8 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 6, 159s, No. 9 and 11 Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte [s o wg Pa Headquarters For Art Silks Japan, Spanish, Turkish Rope and Ewmby Turist- shades, so difficult to obtain. Floss — the all au Special designs in stamped linens, just iu, New Cushion Covers and materials Or Sauie. H. aud and Monarch We are the sole selling agents S M. Bindivgs, Pride Belle ‘Cordette” in this citys It 1s the of shape giving fabrics. imitations they are worth- il your dress. R. AND G. CORSETS. ' will ind the No Ibe Ladies Home Journal, Delin- eator now at our Corset Counter. The New Pink and Blues in this num- ! ream beauty. Also Jalls Kabx New no's for periection n I wware ol ess and will sp w7 advertised in { of I 1 | o Pe 3 J 83) li » J To-day the fall showing is ready- Handsome and wall rretossmbodd well constructed CLOTHING for men, boys and chil- dren. The price---pos- sibilities that our vast buying gives, are hinted at in the descriptive list that follows : Men's Clothing “An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.” We offer for Fall and Winter wear, all wool and handsomely tailored suits at $7.50---the sam- ples we show are the exact quality of fabrics, and are a few of many new and bright styles confined exclusively to us. OVERCOAT |! Pr Ps ’” * - I OF 1m J ww wm Ll Ih - J 1 I J 1 I I » I UAT yaad? JudoR gased = 5 = = o Fo I I I I poi pia ” TI I I Jl Ad o* ers () v reo wa wi ao 1.50. Childrer &« vere WLR ind Keefers 81.50 to SUIT | m » ij bo 1 Gren » ¥ 9 04), up to £5.00 (ruver, Daulap, Knox Del- mar and Army Hats Pumpki fed on Saturda cL 15 between the hours Montgomery & Co., Progressive Clothiers, Bellefonte, Pa. EEEREREERRERR 30 0 0 J 1 0 EO OO J 100 100 1 10 I 1 1 1 Sue] © [us avy I 3duod ay) Jo} 3 SYRA OM] Ul **UWDUNOUUY SUNIeIQ *}S02° M0j2q Spo03 s12M04 4} JO }20Is 2 ’ ‘ANVJINOD HOHS SddMO0d | petually to coax his land by allowing | field to rest, rotating crops and spenc | ab. hind i KJ £ for i 1} At pr on Allegheny rexcavaly equa itn t D.. B street ms d chitect § imposing bus sent much inte A strong for nd foundations | uman P t of the bu brown CUBAN RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES mot large insuls high that it under a themselve the isis come, where home grown about hin be vege ahles can i, and #s Fanny Ward can have most of the luxu New York and Paris with more peace and happiness than can be obtained in these cities Throughout the world it 18 «¢ that Cuban tobacco has no superior, only the best grades of Turkish and Sumatra tobacco equalling it, and the cultivated tastes of mankind to-day are apt 0 con. demn without a hearing any cigar that Las no pretentious of having in it Havana tobacco Tobacco 18 grown in all parts of the island, the best success being obtained, however, in the region of Vuelta Abaja, in the province of Pinar del Rio, where soil and climate %inite in forming the best possible conditions to produce exquisite tobacco. The cultiva. tion and curing of tobacca is thoroughly understood in Cuba, where it hus reached a high degree of perfection, and estates, properly located and under competent management yield annually from $200 to $1,000 profit per acre As cotten is king in our south so in Cuba sugar is king, for it seems that cli. mate and soil also combine there to pro. duce the most wonderful results in this line, For the growing of sugar down in Lousiana, the ground is carefully plough. ed and fertilized. The cane is usually replanted about every third vear and it attains a diameter of from one to two inches, and a height of from eight to twelve feet, In Cuba no fertilizers are savs ries of weeded some ; used, the crops as a rule are not replant. ed oftener than once In twenty years, and the cane grows from two to four | inches thick, and from twelve to eighteen feet high. More than this, I have known fields in Cuba without any fertilization or replanting to yield an average of fifty tons of cane to the acre for fifty years— an almost incredible statement. Thus, if { I may be allowed a moment's digression, illustrates the marvelous fertility of the Cuban soil, and will appeal to the over. worked American farmer, who has per. his ing a considerable amount of his yearly prof. its in fertilizers. The wonderful rich- ness and inexhaustibility of the soil is at- tributed to the fact that the'island is an | old bed of the ocean, thrown up by some | prodigious upheaval of nature in prehis. | totic times, which accounts for the pres- | ence of vast quantities of phosphates iu | the shape of coral, shells and other fossil. | ized sea matter, { Many "“ingenios,”’ or sugar estates, | have disappeared since 1868, Some were hurned in the long war for liberty begin. ning that year, Others have been aban. | city on the i sul as recent ved bave desolated for the i warfare most broken, emerged 4 wou x a A Wagon roads {Owns sewere idges t i hises f« Fran lines, and lines themselves of 3 Of trolley pera great ir there are the : ities of wealth, | street raliways in any part of the isiand except a bobilalled horsecar at Havana opporiun no Again, excluding Havaua, no siand has a regular bank of deposit, although there are quite a num- bet OF places that would support a half dozen or a dozen banks. Few ci have electric lights and telephones, and none a district messenger service. lce plants and decent hotels are sorely wanted. Last year when 1 left Santiago, the second city in on the islana there were three typewriting machines, no cash registers, aud no steam laun. dries in the place. Few of the best houtes have respectable bath room facili. ties; in fact, nearly all the conveniences and what-nots we have about us io this country and regard as necessities are absent in Mediaeval Cuba, and under the new regime must be supplied. A few words about the climate in Cuba ~-50 geverally misanderstood im the porth. I want to impress upon you the fact that the experience of the American troops in Cuba, during our war with Spain, affords no critenon by which to judge the climate under ordinary condi. tions, General Shafter, in a despatch to the President, received the 7th of August, said: “What put my command in its ties size present condition was the twenty days of | the campaign, when they had nothing to eat but meat, bread and coffee, without change of clothes, without any shelter whatever and during the period twice as stormy as it has been since the surrend. er. Fresh troops reaching here in the middle of August, with good camps, good water, abundauce of tentage, which they will find here, need not ap. prehend serious danger.’ Besides this our troops were sent to Santiago with medical supplies forgotten—left behind in Florida, A ship with hospital stores on board lay at Santiago for sometime and returned to New York without un. loading them, while our boyy, because of tie sudden exigencies of war, sent to Cuba in woolen clothes and blankets as though going to the Klondyke, were compelled to build roads and dig in. trenchments in the tropical midday san, «~~work that should have beeu done by the natives—10 sleep by the freshly up. turned dirt, to sicken and some to die for lack of forethought and medical at. tention due to the gross incompetency of Sargeon-general Sternberg's depart. ment, until outside associations stepped into the breech and took up the relief work. Bat we have not had to go oat of the United States—only a little ways if | other ¢ dreary weather weeks and t dry season extends from Nos er until f last Daring May when and it rain morning or afternoon 8 are half rathes that of a whole day's in the over hour, Copious, «¢ ast or juailing ordinary rain States™ As soon as 1s over and all mature is cl aud fresh the clouds break away, and old Sol comes out smiling, just as though nothing had happened. In the dry sea son there may be occasional showers, but. God, in his wisdom, has prepared abundant dews for vegetation, during this period. The greatest annual rain- fall for Havana is 60 inches, the small. est 30 inches, fall for the island is about 43 United shower inches. Mauy of our people think that Cuba must be unbearably hot. The truth is that the scorching days that we some. times bave in this country during sum. mer are entirely unknown ou the island. { Cuban weather is the best days of our May and June throughout the year, the temperature being maintained but mod- erate. The mean temperature at Hava. na for the year is 77 F, for August 85 F, aud for December 65 F, ture rarely ets above 93 F in any part of the islanc and seldom below 60 3F, | One suffers much less from the heat Cuba, even during July and August, than in New York and Philadelphia. It is worth connection that there is always a delight. ful breeze blowing in Cuba; the houses with their cool roofs of tiling are so built as to perinit a free circulation of air; | they have huge porches or “galleries,” great doors and immense windows with. out giags, but protected by iron gratings, and, then, one is always clad in light. weight linen, so that the heat does not become oppressive, and has about the same effect as it would have in the north, if levelled down by about ten degrees. Jamaica, the Bahamas and Florida have hitherto been our winter resorts, But the American people always like the best and I predict that within a few years, Cuba, novel in all iis environ. ments, with scenery equalling that of Switzerland; its mountains and woods teeming with game, its rivers, lakes and bays alive with myriads of all kinds of fish. will be the paradise of winter resorts, There has never been a flour mill ia Cuba; neither wheat nor oats grow there, and only about one half of the corn locally consumed is raised on the island. Under the beneficent arrangements made by the provisions of the reciprocity clanse of the McKinley tariff, the United States was able to export flour to Cuba, upon equal terms with Spain, the result bedtg that our flour trade with the island rapidly expanded while that of Spain, unable to compete with us, rapidly fell and the Islands of the West Indies. An. Yad 1 | personal interest of every m The average annual rain- | The tempera. | while to mention in this | away, As an illustration of what we { did, I recall that the single port of Santi. | ago de Cuba increased its importations Hoye! makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious, | of American flour from 2,979,427 pounds | {in 1891 to 12 the last Was 449,290 pounds for | year which the treaty effect. The flour was shipped in sacks containing 203 pounds each, for this size was convenient pot only for city trade, but for transportation to the lets of the interior, most of which no railroad facilities, and are dependent upon pack-mule trains, the weight of the sack being the regulation burro, or mule The duty on flour | ween so high in the past that bregs? was t [3 food for the Poorer daring ham. have wad Jor each / k peusive a r popula- tion Fhose ofthe rural districts ate. ir who could | contribut untrie a good wheat ¢ so that they } SIAWaAYSs wanls | will en | its of the Cuban er wil | the sound to advocate this | caase. Our great statesman of the past | understood the va of annexation; i none more enthusiastically favored it {than the immortal Jefferson. He saidt | “Certainly her addition to our confeder- | acy is exactly what is wanted to round out our power as a nation to the point of its . utmost interest John Quincy of my e uc Adams, Secretary of State under Presi | dent Monroe, aud later president him. self, after summing up arguments, favor. ed annexation and said that Caba had ‘‘an importance iu the sum of tional interests, with which other foreign territory can be compared, our Ba- | that of nol in 3 1g lo Cuba , Ost a ne. ected Parama ca h is bound to d both our politica Central and avoid many yyances in its the bless. government, Amer eniov pavai over wans, DARGAINS, F In WwW LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE the premises P SATURDAY, OCTOBER proper ’ L} main road burg Creek lot of Rev. Daniel Moser's heirs: ou | the north by land of J. H. Mitehell. and on the | west by lot formerly owned by Jacob Zimmer being the property of the late Elizabeth 1 Eckel. dec'd, having thereon erected two-story frame dw ng house saddlers shop stable and other out dings. The lot als tains & variety of good fruit trees TERMS «Ten per cent. on day of sale: one | half on confirmation sale and delivery of | deed ; balance sear to be secured | bond and mortgage with interest on the iremises hyp & Walker W. MILLER Attoraeys for estate Administrator to Spruce of mar one i of iH Oh D and little inferior to that which binds the | = : | different members of this union togeth- er.” In 1848 President Polk directed the { American minister at | $100,000,000 forthe island, In 1854 “the | Ostend Manifesto,” signed by Buchanan, Mason and South, United States munis. | ters to Great Britain, France and Spain respectively, notified the world that this country had the right te forcibly annex Cuba if Spain refused to sell Annexation would give the world con. fidence in the future of Caba and result | at once in the mvestment there of enor. mous amounts of capital without winch the impoverished island can but slowly recover, The development of the insu. lar resources would mean a vast fortune toa mass of our people, whith weuld add greatly to the sum total of our va- tional! wealth, It would relieve our con- gested labor markets by giving large numbers of our working class new fields of profitable employment. With annex. ation, I believe that Cuba inside of a few pyears would have a population of from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000, These people would be producing the raw material of the tropics, which would come into but little competition with fur own products. They would consume increasing quan. i tities of bread stuffs, things produced by | our millers and farmers, also an enor. mous amount of our manufactures, there. 'by stimulating industry with us. It { would open up a big market for our sur. | plus silver, As no railroad could run lo Cuba, and our laws require all com. merce between American ports 10 be carried in American bottoms it would | soon double our languishing shipping interests, We need Caba because of its strategic | value, commandmg as it does the en. trance to the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi waterway, the Carribean Sea, Madrid to offer | | A PMINIST RATOR'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that jetters of admis istration on the estate of Elizabeth C. Eckley {of Pine Grove Mills, Ferguson townsh p. de | eeased, have been granted to the undersigned All persons having claims against sad estate will present them duly authenticated for set tiement and thase indebted to the Said estate will please make prompt payment : d fils D. W. MILLER 1 | [SL XECUTOR'S NOTICH | Estate of Rebecen A. Tolbert, dec'd, late of | Walker township | Letters testamentary upon said estate having | been granted by the Register of Wills to the | unaersigned, all persons knowing themselves | to be fndebted to sald estate are requested to | make immediate payment, and those having claims, to present them for settlement B.V.SHAEFFER, Ext Walker, Pu. I No.2 i E* BC | Estate of Danlel Boh | township | Letters testamentary upon said estate having | been granted by the Register of Wills to the | undersigned, all persons knowing themselves to be indebted to sald estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having clatms, to present them for settlement 1 FRANK BOMN, Lemont, Pa WM. BOUN, Anronsburg, Pa Executor TRIX'S NOTICE dec'd, late of Harris x3 { AVPITOR 8 NOTICE la the Orphans Court of Centre county, in the matter of the estate of Goorge Wert, late of the township of Penn, docea The Yedersifned an auditor, appointed by the sald Court lo pass upon the exceptions, re state the account in accordates with his find Ings, and among those legally entitled fore erive the same, will meet tho parties in interest for the purposes of his ponent at the law offices of Fortney & Walker, lefonte, Pa. on Monday the ih day of Ootober, A. 1), 1808, at 19 o'clock in the foremoon, when and where those who desire may attend, of ver alter Fo og be ETON Wal KE ny
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