4 The Cintre Democrat, FRED KURTZ, SR. { £pITORS. CHAS. R. KURTZ, } CIRCU LATION OVER 33500. | TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : SUBSCRIPTION Persons who send or bring the money to the office, and pay in advance, §1 per year. The date your subscription expires is plain. Iy printed on the label bearing your name. All oredits ure given by a enange of label the first fssue of each month, Wateh that after you re mit. We send no receipts unk ss by special request. Watch date on your label, Subscribers changing postoffice address, and not notifying us, are Hable for same Subscriptions will be continued, otherwise directed We employ no collector. You are expected to send the money to this office unieas DEM. COUNTY COMMITTEE, 103. Districts Borouy Bellefonte “ w Centre Hall Howard Milesburg Millhelm Philipsburg 1st w " nd w “" rdw B. Philipsburg Btate College Unionville Townships Benuer n. p ” A) ) Boggs n. p. 3 ep w, Burnside College Curtin Ferguson e, p ’ Ww. p Gregg n. p “wap Ww Hales . 0 “ 1 ep Ww Pp Halimoon flarrts Howard Huston Liberty Marion Miles é. p "mp Ww “ p Patto Penn Potter 8. | a np “ wW.p Rush n.} "2D Snow Shoe o Ww Spring n. p “ 8p “ Ww. 1 Taylor Union Walker ep. " Ww Worth Becretaries oA. SHAFFER J. K. JOHNSON EDITORIAL, A Kew apportionment bill introduced in the at passed, would give Centre one member present, Clearfield lower house Harrisburg, if instead of two as at would have three in place of two Tae extent to which the President, attorney general Knox and congress wil go in curbing the trusts will be to fire a few rounds of blank cartridges at the monsters and then trusts will quit ; the then contribute handsomely to the fund, next republican campaign out of tude. grati the Pennypacker Tur appointment of torney by come to Bellefonte ed. E.R marriage to Reeder, the Reg man, of this count Deputy At did had been exp (Ov aol as Chambers, Esq , related the Gov. and Wilbur ablican County Chair , were prominently mentioned but the f official demand of the Elkinites, rmer at the was reiain for another term Tug Kan the meanest man found at We boy to carry as Lily J mrna Kansas ing him or me dice and p 1 craps with the be bad won AYE got 8 boy until the 15 cents back The boy testified to this fact in a case cour!, The ty will will crat for glasses in stingie«t man in Centre coun Demo- his eye not take The Centre fear of wearing out A piLL has been offered in congress to raise the President’s salary from $50,000 to $100,000 per annum. To put up sala ries has been a mania for years although there are plenty of good men that will accept any office for the salaries be. fore they were as high as they now are and spend thousands of dollars to secure offices at that. Salaries are at a high notch already and statesmen who think they are pot high enough need only step aside, and an army of new applicants will be only too glad to take their places even if salaries are reduced. TARIPP trouble seems to be brewing more violently than ever in the republi. can party. The western republicans are for tariff reform asd proclaim it openly, while the trust domination that has a firm grip en the party, is fighting to prevent anti-trust legisiation. Some of the republicans are trying to be on both sides, and even Rosevelt is pretend- ing to fight these monsters while under the surface there does not seem to be much earnest in his stand. The people are demanding relief from these gigantic sharks that are theatening the welfare of the people and have already given an alarming exhibition of their desire to swallow up every industry that it can not control and bring under its pittiless paws, The remedy is simple—repeal the tariff, ~Watsontown hand made Oil Grain Lad and Congress. $1.75. Yeager & 14 CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - - PROPRIETOR TO TAX BACHELOR AND SPINSTER. ' for the taxation of celibates, both male and female, is a measure designed to promote the marriage institution in the | State and calculated to put tax dodging on a co-operative basis. The | must pay $50 a year, the spinster $as. This is rendering liable to assessment | Assemblyman Cohen's bill providing | - $1.50 PER YEAR | not only the faults but the misfortunes of But at on mutual willingness and by the aid of various fellow beings, a word, a minister, the taxes of two persons will vanish, while the state will lose §7 year, Precedents idea The assessment of spinsters 18 a new thought for a bacheior-tax have been numerous in the states, which lays its author open to accusa tions of ungallantry. Ib one of the divi bachelor tax Mr. It provides a sliding scale lo f 10 per twenty Lo age seventy hve sions of Argentina there a code fu operation which Cohen should study of tributes from $s up month and At the Year ; from age the fee drops to 7 lifted latter limit per at eighty it is By a humave provision the man who proposes three times in good faith and is rejected 1s exempt, If all the country were taxed according the mien and women celibates of to the rates suggested at Albany the vield would fall a little short of half a billion dollars and wou!d nearly meet the ordi- nary expenditures of the National Gov- eros L.=-N. Y.Worid CLEARFIELD EX COMMISSIONERS. county auditors wound with a surcharge of $575 aud exorbitant gant auqit surcharge was not large enough, and because the other auditors refused to investigate two acts in connection with h The lightning rod surcharge was the auditors made by a noun partisan shady contr provements to the court last ase year, forced by upon a committee appointed by Judge Gordon, A local brought the at the request of a grand jury, the charges to the attention of the grand jury September, When the of the paper, paper, Republican, in met the editor Short, was called and which be did. John ¥ upon (0 act as prose. cutor furnish the witnesses, all of THE GOOD OLD WAY. The best cooking school for a daugh- ter is her mother's kitchen, more espect- ally if the latter is reasonably i both addition t proficient in that which is an art id a science, in ot also being a that which bappy and bment e I iS A great mistake that some princely accompli in tends lo make th ne healthy It ashamed to be seen in the home of gew.-gaw and liimmings, girls are kitchen thing, clad in but for the “fasion the attend a cooking class to lake a doren lessons from an instructress in TOKE, from which they graduate without know. 1g bow to bake a good Johnny cake, do up a chick of important cious soup, 3 the that right kiod “"stufing,’’ or bake 8 requisite, a good loaf of bread A git that will gad around the street alter fads and frivo ities, from mom to late at night and think to make up for it by attending a dozen or more lessons in alled ~ OO ( An cooking class, will { in the , that she has h wi ure as a house.wife important period of her life had that training whi make her an utter fa devoid of the very qualifications for which she Mothers destined the Creator with their daughters line, out of a false affectation of kindoess, and then when the daughter in life, the pothouse preparation is resorted to and in nine cases out of the hundred, the rs- sult isa botch. is by are too oft remiss in this is to enter her new relation CHURCH MEMBERSHIP. There bas been a gain in church mem. bership in the United States during the past year, but it has not kept up with the increase of population, the latter baving been 26 per cent. while the former was but 1.15 per cent. The total gain in membership in 1902 was 403.743 and by denominations the percentage was as follows : Baptists, 1.1; Catholics, 1.3; Methodists, 1.7; Presbyterian, 19: Disciples of Christ and Congregational, each 2; Episcopal, 2.2; Reformed, 2 Ss; Lutheran, 2.8; United Brethren 4; Christ. tan Science, 5 5; Adventists, 11.5. Pro bably the greatest and the smallest in. crease occurred where it would be least | expecled, and with the special effort that was made by thé Methodists to in- crease thelr number along with the $20,000,000 Twentieth century fund, #t | seems strange that they should be so near the bottom. With the exeeption of | the Catholics, however, they have the largest membership of the congregations | named and this would reduce the per | centage of Increase even if the numbers | were larger. In the compilation (Dr, | Carroll's) from which these figures are taken the increase in numbers by de. nomination is not given, so it is impossi- bie to tell where the greatest gains have baen bachelor | 75 a ber, Commitiee | THE HESSIAN FLY. Professor Surface Makes a Complete Investigation of the Insect. Two years ago Professor Hamilton, as secretary of agriculture, engaged Profes. | sor Sutface to make a complete investi. gation of the Hessian fly in Pennsyl. | vania. This consisted chiefly of exam- ining specitiens of growing wheat sent from all copnties of the state during the | entire growing season, both fall and spring, and a careful study of the biolo. | gic conditions of each field from which samples were sent, | | Among valuable results are the follow ing tables: Planted in August and first week of September, 100 per cent infested, Plaoted during second of week Sep- tember, 80 per cent. infested Planted during third week of Septem ed. Planted during fourth week of Sept sted Planted after fourth ber o per cent infested ber, 26 per cent, infest ber ‘ infe 12 per cent week of Se This shows what time to plant wheat y order Co to avoid the fall brood of the peration of all farmers in a ary to extermioate shows actual yields according to time of plaoting to be as follows: Planted before second week of Se pltem. ber, average, 15 bushels per acre Pianted during third week of Septem- ber, average, 20 bushe iS per acre, Planted daring fourth week of Set average mshels per acre, Piauted durir E urst week of October, average 16 bushels per acre » tect fey Planted Ig second week of Oclo or 4 usbels per acre ne third week of (Octo published as a bulletin of the Pennsylvania state de. partment of agri In his prelin ailure nary report as secr of agricultare, Professor Hamilton says, be ¢ ulated by This report should r¢ the bousand in this state, and its sugeestions should be acted u ’ in If this were done it would result many anvuaily by the saving of thousands of dollars out farmers, Re SUBSCRIPTION LAWS Seven Compiled From Decisions Ren dered by United States Court Man tine requested ¥ newspapers have from time to information coucerning Seven decisions newspaper subscription laws have been the points that bother many new spaper pub compiled from of United States Court. and embody Hshers, The seven are Subscribers wlio notice to the contrary are considered as wishiug to renew their 2. If sudscribers order of their Hay continue 0 ance ical "TA send them until a rearages are paid y If subscribers refuse neglect or take their periodicals from the post office to which they are directed they are re 81K b t and ord weible atte have red them dis until they their ontinued 4 If subscribers move 10 other places without the dress nforming the pub the are held responsit isher, papers are sent former ad thes ° courts have decided that refus ing to take periodicals from the office or aud baving 6. If subscribers pay in advance they are bound to give notice at the end of the time if they do not wish to contis authorized and the subscriber be it, otherwise the publisher is to send 1t respon an express notice, with pay. ment of all arrearages is sent to the pub Hisher, 7. The latest postal laws are such that newspaper publishers can arrest any one for fraud who takes a paper and refuses to pay for it. Under the law the man who allows his subscription to run along for some time and then orders it discon- tinued or orders the postmaster to mark it “refused’’ and have a postal card sent notifying the publishers, leaves himself liable to arrest and fine, the same as for theft, It will be seen that many disputed points are disposed of by these decisions, which are certainly only just. If a sub. scriber doesn’t want to renew his sud. scription let him notify the publisher. The second decision given bere will be a surprise to some publishers who be. lieved they must stop a delinquent sub. scriber’s paper if ordered to. The delin- quent must pay up if be desires to discon. | tinue bis subscription. Otherwise he is held for as long as the paper is being sent to him, whether he takes it from the | postoffice or not, How to meet the tariff and trast griev. ances of the people is just now disturb: Ing the republican leaders. . Onethird of | the republican rank and fle is openly taking the democratic idea that the tar | If needs reforming and the trosts shonld | be curbed ; another third of the party Is | of the same opinion but as yet is only | manifesting itself In marmerings, while the other third, siding with the million. Aires, is out and out for robber tariff and trust domination. The latter are rowing the party craft, - : i sible until THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE 00 But give express | him {of Ph and | RECENT DEATHS. Mrs FrANK Un ;- Died at her home at Romola on Wednesday morning 28th, after being a patient sufferer for the past few weeks with fever. She was aged 44 years avd is survived by a hus. band and several children. Murs. MATTERN :—widow of the late John Mattern, died at her home in Mat. ternville Tuesday morging, after a brief She was the G. Mattern She al fliness, aged 68 years, of the Surviving her are four children, mother late Guyer 50 leaves two brothers MAX GILBERT: ~The child of Mr, and Mrs. Claude W. Fulton of Esplain, a suburb of Pittsburg, h of died Feb. 3, of whooping.cough and puen monia after an iliness about one ght Curtin month The remains Milesburg., 1 cemetery Wednesday, w oye brou to nterment iu the Joux PF. Res Aaron, He » 1O many [ Nittany val owned which section for the v » MR NANCY BOODLE jamin Bodie, of near | the Bellefoote Hospital, Thu! 29th, her age bei ng n Bodie has been | months, a short time the hospital where r™ " The remains were ne week 141 3 of Alam Krape y PA, FEBRUARY 5, 1903, 14-mouths old | | putting costs { to get them and enforcing the { lost by Mrs. Kline. They are survived by their | family of nine children. The only sur- | viving membess of Mr. Hall's family are | his brother J. Newlin Hall, of Howard, and bis sister Mrs. Hannah Barnhart, of | Red Oak, Ia., one brother Samuel BF. Kline, of Howard, is the only surviving member of Mrs, Hall's family. ment was made in West Union, Inter - Changes Needed. At the opening of Northumberland county criminal court Monday Judge C. KR. Bavidge directed remarks at the Lag islature, Addressing the grand jury, he spoke of the needs of pew of the iaw 10 meet the requirenzents day relative to on the parti $s who deserve Ir payment He told of tion with seve drafting a bill, in connec ral other and per- foually going Harr but it The leg not Was one vole io Lhe Hou [ative mind apparently could the urgend The Judy fn | Oflen Aske t when she became | born in Lock YEARS She is st Mr. and Mrs Haven ; Mrs of Lock Haven ; and Frank itvived by her Henry Shaffer, of aud three childrer, namely, C Sasser: Jos d Cummings, Mrs Iuterment of Bellefonte took piace ir the Union cenfetery Tuesday, Mus At ii at Roland, last Thursday morniog a few days. Her Rachel Fraser and wai born about sixty five years ag CURTIN Die had been 11] bat Waid CH name was bad been married to Col Curtin the wedding taking She five years SavYes no ch Or Ber has and. Col ther ' one in = ho ork Inter cemetery al this g JAcom P, of NM est urg Tuesday morniog from infirmit o old w nal next Seg Mary 5 with »ix ch Snore y py en cnt t age. He was born to ip and wou dave been 1 1 + v n 0 LE Dey in ro he married hrover, who sur ITED. as Mr ollows Wes ley, of Suow Shoe bomas B Mi church H., and Edward Interment in the Advent cemetery hursday lernoon HARRY ANDREW OGRUHRET diet efonte Hospital Monday ever after an 4) ness of several weeks duration Gangrene is given as the cause superinduced by an attack of fever Deceased wae born at ’ was the son of David Gel rel age 44 yearn» He was a member of the Seven Day Adven lists church. His wife, who in her maiden days was Villa Strouse, of State College and three children, survive namely, Evelyn, Thomas and Bessie al! at bome The funeral will take place to-day from the residence on East Howard street. Murs. MARTHA J BARNHART :—widow of the late John Barnbart, died Wednes. day morning 28, at the home of ber son- indaw Wm. M. McClure, in ths place. Death was due to cancer. She had been confined to ber bed for the past eight mouths. The maiden name of the de- ceased was Martha Alkey, and she was the daughter of Benjamin Alkey, de- ceased. She was bors near Hecla Park and was 61 years of age. Her Lusband preceeded her to the grave sixteen years ago. She leaves to mourn their loss seven children as follows: Mrs. Wm. M. McClure, Belle, Chas. Hassinger, John and Harry, of Bellefonte; Carrie of Phila delphia and Mrs. Abram Johnson, of Columbus, Ohio. Interment in the Union cemetery Saturday. MR. AND Mus, DANIRL W. HALL ov died at their home in West Union, Towa, on Monday eve after a short {liness of grip. Their deaths occurrivg scarcely an hour apart. Mr. Hall was a grand. son of Hon, John W, Hall, who was the first member of the legislature sent from Centre county, having been elected in 1800. His parents were John and Sarah Weaver Hall and be was born in Belle foute cighty.one years ago. Mrs, Hall pareuts, | Lock | man, | at Bhe | Richard Adaws, | An acre Haven and was aged 48 °° tons to the acre the coal is worth P. Riair | 4CCuls a toa | At would be worth §6q an acre Some people are al there is nothing to do. ways busiest when It is a relief to meet a man who goesn’t know any funny stories, LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS, A PMINISTRA TOR'S NOTICE Estate of FREDERICK BOUSER Inte of College township letters of administration | Gn the above estale rROnN deevased, Hg been they ies I 110 the estate Lo ma and those havis hem duly | MM D.¥ He Ho Not E FOR VIEWERS N otieeis herst f Ort 5. Theres SETORY FRAMY VELLI barn. and other out very Day Will Be Warm, CD a {Har Schaffner i MM £3 rr Tarn [Hand Tadored By-and-by. EVERY DAY WILL BE RAINY, now and then. RAIN COAT The ther thi have here Spring first = week styles showing Quite light in weight, of the very finest texture, of English and American manufacture, lined with extra fine silk, swell cut and very sutable for wearing over full dress suits and for the rainy days---being absolutely RAIN-PROOF. In Oxford, Oxford with a broken overcheck, Black, Thibet and Unfinished Worsted. see them? Will you come ard PRICES, $15 to $25. wl a king, ENDING UP SALE of Winter Salts and Overcoats at BIG BRAVING. odd Suits and Overconts that is one or maybe t80 Bults or Oversoats A clearance of all Sim, the Clothier, Court.
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