The Centre Democr ————————“ CHAS. R. KURTZ, A DEFENCE OF, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE In Reply to the Opinion of Hon. John G. Love EXCEPTIONS TO HIS RULINGS nsist That They are mot an Injury to the Public— Not Composed of Ex- citable and Fanatical People Entitled to a Hearing our issue of March soth wepablish be ering son ered by | "Sa els ardor | 4 3 Ds ' i QOes 8 | er ou. John G. ba Joram! 3 be the ease for this week two more cases | Charter to the Ch ASH Scieutists of Bow- ard, Pa, It'was strong denunciation of that faith or belief, with some very point. ed comments that reflected on the follow. ers of that form of worship and practice of healing. The opinion attracted atten. tion over the country and brought forth yprietor, i | { confined the past mouth. considerable comment from the daily | press. It was about as scathing a re. buke to this class as we ever saw and ‘naturally a reply to the same was ex. pected. This week we received a letter from Mr. W. H. Long, of Howard, ask. ing that we publish the following reply to the opinion of Judge love. This we deem it our duty to do as we believe in full and fair discussion of all such ques- tions, and especially after publishing the opinion of the court entire. The follow. ing is the article sent in reply to Judge love: Boston, Mass., March 27th, In your issue of the you pubiish. ed a dispatch from Bellefonte, Pa . re porting that Judge Love had refused to grant a charter to the Fir Church of Christ, Scientist, Howard In his opinion, the Judge stated “We have not been furnished with a copy of the di Cipline of said church; we are not, there. fore, fully informed of its faith, purpose and usage. We, however, from other sources of information are advised that the special object and purpose of the or. ganization is to disseminate tke doctrine of physical health or cure by faith in the exercise of divine power.” No doubt Christendom will be shocked at this at. tempt, whether it be ignorant or inten. tional, to curtail religious liberty. What right has a Judge to give a decision based upon unauthemtic and unveri. fied rumors circulated by the enemies of this faith? He acknowledges that he is uninformed except what he has gather ed from other sources than the Christian Scientists, and vet he ventures to render a decision. We have no desire to med. die with the courts, but we believe inas. much as this judge has depatted from the diginity of the bench to give a decision based upon prejadice rather than legiti- mate testimony, this matter is not worthy 10 be regarded as a legal proceeding and should be denounced He states, “From oar investigation, the results of the practice based upon such doctrine have not demonstrated that they are certainly beneficial to so fety, but on the contrary have mostly proved to be failures and hurtful.” This decis. ion betrays the source of bis information Multitudes of people in this country have not only been benefitted spiritually, but have been saved from sickness through Christian Scientists after having exhaust ed gil hopes in other remedies. It was due No Christian Scientists and especially to the body of people petitioning for a charter, that this man should make a thorough investigation of Christian Science and its good works rather than to decide that it is not beneficial hecause of the misinformation which he has ob. tained from the gnemies of this faith He declares : “Those who practice the fa'th cure are mostly persons uneducated ard subject to the influence of religious superstition and excitement.” | have nothing 10 say in respect to faith cure ex. cept that Christian Science is not in any fense akin to it, though we must confess that we fail to see wherein faith could perpetuate ignorance or generate super- Slition. We would resent vehemently the insinuation that the people who com- pose the Christian Science denomination "are uneducated’ and “subject to super. Stitious excitement.” Esen withia the past few week, some of the most promi. nent people of this country have identi. — themselves with Christian Scientists. Ie people who compose the Christian Science denomination are admittediy above the average in intelligence and education. They are not in any sense faoatics, but are a rational, common se class. That a Judge should at. | pt to decide what sort of religion or | dicine people should have is contrary to Americanism This mao declafes that Scientists ought to be able to raise the dead. Do the practitioners of the medi cal schools raise the dead ? Why should they not be required to do this ? Chris. tian Scientists have never claimed that they could raise the dead Nevertheless, A great many of us are alive and well to. | day who would certainly have been dead Years ago but for Christian Science. The | writer Is among that number. We will grant that when Truth, as It 1902 st of 8 Christian swith n longer be. required.” | Was at the Frank home and was among | doll tthe first to take ill, | boy and a little girl were taken ill | quartered, and under the direct care of | physicians found that Mr. Shultz had ( daving the day asd wight last year was 107, the same number as BELLEFONTE, PA., TI OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW 8 nttime. They accept the literal teach- ing of the Bible and put it into practice as far as possible. They look forward { toa fulfillment of the Master's injunction; | "'Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,’ though in their present immature condi- tion they have not so attained, We venture the assertion that in their theory, Christian Scientists are no farth er in advance of their practice than Christians of other Cenoni ations. (Signed) ALrrep FPARLOW. Repubfished [IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBTORS Article of Agreement for the Purchase of a Town Clock—Entertainment at Aaronsburg—0ld Potter Twp., 1790 NEW SMALLPOX CASES. With the approach of warm weather there was every hope that the smallpox | by which his mulatto man Bob, was 7, 178g. of this place, has willed to his son James, Oct. 2 hve developed, one at ReberSburg and | Miss Celia C. Armor, ) the other at Millheim. At Rebersbury | kindly furnished the Centre 4 copy of a bill of sale of Bob from A. the case is that of William Shultz who Boggs to G. Anshutz, which is worthy a lives a short distance northwest of the | place in our Review : Frank home where the disease has been | BILL OF Mr. Shultz the father of Minnie Shultz the girl who 18 G ANSHUTZ. For the sum of two hundred and fifty ‘ars to me in hand paid by George After that another { Aushutz, Co with mmission merchant of Pitts. 1 sell burg, I do hereby and transfer my | assisted | black boy Bob to him the said ( Frank | hi 5 were the disease at his house and he in the Wm. house where all the other case reorge $ heirs and assigns for six years f the first removing them to rom | day of January eighteen hun. | dred and thirteen at the expiration of | which time the said Bob is bereby de. | clare an experienced nurse, Oa Saturday the to be a free man, ’ hereunto set my | band and seal at Pittsburg, Dec. 25th, I812 contracted the disease and was at once removed to the Frank home so that he All patients at the Frank home are In witness where of can be properly treated the other A about Bocas itn es about but the Witness hibit them CHRISTIAN LATSHAW The devel them recovered and able to be quarantine pt from leaving the premises. regulations Opment of this new case will keep there much longer At Milibeim John lives in the same house with Ed and is h th We are inf Houseman, Wiat is father-in law, has been stri and He Exors to Roland Curtin Curtin to me A " Oy k : 15 now ahout what seems to be the disease now abo A Boggs eighteen years of age tn wi Rokos ormed that his attack is term oces ed varioloid, which is vothing more than lot of a mild form of smallpox, but contagious in a prothonotary the following While rammaging through a old documents, in a box stored th an element of danger connect | former school apartment, and wi - ed. At Millhelm the authorities are ex. en Garduer found €rcising every precaution to cosfine the disease to the one location, and thas far they have been successfal. PURCHASE OF TOWN CLOCK. This Agreement of warrantee, made A competent this fifteenth day of March, 1856, be ree | r f 3 . 0 y 34 ne a” in charge o iy patients, and tween VanRiper & Buel of the Tawn of © property is guarded so that no one Cazenovia, Madison County, N. Y.. of the first part, and the Chief Burgess, As- sistavt Burgess and Town Council of the Borough of Bellefonte in the County of Centre and State of Fenusylvania of the h second part of the part agreements heref part the party hereby agree to sell, Can enter or. leave aod this is kept up Lightning Rods. nm The present state of science that no man can tell whether a is suc A . , Witnesseth that the party lightning rod does more good than barm or more harm than good ¥ frst in consideration of the nafler contained on the the part to and second It is likely that if the of of second rod is big enough and sufi fently well grounded, and the lightning ed directly at one's that some part of it possible all of it may go to the ground over the li This is all that can be said. If a house has a tin roof it 1s reasonably & fe an w i : : y sale anyho if schedule hereunto annexed and that the it has a steel frame Construction or is full Same is coastructed and finished a warrant Rank ia ai flash is aim. the Ruarantee to the party part the Town of the Court of bouse ' ' ock placed in the dome or House in Bellefoute by the sald party of the first part to be one of their No. Six clock’s as described in the ghtning rod. in of water pipes it is still safer. Is ; y b pipe ih R ae Fo tsa workmanlike manner and 1s warranted rame house with a shingle roof you am g'e roof you can | Ln proper care to prove a timekeeper secure entire safety for it by building a for the period of two years from the date Copper house outside of gd This, we be- thereof, except in cdse of any damage lieve, is the only efficient lightaing pro. caused by the elements. tection . The party of the second part agree to The whole matter of lightning rods purchase of the party of the first part was conceived in ignorance and has been . the aforesaid Click and to procure a | exploited in folly. It 1s not now believed competent person to take charge of the that the ordinary lightning rod dues any Same, to see that it is not injured by ex- wd, or, on the contrary, that it does anv K ’ ¢ y posure to the weather or 1 articular harm. losulators will R |, A p j TT na ling and that it is wound up regularly help it nor will they harm it. If we were : { u once a week and ofled once every tw Hving in your house we would rather I months in all its pivots and Journals and escapements with the best kind of watch - oil | also to see that the old oil is cleaned A Grewsome Record. off and the machivery of the Clock kept The Chicago “Tribune,” which keeps clean. If for any cause said clock does account, 50 far as it can, of murders | DOt perform as mentioned (the foregoing and lvnchings in this country, report that stipulations as io care and protection in 1go1 there were 118 legal executions | PAYIDE been fulfilled) written notice of | —oue less than in 1900. [It reports for such fallure is to be at once sent to the the year 135 lynchings (20 more than in [first part at Cazenovia aforesaid and a | 1900) of which 12 occured in the South | T®A%0nable time allowed said party of and 14 in the North, as compared with the first part to put the same in repair, 107 in the South and § in the North, in| Witness Present 19%. The number of negroes lynched | MORGAN |. TRovsrinGK C. Derr ] mproper hand. not have the lightning rod.- Review Electrical in 1900. Of these 39 were lynched for Nk ya bs ots murders, the same number as in 1990. Pres’t Town Council. There ere fewer lynching last year 'n | Received on the day of the date of the Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia. But within article three hundred and thirty. more in Alabama, Tennessee and Tex: | olf 3 he or | dollars on account of the Clock and as. The figures bring out one tact that | Dials, leaving two hundred dollars to be should be noticed at least once A year. ( paid on the 15th of September 1856, and The number of vegroes yuched every | oie hundred dollars in two years from year for murder is more than twice as the date hereof, Subject to the provisions reat as the number lynched for crimnal of the guarantee, anit, VAXRIrPRR & Buns, Bellefonte Borough Centre County, Pa, The Commonwealth of Peunsylvania to the High Constable of the Borough of Bellefonte Greeting, Whereas the Chief Burgess, Mother and Child Killed. A mother and one child were killed and a child maimed for life near Maha. fey on gth, Mrs. William Brady, carry. log a 15 month old baby, and accompan. led by ber 6 year old daughter and her sister, Alice Hughes was along the Penn. svivania Raliroad when three of the Po Old Documents of Local Interest | Assessment, | In Chapter 46 of our Historical Review | mention is made of the will of Gen. Pot. | Democrat, | ALE OF BOB FROM A. BOGGS, TO | TURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1002. of fifty besides three like the costs of levying this execution. cents money, costs, goods and chattels of the said defendant, you with the interest due thereon, by distress and sale thereof according to law. Bat of sufficient body for want take the distress of the said Benjamin the said County of Centre and deliver | him to the keeper thereof, who is hereby | commanded to receive [ terest and costs are paid, or be other- wise legally discharged. | to our said Chief Burgess, on or before the second day of August next, and have | You then there this our execution Wit. ness our said Chi of | the gth day of July AD 1831 I. G Lowgry, Chief Bargess, Levied oa Staubers property July 11th 1831 2 stoves 1 Sorrel Horse 1 stilling apparattus 3 Doz hats more or jess 1 desk hat Blocks & Irons 1 batters Kettle Received July 23 on the within I tion Twenty five dollars ixecu 1 D PRUNER I. of Bellefonte Borough Pruner twen lars on this Execution. ILAXD Treas 2d August 15 rid Real Delnt Int fr 21 May 811 Constable Ix on Ex Burgess 043 Stayed the within execu. { the first day of September, A. Rae 1 ! . JULY 28. 1831, ton anti D. 183: By order Received F.B. Sumrra We therefore command you, that of the | levy the said-debt and costs, together | | With Which Our Board of Health that you | 1S Strauber and him convey to the Jail of | him of you, and | him safely keep until the said debt, ia- | And bow you | shall have acted in the premises return | Burgess, at Bellefonte | town, | more good reason in it. | patient by degrees until! the case bee | desperate pride A SERIOUS DISEASE | Can Not Cope, BECOMING CONTAGIOUS | | Not Classified by Our Medical Experts | but Known as" ‘Foreign-Purchase- "Fever" —Causes Great Injury Prevalent in Bellefonte There are people in Bellefonte as well as other towns, who from time to time become afflicted with the disease, which u Pp to date no one has tried to name. Is it 18 both infectious and contagious, and the only human remedy yet discov ered is a mixture of common sense and r in one's own town taken in allo. pathic doses. There are quite a number of women aff icted with that particalar for of dis. ease which prompts them to buy ~y “rr y as much as of This morphine habit, thing, or possible, out habit is &s insidious as the it has no It grows on the sud ss a rale Jes Finally the victim bec Ret oe of convinced that to 2 gown made ¢ hat trimmed, a pie ribbon buttons, it is ne essary York, chance bt pyres a a t home Talk with our mes au would be surprised at the great amount of And who suffer, out of town trade. ch occa these mer the practice ants, frequently ask editors to denounce this where they themselves not only send al Pres. | In one of his studio drawers, Dr. Hollo WAY vame across a program of the Aaronsburg Academy. printed im the Kurtz the Aaronsburg Academy's Exhibition, to be beld Ad Hall, October 23rd, 1556. As participating in the exercises el "ee i office, for Avnual ademy ah in inoral Dames ons find tbe following Orations F. H. Foster, Wm. Schoc hb, Wm. Alexander, N A. FP. Winkleblec bh, G. L. Buchanan, Charles Shoup, W. Hays, Franklin Russel, Dan- tel Hosterman, Peter Smith, J. H. Stover, Wm. J. Poorman, Heury VY Stitzer, W. V. Gotwald, A. J Heller, J. P. Norman, Wm. H. Shoup, J. G. Haas, H. © Hollo wav, Jos. Holloway, T. G Erhard, Dag- iel Dinges, DD. M. Wolf. Dialogues A.V. Wolf, Danie! Rote, W. B. Mingle, Alfred Hains, Daniel Rote, A.V. Wolf, Franklis H. Foster, William Foster, J. 8. Brisbin, W. H. Larimer. Essay : Wm. Wagner, Valedictory Croumiller, i=] 8. Brisbin. ASSESTMENT LIST OF POTTER TOWNSHIP FOR 1790 A john, a 18 (a—~acres horses -Cattle.) Anderson lender Burns & Me Be Benn, Henry Biggs, Alexander Bear. Samuel, a David, a 2 Carnahan, Willlam. a i Oarnabas, James, h 1. « Climpson, Thomas, a Colbert, John, a®. h | Clover, Philip. a 90 Corser, Anthony and John. a MW. hie? Duncan, James, 8 10 bh 1. eo 4 Dunlap, Alexander, a 2 Davis, Joseph, bh 1.01 Eyetrs & Foster. alo. nd. el Kison, Peter, a 10. h 2.0 3 Elson & Peter. a 30 Earnest, John, (1 still) a 100 Frampton, Arthur, a 10 Frampton. Nathaniel, a 30 Greg. Andrew, a 20» Led Glssgow, Samuel, a 100. bh 1, 0 2 Gardner, James, a NM hled Gordon, Thomas (1) grist mill 1} Mhdel Graham, James, a 100. hh 1 George, William, a #9. Huston, James, a 10 hlLel Hurst, John, a ® Hunter, William, a 30 Hastings, Joho. hl 02 Hastings, Enoch a 20 bh 1 6 2 Hendriokson, Cornelius, a hte Ingram, John, a 00,01 Jordan, Benjamin, a 80 Jordan, Hugh, a® Jack, Michael, a 100, kh 1, e 1. Jack, Jacob, bh 1, 0 2. Johnson, Richard, a 100, h Lel Johnson, Alexander, a 204, K% ¢ 4. Keatiey, Christian, a 10, h 2, 0 2. King, William, (1 stave) a 100, h 2, 0 4. Livingston, James, a in, e 2 MeoCOashin, James, a 100, h 1,0 1. MeViear, Duncan, a 50, h 1, ¢ 2. MoFadden, James, h 1,02, MoConnall, Elizabeth, a 100, h 1. ¢ 1 MeKim. Robert, a 100, h 2, 02, Moore, James, (1 still) h 1, 01, Moore, Abel, a 200. £2 0 2 Moore Joseph, bh 1.0 1. (Continued on page 4) a e2 hi h 3 Joseph. a ¥ de. a Jr al hie a. hlel V0 Barber _ Bhilel 1 saw.miil) el their job printing out of town. bat their other bome by all Decessaries away from Some firms in Bellefonte are not deserving of a bit of local patronage and Are more guilty of the practice than the general public The above comments are not mere sur. mises, but the cold facts, and app a y sot me 10 business men, but also to the professional class, who also li upon the iocal community (and fro we ago Bot exciude the ministry the list aii of whom should be more cons lerate as a dollar kept at ¢ ulate and may return, while if Laway, is forever This stitutions is an old theme and it gone matier of patronizing bome in needs 10 t be continually ressed the § imp on uhlic mind Some of our people, from a false pride, deem it crude to make their purchase at home where the common herd bus their necessaties heir sense, these are to be pitied for lack of plain, ordinary, common The man who has the oois can spend it where be pleases, and if he cares not for the goodwill of his neighbors, the prosperity of the community, if he is cold hearted, thoughtless, inconsiderate, be usually buys everything away from bome. When such men pass away sordid 1 De : } & profusion of cut flowers, f can purchase costly shroud and but few tears are shed or kindly thoughts are aroused among those who knew him well FREE RURAL DELIVERY At present the postoffice authorites are figuring on two more Rural Free De. this county. One will be established at State College and three or four routes from that point have livery mail routes in | been mapped out but nothing definite | route was laid out was done, The inspector was at Zion the past few days where the following i Start at Zion eastward to the Gordon | farm, then cross the Ridge into Marion township and come westward on main | | road as far as Dantel Grove's farm, and | then to Zion ; then up to Nigh Bank and | across to the South Side road, then down : i to Hecla and back to Zion This makes a good trip. The depart. ment offers $600 a year for this service Franklin Grove will be the cartier over the above route, ~— ———— _- Sunday School Cousvation. The County Sabbath school convention in Centre Hall, Tuesday, Sth, elected the following officers for the ensuing year President Rev, J. M. Rearick, Centre Hall, Vice president—Rev, J. D, Shortess, Millbelm, Recording secretary —Miss Anne Ham- fiton, State College. Corresponding secretary Rev, A. A. Black, Boalsburg, Treasurer—A. Lakenbach, Bellefonte. a sleeper.” sr — VOL. 24. NO. 16. FACT, FUN AND FANCY, Bright Sparkling Paragraphs— Selected and Original. FIGURES" OFTEN LIE I saw her in the b A figure A shape that Ven aiiroom most divine is might have envied, Buperb in oeve ry line I saw her al the seaside The I cannot help beliey ng now hat “fig contrast made me sigh res ie Thi When o % is the time of ar er the spiril steading, Lh SPPRRT ~ It Ured feeling He sho 1s heavy ur And put is Te# « He BU mer hances gre bh 1 any Won't nes There's » AY Ha Don't shed 3 A sharp man never cuts his acquaint- ances The crop that never fails is the dead crop 1 a fellow is a bad egg don't try to beat him The obituary poet attends tc sad > the last writes A cheap suit must be taken for better or worsted Even the boy with the kite may be man who dies of t to make a nine | the nerve of son If a girl is pretty and doesn’t know it she is truly handsome. i & girl she you intend to keep it ¢ Naa . Never te pr is pretty unless ip Dogs cannot fly, that there are skye terriers. ove, although lots young folks are deaqa in Few people die of ove. The thief who stole a watch instead of EAining time is now serviog it Compliments are sil but even sensi. y them wicgs that make an ta plain, ordinary girl bie people inwardly en: Riches are tie f Ses ange ’ o policeman's duty 1 t's the watch so that others may not prey The people who don't always say a Jot of trouble at the close of othes of night al a botel one day, what they think avoid tsonly that i vatura lay we should wear the « A gentleman called and ordered for his dinner a plate of tar. As the waiter the order, the "We! 1) ' 1 Gownial key was returning with ipped from him. “that’s the upsetting of of of Han. plate said the gentleman, the breaking of Turkey Greece (grease), the up China, and the disappointment gary (hungry A resident of Everett the the per Kan jorutkeeper’’ went on for a $1,000 other day, whereupon the local pa- printed the f paragraph : “If this man is able to £0 on the bond of crimicals he certainly ought be able to pay for his wed ling invitations And for bond of a lowing to which he got of us a few vears ago cents on the dollar war, just after Bloemfontein, soldiers wer the fall of e called upon, llans, to work The weary men were ving In camp ome night after a hard day's work, when a sergeant called out “Any io put your name down as railway porters, drivers, stokers, guards, or for avy other appoint. ment connected with the railway 7 The silence was broken only by suoves, then one Tammy slowly raised his bead and drowsily shouted "Pat me down as Wing to the scarcity of civi the railway, of you men want a —— ————" What Man Is. Maa bora of woman is small cabbage. In infancy be is tall of colic, paragoric and catnip, and in old age he is full of cross words and rheumatism. In his youth his maternal ancestor taketh him across her knee and extendeth to him all the sympathy in her nature with the heel end of her slipper, and when he is a man full grown he dodgeth the tax collector and Sheriff the rest of his life. He speaketh like a camphor tree and get. teth a political job, and his friends cling to him like a sandspur to your pantsieg. He swelleth with vanity and cutteth frozen water for time, but is melted lke wax in a fire at the convention and cast in the ash barrel, where his name is Den- nis. Out of office his friends forget to cling to him like a vine round a rotten stamp, and be soon goeth busted, which maketh him lie down in the cow Pasture, where the redbugs get in his hair and beneath bis wader clothing. He dieth out of the world and goeth to a place too warm to wear clothes. Verily the last end of that man is worse than the begin. ning, and the band plaveth “A Hot Time in the Old Town." Albuquerque News.
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