% % he Centre Me ocral, Circulation, pr 3700. RAILROAD COMMENTS An [tem from Pittsburg on Recent Surveys. NEW ROUTE TO PITTSBURG | From New York to be 73 Miles Shorter | Than by the Pennsy—Some of the Territory it Will Traverse—May | be the Wabash. The following appeared in the Pitts burg Post, last Thursday, relative to the | railroad survey being made in this county : From the energy with which survey. | ing engineering corps are pushir g the | route of a new railway through portions | of Armstrong, Indiana, Clearfield, Cam. | bria, Blair and Centre counties in this | state, it is plainly evident that more than a mere ‘paper’ railroad is to be built | between Pittsburg and New York on as | The Post | has learned that this project is no longer | near a bee-line as can be had. a contemplated move, but it has been absolutely impossible to ascertain the backers of the gigantic proposition. [It is knpwn that the promoters of the new line bave driven over the route twice during the past summer. The proposed line is to be 73 miles shorter than the Pennsylvania between Pittsburg and New York, and through the mountains is to be constructed on an average level 75 feet higher than the Pennsylvania line. The surveying corps are now at work in the southern part of Centre county, in the vicinity of Ingleby and Coburn. The same corps of engi neers were recently engaged in survey. ing the line through the southern part of “®earfield and the northern part of Cam- bria counties. Along the outlined route the trees are cut and a distinct beginning made for the new road. It will pierce through ridges and span valleys through the mountain region. One of the objects understood to be in view, aside from main object of forcing through the Pennsylvania mountains a bee-line route between Pittsburg and New York, is that of reaching compara. tively undeveloped sections of the state, Thus the north end of Westmoreland, the soath end of Armstrong, the north end of Indiana, the line of Clearfield and Cambria, ths southern portion of Centre, the vorth end of Blair. Union, Suyder and part of Columbia counties will be reached according to the propasi. tion now being worked out. ILeechburg and HY de Park, Armstrong county, have been wrought up over the proposed line, while the smaller towns of Clearfield and Centre counties are certain that the line is a Wabash project. seph Ramsey, Jr, of the Wabash, when asked about the matter while he was bere recently, said that it is not a Wa. bash venture Tyrone will be one of the objective points east from whete the new line fol. lows the route of the Lewisbarg and Ty. Tone branch of the Pennsylvania, only having a more direct line. The new road will leave the route of the Lewis. burg & Tyrone at or near Pardee. Union county, following Penns creek eastward. ly and reaching Sunbury. It will pass north of Shamokin, thence through Co lumbia county, touching Newkirk, Schuylkill county, passing the Black mountain ridge at Lehigh Gap, on the line between Carbon and Lehigh coun ties, thence going through N rthampton county to the Delaware river opposite Belvidere, N. J, it will cross Warren, Morris aud Essex counties, N j Daring the past week the papers have been filled with articles on the fight of the Penna R. R. with Gould, Rockefeller | and other capitalists, It is claim d that Rockefeller has secured a controlling iu. terest in the United Steel Trust and that all fuel and traffic will {un the future be directed from the Pennsy's lines and | given to the Wabash and allied systems, In the stock market Penna R. R. hold. ings have been pounded down from $i60 to $112 per share, which is a great sur. prise to conservative investors, Rocke feller, it is claimed, bas succeeded in | keeping from Presidest Cassatt the op- portanity of securing necessary loans to | make contemplated improvements on its big tunnel in New York, and in other | ways is embarrassiog them. In and around Pittsburg they have gobbled up much traffic from the iron mills and bave invaded tbe Pennsy territory by purchasiog smaller roads. All this points to a battle roval be tween the financial glants of the country, d it In quite plagsible that ihe con. SF ctor of a direct line from Pittsburg to New York for a seaboard terminal, for the Wabash people, is the purpose of the surveys now being made in our coun. ty. The corps of surveyors who hud been located at Coburn, have staked a line from near Spring Mills eastward through the mountains, along the Lewis. President Jo. burg & Tyrone R. R., keep] . : = ——— = EN —— - right of that my to “oi on, Bo i, Tuo STE E L TR UST A SWINDLE | On Monday they moved headquarters to Centreville, Snyder county, and are work. | ing to the southeast, as though’Sunbury were their objective point, Different Ways of Fleecing the Public. Defeat for State College. | Last Saturday was a lively time for ! ' > fp ' ee | Williamsport owing to the game of foot LABORINGMEN MUST SUFFER. { ball played at that place hetween the | teams of State College and Dickinson, of | A Great Reduction and Many are Out of Carlisle, Pa. State College went down | Employment—an Effort to Save six hundred strong, accompanied by the | Money for the Promotors—Inves- | Cadet cornet band. Several hundred | tors, Consumers and Labor Lose. | spectators from this section helped to | } Q . a {swell the delegation to at least a thou ome estimate that liquidation of the the losses in the | Hic Il Steel | sand. Billion Dollar Stee i r al J re infls : . | by about fifty students and over a han. fa irom half of the entire inflated capi " alizat! yi! t dred sympathizers from Bucknell college, bn 2a on 1 a ton ofthe great rast Lewisburg. State was confident of win | Das vera 0 thousands of persons o 3 : Smal a f y y - . ning and offered all kinds of money, | "MAI means, among them many em It was the { ful of greembacks were flaunted defiant. | Sap: Dame of Morgan, the great finan. |ly in the faces of the Dickinson boys, cial covjurer, that caused investors in 1 BB .}] | three to one, and got few takers. Hands. | P'0Yes of the Trust itself. {and they were taunted continually by the boasting rooters from State fidence in this Trust that other and more inson showing surprising strength. In manipulator of millions formed the Steel the second half Dickinson gathered themselves together, showing clever . team work and endurance; gradually with the great natural forced the ball down until they crossed abundant materials in close | State’s line for a touchdown and then exploited by unlimited capital the glow- kicked a goal, scoring 6 points. The re. Ing prospectus of the combination "- maining was short and no more pounced that it was a question of t points were made, leaving Dickinson the | °®'Y when it would ¢ nquer the world. Now the general imp that the Steel unexampled upward movement, and advantage of proximity me time winners by a score of 6 to o . Trust was nothing more The teams were evenly matched and it t isa. than the most gigantic speculative swin. was a fine game, devoid of rough play- | EE 4 die of modern times Most that it was a safe, sure, interest-bearing ing, with no men injured - —— people were made to believe Cure for Hog Cholera. J. W. Davis, a farmer and hog breeder, investment, the Bames of James of! Lamoille, Ill, says there is no need of Pierpont Morgan, Char M farmers having hog cholera among their and several other financiers were con bogs. He never had any—at least not nected with it. Men of large and small since be found the cause and how to re. | ICRDS ponte 1 their savings oto the prop move it. He says bog cholera is caused | 2/1108 0uly to find they were duped, as by fever, and the fever by worms, which the boads aud preferred stock represent two teaspoonfuls of salaratus dissolved OTC than the various plants are worth, . . ; v d t slockholde wi! in water and poured into the siop, will lea ing the Soa in ac aul hers prac Cally entire losers by probably a half singe es Schawh remove. When you notice a hog not doing well, when it refuses its feed and billion, scattered over the entre Sonntzy-. begins to look scrawny and sick, the That is the first loss to the fenera’ pud- chances are 9 t0 100 it bas worms. If He from the Stee! Trust, but that is pot you will kill one and examine it you will all. find a bunch of worms in its intestines, The formation of this tras resulted a perhaps as large asa fist. These —_ Ratheriog every individual steel opera constipation and fever, which kills hogs. | "0% ©f any importance in the coustry Often times the worms will eat through under the one management. That mean the destruc : fall possible competizion the intestines into the stomach an © oT A NE CORPO ed salaratus Dissoly- from the trust the market Conscqacace is that structural steel any source, and absolute was in Tae for in proportion of two tea spoonfuls to every gallon of water, will kill the worms, and almost immediately . . balidings, bridg=s, rails ne i co your bogs will begin to thrive and look Ks & = oads, and all com mercial purposes machisery, Springs ' axles, farm implements, etc—was higher since then than for many years couatrol of well again, Snow Shoe Strike Over. The long continued efforts to end the : strike at Snow Shoe, this county, resulted Hons from the American consumer;'when. concessions to the workers. President Gildea, of the Clear. | °08c¢e of steel was used he paid an ex- field soft coal district, with Board Mem. | C°*SIVE price. At the same time the bers William Pokall and George Parks, | S'®¢! Trust sent its prolacts outside of Tuesday held a conference with Superin. the country for far less than was charged leadents Warriner, Chase and Snyder, | 8 home; they were enabled to play this of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, in second skin game by what is known ns Wilkesbarre, and went home satisfied | Be protective tariff, that bas deluded our people these many years. The amount Excessive price again took countless mil in liberal that the men would accept the conces. sions and retara to work on December i The miners went out last June because | ® S111 greater steal than that of selling the Lehigh Valley Company let some inflated, worthless common stock. But work at fifty six cents a ton straight, there is still more — The union mine workers demanded Since the purchasers of the worthless sixty-six cents a ton. stock have discovered their loss, a great At the conference the company offered | ©7F bas gone up, and the names of Mor. | sixty-six cents a toh for low coal and | K20 and Schawb are in contempt, io fact sixty ceats a tom for high coal, and their lives are in danger for the swindle promised to increase the later price to | Bey perpetrated. Now they are trying sixty-six cents next April, to earn dividends on the over capitalized A meeting of the strikers will be held | 1T0St, 10 appease public indignation, in | this Thursday night and the concessions the following way : ) { A reduction of ¥ per cent will be discussed. i in salaries “ : « $13,000 (0 - | A reduction in Wages of Workmen Hotel Men Prosecuted, Thirty-nine hotel men in Clearfield are laid off saves $5,000,000 and Centre counties hare been arrested | By closiog up mills and reduc og the by the officers of the law on charges of | output they expect to save in all prob selling adulterated liquors, the informa. [aoly 50 millions. The result of this tion having been made by the agents of | last stroke is a severe one to labor, the pure food department, They are | which must sufl:r idleness, want and charged with selling blackberry wine | privation ~comforts of life must be de. and brandy and port wine that was adul- | vied in many a home to add 10 the §rof” | terated with salicylic acid, coal tar dye | its of heartless, dishonest financiers. | and other deleterious substances, many | The picture Is not overdrawn, the of the samples having none of the black. | facts are not exagerated—it is the cold | berry in them, being purely chemical truth. It is simply another fllastration | compositions, fof what the trusts are doing. There | During the month of September mote are probably a hundred other trusts in | than goo samples of blac kberry brandy, | this country that are mounopolizing all wine and other liguors were collected fn | the leading industiies of life ~your food, | 28 counties of western Pennsylvania, and | clothing, implements, etc —and on which (of this namber the chemist retarned | You must pay exiravagaut plices every about go per cent. as adulterated time you spend your hard earned dol. ns ——— {lars, If you don't believe it, you d n't $5500 Damages Don’t Satisfy Him. |know what is Rolog on. And yet we Charles C Kline, awarded $5500 dam: | her men talk about concentration of ef. | ages by a jary, from the Peansyivania | fort, economic combination, community Railroad, will give the trust « $17, About one tenth of all 0 0.000 | accident near Lawistown Junction, hag foreign competition and enables them to | refused to accept the verdict, and applied | extort from the masses natold millions. for a mew trial. His claim is for $25,000, | We are getting what we have voted for— that is all, We will save you money on your winter rubbers. Yeager & Davis, A very popular conple~two dollars, BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, N NiaL3 : Trust amount to ove 50,000,000 Or not | The Dickinson team was accompanied . un ves (Ne§0,000,000 OF NO both hemispheres to put a degree of con. | The game started at 3 p. m. and in the | modest industrial combinations of the | | first half neither side scored, with Dick. | 52™e kind failed to obtain. When the | Trust the industry had already taken an | This | ever hie parc hase ticle § | mine parc based an artic uo which an realized from excessive prices represents | for the death of his wife, of Interests and the beauties of a tan | | who was killed last March in a crossing | policy, that protects these scoundrels from OVEMB ER 19, 1903. | MORE TROUT FOR THE HATCHERY. Acting superintendent Buller of the | Bellefonte fish hatchery, is pushing the | plant on to further completeness. His brother, H. M. Buller, on Friday even- [log arrived with a special car from | Mauch Chunk, with 8 500 yearling trout, | | which are now denizens of our hatchery. | His brother is also an adept in the hatch: ing of fish. These trout were donated by the kindoess of the Penn Forest Com- {pany at Mauch Chunk. H. M. Buller | came through on the Central from Mill- | hall with his precious all | healthy condition, Supt freight, Juller informs us that the first large shipment of troat egis, a consign. | ment of 300,000, arrived at the Bellefonte hatchery on Tuesday night last, a pro- duct of the Allentown hatchery, Friends of the bhatcing industry will always be | welcome to visit the plant and find super- | intendent Baller most obliging in show" ing the modus operandi of tront cu ture, | and will not regret having been there, - " - Je Mill Hall Axeworks | The board of directors of the Ameri. can Axe and Tool Co. on Tuesaay sold | the axe factory, located at Mill Hall, to | the Mann Edge Tool Co. of Lewistown, and thas the original Robert Mann facto. | YY passes back into the hands of bis chil. dren and heirs. This sale was really ne gotiated several months This sale men BRO inci ies, bes les the two fac. tories tioe the old mil in Mill Hall, seven single ble house | property and one dou. Above § factory, also the large dwelling opposite the office origi Mann for This dea! nally built in 1882 by Joseph R a residence for himself the tories, together also includes a machinery contained in these fa with all appur. lenances used in the manufacture of ay and Wels The capital stock of the new be $2» | of which has been taken by the heirs of | the late Robert Maun. company will x0, every dollar The former Company will contioue to {operate these factories until near the | close of the present year. | ———— Queer Error May Ruin Town. If the boros ose half the ga of Bangor, Pa., should are threatened All the suits threatened are because of an error The present suits that Against iL! will go baskre pl. in gredieg sidewalks grading specifications of the borough cogineer do not conform with the official d him, resuil 1s that all the new those of the sidewalks are 12 10 18 Inches higher than the old who preced and Several new business houses are built i8 mches higher than the houses adjoin. ling, and their sidewalks are higher Along one street for several blocks the sidewalk is a foot higher on one side | than the other. The borough has al. ready been compelled to raise one build ing to the level of the sidewalk | There seems to be similar trouble in | Bellefonte. Who is at fault, we do not know, A Terrible Accident. Last Thursday, while unloading coal! from a car on switch of the P. & E rail [road at Lock Haven, ] Harris Mussina | was terribly injured. A flying switch was made, striking his car violently and be fell under the car, the wheel of which | passed over his right arm, crushing it | from the elbow 10 near the shoulder. | cutting off the ends of the third, fourth and little fingers of his left hand and cutting a gash in his head. The unfor. | tunate man was taken to the hospital | where the arm was amputated near the | shoulder. Mr, Mussina is engaged in the coal business as wel! as being mana. | ger of the opera house at that place. Moser Estate. The Moser heirs’ case will have a | hearing in court at Pottsville in a few days, in which these Mosers, or Mussers, | will have am opportunity to establish | that they are descendants of Burkhardt | Moser. The case jovolves a claim to | $1,200,000 in coal lands in Schuylkill | county. Centre county has quite a num. | ber of tho e who claim they are entitled [to a slice, by virtue of being related to | Burkbardt Moser, whose heirs are said to bave a legal claim to the lands in dis pute. It has been discovered that many per. sans by the name of Moser are puting in ciaims to heirship, who are not related to the Mosers at all. Found 10 Bee Trees. The DaBols Courier says James Brew. er, who has charge of the Pun xsutawney bunting camp, located on the mountains between Clearfield and Penfield, has a keen eye for bee trees. of the camp daring the hunting season and before the weather became too cold be succeeded in locating 10 trees which | the busy little stingers were using as store houses. 80 far he has cut down 7 trees and from these secured very nearly 800 pounds of delicious wild honey, A big tree chopped down Monday ylelded 175 pounds, . in | He is in charge | OUR HISTORICAL | | REVIEW |The Story of Regina Hartman's Capture, SHE REMEMBERED A SONG Her Long Absence From Home Had Worked a Change Affecting Scene Between the Mother and the Long Lost Daughter. an 12 (Concluded from last week.) (With this chapter we conclude the romantic story of Regina Hartman's captivity and life among the Indians and ber pathetic restoration. Iu last week's chapter is related the horrible deed of slaughter and torch which met the gaze of her mother on her return to her home from her journey to the mill. The Demo- crat has reason to believe that the Hart. mans, subject of this narrative, were relatives of the present Hartmanps in Centre, Union and Clinton counties ) REGINA'S PATHETIC RESTORATION, We now return to Regina and her sor rowing wother., When the news of the return of the captives at Carlisle reached the ears of Pastor Kurtz, of Tulpehocken, to whom Mrs. Hartman was well knows, be sent her word to proceed at once to Carlisle to see whether or not her long- lost daughter might not be among the returned captives. The mother lost no he on lhe time in making r way thither, arriviag at the barracks last day of the 1764 strang : and motley ¢ AC year She soon miogled with the rowd. He ession ype and fear alternated in quick su through her inmost ¢ Every young woman was critically pected, but alas! none of them answered to the image the fond imagined mother her daughter to be. The young women were Indians in na- ture, cold and stolid, vader which the vestiges of their real nature and early life were scarcely apparent. The moth. er was sad and dejected. If ber Regina was among them she knew of no way to establish the kindred kind hearted Bouquet sugrested to her that she the slumbering memories of her daughter, if tie. Finally the perhaps might awaken among them, by singing or reciting some byma with which the child had been fa. miliar, remembered the songs with which Regina Upon his suggestion the mother had been familiar, and repeated the first stavza of the beautiful hymn The repetition of this hymn proved to the quick response be talismanic chord that found a Immediately upon hear ing it the featares of one of the young women relaxed ; ber bosom was seen to beave with emotion Siepping out from the rest she repeated in broken German the ast repeated. The last! The The melody was com. the creed, and then followed wit hymn her mother had j lost chord sounded at tones harmonized ! Was plete! The recogaition was muteal and ‘ostantaneous, and mother and daugh- ter flew ito each other's arms With it was otherwise, She, too, began to repeat the things that Regina had taught her, but for her no mother’s arms were opened wide, She was an orphan then, but knew it not. Pitifully she cluog to her foster mother still, and took her with ber, and not until she reached the fields Elysian did “Susie” realize the unspeakable joyofa mother's fond embrace. Ino less than two months after ber re- covery Regina, accompanied by her mother, jdurgeyed all the way to Phila. delphia, a distance of near seventy miles, in the dead of winter for the sole pur- | pose of procuring a Bible. This remark. | able fact is given by Rev. H. M Mueh- lenberg, to whom she related most of { the circumstances given in this article. Having jast received a consignment of books from Earope he was able to gratify ber request, and presented to her a copy of the Holy Book, the teachings of which had given her such comfort in her long captivity, Dr. Mublenburg also relates the fol- lowing interesting incident : Hauding her the Bible be requested her to open it at random and read the first passage that came under ber eye. This she did, |and to his astonishment read the pas | sage: “The same was also taken prison: ler in the time of Salmanassen, King of little Sasie | Assyria, and although a prisoner among | | strangers, yet did be not depart from the | word of the Lord.” Tobit, Chapter 11, verse 4. Let the reader compare this Passage with Regina's steadfastness | while a prisoner, and the coincidence is | most striking, may we not say It was { providential ? At this point Regina disappears from our view. We are naturally Interested [to know what became of her asd her little “*Sasie,” but the moment we get | Away from the narrative of Dr, Mubles. (berg we enter the field of traditions and legends. Saffice it for us to cherish woat we know, and long may (he pathos | of the story stir the hearts of those who the ancestral home and fireside, jo to perpetaate the noble virtues of VOL. 25. NO. 46. FACT, FUN AND FANCY. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Select ed and Original. ATAIIOR MADE, A tallor made a tallor maid, And for it "Twas padded, ¢ Yet The dame who very well was paid. irved and overlaid EAYEe no sign of all his ald, was arrayed ng and swayed, ghty pounds she weighed, wn cloth and braid wider blade he displayed. or made naid, Fure swu SHE AND GERMS Bhe was shy of % in the water, nd kil em by steamy y of germs in the butter, Shel ed tl She was sh And mies Bhe was shy « Of germs obes that flourish io cream. nthe sirloin, Bhe was shy «¢ $ in her money And germs thal you mes Bhe was shy of germs 3 Of germs on the But I there Lramear slips she wasn't abit shy of t re Archibald were any on oken engagement is a case of “ring off.” A polygamist is a man with more wives than brains The pneumonia, early 1 sometimes catches seldom makes any 1 18 looking for work who oud mouth doesn't always pu tup nd argument it easier to make $100 Some mee find than to keep one The cashier § bar gai f 001 is one sort of a a counter A woman generally admires a man be. cause he admires her No woman ever made a foo! of a man; she merely develops him, Beer makes some men fat and others lean—against something. It is bard to be absolutely truthful and popular at the same time, If a man begins to court trouble he usually ends by marrying it The fellow who has an axe to grind should steel clear of sharpers well It may be just as to remember F 4 bow was it that Solomon bad s0 many wives . Boiled that fast men asually slow pay. If experies is the best teacher a Cheap restaurant are be. io a harry *EKS in m what they are cracked i i up to se qo The fellew who is always doesn’t nex essarily accomplish the most, Ose afternoon during a lull in the bathing demands on a certain transatian- who had charge of the bathrooms used by the sa. : ine tC iiner George, the youth loon passengers, decided to take a bath, 80 be locked himself in one of the rooms ued by the men. Sudden’'y he wis dis. turbed by a rap at the door and beard a “Honey ! Honey! Are No reply coming from the lady spoke again: “Hovey, "As an explanation, was “Beg voar par ady, but this ain't no beehive; this is a bathroom woman's voice you there? room, the are you there ? necded, George spoke : don funny story is told at Washington at the expense of an impulsive and some. what light beaded voung gentleman at, the British The youth made a couple of purchases one day-—the one for himself—a matter of clothing —the other a box of roses for the tached to Legation adornment of the Washington belle to whom he had lost his heart. In a hasty mowent be mistook the parcels, and handed the box coataining the clothing to a messenger, accompanied by a note addressed to his lady bidding her “Wear these this evening for my sake.” The story stops there love, Bad “Horse Sense.” Here is a case in which "horse sense" was a fatlure. Mr, and Mrs. Sarah George, of Clarion county, were married in September last. Mrs. George is now suing for a divorce. She alleges that be. fore marriage Mr, George was paying attention to berselfl and a woman living in Emlenton. Oa the day fixed for the wedding George got into his buggy unde- cided whether to marry Sarah or the Emlenton girl. He dropped the reins over the dashboard and left the decision to the horse, which taraed off at the Freedom road, thas deciding the choice | in favor of the platutiff She now wants | to reverse the horse's decision, i Sudden Death. John Riley, chief clerk in the Superin. | tendents office at Tyrone, died sod lenly Wednesday while attending to his duties in the office, He was striken with apo. {plexy ard died fieen minutes afer. | He leaves a wife and family, He was | 60 years of age and came to Tyrone in 1873 and bad been in the employ of the | Pennsyivania Railroad ever since. Men's rolled 99 cents, xy A —————————— finest quality Arctics Davis, (vid
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