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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-10-11
Swayne's Comforting 10 the
Sick

Thousands die from neglect 10 properly
treat ImIurn Blood, Constipation, Dye
pcpsin, Malaria, ApoplsXy, Liver, Kidney,
Heart Dseascs, Dropsy, and Eheumatism.
But to the debilitntsd, burdenci with such
serious sickness, We CuuscicntiOusly re-.
commend "SWAYNES Pills which
contain medicinal prorortics possessed by
no other remedy. Sent by mail for %
cents, box Of 20 pills, boIcs, 81, lu
stsmp.j. Address, DIR. SWAYNE &
SON, Philadelphia, Pa Sold By Drug
eisu. 5.S-ly.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Anecdote of Tllad. Stevens.

1t is related of Thaddeus Stevens that
shortly after his removal to Lancaster in
1912 he heard of the sad prostration Of
an old friend in New York, a lawyer,
who, pressed hard by necessity, had di-
verted to his own use $500 due to a GER
tain widow client. hoping soon to regain
his financial footing and repay her. But
''unmerciful disaster followed fast and
followed f%aster," until the poor fellows
mental distress was actually killing him.
Mr.. Stevens hunted up the client, paid
her from his own pocket the $500, OBJ
tanned her receipt, and went to 9 his
friend. "Halloa! old fellow" he cx-
claimed, on entering his Office, "you
must wake up. Don't be so down-heart-
ed. Say, don't you suppose you've real
ly gone and paid that woman and then
forgotten all about it?" A despairing
shake of the bowed head was the only
reply. "Well, I believe you did, and
Pm going to look through your papers
and see if l can't fndthe receipt" Then
he pretended to ransack some pigeon
holes, and a moment later exclaimed:
well, if you're not the biggest fool l
ever heard! Look here, old man! What's
this?" So saying he showed tho receipt
to his astounded friend, who thereupon
recovered his spirits, and, happily, his
business fortunes also. Afterward he
repaid Mr.. Stevens, and the latter never
wal able to find out how his generosity
had been detected.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
i'll London.

Socialism islifting its head prominently
in London. Social theories are now de-
bated in places where, even in the rev.
dictionary period Of 1913, they would
have BEEN regarded as ridiculous. The
Liverpeols Mercury'a correspondent re-.
marks:9a. welI East. end curate
was describing to me lately some ex.
%periences in the neighborllood of White.
chapel. He is accustomed on the Sum
day evening, after preaching his sermon,
to take off his white tie in the vestry
and to sally out to the haunts of the peo-
pie under his charge. Ills favorite re-
sorts are the haunts of the political ora
tors. for there, he says, he gets to learn
more clearly than elsewhere what are
the longings of the people. The orators
themselves, generally ignorant aad blat-
ant are not particularly helpful, but
their audience are. One can see when
they are touohed, and it is especially af-
fecting to watch the women-generally
hardfaced women-who have had t.
fight for their virtue while young and for
honesty ever since, and who neverthe-
less have not found life yield any pleas
ures, and snatch ven an hour Of politi-
cal debate as q fearful joy' Now, the
general feeling among these poor souls
is that something is wrong'-they do not
know what, and hardly dare to guess.
but things are not right with them; and
though they shrewedly suspect that the
ioud-talking gentleman who proposes to
set all things right by a revolution ia wild.
yet they insist that. if God. made the
world, there should be some remedy for
evils worse than DEATH"
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24

In the face and back, when they attempted
to steal his cash box, confessed the deed on
the 18th inst. The accused are boys who
are addicted to dime novel reading. The
police have evidence of their work as high.
waymen in other cases. The detectives who
made the arrest get $500 reward. Grothe is
still alive.
Jonn Ansley, a well known insurance
agent, of Bloomington, ILL.,, formerly a res
ident of Dayton, Ohio, was arrested the
18th upon a charge of embezzlement. The
charge was preferred by the postmasters of
La Sale, Ill, whose funds Ansley-as agent
Of his property in this city-appropriated to
his own use.
Frank E. Starke killed E. r. Allen in a
Vicksburg theatre. Being interviewed,
Starke admitted that he had no provocation
to commit the act, and attributed it to his
bad temper. though he expressed no regret.
Allen was a native of Brooklyn, ffty-fve
years old. Starke is a native of New York,
twenty-five years old.
st. Louis lawyers want to know when
Edmond Gredrod died there. Forty years
ago he deserted a wife in England, and she
married and had children. Ii be died be-
fore she welded again, the children are
heirs to $4,000 lately fallen to Gridrod or
heirs.
William H. Wills and Norma B. Wills
his wife, of Washington have been dis
barred from practice before the pension
bureau, after a careful examination of
charges made against them of using decep
tive circulars in their business.
A dispatch says, Michael Penniton. living
in Highland township, Clayton county,
Ia, killed his own brother, recently, at the
latter's residence. The reason for the deed
are not stated.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
President Lincoln,s Dream.

1t is not generally known that Presi-
dent Lincoln once dreamed that he
would be assassinated. While he was
neither a professor of religion, nor even
fixed in its beliefin one particular creed,
still he was fond of reading and discuss
ing the bible. On Sunday evenings he
invariably read chapter or two from
| the scriptures, and then gave his expla-
nation of it. The Nashville (Tenn.) Lib
eral says: s.
One evening at the White House he
had read several passages both from the
old and new testaments relating to
dreams, to which Mrs. Lincoln and the
children gave great attention. He be-
gan to chat with them or the subject of
dreams, and said hehad been haunted
for some days by a dream he had had.
thoughMr rs. Lincoln said she didn't be-
lieve in dreams in the least, and was as
tonished at him. So he proceeded to
tell it. "About ten days ago I retired
n night quite late. had been up
waiting for important dispatches from
the front, and could not have been long
in bed when. I fell into slumber,
for | was weary. During my slumber l
began to dream. 1 thought there was a
stiffness about me, and l heard weeping:
I thought that I got up and wandered
| down stairs. The saue stiffness was
there. AS I went from room to room
| heard moaning and weeping. At
length l came to the end room, which I
entered, and there before me was a
magnificent dais on which was a corpse.
Here there were sentries and a crowd
Of people. ] said to one of the soldiers:
who is dead at the White House?' He
answered: The President How did
he. diep l asked. by the hand of all
assassin was the reply Then I heart
a great wailing all over the house, and it
was so loud it seemed to awaken me. I
awoke much depressed, and slept no
more that night. Such was my dream"
From,that. tine until his sad death Mr..
Lincoln was haunted by the fear of as
sassination, and Mrs. Lincoln's first
words after Wilkes Booth had shot him
on April ID were: "His dream was pro-
phetlc." The remark Vas not UNDER
stood then, hut when the story of his
dream was subsequently told it was ex-
planned.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Great, But a Failure.

A loving, gentle boy was Samuel Tay.
lor C%oleridge. When he was an old
man, known as poet, philosopher, and
conversationalist, his tender, gracious,
benign face made his friends adore him,
The sympathetic nature of the boy
shines out in an incident of his school
days. He was rushing through the
street to be in time for school, when he
ran against an old woman's apple.stand
and upset it.
ooh. you little devil" she shouted af-
ter him, as he rushed on.
Looking back, he Jaw the mischief he
had done. Instantly he returned an |
gathering up the scattered fruit, apollo.
giZed for his heedlessness.
ooh, you little ANGEL" exclaimed the
Modified woman, as she patted his head.
He carried the same loving heart
through life, but not the same energy to
amend the blunders of his own life. He
attracted great men by ~hisspacious, sub.
tie intellect, and fascinated them with
his marvellous power of "talk."
Wilson. the severest Of critics, spoke
OF Coleridge's conversation as eloquent
music without a discord; full, ample, in
SAtAouoOiDiOS tIA4OoG NtylllC. LII Ills lOl-
test moods he spoke like one inspired.
The ear was delighted with the melodi-
Gus words that flowed from can epicure
in sound" But there was little nourish-
ment in these musical utterances of one
who seemed to have given himself up to
'sthe lazy luxury of poetical outpouring."
Though Coleridge was the best oftalk-
ers, he was the worst of doors. Indo-
lence and opium-eating begat this dis.
crepancy. His slavery to what he called
1.-The accursed drug" impaired his mind
and embittered his life. His genius was
mastered by his Incidence. He never
learned that no genius is great enough
to exempt its possessor from patient in
dustry.
His friends environed him with great
expectations. He diei fulfilling scarce
iy any of them, because lie had neither
the industry which works steadily, nor
the energy that m lkes one achievement
a s~tepping-stone to higher attainments.
Such a life is full of warning to young
men of genius. 1t says to them: "You
will fail, unless you learn in youth to
bend your neck to the yoke ofpersever-
ing industry and keep yourselffr free from
the slavery of an evil habit"
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
The Report of the Wisconsin Capitol
Disaster.

The four architectural and building ex-
perts summoned by the state house build
ing commission to investigate the cause Of
the collapse of the south wing have made
their report. They find that
The disaster occurred on account of the
weakness of the second story iron columns,
or of the masonry supports beneath them, OF
of both combined. The brick pilisters
o. piers extended upward from the base
ment through to the floor of the second
story. Each was two feet square. There
were no Gaping stones on them, but an
iron plate o foot square rested upon each.
The commission of a Gaping stone was a
grave mistake. From this iron plate rose
iron columns, which upheld the roofs. The
weight borne by the column was concentra-
ted on too small an area of masonry.
crushed more or less under the plate Re.ns W.
g stimate that the second-story column, if
made as called Tor in the specification,
would safely carry seventy-five tons. The
load it would ultimately have to carry WI
estimate at ninety tons. The third ana
fourth stery columns, however, as called
for in the specifications, would have beer
would the girders and floor beams. The
iron columns were very defective. They
were not cast true, being often three six
teenths of an inch on one side and one and
6ve.slxteenths on another, aud often having
sand-holes, cooling. seams and other flaws
and defects. and some being patched. It
is impracticable to say what the detective
columns would bear, but they were much
weaker than if they had been of uniform
thickness called for in the specifications,
and had been good sound castings. We re.
gard the masonry as fair ordinary work,
calling for neither special praise nor blame.
The report is signed by A. G. Nash and
Godfrey Ludwig, Cincinnati; James r. Will
lett, Chicago, and G. F. Struck, Minneapo.
lie
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
A Real Enoch rdep

Forty'two years ago William Ander.
son lived on a farm near. GAINESVILLE,
Belmont county, o. In 1912, he was
married to kMiss MARY English. They
Ii, I'd happily together twelve years, and
in that time eight children were born to
them. In 1853, Anderson took the Cali
fornia gold fever, then raging in the
United States, and started OH an over
land journey to make his fortune, leav-
ing his wife and children behind. At
first he communicated with his wife and
S 6sRt b be1 iet %99ae sssse6 5q It asst as the eI years are
was mourned as dead. During ali n these 81
years the wife worked hard to support
the helpless children. They grew to
maturity-fve daughters-and three
sons-and they all o respectable posi-
tionslin society. Believing her husband
dead. Mrs. Anderson consented to mar
~ Jessie Fowler whose death was an
nounced a few weeks ago.. Before the
second marriage which occurred about
eighteen months ago, she was wise
enough to obtain q divorce from her first
husband. One of her sons, George An
derson, even when a child, believed
that his father was not dead, and often
said that when he became a man he
would go and search for him. Eight
years ago, he went to Idaho to better
his fortunes, but also with the hope of
meeting his father, and they have been
living together ever since. A few days
ago the father and son returned to Ohio.
Mr.. Anderson visits his children near
the home of his wife, who is now in
mourning for her second husband, but
he has not entered her house, although
he has conversed with her in the pres.
ence of mutual friends.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Railroad and River News.

The Northern Pacific has opened its Pa
louise branch running due east from the
main line at Lind, Whitman county, WASH,
1915 miles west ofSt. Paul. The company
announces that it is now ready for business
to Endicott, WASH, seventy miles east of
Palouse junction, and Colfax eighty-nlne
miles east. This new line opens up for set
Element the rich grain fields of what is
known as the Paiouse country of Washing
ton territory.
The trustees of the Wisconsin Central
have filed their annual report for the year
ending June 80 last with Railroad Commits
sioner Haughen. The trustees operate $50
miles Of track, including 1o4 miles of leased
line. The capital stock is Sill, 435, 500, 3d.
ABE, 500 of which is common, and So, 90, O0O,.
GOO preferred stock. The immediate liabili-
ties. are $423, s45; quick assets, 1926, 926.
F. A. Miller, commission clerk in the gen.
eral passenger department of the Milwau-
kee O. st. Paul, and brother to Roswell Mil
Ter, assistant to General Manager Merrill,
bad been, or was TO be, offered the position
of assistant superintendent of passenger
traffic on the western division of the North
ern Pa ific.
The gross earnings OF the st. Paul g. Du.
luth for the first eleven days in November
were $65, 400, 80, an increase of 50, 842, So,
compared with the corresp onding period OF
time in 1882.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
:. Foreign News Gossip.

There is a general strike of railroad and
steamship laborers at Panama. They de-
mand an increase of wages from $3.50 to 50.
There are so many canal laborers on the
isthmus. and such great numbers. are con.
stantly arriving, that the strike. it is
thought, will be a short one. All is quiet.
The national troops at the railro ID depot
have orders to fire on them in the event of
an outbreak or overt act of the strikers.
In court at London on the 10th Sullivan,
member of parliment, fell in a f~ainting ft
and was carried out irsensible. He lay com
atose all night. The 10th his physicians said
he was at the point of death and recovery
was almost impossible. Over exertion n
the O'Donnell case, in which he was CHIEF
counsel.
Van der Wyde, the London photograph.
er, has printed 25, 900 photographs of Mary
Anderson. He has also taken an heroic
negative, eight feet by three, which is said
to be perfect.
The election Tor a successor to Richard
O~'Shaghnessy, Liberal in Parliament from
this city, resulted: Edward Mcmahon.
Parnelite and Nationalist. 922, and James
Spaight, Conservative, 473.
The government is still engaged in dis.
persing meetings in Ireland.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
HOsDitaIity.

A story M to lis from Canada
which if true shows in a clear light the
base nature of the snobbish bride which
regulates its behavior to men and wo-
men by their rank in society.
The wealthy owner of country-seat
a Quebec, who had long sought ad-
mission into fashionable society, saw,
one day, two ladies seated on q rock in
his lawn, drawing in sketch-books a
picturesque bit of landscape. He hur-
rled angrily down to them.
What are you doing here?" he de-
manded.
"~Sketching," was the calm reply.
You had better look out for other
subjects for your Studies" he clustered.
" don't choose the designs of my land
scape gardener shall be made common"
The ladies, whom from the plainness
OF their dress, he supposed to be poor
teachers, rose instantly and went down
to the road. He followed at a little dis.
lance and saw them enter a carriage
which was in waiting.
"Who was that lady?" he asked of a
gaping passer-by.
The Princess Louise"
"What! the Princess Louise! are you
sure of that?"
eyes, sir"
The man went to his house, Mortified
at his act. the ch%urlisnuess of which br.
came very apparent, when he found ii
was q member IF the royal family that
he had snuhhed.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Fear Held Him.

Novel-writers have tried, with more
orless success, to depict life in Washing.
ton; but if the real inside history of men
and parties there could be given, ii
would surpass any picture in wild i'm.
probability.
lake for example the followin, bit Of
actual history. During the last genera.
ton, n Of the most familiar faces On
Pennsylvania Avenue was that of a we'll
known party-leader, who was popularity
supposed to be an aspirant for the high.
est political honors.
lie Was known as man OF great in
teliectual power and unstained probity.
He had control of vast nationalinterests,
His personal popularity was very grea,
throughout the country, and his am
bition was known to be unsuitable.
Yet when, time after time, high polit.
Cal offices were offered him, he refused
to allow his nam to be presented as a
candidate. The reason for this was
known only after his death, and then to
but few persons.
In his early youth, under strong
temptation. he had committed a crime
which, if disclosed in after life, would
have brought irreparable shame and
disgrace upon his children. The facts
were known but to two or three person:
in an obscure country village where he
had once lived.
These persons were not unfriendly to
him, but they belonged to the opposite
political party. When, therefore, his
name was suggested as a candidate for a
high national office, he received a quiet
intimation from the inland village, that
# he came before the people, the story
would be made public.
We know no more dramatic figure in
fiction.than that of this strong, ambitious
leader, with noble aims and true pur.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
PITH OF THE NEWS.
Washington News Notes.

Postmasters commissioned: Iowa. l.. M.
Street, Hansell; II. B. Amman, Denver,
Wis /; 81. L. Thompson, Mt. Morris; Charles
P. Tafan, Siegel, OAK; Terminus A. Arch
ambault. ~Emmonsburg; Edward F. Rey-
mold, Bruce. Postoftices established, Da-
kota, Newton, Frank county. Washington,
special telegram, Nov. II. Postofices es
tablished, Dakota, E~mmonsburg, Emmons
county. Postofice name and site changed,
Dakota, Thomas, Brooking county, to
Bruce, ninety rods north.
Postmasters commissioned: Iowa-Isra e
G. Woodland, Barnum, William W. Braun
Unionburg, Minnesota-John Swenson,
Candy. Dakota-George Landon, Newton.
Postofices observation-disclosures, Center
vile, Meagher county.
John McLangston has been appointed
United States charge d'affairs at Santa Do
mingo; and John w. Scott, lola, Kans.,
agent of the Indians of the Pawnee and
OtoZ agency, Indian Territory.
1t comes Quit Il the lawsuit that @. P.
Huntington spent $500, 600 in the Washing
lobby last winter.
Fifth Auditor Alexander adjusted II, 457
accounts last year aggregating 1895, 900, 600.
The Republican national convention
meets at Washington Dec. II.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
LATE MARKET REPORT.
ST. PAUL.

ST. PAUL
MHEAT-The week opens with the market steady
1t about Saturdays quotations, the growing
strength of the outside market still encouraging
holders TO maintain their extreme position, not
country. For spot No. l hard, a buying offer of
Biol was made: for December, $l.Oz: January.
LOS: May, $l.05;. No. 2 hard. 96c bid.
the en market is abo o0n, hteaay to S pc q J !a snot ae Nozsm and
and December is held ct 4Sc; for No. 3 47c is
asked. The sales of one Car of No. ) at 47c aud
ono car ditto at 46 1ec were recorded.
OATS-The stock of oats is still very limited, and
the market continues strong. Quotations.: No. 9
and Ds {, 23'ac bid; January. 2sc bil; May.
One car OF No. 2 mixed was sold at 28lec: l car
No. 3 white at 29c and 2 cars No. 3 white at &c.
MINNEAPOLIS.
CoRN-Dull and nominal. No. 2 was bid for al
4612c, and 47l2c asked; October and November
47c; year. Acc: condemned, 42@46c.
OATs-.Quiet and steady; holders asked 29c for
~; 2, white; No. 9 mixed .2sc bid: rejected &c
BARLEY-Unchanged at $50 for No. 2; extra
No; 5, 4s@5Oc: No. 3 aud rejected. 35@45c.
LouR-T market is steady and active; dlota-
first bakers. 4.5O@5: second bakers. So. 9O@
$50; best low grades. So. 5O@3: red dog, SIZE
GEO. Boston quotations are as follows: Mime
s got. patents Sc. e eo@7 20; stfaisbts' sc 6. s55@S. e
In bags.
MILWAUKEE MARKET-Flour. dull and dropping
December: 97lec for January. Corn. .frmer; No
2, 5Olac; rejected, 5OAc. Oats, higher; No. 2
BOG 3Ulo; No. 2 white, SIC. Rye. higher: No. J.
5os: No. 2. 56e. Barley. stronger: Nc: 2, COG
6O4c. Provisions steady; mess pork. $1O.55 fol
$3.50 for November; 81 . for January. Butter
: m 27Q29c for creamery; 2O@22 for dairy
Cheese scarce and wanted at l2@1219c. Egg
firm ut 23@24c. Receipts-Flour. $4,000 bbls
wheat, $4,000 bu: barley, 41.OOO blu. Shipment
-Elonr,. 10000 bbls; wheat. 1000 bu: barley
$4,000 bu.
CHICAGO M-ARKEr-Flour. quiet and steady
Wheat opened dull. but closed active. strong an
higher: Noyember. 96c: December, 96A@9677sc
January. o97A@977sc: February, 9sac: May
s3c: No. 2 red winter, 81 .O9lec@l.O1la. Corn
nominal. active. and stronger. at 4s%@49c cash
49c November: 4sc December; 47B@4sc year
fairy active; 1890 cash and November; 2sA,
December; 2SAc year; 28x@264c January
2Hc May. Rye, quiet and steady. Ut SEC