. “ 7 Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, MAY 2I, 189. NC. @he Centre Lemosyai, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - =~ + EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price . $1.50 per year When Paid in Advance . $1.00 '" When subseriptions are not paid inside of thre years $1.00 will be charged Editorial. PresipeENT Harrison has completed | his tour over the country and is now back at Washington pulling the neces. | boom for his re- | sary wires to start a election. at WHAT benefit has a republican ad ministration, with a congress and sen- ate at its back, been to the country? They gave us more tariff in the shape | of a McKinley bill and there has not been such a general depression in bu ness circles for years. - McAtier, of Hun. appointed Ex-Senator H. J. tingdon county, has been as of the managersof the Huntingdon Reformatory in place of T. B. Patton, of Altoona, who is now superintendant of that institu one tion. -_— Tae census bureau per cent. of gain in population in Penn. sylvania as 22.77 and of gain in public school enrollment 1.59. The acerage of tobacco in Pennsylvania in 1879 was 16,566 and the crop in pounds was 36. 943, 272. In 1889 the acreage was 26. Rove: 5 Cw 956, and the crop 28,572,787 pounds. announces the Ox all sides, amongst republicans and democrats, we hear the protests against the reckless expenditure of the public funds in granting undeserving pension | This is becoming the great | claims. evil of our day and our political leaders will soon have to face the demand of | the people for a revision and reconstruc- tion of the entire system. ExSenator Wm. A. Wallace, of Clearfield was a recent visitor to Al bany, N. Y., to see Governor Hill. As to what was the object of the conference there is much speculation, they, no doubt, were hatching a scheme to spring a presidential boom for David Bennett Hill, for 1802. Hillis a good wan but the democracy of this section prefer Cleveland. American Tinpiate From the St. Louis Republic At present the entire output of the great Niedringhaus tinplate factory is handled by a single Welshman, who, with three boys and two other gentle. men, represents the American labor en- gaged in this great industry wes: of the Alleghenies. Mr. Niedringhaus is un. derstood to be making arrangements to furnish sample American tin-cups to Republican clubs for 1892, encourage American industry by order. ing twice as many as the Republicans take, stamping on each of them the cost of manufacture, the tariff tax, the sell. ing profit, the amount of wages paid and the names, nationalities, ages and sex of the * American labor” employed. If the Democrats show a proper apprecia- tion of their opportunities Mr. Niedring- haus will have to hire at least five Welshmen and as many as fifteen boys before his infant industry cuts its eye teeth, One Indusiny, There is many a city and town that will appreciate the following: One manufactory employing a hundred men will support an additional 5% people. Three hundred familes will disburse annually, on the average, $800, or #75, 000 in the aggregate. This sum will be drawn into the town from the outside, where the manufactured goods are con- sumed, and the interest of this $75,000 at ten per cent, would be 87.500, Three hundred familes, too, would require a hundred houses, thousands of pounds of agricultural produce, and thousands of yards of cotton and woolen goods; thus giving health and impetus to every branch of industry, ~Mr. E. Graham is quite sick at his home on Allegheny street. He is a grippe victim and the disease seems to have a good hold upon him. ~Mr. A. Sterngerg has started out as A “commercial tourist.” ~Lewin keeps things a moving; they They Dever rehundle The Demo- | crats ought to show their willingness to | | | THAT MORAL REFORMER. TRIES TO BRING SHERIFF ISHLER IN DISGRACE. | At Kis Dirty Work again of Vilifleation Wants to Blacken the charsoter of a De cont man A Poor spoclmen himself to Assall others When Sheriff exp ted t career [shler was in the course of his he hat wonld receive | praise or eredit through the columns of the (Fazetle he might pe of the county. | The low, of tha index of the rform his duty as an officer malignant and | Conrse after a bris eaks out in ) the charac cowardly @ citizen, 3 Liles y i FEN IVE nudren into disgrad e finger of scorn emj ntire community towards them. The attack we speak of was made upon ff Wm. A. Ishler, charging or in- timatine that } v her he is guilty a) . ality wit mot h inmates « Fi [8 in the azetts f the jail. this nature. the pul of aide redl editor of t Master Fied! tity of the m falsehoods, bold f ) l y that ntemptable aced lies, and was publicly denounced, and clearly proven a malicious forger, it was hardly deemed necessary to make a reply, jut then as there always will guided individuals, and in order to ef- fectually close the mouth of the Gazette's slanderous editor and his depraved imps and spit-licks, who do hs bidding, we make an investigation of the charges and give the public a clear statement. THE ACCUSATION, The following 1s the article that ap- peared in the last issue of the Gazette: PAINT THE ANGEL BLACK “The Democratic papers of the county have as yet not explained the conduct in the jail. How isthis? During Sher. iff Cooke's administration these same newspapers were wonderfully solicitous concerning the morals (7) of the com- imunity. How strange that when there Wis no occasion to worry over sach things so much ado should have been made, and now that there is abundant and fully substantiated evidence of moral rottenness which has existed in the jail since January of this year, these great moral reformers (7) have not a single word to say. Start your reform machines and cor. rect the erying evil, or change the color of the angel in front of the court house to the deepest black, so as to correspond | , With the ‘color’ of affairs on the other end of the county lot. Oh! consisten. cy “The editor of the DEMOCRAT went. this week, to the sheriff's office and called Mr. Ishler's attention to the above article. He was not in the least concerned about it, saying that the source from which it eminated at once | gave it the stamp of a falsehood in the minds of all sensible men, and he felt that his past life and reputation was a {sufficient denial. He did not even think it necessary for him to make a | denial, to accusations of that paper, as far as he was concerned, | Some months ago one of the prisoners {opened his cell door by working the {lock with a wire, then by eutting out a | steeple in a wooden door gained an en. | trance to the female department. This {occurred one night in February and | hem the sheriff discovered the trick {the next day he had the prisoner re. moved to a new cell with a secure lock. | That this happened, no one ever denied or tried to keep quiet. If the prison doors had good locks on them, as they should have, such a thing could not have occurred; and as it did happen it was not through any negligence of Sheriff Ishler. Now this is the sub. stance upon which the Gazette bases these foul slanders and innuendoes agains tishler. It never had the cosr. age or the manliness to give the exact facts of this little midnight escapade of A prisoner, but, by low, dirty, cowardly insinuations has attempted to wreck the character of Sheriff Ishler and bring his family into disgrace. He makes no direct accusation but attempts to ac- complish his end by uncertain state. ments, intimations of indecencies, and of £roms Immoralities. his fellow has been engaged mn this business of defaming character ever since he engaged in journalism in our county and his career in that line is well known. Decency is unknown to him; the better instincts of manhood, if he ever possessed them, have long ago been obliterated, while honor and veracity have departed from him. Such only can be the mental and moral make up of un man who resorts to such meth. ods~it is cowardly, even brutish, A POINTER, f this chap is 80 anxious to show up elected, no | any | 10 matter how meritorious | » | train will leave Williamsport at . 11, f gross im. | me time articles have appeared | Philadelphia or any other easter be a few mis. | character and play the part of a moral reformer, he can with mueh profit give an interesting sketch of a certain indi- vidual who years ago lived in Brush Valley and for various reasons found it | convenient to skip, | No man should assail another man's private character unless his own will bear inspection. It is dangerous busi | ness to throw stones when vou dwell in a glass house, —— | NEW TRAIN ON THE PENNA } | Quie kest Route jor Bellefonters to HMhrris burg and Philadelphia On Monday, May 25th, a new passen placed in service by This 3:50 p. at 5:20 p. m., ger train will be the Penna. Railroad Company. arriving at Sunbury | Harrisburg, 7:06, making direct connec - tions at for all coal region, arriving at Wilkes-Barre at Scranton at 9 p. m., Hazle Pottsville 9:05 p. m. 220 p. m., Mt. Carmel f p. m., and at Harrisburg for the east, at Philad more 10:40 p. m., Chambersburg at 9:25 p. m., and | Pittsburg at 2 a. m. As will be seen by this, after Monday, | May 25 ] ), people from Bellefonte and vi Sunbury | 7:50 p. m., m., ») | south and west, arriving el | phia at 10:15 p. m., Balt | at { cinity wi desire to go to Harrisburg, point, will find the in leaving here at p. m,, over the Lemont railroad just | the one to take. It makes a four an { one half hours run Harrisburg an { only seven and one-half to Philadelphia, to | which is the shortest route and quickest | time yet secured. .———— THEVPREESIDENT ANDTHE PEOPLE ing critics who speak with contempt about President Harrison's" junketing” { around in various sections of the coun. [try. The theory urged by these fogy | grumblers is that the President should remain at the Capital; that he should not mingle with the multitudeand that | it is undignified for the Chief Magistrate to invite the homage of the people by | political journeys through the land. | They forget that Washington set the { example of mingling with the people, | Considering the narrow limits of the | Republic in his day and the rude meth. | ods of traveling, he journeyed more { than any President of modern times. We believe that the more the Presi. { dent mingles with the people in their { home communities the better it will be for both President and people, | So far from criticising the President for what distempered critics call ‘jun. keting’ around the country, we regard lit as unfortunate that Presidents do (not more mingle with the people in their own communities. Had President | Harrison taken his recent journey one [year ago in the the south we donbt whether he would have struck the pit. { fall of a Force Election policy; and had | he journeyed through the West or New England one year ago, it is more than | possible that that most suicidal of all | modern party blunders, the McKinley | tariff bill, would not have been enacted | It could not have failed to impress the President that nowhere in the South did he hear a word of commendation for the Force Election bill, and that { nowhere in the West did he hear a word in favor of the McKinley tariff. DE ~ | We have no sympathy with the carp. i | ambition or speculations to promote are never heard in Washington. They do not go there. They have no taste atevery turn to pay their honest re. spects to power, and it is only by the midst of their own homes and interests that he can obtain even a glimpse of the truth, Let the President meet the people as often and as freely as he can and especially will the people welcome the Chief Magistrate when he can maintain the dignity and cleverness ex- hibited by President Harrison in his recent ten thousand mile journey, Times, a a———— Was It Fired? On Monday morning when the janitor of the court house swept the stair-way leading to the court room he found a half burnt box lying on the matting on the second floor near the double doors, The matting bad a hole burned in it about six inches in diameter. The sup. position of some Is that an attempt was made to burn the building, but that it was not a success, If any such an at. points in the | The people who have no individual i Jao | newspaper flattery occasionally and in | for jostling the jobber and the placeman | President meeting the people in the | imp | CHILDREN'S DAY i - - | The Pennsylvania Grangers will Observe | | June Oth as a Feast Day, ’ | During the past week a proclamation | was issued by the Master of the State | | Grange, appointing Saturday June 6th, | as Children’s Day, and a feast day for { the Court of Fauna. The day will be | | made memorable by each grange gath- BIGHTH COMMENCEMENT, GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. | To be Held in the Garman Opera House on Thursday Afternoon and Evening Programe of Exercises { ering flowers and decorating their halls. | Public meetings with addresses, songs | and recitations and a banquet will be the principal features of such a day. This will not only be observed in Peon. sylvania but in every state in the Union, | { It is a new feature in grange work and may become a fixed holiday for the organization. —— The Bellefonte Republican and Key tone (razetls gans at this place and there is apparent. ly much bad blood between them, and a bitter are rival republican or. little fight has sprung up be. tween their daily papers, the News and the Gazette. The Ni recently criti. cised the ineficiency of the free delivery That made Post Master, and Editor, Feidler wrothy and the next day the following abusive personal, intended system. as a reflection upon Editor Gates, peared in the Daily Gazette The Daily News of Friday had a little cant, sneering article that a » ght to entirely ig ap- wif nore : printer’ thal sheet we w wi ¥ Way ‘seanething how much brains to eX and try tos} setter of the diverge from the stereotyped rule aie journalism 3 Loveville In the well kn« dark of the "a He was born it who ever in raflroad spikes prep MOOT AS EVETY person read the sheet that It is set He the Loveville university and ther he went in the front door and skipped out the back. When he came to Bellefonte he forgot to wash his face comb his hair. which, In its untrained and would be a passport to Buffalo Bill's wild west show, and now he looms up ia a ‘brainy’ article { to the Pittsburg 79a about himself, which | he unblushingly copies In his own ‘rag’ with fAattering compliments, regardless of the finer sensibilities of those who are morally and mentally his superiors. Everybody ' knows that his supply of brains is becoming more limited every day. and In the local public mind anxious imagination points its index finger to the day, not far hence, when be will be In stalied In his proper sphere behind a plow, cansing our DeGutiful valley to "blossom as a rome. The Daily Neves replied on Monday with a column article in which it gives Post Master Feidler a stunning blow, and leaves him in a very rediculous light before the people. The following are extracts from the Daily News of Mondas “A number of years ago a publication known as the Owl flourished In Bellefonte for a few weeks and was then suppressad. It has now been revived and a new edition is being print | od daily up town. Its one principal character istic Is that it prints nothing but slush and viturperation based entirely on fabrication without the least semblance of facts The (nel spoke of an tem which appeared in | the Pittsburg Times, and which it ¢ redited the | News editor with writing. It did the same ! thing before and the fact was promptly eontra {dicted and we challenge anyone to disprove our assertion. But can Fiedler say the same thing” Well we guess not Shortly after he took charge of the post office the N pws printed a number of compilmentary articles about his administration we consider it no | violation of confidence to say that all the ar ticles In question were written by Fiedler himself; and not only written by him but were | paid for by him at our regular rates, and then marked copies were sent to the post-office de | partment 10 show how he was ranning the | offloo—in his own mind. Now these are facts | which can be sustained in black and white.” Mr. Feidler no doubt likes a little Ia graduate of the department of no dou or primitive uncouth condition Ad now [this case he displayed unusual good { sense, which is worthy of the imitation {of others—he paid for his newspaper | flattery. Let others do likewise. CC —— Fierce Meantain Fires During the past week the mountains north and west of town have been on fire and a dark cloud of smoke obscnred the sky most of the time. The fire started on the mountains near Union. ville and kept burning on both sides until it reached near Bellefonte by Monday. Many acres of valuable tim. berland, miles of fence and Iarge quan. tities of cut timber, bark and cord wood have been destroyed. Mr. William Eckley is a heavy sufferer and estimates his loss at at least one thousand dollars. Isaac Haupt had considerable property burned and at one time some of his farm buildings came near being destroyed. People in the vicinity of Coleville were compelled to turn out and fight the fire. The fire has killed most of the young trees that in a few years would have The graduating Bellefonte High School exercises of are alway portant occasions in this commu | This year the eighth class completes study Ww | work in the commencement exsreis to-day. The consisting of course of and will close ti has Misses Fdit} B. Levy and Jennie Twitmire and Messer Chas, present class members | Austin, Rosa (3¢0. don, Garner and ring. Under the ea ! of Profs. Lieb, Johnst mbaugh and Wolf they no doubt 1 made use of their time and have the reful mye tion for a good education that will of great value to them in after Years The day is programine of the ex as follows AFTERNOON, 3 by P.M. Music : of Cr red ving Invocation by High Sch The Pho nix,’ “Poland Woodring; N Austin: orchestra; Song, ol, Salu. tatory and Essay, ration, K lis Essay, Stars,” Edith The Education Required for Business George N. Brand Music tra; Oration, “Immigration und Labor. Charles Garner Essay and Vale dictory, “Not Finished, but Begun.” isa B. Levy; Vacation Song, High School: Benediction. EVENING, Music by Orchestra: High School; Address by Gen. D. H. Hastings; Patriotic Song by School; Address and Presentation of | Diplomas, by D. F. Fortney, Esq., | Pres. of School Board; Quartette, “The | Angelus,” Misses T'witmire, DeSylvia. Twitmver: ( He roes.’ Orchestra; a } ight he it} Oration, mn by Orchies. Jr. Sr « M. {| Moore and Luckenbach: Benediction: | Music, “Assembly Exit.” Orehestra. THE THREATENING FIGURE Ex-President Cleveland is a watehful sentinel and a public monitor. At Buffalo he serious and soleran consideration of the people, as follows: “I believe the most threatening figure which to-day stands in the way of the safety of our government and the hap- piness of our people, is reckless and penditures, the deadly brood born of governmental perversion. It hides beneath its wings { the betrayal of the people's trust and | holds powerless in its fascinating glance the people’s will and conscience. It brazenly exhibits to-day a Billicz-Dol. lar congress. But lately, a large sur. plus remained in the people's public treasury after meeting all expenditures, then by no means economical. This condition was presented to the Ameri can people as positive proof that their burden of taxation was unjust because unnecessary; and yet while the popular [protest is still heard, the party of | public extravagance devoursthe surplus | and impudently calls upon its struggling victims to bring still larger supplies | within the reach of its insatiate ap- | petite, | “A few short years sgo a pension roll | amounting to fifty-three millions of dol. lars was willingly maintained by our patriotic citizens. . Today public ex. | travagance decrees that three times that sum shall be drawn from the people upon the pretext that its expenditure represents the popular love of the sol. dier. Not many years ago a river and harbor bill appropriating eleven million of dollars gave rise to a loud popular protest. Now public extravagance commands an appropriation of twenty. two millions for the same purposes and the people are silent. Today millions are paid for bare-faced subsidy, and this Is approved or condoned at the behest of public extravagance and thus a new marauder is turned loose, which, in company with its vicious tariff partner, bears pilfered benefits to the households of fayored selfish interests, “But the growth of public extrava, gance in these latter days, and its un. concealed and dreadful manifestations, force us to the of other crimes of which it is undoubtedly guilty, besides unjust exactions from the people. “Our government is so ordained that Mita life blood flows from the virtue and iateidbious OF Out Phage: and its health If those are i “Welcome,” ! High | presented points for the | wicked extravagance in our public ex. | It is the most fatal of all Ml | créated and failing in its miss | example to mankind, ION 48 an “Public extravagance 11 its | to inequitable tariff laws. not { an unjust tribute upon th | is responsible for unfair advant relation only lays ple, bat res he. 5 4 stowed upon pecial and favored price of part npg % Lhe ¢ xercise of the popula nber the wnt will the benefit of the country at jarge is ! replaced by sordid sh motives I advantage, while { the encouragement of such motives in public place for party ends deadens the | ofhcial con and self ! $rarl ulecied Lo personal ence, “wp : ubiic « tributes gifts and xiravagance gratuit peonie thus se toleration COR ny thus This | . | a of Uw i dis. stom public €or 1B nirvmen are Ous In arge of SCTVADLS ’ f aha Ir rupu | sistenos 1 Wie faithful disc} | Guty on the part of hei Di i ; ugality Americanism, the independence which relies uy which belongs to sturdy on jw sonal endeavor tl ang the love of an hon. { est and well regulated government, all | of : s : | Of which lie at the foundation of om free institutions. “Have 1 overstated the oy « and da gers with which the trem: growth us well | of public extravagance threatens Lvery man who loves his co Intrs enough to pause and think of thes | things must know that I have not. | “Letus, then, as we push on in ow | campaign of education especially im. | press upon our countrymen the lesson | which teaches that public extravaganoe is a deadly, dangerous thing, that fru. | gality and economy are honorable, that | the virtue and watchfulness of the pes. ple are the surest safegnards against | abuses in their government. and that | those who profess to serve their fellow. citizens in public place must be faith | to their trust.” 3 —— ~Good stock in every pair of shoes sold at Mingle's store. ~Get a nobby suit made by Lewin, He hes the best tailoring department in Central Pennsylvania. You get a good fit every time, ~A little son of Rev. Finkbinder, of Millheim, was badly scalded by a tisha! of hot water last week being acc upset upon him. He is slowly improv. ing under careful nursing. ~The biggegt altraction on Tuesday was Lhe fine display of clothing seem in front of the Philad. Branch. Nearly every person bought a new suit, then went to the show and was happy. ~Penn’a State College is anxiously awaiting the fate of the #257 .000 appro. priation asked for by them of the legrin. lature. The committees were favorsbly impressed with what they saw at that institution and it is to be hoped that they will act accordingly. ~We notice that Olie Meek, brother of Senator P. Gray Meek, and who fer many years was connected with Se Democratic Watchman, has purchased an interest in a drug store in Washing- ton city, and will make that place house in the future. Olic was a first cham young man and his many friends wish him abundant success in bis new wen. ture, ~Bellefonte's base ball enthusiasts are booming an athletic association pee ject and contemplate renting the gles works meadow for that purpose. Its a desirable location but the next peel lem is to scare up enough good ball players for a nine, When Bellefonte can show up a team that will play bell with teams of Altoona, Lock Hawes, Williamsport or State College there will be plenty of backing to help them, «=A sensible lady of Jefferson county, Pa, is said to bave effectually cuss her fifteen-year-old boy of ot garetts, by a method which she descriless
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