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VOL. 8.
MAPLETON DEPOT, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1896.
NO. 37
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
SCHEDCJLK IN EPFKCT NOT. 15,  1896.
P.M.Night. A.M    A.M. A.M. P.M*
Hem York.... 8.00
12.15
9.00
2.00
Philadelphia. 11.20
4.30
7.00
8.80
12.25
4.35
Washington ...10.40
10.50
Baltimore 11.50
4.55
12.00
D'ly
D'ly.
b'ly.
D'ly.
D'ly.
"Sii
A.M
A.M.
A. M.
A. M
P. K.
Pit.
8.00
10.55
11.45
3.50
5.00
Bockville	
8.12
11.07
5.13
8.17
11.10
5.18
8.35
11.24
415
5.34
Wewport .3.59
9.05
11.44
4.35
6.02
Millerstown	
9.15
11.53
6.11
Thompsontown....
9.26
12.01
6.21
Port Royal 4.31
9.44
12.14
6.38
9.50
12.18
12.57
5.07
6.43
Lewistown Jo.4.58110.13 12.37
1.18
5.27
7.07
McVeytown. ...5.20 10.38] 12.57
7,30
V. Hamilton...5.38 11.00
1.12
	
7.60
Mount Union...5.42 11 06
1.17
6.08
7.56
Mapleton 5.49 11.13
1.22
8.02
Huntingdon, ...6.08 11.32
1.37
'2.06
6\27
8.20
Petersburg 82111.47
1.50
8.33
Birmingham ...6.4812.13
214
"h"
8.56
Tyrone 6.5512.20
2.20
2.46
7.04
9.02
2.37
7.23
9.20
9.55
3.15
7.40
9.35
Ktteburg      ,12.10  6.05
6.50
7.00
11.30
200
pm.Ip. m.
P. M. P. M.
P. M.
P.M
"Harrisburg 10.20,
Bool
t ville
10.31
UMii
ryg-
The   Popular  Vote.
ville 10.34, Duncannon 10,47, Newport 11.16,
.Millerstown 11.14, Mifflin 11.40, Lewistown
Junction 11.58, p. m, Huntingdon 12.55, Ty-
rane 1.32. Altoona 2.00, Pittsburg 5.30 a. in.
"h" stops to let off passengers from points
stmt or south of Harrisburg.
•D'ly
D'ly. D'ly.
Dly
D'ly.
D'ly.
AM.
A.M.
A. M.
PM.
P. M.
P. It.
8.00
1.00
4.30
7.15 11.40
2.10
6.05
9.05
7.3011.52
8*25
9.48
6.20
6.37
9.19
7.48
12.0S
9.33
Birmingham
7.53
g
2.48
6.42
Petersburg .
8.17
3.13
7.06
Huntingdon.
...5.40
8.30
12.35
3.28
7.80
10.18
8.47
8.53
8.45
8.52
7.85
7.41
...6.00
10.32
X, Hamilton
...6.05
8.58
3.58
7.46
McVeytown.
...6.22
9.15
4.30
8.04
Lewiston Jo.
...6.42
9.35
1.33
4.45
8.26
11.16
9.55
1.50
5.10
8.47
11.37
Port Boyal...
..7.08
9.59
5.15
8.58
Thompson to wn7.22
10.14
5.33
9.07
Millerstown.
...7.31
10.22
5.43
9.16
Newport	
..7.40
10.32
6.54
9.26
6.23
9.50
Marysville...
..8.2411.07
6.41
10.04
Bockville. ...
..8.2811.12
6.47
10.08
..8.40|ll.25
3.10
7.00
10.20
1.00
Pittsburg 3.10, Alt iona 6.25, Tyrone 6.47,
Bnntingdon 7.17, Harrisburg 9.80 A. M. daily.
P.M
Baltimore	
Washington..
Phila 12.17
Mew York 2.43
P. M.
P. M.
P.M
P.M.
A.M.
12.20
•3.10
6.15
*10.40
1.85
*4.10
12.17
•3.00
6.83
11.15
4.30
3.33
•5.53
9.83
3.58
7.331
4.30
Additional trains are run as under:—
Leave Pittsburg 8.10 p. m. daily, Altoona
18.01 a. m., Huntingdon 12.68 a. m.; arrive
Harrisburg 3.30 A, M., Philadelphia 6,52 A. M.
Leave Pittsburg 7.30 A. m. daily, Altoona
11.05 A. m., Tyrone 11.30 a. m., Huntingdon
12.03 P. M.. Lewistown Junction  1.08 p.  rn.,
Newport 1.53 p.  111.;  arrive Harrisburg 8.40
p. m., Philadelphia 5.47 p. m., New York 8.33
p.m., Baltimore6,00 p.m..Washington 7.15p.m.
Leave Altoona 10.50 p. oa. and arrive Huntingdon 11.55 p. in., stopping at all intermediate stations.
•Week-days only,   "g" stops to let off passengers from Pittsburg only.
Connecting trains leave as follows:
At Lewistown Junction.—For Sunbury 7.30
A. M. and 3.15 p. m. week days.
'   For Milroy 6.30,10.20 a. m. and 3.10 p. m.
week days. *
At Huntingdon—For Bedford and Cumberland 8.35 A. M. and 6.35 P. M. week days. Bedford only 8.00 a. m. Sundays.
At Tyrone—For Clearfield and Curwensville 3.30 Aj m. , 3.15 and 7.30 p. m. week days.
For Bellefonte and Lock Haven 8.10 a. m.,
318.30 and 7.15 p m. week days.
For Scotia 7.50 a.m. and 8.65 p.m. week days.
For further information apply tj tioket
'Agents, or Thomas HI* Watt, Passenger Agent,
Western Division, Corner Fifth Avenue, and
"Smithfield Street, Pittsburg.
8. M. PEEV08T, J. K. WOOD,
Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agt.
EAST BROAD TOP RAILROAD. ~"
Schedule in effect Nov. 16, 1896.
HOBTH.
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STATIONS.
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5!g    a..Ja>,_?
Ob      o ms! p m
P. M.
a,m.
a.m
A.M.
p.m.
p.m.
112
838690
Bobertsdale
1139
639 808
184
850 6 32
Cook's
1124
6 27, 149
186
902 644
Cole's
1109
615  126
8 04
9 2*) 710
Saltillo
1039
6 351257
812
936 717
Three Springs
1030
5 38 12 50
834
9 48 729
•Beersville
1016
6161238
839
1003 743
Bockhill
953
454
1318
955
1018 800
Shirley
938
489
1158
"305
10 261808
•Augh. Mills
9 30
431
1150
836
104<j
828
Mount Union
915
416
1130
P. m.
a. m.
a.m
a. m.
p.m.
*.m.
No. 9 leaves Bobertsdale 7.83, a. m., Cooks
T.34, Coles 7.46, Saltillo 8.14, Three Springs
8.22, Beersville 8.34, arrives at Bockhill 8.49.
No, 7leaves Bobertsdale ft.03 p. m., Cooks
U, 13. Coles 5.35, Saltillo 5.45, Three Spring
S.53, Beersville 6.05, arrives at Rockhill 6.20.
No. 4 leaves Bockhill 6.30 a. m., Beersville
6.43, Three Springs 6.54, Saltillo  7.01, Coles
'7.36, Cooks 7.S&, arrives at Bobeitsdale 8.10.
No. 10 leaves Bookhill 5.80 a. m., Beersville
5.42, Tbree Springs 5.64, Saltillo 6.01, Coles
6.44, Cooks 6.54. arrives at  Robertsdale 7.04.
iJlHADE GAP BRANCH.
WEST.
EAST
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STATIONS.
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#.
to
w
p. m.
a. ra.
a.m.
p. m.
600
955
L Rockhill A
900
605
5 63
948
•Blacklog
907
5 12
6 45
9 40
•Cedar Rock
916
680
6 41
936
•Locke YaU'y
919
5 24
535
930
•Shade Gap
Stair
A Goshorn L
925
530
All trains run daily exeept Sunday.
• Flag stations.     A. W. GREENWOOD,
Superintendent.
Toledo Blade.
The official votes of many of the
states are uot yet reported,  consequently the official figures of thn total popular vote of the United States
is not yet obtainable.   The returns
from all the states, including the official vote in those which have canvassed it, and estimates by state officers for the others, gives McKinley
7,0*50,616, Bryan 6,881,552,  Palmer
138,570.   Tbe total vote, including
all parties, is placed at 12,579,638.
Aocording to these figures,  whioh
should not vary many thousands from'
the  final official table McKinley's
plurality over Bryan is 820,000. This
is the largest plurality ever given a
presidential candidate.   Grant's 763.-
000 in 1878 oomes next.   Lincoln's
plurality of 491,195 in 1860 has the
third place, and Cleveland's, of 880,-
810, in 1898, is fourth.   McKinley's
majority is also the largest on record.
There was a heavy inorease in the
total vote, above and beyond that due
to the natural increase in the voting
population.   This  phenomenal   increase in the vote came from the west.
In the east, the totals were not materially increased.   The vote in New
England was practically the same as
In 1898.   In New York there was a
small increase, and almost all of tbe
states of the middle section of the
country and of the south show gains.
But it is in the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys and in the silver states that
we must look for the most remarkable increases.   In Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois the vote is far ahead of tbat
of 1892.   In the last named state,
which was regarded as the pivotal
one of the Union, the total this year
is abont 1,100,000, as compared with
less than 900,000 four years ago.
The silver states were stirred to
their foundations by tbe issue. Oolorado, for instance, In 1892, gave
Harrison 88,620, and Weaver(Popu-
list) 53,584. The total vote, including that of the Prohibitionists, was
93,842. This year the Bryan vote is
no less than 151,970, far in excess of
the whole vote of the state in 1898.
McKinley's total and the scattering
votes bring the aggregate np to abont
175,000. There was no lethargy in
Oolorado in this campaign. Utah is
another enthusiastic silver sk te. Its
population is but little more than
one-half that of Bhode Island, but its
vote is 20,000 greater. The women
voters of these two states are responsible in some measure for the increase, but they oannot be regarded
as accounting wholly for it.
McKinley's total vote is abont 1,-
888,000 greater than Harrison's was
fonr years ago. That is a tremendous
increase, but the Bryan vote is by no
means correspondingly smaller than
the combined vote for Cleveland and
Weaver. The Nebraska man received abont 6,275,000, exclusive of
those as yet unreported from Texas,
and Cleveland and Weaver together
polled 6,597,946. In other words,
the McKinley and Palmer increase
over Harrison is about two millions,
and the Bryan decrease from Cleveland and Weaver is about 300,000.
The total Prohibition vote this year
is about 80,000, against 868,799 in
1898.
The silver states, and tbose states
whioh were pivotal in the contest, inolnding Ohio and the states westward, polled practically all their votes.
In the eastern states, there was the
usual stay-at-home vote, because the
sound money men knew these states
were safe, and bence did not inconvenience themselves to get to the
polls.    In every state wherein the
Popoorats thought victory possible,       	
every silver yote  was ont, and every | year ia advance,
sonnd money vote as well. Consequently we had, this year, the full
strength of the wild effort to put the
nation on a silver basis. No further
agitation can increase this yote, because additions would have to oome
from conversions from the sound
money ranks, and any large defection therefrom is impossible. The
silver idea has had its day, as the
greenback idea had twenty years ago.
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Thirteen   Months  In   1900.
The Immigration Law Again.
Toledo Blade.
The present arbitrary division of
the months into 30 and 81-day periods, with February but 28, is a bothering arrangement, having no advantage, and is endured simply because
it is the established order of things.
The suggestion is now made that the
year 1900 wonld be a good starting
point for an improvement. It is proposed that with the new oentury we
start in with a year of thirteen months
rather than twelve. The Scientific
Amerioan has an article favoring the
ohange, in whioh its effect is thus described :
"If such a division were made the
first twelve months would have just
twenty-eight days,   or  four weeks
eaoh and tbe new month twenty-nine,
to make 365, and thirty in leap years.
After a few days there would be no
need to refer to calendars, as the same
day of the week wonld have the same
date through the .year.   If January 1
were, say  Monday,   every   Monday
would be the 1st, 8th, 15th and 88d;
every Tuesday the 2d, 9th, 16th and
23d,  and so throughout the year.
The ohanges of the moon wonld be
ou abont the same dates through tbe
year, and many calculations, like interest, dates of maturing notes, Easter Sunday and many other important dates would be simplified.   Although the present generation wonld
have to figure new dates for birthdays and all legal holidays except New
Tear would be on different dates, yet
the gain would be more than tbe loss,
as that would be permanent, and the
objeotions trifling."
The argument of utility applies
with much force in favor of such a
ohange. There is no sonnd objection to the plan; but we presume
there is so muoh foolish sentiment
against it, that any effort to realise it
would be baffled. The conversion of
humanity is so great that we endure
all sorts of inconvenience rather than
make a radical change in some immoral custom. The adhesion to our
clumsy and antiquated system of
weights and measures is a case in
point.
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Philadelphia Inquirer.
The riots at the new reservoir at
Trenton, like those which occurred
in the anthracite region the other
day, are worthy of special notice only
because they again prove the necessity of a stricter immigration law.
Tbe principals in that disturbance
in all probability oonld not have passed the hundred dollar a head test.
Most certainly tbey could not have
passed an educational examination.
Yet in pursuance of that foolish oustom, established in the early days of
the Union, they were allowed to come
in and inoculate other elements of the
population with their lawless ideas.
At some time or another the present law, rigorous as it is said by its
advocates to be, will bave to be
ohanged. The indignant, the imbe
cile and the vicious must be kept out.
Why delay that time t The necessity for the change is upon ns now,
and all tbe dictates of common sense
demand that the ohange be made.
The ooal and ooke regions of tho
country are now filled by people who
do not even qualify as citizens. Itis
folly to admit any more.
Demagogues have too long shaped
the national polioy on this question.
Let patriots define it now.
McKinley's   Greatest  servioe.
Pennsylvania Railroad   to   Issue   Clerical
Orders.
The Pennsylvania Bailroad Company announces that for 1897 it will issue clerical orders to regularly ordained clergymen in charge
of churches located on or near its lines east of
Pittsburg and Erie. To secure these orders
clergymen should make application to the
nearest ticket agent as soon as possible, aa it
is desired that all applications reach the General Office by December 15. 2t
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Tours to California.
California bas been most fittingly termed
the "Italy of America." All the delicious
balm, the cloudless sky and the rich verdure
ofthe great European peninsula are duplicated in this sunny land of the Pacific. Here
nature basks in tbe sunshine of her owu beauty; and here she has established herownsanitarium, where eternal spring inspires everlasting youth. With the snow-mantled peaks
of the Sierras upon the one hand, the calm
Pacific with its soft breezes upon the other,
and a veritable paradise of flowers, fruits and
plants between, man can find and needs no
lovlier land. To visit such a country is a privilege, a blessing.
The Pennsylvania Bailroad Company, recognizing the need of a more comfortable and
pleasant way ot crossing the continent, inaugurated a series of annual tours to California, running a through train of Pullman palace cars from New Tork to the Pacific Coast,
and stopping at the principal points of interest en route. The great popularity of these
tours demonstrates the wisdom of the movement.
For the season of 1897 three tours have been
arranged to leave New York, Philadelphia
and Pittsburg, January 87, February 24, and
March 87.
The first tour will run direct to San Diego
via St. Louis aud tbe Santa Fe Boute, and return from San Francisco via Salt Lake City,
Denver and Ohieago, allowing five weeks in
California.
The second tour will run via the Mammoth
Cave and New Orleans to San Diege, stopping
at tbe "Cressent City" during the Mardi Gras
Carnival. This tour will return via Salt Lake
City. Denver, Omaha and Chicago, allowing
four weeks in California.
The third tour will run via Chicago, Denver and Salt Lake City, allowing passengers
to return by regular trains via different routes
within nine months.
All of these tours, either going or returning,
will pass throngh the famous Colorado region,
Glenwood Springs, Leadville and the Garden
of the Goods.
Bates from all points on the Pennsylvania
Bailroad System east of Pittsburg: First
tour, $310; second tour, $360; third tour,
$810 round trip, and $150 one way.
For detailed itineraries and other information, apply at ticket agencies, special booking
offices, or address George W. Boyd, Assistant
General Passeuger Agent, Broad Street St*
tion, Philadelphia. 12-9 to 1*88-87.
New Tork Snn.
The long series of political addresses recently delivered by Maj. McKinley were marked by one characteristic
whioh, when we consider the spirit
manifested in his opponent's speeches
and in tbe fonr  years of Populist
Democracy preceding, makes them
the most gratifying and precious feature of the entire canvass.    Iu all
Maj, McKinley's talk there was nothing ofthe demagogue.    There was
not a touch of the lying cant about
rich and poor, with whioh the self-
seeking  schemers  among Populist
Democratio statesmen, from Cleveland to Bryan, have beeu for the last
four years filling the less fortunate
with hatred of the prosperous,  and
arraying class against class.   While
Bryan on bis tour was apparently
producing a whirlwind of responsive
enthusiasm with this vicious agita-
tation,   Maj. McKinley maintained
rigidly the attitude of a dignified,
honorable and patriotic statesman of
the best school of Amerioan democracy, and refused to imperil our political and sooial traditions for the
sake of drumming up the votes of
the ignorant and ill-disposed.
The faot that the candidate of hon- j
est money stood thus firmly against
the inflamatory spirit whioh has just
culminated in an effort for general
repudiation is perhaps the brightest i
star in Victory's crown.
Hogg  ana   His  Children.
Your Boy Wont Uve a month.
So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34 Mill St.,
South Gardner, Mass., was told by the
doctors. His son hod Lung trouble, following Typhoid Malaria, and he spent
tbree hundred and seventy-five dollars
witb doctors, wbo finally gave him up,
saying: "Your boy wont live a month."
He tried Dr. King's New Discovery and
a few bottles restored bim to health and
enabled him to go to work a perfectly
well man. He says he owes his present
good health to use of Dr. King's New
Discovery, and knows it to be the best
in tbe world for Lang trouble. Trial
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From the Cleveland World.
In a moment of forgetfulness or
carelessness ex-Governor Hogg, of
Texas, inflicted upon his youngest
daughter the cruelty of naming her
Ima Hogg. She is now 14 years old
and naturally awaits with some impatience the time when she can
change her family name, and undo
the inhumanity of her reckless parents. Other names, Ura Hogg, Hesa
Hogg, Harry Hogg and Moore Hogg,
given to his alleged other children,
are, he says,"the mythical creatures
of campaigners who failed to beat me
for office." In fact, instead of six
ohildren he has only four—"Ima,
William, Mike and Tom." He "declares, too, that bis daughter's name,
Ima Hogg, did not become a matter
of political interest until he entered
pulic life. "The people then, by a
large majority, settled it" in his favor.
Of course, a man has a right to be
proud of his name and family even
when it is known as a Hogg, though
most men would prefer to be called
Bacon, or even Hamm. But if it is
a man's fate to be called Hogg, he
has a dull sense of humor or a dull
affection when he allows himself to
hear a olergyman say* "Ima Hogg,
I baptize thee in the name of yonr
father."
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How   to   Prevent   Pneumonia.
At this time of the year a cold is very
easily contracted, and if left to run its
course without the aid of some reliable
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cold than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
We bave used it quite extensively and it
has always given entire satisfaction*—.
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This is the only remedy that is known
to be a certain preventive ot pneumonia.
Among the many thousands who bave
used it for colds and la grippe, we have
never yet learned of a single case having resulted in pneumonia. Persons who
have weak lungs or have reason to tear
an attack of pneumonia, should keep the
remedy at hand. The 25 and 50 cent
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Does anybody happen to know
anything jabont John Bardsley'?
health just now?