sk A——————— Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 189I. he Centre Democrai, EDITOR CHAS. R. KURTZ, - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price . $1.50 per year. When Paid in Advance g1.00 * ‘ When subseriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Editorial. Tue latest indications from Wash- | ington are that James Kerr, of Clear- | field. will be elected clerk of the next house. It would be a compliment well deserved. —- Woxper if McCamant Boyer sent Bardsley a slice of turkey on Thanksgiving day? These boys escaped and had their fun, but poor Bardsley must serve time, and - -— I¥ we only had a little more protec- tion and a few more McKinley tariff | bills we are sure about every other | business interest in and about Belle. | fonte would be closed up. - THe good times and continual em. | ployment promised the working men of | Centre county, providing Harrison be election have proven a sad failure as far | as our people are concerned. — A systemized effort is on foot for the | purpose of obtaining petitions against opening the World's Fair on Sunday's. Petitions will be sent to every church and circulated among members for re. monstrances against the violation of the Sabbath day, by a national show. Tue Pennsylvania state Grange, atrons of Husbandry, will hold its nineteenth annual session in the hall of the house of representatives, Harris. burg, on Tuesday, December 8. From | present indications this will be the larg- | est and most important meeting of the | state grange ever held. - —_— Tae daily papers are still having an interesting war between Chilli and the United States. You see the election is over, news is somewhat scarce and an | imaginary war with Chilli makes a lead. | ing sensation. But of late the attention has been turned towards Brazil, where a slight revolution has broken and is causing some trouble Ox last Saturday Gov. Pattison ap- pointed C. E. Heydrick, Esq.,of Frank. lin, Venango county, as judge of the Supreme court to succeed Silas M. Clark, | deceased. He is said to be well quali- fied for the position and his appointment was made partly on the question of location. Many other very prominent legal lights were applicants, but the | location was the winning point. Wx. Heinle, Esq., left on Wednes. | day morning for Washington, D. C., to | attend the meeting of the Democratic | State Executive Committee, as Col. Spangler’s substitute, If there were | more men at the head of the Democra- | cy of this state after the pattern of Mr. | Heinle, victory would ofterner be at. | tained. He is a leader, and the people | of Centre county know it from past campaigns. —————— . STATE Chairman James Kerr has called a meeting of the State Democrat. tic Executive committee at Washington for today to elect a member for the National Democratic committee, made vacant by the death of Wittiam IL. Scott, of Erie. The committee meets this Thursday. Col. J. L. Spangler is one of the ten members who consti- tute the state committee, BLAINE remains “mum” as a mum. my about presidential aspirations which means that if called upon he will accept. Blaine boomers are at work in every section and Harrison's chances seem to be on the decline. If Blaine is nomi- nated it will be the duty of the demo- crats to place Cleveland at the front and history will repeat itself. Give us Cleveland, with tariff reform-——republi. cans can have Blaine, with McKinley tariff and reciprocity dodge thrown in, The people can’t be fooled mueh longer, CENTRE county courts have little sympathy for persons convicted of car. rying concealed weapons. Last week three persons were sentenced to serve time in the county jail for this offence. There is no use for any one traveling about our county these days, loaded down with deadly weapons. There is no occasion for these traveling arsenals in a community and we heartily endorse the actions of the court in the matter, Rowdies and cowards are the ones us. ually found guilty of such an offence, and they are liable to take life upon the slightest provocation, { the great importance of the suits only a { small audience listened to the argument. {all the cases as one and made an order { resenting the three firms was assigned { one of the points at issue to be reviewed | methods, | orderly as hands can mage them. There TESTING THE TARIFF. TRYING McKINLEY'S TARIFF BILL IN COURT. Charging that the Whole Act Is Unconstitu tienal Because of the Sugar Bounty Clanse~Some of the Arguments The three tariff cases involving the constitutionality of the McKinley tariff act came up for argument in the United States supreme court at Washington, last Wednesday, Nov, 25. All the just. ices were present. Notwithstanding The three cases before the court are those of Boyd, Sutton & Co., and Stern- back & Co., of New York city, and Marshall, Field & Co., of Chicago, against the collectors of customs of New York and Chicago respectively. Three points are involved in the deci. sions of these suits, and the court heard by which to each of the attorneys rep- in the opening argument. As theargu- ment progressed the justices of the court asked a few leading questions. Mr. Wickham Smith, of New York, largued the bounty clause contending that bounties were unconstitutional and | that the bounty section invalidated the Chief Justice Fuller asked | that any money had been paid under the sugar bounty clause by his clients. Mr. Smith did | not know as to that, but they had a nght to complain because taxes were whole act. if the record showed | increased on their goods for the purpose as they believed, of paying the sugar | bounty. In answer to Justice Gray he reitered | | his opinion that the whole act was un. | constitutional because of the sugar | bounty. Edwin B. Smith, ex-assistant | Attorney General and now of New York, argued the reciprocity feature of the McKinley act, maintaining that it was a delegation of the taxing power to the President, which vitiated the whole act. N. W. Bliss, of Chicago, urged the third point, that the law was un. constitutional because of the omission of the tobacco rebate section of the bill as signed by the President. - Hon, John A. Woodward's Den From Lock Haven Democrat. Hon. John A. Woodward, of Howard, one of Centre county’s prominent citi- zens, whose wife is u daughter of Hon. William F. Packer, the last Democratic | Governor of this state previous to the war of the rebellion, has one of the finest farms in the state and he farms | it in accordance with the most approved Everything is as clean and is a place for everything and eveything in its place, and consequently there can. not fail to be pleasure in farming under such circumstances. Mr. Woodward's farm is the old residence in which the Governor resided when a citizen of | Centre county. This was before his | election to the Executive chair, how. | ever. When that event occurred Mr. Packer wasa resident of Williamsport. Besides being a farmer Mr. Wood® ward is a politician and a few years ago | represented Centre county in the Legis. | lature, being an able an active member of the House. He is also editor of an | agricultural and scientific newspaper and does his writing In a cozy office, neatly fitted up, out in the neighborhood of his barn, where everything is so quiet that one can hear a pin drop. There Mr. Woodward reads, writes, meditates thinks and possibly soliloquizes. There he receives his farmiliar and courteously entertains visitors and discusses abstruse theories of politics and farming. —— A A —-— Sen SUI Missing, The Clearfield Republican of last week says: The CENTRE DEMOCRAT, Belle. founte, recently published a letter pur. porting to have been written by A Rankin, Esq.. of Karthaus, stating that he had been imposed upon by some of his neighbors in circulating reports concerning his character and business transactions, Andrew has, so far, fail. od to appear in person and satisfy the charges made against him, and from present appearances will not likely come to the front soon. A well known resi dent of Karthaus was in town Monday arranging with the bank here for a note for $125 forged by the "Squire and which was protested. The note is a forgery and no doubt the bank would like to see Mr. Rankin to learn what they shall do with the note, ment of goods always kept on hand by Mingle, the shoe dealer, is the reason so many people patronize that store, { had broken the occurred Cuthbert, of this place, conductor on ! Tyrone division of the Pennsylvania | 8 now explained. Another young lady WHAT IS RECIPROCITY? In reply to a Mobile correspondent who asked: ‘What will be the result of the reciprocity treaties as to the price of imported articles to consumers in the United States?" the Philadelphia Times made the following answer: ‘Af our correspondent had carefully considered what reciprocity is, he could readily understand that it must cheap- en commodities to the consumers of both countries which are parties to a reciprocity treaty.” That journal then goes on to explain as follows: “ Reciprocity is simply free trade, with occasional variations from free to fair trade, and every movement made in the line of reciprocity is a direct blow at the vitals of the McKinley tani. True, reciprocity treaties are author. ized by the McKinley tariff, but that feature of the measure was an after- thought and was forced into the bill in the Senate, after it had been contempt. uously rejected by McKinley, and the | House leaders, simply because Blaine Kinley iniquity. Blaine’s public letters to would not give the farmers for an additional bushel of wheat or pound of pork, compelled the monopo- | ists to choose between accepting reci- procity or the defeat of their bill, Blaipe was the one statesman devel- oped in his party by the long dispute over the tariff revision. He saw that the McKinley bill, with its increases of taxes on the necessaries of life, would | doom the party to defeat, and he coun. | | storminess, or in reversals of mercurial | tered on McKinley with free trade simply sugarcoated by the enticing title of reciprocity; and now, since the monopoly tariff has been rejected by the people in every section, the defeated monopolists claim reciprocity, or free trade, as the main feature of the new tariff. teciprocity Is based on the free or fair exchange of the products of differ. ent countries. Free trade is its basis, and when entirely free trade is departed from, it is by reciprocal terms for fair trade for the mutual benefit of produc. ers and consumers of both countries, Reciprocity must, therefore, benefit | consumers in the United States by the | free admission of raw materials and also | benefit our producers of the commodi. ties we can best supply to other coun. tries in return; bul there is not a prin. ciple or feature of reciprocity that is not at war with every principle on which the McKinley tariff is based.” -—- Married In Haste, On Tuesday of last week was to have the marriage of James Blair railroad, and Miss Julia Rhoades, daughter of W. L. Rhoades, of Ramey. | At the time appointed for the ceremony | {all arrangements had been made, but sad tofrelate the prospective groom did not appear to claim his bride, Miss Rhoades had received no word from the groom-elect since about Thursday of {the week before but the confidence of | ,, herself and friends was such that he | was expected up to the last moment, | Wedding presents came from all diree- | tions, far and near, but where, oh, | where was Cathbert? The sudden change in his intentions had replaced the waiting bride in his affections. On Saturday night last he left Tyrone and he did not go alone, as the sequel shows. On Wednesday at the parsonage of the Kaighn Avenue M, E. church, Camden, N. J., Rev, E. L. Allen officiated in the marriage of Jas, Blair Cuthbert and Miss Susie Wood, both of Tyrone, and thus the chapter is completed. It is not known where Mr, and Mrs. Cuthbert will take up their residence. ~Tyrone Herald Among the varied features of the double Thanksgiving number of The Youth's Companion, just at band, we notice the following good stor les: Chip and Wag, by Katherine Lee Bates; Fiffin’s Thanksgiving, by Mm. H. G. Rowe; Delia's Notion; The Belligerent Turkey; John Macbride, by Edward W. Thomson. Other articles are: A Hotel Kitchen, illustrated; On the North Sea Banks, by James Runciman; Holiday Recreations; and a stirring poem by Hezekiah Butterworth, “The Flag that the Emigrants Cheered.” The Child. ren’s Page has a Thanksgiving Menu for little folks. ~Uneclaimed letters: John Crawford, W.M. Dight, Mrs. Emma Deitrich, Mrs. A. J. Eminhiga, Lizzie Fry, Char. lo M. Jack, Anna Kern, M. Sayers, Mrs. Mary Sutton, J, M. Smith, When backbone of the Me- | Senator | Frye, declaring that the McKinley bill | a market | | every reader. called for please say advertised. FARMERS INSTITUTES, To Be Held In Centre County Daring the Coming Winter Each year the state appropriates a sum of money to be expended for the holding of several Farmers’ Institutes in each county, Prominent speakers and instructors are employed to attend these meetings and discuss such subjects as will be of interest tothe farming community, For some years this mat. ter has been in charge of Hon. John A. Woodward, of Howard, who has also fixed the dates and made arrangements { for three institutes this year as follows: MiLruein, Monday and Tuesday, February 1st and 2nd. day, February 3rd and 4th. 5th and 6th, Thomas J. Edge, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, and Mr, tend these meetings. Mrs. Emma P. {ers and try to help the ladies develope and improve the house work of the | farm. Other distinguished speakers from members of the state grange, have been engaged to be present. Posters and programes, giving details, will be pub. lished later. CC ————- - Hick's Voroonst for December. The first and second are reaetionary storm days, and falling on dates of new | moon pertudations, hipher temperature and storms of rain, turning to sleet and snow, will express themselves in actual { readings, wind currents and temperatu. res, along all normal storm belts, Be ready for cold days to follow the dis turbances about the first and second. An equnox of Mercury on the 15th in. | sures much thick cloudiness, with ten. { dency to heavy sleet, especially during BoAvrsnunra, Wednesday and Thurs. | Howarp, Friday and Saturday, Feb, Woodward, the local member, will at. | Ewing, the famous Chatauqua lecturer | upon cooking, will be one of the speak. | abroad, among them several leading | TO CALIFORNIA, | Datalled Routes of the Pennsylvania rail | road's Golden Gate Tours These tours to California under the { Pennsylvania railroad company’s per- { sonally conducted tourist system have | excited considerable interest, The routes traversed are verv diversified and | interesting, On the first the Pullman | vestibule train will leave January 15th, | going via St. Louis, Kansas City, Las | Vegas Hot Springs, Santa Fe. Returning, after six weeks in Califor. nia, via Sacramento, Salt Lake, Glen. | wood Springs, Leadvilie, side trip over { Marshall Pass, Colorado Springs, Man. { itou, Denver, Omaha, and Chicago. Rate from Philadphia, $300, The second tour leaves February 24th, | going via Cincinnatti, Mammoth Cave, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans | (Mardi Gras festivities), Galveston, | Houston, San Antonio, and El Paso, Returning, after four weeks in Cali. fornia, via route of first tour. late from Philadelphia, $335, The third tour leaves March 24, going {via St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Colorado Springs, and Salt Lake City. leturning, after four weeks in Cali. fornia, via Mt, { coma, Seattle, | St. Paul, and Chicago. Rate from Philadelphia, $360, The fourth, April 20th, will run west via Chicago, Denver, Colorado Springs { Manitou, side trip over Marshall Pass, | | Glenwood Springs, and Salt Lake City, | Tourists will return | within six months. | Rate from Philadelphia, #235; | Portland, #25 additional. The rates fixed for the first three tours | cover EVEry Necessary expense en roule { in both directions, including hotel ac. { commodation and several carriage rides | and trains for all side trips in Califor- nia, while rate for fourth tour covers via Manitou, side trip | { over Marshall Pass, Glenwood Springs | Shasta, Portland, Ta. | Spokane, Minneapolis, | independently | Fenn's Purchase, | Exchange, The purchase of the Susquehanna ris. er with all the lands lying on both sides of the same, by William Penn, proprie- { tary of the Province of Pennsylvanis, | from the Indians of the Five N ations, October 11th, 1786, was made for the following consideration: *500 pounds powder, 500 pounds lead, 45 guns, 60 strowd water math coats, 100 blankets, 100 Duffee match coats, 200 yards of half-thick, 100 shirts, 40 hats, 40 pair of shoes and buckles, 340 pair stockings, 100 hatchets, 500 knives, 100 houghs, 80 kettles, 100 tobacco tongs, 100 scissons, 120 combs, 2,000 needles, 1,000 flints, 24 looking glasses, 2 pounds vermillion and 100 tin pots, besides 25 gallons of rum, 200 pounds of tobacco, 1,000 pipes and |24 dozen of gartings.” The land pus- chased extended on the east side as far as the head waters of the branches and { springs which run into the river, and on the west side to the setting sun, and | northward from the mouth of the river to the Endless Hills. It has been the | general impression that Penn was such a good citizen that he never gave the Indians any fire-water, but this record does not bear out the impression. He was a shrewd old Quaker, and he filled | the noble red man with the tansey that tangleth and scooped his land just like the far west. Twenty-five gallons of rum in one tribe would not go very far, but probably the big chiefs had the privilege of pulling | on the spigot. f | | | | any modern real estate in Ee, ea. Coming Attractions Manager Garman has furnished us | with a partial list of his bookings, for {the opera house, and we take pleasure {in appending them: —Dec. 5— Gor jton’s New Orleans Minstrels Dee. 14—"She couldn't marry three.” | Dec. 18—Steton’s Uncle Tom's Calis | Dec. 24—Marie Hubert Frohman, is “The Witch.” Dec. 28— Kittie Riwoasls | one week in repertoire. Jan. 6—O Flynn | the storm peried running from the 6th | every necessary expense as above west | In Mexico. Jan. 21—“His Nibs, the to the 0th, tions against the probabilities of this low. Prepare! About the 14th, the cold wave will relax progressively from east to west, shift of atmospheric pressure causing | southerly currents and falls of rain and show, Au energetic high barometer with cold will slip in behind these dis. turbences, lasting up to the next regular storm period, which runs from the 19th to 2th. The culmination of winter solstice ix zt this exact period, about which time very hard winter storms are almost certainties, Prepare for them and for dangerously cold days to follow. Most parts of our continent will have { cold or snow—both to the northward— at Christmas. About the 26th will come | & raise in temperature, the forerunner of | rectionary storms about the 26th and 27th, with renewel cold following up to { the 30th. On that date will fall a second | new moon for December, also the begin. {ming of a regular storm period which runs into January. The month will go font warmer with storms advancing { from the west, Watch and see. The Storm prophet’ sends a “‘ Merry Christ. mas” and a hearty God bless you to Gorton's Minstrels, Admirers of high class minstrelsy should not forget the performance to be given by Sthe above company at Gar. man’s opera house on Saturday evening, Dee. 5. Of their performance the Caz- enovia, N. Y. Republican, of Sept. 17, says: “Gorton's Minstrels gave an en. tertainment In the Casa-Nova, Friday evening, and never since the house was built was a larger crowd under its roof. In fact there could not be, as every seat was filled, and the aisles filled with chairs. The show amply justified the expectations which led to such a crowd, It was by all means the cleanest and best show of the kind given here in re. cent years, The first half was charac, terized by the freshness of the jokes and the inimical way in which the end men rendered them. Eight members of the company also sang solos, some of which were humorous selections so ‘catchy’ with the public. The second part was original and all parts excellent, but special mention should be made of the Zouave rifle manipulations by Johnston and Ward, The rapidity with which they went through the manual of arms was something astonishing.” ~Hon. 8, H. Orwig, one of Lewis burgs prominent attorneys was in town on Friday stbending to Jaga} business. ~County coroner, Dr. Buckingham of Philipsburg, made a short trip 0 Bellefonte on Wednesday and circulated ston hip waxy trietiis bse, The Dr. one Men who manage the | bound only, all side trips in California, { Baron.” wires ‘should take all possible precau- | and trains only returning via route se. | Tramp.” {lected. This particular tour is de. period. A sweeping cold wave will fol- | signed to accommodate those who desips | to visit the Yosemite Valley and Yel. | lowstone Park prior to their return to { the East. .— ] ¥onlded to Death. From the Philipsburg Journal; on Saturday, November 1, a little 4 year old son of George Masden, of Gearheart- ville, lost his Jife in a particularly dis tressing manner. The mother was making preparations for brewing and had set a large vesssl of hot water on the floor. She turned to cross the room and told the child as she did 80 to be careful about the water. while ber back was turned, however. the little fellow, headless of the warning, reached across the water to get a piece of bread off the table and fell forward into the water, His father who was standing close by had him out almost instantly, but, fall ing foreward as he did, he was badly burned over the chest which is always fatal. Remedies were promptly applied and in course of an hour he fell asleep and never awakened, dying about 10 o'clock, some six hours after the acci- dent happened. Literary Notes. We have received an advance copy of the Thanksgiving holiday number of the Youth's Oompanion. It is three times its normal size, and contains several times the usual number of illus. trations. The artistic cover is illumi. inated with a harvest scene. A large variety of Thanksgiving stories and articles and family amusements fill its twenty-four pages. A new poem by Hezekiah Butterworth, “The Flag that the Emigrants Cheered,” is stirring. Preacher Dill Resvensible, Mrs. Fannie Dill, of Lewisburg, wid. ow of Reese Dill, deceased, has removed to Washington, D. C., to open a board. ing house. Mrs, Catharine Dill, widow of A, H. Dill, is clerking for John Wanamaker, Philadelphia. Both ladies lost their all through the failure of Rev. W. H. Dill, of Clearfield. An item published a short time ago gave the information that Mrs. A. H. Dill had been secured by a sheriff's sale of Banker Dill’s personal property. —————— AI AAA Some time ago E, E. Conrath, princi pal of the schools at Conemaugh, whip. ped one of his pupils and the father of the boy had him arrestad. The citizens of the place have come tothe conclusion that Conrath did what was right in pun. ishing the boy. and as an act of justice the directors have increased his salary #5 per month. This demonstrates that be is the right man in the right place. shoe store receives new stock every day. Prices are always fair | and reasonable, ® on —y— Jan. “The New Bos Jan. Z1—Charles Loder in “Oh, What a Night.” A ————— ADDITIONAL LOCALS ! “Dee.” Wilson are It is safe the printers ~The Tyrone papers say Pettingale and W. Scott now engaged writing a book that it will be ready for before many days, ~The Undine Fire company are tak- ing steps towards the purchasing of a steam fire engine. Bellefonte needs bet. | Yer protection from fire and another en- | gine would be a good idea, ~Mi. Wm. Curtin, son of ex-Gox. Curtin, and his wife are visiting friends | at this place. Mr. Curtin is now located | in Philadelphia, where he is engaged in | the insurance business, ~Mr. Ira Garman, of Philadelphia, made a short visit to his home at this | place last week. He is a salesman for fone of the leading jewelry houses of | that city. | =Mr. Charles Strine, who holdsa | position on the Philadelbia Record, in (company with his wife attended the Harper funeral last Friday and remain. ed a few days visiting friends, | =Mr. Edward Pruner, of Tyrome, | recently purchased the old McAllister residenceon Allegheny Street for $10. 000, Itishis intention to remodel the building and make it a handsome res. idence, ~Col. Spangler and wife returned from Hastings in time to spend Thaoks. giving at their beautiful home on Alle. gheny street. The Col. is attending court this week, after which he will re. turn to Hastings. ~Application was made at this ses. sion of court by members of the “Un. dine Fire company No. 2, of Bellefonte,” for a charter, which should be granted. The organization wants things in proper shape and that is one thing essential to BUCOesS, I, Bellefonte Grain Market. Corrected weekly by Geo. W. Jackson 808: White wheat, iE DUMRO in rn fi wok eign Shelied vo . bushe Yl re — PROVISIONS, GROCERIES 80. (8% corrected
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