply and you should make no delay in the matter if you desire your interests to receive prompt attention. Remember, that by applying now you will be one of the first to reap the benefits of new legislation or favorable changes in thé administration of the pension laws." It should be remembered that the con. struction of the pension laws, referred to greed and fraud, isnot a reversal of Democratic Pension Commissioner Black, but a reversal of the Republican constructions of our pension act. Com. missioner lack administer the pension laws with even enlarged liberality as compared with his Republican prede- cessors, and the recent rulings by which thousands of new pensicners have been created, are reversals of Republican con. structions or the laws, The promise of “the most important legislation that has ever been made in pension matters” from the next congress, is simply the echo of campaign appeals to the cupidi. ty of soldiers, and it now serves the pen- sion shark a good purpose in tempting every soldier as well as every deserter and bounty jumper in the land to man ufacture a pension claim and impose hundreds of millions of additiona! taxes PENSION SCHEMES. claims. The assistant Secretary of the | sions have already been practically es. tablished by the mere stroke of his offi cial pen, and nearly every week furnish. es some new construction by which existing pensions are enlarged or new cases admitted, With thissteady growth by arbitrary construction and the assur. ance that the most liberal pensions ever dreamed of in the past are to be suthor- ized by the next congress, how long can oue pension system survive? Over one thousand millior,s have already been paid in pensions since the civil war; we are now paying more for pensions than the entire cost of the standing army of any of the great European governments, {and if the new pension bill proposed by | those who assume to represent the G. A. | R., shall become a law next year, the | Treasury would be bankrupt by many { millions the first year, {| Will the already over-taxed people as. sent 10 additional taxation to pay pen. | sions literally created by pension sharks? | Thie is the question that soldiersas wel] | a8 citizens should consider well in good | time, If not so considered, and multi. | plied pensions shall bankrupt the public | treasury, what hope will there be that { liberal, honest and legitimate pensions | { can be maintained? It is quite possible i that, even against the clear judgement | of House, Senate and President. pen- e multiplied until sions may the treas. ury shall be bankrupted, but where will the revulsion be halted when its retribu. i Live sweep begins ? a Extracts of Consus of 1800 F AT—Profusional politicians through. ont the an unparailed gain in prosperity since the last census. i All due, it may reasonably be inferred. to the tariff on “fat.” Cmickexs: Tanmry ON—The wav in which egg-plant has thrived this year shows how much can be accomplished by a little encouragement to native i country show f= dustry. It cannot be doubted that much tariff chickens—{not for breeding purposes. | POLITICAL PEACHES Without wish- ing to claim much for America’s greatest pride (The American System) it seems fair to say that the unusual de pression in the English political peach” crop is not shared by our protected Del aware dealers in that lusclons fruit, | EpvcamioNar Suvr Dowx:—The educational influsnce of recent factory “lockouts’ and “shutdowns’’ is sO great as to deserve extended not'ee {next census bulletin, Owing to the Kindness of their qhilanthropic employ- ers a considerable proportion of Ameri. can factory operatives are able to Je vote fully half their time to study and improvement. Free traders who would of this vigor comes from the on ton | like to keep these intelligent voters in a | stase of degraded ignorance, will vainly | complain of this necessary educational ! leisure, Tariry, EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCE | oF =Without mentioning names it seems only fair to the comptroller of the cen- ! sus to commend several large employers | of labor for their efforts to teach their | men foreign languages. In one case one gentleman, at great expense imported 5,000 Italians in order to allow his tem- | porarily idle employes to learn Italian by the best method (orally.) The whole factory village, owned by this gentle. men, now speaks that language with absolute fluency, Yet without the tariff this village could not exist. Comment is As unnecessary as it would be out of place in a government publication, — | New York World. ——— TRUST TAXES, The sugar trust has closed the St. vast sum it takes from the people by its regulation of the price of sugar. Once upon a time a people rebelled because of | taxation without representation, and just now that same people, then few and feeble, now great and strong, are quiet- ly submitting to taxation without rep. resentation, and also without the small. est trace of a right to tax or the least claim of any service rendered by the taxing party. The increase of the price of sugar has nothing in the world to justify it but the false right of might, The trust controls the sugar trade, and Wwe must pay the price it fixes or do with. out sugar. This unnatural increase in the cost of a necessary of life is a tax levied upon us by a council in which we have no voice and over which we have no control. In this matter the trust fis our ruler and we have only to let these trusts alone for a in our | THE FATAL KEROSENE, It Caused the Death of Three Children near Lewistown, Lewistows, Pa., July 18.-—A very sad and horrible accident occurred last evening near Maitland. this county, which resulted in the death of three lit. tle children this morning. Michael Stine, the father, was busy inthe har. vest field sume distance away from the house, Mrs. Stine, the mother, was con- fined to her bed by illness in a room ad. { Joining the kitchen. She instructed her | year old daughter to make fire in the | Kitchen stove preparatory to getting | The girl's two sisters, aged 6 | Supper, {and 3 years respectively, were with her, The fire was stubborn and did not burn As rupidly as was desired and the eldest | girl procured a coal oil ean and poured | some of the contents on the simmering fire, while the other little ones stood | close by to witness the results. It im- | mediately ignited and exploded the i The flames and oil spread all can over the three children, when a panic among | | them ensued, The mother was horror stricken, and while too sick to leave { bed, vet she went to their rescue not- withstand, and after putting fhe fire out she rang the dinner bell the workmen in, but then t were so horribly and called he childrey burned that all medi- cal skill could do was to pain until death alleviate the suffering ended their g. - -— - Beats Contre ( county Pine An exchange thus lengthy boards in the West refers to “A lumber pile made of boards ea h 100 feet and six feot in wi bw precedentod seht in the east, but a gen- tleman recently returned from a visit to the coast of the North Pacific says that piles of lumber such ns that Pu- ‘Boards 100 feet long and 6 feet wide, without a knot in them,” he Aare common cuts from the gigan. trees of the BOIne long ith would an OCean Are Coltitaon at the #t the mills On get Sound, said, tic fi Puget Sound forests. These trees Brow {othe enormons he ight of 250 feet, and the forest are 80 vast that, although the saw mills have been Fipotng S00 (660 (00, feet of lumber out years the tremendous of thean every year for ten Spaces fade by these iti roads seem no more than garden patch- “s -—— . T o Next Consus There will be to take the € ss text S000 enumerators in United States vear under ten Supervisors, (Ad the latter must be appointed by the ; President and confirmed by the Senate, { Tue pay of the Supervisors is $125 at the | expiration of the work and #1 for every Lis Nate | thonsand people enumerated, except in thinly settled districts where 81.40 is al- lowed, but no supervisor will receive less than 850. Each enumerator will receive two cents Per person enumerat. ed, ten cents per farm and twenty cents { per productive industry, but in the ag- gregate not less than #6 per day. No enumerator shall have over 4,000 names as estimated from the census of 1880, The enumeration must be completed during the month of June. In cities it is expected that two weeks will complete | the enumeration ot population, Tue Bellefonte Repmblican, of last week, ina leading editorial hoists the name of General Hastings for the nom. ination of Governor of Pennsylvania | upon the Republican State ticket, | It bind great scheme on the part of the i Republican and Seems to strike the pop. | ular chord. General Hastings would | make a fit representative of the part; i i h | for that exalted : y Gen. by the pension shark as inviting soldiers | Joseph refinery, paying $18,000 a year to — with all his Jouilon: Dit the on to surrender their heroic records to | the stockholders, a mere trifle of the | yet and there is many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip. General Hastings is a big man, and Pennsylvania isa big state with some more big men in it who have a big say on such important qoestions. The intimation is also thrown out that, in the event of his nomination, no equal could be found by the opposition, the Democracy, to head their ticket and that Democra:ic papers would likely fall in line and support Hastings, Dear neighbor, in your excitement, your imagination gets the better of you; your head is swollen on that point ; yon and seraabling around Ita Republican Governor is to be elected we could endure her | un- | RED TAPE. HOW THE U. 8 NAVY OBTAIN THYIR SUPPLIES, Schemes Employed by Newspapers to Col. leet accounts, No Wonder he is » Kicker. Other News Items, A paymaster in the United States navy has furnished the New York Her. ald with the following account of the red taps that must be unwound in order to buy an article needed for use on board a man-o’-war: “Supposing that a paper of tacks is wanted on board a Uni- i ted States ship on a foreign station, the following is the routine actually requir- {ed under General Order No. 48: Four | requisitions are made out. which are | signed as follows—Officer making the | requisition, | ter, i times; Captain 8; paymas- 8 and Admiral, 5. Bids are sent out | to five merchants, which are signed by | pay officer 5 times; merchants bidding | 5; acceptance of bid: paymaster, 1, Bills { are then made out in quintuplicate and are signed by the Captain 5 times: pay. { master, 10; senior officer of the Board | of Inspection, 5, and person receiving the money, 5. A re port is attached AMERICAN LIBERTY NOT COMM Nise FREEDOM While the United States invite inn grants from all parts of ¢ ori | their hospitable shores, the Goy ernment expects that when the foreigner arrives he will conscientious)y adapt himself to the customs of the country. It isthe customs of a people that makes its Law: | and whether or not those laws confor to the ideas of the new comer, he should bear in mind that “we has no right to complain of, nor in any way offend either the laws or customs of the people whose society he voluntarily seeks, Unhappily there has of late years been observed a tendency on the part of cer tain foreign representatives to seek refuge here for the sole hatching conspiracies against monarch i= ii purpose of ial organizations on the other side of the The against the life of the Czar in peaceful America. The Anarchist has met in the S64. tussian Nihilist has plotted - oy i beer cellars of New York and Chi {to arrange his murderous plans, whl | bot-headed and intemperate followers of | the so-called * patriot” school of com- to for. under gi | munists have crossed the ocean | mulate their bloods campaigns the protecting mgis of the starry ban- the senior officer of the Board of Survey, | ner. { in duplicate, 2 signatures. and the officer the bill 5 compiete, with 62 | who has made | receipt on the signatures, * This is called | Protecting the Government by a so.call. : | ed system of checks and ballances,’” Newspaper Protective Association The Canton Sentinel save T he news. paper men of Tioga county talk of ganizing a association Searcely the protective a paper has less than £500 in hands of delinquent subscribers while the Well Gazette has four fo col ROC Ie Y SOTO times that amount outstanding lect it will of ¢ | The Gazetts proposesto place its account in the hands of as be the aim hie i attorney for collec “on, while the Blossburg Registes the Millerton Adescate will publish inquents and offer and the names of del the al. counts for sak If subseribers could fondly realize that lishers are iv. jon realize that publishers wy SUP Y ing papers at actual cost that all their bills have to be monthly, | bev iv : | they would surely be more prompt | paying their Besides | N | every pubiisher could issue a better jon. per if he had his pay in advance, An | editor cannot get up spicy locals when be is being pressed for ink bills, type and settled in subscript fons, bills, fuel bills, freight and express bills, for taxes, waxes, and for many inciden- tal expenses that must be settled every thirty days, No Wonder He's a Kisker, When Bob Burdette was in Philips- burg and other coal fields in this state he bad his eye open and ax the result made the following observation: If you will travel through the coal country of Pennsylvania you will notice two sets of cars, railway cars drawn by the loco- motive; these are all limited in capacity, you see the limits painted on the CATS, “capacity 25,000 pounds,” or whatever itmay be. Then plodding along the tramway comes the patient. much.en. during, longsuffering mule. hauling a car that has no limit or capacity, No ® all that ear will stand is piled on, there is no question as to the mule. Nobody worries about him. Nobody fears that there may be more coal than the mule can stand. No wonder he isa kicker. Bitten by a Anake and Gave Birth to Trip. lets, While Mrs, Julia Skvieskie, the wile of a Hungarian who lives near Reading was engaged in picking blackberries on last Friday she was bitten in the leg by a copperhead snake. She called for help, but while several of her friends were as. sisting to her "to the nearest hone she complained that she could walk no further, A carriage was passing nearby and the Huns appealed to the driver for ald. The unfortunate woman was re moved to her home at once, but before the party argived there she had given birth to female triplets, all alive, There are hopes that the woman will recover. - z i o— aby Ride, John Darbro, of Fairview township, Cumberland county, , was married last week to Rebecca Nagle, aged 13 years, He is 80 years of age, §The license was secured several days ago from Clerk of the Court Sell, who at first refused 0 when he was confronted by bills, paper bills, rent bills, insurance | grant it because of the girl's age but high time that some simplification of methods. and desire that his murd be, shall be brought promptly to tris and full justice meted out to them, This is the demand of th American | E ale, mand of every man and should be the de } 4 sitoh the ak, who loves the caus out of which the as sassination of Dr. Cronin sprang. A nd there can be nodoubt that aiuong wvor 10 hunt down true patrols the ends and determined wil " It the cause of liberty « his murderer continuous, is jo this way only that an be advanced, for that cause which encourages Assassing- sidered as either hon- just ‘or decent. When it shall y Americans, whether native or born, are to be made the victims of any association of men in this country. without bringing such an association to strict account and tearing it out of existence root and branch, then | it will be high time to tear down the signals of American protection and light the fires of communism on every { hill, But we do not think this time will ever come. In fact the hearts of the peo | ple are too solidly wedded to the princi. ples of American Justice to permit any such thing. The criminal, wherever he | is found, will be hunted down and the life of every honest man protected. And this is as it shouid be. — Ez. tion canno orable, come to pass that foreign Stop at the Cash Bazaar and take a look at the bargain counter. New bar. | gains placed on almost daily, | =The finest line of ruchings in Belle- | fonte will be found at the Cash Bazaar ~Subscribers receiving notices of their indebtedness will oblige us greatly by paying. ~Our Court House officials have lit. tie to do and spend most of their time pitching horse shoes. ~Mr. John B. Kunz left on Wednes. day for Williamsport where he has see cured a position in Fred Miller's book bindery establishment, ~Miss Ella P Williams died at her home in Howard, Pa, July 19th, after a lingereing iliness, Miss Williams fore merly lived in Bellefonte and was « compositor on the Watchman, =A game of base ball will be played on Friday afternoon between two nines of this place, representing the “manu. facturers” and the Bellefo je “bar as. sociatio: .”" We mean the legal talent when we speak of the bar: but would bw a first-class idea to have a keg of beer on third base to insure the legal talent & few runs. The bar club will be: A ©: Orvis, 2b; Blanchard, John, ef; Noll, Sb; Hamill, p; Spangler W, B., rf: Mey. er, If; Kuhn, 1b and Kurtz, ss, Ad- mission free: game called at 2:80 at the Glass Works meadow. No flowers, consent of the parents of the
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