4 i CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - - PROPRIETOR FRED KURTZ, SR, {eoiTORS. Regular Price f1.80 per year If Pald in AAVAnee...cvvivervrvsss HE With N.Y. 3t.a Week World EDITORIAL. THANKSGIVING. This is a national holiday around which cluster many fond memories and cherished traditions of our ancestors who made it a solemn occasion for prayer and thanksgiving, in the strictest sense of the word, This day is universally ob- served—by some for festive enjoyment and others for prayerful meditation and making an acknowledgment to God for the gracious bounties we enjoy as ana tion, as well as individuals. While as a nation, or the integrals thereof, we may grow egotistic in our enthusiasm over our accumulations and accomplishments, there is also room for to-day, thoughtful reflection. Are we, in pational life, in our mad chase for wealth, not sacrificing some of the nobler traits of character? Is not justice and right brushed aside too often when the opportunity arises for securing material advantage ? Have we, as a people, been consistent of late to the memorable teach- ings and sacred traditions of this nation for over a certury, in regard to the ina- lienable rights of mankind? Have we not cruelly violated the moral law by seiz- ing and appropriating the fertile lands of a weaker people, because we had the power and their territory is so rich in Are iverted to minerals and productive in soil? pot our halls of legislation d the granting of special favors at the ex- pense of the toiling masses ? Is not po- litical life becoming more and more a question of bribery and loot, to which professing christian people willingly as- | sent and approve? These queries may sound semi-politi- in a general No doubt cal in this connection ; view they may be pessimistic. they are, but do they not call attention to glowing abuses and glaring evils *—if pot, can offense be taken ? While we are giving thanks for the | material advantages we enjoy, there should be serious reflection for our short- comings. and be penitent that what we have so largely sown to the wind may pot grow to a whirlwind to bring dis- aster, Yea, let us be thankful for we have abundant occasion. May the lessons of the day inspire in mankind a greater love for truth aod justice, teach a broader charity in public, private, social and even religious life, instill deeper in our hearts the existence of a brotherhood of mankind, and the development of truly noble christian lives—with charity and love for all. While as a people we give thanks for our bounteous blessings, let us not forget shortcomings. some of our grievous Thanksgiving, accompanied by stucere prayerful reflection, is profitable for all on this occasion, Since the above was put in type we found the following, an extract from the Thanksgiving sermon of Dr, Talmage, whice is in the same connection Lift up your eyes, O nation of God's right hand, at the glorious prospects! Build larger your barns for the hare vests, Dig deeper the vats for the spoil of the vineyards. Enlarge the warehouses for the merchandise. Mule tiply galleries of art for the pictures and statues Advance, O nation of God's right hand, but remember that national wealth, if uvopsanctified is sumptuous waste, is mora ruin, Is magnificent woe, is splendid rotten. ness, is glided death. Woe tous for the wine vats if drunkenness wallows in them! Woe to us for the harvest if greed sickles them! Woe to us for the merchandise if avarice swallows ft! Woe to us for the eities if misrule walks them! Woe to the land if God defying crime debauches it! Our only safetyinin more Bibles, more churches, more free schools, more good men and more good women, more consecrated printing presses, more of the glorious Gospelof the Bon of God, which will yet extirpate all wrongs and introduce all blesgedness, p————————— Wonoir if the Stalwarts of Bellofonte know where they are at since the last ripping occurred at Pittsburg? Are they for Quay? Fleming no doult can ex- plain it all when he comes home. PrEsSiENT RooSEyRLT appointed Clay- ton McMichael postmaster of Philadel phia, and # was not Quay’s choice. Roosevelt 1s running the government and Quay stands on about the same level with the admicistration as other citizens, Strange ss it may seem, a bore isa man who never comes to the point. The Contre Democrat, | THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, NOVEMBER 28, 1901. GIYE US A REST. There is such a thing as too much politics and wire pulling and a rest 1s a good thing between times. The subject of this the campaign for the election of a Coun- ty Superintendent of our public schools, which will not take place until the mid. dle of next summer, During the past people prefer to have a rest and don't want to have the office seekers continu. ally absorbing their attention and crowd- ing the columus of the papers with their various claims. are atit from day to day and year in and year out. It becomes exceedingly tiresome and monotonous to the public, Nevertheless we will make a few com- to be annoying some. The present County Superintendent, C. L.. Gramley, of Miles Twp., will seek a re-election, of the instructors in the public schools of Bellefonte will be after the same position and so will James Gregg, of the Miles. burg schools. From communications we have received, and articles in print in other papers, the following names are mentioned in the James B. Strohm, of Potter ; W, P. Hos- D. M. Wolf, of Gregg: A. A. Pletcher, of Nittany and | others. same connection : | terman, of Gregg: Dr. { There no doubt is an abundance of | good material in the county and we think { that when the time comes to make the | selection the school directors of the coun- [ty will be able to act wisely in the mat ter for what is to the best interests of | the schools. Up to the present time we { have heard no objection to the qualifica- | tions of the present incumbent and he | seems to have filled the position capably and to the satisfaction of the public. The only question upon which He will be op- | posed is that he bas held the office for | several terms. The duty of the directors 'is to determine whether his experience | in this work is an advantage, or whether ! a change is more desirable. | Asthis matter will be decided at the | proper time by these officials and with i due deliberation, we will refrain for the { present from assisting in opening up a | premature campaign. We think the | people like to have an occasional rest, Too much political scheeming and wire. pulling is not good. Give us a rest. THE SCHLEY INQUIRY. {| It has been promised that the Board { of Inquiry which beard the testimony in | the Schley case will make thelr report before Congress meets and there is much | speculation as to the result, little doubt | being expressed but that every charge | | against the Admiral will be swept away deal a greater man in the eyes of the public than ever, | are seeking all manner of excuses for their infamous assaults upon this man, | who was simply the target for a jealous | clique of naval officials to hurl all sorts {of infamy and abuse. It is on a parallel | with the famous Dreyfuss case which | caused so much uneasiness in France, | only the conspirators never succeeded as far in humiliating their man. | public, and if it comes up to the expecta- | tions, then it will be up to President | Roosevelt to clean out the Naval Depart. | ment and put some decent material in | ] i 1 : : that department which will be a credit | forty minutes, and 126 ears in five min- {to the country. This Schley affair is a | should be made of the men who were { implicated so that for the next century a | recurrence will not be likely. Let a fit- the Secretary of the Navy on down, wherever a participant in the cowardly work can be found. This investigation, thus far, was a as it has shown him a man of greater merit and ability than the public knew, It has forever, in the public mind, settled who was the real hero of Santiago, and Naval Department, to steal the credit of this great victory. Unlucky for Judge Love. G. Love, of Centre county, a jurist who the Administration, has been frequently mentioned as a probability to ill one of the expected Superior Court vacancies, In view of the recent fusion victory in Centre county, however, it is extremely doubtful whether Judge Love and his friends cau deliver either State delegates or members of the Legislature in return for the appointment. It would be politi. cal ammunition wasted, Better bargains could probably be se. cured for the Governor by appointing Su- perior Court Judges from such counties as Lancaster and Delaware, which are pretty sure to have solid machine repre. sentation of Legislators and delegates, Junok Love, in view of the interesting flare-up among the spotless stalwarts over Pitsburg deals and conspiracies, rust realize that he is a mere football in the hands and at the feet of the machine leaders, being back and make believe ed ras. dud forth to shi for his fidelity to the gang. comment is the premature effort to start | | manner over the spoils, week we have had several comumunica- | tions on the subject and refrained from | publishing them for the reason that the | | bins who put the RIPPERS RIPPING. The fall campaign had hardly closed | Tue iguominious ripper bills passed by until an effort was made to bring another | the Quay.Stone machine last winter, contest before the attention of the public. | have returned to plague the conspirators themselves, over the spoils, and seem to have knocked the Pittsburg end of the machiae into a cocked hat. An ugly fight is now going on amor g the machine leaders, and Quay, Stone, Elkins, and the rest of the dastardly Jacobins, are going for each other’s throats in a lively The decent men of all parties now look on and laugh. The infamy is working the wrong way froma what it was intended, The Jaco- ripper through the Legislature for selfish and spiteful pur | poses, have spit in their own faces. They | are now clawing each other like tigers Office making and seek- | ing becomes a craze with some who | | truth as possible. Governor Stone is called a liar—which everybody will admit comes as near the The ripped ones—ap- { pointed and disappointed ones—are rav- {ing mad, among these Elkins, Flinn, the | Browns, and others, while 3 : | ments on this line since the subject seems Quay who said “he wanted a Governor he could | own,’ finds that he bas a Stone, plotting | for himself and not caring a sniff, who We are informed that John Harrison, one | gets hurt, The thieves, conspirators, plunderers, and enemies of the public | weal, have fallen out, and good may re | sult to the outraged Commonwealth if they knife themselves out of existence. Let "er rip, until the last ripper is rip ped up. IN ADJOINING COUNTIES. Continued from Ist page Roy Dickson, employed in a stave mill at Warriorsmark, had his arm caught by the sawing machine and his left hand was cat off, The barn of Dairyman John Collins, near Altoona, was set on fire on Wed. nesday by an exploding lantern, and the blazes was extinguished by throwing on it twenty pails of milk. A temporary Board of Trade has been established in Lewistown and a perma. nent organization will be effected soon An effort is being made to have the col- lege, which will oe formed by the consol. dation of the Myerstown and New Ber lin college located there Tuberculosis is spreading among the cattle in the Grampian Hill country, Huntingdon county, and last week James D. Wall was ordered by the state board of heaith to kill seven head of fine cattle This makes twenty bead killed in that section in a very short time. Cholera bas caused such havoc among bogs ma Mifflin county that farmers are killing their stock with but little attempt at fattening. This has resulted in a steady advance in the price of lard, until at present it retails in some parts of the county at 18 cents a pound, the highest price since the Civil war Saturday morning Alexander K Ham. iltlon was walking on the Beech Creek railroad at Oak Grove, while on his way from his farm to the homestead. Being defective in hearing, he did not notice an approaching freight train. He was struck by the locomotive and badly iojar. ed. He expired in a few minutes. A dispatch from Woolrich to the Lock Haven Express telis of the narrow es. | cape from death of Miss Susan Hoover, Already his defamers | | | ute, | and he will emerge from the trying or. | an employe of the woolen mill there Her clothing was caught by a shafi which was making 90 revolutions a min. She was badiy bruised, but ber clothing was torn and she thus escaped fatal injury. The new Power Manufactory being built near Punxsutawney is about ready to start its wheels. It will be known as the Mahoning Powder Co , and owned by the Laflin and Rand Powder Co, and has cost the company vearly a quarter million dollars. This plant is the result | of a long cherished idea of Philipshurg’s | townsman, A. J. Grabam, who we under. It will | { soon be time for the report to be made | stand is a part owner in the plant. Albert lsenburg, a farmer of pear Elizabeth Furnace, Blair county, claims that he holds the best record for corn busking in the State of Pennsylvania | He makes affidavit to this record : "On November 12, 1895, I husked 238 bushels | of topped corn in eleven and one-half hours. On Oct. 30, 1901, I husked 117 bushels of shocked corn in ten hours and | utes of topped corn.” | disgrace to the country and an example | James Gunsaullis, son of Mr. and Mrs, William Gunsaullis, who reside near the water tank below the Tyrone depot, was killed Friday at McKeesport. The | young man was about 21 or 22 years old. ting rebuke be made, commencing with | He left home a few days ago to search | for work, and a telegram was received most fortunate thing for Admiral Schley, | last week announcing bis death, No particulars as to how he was killed were given in the telegram. The remains will be broaght home for burial. About Lalose, Clearfield county, the | old-time quiltings are being beld, and it | affair who tried, with the aid of a designing | is said that some of the old ladies walk. ed seven miles 10 attend one last week. These quilting parties were an enjoyable with the mothers of old Cen- tre county, and elsewhere, but like a great many other ‘good things,” are a | thing of the past, and the useless eachre The North American says : Judge John parties take the place of quiltings, and the quiits are bought in the stores. Satarday evening an Italian pamed Frauk Mileto, went to a home of a coun- tryman, named Frank Fredricks near | Clearfield to visit a daugbter of Freder. bas rendered many political favors 10 | cks with whom he was infatuated. Con. | cerning the visit the Public Spirit says: The family refused him admission, when he kicked the door open and Miss Fred. ericks hit himon the head with a ham. mer and knocked him down and deliver. | ed several more blows, fracturing his skull. He was removed to the county home. On his person was found two razors and a revolver, and he probably intended to commit murder, or at least injure the young lady: who did not recip. rocate his tender feelings. For the new tunnel of the Pennsylva- THIS WEEK We Have Some- thing to Say | about Under-wear, Um-| brellas and Neck-wear, not forgetting to put in a| word about our Long] London Overcoats and, Men's Black Suits. Half the people are wearing | Uunder-wear that does | not properly fit, some| don't realize it, others| think it can't be helped. | For years we have been | using our experience to secure Under-wear made in proper proportions to feel comfortable, and this winter present to customers an unusually fine assortment in com- fortable weigts and fits. UMBRELLAS. Our Christmas Stock has arrived and is handsome. We know of no more suit- able present than a fine Umbrella for Father, Hus- | band, Son, Lover or| Friend. Call and make! your selection early be- fore the best styles are gone. We will keep all goods purchased now un- til time for delivery, and see that they reach their destination promptly, just before Christmas. .NECK-WEAR.. we have something new and unusually attractive to show our many cus- tomers and friends in Neckwear. After having devoted both extra time and attention to this branch of our business, we place upon our coun- ters the latest styles in Shape, Coloring etc., at prices which will enable all who are in need of Neckwear to be exactly suited, of course, all the things men need are here. Suspenders, Garters, Mufflers, Collar and Cuff Buttons, Dress Suit Pro- tection, Dress Suit Cases and Trunks. Lone LoNpoN OVERCOATS. We have been told that The London Overcoats which we have trouble in keeping in all sizes, on account of the number we have sold, and are the most stylish seen in Bellefonte. The satisfac- tion these Coats have given in all cases has ‘been most gratifying to us. | i | | Men's Black Suits. ‘Black Suits are being ‘worn more and more. Nothing is more servi- ceable. We are prepar- ed to surprise you in our Black Suits, in fact in many of our Suits we are giving you unusual value, Montgomery & G0., THE DARBY SHOK oll IS ONE OF THIS SEASON'S STYLES IN OUR YOUNG MEN'S AND MEN'S SIL.O0 SUITS A style that within the last three weeks has been introduced by one of New York's most ex- clusive and leading manufacturers. So popular our | has it become that other manufacturers have turned toward it and are now imitating this style. Merchant tailors are everywhere seeking for pat- terns. New York's swell set have almost raved over it. We have only received them this week and it has been the same with all who have seen them. They are neatly cut, suitable for business and dress occasions. In a variety of weaves bu? principally in quiet colorings, such as black and blue serges, unfinished worsteds and cheviots, ox- ford mixed chevioteens, and green, olive, brown, Scotches. Not a piece of goods but all-wool and of such a quality that we ask a comparison. Look at these Suits, look at others; you'll be easier, much easier to sell to then. We are not guessing, it is a fact ; it must be when others have repeated- ly done it. iti ARTS, AAD. PANAMA FELT HATS in proportions, col- ors and qualities to suit any face, to suit any purse. Twice before we had these shape Hats, but each time they would be sold before we got even a chance to tell you about them. For those swag- ger young fellows we call particular attention to our “Tis It" and “ Aleador.” The new “Mid Beason” Stiff Hats are here. A little later than the Fall blocks—nearer the Spring blocks. All grades. tla. SIM. The O0thi6r. Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Lewin’s Former Rooms. Next Door to Old Stand.
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