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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-12-06
A Whisiling Tree.

In the deep and almost impenetrable
forests of Nubia is found n tree that
utters at times the most mournful and
plaintive notes Sometimes these
sounds are shrill and clear. az others
die away TO an almost imperceptihle
whisper. as II some captive spirit were
complaining Of its lot. The effect is
singular. weird and startling, until the
causc Is known. The tree is a species
Of Acacia. and the sound is produced by
calsshaped gals or secretions Of some
insect The wind in passing through
the tree produces the whistling noise
referred to-
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-12-06
Ripened Wheat.

We bent to-day DER q cofliued form,
Aad our tears fell softly down.
We looked our last on tho aged face
With its look OF peace, its patient grace,
And hsr like silver crown.
We touched our own to the clay y-cod hands,
From liie's long labor at rest;
And among the blossoms white and sweet
We noted bunch OF golden wheat
Clasped close to the silent breast.
The blossoms whispered of fadeloss bloom,
OF the hand whoro falls no tear;
But tho ripe wheat told of toll and care,
The patient waiting, the trusting prayer
The garnored good of the year.
We know not what work her hands had found,
What rugged place her feet
What cross was hers, what blackness OF night |;
We saw but peace, the blossoms white,
And tho bunch of ripcned wheat,
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-12-06

IL won't wait to be discharged-Fn
resignp
Would that ne wise, Crocus?" said
the gentle widow.
Wen go West, mamma" said
Crocus "Uncle Joseph took up n
government claim Ia Dakota Wen
raise chickens and bees and turn
farmers there"
But, darling, wnat can two women
like us do?" pleaded Mrs Graham.
Two women, mammal cried Gro
GUS trying to laugh. "Why, there's
nothing in all the world that they can't
dol | may be returned yet as one of
the representatives of some hitherto
unnamed territory; and in that case,
I'll do my best to pass law that no
political influence shall drive n hard
working girl from her place. to make
room for an overdrcsscd widow who
wants To earn little more pin
money"
"Crocus"
Wouldn't it be good idea. mamma?
But now | must sit down and count
the money have left of this months
salary. | am not by any means sure
that have enough to take us to
Dakota--unlcss indeed we were TO sell
the old pearl brooch that belonged to
your mother. And I've sort Of fancy
that luck would desert us if we parted
with that old pearl brooch"
Later in the afternoon, Crocus Gra-
ham put on the pink moss-rose gown.
with pretty little hat of rosc-colored
Grape, which she had herself made
and crept out under the shadow of the
great lime-trccs in the capitol grounds,
to hear the band play.
All the world was there the bellies
of the great city. the fashionablcs, the
notabilltics. Elegant carriages block
ed up the drives; rainbow groups
studded the velvet lawns, and almost
the first thing which Crocus saw was
the tall figure OF the twenty-hfth
auditor standing beside senator
NtalEcup's carriage, while that rubi-
cnnd parsonage gc,ticulatcd vehement
", and Mrs AItamont leaned smiling
Iy forward bepc,th the goIden..baIow
of her ambcr-lincd parsol
"Nfv cousip must he rr,yideI for
don't YOU seq" said the senator.
And they tell me that vour depart.
men, is the plcasan,cst place in the
Treasury Building. and If there ian,
a,y vacancy inst now why Won must
max, one Nntliny r,n ho easier
am gpre"
"You think s,," said tho twcntv-
nth ardfpr who wasat tail man with
Indian.I,rk hair and eyes and \
Napolconic conformation OF brow.
Think &, man. know it, said
the senator. Rotation in Office
that's the only safe rule Keen the
wheel turning make matters lively
Inst fhon IN. line ~ carriage. be.
pan 4, move slowly On.
Tn. ,udit,r storned hack. Mr.
Afamont waved her crcam-yloyed
hand and the rp.eate countrnance of
senator ~talkcup was waited from
vi.y
A,tbc auditor turned into q pa,h
syeot with roscs and shadoved with
tho oJrorping cold" nf Iaburpum ne
came face io face with Crocus sitting
an a rustic bench of twisted cedar.
bougbs
"vr ITarring,onr" sha exclaimed
with a start
"Nri.s Graham
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

Mr.. DEzENDoRF charged that Boss
Malone was collecting assessments
from the customs house employees at
Norfolk. Instantly the postmaster
general had the postoffice at Norfolk
inspected, and published to the coun-
try that no assessment had been col
lected there. subsequently Mahone's
assessor went to Norfolk and collected
his assessments from all the employees
in the Norfolk postoffice. A charge
against that Office was thereupon
made by Mr.. Dezendorf. who, in
bringing it, took occasion to inform
the postmaster-general that, as he had
been so anxious about the proper
management of that Office as to have
it inspected when there was no charge
against it, he could do nothing less
than have a specific charge investi-
gated as soon as possible. From that
time to this, says the Washington
Sentinel, the postmaster-general has
said nothing about the post-office
The reports of the Investigating com
mittees of the next congress will con
tain much that the country will b.
ashamed of, and that will shed no lus
ter upon American institutions; ye
they will show Mahoneism in it
basest colors.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
Scotch simplicity.
Glasgow MALL


In the tramway car on a wet after
noon some time since, a woman of
fifty, made up to look about twenty
five years old, got on board at a cross
ing to find every seat occupied. She
stood for a moment, and then select
ing poorly-dressed man about forty
years of age, she observed: "Are
there no gentlemen in this
carp" 81 dinna KEN" he replied
as he looked up and down;
eff theirs name, and ye're gaun the
length O. Dennistoun, I'll hunt up one
for we at the end O. the line" There
was embarrassing silence for a mo-
ment, and then a light broke in on
him all of a sudden and he rose and
said: But we can haze this seat. I'm
aye willin' to stan an gle my seat to
an aud buddy" That decided her.
She gave him look which he Will
not forget to his dying day, and,
grasping the strap, she refused to sit
down, even when five seats had be-
come vacant.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

CONCERNING the "White House
dude" the Springfield Republican
says:
Tiffany is at the White House
again, giving it tremendous renais-
saDce, not with the whiteWash brush
of the forefathers, but with all sorts
of elaborate decorations and esthetic
didos. President Arthur is the first
president in many years who cares
anything about display. and as he has
good taste there seems to be little
quarreling with it. But really we
cannot see what Tiffany finds to do,
this year. Last year it was under
stood that he turned the old mansion
inside out with refurnishing, and now
he is storming it again. A character
istic life-siZe portrait of Mr.. Arthur
has been hung in the corridor, repre-
senting him on the steps of the por-
tico, on which has just fallen rose
bud from his button hole. The rose
bud seems to belong there, but how
out of place it would seem in por-
trait of Lincoln. We have fallen
upon times of good tailoring. Mr..
Arthur has found in the attic
portrait bnsts of John Adams,
the first oceupantef the White House,
and of Van Buren,. The only presi-
dent missing from the White House
gallery is Buchanan.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
OVER PRoDUcTIos IN COTTON


Latham, Alexander s. Co., cotton
brokers and commission merchants, Of
New York city, have taken the trou-
BILE, in their annual report, heretofore
noticed, to warn cotton producers as
to the danger of over production.
They say:
"Under the present system of de-
voting so much land to cotton, there is
danger of over production, and boun-
tiful crops may thus be made source
of misfortune rather than benefit. On
the ether hand, if planters would raise
less cotton and would make at home
the grain, corn and provisions they
now buy, their cotton would bring a
better price and the money received
for it would remain in the South
The South would soon become the
richest country in the world, for the
sums received for the cotton crop are
vast, almost beyond comprehension
+ Year after year the
crop sells for hundreds of millions Of
dollars, and yet year after year plant
ers remain borrowers of money a
high rates of interest, owing to theil
present system of producing cotton al
most exclusively"
The often product and the valu
of cotnl for the last ten years
| oiyen i, follows:
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

IT is said the next noted railway
spike to be driven will be at the point
of junction between the two sections
of the Mexican Central railway. On
the 1st of January next the Mexican
Central will be completed, thus estab-
fishing direct connections between
the City of Mexico and the railroad
system of the United States. Prepa-
rations are already going forward in
a quiet way to commemorate the
event with rejoicings and festivals in
the Mexican capital, and it is not i'm
probable that the president will be
persuaded to proclaim the day great
holiday, and to extend a general invi-
ton to the people of the United States
to participate. President Arthur will
probably be present and join With the
Mexican chief magistrate in driving
home the last spike. Such meeting
of the two heads of the two largest
American republics would be an oc-
casion of great interest.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
Fay TempletOn and Minstrel West
Agree to Separate After o, Brie
HONEYMOON.

The romantic marriage of Fay Tenn
pleton, 1.-THE beautiful opera singer, tc
Billy West, the dandy negro minstrel
who is now playing an engagement
in New York, occurred in May last
A reporter asked if there was any
truth in the reports that she and her
husband had separated.
"Y eS, sir: it is so; exactly So" she
said. I'VE separated on reaching Chi.
cago and have ceased to live with him
L found very quickly that he was not
man I could live with, and we qui-
city agreed to separate. The truth OF
it is, did not really want to marry
him; but 1 did marry him just to
show my father that I was independ-
emit"
"You are not yet divorced ?"
mo; but we are to get divorce as
soon as we have lived apart long
enough to enable US to do so. Our
troubles we kept very quiet, and
either the papers did not mention it
for my sake, or else they did not get
hold of it. You are the first newspa-
per man who has asked about it. But
/ don't care who knows it now. Such
things are sure to come out, and are
always published when actors or sing
ers are concerned"
"You will remain with your faith
er's company, will you not ?"
Eyes; will remain with him dur
ing the present season; but what 1
shall do another year I do not know.
You see, feel as if my first duty was
to my father. For fourteen years l
have been before the footlights under
his guidance, but am tired of this
rowing live. / think some of taking
a permanent local engagement in OPP
era in New York city for next year,
and then think of going to Europe
and resting for whole year, and then
coming back with a new company and
a new opera-something nobody has
ever seen in this country"
where did you make your home ?"
"Our home is my fathers farm, in
New York state. You see, am really
only little country girl. l spend
three months of each summer at the
farm. The report about the separa-
ton will create great deal of sur
prise there"
From others than Miss Templeton
it was learned that their short mar
ried life was very unhappy. Miss
Templeton soon tired of her minstrel
husband, whom she first saw at
matinee, and became mashed" at
once.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
COUNTING In THE CHOIR

She sat on the steps of the organ loft
just after the second HYMN,
Through nave and choir to The cool gray spir
The sound rose faint and dim.
As they settled themselves in the church belol
For the sermon that followed next,
And l seated myself at the affairs side
AS the parSon took his text.
1 marked the tender flush of her cheek,
And the CLEAN Of her golden hair,
The snowy kerchief round her neck,
And her throat all white and bare.
throat so white that indeed is might
An anchnrite entice;
And family heard the parsons word
AS he preached of paradise.
My arm stole gently around her waist
Until our fingers met;
And the fit ring blush of the tender flush
Of our cheek grew deeper yet.
Snowy and fair the hand beneath,
And brown the palm above,
And the brown closed softly over the white,
And the parSon spoke Of love.
All, who is wise, when the deep blue eyes
Meet his and look coyly down?
Who would but drink, nor care to think
or envys Jealous froWn?
Twas but to bend till felt her breath
Grow warm on my cheek, and then
My lips just softly touched her own
As the DarsOn said Amen. "-Puck.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
THE New York Sun SAYS:

The managers of Boss Mahone's
machine at Washington are always on
the alert to aid the schemes of the
repudiator in Virginia. They are
fully aware that his situation is criti-
cal, and that as political gambler he
il playing his last stake on the turn
OF a card. His defeat next month
means the complete overthrow of a
coalition which has disgraced Vir-
ginia, damaged her credit and de-
spoiled her property.
But for the support of the admins
tration, procured through a bargain
made by the Republican caucus of the
senate, this vile thing, known as Ma
honeis II, would not now be a reproach
and a stain upon our politics. The
Republican leaders are responsible fol
shameless dicker, through which
they hoped to obtain control of the
senate in 1881, and for which they
were willing, and even eager, tt
sacrifice professed principle by open
ly approving reputation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
FREEMAN, of the postoffice depart
ment, is said to be preparing deeis-
ion requiring newspapers to number
the pages of their supplements in run
ming. order with the pages of the reg
ular issue. What object the postoffice
department expects to accom- plish by
this move is not known, but it will
strike most people that Mr.. Freeman
is making an amusing struggle to ap-
nnQr huSv
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

IT seems to be a sure enough battle
of the black flags in Tonquin, neither
side giving quarter, and both parties
contending in a barbarous rivalry of
cruelty. THE Annamites have an Old
Testament sound, and the French, by
the latest accounts, are treating them
much as the Old Testament warriors
behaved towards the enemies. Wo-
men and children, non-combatants and
prisoners, are Unfortunately slain
The modern Philistines retort by furi-
Gus proclamations and by eating such
Frenchmen as fall into their hands
Upon the whole, the situation is not
edifyinp.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

BOTH parties in Virginia are work
ing like beavers, and are concentra-
ting all their strength in three
close senatorial districts These will
be very apt to decide the contest.
The Democrats claim that they can
safely count upon forty house dis
tricts, with good chances of securing
ten more, which will be enough to
give them a majority in that body.
They assert, also, that, with the thir-
teen senators they have who hold
over, they can safely count on twenty
senator's, or within one of the consti-
tutional majority of the senate, with
two districts likely to give them a
majority. Senator Malone and his
friends make about the same claims.
Next Tuesday the result will be
known. So thoroughly canvassed are
many portions of the state that, in
many counties and towns, the pur-
poses of voters, almost to a man, are
known and recorded.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

GA PROTECTIVE tariff" said ex-
Governor Horatio Seymour to re-
porter of the New York World, "gives
to our manufacturers great advan-
tages at the cost of the farmers and
carriers and most of the mechanics. /"
This veteran Democrat does not be-
long to the Pennsylvania school,
which insists that protection benefits
everybody. He sees clearly who reaps
the advantages and who suffers from
the imposition. The whole scheme is
direct interference by the govern
ment between different classes of cit.
liens, to favor one at the expense OF
all others.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

THERE is determined effort being
made in many of the western cities to
break up gambling, but the gamblers
are generally too strong. The propri-
etors of Milwaukee pool tables have
successfully resisted the attempts of
the authorities to compel them to
cease running them, and, as a last re-
sort, the council has passed an ordi-
nance imposing tax for the privilege.
Several have paid the tax, but the rest
refuse to liquidate, and about live hun
dred warrants are to be issued for the
arrest of delinquents. The mayor
and council mean business, and the
obstinate set must submit either to
taxation or to imprisonment.
The same condition prevails not
only in the northwest but every
where. 1t is known that a number of
gambling houses are open nightly in
Austin, and yet the grand jury fails
to present persons for violating the
law relating to gambling. 1t must
not be understood that we are special
advocates of inquisitorial proceedings
by grand juries, but they fail to find
evidence regarding fragrant evils. and
law breakers go unpunlshed. 1t seems
impossible to break up gambling, and
therefore the economic plan which it
appears possible only to apply,
would make 1t contribute some
thing to the sustenance of
organized society, it being sure,
under all circumstances, to have an
injurious effect upon the moral condi-
ton of communities. As it is, gam
bling contributes nothing to govern
ment, while it takes away substance
from large number of the governed.
License is the true solution; and it
would be in force everywhere were it
not for the holiness of sentimental
ity, that does not, however, prevent
gambling. In this failure to pre-
vent an evil it forces society to sub
NIT to it. without penalties being i'm
pose1 for its prevalence.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
TuE death of Herr Friedmann.

THE death of Herr Friedman, rab-
bi of Sadagora, is announced by the
Jewish Chronicle. His name was a
household word among the orthodox
Jews of Russia; Hungary, Galicia and
the BuKowina. and from all quarters
Jews, and Gentiles too, streamed to
Sadagora to behold the venerable rab-
bi and to ascertain something from
his mouth. Not only believing but
non-believing Jews frequently came
to his residence, and waited there pa
tiently day after day until their turn
should come for an interview. On
their departure they were wont to
give vent to their wonder at the re-
markable things they had seen and
heard during the audience with the
great rabbi, whose death, it is almost
needless to observe, had created a pro-
found sensation in Eastern Europe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

In various leading countries the
number of years required to be passed
in study at a medical institution, in
order to obtain a diploma, is as fol.
lows: In Sweden ten, Norway eight
Denmark seven; Belgium, Holland
Italy and Switzerland six; Russia
Portugal, Austria and Hungary five
France, England and Canada four
United States three or two; Spain two
1t will be seen by this that, with the
exception of Spain, the United States
presents the finest field for incompe
tent physicians to exercise the func
lions of executioner.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

MALONE and his followers are do
ing all they can to hide from the Vir-
ginia negroes that the civil rights bill
has been nullified. He will have to
be smart, for the negro has a knack of
finding out anything affecting himself
quicker that anybody else. In Texas
it does not take the mails or the tele-
graph to disseminate such news. 1t
seems to travel on the wind.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

The occasion of Queen Victoria's
recent interdict against excessive
card-playing in the royal palaces was
that, during the residence of the Duke
of Teck at Kensingtol palace this sea-
son, the games were often continued
all Sunday, and other days all night.
Enormous sums were frequently lost.
In the days of Charles II. gambling
could hardly have been more popular.
The royal memorandum recommends
a correction and reformation from
these excuses.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

THE Angelica Alliance of the
United States has issued an invita-
ton to "all the people of this land who
rejoice in the possession of civil and
religious liberty to join in celebrat-
ing the 400th anniversary of the birth
day of Martin Luther, on November
~ 1899
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

IT is suggested that christian mis-
sionaries be sent to Europe to follow
up the Mormon emissaries and expose
the folly of their religion and the i'm
morality of their practices. There is,
unfortunately, one serious drawback
to the success of this plan, if Christian
missionaries could be induced to 60
among the poor and lowly, from
whom the Mormons draw their re-
cruits. The Mormons gain more con.
verts by the material blessings which
they offer than by preaching their re
ligion. AS long as the Mormons car
hold out the promises of a home anL
its enjoyments to the immigrant az
soon as he reaches their city, they viii
never want for converts to theil
faith.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08

THE South Carolina railway is the
first railway built in the South, if not
in the United States; its mileage has
never been added to or reduced since
its completion; it has never passed
out of the hands or management of
its stockholders, and has always been
successful and profitable. 1t runs
from Charleston, S. c., to Augusta,
Ga, and from Charleston to Columbia.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
THE Examiner asks

Suppose Gov. Ireland ordered all the
roads to carry first class fine car ex-
clusively for the negroes, and the
business would not pay and the roads
lose money, would the state make it
good to them? If not, why not
Only because the governor had no
kind of authority to do anything of
the sort.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
THE New York correspondent of
the PHILADELPHIA Ledger writes:


"The big vote polled by the prohibit
bitionists in Ohio has greatly encour-
aged them here, and on all hands they
appear to be working like beavers.
Their candidate for secretary Of state,
says: we are making Roadway every
day. We have this year what we
lacked in previous campaigns-a COM
plete enrolment of those who favor
our principles in this state. We have
been busy on this all through the year,
and now we know just where our
strength lies, and we can handle it
well. We endorse no outside candi-
date unless he is unreservedly pledged
to total prohibition. Our full strength
is not among temperance men alone,
but many who are confirmed drinkers
are working with us, because they feel
that our plan is correct one, and
they wish to see our principles win"