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VOL. 8.
MAPLETON DEPOT, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1897.
NO. 43
".gNNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Schedule in Bffjbct Nov. 15
1896.
JTew York.... 8.00
Philadelphia. 11.20
Washington ...10.40
Baltimore 11.50
P.M.Night. A.M    A.M. A.M. P.M3
12.15
4.30!
4.66
7.00
8.30
9.00
12.25
10.50|
12.00
3.00
4.35
D'ly D'ly. D'ly. D'ly. D'ly.
A.M A. If. A. M. A. M. P. M.
Harrisburg...... 3.10 8.00 10.55 11.46 3.60
.Rockville   8.12 11.07
Marysville 3.34 8.17 11.10
TJuncannon 3.38  8.36 11.24
JTewport 3.59  9.0611.44
Millerstown    9.15 11.63
Thompsontown ....   0.28 18.01
Port Boyal 4.31
Mifflin 4.37
Isowistown Jo.4.68! 10.13! 18.87
MoVeytown. ...5.20,10.38 12.57
X. Hamilton...5.38,11.001
Mount TJnion... 5.4211.06
Mapleton 5.4911.13
Huntingdon, ...6.08 11.38
Potersbnrg 8.2111,47
Birmingham ...6.48 18.13
Tyrone 0.5518.20
Bellwood 7.1818.41
Altoona 7.40  1.00
Wttoburg 12.10 6.05
 pm.Ip. m.|      	
'ftarrlsburg 10.20, Bookville 10.31, Marys-
ville 10.34, Dnncannon 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. m.
9.44112.14
9.50112.18
1.12
1.17
1.22
1.37
1.601
214
2.20
2.37
2.55
6.60
P. M.
12.57
1.13.
2.06
4.15
4.35
6.07
5.87
6.08
6.27
h"
7.04
Dly
PM.
5.00
5.18
5.18
5.34
6.03
6.11
6.21
6.38
8.43
7.07
7,30
7.50
7.56
8.02
8.20
8.33
8.56
9.08
Higher Education for Conntry Districts.
2.45
7.2319.20
3.151 7.40 9.35
7.0011.30 2.00
P. M.JP. M.IP.M
"ix" stops to let off passengers from points
gt or south of Harrisburg.
D'ly.iD'ly.
A.M. A. M.
    8.00
7.1511.40
7.3011.52
7.4812.03
7.53
8.17
8.30
g
12.85
•D'ly
AM,
Pittsburg	
Altoona  	
Bellwood •	
Tyrone ts ,	
Birmingham	
Petersburg 	
Huntingdon. ...5.40
Mapleton;  5.54
Xt. TJnion 6.00;
N. Hamilton ...6.05
MoVeytown. ...6.22
Lewiston Jo.■••6.42J
Mifflin 7.01
Port Boyal 7.06
Thom.psontown7.22
Millerstown. ...7.31
Newport.
Duncannon 8.07
Marysville 8.34
Bookville 8.28
Harrisburg 8.40	
Pittsburg 3.10, Altoona 6.25, Tyrone 6.47,
Huntingdon 7.17, Harrisburg 9.30 A. M. daily.
8.47
8.53
8.58
9.15
9.31
9.55
9.59
10.14
10.33
7.40|10.38
10.54
11.07
11.12
11.25
1.33
1.50
Uly
PM.
2.10
2.81
2.43
2.48
8.13
3.28
3.45
3.52
3.58
4.20J
4.45
5.10
5.15
5.33
5.48
6.54
6.83
6.41
6.47
D'ly.
P. M,
1.00
6.05
6.20
6.87
6.481
7.06
7.20
7.85
7.41
7.46
8.04
8.86
8.47
8.58
9.07
9.16
9.36
9.50
10.04
10.08
D'ly,
P. M.
4.30
9.06
9.19
9.38
10.18
10.38
11.16
11.37
8.1017.00 10.80  1.00
p. m.Ip. m. p.m
P.M.
A.M.
12,20*3.10 6.15
no.40
1.85*4.10
18.17*3.00 6.83
11.15
4.30
2.33|*5^3|9.83
3.53
7.331
4.30
.33
P.M.
Baltimore...
Washington
-fchlla 12.17
Sew York 2.43| ___
Additional trains are rnn as under:—
Leave Pittsburg 8.10 p. m. daily, Altoona
12.01 a. m., Huntingdon 12.58 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 1.02 p. m.,
Newport 1.53 p. m.; arrive Harrisburg 2.40
p. m., Philadelphia 5.47 p. m., New York 8.23
p.m., Baltimore 6,00 p.m., Washington 7.15p.m.
Leave Altoona 10.60 p. ra. and arrive Huntingdon 11.55 p. m., stopping at ull intermediate stations.
•Week-days only, "g" stops to let off passengers from Pittsburg only.
Connecting trains leave as follows:
At Lewistown Junction.—For Sunbury 7.80
A. M. and 3.15 P. M. week days.
For Milroy 6.20,10.20 a. m. and 3.10 p. m.
week days.
At Huntingdon—For Bedford and Cumberland 8.38 A. M. and 6.35 p. M. week days. Bedford only 8.00 a. m. Sundays.
At Tyrone—For Clearfield and Curwens-
. Ville 8.20 A. M.'j 3,15 and 7.30 P, M. week days.
For Bellefonte and Lock Haven 8.10 a. m.,
12.30 and 7.15 p. M. week days.
For Scotia 7.60 A.M. and 2.55 p.m. week days.
For further Information apply to ticket
agents, or Thomas £. Watt, Passenger Agent,
Western Division, Corner Fifth Avenue, ana
Smithfield Street, Pittsburg.
8. M. PBEVOST, J. B. WOOD,
Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agt.
"IP AST
BROAD TOP RAILROAD.
•*-•       Schedule in effect Nov. 16, 1896.
NORTH.
STATIONS.
SOUTH.
Yp
__\mt
? *
e> «
3K   SSJ?S
P?   ? p ? M
e. m.
a,m,|a.m
A.M.
p. m.Ip. m.
112
838 6 90
Bobertsdale
1139
639
202
121
850 6 32
Cook's
1124
637
149
186
902 6 44.
Cole's
1109
615
126
a 01
92S|710
Saltillo
1039
5351857
112
936 717
Three Springs
1030
5281250
224
948 729
•Beersville
1016
5)61238
239
155
1003 743
Boekhill
953
454
1213
1018 8 00
Shirley
938
4 39
1168
305
1026 808
•*Augh. Mills
930
431
1150
3 28
1048 828
Mount Union
915
416
1180
_i. m.
a. m.
a.m
a. m.
p.m.
a. m.
No. 9 leaves Bobertsdale 7.33, a. ra., Cooks
7.34, Coles 7.46, Saltillo 8.14,   Three Springs
8 22. Beersville 8.34, arrives at Bookhill 8.49.
■   No. 7leaves Bobertsdale 5.03 p. in.. Cooks
ft 18, Coles 5.86, Saltillo 5.45, Three Spring
5.53, Beersville 6.06, arrives at Bookhill 6,80.
* No. 4 leaves Bockhill 6.30 a. m., Beersville
6.42, Three Springs 0.54, Saltillo 7.01, Coles
-7.88, Cooks 7.58, arrives at Bobeitedale 8.10.
No. 10 leaves Bookhill 6.30 a. m., Beersville
S.42, Three Springs 5.54, Saltillo 6.01. Coles
6.44, Cooks 8.64, arrives at Bobertsdale 7.04.
OUADE GAP BRANCH.
WEST.
EAST
0               0
STATIONS.
J?             ^
M                 *-»
S       *-
ft)
p. m.
a. m.
a. ni.
p* m.
6 00
965
L Bookhill A
900
5 05
6 53
948
'Blacklog
907
518
8 45
9 40
*Cedar Book
915
5 20
6 41
936
•Locke Vall'y
919
684
886
930
•Shade Gap
Stair
A Goshorn L
925
630
All trains run daily except Sundav.
• Flag stations.     A. W. GREENWOOD,
■
jperint
andents
Oot. Hastings in his reoent message to tbe legislature discusses the
subject of eduoation as follows:
"The appropriation  of five and
one-half million dollars to the publio
sohools has attraoted widespread attention to the method of its distribution among the several school districts of the State, and there appears
to be ground for the general complaint that tho distribution is not
fair and equitable, all things considered.   The present method is based
upon the number of resident taxables
in eaoh district, as reported after each
tri-ennial assessment by the county
commissions to the Department of
Publio Instruction.   When we consider that it is the duty of the State
to provide at public expense equal
oommon school advantages for all its
youth, the present method is clearly
at fault.    As the Superintendent of
Publio Instruction in bis last annual
report has stated 'it discriminates
against the districts whioh lack industries to hold tbeir adult population
and in favor of the districts toward
whioh the young people gravitate as
soon as their school days are ended.'
Most of the Sttttes distribute their
sohool money upon the basis of the
number of ohildren to be educated.
This method discriminates against
the sparsely settled districts.   The
elements to be considered in the distribution of the sohool fund should
include not only the number of taxables in each distriot, but tbe number of children of school age as well,
and also the ever present necessity of
maintaining each individual school,
the cost of whioh is a constant factor in all distriots, regardless of the
population or the number of taxpayers.   If one-third of the appropriation for each distriot should be based
upon tho number of taxables,  and
another third upon the number of
ohildren of sohool age,  and the remaining third upon the basis of the
number of sohools in eaoh district,
the equity and fairness of the distribution would be more neaily approximated.   Whether this is the best
method that may be devised is a question for your consideration, but the
necessity for  readjustment  of the
present plan of distribution is apparent.   The amount raised by looal
taxation in nearly all of the school
distriots exceeds the "sum appropriated by the State.   In many distriots
it is several times greater. There are,
however, a few distriots that fail to
raise by local taxation as much as
they reoeive from the State, while
there are still others that have failed
to levy any school tax whatever since
the increase of the State appropriation.    It is unnecessary to say that
these districts are giving the smallest
measure of interest and support to
the schools.    School tax, as well as
all other levies, is  most carefully
handled when ib comes out of the
pockets of those for whose benefit it
is expended and is, as a rule,  much
more carefully guarded   than   the
money whioh* oomes from other people's pockets.   The recommendation
of the Superintendent of Publio Instruction, that distriots should not
receive more money from the State
than they raise by taxation, ia timely
and founded on sound principle*
Another and far more significant
inequality in onr school system has
beoome apparent With the growth of
onr population and the necessity for
better and higher educational advantages in the rural district*. The
business prosperity of many of our
towns and smaller cities is dependent
upon the. welfare of the people in the
surrounding country*   The lack of
school facilities in   the oountry is
causing many of our citizens to move
to the boroughs and oities in order to
educate their children.   This  tendency is harmful both to the centers
of population and to the country
distriots.   Most of the agricultural
communities in the State afford instruction  only   in    the   common
branches, and those living therein
who desire their ohildren to advance
beyond the common sohool limit are
compelled to send them away from
home  to  obtain   such  advantage.
This tendency to leave home for a
better eduoation is dispopulating the
country, and is leading to the towns
and cities to engage in other enterprises, many young men who other
wise would live out their lives upon
the farm.   The agricultural interest
is the largest and most important in
the State and in all adjustments of
legislation should receive the consideration which   its  importance deserves.   The time has now come, in
my judgment, when the rural districts should be supplied with high
sohool facilities equal to those enjoyed by the towns and smaller cities
of the Commonwealth.
Educators, as well as parents, do
not underestimate the advantages of
home life to children while being
educated, and both deprecate the
conditions that prevent "equal com
mon school advantages" as required
by the Oonstitution. Those of our
farming people who desire advanced
eduoation for their children are
placed at extraordinary expense in
sending them away from home, while
many of the poorer residents of farming communities are prevented from
advancing their boys and girls beyond
the common school because they
oannot afford the increased outlay.
The growing interest in improved
methods of agriculture is bringing to
our farms the best efforts of well
trained intellects.   If the Pennsvlva-
sive.   The State can make no better
use of its revenues than to employ
them in this direotion.   Mind training should be the chief industry.
The intellectual and moral development of the youth of the land is the
paramount duty.   The same spirit
which built the ohuroh and brought
religious teaching to the home of the
poor as well as the rich ought surely
to bring to the door of all the opportunity for that eduoation best suited
to their needs, capacity and natural
adaptation.     The   township    high
sehool will place the farmer's boy on
the same basis with the town and
city boy.   The States of Maine, Wisconsin, Miohigan and Massachusetts
have pointed the way to secondary
and higher education worthy of our
emulation.   The twentieth century
system of education should make it
possible for every boy and girl, beginning with tbe common school, to
continue through the high school up
to the end of the college course.    A
large number might not avail themselves of the advantages of the college
oourse, but the opportunity should
be ever present  for  the deserving
patron of the common and the high
school. The connecting link between
the high school and the college, as a
part of a free educational system, has
been an accomplished fact for several
years in at least one of our sister
States.
CAUITORNIA.
Clgaret    Photographs.
Personally-Conducted Tours via Pennsylvania    Bailroad.
At 8.13 A. M. Wednesday, January 87, a speoial train of Pullman composite, dining, sleeping, compartment and observation cars will
leave the handsome Jersey City Depot of the
Pennsylvania Bailroad, bound for San Diego,
California, and conveying the first of the
Pennsylvania Bailroad Company's personally-
conducted tours to the Pacific Coast.
This train will be the finest that ever
crossed the continent, and the tour it carries
one of the most elaborate and complete ever
conceived for trans-continental and pleasure
travel.   In charge of an affable and exper
.    ... js  n_ I ienced tourist agent, assisted by a highly-ac-
nia farmer is to compete successfully *       .,. , . ...    _._,«./•
* av~ •> v complished chaperon, this party, without fear
with his brother in the natural gar
dens of the Mississippi valley, he must
bring with his work the intelligent
application of experience and science
to the conditions that surround him.
Without the opportunity for education at home, parents are constantly
compelled to combat the tendency of
youth to stay away from home after
they have formed new associations
and attachments and have become
familiar with the life they find in
towns and cities.   A glance at the
census reports shows that with all the
growth and shifting of the population
in the State, the agricultural portions
are being depopulated more and more
each year.    The time is at hand to
give the youth of the township advantages equal to those found in the
towns and smaller cities, and the
remedy it is believed is neither expensive nor at variance with our educational   system.    The   township
high school is needed in our agricultural communities to provide equal
opportunities and advantages with
those now in existence in the towns.
If the population of one township,
and other conditions should not require a separate high school, two or
more   townships  could   unite  and
jointly share the expense aud advantage.   Ten acres of ground, partly
wooded, a stream of water, a commodious play ground, with facilities
for an arboretum, orchard, garden
and flowers and park, surrounding a
suitable building fully equipped, and
with competent teachers conducting
tbe scholars who bave passed beyond
the distriot sohool through a three or
four years' high sohool oonrse, is a
consumation whiob,   besides being
pleasant to contemplate,  is neither
impossible nor unnecessarily expen-
of missing train connections, and without any
of those petty annoyances incident to individual traveling, crosses the American oontinent
with as muoh comfort and ease as it would
spend a week at the Waldorf, stopping, too,
at St. Louis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Hot
Springs and Santa Fe, and visiting their principal points of interest A bath room, barber
shop, and an upright piano will be found On
the train, and every other convenience and
luxury of a first-class hostelry.
The great object of this tour is to escape the
insalubrious olimate of the East and to sojourn for a time amid the transcendent beau
ties of California, breathe its invigorating air
and bask beneath its matchless sky. A
grander attraction could not be offered, nor a
more perfect method of reaching it.
Five weeks will be allowed in this ''Paradise of the Pacific," during whioh tourists will
visit Los Angeles, Pasadena, "Te Alpine Tavern," Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Mt.
Hamilton, and tbe garden spot of the earth,
Del Monte.
Returning, tourists will stop at Salt Lake
City, Glenwood Springs, Colorado Springs,
Manitou, Denver and Chicago. Two days
will be spent visiting the famous and sublime
freaks of nature in the Manitou region.
Tickets for this tour, including railroad
transportation, Pullman accommodations (oue
double berth), meals en route, carriage drives,
and hotel accommodations going and returning, and transportation in California will be
Bold at a rate of $310.00 from all stations on
the Pennsylvania Bailroad System east of
Pittsburg.
Apply to tioket agents, Tourist Agent at
1198 Broadway, New York, or Geo. W. Boyd,
Assistant Oeneral Passenger Agent, Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia. l-!S-2t*
New York Sun,
Some of the photographs that I
turned out for these tobacco men
were very artistic.   Where did I get
my models?   Why, the town is full
of girls who think it an honor to bo
photographed in tights for this purpose, and if they happen to be third-
rate actresses they are willing to pay
for the privilege, beoause it is an advertisement.   There is a woman who
is singing in comic opera, in  this
town now whose name was made by
cigaret pictures.   She  was known
only to a few people half a dozen
years ago, but her figure was graceful
and she gave promise of becoming a
olever performer if she should ever
get the opportunity.   She was photographed in tights and one of tbe
tobaoco companies got the right to
use this photograph for advertising
purposes.   They reprinted hundreds
of thousands of small photographs
from it, and on each one was stamped
the name of the actress, which was
odd-sounding and likely to be remembered.    Within a year the young
woman's name and face were known
wherever oigarets were smoked, but
not one person in 10,000 could have
told you on what stage sbe had appeared.   She profited by the advertising and now she is getting a big
salary.    Many of tbe models tbat we
have photographed were not actreeses
but foolish girls, who volunteered,
and who assumed stage names for the
purpose.    So great was the demand
for these small photographs that a
big plant was established up town to
turn them out by a rapid process at a
rate that would surprise an old photographer.   I am doing very little in
this line now, and if it were not for
my very good customers, the dime
museum freaks, I should go out of
the business.
—The progressive ladies of Westfield,
Ind., issued a "Woman's Edition" of the
Westfield News, bearing date of April
3, 1896. The paper is filled with matter of interest to women, and we notice
the following from a correspondent,
which the editors printed, realizing that
it treats upon a matter of vital importance to their sex: "The best remedy
for croup, colds and bronchitis that I
have been able to find is Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. For family use It has
no equal. I gladly recommend it." 25
and 50 cent bottles for sale by J. G.
Gillam.
Two Lives  Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, oi Junction
City, 111., was told by her doctors she
had Consumption and that there was no
hope for her, but two bottles Dr. King's
New Discovery completely cured her
and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thos..
Eggers, 139 Florida St., San Francisco,,
suffered from dreadful cpld, approaching Consumption, tried without result
everything else then bought one bottle
ot Dr. King's New Discovery and. in two
weeks was cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such results, of which tbese
are samples, that prove the wonderful
efficacy ot this medicine in Coughs and
Colds. Free trial bottles at B. O'Connor & Sons.   Regular size 50c and $1.
■" *.      sas t -a      * s
Reduced Kates to Washington on Account
of the Inauguration via Pennsylvania Railroad*
For the benefit of those who desire to attend the ceremonies incident to the inauguration of President-elect McKinley, the Pennsylvania Bailroad Company will sell excursion
tickets to Washington. March 1, 8,3 and 4.
valid to return from March 4 to 8, at the following rates:—
From Pittsburg, $10.00; Uniontown. $10.00; "
Connellsville, $9.80; Greensburg, $9.80; Butler, $10.00; Allegheny Valley Junction
$10.00; Johnstown, $9.80; Altoona. $9 80;
Harrisburg, $5.06, and from all othur statioi;*
on the Pennsylvania system at reduced rates.
This inauguration will be a most interesting event, and wil) undoubtedly attract a
large number of people from every section of
the country.
The magnifioent facilities of the Pennsylvania Bailroad make this line the favorite
route to the national capltol at all times, ainl.
its enormous equipment and splendid tormina! advantages at Washington make it especially popular on such occasions.   1-i to e-a
Old    People.
Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will find
the true remedy in Electric Bitters. This
medicine does not stimulate and contains no whiskey nor. other intoxicant,
but acts as a tonic and alterative. It
acts mildly on the stomach and bo we!.-.
adding strength" and giving tone to
the organs, thereby aiding Nature in the -
performance of tlie functions. Electric
Bitters is an excellent appetiser and aids
digestion* Old People find it just ex.
■*i"tly what they need. Price fifty cents
and $1.00 per bottle at Ik O'Connur St
Sous.