he Centr ocral, anon VOL. IT. BELLEFONTE. PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, I 895. — NO. 9 CHAS. R. KURTZ, ED. & PUB. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : Regular Price If paid in ADVANCE £1.50 per year. 81.00 CLUB RATES: Fug CENTRE DEMOCRAT one year | fy h) 5h and the twice-aweek World one year | for 1.70 THE CEXTRE DEMOCRAT one year | K and Phila. Weekly Times one year \ for $1.45 Kditorial. Wao killed the poor valley came in solid against it. -> house? Penns. Bos PATTISON run once too often. We are but he should have known better. sorry, - WiLL Bellefonte have an investiga. tion of the Overseer of the Poor depart. ment. We believe it needs it, - CoxNarEss hasa few more days to remain in session, and when it disbands the country will take a breathing spell, | lean Epmuxp A. BigrLer, of Clearfield, was recently appointed Internal Reve- nue collector for the 23rd, district Clearfield has been faring well of late in the line of federal appointments IT is simply amazing the amount of bills offered in the legislature to get af the State revenues, There are enoug now, if only one-half State would seems as though every I ’ soon be bankrupt, i member a slice. — -- GOVERNOR HASTINGS Tuesday to warn l the state treasury can traordinary draft whicl it should all the bills i creating new offices and propriations to state institu laws. - THE inquisitorial i tor is at work just now. come of more that an i pecte 1 to contribute a the same annually to pay the sol widow pensioners. It may ann but it helps manv a This democratic scheme WY OS me, wil. needy vetlel is not so bad add -— Tir inflated schemers from South ap? West, both republicans and 11d ¢ 2; democrats, cheap money legislat last session of congress, Ti to be congratulated that we with the honesty and Cleveland at the Whi serve the nation’s credit, ->- ELECTION OFFICERS PAY Ho te The election boards of the North South Wards of Bellefonte accept the customary that as they The demand day, claimin after midn two days pav commissione fused their We that they have engaged will test their claim in court. In refusing this claim, the commis- sioners acted in accordance with custom and upon the advice of the County So licitor, D. F. Fortney, Esq. Mr. Fort. ney informed the writer that the opin. ions of many Common tain him, and that they are simply car. rying out their instructions. two boards are entitled to additional pay, under the law, the county commis- sions will be found willing and ready to accede Lo any just demand; and under the circumstances they are not deserv ing of censure. The abusive article that appeared in the Daily News recently, and very likely written or directed by an election offi- cial, shows that his gentlemanly 1n- stincts are somewhat blunted and his side of the story was greatly weakened by use of such invectives, because others have an honest difference with him. It is generally claimed that these election boards loitered about in their work, with the purpose of continuing in session until after midnight. They are accused of this; true or not, we can not say. But such things frequently oceur, The result of this case will be watched with much interest as it will establish a precedent for others, 4 o ght were en leas Courts sus- Cheering News Tor James Kerr, Clerk of the House Kerr of Clearfield, received two pieces of news Tuesday that made him feel very proud as a father. One was that his son Fred. had been appointed a cadet at West Point by Congressman Kribbs. The other was that his son Albert, now a ‘tudent at Yale, had been chosen one of the editors of the college monthly after a hot contest. Fred Kerr is captain of the high school cadets, a crack military organization of Washington city, entre demoeat, If these FOR SOCIETY SNOBS. FARAWAY MOSES ON WARD McALLISTER. A Ringing Rebuke to the Worth. less, Useless, Thoughtless drones of Society. Snobs in every coms- munity. A few weeks ago Ward McAllister, ler and dictator of New York's most fashionable society, He 1 { man, for in him was vested the aut | ] the famous lea Was called to his reward. was a noted hori- not Before f society worshiped to gain an entrance to the ‘‘sel or properly the In last weeks issue of ty to select who should and shoul be this man the snob among the “best set.” few” exclusiye ** 400." the Grit, Fara- way Moses pays his compliments to the | memory of Ward McAllister the society snobs with which every commu. nity to a certain degree is infested, and eCcL more and from which we make the following ex- tracts: A few days ago society was sh the extent of learning death of that noted cad, Ward ter. The whole world was | hearing of the eve buat no | Had his deat! occurred in corn cutting time, the corn wy of the McAlis. on nt, t enough 80's you could notice it. » | crop would have been shocke | His death should be $ that they | society people | the fool-killer all t {ally getting the m out of them Ward was a ver but of wh at use he w world is more than [ ca: upin the New | posed of silk, sa | gall, glitter and gush, so Ward { compelled to seek a ci great le hrough all eternity with | Now, I wander if tl { chance for an old duck like me to get the | vacant chair left empty by poor Ward? | I believe { coud soon become a lead. | { €r of society, as 1 have led milk cows to | pasture, and mules to water and never | had any troub’e at all, and 1 on ] ese society cattle 1 lead t} . new me with ¢ but the A Zur r mind 18 being ng quits y | lost the idea and went | ual habit of chewing gun up their “pawnts’” when the spr “eawnt” vl in London If I was eader of New York society I would lead them down througt poor quarters where the tenement i abrog the hells MELAS | are, and the sweal-shop, death-breeding moral-destroying toil. LS) | kill to man, is in full blast God-forsaken ng imquisition of 1 vand I w them and show them where their, boasted inc And I would I them by putting a poor consumptive or scrof ulons-eaten victim on their back, and then lead back to their gilded churches, and parade them before God with the victims of their greed their sinful shoulders. Of course I couldn’t appreciate all their exquisite and rare flowers with the same msthetic taste of an old society | fraudsham, but I could tell them more about the people who wear patches on | their clothes, more about the wrongs of | these people, more about their trials, sufferings, outrages, their joys and sor- rows, hopes and dreams, than they ever | heard of before, I would take them from their over- | heated and artificial-smelling ball rooms, mos me came from vd each one of them upoa | where the women appeal to the sensual | nature of man with their bareshoulders | and naked busts, and lead them out in. | \ | to the 8s weet smelling country where the | earned his own subsistence by fishing | | the barn yard cock crowing, the cow { bell tinkling on a thousand hills, the | bees humming on every flower, and the | Jolly farmer following the plow or cul. | birds are singing, the flowers blooming, | tivator until he passes over the gentle | | brow of the nearest hill, and the two | moon-sized patches on his rear horizon | passing out of sight in that pathetic | manner mentioned in seripture, where | the doves went forth from the ark and | were lost in the mist which still hung |over a drowned world; and I would convince them that God made the coun. { try, while the devil and the real estate " dealers built up the city on sham. shocked on | believe I | But we ought to thank God that there are only 400 in each city who con. sider themselyes too inhuman to belong to the general herd of God’s creatures, aud that the fool-killer’s arm has not grown weary in well-doing, and will ultimately knock the mortal duodenum out of the whole mob, and return them back to the nothingness they were be. fore nature called them into existence without giving them any gray matter in their spoon full of brains. But it isa sad and lamentable fact that we find symptoms of the sacred 400 in almost every little town and vil. lage. to only oneor two families, according to the size and wealth the place. Sometimes the symptoms run out into the farming districts, and the farmer who lives on sandy soil imagine that he Sometimes this symptom amounts @ Oi isa great deal more human than his neighbor who liv therefore, feels | es on clay soil, and, iimself socially above his poor clay soil neighbor, and wouldn't let his daughter marry a clay soil son, | unless that clay soil boy accidentally fell heir to quite a gob of boodle through the death of a relative who was raised on sandy soil potatoes. But its something great to be a lead- er in society, Why good lands of brass | knobs on a horned toad, I have seen | their sake of following ale wives and mothers neglect fami- iT 4 ety, getting { lies for the mere at the tail end of so a chance to talk scandal er's wife, or the daughters he empty moment, and from his under the f DOO ma high pedestal | . 4 DIAYE All & I Ward McAlister’s place at the head of | New York's 300 lost sheep, just to perience how It feels to acquire n his own estima. | tion as one better than the balance of God's two. legged creatures w me | would die with an overdose of bile in less than two weeks, as] have always 14 yt it enough to set one up Teoms been awfully biliou since | It must 1 y the Peter, wi ike | and weak of this cheerless world take a whole s to stand before " Peter ar that his whole life has been squandered ~t confess in sensual pleasure—in eating, drinking, dancing and and living on the toll of those whom politi. eal power has placed cruel hands of the rieh and arrogant. Ah, good lands of cheek on the face of a brass clock, it must take an awful gob of gall for a society leader, or even a society follower, to put pious look of a church member and pretend to follow in the footsteps of one who was born in a stable and never wore a diamond pin or a dress coat, nor lived off the rental of tumble down tenement hells or gilded saloons. , dressing ROSKIping, within the on the It must take gall to squander brain | and muscle, and life, and opportunity to do good in a world of misery—to de. spise the honest hand of toil and the noble heart of domesticity—to live the vain life of animal sensuality and use. lessness, and pose as the especially fav. ored of a great and just God, and then lay down and die without having pros! duced one single iota of that which feeds and clothes hungry humanity. Such a man has died and gone back | to ashes, having done less to benefit his mee than the ignorant and illiterate inhabitant of Terra del Fuego, who | for crabs on the bleak shores of his bar. [ ren island home, and ate his grand. mother when she became too old to eat | tough clam. And yet men will sigh to take his place, and his imitators will teach their children to ape after his teachings, and our wise (7) statesman, and even our president, will feel honored to receive an invitation to attend a ball given by these worthless, useless, thoughtless drones, while the real bone and sinew, sot] and mind of the republic are toil ing in the shops, mines and flelds to | support the fashionable corruption. | FARAWAY Moses, _ | Valley. and minor ex. | gall | | Three DEATH OF PHILIV COLLINS On last Saturday evening the vener- able Philip Collins died at his home in Ebensburg, Pa., after an extended illness with rheumatism and kidney af- fection. About a week previous his brother Thomas Collins, of Bellefonte, received a telegram, summoning him to Ebensburg at once where he went and remained by the bedside of his brother until the end came. As Mr. Collins was a prominent man and identified with important prises in this section of the following brief of his enters state, the sketeh interesting 1ife is given Philip Collins was born in Cambria country and was one of a large family, being survived by two brothers, Thom. as, of this place, and Peter, of Philadel. phia, and three sisters, Mrs. Ellen Shoe maker and Misses Sarah and Elizabeth Collins of this place. Early in life in company with | Thomas, under the he launched forth as a railroad contractor and has built more roads than perhaps any other man living. The firm's first eontract was on the old Portage road in Cambria county, and since that time they have built and helped to build the Pennsylvania lines, the West Penn, the | Southern Pennsylvania, Beech | Creek, Bellefonte Central, Lewisburg {and Tyrone many miles for th name of Collins Bros y the e¢ Lehigh 1 he Ce Heal roads, lebrat- Cumber- | successful undertakis tors having pres their attempts | years ago they | of building the great B and, ment to sup collapsed al owing 1 i {enterprise al | 1 { wit} 4 Ww | and four he having, in company | MeClure and Fi ink M | ed that paper, and also coutinued as a bese folder tn {in a few years; the company up lo wit} demo. Case of Apoplexy 1 aged Thursday ome of her so neat lieved her, Her home is at Zion, Pa., wh husband Joseph Stover, died some years of She was about 70 years children survive her Isaac, Zion, Pa., Noah J., Bonaccord, Ks: and Mrs. Kaufman, Centre Hall. The | interment occurred on Monday at Zion. -——— - Womans Paradise A woman's paradise exists in the In. { dian ocean. The tiny island of Mini i 3 | coy, midway between the Maldive und | Laccadive group, 18 entirely under fem- | | nine rule, the men humbly taking the | second place on every occasion. The | woman is the head both of the govern. ment and of the home, and when she marries her husband takes her name and bands over all his earnings through. out his married life. donning red silk and earrings, while the lower ten appear in dark striped silk of coarser quality, .——— -— For Pennsylvania Volunteers Congressmen Sickles of New York, viding that military organizations fur. nished by Pennsylvania under the Pres. idents call of June 15, 1868, whick ren. dered actual military service, shall be considered to have formed of the mili tary establishment of the United States, The secretary of war is authorized to issue certificates of discharge for all honorably discharged members of the organizations referred to, but no person is to receive any pay, pension bounty or other allowances by reason of this act. ¢ | community they | ight a age. | Silk gowns are | the universal wear, the upper classes | has introduced a bill in the house pro. | SHOULD INVESTIGATE. THE POOR DEPARTMENT BAD SHAPE. Let the Boro Auditors Audit as they should—An Investigation Needed—MecClure’s Political Anxiety. IN well to results Bellef interesting con- and 1t is the The election is over reflect upon of causes that led thereto. In we had an unusually OMe and mie test, and none more striking than that for Overseer of the Poor. For years the Overseer of the Door department, in Bellefonte, has justly been the object of grave suspicion. When candidates would spend sums of money to corrupt they was evident that that department worth seeking for—something in it. While for years past this department has been notoriously rotten to the core, yet noone has succeeded any guilt upon the officials by legal pro- ceedings. They have always been cun- ning enough to cover over their work. At the same time we have a known in- debtedness in this department of about $8,000 ,and the community can look for a surprise when the outstanding orders are brought in and the real amount is made known. When James MeClure became a cane didate for re-election, some | thoughtful | party of the more OK of the good of the change would be desirable. McClure became | desperate; his beneficiaries were aroused, an adverti | , {in the { bread, { primaries, to the poor. This buying of 3 defeated » pul ¢ that he was { for nomination by At the elect) i ceedingly active bers, the republican « {ditor, and H, H. Harshberger for Over. { seer of Poor, and he s peded, T1 | men expressed a desire t | the offices of Auditor and Overseer for {the purposes of iuvestigsting tht de. | partment. They now claim that | were defeated for that | They attribute | McCls mn {or beneficiary they ire inguced borough to vot ig Chambers 1 of being honest ; posed McClure Lo cause suspic he the writer by above comm a promin Bellefonte, as h should, a ' . estigation of and complete inv seer of the Poor Departmen There is no question but th 1 Peo- ple look upon McClure's administration | with Mr. Mel and if he can stand sucn an investigation, he, Lefore should invite it, much knows that well enough, suspicion, all, 80 that he may en- { joy the confidence of the public in the future. If his conduet will not bear in- spection, he naturally would oppose it. Some one will say, we have a Board of Auditorsffor that purpose, but the fact lis they seldom AUDIT. So often they are simply men of clerical ability, who will only add up a row of figures and strike a balance—too often they simply do clerical work instead of auditing. An Auditor should examine into every account—inquire after, investigate ; see | that the vast expenditures of that de partment are made according to law. That is what we need. That is what | the present Board of Auditors should {do. Employ able council to assist them, {and the taxpayers of this community | | will heartily endorse them. Do they have the courage to act ? | remains to be seen. Mr. Hepburn the newly elected demo- cratic official should insist upon such a It gins. Otherwise the wrongs of a pred. ecessor might be shoulders, department. A —— —— on Saturday evening. Was | | which he 1 ) be elested to | “lure | loaded upon his Lat there be a clearing up of the poor «Charley's Aunt” is a sure cure for the blues, if you go to the opera house | —— THE MUCH-VILIFIED The popular pastime of republican has turning their attention to abuse of Presi- den Cleveland. There is nothing tee mean or contemptible; but towering high above these party spitlicks, an occasional independent republican pa- per has the courage to speak the truth. We take the following from a recent is- sue of Harpers Weekly: organs of late been in ‘Republican speakers and republican newspapers have long been in the habit of emptying on Mr, Cleveland’s head all the vials of their wrath and ridicule. They have denounced and vilified and lampooned his out measure of | Inercy. them, he must be one of the most contemptible Prasi- dents we ever had. Now, we do not l ng to Mr. Cleveland's He has done things that we have found fault with, and aot done things that we think he ought to have done in contemplating the exhibition Mr. Reed, one of the bitter- est scoffers, has made of himself, we remember that the time when the last Presidential t was approach- ing it was generally thought Mur Cleveland could easily obtain the dem ocratic nomination for the Presidency if Le would only do something to con ciliate the very powerful silver seal ment in his own He was told so ratic politicians y. What did he with To believe by any means bel | | blind admirers 14 ut eiecLion party. | ing was held against silver ix land wrote a | meeting ne flantly pe nounced f He virtus the Pres ly, took the dency out of his pocket and shook the face of his party, saying, “You { do with this thing what you please, | here are my views of the public inter ul not budge. elected At bau ’ intry is i disgrace, with absolute confidence exert his utmost power to save | that confidence is | matter whether he | v ' w! wort or not. « ol umbia Cumbe: Somerset, Union lin, Clear The pen: r near the | provides mmission 34 priate $1008 ase of the same, ele. ————— Fine Stock On Thursday March 21st, Mr. Ada Y earick, of Jacksonville, will offer his farm stock at publ Among his stock well bed and six mileh c with Jersey stock and are considered the best to be had. He says there is no better or more | profitable stock. ity of Harrisburg for the appointment of a « select a site, and for the pure! app » sale two Jersey bull are WS crossed CREATES] SALE OF FINE FOOTWEAR )X( This is a chance of a life- time to buy Good Shoes fipac ea Poor Shoe Prices 1 course so that the people may know the | exact condition of things when he be- | These goods are of STANDARD MAKES and in the heightivef Fashion; Prices cut to owed half their value at Mingle’s Store.
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