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VOL. 15.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURS
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DAY, DECEMBER
7, 1893.
NO. 48
The Centre Democrat,
EDITOR
CHAS. R. KURTZ, ~
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When subscriptions are not pald inside of three |
years $2.00 will be charged.
CLUB RATES,
The CENTRE DEMOCRAT and
Philadelphia Weekly Times one year for
The CENTRE DEMOCRAT and $1 75
New York Weekly World one year for he
Fditorial.
TaE grip is again becoming an epi- |
demic in many sections of the cou.ly.
esniininins
Coxanress convened in regular ses
sion on Monday. Action on the Wilson |
tariff bill, the democratic measure, will |
be the all absorbing topic. |
IT is perfectly natural that individ-
uals could be found in Bellefonte who
will oppose everything attempted by |
the Bellefonte Board of Trade to ad.
vance the interest of the town. Moss |
backs become a necessary »vil and must
be endured.
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S message |
was a surprise to the many who ex.
pected to see it deal alone with tariff
reform. He emphatically endorses the |
Wilson taciff bill
ure and urges its passage. Other public |
questions are given due and full atten-
tion.
as a consistent meas- |
Tuere will be little change in busi.
ness affairs for the present. The dis. |
posal of the tariff question will natural
ly hold certain industries in suspense |
until the conclusion is reached. There
will be some important changes in the
existing schedules and business men
and manufacturers are awaiting the
result. The change will naturally cause
some disturbances but when that period
has been passed we predict lasting |
benefits. Patience for a few months.
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Tne repuplican organs are playing |
their partisun music. The announce- |
ment of the Wilson tariff bill and |
Cleveland's message has set them in |
motion. Failures, distress in business,
no employment for laboringmen, starva- |
tion and kindred evils are their doleful |
tunes. That is all that can be expected |
from partisan papers. An endorsement |
of a democratic tariff policy in a re. |
publican sheet would naturally be al
curiosity—a genuine freak worthy of a |
place in a dime museum.
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Tue Loudon Standard offers the fol. |
lowing criticism of the proposed Wilson |
tariff bill and Cleveland's message en. |
dorsing it:
“From our point of view, in spite of |
Mr, Cleveland's friendly attitude ows | Vine aa
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the proposed new tariff as the work of |
Its natural consequence is |
ard England, we might almost
an enemy.
to create a new competitor for our bus.
experience and the benefit of cheap raw
inaterials may lead to better things in
other directions.”
Thisisa frank admission that this
country, with free raw materials, will
be able to enter the foreign markets and
be a strong rival of our English neigh.
bors. This does not indicate the down.
fall of our manufacturing industries.
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Commercial Trinmph,
If a hint from an official source be
founded on fact President Cleveland
has succeeded in accomplishing some.
thing that will make his administration
one of the most distinguished in
American history and one of the most
popular, in making a new treaty with
China, under which the government of
China agrees to purchase annually silver
produced by American mines to the
value of 250.000,000—-about our entire
product—and to throw its markets open
to our manufacturers. It has been the
dream of Earopean statesmen for many
years to get the valuable Chinese trade
for their respective countries, and if
President Cleveland has succeeded he
has gained the greatest international
commercial triumph of the century,
one worth untold wealth to the people
of the United States, and one that will
soon give us the commercial supremacy
of the world,
Received Mis Plane,
Osborne M. Hanna drove from Cross
Forks to Westport, a distance of twenty-
three miles for the purpose of taking
home with him a plano he had ordersd
from New York, evidently in answer to
an advertisement stating that such an
instrument would be sent for one dol.
lar.
much disgusted when a five pound box
was handed to him. The package was
opened, and snugly tucked away in it
‘was a toy plano,
$1.45 |
| over the field and study how the victory |
i was won and wha did the best
{ In
| surprises in store
| party,
{ It had a strong ticket.
i made a thorough canvass and the re.
i cast in 1802 for Cleveland in
| from which
Boggs twp :
i Penn township
| Potter twp
i Spring twp. { South precinet
abi nd we can only hope that | 3
nest abroad and we cant GRIY hope tha | disgrict except worth township whose
| THE BANNER DISTRICTS. |
WHERE THE LARGEST VOTE
WAS POLLED.
| For Domoerntic Candidates in Centre County
~Worth Township and Millhelm Bor
ough ahead,
After a hard fought battle is over it
becomes a pleasant diversion to look
work.
the last election there were some
for
in times was
i
The depression
sorely feit by many and was quite
{ natural that the party in power, under
{ most any circumstances, would suffer,
: shat hope §
whether it
descrvid IL or not
The democtats of Centre county did
nobly. The party was well organized,
sult was that handsome majorities were
:
i recorded,
A comparison was made of the vole
each dis
Also an average vole this year
a4 per
The
trict.
centage
ascertained, average vole of a
{ district was obtained by making a sum |
| of the votes cast in the district and then
dividing it by the number of candidates
| voted for,
The following is the result for each
| polling place.
WL)
BOROUGHS
AND
ses PULL
TOWNSHIPS.
{North Ward
Bellefonte, < South Ward
{ West Ward
Centre Hall borough
Howard borough.
Milesburg borou
Millheim DOrough oo. coon
| First Ward...
Phillipsburg { Second Ward
{ Third Ward...
South Philipsburg
Unionville borough.
Benner township...
North precine
Bast preeinet
West precinet..
ERIE LES
wife
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| purnside township...cw.
. § East precinet.
College twp. | West’ precinei,
Curtin toWnSRIP cee cvonsonsnns
Ferguson twp, } nga pr as
Norih precines.|
Hat inet |
so] precinet.;
p § East precinet.|
Hains twp } West prectnet]
Half Moon township
Harris tow TMD com w————
Howard township
Huston township
Liberty township
Marios township
| East
Miles twp. { Midd
{ West
Patton township
Gregg twp.)
jrosine..
# precinet
precinet...
§ North precine
! Bouth precine
§ North precinct
{ South precinet
§ East prec
| West pree
North precinet
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Rush twp
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Snow Shoe twp,
Zw in w Gy t T mh
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West precinet
Taylor twp ————
Union township... oom
SIP vs irer ian
£28 R
ey
Worth .........
| From the above it will be seen that
{ there was a slight falling off in each
per centage is 107.24. Among the
| boroughs Millheim comes in for first
honors &s its percentage is the highest,
96.23, with Unionvill close to it at 95.48,
In some townships there was a decid. |
ed falling off and indicates that many
voles were left at home.
Worth township and Millheim boro |
{ come in for first honors.
A rb .
A Record Nreaker
8, C. Keissinger died recently in Toby
i township, Clarion county, aged 03 years.
He was married at the age of 19. When
he was 30 he was the father of eleven
children. When the eleventh child was
a few weeks old he and his wife went on
a visit leaving the next younger with
| Mrs. Keissinger's sister and the nine
others at home. In their absence the
house took fire and the nine ehildren
| were burned to death. During the next
ten years eight more ehildren were born
to them, when his wife diad at the age
of 356 wears, the
children
and his second wife bore him fifteen,
making him the father of thirty-four
children at the age of 61 years.
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An Tmpracticabls Scheme
An exchange says:
past an expert on forestry employed by |
a big land company, has been examin. |
ing the barren hills of Cameron, Elk, |
Clinton and Clearfield counties as to
the feasibility of reforesting them with
pine from the seed. According to the
expert it will take 100 years from the
time the seed were planted before the |
timber would be of marketable size.
, Figuring on this basis the expert de.
The Renovs News pays he was
clares that the scheme would be profit.
able, but for one thing forest fires,
There is no way to prevent the latter
and so the project is declared imprac-
ticable.
|
the demoeratic |
The candidales |
has been |
mother of ninsteen |
Soon after he married again
For some time |
MONEY BAVERS
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| ro ublicans but even by some democrats
{about the enormous cost of the special
| . .
{examiners who have been employed tor
|
8 ne months to investigate suspected
| frauds on the pension roll that Secretary
| Smith's statement on the subject, in his
{annual report, is decidedly interesting
las well as timely. The much talked of
| special examiners have unearthed actual
frauds in Town, New Mexico and Vir.
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| ginia alone which saved the government |
| more than the entire cost of salary and
maintenance of all the special exami.
{ ners employed by the Pension Bureau to
say nothing of cases elsewhere. So the
special examiners are money savers for |
the goverment instead of money wasters, |
Secretary Smith aiso calls attention to
the fact that in making suspensions he
has simply followed the policy that has
guided the Pension
with similar cases, The report endorses
the application of Arizona, New Mexico |
and Utah for statehood,
on
ASTATECOLLEGESCANDAL
Kiefer, n Junior, Taken From iis Bed and
Brutally Beaten
Kiefer, a member of the junior class,
was foreibly taken from his room in the
main dormitory building early Wednes-
day morning by a crowd of ten masked
i students to a neighboring woods and
{ beaten until he was insensible.
He lay where he w
as left by his assail.
ants until he was found by some work. |
men at 6,
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{ing. His condition is serious.
The cause for the cowardly assault is
| said to be the reporting of two cadets to
| the commandant for disorderly conduct |
The college authorities
are for the offenders,
{ will be dealt with according
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in their rooms.
searching
to law,
Constitutes a farm
| The question, “what does a man buy
| when he purchases a title to a farm?”
{ has often been asked but not satisfac.
| torily determined. From the latest de.
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| cisions on the subject, it is plain be buys
| the ground, of course, and all the bail.
{ing erected upon it, whether theve were
mentioned or pot. Healways buys all
the fences, nol material usel, then tak.
jen down and laid aside. nor material
| for a new fence, unless they are specially
{ mentioned. He also buys all adjuncts
necessary to the farm, except implements
{and machinery. For instance. if there
lis a pile of bean poles cut and once usd
| for the purpose, those go with the farm;
but if cut and never used they are the
seller's property unless specified as sold,
fallen or been blown down go wiih the
{ ground, bat if cut down and made into
wood they personal
| property, and to go with the land must
be specified in the sale.
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A Thrilling Experiences,
| Roland Steyenson, of Nittany Valley,
{had an experience while hunting for
dest ia the Daker Run valley a few
days ago which he will not soon forget,
He was accompanied by several friends
cord become
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Mr. Stevenson stepped into the jaws of
| & big bear trap.
| contrivance that held
| trap open, and quick as wink they closed
upon his ankle. The jaws of the trap
{ were fitted with long steel prongs which
the jaws of fhe
| fortunately passed on either side of Mr. |
Stevenson's ankle. The strong springs
| of the trap held his foot and leg as 2rm.
{ly as if in a vice, and the efforts of two
| men with a big lever were required to
extract him fromZhis unpleasant predic.
ament. The Lock Haven Express says:
| His ankle is considerably bruised by
}
pressure of the jaws of the trap, but no!
| hones were broken. The trap was go
{ picely covered over with leaves that had
| & man been looking for it he would not
have been likely to find it,
I
Thanksgiving Assembiy
The Thanksgiving assembly, given at
| State College on last Friday evening,
{was a brilliant social affair. It was
given by the members of tha class of "93
| who conducted it in an admirable man.
iner. The armory was handsomely dec-
| orated and with Stopper & Fisk's full
orchestra, and the many visitors from
other adjacent towns completed the
scene,
Holliday Opening.
| The season for making your holiday
| purchases is at hand and in this direc.
tion there is no place in town where you
| can find a larger variety of articles, a
{ finer selection of goods, or more appro-
| priate for the season than at Ed. Gar.
{ man's store. At this time a visit to his
store is a treat, His formal opening for
the holiday season will be next Satur.
| day and Monday, Dec. 9th and 11th,
{ So much has been said, not only by |
Jureau in dealing |
They carried him, helpless |
{ and bleeding, back to the college build. |
who |
Standing trees and those which lave |
{and while passing through the woods |
His foot touched the |
LIST OF DEATHS
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from a stroke of appoplexy.
was 63 years of age. Ie leaves a wid.
ow and four children. He
father of six children, viz:
of George Bitner; George, John dead,
cob at Bellefonte,
On last Thursday afternoon William
Swartz, & deaf inmate of the poor house,
{died suddenly, He had not been com.
| plaining previously and that afternoon
| Warren Burnside found his lifeless body
{in an out building. The deceased was
about 77 years of age and was the only
surviving brother of the late Dr. George
| Swartz, The funeral occurred on Sat.
urday afternoon.
Mrs. Louise Peters, of Unionville,
| died at the home of her son, William
| Peters, near Milesburg, on last Thurs.
day morning, where she had been visit.
{ ing and took suddenly ill with pneumo.
inia. She was in her 77th year.
funeral ogeurred on Saturday morning,
Three brothers, Elijah, William
{ Ezra Fisher and one sister, Mrs. Jacob
and
{ Hoover, all of Union township, survive |
Will. |
Mrs. |
her; also the following children:
tiam and Oscar, of Milesburg:
{ Charles Smith, of Bellefonte; Edward,
of Union township
| ville: Joseph, who lives
near Pleasant
| Crap.
Mrs. Geo. P, Hall died at her home
in Unionville, on Tuesday, November
the 25th, after an extended illness from
| consumption, aged 57 years, 11 months
and 10 days.
was Miller, She leaves a husband and
six children, four of whom are married.
Mrs. Hall's maiden name
Mis, Albina Hicklen died on Tuesday
i night at Toledo, Ohio, at the home of
{ her daughter, Mrs. Tipple, where she |
| had been living for several years past.
| The remains were brought to Unionville
ton Tharslay and the interment
{curred there the following day.
age was about 89 vers, She was a res
ident of Unionville for many years.
The deceased va: a grandmother of
Charles [licklen, clerk in the Flmst
National bank, Bellefonte,
Wilson I. Linn, Esq., a brother of
Hon. Jobn BK. Linn of Bellefonte, died
at his home in Philadelphia on Monday.
Mr. Linn had been ill only a few days.
oc
| rol occurred Friday at Great Valley,
Clwster county.
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Admission to Entertatnments
During institute week, which will be
held in the Garman opera house, the
following rates will prevail for admis.
sion to the evening entertainments.
Single admission 25 cents, except
Thursday evening, when a fee of
cents will be charged. Course ticket
81.06. An additional small sum will
be charged for reserved seats,
Officers of Tnstitute—C, L. Gramley,
President: W. P Hosterman, Vice
| President; A. A. Pletcher, Secretary;
| J. C. Morris, Roll Clerk.
Committee on permanent certificates
|—Irm N. McCloskey, Miss Jennie
Taliiheim, Miss Ella Levy, F. A. Fore.
man, J. G. Anderson.
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The Cantata
On Monday and Tuesday evenings,
{ of next week, a beautiful cantata will
| be given in the opera house, *“Jepthah
fand his Daughter,” by purely local
talent, under the direction of Prof.
| Kane. The proceeds will be for the
| benefit of the Y. M. C. A. Those who
take principal parts are J. C. McEntire.
{as Jephthah, Mrs. John Bullock,
| Jephthah'’s Daughter; Miss Meek, Miss
| Lindy, Lee Woodcock and other soloists
| will pe in the east. Handsome costumes
will be used and special scenery will
be necessary. The price of admission
will be fifty and thirty-five cents,
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Hunting for Gold.
Miflin county is all wrought up over |
the appearance of a man and woman
{ who are busy digging for a pot of gold
which they claim is hidden gear the
| foundation of an old log tenement house, |
jon the farm of Joseph Kyle, ten miles
| distant from Lewistown. The stranger
(says he dreamed, three consecutive
| nights, that & crime had been committed
{In that house and that tha pot of gold
| which caused it is still there, Mr. Kyle
{has concluded to let him dig until be is
t trad, he is altogether unknown in that
| community,
a a
~Merchant tailoring ia one of the
i specialties at the Philadelphia Branch.
| If you can’t buy a soit that will iit they
| can make one for you on short notice.
On Wednesday, of last week, Jacob |
| Meese died at his home near Tusseyville, |
Mr, Meese |
was the |
Mary, wife |
William In Illinois, Sally dead, and Ja-
The !
Alfred , of Reynolds.
Her |
PROFITABLE FEEDING.
HOW TO OBTAIN
BEST RESULT.
|
THE
With Mi'eh Cows
nt
Resunlt of an experiment
Pennsylvania State College--Of In
terest to Farmers
Bulletin No. 24 of the Station, just is
{ sued, gives the results of an experiment
| by Prof. Waters and Caldwell and Mr.
| Weld upon the question of the most pro- |
| fitable amount of food for a milch cow.
| In these experiments, ten cows were |
| fed a ration beginning with 810s. of grain
and 12 lbs. of hay and gradually increas.
ing up to as high as 19 Ibs. of grain and |
}
om 1
it AN
8. of hay per day and head and then
gradually decreasing to the original
| amount, Throughout the experiment, |
| accurate notes were taken of the amount |
of the food, the of
milk produced by each animal and its
butter value as determined by the Bab. |
cock test,
Perhaps the most striking lesson of
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liberal
and cost amount
the experiment is the demonstration
o
tha sufi
g the pro
ives of profit there is in
eeding. The cheapest ration used cost
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ana
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f
18.8 cts. per day
is
alueq §
produced butter
it 26.5 cents, making a net profit
7 cent An in-
cents per day per cow in
5 Per pay per cow.
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vil
38 ration made © dally
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3 4
Wie net
Lier 81 cents and
{
i difference
avor of
wr day or a
{of 1.6 cents per day per cow in f
| the more costly ration. In other words,
| the farmer who attempted to economize
| by feeding the cheaper wot
| with a herd of 25 cows, save $217
bills, but
ration
year on his feed woul
$337.00 worth of butter that he
have produced with the more
ration, so that his illjudged attempt at |
{economy would result in a net loss of |
$120.00,
The cheaper ration, moreover, is what
would ordinarily be considered a good |
ration, and the majority of dairymen |
costly
would be likely to feed Jess rather than |
more, yel the result of this Lulletin show |
conclusively that with cows as Lhese
the more expensive ration was really the |
more economical.
A further increase of the cost of the |
ration, however. (0 25.1 cents per day
{gave no further incacase in the |
butter product, and the net profit was |
thereby cut down to 5.9 cents per day or |
{1.8 cents Jess than with the cheapest |
ration of the three. lu other words, the |
{experiments indicate that there is a |
He was aged about 84 yeurs, The fun. | certain medium ration for each cow te
{ which will give the grealest net profit |
and that auy attempt to economize by
feeding less than this will result in al
{ loss, while, on the other hand, it is pos. |
sible to feed a cow too much as well as
too little. Generally, however, there is
more danger of feeding too little than
too much. |
|
The experi-pent also brings out in a |
striking light the great individ ual differ.
{ ences in cows and the great importance
of a careful study by the dairyman of
each individual of his herd, both as re.
gards the amount of milk and butler
produced and the cost of feed consumed, |
The net profit yielded by each one of |
the ten cows used in this experiment |
the wmadicm riian
wl TREC NT Te
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was tha sractoet rn
Tm whale gat amare Pia
on
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| but it varied in amount from cents
per day to 24 cents per day, equivalent,
for a milking period of 3% days, to $6.60
and $72.00 respectively.
The increased profit coming from the
better feeding, too, varied greatly with
different animals, some responding
promptly and freely to the increase,
while on others it produced but little
effect.
The figures of the bulletin show like.
{ wise what great differences in profit
| there may be between cows producing
very nearly the same total amount of
{ milk and butter per year. For example,
the records show that last year
Marguerite prpdoced 5450 Ibs, of
| milk and 206 ibs. of quitter.
Ramona produced 5,450 lbs,
{ and 279 lbs. of butter,
| By the customary standard of com.
| parison, Marguerite would have been
i
of milk
| regarded as the superior animal, bar.
ving difference in breeding, ete., and
[would have commanded the higher
{price. On comparing the daily nel
| profit relarned by these animals, how.
|ever, we [ind a remarkable difference
{ not indicated or suggested by the but.
ter and milk records,
Assuming that they remain fresh for
B00 days and taking the average net
profit per day of all periods, we have n |
yearly profit for
Marguerite of ..ocismmmmsns samen) 50
RAMONE Of corns. corsmmsmmssmmsirsssmssssnrsess $1.50
On tuis basis, at the end of six years, |
which, for this case, wo assume to bo |
the productive life of a cow, and dis. ,
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regarding the ‘offspring, they would |
| Total
{ doubt that as great d
{ found in any
found |
| statistician has been placed
have rade a total net return of
Ey Same son
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. 309.00
would
compound
of #108,
have paid the
of
Ramona...
This means that
have yielded ten
interest on a purchase
while Ramona would
same dividend on a pur
8208,
Again, in the case of Bianca produe.
Marguerite
per cent,
price
ase price
| ing 5,566 pounds offmilk and 332 pounds
| of butter last year,
| ing exhibit:
we have the follow
Average dally profit for all periods 4 cents
fide
__ 5
The reader may regard these as ex.
. '
Total net pr fi i One year
net profit for six YEArs
| treme cases, and yet they were selected
{ from the
| periment
ten animals used iz "
and
this ex.
there 18 no reason te
ifference might be
herd.
ain
The annual
bulletins of the
free of charge
respondence on
Addr
H.P. Ann
reports and quarterly
)
station will sent,
be
of Core
agricultural subjects
is
Tv |
rea. 8
Director,
Colleg
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A Mistake
rangements have
the above parties,
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Gathering Railroad Statisties
The department
now engaged in
of internal affairs is
prepairng statistics re.
Thex
show the developement of the oon.
garding the railroads of the state
will
solidations and absorptions that hav.
taken place, the leased lines and tho
Po
finunc flur
itll
that were ial failures, the numis
of employees on the road, the hours en.
gaged paid An
in
and wages expen
charge
of the work.— Harrisburg Call.
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Standing Reward
The postmaster general, has anthoriy
ed a standing reward of 81.000 for the
arrest and conviction of any person whe
shall rob the mail while being conveyed
in mail cars ; $500 for any one who shall
rob the mail while pas<ng r star
routes, and $250 for any one who sha!
attempt to rob the mail while in transi
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-If you are thinking of baring win
r clothing be sure to call on Lewins
and see his stock. His prices always
suit,
Pennsylvania has fifty-two of ber
sons in the national congres, six of them
being in the senate. Two senators and
twenty-eight representatives make up
her own membership. Two of the
others are representing Massachusetts
districts, two Missouri, and ten other
states and one territory send one each,
~The Philad. Brasch makes &
specialty of childrens clothing this
season. Four brands—"The Little
General,” “The Little Czar,” “The
Little Senator,” “The Little King.™
All of them have double knees and
double seats. You get double wesy
therefore the best value. This is posi.
tively the finest and in the
market.
~The Little Czar" a brand of
clothing at Lewin’s with double knees
and double seats. You double
value,
We are Ready
For the Winter.
Youths’
best
best line
1%
get
Mens' Boys' and
boots of the
We
heavy
makes handle, princi-
ply, Dayton and Towando's,
and every boot wearer knows
what they are,
Alsoa full line of heavy,
warm shoes for ladies just
the thing for the season,
Don’t our school
shoes we think weare ahead
style and fit
and for low prices we beat
‘em all.
forge,
As 10 service,
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MINGLE'S...
...SHOE STORE.