NC. Wallace; Mahaffey, William CO, Carlton : 4 aylor; KeKees Gap, Henry N. Minnigh; Circulation, Ove a METHODIST | CONFERENCE | | Conclusion of the Session Held | at Altoona | | SOME OF THE APPOINTMENTS | For the Altoona District——Statistical | Reports Show a Healthy Condi- | tion of the Methodist Church—Dr, | Swallow Causes a Sensation | Thomas 8, Wilcox. On Tuesday the Methodist Conference, | which had been in session at Altoona completed its labors. Space will not permit us to give a report of its proceed: ings, in this article. Herewith is given the substance of some of the leading Committees doings : At Monday morning's session the re. port of the Board of Stewards was read. It showed that there has been received from all sources $9,577.85. Of this sum, $2,900.50 was paid tosupernumerary and superannuated ministers, and $6,605 85 to widows of deceased members. The stewards ask for $10 coo next year. In the report of the Committee on Church Extension, it was stated that since 1866 there had been collected and distributed $7,748,782 24. Last year’s collections amounted to $95,263 56, of which £3 229 was contributed by this | conference. The amount asked for this year is $8 500, of which $1,350 will be re. | turned to needy churches. HARRISHBURG'S BIG CONTRIBUTIONS. The Twentieth Century Thank Offer. | ing in cash and subscriptions for the pay- ment of church indebtedness is as fol. | lows : Altoona district, $54,387. Dauville district, $55,301. Harrisburg district, $65,262. Justiata district, £30,487. Williamsport district, $54,986. The total church debt of the confer. ence amounts to $343,989.52. INCREASE IN MEMBERS. In the statistical report the member. ship of the churches of the conference | was given as 64 386, an increase of 368 ; number of preachers, 128, a decrease of 20; number of deaths, 761, a decrease ot 87 ; support of pastors, $199,516, an in. crease of $3,121 Freedman's Aid society, in their re. port said: "To carry on this great work, the society sustains forty.six Christian colleges, seminaries and academies dis- tributed throughout the sixteen southern states. Last vear there were 10,239 stu- dents, 3 569 of them in the manual tram ing and industrial schools. In a little more than a third of a century the socie- ty has crained 2,000 ministers, 500 phy- sicians, 10,000 teachers and a total of 200,000 students, few of whom comnld otherwise have had anyschool privi The report of the conference treasurer shows that the contributions for missious is $54.717. a gain over last year of §3,- 600; church extension, $3,229; Freed. man’s Aid, 3,363; conference claimants, $8,140 ; tracts, $480; Sunday school anion $527; Bible society, $505; education child. ren’s fund, $2,852, public education col- lection, $1,504; Woman's Foreign Mis. sionary society, $5,511; woman's home missions, $4 827; other benevolences, $1,782. general conference expenses, $663; episcopal fund, $2,706; a total of $38,931. Dr. Swallow caused his customary dis- turbance by trying to offer his report of the Methodist Book concern at Harris burg which was refused. He got anoth- er rap by being put om the superannu. ated list without his request. The appointments for the Altoona dis trict are as follows : J. Ellis Bell, presiding elder; Allegheny, John V. Royer ; Altoona Asbury, William I. Chileote (supply); Chestnut Avenue, Joshua K. Lloyd; Eighth Avenue, George M. Klepfor; Fairview, Elbert V. Brown; Fifth Avenue, Hilles C. Pardoe; First church, Benjamin C. Connor; Juniata, Ei mer KE, Harter ; Simpson, Joseph ¥, Ander. son ; Walnut Avenue, Marshall C. Piper; Barnesboro, Harry J. Schuchart: Belle fonte, John A. Wood, Jr.: Bellwood, «ee Moses : Birmingham, Nathan B. Smith ; Center, George M. Shimer (supply) ; Clear field, Milton K. Foster and James MoK. Reilloy ; Clearfield, West Side, Charles A. Biddle; Conlport and Irvens, Charles W, Karns ; Carwonsvilie, Benjamin MH. Mosser; Duncansville and Epworth, John Hornung: Glen Hope, Henry W. Hartsock ; Half Moon, Edwin L. Eslinger ; Hastings, Frank W. Leidy; Hollidaysburg, Alard 8. Bow. man ; Houtzdale, Joseph K. Knisely ; How. ard, George F. Boggs: Karthaus, John B. Durkee (supply): Lumber City, William naburg and Woodbury, Rollin 8, Miesburg and Unionville, Richard I, Wharton; Morrisdale, Norman I. Smith; Munson, John W. Forrest; New Millport, Edmund White; New Washington, John C, | Juniata, {train had passed or they | horrible affair Heckman ; First church, John H, Daugh- erty; Utahville, John A, J, Williams (sup- ply): Wallaceton, Robert 1. Armstrong; Warriors Mark, Ellsworth M, Aller; Wil Hamsbhurg, Charles C, Snavely: Woodland {and Bradford. Robert W, Runyany, Lewis A. Rudisill, Lake Park Avenue, samuel of Mountain Association, member of Eighth Altoona, Blair, superintendent quarterly conferenocs, missionary in Wilbert W, Cadle than H. Schenck, Elliot 8S. Latshaw, supernumeraries N superannuates B. Ague, David F, Kapp The 1 the four other districts W. Evans lowing are the Presiding Elders of Danville, Harrisburg, Baldwin George WW, Stevens; Amos NS, OVER A PRECIPICE. Mrs. Edward Poorman, a Nittany val ley lady who lives five miles east of Bellefonte, had a remarkable experience Saturday Ou that day she drove to Boalsburg to visit her brother, When within half a mile of Bellefonte she came to a short curve iu the road around a precipice over jo feet high, near Nit- | It is only a few feet | tany Furnace. from the Lewisburg railroad, and just as she reached that dangerous part of the | road a passenger train dashed by and the animal became frightened and unman. | ageable, and in less than a minute had | plunged headlong over this steep de clivity. It was very fortunate that the been ground to a mass beneath the wheels. As it was the accident was a Ona going over the em. Poorman thrown bankment Mrs. was {over the dashboard onto a big pile of | stones beneath, and was dragged a con siderable distance before being released | from the wreckage. When picked up by passing pedes trians she was thought to be dead. Oa {the way to the Bellefonte hospital she | : | revived, besides suffering from a terrible | nervous shock she was badly injured, having a large wound in the scalp and other cuts and bruises on the body. is not definitely known whether she re. ceived interpal injaries or not. The buggy lay ia pieces along half a mile, while the horse was found to be badly cut and bruised. ——————— HAPPIEST MAN INTHE WORLD. The happiest man in the world is the | common, every day chap who makes | | his own living, pays his own board bill | {and has the respect of his neighbors. He saves a little money as he goes along, but he doesn’t try to get a corver on the | local out pat, aud he is a slave to neither ambition nor society. He never expects to wear out the seat of his trousers in | the senaie, and when he slides into his pants in the morning he never wastes any time trying to pick out the right tint of socks, suspenders and neckties that will blend with the general effect. He wears a “biled’’ shirt when he feels like it, and when bis pet corn begins to jump he rips out his jack knife and cuts a harness will do for them—a pair of | a four inch gash in the side of his boot and nothing is said about it in the papers. He has an appetite like a cyclone, and never bas to sit up nights to poultice his conscience. He believes in the doctrine of live and let live. When be encounters ome of the needy he doesn’t stutter with pocketbook. The plain sort of a man is happy because | he doesn’t spend the better part of his life yearing for some thing about four sizes foo big for him. Accident at Mill Hall. Tuesday evening a young man named | Harry Miller who is employed at the Mill Hall Axe Works was horribly, if not fatally, injured, near the Beech Creek passenger station at Mill Hall. The young man was on his way home to supper and stepped from the R. R. track to let a train pass and did not no- tice an engine coming in the same direc” tion which struck him, knocking him un. der the wheels of the train cutting off both legs. He was taken to the hospital at Lock Haven at once, where both limbs were ampatated, one above and the other below the knee Two Fires Near Howard. Wednesday morning Howard town. ship had two fires. A house belonging to Mrs. Deitz and occupied by Lizzie Haines, about half a mile from the borough of Howard was burned. On same morning the barn of John Lyons on the road leading to Curtin township was totally destroyed. Mr. Lyons’ loss will be over $1000. The fires are supposed to be of incendiary origin, «~The Central Electric Manufacturing Compans of Youngstown, O., to day pur. Wyoming; | George Warren, George | William | Willlnmsport, | would have | nt! the road for | ‘BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL ;, 103 FARMING “DOWN IN DIXIE” Things are Different than here in Penna. ARE BEHIND THE TIMES | Good Section for Truck Farming-—Use | of Oxen is Common Lumber Carts—Written by two | Centre Co. Farmers. ARDEN, SomERSET Co, MD, March 23, 1903. | To the readers of the Centre Demo. | crat :—We came here on the 13th of | Feb. 1903. This is called the eastern | shore of Maryland ; are located | about 100 miles southeast of Baltimore ; we we live about 4 miles east of Princess Anne, county seat of Somerset county, Md. We have a fine, healthy climate; about the 18th of Feb. the thermometer this registersd 8 above zero; is some. | thing very unusual. After this date we had warmer weath- | er with lots of rain, the 7th of March we had a heavy thun. der shower and lightning ; we had warm | weather here though the | thermometer 7:1. On and on the night of | off and on, registering 65 to Friday the 20th of March the thermome. There is very little farming done here yet on ac We Salisbury on the 11th of March, 15 mi ter registered 71 in the shade count of wet weather. drove to les direct north from Princess Anne to Salis. bury All truckers Wiconico county is a sandy place. through that couaty we found the busy planting aod getting These don't try to raise wheat, and dou’'t think they ready to plant, farmers can, because it is too sandy. Somerset county has got most all good land as far as we have been--that is for farming or trucking. Wheat looks fine here: most of the farmers have their cattle on wheat ever since we are here; they | claim they can take them off about April and raise a good crop of wheat yet, This country is about so years behind time. Something very comic is, to look | out anv time during the day and see a | yoke of oxen in a dump cart, or one ox {io cart; a yoke of oxen and a pair of | | mules ahead of them to ome wagon, They do all their lumbering in the woods with oxen; they have one other } cart which they call the timber cart, the | wheels are from 6 to 8 feet high and | they couple logs underneath, and haul a pretty good sized log ; with a yoke of oxen they climb through big, high brash, and over stumps and logs; at any rate {it would be quite a sight for some of your Centre county people to see some of their customs here. The natives arecolored and white peo- | ple, about two thirds whites and owe. | third colored. Both are very ignorant; | they take no pride in stock ; any kind of | harness, part of a collar, back-band and | traces, will make a good outfit for a horse or mule. Saw lots of them drive ! with wo back-band at all, and all rope | lines. This country needs lots of im" | | provement ; it is improving slowly, but | not by the natives, We have many peo. | | ple here from Pennsylvania ; there are | four families here from Indiana county, | | Pa., some from Ohio, Illinois, New York, | | and, [ suppose, there is a whole lot more | | that we don't know anything about, from | different states. There is one thing we | don’t need to have here and that fis, | brakes on our wagons, we took all those | oft—its all level country ; perhaps the | reader thinks we don’t need anything to j eat here ; but that's a mistake, we have to eat all the same. [t's a pleasure to hitch up and drive on the roads here to wards what it isto drive over the hills and mountains in Pennsylvania; we have no calks on the horses’ shoes ; dur. ing the summer use a flat plate on driv. ing and also on draft horses, and lots of farmers’ horses have no shoes on at all, This country is back in education ; we have eight months school for a winter term, but the natives don’t send their children to school regularly no compul. sory education here, although they ought to have something like it. The schools Land is advancing here; there are canning factories all over the eastern shore and raising big crops of tomatoes, peas, sweet corn and all kinds of canning fruit, We sell our tomatoes be. they are planted ; two ik ih ¥5i | to Daniel Kern for $133 so. Gly Peculiar | | four horses sold, one at $17, one at $188, | Shoats were sold at big prices. { amounted to $1600. REPORTS OF GOOD SALES. At G. W. Young's sale, in Nittany val. ley, near Huston, Mr. Young says he | got good prices all through, He desires through the Democrat to express his thanks to neighbors and friends for their | assistance in his sale. His best horse | went to Larry Soook for $185; the next The cows | sold from $42 10 $43. Shoats, 1st choice, | $8. Sow with 9g pigs sold for $31, | another with 7 pigs for $27. Mr. Young claims that the full list advertisement | in the Democrat, is what made his sale a success. The total summed up to $1055. | N. G. Shaffer's sale, at Nittany, was also good and the total $1400 and $1500, At Clay Wituer's sale on 26, we are informed by auctioneer Ishler, goods were knocked off at high figures. The was between | [ one at $186, and the fourth at $140, The sale At the public sale on the farm of Mrs ago, live stock brought unusually high | prices. A three-year old colt sold for f207 and the cows was $50, £3,200 average The price paid for sale to amounted Salona Creamery Destroyed. The Salona creamery was destroyed by fire last Friday $4,000, The night and the loss is about partly covered by insur ance fire 11.4% The was a frame building fitted up broke out about o'clock aud the origin is unknown creamery with the latest improved machinery for The plant was owned by a stock company in making butter and ice cream which many Nittany valley farmers were interested. A large shipment of butter bad been made recently, consequently there was only a small quantity on hand | at the time of the fire, but a large nam. ber of dozens of eggs were burned. The flames communicated to the blacksmith shop of Samne! Shaffer and it was de | stroyed, eotailing a loss of about $300, on which there is no insurance The houses of John B. Rhule and W. | R. Thompson were in great danger and | were savedomly by the heroic work of {the bucket brigade, men, women asd children joining in the fight — Express. ——— Rev. |. C. Grimes Shot Himself Rev. John C. Grimes, of Nescopeck, Luzerne county, a native and former resident of New Cumberland, attempted sucide morning of 26, by shooting him- seif in the head at M. E. conferece in | Altoona. The attempt was made at the i station of the Wopsononock Railroad and is supposed to have been induced by temporary insanity, caused by ill. health, Mr. and Mrs. John Grimes, father and mother of the preacher, were summoned by telegraph and arrived in the after noon from their home in New Cumber. land. The man is in the Altoona hospi. tal, and although the bullet has not been extracted, it is thought that be will re. cover. | i { i Prospects for Karthaus, The people of Karthaus, Pa., are soon to have a new industry in the shape of coke ovens which are to be built a little ways up the creek from the town by men | from Clearfield and DuBois. There is | plenty of coal there for the manufacture | of coke. A rich fire clay find has been made on the Askey farm near the Kart hans tunnel. Itis a six foot vein of the real article. The future of Karthaus is assured with the bul ding of coke ovens and a new brick yards, after which it is to be hoped that the N. V. C. & H. R. R. R. will blow their whistles and ring the bells of the locomotives when they come to the crossings of the town, Fire Insurance Board. The quarterly meeting of the board of directors of the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co, met on Monday, nn Col. Reynoids’ office, Bellefonte. A full board of directors was present, namely, Messrs. Campbell, Reynolds, Haines, Brungart, Thomas, Duck, Fisher, Strohm, McFarlane, Bottorf, Goheen and Kartz, Applications to amount of $07,289 were accepted, and premium notes to the amount of $8,406 were given, Cash premiums received, $405.22. 1. 0. 0. F. Installation. Acting D. D.G, P,, C, H. Evey pre. sided in Summit Bocampment Tuesday evening, at State College, on 24th, and installed the following officers: C. P,, W. 8. Meese; H. P.,, Wm. RB. Grove; 8. W,, Clark Herman; J, W., Percival Rudy; |THE TWO FAMOUS PUG { blows, had a shade the better of | argument, and when finally in the 11th | going he | Terry sank to the floor a badly defeated | decision” contest and fought a twenty.round draw with Dixon, the Treas, Michael Woomer, P. C. P; Trustee, O, D., Mott; P. C. P., Nathan Grove; rep. G. B., Michael Woomer, - men have you seen our Walk over last, it is the swell shoe. Yeager & Davis, CORBETT WINS FROM M'GOVERN ' A Vicious Contest for the Cham- pionship. ILISTS McGovern was Knocked Gut in the nth Round and Lost the Weight Championship. Numerous Battles. Feather- Their William Rothwell, better known as “Young Corbett,” of D over, showed decisively Tuesday night at San Fran- | cisco that his victory over Terry Me- | Govern, | year ago | luke, by defeating McGovern in the | { 11th round, after a fight in which there for either | In nearly every round Corbett, | | fighting like a machine, never overlook- | \ |ing an opportunity to send home his | Relish, widow of the late Isaac Rewsh, a | short distance east of Salona a few days at Harttord Thanksgiving, of Brooklyn, last a Was no was not a second of idleness man. the round be got the Brooklyn boy fairly never let up on him until man. Corbett the first repeated down in for a count of seven, and the as to whether put McGovern round it in second, There was some question down or not Mc- Govern was t the count of 10, avd for a few minutes it looked as if there would be a free for all fight ORBET AREER IN THE RIN : William J . wh name is Rothwe He istic was born in He made his first appearance in the roped arena in 15g7and in the six years of his career has en. gaged in forty.cight contests. Of this number be won thirty.six, and of his three dozen victories twenty-five were knockouts. Oaly once has he been kocked, and that was in four rounds by "Kid" Broad in Denver in 1901. Three times the decision has been given against him, and in eight of his conflicts the referee's decision has been a “draw.” His longest battles have been twenty rounds, and seven times has he gone the distance, winning once, losing once and the five others having been declared “drawn.” Since that triumph at Hartford on Thanksgiving Day the champion has fought three times and om every occa sion retained his title, He knocked out Bernstein m eight rounds, boxed a "'no- with Billy Maynard pugi "Young Corbett,” 79 Denver, Col., in 1 Eddie Hanlon. M'GOVERN BATTLES Joseph Terrence McGovern born in Brooklyn, is 24 years old. He began! | fighting in 187, and in six years has participated in sixty three contests. He | has scored thirty knockouts, been given the decision twenty-eight times, three batties ended in “draws” ard once he lost a decision on a foul and once he was knocked out, Of the sixty-three battles in which Mec. Govern has taken part forty seven have been less than tem rounds. it was on Jan. 9, 1900, that McGovern won the feather.weight championship from Geo, wonderful little colored boxer, From then until Thanksgiving Day, 1901, “Terrible Terry” successfully de- fended the title. On that November day “Young Corbett” knocked him out in ine second round. a —————— Sell Farms and go West. A colony of forty-five farmers from the Kishacoquillas and Big Valleys left Lewistown on Tuesday for North Dakota, where they will take up claims and enter agricultural pursuits, A greater portion of these were Amish people, who have been tenants on the most fertile farms in Juniata Valley. They have sold their effects and left, asserting they could do longer compete with the west. ern farmer in crop raismg. Several other colonies expect to leave in a short time. “Prosperity” has not struck the farmer, Jewish Passover, The Jewish Passover, or "Feast of Pasach,” will begin on the evening of April 12 and will last eight days. Yhis holiday which is rigidly observed by the Matxoh' is substituted for bread. HE lll Hi iif VOL. 25. NO. 14 FACT, FUN AND FANCY. rkling Paragraphs—Select- ed and Original. Bright Spa Our lives are ours In sacred trast To shape as be For if we fail Impair Goa sl we can our fallure must A nobis Of su iife is dden glory ADVICE TO WRITERS If you've got a thought that's happy. Boll it down Make It short and erisp and snappy, Boil it down When your brain Down the page your pen bas sprinted, you want your efiort printed, Boll it down Out every surplus letter Boll it down, Fewer syllables the better Boil it down Make your meaning plain So we'll know, not merely guess it Then, my friend, ere yo Boll 11 tall the extratrimming its coin bas minted, Take express it | address If, down esure twould be a sin to Cut another senter Send 11 on and we'll } Bojl it 4 Even the forger appreciates a good name, The burgls opening As a rule rather blunt is always looking for an ¢harp It is better to be fast asleep than slow when awake A chest protector. You can't always estimate a woman's avoirdupois by her sighs. It is easy to see through people who make spectacies of themselves, The world is made up of workers all trying to work each other, A ceuple advanced in years got mare tied lately. The husband had a room in the house securely locked, the inside of which his wife had never seen, and being curious as to its contents she beg. {ged again and again to see the room. | At last be consented, and lo and behold! the room was full of whole cheeses. He explained matters by telling her that for every sweetheart he bad io his young days he bought a cheese. His wife be gan to cry. “Don’t cry, dear,” he con- tinued; ‘I've had no sweetheart since I met you” “It's not that,” she replied, still sobbing. “lI only wish I had been as thoughtiul as you and bought a loaf of bread for every man that kissed me; we could have had bread asd cheese enough to last us all our days.” combination lock makes a good No Medal for Rearing Large Families. The Blumle bill “to subsidize large families and provide for gold medals for mothers of large families’ failed in final | passage by a vote of 65 to 55, less than a constitutional majority, in the house, | Mr. Blumle, of Cameron, explained that | the bill was not introduced to gain news paper fame or notoriety, | “I ask vou in the sincerity of your { heart,” he added, “is there any man, | small or big, general or admiral, who | bad fought and gained a victory on land | and sea who is more entitled to honor, teven to a gold medal, thas the good, | noble, faithial mother, who is willing to ( sacrifice health ana wealth, comfort and | enjoyment and sleepless nights.” VERE DOES POP GOME IN? The Biumie bill, has oocasionad the following: Was machen Sie, Herr Blumie? Du bist ein bosest mann, Zu gather all dose prizes Und shower ‘em upon Die mutters von die kinder, Ach Gott! es ist elon min It ain't & fair division For vere does pop gome in? Bel Wurtemburger standards Villeloht 1t's alles recht, But hier im Pennsyivanion Das ganzen ding ist schlecht, Die vaters earn der money. Und just die mutters win. Und so bin [eh sehr zoering— For vere does pop gome in? Six sohns—ein golden adler Fuer nenn ein doppe! prize Die seventh sohn gets college, Und learns a pack uff lies, Ein tuenfsig thaler medal Die fifteenth kinder win, Und gives it all zu mutter For vere does pop gome in? Hear mensch von Pennsylvanien! Antwortele mien schrel’ Es aind’t no zeit for foolings, But nun za thun or die, Dose Harrisburglar lawyers Hat bosser nun begin Zu make a few amendments For vere does pop come int
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