THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT,
BELLEFON
TE. PA., DECEMBER 21.
1899.
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EDITORIAL.
BECOMING GOLDITES.
The readers attention is directed to an
important article on the front page of
this issue that relates to the production of
that
present gener.
of the
gold. It is imporcant from the fact
it has much to do with the
country
the
the
al prosperous condition
and it also has some on
bearing
ation i regard te
The
ol gold
arguments made in the last pre
present legis!
money question, remarkable
creased production
sidential
campaign, the democrats, in a very
satisfactory manner, Democrats and
Free Silver men plead for
the
asked that silver be put on the same |
an increase in
amount of our primary money and
JASIS
with gold, and in that way the amount of
our primary money, or money of redemp-
tion, would be increased. At the rate
was evident
isfy the
wants of trade and consequently
gold had been produced it
that there was not enough to sat
Was
value
t for the
thus the
scarce, hard to get, increasing in
and made it all the more difficul
debtor to meet his obligations
an undue ad-
That the
whole contention of the silver people
money lender was gaining
vantage by legislation. was
«and
good fortune their
have been answered.
now by arguments
The wonderful in
crease in the production of gold has given
the people exactly what they have been
asking for,
our primary money.
an increase in the amount of
What has been the
result but an improvement in business
Mark
lines is not
generally over the civilized world
this boom in commercial
to this
all the credit could be laid to the election
McKinley, but it is
proves that an incr
you,
confined country alone, or else
world-wide. It
ease of money enl
Wall
interest
nterests,
ivens
up trade and commerce street
speculators, the banking
don capitalists and the g
want money as scarce
ings all
fitable
to make thei old
able and pr
with a limited amou
and that is why they wante
away fr
NOW
of money--through
tion of gold Then we wi
il you how
1the ¢
ites and the republicans will te
rd has
and the himetallist will
the gold stand SAVE ountry,
be happy because
been answered almost
his prayers have
by Divine intervention, and the
class of the nation will breathe easier be.
cause they know that their obligations
will not increase from year to year on
account of a contracting currency.
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Waire the
message which President
Philips
portion of the
McKinley de
votes ines, it
place mind the trifling fpct,
which the president forgot to state, $a
his
reading
to the is not out of
to call to
“benevolent scheme,
the
Spain
assimiiation
ed
the
officially announ by him before
ratification of with
which
country 1,2¥ ives,
gave us the islands, bas cost this
fifty-one of them of
And
ending,
ficers, and about $150 000,000
though the war
this
Cease
appears to be
of life and
the presi
tinuing military control, and disease has
cost treasure will not
for lent proposes cone.
proved a more deadly
To
altogether
foe than Tagalo
bullets. those who believe that this
war was unnecessary and
avoidable, such a record seems
aud
or anyone
easily
horrible
McKinley
any cause for rejoicing or glory he must
shameful, If President
else can see in it
have queer ideas of right and wrong
and queer conceptions of honor
shame,
Tur English have been getting some |
severe reverses in South Africa from the |
Boers. They have met with disasters the
past week that are alarming as well as
humiliating to their military pride. It
seems that the Boers are good marks.
men and will contest this invasion to
thelr country foot by foot and will fight
to the bitter end. The alarming propor.
tions of the struggle is causing much un
easiness for fear of being attacked by
some other power. The French are
especially bitter towards England at this
time and they might be anxious to invite
trouble. Verily the English lion is hav
jug his tail twisted in a painful manner,
and the Dutch farmers of South Africa
are doing it too.
emortat.| [
- =~ EDITOR & PROP
| Iittle modesty in us with regard to our | some wheat in his bios and needing some
We have passed the |
of this |
| that
and |
BOER PATRIOTISM AND OURS.
The achievements of the Boers may
| own early exploits,
| primitive stage in which we accepted un-
questfoningly the legend that our Revo-
lationary forefathers rose in one irre-
pressible transport of patriotic emotion
and smote the British giant as the three
Midianites,
it will do us no harm to improve
hundred of Gideon smote the
but still
our sense of proportion occasionally by
comparing what was really done then
what is going
with on among other
peoples,
The
three million
had
at the time
American Colonies about
inhabitants of
Great Britian and Ire-
The dis-
therefore,
The in
ACTOSS
the Revolution.
land had about eleven million
proportion in
numbers, was
between three and four to one
vading forces had to be brought
the Atlantic in small sailing ships, often
As there
iritish disaster
taking months for the voyage.
were no cables, a could
» repaired before the following sea-
The standing army at the disposal
of England when hostilities broke out did
not exceed 20,000 men, aud there
the
|
began to put the
were
only 16,000 in when
Par
war foolin
navy. Even
liament army on a
g the first addition tothe
1
forces consisted of only men,
the Government's plan of
America contemplated an expedition
force only 10,000 strong
The Transvaal
Orange lree State bave oheth
The
ym now has about 40,000,
150,000 Boer inhabitants,
Kingd
counting its colonies, which are sending
contingents to help it suppress the Afri-
The di
four to
canders. sproportion, instead of
three or
The B
the forcesin
one, is over 260 to one.
ritish standing arm, not including
India, numbers
and steam
Africa on
ments to each ship.
Arry
by whole
Besides the
troops to
time regi
re ar
has hundreds of thou.
army, England
sands of organized and trained reserve
which there was nothing to correspond
1775, and there
The in
Dutch bli is « x
Are over io 0 men
the navy. vading force sent
the
To
raised
meet this attack the
an army of about 5
which means that practically every
nd
anda
half-grown boy among them is
arms centrated betwes
20, 00K
That i
rain than
1hert
f the «
ghteenth cen
e Eng
the Atlant
ufficient to enab
lan ransport across an
army capable making head against
uch a force
It is only in the
ing
the splendid energy and seif.devotion of
these South African Dutch. It
the Civil War
reall
our time that we find
American people as a whole display
was in
not in the Revolution that
we y showed what Americans could
do. And a comparison of the halting
efforts which even Washington was not
able to stir up to anything like effective.
life
peal
pess with the superb outpouring of
and wealth that answered every aj
of Lincoln and Davis is answer enough
to any complaint that the American race
has degenerated. Post
DRIFT TOWARD MILITARISM
drift
ism is constant and certain,
The of this country into militar
but it can no
longer be called slow Propositions in
direction are boldly made now
which would have been appalling a few
years ago,
have excited the gravest alarm in the
past scarcely attract casual notice now
For example the public Is informed
that a bill will be introduced in Congress
in a few days providing for what will be
known as a United States reserve military |
| division,
That is, there will be enrolled all
able-bodied males between the ages of 18
and 45 years, who will
emergency calls to military service at all
times,
| This is practically the European sys.
force.
| tem and the history of Germany will give
an idea of the effect it will have on the
industrial life of the country. It would
| create a formidable reserve, but it may
be doubted if it would add to the defen.
sive power of the people. Eagland,
which has such a system, was no quicker
getting into the field in south Africa than
we were in landing in Cuba.
Pr. Eldon Goes Lo Shippensburg,
Dr. Bldon and family left Lock Haven
for Shippensburg, where they will reside
for the present. Dr. Flickinger, the
new principal, is expected to arrive this
week,
have the desirable effect of cultivating a |
and suggestions which would |
! they
be subject to |
AN OBJECT LESSON FOR FARMERS,
Last spring, World-
having
says the Omeha
Herald, a Nebraska farmer,
barbwire to fence in a pasture, went to a
hardware
said
dealer in his market town and
“1 want to get 600 of
ready cash
pounds barbed
How-
worth
wire, but I have no
ever, I have some wheat, which is
50 cents per bushel, How many bushels
of wheat must I bring to town to sell for
enough to pay you cash for the wire?’
“Barb wire
dred. If
that much wire
is worth $2.30 per bun.
you want to trade wheat for
vou must haul 1 twenty
seven and six-tepths bushels of wheat.’
Circumstances over which he had no
control ed the farmer from haul
that
farmer
prevent
ing out the wire at
the
hardware
last
time But
week same went lo Lhe same
to that
ready
wire
deal las for it
now I'll hau! in the twenty.sev
six-tenth bushels of wheat tomorrow and
get that 600
"Ah
wheat than
depler
“Why
is worth ju
pounds of wire
but you have to hau
from $2
hundred
“The wire
The
mood, He
trust
farmer walked ou
was thinkiog how prosperous
he was when what he
tionary or decreases
prices of what }
$.
there is no assurs
through. leading
declare that he wi
that body on Stone
that
state le
the matter
ure
one can speak with
vole in the senate
tions are all
AT MILL HALL
New Glass Operation
Ham
Week A giass
ho :
SHCwion
Watchman
company
ton Last
Ohio
Ou
vine.
sand of
bought the Johnston farm,
yard, adj
west of
owning the Forgy farm, and has
men eagaged in opening up a sand
quatry and is
the
stated that it wil
srranging to erect large
works on premises. It is farther
i also erect
in the pear future on the
same farm
In Politics
Woods, a
this county,
Cyrus | of Boal
1 himself
native
burg, has announces
as a candidate tor the republican nomi
nation for senator in the wth senatorial
district, which comprises Westmoreland
Mr
in Greensburg and is said to be
county Woods is a practicieg at.
torney
identified with neither one of the repub.
lican factions in that county
-
Shops For Cresson
It is now almost a certainly that new
and more complete railroad repair shops
will be erected at Cresson. The plavs
for the new shops have been drawn and
will be located on the Hastings
branch of the Cambria and (
a short distance
learfield
east of the
Joretto road crossing
-
Nothing Personal
The P. department has ruled that
| when a female postoffice clerk marries it
will be necessary for ber to resign from
the service. Postmasters, under this ral.
ing, hereafter, will have to call for the
resignation of such employes and recom.
mend their successors to the depart.
ment,"
Disturbing Religious Meetings.
The laws of Pennsylvania are very
strict against disturbers of religious wor.
ship. Any officer of the church can
make complaint against the party who
create such a disturbance, and the of.
fenders can be heavily finded and also
sent to jail.
BOYS AND GIRLS joing to school ean make
big money by "i
Tiers for us durin
evenings, For fall ahd stamped
envelope to Bellefonte Art ATL hod ovelty
Bellefonte, Pa
p 1
en ana |
4 | § £000 (
| thr
glass works
| and
YELLOW METAL IS PLENTY.
Continued from Page 1.
The state is easily first, abead of
Califormia and Alaska.
of El
other count
derfully r, the
for the state ing $23,195,300, a
of $4,000,000
that the figures
the yield of the K
being
Tue rich
Paso, Gilpin, San Miguel,
ties of Colorado were wou
productive last ye
jump
This year it is predicted
for Colorado will exceed
h would be
w hic more than
londyke
An A
000,000 this year would be
that
ded only a
combined. laskan vield of $10,
an
increase for region, for the whole
territory yiel ittle more
which is not more
the
524,800 in 15g8
than from Nome
belds
the K
was
eame new Cape
alone this year
londyke
of prod
from
the Ang
boundary
which, it is assert
y when tl
The
have ended
| SHcotia a
they have
where there
OWED away
| resent
} ni
long ab
Dre CTESCS
I IX
| refract
|
| beaps
$
ADC In some
of the cream
| of the si
|
W
gold
of Taliwass
1
possible 1 a ¥ h large improved
smeltin ts at centrally located
ing
2
| attached to the stamp mills,
points Concentrat machines were
invented an
and under improved methods of chlorina-
tion ores once thought worthless and
“tailings’’ were found to contain profit.
able amounts of gold
THR LAST GREAT IMPET
The
production of
last great impetus in the world's
gold
cyanide
the per
came with }
fection of the process, which is
responsibie for
South Afri
in the
production in
The
sed
ds the Rand is
the
istone,
.
form of mentary deposits,
ore being coarse-grained san
of these
the
gold-bearing
per
is so line
some grains being waler-worn
pebbles, whole bound
together by a
cement that contains five
cent, or less of pyrites,
vided that the
process of crushing it
The gold
y di ordinary
and runing it
over ates of
precipi ol
per The
part of a kind of slime cal
the oid
introduction of the
Tost A
which
smalgam p
the
than sixty
quicksilver re.
not
rest
suits in ation more
cent forms
led “tatlings,"’
under
methods before the
cyanide process this
was cyanide
of cyanide of
potassium was used to take up the gold
in the in the
Rand in Proving successful, the
process was rapidly adopted by all the
mines, and this is chiefly responsible for
the enormous increase in the South
African supply since that time, The
same process also has made possible the
enormous production of the Cripple
Creck mimes,
small plant, in
A weak solution
tailings, introduced
18q0.
was
OUTLOOK IN SIBERIA
The effect of impros ed methods of ex
tracting gold upon the world's produc.
tion of the yellow metal iswell illastrated
by the case of Siberia. Two weeks ago
the Russian Government anpouced that
the Siberian fields would be opened to
the world and might be leased by
foreigners. Previously there had been
no opportun’ty for foreign capital to ex:
ploit the fields, The Siberian gold
States made it
F
|
|
mines |
|]
yield |
north
and California |
| the shallow surface placers, such as
enormous |
| whose
f (Calif ata
and | Calilorpia,
| are sc
than seekers,
| regions,
ield has been an insignificant factor i
the total
spite of
Jurors Denied Extra Pay
Metzger has
that rors to he
each d
issued an order
the fact that
bearing regions are
the the world
covered Marshall
The ]
goid
altered over
these new gold |
|
production of the world, in |
|
known to be among
are two dollars for
work and
richest in and were dis.
before found gold in
bearing regions
of about
000 tiles east an
and south, exclusive of the
al district, from which most of the
Siberian gold has come in the past. So
far the thie
one only
were
method of pls
that
CCT mining i»
only has prevailed, and
worked in the bars and foot-hill
the
d gold
river
gulches of California by early gold
have supplie from these
There are many quartz lode
value is not
Russiar
on 496C 3 SHOW |
Storm in
Summer ?
on One
that the &
ed to
should
A year,
\
| ceeded.
SIMPLE R
sc flakes of dandruff in
It ge
events the
still her
ves fur!
rie
er than
NSN Fanaa taW on
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