4 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, I’A., FEBRUARY 16, I Ki The Cente Democrat, | CHAS, R. KURTZ, ~~ EDITOR & PROP | Actual, average, sworn clreulation, paper, for the past year, 1805, was OVER 2300 COPIES PER WEEK. of this | | Telephone Call 1183. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price $1.50 per year* If paid In ADVANCE $1.00 y Special Club Rate THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT will year with any one of the below named p at the following low rate: With Cinecinnatt! Weekly Enquirer New York 3times a-week be sent one pers, { World DEM. COUNTY COMMITTEE FOR Boyp A 5. Dw Pr Bellefonte Centre Hall | Howard Unionville Benner twp Boggs Hall M Harris Howa Hust Libert Mar Mile in Havana remembered the] OO! most essential Competent me should be selecte the worthless politic naming unfit me spring elect) a business tr can. lost about a year . reach the North + have been | said to is a hut built from New county courts with A state income tax To pension all judges that have sat on the bench 2 An appropriation years the new capitol building finishing 't the taxpayer jump in the future Won that is what the majority for ned they are entitled to have it Our forces in have been mowing « army with frightful loss of surgent natives from town to town | thousands to die McKinley poli are fHightis them be defeat them thoughtful } SENATOR Br Pennsylvania a the Pe men day He bill abolishing the places omy other introduced a of the emnployes of the senate and house, of fiv 1 and The five he would abolish cost about $5. then created thirty.nine new offices xx) annually, while the thirty-nine he wants If that is the guise in which the reformer comes to the to create will cost $25,000 tax ridden people of Pennsylvania, in this year of grace, his fine band will not | be very warmly pressed by the people, AT present Bellefonte has two auditors, both of whom are republicans, Messrs Thomas I. Mitchell and Chaney Hicklin. This spring a third member of the board is chosen. It is customary in such cases to have the minority party represented ; not only customary but decidedly proper. This practice preyails in selecting county commissioners and auditors, and why not apply it to boro affairs, Elect Mr, Pontius this year and the republicans have the entire board of asditors. Is it not a wise precaution to have a minority member? Certainly itis, Voters should consider this when they go to the polls, For this and other reasons W. Harrison Walker should be elected HOW THE DEBT INCREASES. To what extent the interest-bearing debt of the United States has in recent years may be judged from the fact that on March 1, 1893, the outstand. ing interest-bearing debt was £5585,034,- On the first of increased 260. February, 189, it was $1,040,200,425, or an increase in six years of $455,17 the total £100,000,000 are § 000 debt £162 $162 I Of interest-bearing per cents and { per cents, issued by Presi the gold are dent Cleveland to mamntain standard, and §£i193,192,760 are pet cents, issued by President McKinley | the war on Sj redeemable the 3 per $ the 1 HOW IT IS DONE MEAT. DRINK AND THE DOCTORS What shall we eat and drink ’ One af ter another the great doctors have set a seal of condemnation upon nearly every thing that we like Tomatoes, we are warned, breed can cer Cucumbers give colic Beans are destructive of the overrich and Beef digestion contains germ of tapeworm Pigs and chickens have trichine. Sugar, Wine we ‘ol wel the hangs in the “moss-covered bucket, s infested with disease germs and, besid | he water of the we not be man knows type of int ocence, tuberculosis and other dread being indigestible folk And now at last comes a great German scientific sharp—Dr. Hans Koeppe-—to warn us against chemically pure, distill ed water as a positive and active poison, destructive of the mucous membrane and otherwise alarmingly deadly Now, we had all settled down upon dis. tilled water as the ome safe thing in the world to swallow. Its rather unpala. table, of course ; it is troublesome to pro- | cure, and it is by no means satisfying to the cravings of a hungry and thirsty man ; but at any rate we believed it to be unimpeachably wholesome and so thoroughly safe that our drinking of it— even with a grimace of disgust we have regarded in the light of an almost super. erogatory act of virtue, Again, what are we to eat and drink ? The doctors themselves who progouce all these anathemas against solids and i. guide eat and drink whatever they like, Some of ‘hem even eat mince-pie at mid. night and regale themselves in the small boars with Welsh rabbits and mulled clarets or bot Scot hes, Shall we follow their precepts or their { practice ? diseases, | to grown-up | HARRISBURG LETTER, The Question of Additional Reve= nue Agitates the Lawmakers. ” SCHEMES TOR NEW TAXATION. \ PP'roposut For a State Leer, Even If Constitutionnl, uy Be Ves by the Coon Passed — A New ornor If Handelphlinns Plan For Judges The Adams Fire ing sch to the bhai the ery boarding school three of mo high Another provision all the bulidings mentioned in the ent law and in this bill that cn pable of ageommodating more than 600 and less than 1.000 persons ax oper. atives, guests or Inmates, shall have three such stalrways, or as many more as the constituted authorities may deem necessary. Fire proof office bulldings are excepted in the Adams bill, as by present law The Baldwin mercantile bill, as Introduced, would have A marth heavier burden upon dealers, especially big ones, than the Hoch bill The Baldwin bill at first provided that re tall dealers should pay $2 tax on an anhual business of fram 7° 500 jo $12.000 and “7% per cent additional’ for each additional 31.000, The ways and means commities made A chang, however, and the bill now on the second reading ealendar says “75 conta additional” The amended Baldwin bill calle for a present IAW stalrwayse | boarding new pres. Are fax been the Hoch dealers than retail considerably higher tax bill would Impose on The Hoch bill would put a one mill tax on the doll for and half a wholesalers For every thous thousand wholesales retall tax, of retall dealers mil ind doll above two Id tax of the ould Hefused to Invite Bryan, utenant the chair Washburn ked 1 his members Lo pec none responded pane 1 wit} extended 1.1¢ cupted Mr Democrati tion, but the resolution tation having Bryan Charges for the transportation of newspapers by chartered carrying com panies within the slate are regulated by a bill put in bry Representative Voor. hees It provides that the rate shall fot exceed 3 cents for each 26 pounds for a distance not to exceed 100 milena, and for each additional 50 miles or fraction thereof We additional charge shall not exceed 2% cents for each 2% pounds Judge RH. W. Archibald, of Beranton, has been indorsed hy the Enyder county bar for the appointment to succeed the ate Justice Willlams on the supreme court bench, The petition signed by the bar and the court officers har heen presented to Governor Stone WILKINS fellow nd the mo- Therefore invi- Mr ut an been to 23D, Bd: 2 FIFI FRPIFI IRI] XIII » Po» oP PODIDDBBPIDRWDI SIIB IDDIIVDIIB spits dS BD srrrbg Lo TG COCOEOE 2QOCCOCCCCTTCE EINNOUNCEMEMNTS. LEGAL NOTICH A HOLE LL Maas WHOLESALER s W Em Mullinger METILLER Haines spring Twp GARDNER 'rothonolary £ 34 TION All parties are hereby cautioned that any bills contrasted by my wife, Annie Leader will pot be pad by me. as she voluntarily left my home without cause of provooation Fras LEADER, as Moshannon, Pa AVHINIST RATOR'S NOTICK Katate of Goo. Swartz, deo'd, late of Walker township We undersl having been granted lstters of ATS won of sald estate, notice Is here by given to sll persons knowin themselves in MAI to the decedent to make immediate pay ment, and those wing alatms are teguetted 3 ot them duly Authen Toment. COR TT WEAVER, ors Administestor, Taylor & Johnson, Hublersburg, Pa. Atha noys L1H Marveio Dr.Bulls COUCH SYRUP Will cure Croup without fail. ke powers Ei "uy your GROCERIES - —FRUITS- every -~n SOLIDS Me ate, Fish, and the Soups, Ar dines, hole long line of everything that one can eat, or use in eatables, and all of that quality that people who want pure foods, and who enjoy the best, are looking for, Come and see us and we will treat yon right. -_- Sechler & Co. BUSH WOUSK BLOCK, BELLEFONTE, - - - - PA,
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