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CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop.
REMEDY: FOR
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| workingman and his family would be
OVERPRODUCTION |
the Cause for Labors
Great Distress
What is
decently clothed: food and fuel! and
other creature comforts would abound;
would supplied with
papers, magazines and books; objects of
charity would be reduced to a minimum:
every mill and factory would be put in
requisition and the wage of labor would
every cabin be
| be advanced without resorting to strikes.
LARGE FIELDS FOR LABOR |
The Scarcity of our Medium of Exchauge may
Cause Much Distress—Scheemes that Rob
Labor of its just Rewards—Momepoly of
Money is the Danger.
A distinguished statesman was asked
why there was such a universal dissatis-
faction and distress among those who are
engaged in productive industry. His |
prompt reply was: “There are too many
workingmen.'’ This opinion is entertain.
ed quite extensively and is worthy of con- |
sideration. We think the opinion is un- |
sound and superficial. There are too
many idle men, too many whocanunot ob-
tain by their labor a comfortable living
for themseives and their dependents, “In
the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat
bread” is a decree of the Almighty, and
all attempts to evade it have been fruit-
ful of disastrous results,
If the able statesman referred to had
said that there were too many men who |
lived upon the earnings of their fellow
men he would have come nearer the
truth,
There never were too many toilers and
there never will be until briars and thorns
have ceased to grow and cumber the
ground. The schemes and contrivances
by which the few robthe many are too
numerous to be catalogued. Some able
writers have insisted that wars are neces-
sary to rid the earth of a surplus popula-
tion ; that the mouths multiply faster
than the means of subsistence. If that is
true it impeaches the wisdom of the
Creator,
There may be too many workers in a |
articular field of industry. This isa | : :
parity ed | at Grazerville, met with a serious acci-
{dent a short
condition which will correct itself. It is
as true now as it was when the proclama-
tion was made that “the harvest is plen. |
teous, but the laborers are few.”
refers, of course, to the spiritual wants of
:
mand for man's physical well being, |
There are too many who are living in
enforced idleness, It isnot that the fields
of usefulness are already overstocked
with toilers, but there is misappropriation
of the products of toil
who eat their bread iu the sweat of
other's brow,
too many millions
The fields of labor are almost infinite.
and so are the adaptations of man to oc.
cupy them. Every advance in civiliza-
tion develops new wants, and industries
are divided, subdivided and diversified.
There is no overproduction of human be-
ings or of the good things of life, but there
is a defective distribution. The medium
of exchange by which the distribution is
effected must be made adequate to the
demand. This medium of exchange we
call money. In primitive society, where
wants are few and simple, barter or ex-
change of products can be effected with-
out an instrument of exchange. The
necessity of money increases just in Pro-
portion to the division and diversifying of
industries, The danger to be guarded
against is a monopoly of the medium of
exchange,
The of the
abundant proofs of the
furnishes
of the
legal endowment of more than one mae
terial the functions of money,
When there is only one article clothed
history world
necessity
with
with the power of measuring, 1
ing and exchanging there is
danger of its being controlled by a few
persons to the irreparable injury of the
many... When two commodities are set
apart for money use, and either is mon.
opolized, the other comes to its relief
Such a robber scheme confronts the peo-
ple of the United States now, Silver and
gold are helpmates to each other and
their perfect adaptation to ‘the needs of
the human race bas been demonstrated |
in every generation. Ninety-nine hun.
dredths of the exchanges are made
through the agency of silver. It is the
favorite of the world's toilers. Gold is
the money of acquired wealth and is
used in large transactions. If treated
alike justice and equity may be maintain.
ed between the rich and the poor, With
either metal disfranchised an equitable
and just distribution of the products of
industry is impossible, We differ wholly
from the diagnosis of the political doctor,
however learned he may be, wh attrib.
utes the unsatisfactory condition of the
country to an overproduction of work.
ing people. We would have our toilers,
consumers as well as producers, This
epresent.
values,
desirable condition can never be realized i
without an essential increase in a medi.
um of exchange. The unlimited coinage
of gold and silver and an ample supply
of Government credit money, and the
great army of the unemployed will be
disbanded, the crowded tesements would
be relieved of their burdens, patched
rags would be thrown aside and the
| generosity of public
Subseribers are reminded that the next
| quarter's payment on subscriptions will |
| be due April 1, and prompt payment is
{
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Cin. Enquire.
.
Pat a Beggar on Horseback, etc.
It being reported in the neighborhood, |
says the Perry County Freeman, that the
widow Oscar, who, with her two boys
and a girl, livesin Mr. Archy's tenant
house, was in need of help, word was
| sent through the neighborhood that there
{ would bea donation party at her house
on Saturday, and in consequence the en-
| tire community turned out to help her,
That the donation was a success was
evidenced by the fact that her two boys |
sold enough dried apples to the huckster
on Monday morning to get enough money
to buy two new coon dogs and a mouth-
organ, and thus, through the charity of
the neighbors, the gaunt
starvation be kept from the widow's door
will wolf of
for a season.
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A Licemse Not an Asset.
The supreme court, Monday, render.
ed a decision 1n a license matter which
fixes definitely the fact that a license
held by a saloon keeper does not become
an asset of his estate, if the owner of the
license dies before its expiration, and
does not go to his representative, but the
ET
sell at a particular place may
the value of that which the executor or
administrator may Il. The
matter came before the supreme court
fact that a license had been anted to
increase
have to se
onan appeal froma decision of the or.
phans’ court of Philadelphia by Lewis J
L. Buck, executor of the estate of Syl.
vester B. Buck deceased,
.—
Farmer Shows His Nerve.
-.
Jobo K. Martin, a farmer, who lives
distance west of Tyrone
station last Thursday, and within 100
That | yards of the home of William McNelis,
{ to which place be crawled or walked ou
: is is left leg b
the world, but it is just as trae of the de. | his knees with his left leg cut off between
the knee and ankle. To get to McNeils’
home he had to climb up a twenty foot
embankment,
He declined to give a correct account
of the accident. It is
Altoona on a freigin
supposed that he
was riding from
train, and in an attempt to get off he fell
Pp
with his leg across the rail and the cars
1un over it
a
Mind It.
Aun exchange says that the newspaper
He Don't
field is a wide field of roses and thorns.
When you roast the preacher the ungod-
ly smiles ; when you roast the ungodly
the preacher smiles. If you roast the
saloon man the teetotaler smiles: when
you roast the teetotaler the saloon man
willingly sets themup. If you swear you
are a wicked man, and if you pray you
are a hypocrite,
you get cussed, and if you don’t you are
a nonent The preacher knows one
thing, the saloon man another, but the
newspaper man
everything
ity.
18 expected to know
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Fish Commission.
The
has ant
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
nced that it is ready to receive
and fill applications for trout fry. In
consequence of the State having failed to
make any appropriation for fish cultural
work, there will be ro applications re-
ceived or filled for species of fish other
than It has only been able to
make distribution of trout through the
spirited
trout,
citizens,
asked,
House Damaged by Lightning.
The house of Philip Moyer, at Keat-
ing Clinton county, near the Centre
county line, was struck by lightuing
during the storm Saturday night roth
and badly damaged, none of the inmates
were injured. The lightning damaged
the interior of the house badly and tore
the porch at the front of the building to
pieces The house was set on fire, but
the flames were extinguished before any
great damage from fire resulted,
William
Peter Herdle, who, with other
Williamsporters, went to the Alaska
gold fields time ago, has been
heard from, The is located along
Minook creek. Their claims have paid
from forty cents 0 $130 to the pas.
Nuggets were taken out worth from §s
to $100. " They anticipate handsome
clean-ups and good shipments of dust on
the boats coming out in the spring.
Ea ais SH RAY —— *
Alien Tax Unconstitutional,
Judge Martin Bell, in the Blair county
oe qsienay fccided. than the allen
tax act
If you have an opinion |
BELLEFONTE, PA. TH
SOUR
EXPENSIVE
WARFARE |
a Naval Conflict Cost
Dollars.
What in
FORTUNE IN AN HOUR.
| Powder and Projectiles are very Expensive
The Price per Shot—The Damage Would
be Twice as Great— $1,000,000 per Hour at
Least,
A paper has figured out that the cost
of an hour of battle between such ships
as the Massachusetts, belonging lo the
United States, and the Pelavo, of Spain,
would be nearly $1,500,000.
says :
The article
“Imagine a battle lasting only an hour,
In that time the Massachusetts might fire
her four thirteen inch guns 20 times, That
would mean So projectiles weighing 88..
000 pounds, or 44 tons, of hot shot and
Her
cight eight-inch guns might boom their
shell buried toward her opponent.
fierce greetings as often again, That
would mean nearly 36 tons more. Pow.
der costs 25 cents a pound, averaging the
different sorts used on a battle ship.
The quantity of powder used to eject
these 120 tons of projectiles from the
main battery only would amount to 60
The
iles cost ffom £4 to £18 each.
tons, or £30,000 worth. fuses for
these project
The number used would ap roxignate
¥
That
mean $1,500 more of money burged
100 would
The
projectiles, however, are the most ex.
and probably more.
pensive part of the whole fusillade. They
would make a hole in the $50,000,000 de.
fense fund of $240.000
“The very tiniest shot from the Massa.
chusett's Gatlings would cust so cents
and the larger ones $3 each, At 10 shots
| a minute from the 20 six-pounders, 12
shots from the four one-pounders, and 200
a minute from cach of the quartet of
Gatlings, on a conservative basis, the
secondary battery wounld hurl $10,000 |
worth of projectiles and burn $6, soo worth
fof powder. Thus as nearly as can be
calculated, the Massachusetts would ex-
pend a fortune of $295,000 in an hour.
“Then, consider her opponent. If the |
Spaniards worked their guns as rapidly
as we did ours and just as loug, the al.
ready depleted Spanish Treasury would
have suffered a forced draft of $65,000
more. A hot engagement of an hour's
duration, then, would mean more than
1
$500,000 worth of powder and shell ex-
pended. The damage done would be at
i least twice as much, dollar for dollar, ¢
w
$1,000 0
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A Strange Case at Milton
Word comes from Milton of a particu.
larly sad case. A few days ago Miss
Grace Wilson visited a local dentist to
have an aching tooth extracted, and by
request was placed under the influence
{of ether. After the operation had been
performed she was aroused, but did not
fully recover from the effect of the drug.
On
Saturday a week ago she became uncon.
scious aud seemed like one dead. A
physician was summoned and be pro.
She
until Tuesday
last, when she regained consciousness
Saturday her mind was unbalasced
nounced her to be in a trance.
mained
re.
in this condition
and told those around her that she had a
vision of beaven and hell and described
the beauty of the one place and the ter.
rible pain and suffering in the other.
She also said that Harry Farly, who was
then quite ill, wounid die at 6 o'clock
Tuesday night. This came true. From
that time on she has apparently ost her
reason,
.———
Fire at Miliheim,
On Sunday the people of Millheim |
were much excited by the alarm of fire
| that broke out in the Snook building, op-
| posite Musser’s hotel. A chimney filled
with soot took fire and owing to a defect.
ive flue the woodwork soon caught afire
and it was only extinguished after con-
siderable difficulty and damaging one of
the rooms considerably. The baliding
belongs to the Gephart estate and is one
of the principal business blocks in the
town. It was uninsured. Had this
building gone there is no telling where it
would have stopped as the street is com-
pactly built with frame structures and
there is no provision for fighting fire in
the town, except the ordinary bucket
brigade.
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He's a Big Man.
!
i
John 1. Brown, a supervisor of Cam. i
bria county, has refused an offer of $150 |
per mouth to travel with a show 1 Hu. |
rope. «Mt. Brown is 43 years old, «cighs |
424 pounds, measures 644 inches around |
the waist, and stands § feet, 8% inches 1m |
height. His wife died a year ago, leav. |
ing him with twelve children, with whom
he prefers to remain, and therefore re.
fuses to go abroad. He has been elected
| They rolled the child for
URSDAY, MARCH 11, 808.
FLOATED ON THE FLOOD
A Two-Year Old Child Rescued
Watery Grave,
From
last week the
Bellefonte,
creeks in and around
high.” Friday
morning a two-year-old child of Frank
Garret, of near this place,
away from fell
carried down the stream a distance
were very
wandered
home and in and was
be.
fore discovered,
Joseph Ayers and James Valance hap-
the
they saw the body of the
child coming towards them. The water
being swift it was rescued with dificulty,
pened to be putting trout fry in
stream when
two hours be.
fore it regained consciousness
a
At the dame Stand 42 Years,
Our old friend, Balser Weber, of How -
ard, well-known all over the county, is
owe of our oldest business men. He has
been in the mercantile business in that
town and in the same building for 42
years, and is still about the counters to
arc
wait upon old friends while his sons
in charge of the store. In all his deal.
ings with the public in all this time Mr.
Weber bas gained a well-deserved repu
tation as a man of the strictest integrity
He never was sick aod is still in robust
bedlth,
sticks to the origina
“We
of wanting to E
5
and what 1s be admired, he
I German spelling of
the vanity
his name without
'
nels
NELSs
“"Weaver.'
Reporter,
Parchased Timber Lands
All of t
of the Darlington Kulp
1 - he
he farm and the
1
esiate were sold
at public sale at wamokin Friday.
Nearly all were bought in
H
thousand acre
by Congress.
man Monroe Kulp, of that place.
Forty of woodland and
>
three cleared
Mifflin,
Columbia and Northumberland counties,
Mr. Kulp also pur
the estate's interest in the exten.
located in Co
farms
Clinton, Snyder, Lycoming,
changed hands,
chased
sive lumber operations of Kulp, Thomas
& Co., at
third im
Milroy, thus secur a two
the latter,
erest in
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Successful lostitutes.,
The State's season of farm
closed last week and in speaking of the
institute work Deputy Secretary of Agri.
calture Hamilton said that
series held
stitutes
the
“The
John
was the best ever
work this year.” said be,
extended, than m
by large attendences
more
f snare 1
HG marked
year,
in every county In the neighborhood
of 250 institutes were held, and many new
features intr 1, while the speakers
were men of hig *putation
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Another Snake Story
Jom W. Saussaman, while digging out
shade trees on Bush mountain, near Ty.
a nest of
lifted
and was
last week, unearthed
Mr
stone from
rone,
snakes, Saussaman bad a
the side of a tree
diggiog about the roots when he found
blacksnakes curled a bunch,
and all
sieep,
Six up in
stiff from their long winter's
He killed them
measured his prizes
and afterwards
The longest snake
measured 6 feet 3 inches, and the short-
est one was 4 feet 5 inches
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mize the Croelty
.
indians Recog of it
Five hundred loyal American Chiy
pewa Indians offer their services to the
government in case of war. They are
shocked over Spain's barbarities in Cuba.
Their old methods of roasting their ene.
“run
mies at the stake and making thim
the gauntlet’ were gentle in comparison
with the slow tortures of Weylerite meth.
ods in Cuba.
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Dankard Colonists Leave
The Altoona Tribune savs a colony of
-
forty-five German Baptists or Dunkards |
| await the results of Mill's injuries, which
from Morrison's Cove and Altoona, have
gone to North Dakota, where they will
settle and engage in farming. The peo- |
ple intend purchasing farming land on
the installmesit plan, and being frugal
and industrious citizens they expect to
own their home inside a few years,
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Large Vaneral,
The funeral of Harry V. Smeltzer, at
Pleasant Gap, was largely attended last
Saturday morning. It will be remember.
ed the’ young man died at Selinsgrove,
where be was attending school, Quite a
delegation of students and others from
Selinsgrove were present. The services
were held in the Lutheran church,
Robbery at Mill
The Hotel Kyler, at Mill Hall, was
eutered by burglars Friday night. Eu.
trance to the office was effected through
awindow. From the cigar case drawer
£2 in movey was taken. The bar room
wis next entered and £8 in cash and two |
bottles of whiskey taken.
Prosperity in Nippenose Valley,
Farmer Emanuel Laubach has gone
into the show business. His old brindle
cow Tuesday morning gave birth to trip.
let calves. They are a lively family and
are attracting many visitors to the barn
in which they are housed.
The Centre Democra
FISH LAWS
CONDENSED
How it Wi
to Catch Fish
When and
PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION
An Account of a Stabbing affray in Boggs
A Henr-
ing Before Justice Keichline On Tuesday
Township Greatly Overdrawn
Other Timely Paragraphs of Interest.
The Pennsylvania Fish Protective as
sociation is sending out the following
notices, which in view of the near ap-
proach of the fishing season, will
prove
helpful reminders
All 1
persons desiring to the
increase of fish
promote
mn 11 béar
in mind that it is importaat that the laws
for a cl
se season should be
that the
have time to spawn and thus provide for
the »
wales
Xt ¢
ding
provi
strictly observed, so fish may
ihe continuance of tural supply
without which the s will soon be
come depleted
Fishin nland water
by the
$100, with
g with nets in the
prohibited
of the Pénalty
laws
forfeiture of nets, boats, ete.
Fish weirs, fish baskets and fyke
Peoalty §-
feuse an ir the second offen
| $100 fi
i 1 walleye
May
ack bass, rock JASS
Pike can only be between
} caught
i: under penalty
for each fish canght out of sea:
The catchi
pike under si
black bass
x inches, and trout
and rock bass under five inches in length
»
Penalty $10 for cach fish.
The use of torpedoes, giant powder,
i£ prohibited
dynamite,
lime, or any other poisonous or
sive substance of any kind for catching
fish, strictly prohibited.
Penalty £50 and imprisonment.
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FAMILY FEUD
nitroglycerine, electricity,
explo.
or
ftakine :
aging 18
John Mills Stabbed in the Breast
© ihe Shox
Boggs towns!
were always
when they
violent and
ight would take place
On Thursday night a week y 1
both
spelling bee at
Mills home.
cation arose between Cyrus Shope an
John Mills, wi
in which Shope
ag
of
members amilies attend
a school house near the
After it was byer an alter.
d
en a free fight took place,
il is said, stabbed Mills
in the Lreast, near the left lung, with a
Mills
and was
a serous weuud
1 unconscious,
knife, inflicting
fell to the ground
carried into the house for dead. His as.
fled and
sailant made his escape, while
his victim is still living, but his chances
VETY are nol very encouraging
ling the
wei Swear.
Since then Shope has been eva
officers and it alleged hae?
ing vengeance on the man who would
attempt to take him. Saturdav.
Officer
f this plac, zed by
the Sheriff to go after him and make the
Josh Folk, = as depati
wirest, He performed his daty late Sat.
urday night, when he went to his home,
and before Sh pe was able to jump out of
window and make his =scape, the
succeeded in
the
officer catching him and
bringing him to this place, where he was
locked up in a steel cell in the jail to
probably will be death.
Shope now claims that what might |
prove to be a fatal blow to Mills was
made in self-defense.
The above is an exaggerated account
of the trouble. On Tuesday a hearing
was given before Justice Keichline, Wise
was cut in the hand and shoulder, and
did not become unconscious. lnstead
he threw off his coat and ras after his
assailant. Shope was committed to
Jail on the charge of aggravated assault,
Later, he was released on bail.
ara IE ERED NRTA ry
Well to Remember,
United States cruisers are named for
cities, United States battleships for states,
gunboats for distinguished men. The
government steam tugs and small boats
that carry supplies to the ligt houses
the country over are named for trees
and flowers,
ape I —————
Recruiting Office Opened,
W. A. Blint and” R. B. Holmes have
opened a recruiting office at the store of
Holmes Brothers, in Lock Haven, avy
are organizing a volunteer company for
the war with Spain. Fifteen men sign.
ed the roll Tuesday iforenwon. The
company when full will number 101 men,
.
During the year, 1807, there
were printed 102617 completes
copies of Tuy Cesrre Deso
CRAT, or 302 cach week, nl
lowing for misprints, our set
ual average Heir
Lion was over
2.000 COPIES PER WERK
Intelligent
appreciate th
pu uis
ertiners
VOL. 20, NO.
13.
FOSTER'S WEATHER FORECAST
What He Tell Us
Weather
Has to About the Coming
The ne
xi storm wa
at t 201
Pacific coast out 29th
of
great
Rockies country by
central valleys
eastern states ard
Warm
Rockies country about Mas
wave will
central valleys 31st, ea
and.
the
Cool wave will
Rockies country
great central valle
4th.
Temperature of the week endi
and will average about pormal
northern states and west
and above normal in the s
for
about normal in t
west of the
the
nin oulhern
Rainfall
lmmen
morning by
lick observatory
the
main
3
1 "wy
comet will
in sight for
traveling towards
1,000,000 miles a
weeks it will continue ¢
erly at the rate of one
as well as east
ock in the
oC
Endorsed Judge Maver
* Cameron county
won We
100 at iis sess
The following is frou
Telegraph Hereafter tl
of Clinton county
name of any lawyer in
court proceedings
first,
2
and decided
degrading and vulgs
cn
t, G. A, R., was made and
The good
received Saturday March 26th. * from
Dept. of Soldiers Orphan School, at Hat.
risburg,
file two years ago. ICWE WAS
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Relief Furnished,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Relief de-
partment paid out to employees on the
Tyrone division during the month of
February, 1808, $404.60 in sick and acei-
dent benefits, ana $64.40 in company re-
lief. The grand total of sick, accident
and death benefits paid out during Feb.
Tuary to employees on the P. R. R. sys.
tem was $65,082.86,
White Duck Lays Black Eggs.
Samuel Ploutz, of near Osceola, is the
owner of a pure white duck that lays
black eggs, having laid five or six so far
this season. The duck bas in mind that
Easter will soon be here and that colored
egies will be in demand, and thus bas
started in to lay her eggs black and save
the coloring of them.
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There'll be a Hot Time.
This year, 1508, will be a warm politi
cal year in Pennsylvania, There will be
elected : Thirty Congressmen, 25 State
Senators, 204 Representaiives, a United
States Senator, to succeed Mr. Quay,
Governor, Governor and &
Secretaty o Taternal Affairs,
The Cetra DEMOCRAT and the Cin.
cinnati gwirer for 81.50 a year.
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