he Centre Democrat, Circulation, Over 35. [ERS ARE COMBINING An Effort Will be Made to Secure $1 Wheat DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY Many Obstacles to be Met—A few Sug- gestions to Improve Present Con ditions—Stop Party Prejudice and Vote for Your Best Interests FARM A dispatch from Indianapolis says the American Society Equity or the Farmers’ Trust, has held its first meeting since its organization some months ago. The meeting was large and enthusiastic, but secret, The society now claims an or- ganization in nearly every state and its members are reaching toward 100,000. The Board of Directors consists of men who are crop specialists. There will be winter wheat specialists, spring wheat specialists and a special repre. senting oats, corn, Southern fruit, West- «58 fruit and every branch of the agri- ‘cultural indastry. These men will study carefully the reports of local secretaries and from them will compute what should be an equitable minimum price for each | When this price is deter- | mined it will be sent to every state in the | commodity. Union at exactiy the same time and no member of the society will sell his grain for less than the price fixed, Ifthe price of wheat is fixed at §1 per bushel that will be the least that any man will take for his crop. The organizers of the movement claim that by September they will have 1,000,- 000 members, amount of grain that when held off the market it will soon reduce the available | product that prices will boom. Presi. dent |]. A. Everett says that the with- drawal of the grain owned by the mem. bers from the channels of trade will | | seashore for a brief time and will reside | have the same eftect on the market that drought or any other great agent causing a failure of crops would have. There is another and easier and a more certain way for the farmers to ac- complish the resnlt aimed at. Inthe first place ibe price of wheat is fixed in Liverpool snd not in Chicago, and if we ceased entirely to export the chances are that the price in Chicago would not g0 to ome dollar. There many farmers and they are too widely scattered to form a trust, and, even if they were not they are not protected by the tariff rates, as are the manufacturers The latter can get together, form a trust and force the prices as high as the tariff wall at any time they choose. The farm- ers can do no such thing. The manu. factarers have thus forced up the prices | that the farmer must pay for manufact. ured goods on an average of about 4o per | per cent. siuce the Dingley tariff bill be- | The prices of many arti- | cles, such as barb wire, wire nails, tin | came a law, plate, window glass, etc, have been forced up 100, 200 Or joo per cent. in our markets, though sold at very low prices to foreigners. If tariff duties on trust products were taken off manufactured goods which now sell for $1, would sell for 60 cents. farmer could then buy as much with his bushel of wheat selling at 75 cents in | Chicago as he would get if he could force the price of wheat uo to §1 while paying the present high trust prices for his goods, It is entirely feasible for the farmers, by voting for no tariff on trust goods, to reduce the cost of what they have to buy. | It is not at all feasible for them to get to. gether long enough to artificially raise | the price of wheat jo or 40 per cent, The | farmers are the backbone of protection in this country, although, as a leading republican—the late Ben Butterworth— said in 1890; “The manufacturers and the trusts get the protection and the profits of the tariff; the farmer gets the busks and the humbug.” How much longer will the farmer continue to buy republican gold bricks? The farmer should vote for his best in. terests. Politics is too often a life-long prejudice. His voting should be done on business principles solely. If every farmer would read intelligently, observe closely, act independently and vote con. scientionsly many difficulties would be solved. Dangerous Medicine. Electricity in its unharnessed state is sald to have effected a cure for rheuma- = Pa in the case of a farmer, who has been a sufferer from this complaint for some years, George W. Walker, a sheep buyer, took refuge in a barn near Burnt Cabins, Fulton county, during a thunder storm. “A bolt of lightning destroyed the struc ture and killed a horse. Walker receiv. + w——— 7 } } | | | who will own such an | are too! The | AFTER SCHOOL DIRECTORS. Sensational developments are expect- ed in the case of the Blythe township school directors in Schuylkill county? who are now on trial charged with re. ceiving bribes from teachers. The Read. ing and Lehigh Valley Coal Companies and other corporations which are taxpay- ers in the mining districts have had de- tectives at work for several months, and a startling condition of affairs is said to have been revealed, In one district, it is alleged, several directors have been receiving $500 each yearly from a large corps of teachers, while in other districts directors have lived entirely on money wrung from teachers. Fergus Farqubar, attorney for the Lehigh Valley Company, will as sist District Attorney Berger in the prose. cution of the Blythe cases, The same thing, on a smaller scale, | has been practiced in certain localities | of Centre county. When school direc | tors are off :red money to vote for a coun- | ty superintendent it is natural for them | to go home and use the same tactics on | teachers, and it has been done. are so informed, upon reliable authority. | This form of corruption should be wiped | out of our county. Nuptials at Carlisle. At the Indian school, Carlisle, on | Thursday, the 11inst, Miss Elizabeth Et- | tinger Forster, daughter of the late Ma. | jor R. H. Forster, at one time editor of | The Centre Democrat, was married, the | | groom being Mr. William Bigler Beitzel. | The ushers, Mr. Grishaber, of Harris- | burg, and Mr. Glover, of Mifflinburg, | led the way for the bride and groom. The impressive ring ceremony of the Lutheran church was used. | The rooms were decorated by friends | at the school, and there was an array of | handsome presents, all of which were | | greatly admired. The wedding couple have gone to the | at the school. Mrs. Beitzel bas been an | hovored member of the faculty as art | teacher for a number of years. : a ————— Snake Lived on Chickens. For some time past Mrs. R. J. Mann, | who lives near Romola, has been miss: | ing quite a number of her half grown : | chickens, and wot antil last Friday even: | gone in 1991 be returned it with bis veto | About dark | i the daughter, while driving the cows in. | {ing was the thief caught. | to the barnyard to milk them, discovered {a large blacksnake lying coiled up at {the bars. The alarm was given and Mr. | Mann procured a lantern and proceeded | to the spot. He at once killed it and when | he stretched it out discovered the length to be six feet and five inches, The fun. | piest part about it was that the snake | had in its mouth one of Mrs. Mann's {| half grown chickens. been missed since. — Hustler, Xew Bug Ruins Wheat. A black bug, with bright golden mark. | ings upon its wings, has just appeared in | York county wheat fields and is playing | | havoc with the crop. | The milk is sucked by the insects from | the wheat kernels in the manoer that | bees extract honey from flowers. A bug will suck at a wheat kernel uatil no trace of moisture is left and the kernel is dead. Farmers are at a loss to know what | means to adopt to rid their fields of the | pest, and it is apprehended that the | wheat crop will be ruined. Samples of | the wheat attacked and specimens of the insects have been forwarded to the state and national agricultural departments. | A Record in Sheep Shearing. D. B. Kyper, of Huntingdon, in fifteen | hours had fifty-four sheep deprived of | their coats by his shearing alone. He was timed in clipping one large sheep and accomplished the work in just nine minutes, Mr, Kyper had gone to Wil llamsburg to be present at the paper mill dedication. While there he met his former employer, Hon. J. D. Hicks, of Altoona, who informed him he had fifty- four sheep to shear on one of his farms, and he would give him $10 for the job, Mr. Kyper asked for some old clothes and went to work, with the result stated above. Can this record be beaten ? Newton Hamilton Camp Meeting. Newton Hamilton campmeeting will commence Thursday, August 13, 1903, and will close Aogust 24, 1903. The ser- vices will be in charge of Rev. M. C. Viper, of Walnut-Avenue M. E. church, Altoona. Big Contract Let, The Westinghouse Electric and Manu. facturing company, of Pittsburg, on Wednesday got the contract to supply the electric equipment for the trolley line, Their price we believe was $60, 000, He makes no friend who never made a We | No chickens have | state for a claim contracted withoul the | | slightest justification in morals or decen- | BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1902 | PENNYPACKER’S | ENDORSEMENT | Approves the $5,000 Legislctive Junketing Trip UNDER MACHINE INFLUENCE A Weak Old Man who “Strains on Gnats and Swallows Camels" — Campaigo Predictions Coming True —A Tool of the Politicians The last legislnture passed a bill aun. | thorizing James Russ, a Harrisburg ho- | tel keeper, to sue the commonwealth for la claim amounting to about $6,000 for | supplies, ete., furnished to members of the legislature of 15g7 on the occasion of | a junketing tripto New York to atteud { the dedication of the Grant monument, | Although a similar bill was vetoed by | | Governor Hastings and Stone our pres. ent governor has seen fit to give his ap- | | proval to a measure that two other gov, | ernors condemned. | Mr. Russ has filed an itemized account | of bis bill and it is certainly a curiosity in its way, but fairly illustrates the man | ner in which some of the legislators of | had a mishap; lightning frightened Mr. Waubatchie and Missionary Ri | this commonwealth become parties to outrageous schemes of plunder. Here is | the bill as filed in the court of Dauphin | county : ] | To table supplies - LAN To wines and liquors To supper at Dooner’s mitlee | Tod. HH. Riebel, cigars { Tobhire of china and breakage. To employes’ services 0 CRT TRIE. ooo rrr ! To purchase of stoves | To freight charges { To James Kuss prenses for com. incidental ex | | { Cr. by liquors returned { By sale of stoves i $5,911 14 its opinion of this infamous transaction, | when it says: “It certainly Is remarkable that Sam. | uel W. Pennypacker, governor of Penn. | sylvania, was willing to become a party | to assist Russ io collecting such a claim. | When the same kind of a bill was pre. sented by a former legislature to Gover. | nor Hastings he denounced it as an in. | famous outrage and vetoed it. When {the same bili came before Governor with the following remarks “Inasmuch as this and similar other items have already been passed upon by a previous legislature and executive, and as it bas always been the policy of the | | state to discourage the bringing of suits | against the commonwealth by individu als, I do not feel satisfied in establishing a precedent which may lead to much | unjustifiable litigation.” “The incomprehensible Governor Pen. | nypacker could see no such objections and opened the door for Russ to sve the ley. Verily for straining at guats aod swallowing camels Governor Pennypack- | er has few equals and no superiors.” After Sites for a Fish Hatchery. Fish commissioner William E. Mechan will begin the examination of sites for a rout hatchery in Central Pennsylvania | this week. Resideats of several coun. {tiles have offered grounds and water | rights without cost to the state. | The hatchery is to be established un- {der a recent act of the legislature and | | Commissioner Meehan declares that a suitable site must contain springs with a flow of not less than 500 gallons a min. ute and that the lamd must be near a rail road station, hatchery at this place. There are a vumber of desirable locations along Logan Branch, also along Spring Creek, which will be offered for this purpose. The fish commissioner is expected here today and will be driven around by Col. W. F. Reynolds and others. ELEVATIONS IN THE STATE. The elevation, in feet, above the sea level, of the poluts named below, will be of interest to readers of the Centre Demo crat : Altoona 1,181, Bellefonte 826, Coates: ville 380, Easton 325, Emporium 1,080, Erle 1,400 Grampian 1,570, Harrisburg 361, Huntingdon 650, Irwin 884, Johns. town 1,184, Lebanon 458, Lewisburg 450, lock Haven so, Mauch Chunk 530, Philadelphia 117, Pittsburg 842, Reading 280, Renovo 672, St. Marys 1,740, Scran- ton Sos, Selins Grove 455, Somerset 2,250, South Bethlehem 339, South Haton 660, State College 1,191, Uniontown gg9, Warren 1,137, Wellsboro 1,327, West Chester 455, Wilkesbarre 575, Williams port 530, York 38s. Judge and Mrs. George Orlady, of Huntingdon, accompanied by their son, Phlilp, on Saturday sailed from New York for Europe to spend the summer, Speaking terms are to be found on a card in the telephone booth, The Wilkesbarre record is not alove in | An effort will be made to secure the | LIGHTNING FREAKS. Wm. Lyon's house at Lyontown, Spring twp., was struck by lightning Wednesday afternoon, Wm. Walker's house in Milesburg was struck by lightning during the storm Wednesday of last week but not much damage was done, During the progress of the heavy storm Tuesday afternoon g¢'b, the barn of Benjamin Philips in Northwood, near Tyrone, was struck by lightning and burned down to the walls. The brick house oz the McCormick farm State College was struck by light. ning during the storm on Wednesday afternoon, and tore off the plastering, wrecked a chiuney and upset a stove, | adjoining East ternoon of last week and instantly killed. | Last week during the severe thunder | gust that passed over this valley a fash | of lightning killed three cows for Sam'l { other. The cattle were out in the pasture | field at the time Andy Lytle and mail carrier Weaver | Lytle’s horse which ram away. Mr. [IMPORTANT | TO SOLDIERS | Three Monuments to be Dedicated | This Fall TRANSPORTATION FURNISHED | To All Members Who are Entitled—In- formation can be had From any G. A. R, Post—Interesting Trip to Southern Battlefields Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart sent to the Grand Army posts of the | State circulars announcing the prelim | inary arrangemnets for the trassporta- A cow belonging to D. C. Kurfman, | tion of the Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania | { while standing in the middle of a field | ! the mont . rime Shil Tyrone was struck by | iment to the regiment at Shiloh f { next Octobe i jy ter | lightning during the storm Tuesday af- | " ctober, also the surviving veterans { Who Volunteers survivors to the dedication of were confined in the Confederate prison at Andersonville, to attend the { dedication of the Pennsylvania memorial | | in the National cemetery at Anderson- | Seyenty-third Volunteers jo ; : ville, next October, and t | Clevenstine, near Zion, and injured an- | he survivors of ang the to attend the! the One Hundred and Ninth | dedication of the monuments erected to | | Weaver's horse during the same storm | | became unmanageable, broke the shafts, | | demolished his new harness and scat. ter the mail in Ferguson. these organizations on the battlefields of | Ige next November, | Under acts of Assembly passed by the last Legislature free transportation will be furnished to all | from Last week during a thunder storm, at | the Branch, lightning frightened two of | William Everhart’s teams which were plowing. ran away and the one following ran over thim. He was caught by the plow and | dragged quite a distance. Ed. Mulberger’'s team | broke up plows, whiffle trees and gears. Daring the progress of an { transportation their place of residence by nearest route to the different points. The be good for issued will | one month, entitling the holders to stop- | overs within Fortunately | ) | be escaped with only a few bruises; teams | plenty of time that time. The Adiutant General has issued these circulars, which contain extracts from the acts of Assem- biy in each case so that there may be for a the veterans to file their claims with him, electric | | storm noon, om 10, a bolt of lightning | | struck a tree on the pasture lands of J. | { Mattern and sons, adjoining Gaysport, | | under which a herd of seven cattle had | | taken shelter. every one of the animals. They were | short born Darbams of the finest stock. their bodies. Oae cow was the mother | of a calf two days old. The berd was | valued at $400. During a beavy thunder storm Sugar valley on two houses | truck by lightsing. The houses struck and slightly damaged were those of Jonathan Schroyer, of Carroll and Fred Womeldor!, two miles east of Loganton. At the latter place Mrs. Wome!dorf was in the cellar when the house was struck When Mr. Womeldor! went down he found her lying in an unconscious condi tion haying been severely stunned by the | shock. and soon recovered. in 10, pecially severe at Warnorsmark. | streak of lightning darted down and hit | the residence of J. H. Mattern and fam. {ly, tearing a window shutter off in its | course, but fortunately doing vo other | damage. The homes of Clayton Fetter. | hoof and Foreman Lucas were also The deadly flaid killed | - Reptiles Plenty in Sugar Valley. W. T. Moyer decapitated snake with his shotgun, 2 large Samuel Goodman snake carrying 14 killed a monster ratties on Harter's { lumber job on Friday There was not a visible sign of injury oun | Samuel Shreckengast is the hero of Brush valley. Friday last on Douty's bark job be performed the difficult and | dangerous feat of killing a large black were | | Mark | were doing samethiog She was carried out of the cellar | Tuesday's storm of last week was es” | Al snake fifty feet up a hemlock tree, amid loud applause by fellow workmen Friday last a five foot black spake crawled out of his den and took posses. sion of camp 6, on Kulp's lumber job, bolding the fort quite a while, much to the fear and trembling of Mrs. Daniel and ber assistant cooks. His snakeship entered the kitchen unnoticed through the rear door while the women outside The boldness of the satanic intruder frighten. ed the ladies half to death, Blacksmith “Billy” being apprised of their dilemma came to their assistance. Armed with | clubs they together made a San Juan raid upon the enemy, chasing it around the stove, under the sink, into the lobby and | then into the pantry, where they finally : { succeeded in killing it | struck, but no serious damage resulted, | At the store of M. B. Laver, John Conrad | and A. B. Henderson received a shock | that rendered them speechless and even | helpless for a moment During the storm Wednesday, 10, a | stroke of lightning killed five cows be- | longing to Corl Bloom, who lives on the -Democrat, Richards A pretty home wedding was solema- Martin | ized on Wednesday, June 10, at 6 o'clock | at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. {and Mrs. Grant Martin, of Martha Fur. | nace. It was the occasion of the mar. | riage of their second daughter, Elizabeth | | C., to Wm. H, Richards, of Julian. The | Miles Gray farm near Scotia. They | house was prettily trimmed and festoon- | were standing together clear away from {any trees. They were | Penns valley company. The cows that | were killed stood close to a wire fence, | and it is quite likely that a bolt from the clonds struck the wires, and did the work of killing the cows. A sixth cow were killed, escaped harm, Fire Insurance Board Meets, The regular quarterly meeting of di rectors of the Farmers Mut, Fire Ins. Co., met in the office of Col, Reynolds, on Monday. A full board was in attend. ance, and much business was transacted. Applications for risks to amount of $167, 450 were passed ; the cash premiums footed up $712.77. The loss of five cows by Benj. C. Corl, a few miles back of State College, killed by lightning, last week, was ordered to be paid. No other losses were to be settled for. |. KH. Peck, of Hublersburg, was, on applica- tion, appointed an agent for Walker township, to take applications for insur. ance. The Pennsylvania Fire Brick company, at Beech Creek, by the continued locrease of orders has made it absolutely neces. sary to increase the size of the plant, It has been fully determined to do this at once and work on the extension will be pushed rapidly during the summer 50 as to double the capacity. One way to make horses fast is to cut off the food supply. insured in the | ed with ferns, laure! and roses. The bride was appropriately dressed in a blue traveling suit while the groom wore the conventional suit. Joseph Wil. Hams, of Martha, was best man and Miss Rhoda Dillen, of Julian, was brides { maid. Pastor A. C. Lathrop, of the Bap- | standing a few yards from those that | tist church, officiated. After the cere. | mony an elegent wedding supper was | enjoyed by the guests. A number of ex. cellent presents were received, In the evening the bride and groom departed for Julian, where the groom's parents gave them a reception, Dedication of Spring Mills Charch. The Spring Mills Lutheran church will be dedicated Sunday, June 21, Ser. vices are being beld this week, Rev. C. B. Harman, of Rebersburg, preached Monday evening. On Taesday evening W. M. Rearick, of West Milton; Rev. B. R. M. Sheeder, of Aaronsburg, Wednesday evening ; Rev, J. 1. Stone: cypher, of Boalsburg, Thursday evening; Rev, C. T. Alkens, of Pine Grove Mills, to-morrow, Friday evening ; Rev, W, 1, Fischer. D. D., Shamokin, Saturday evening ; Sanday, 10 a. m.—Dedicatory sermon. Rev. I. H. McGann, Lewis. isburg. Dedication by the pastor, Rev. §. M. Rearick. Sundiy, 2 p. m.—8Sab. bath school. Addresses by visiting pas. tors. The public is invited. The dews of repentance are often kept from the sinner by the rubber coat of pride. sr —————— YOL. 25. KO. 25 FACT, FUN AND FANCY. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Selects ed and Original. THE STUCK UP GIKL. Ehe was dainty and petite, And her costume trim and neat And the town went ogle eyed When she rambled down the street ; And this item was deseribed Of support she had no For she'd twenty plus lack, stuck in The middle of her buck! Where her shirtwaist met her skirt, Marking oul Not A Wasp ke girt a seam or fold was wrong And the whole was sweetly pert, As she lig Admiration on And full of tly tripped along. hier track, 4 store pins i her back! h we sent very learned malds, ds often wrigele nia! hook how Lo cook le Journal, SOomery ho had a clock, w Mears 1 and mor hw His name was Maths He wound it every nig For more than forty years And when at last he An eightday clock 1 A madder man tt You ne'er n found It out s De an Matthew Mears w 1 wish 0 see TELL HIM 80 If you have a word of cheer That may light the pathway drear Of a brother piigric Let him know here Show bh What he does; and do not wait Till the heavy hand of Fate ™ m you appreciate Lays him | If your heart contains a thought That will brighter make his lot, Then in mercy, hide 11 Te not him so Walt not till your friend is dead Ere your compliments are said + For the spirit that has fled Hit know Does not need to speed it on where It has gone golden dawn Our poor praise Love's eterna I» aglow Bat unto our brother here That poor prajse ity s very dear su've any word of cheer Tell him so «Good Health Some people praise themselves by laming others, One secret of success is to keep all your own secrels, The ice man should be brought to see the error of his weighs. The chronic kicker isn’t even satisfied with his lot in the cemetery. Agitation has been started in Ken. tucky for gunless murder trials. The less a man knows the easier it is to convince him that he knows it all. A man should be getting on well in life when he is getting well on in life. The average politician isn't a gram. marian; he can’t even decline an office, Over in Port Allegheny there is sald to be a farmer sc pious that he gave away a barrel of cider because the “danged stuff” would ‘work’ on Sun. day. Composition on a Pair of Pants: Pants are made for men, and not for women. Women are made for men and aot for pants, When a man pants for a woman, and a woman pants for a man, they are a pair of pants. Sach pants don't last. Pants are like molasses they are thinper in bot weather and thicker in cold. Men are often mistaken in pants ; such mistakes are breeches of promise. There his been much discus. sion whether pants is singular or plural, Seems to us when men wear pants it is plural, and when they don’t wear any pants it is singular. Men go on a tear in their pants, and it is all right ; when the pants go og a tear it is all wrong. If you want to make pants last, make the coat first,
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