Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Beliefonte, Pa., April 26, 1895.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EpiTOR.
An Embarrassing Bill.
The Garb bill is proving to be 2
white elephant on the hands of the Re-
publican Legislators. It passed the
House with the waving of flags and a
blare of sectarian trumpets, but it
sticks in the Senate where the mana-
gers seem afraid to pass it and equally
afraid to kill it. Between the liberal
sentiment of the people who are op-
posed to religious intolerance, and the
demands of the A. P. A. that will not
be satisfied with anything short of sec-
arian persecution, there is presented
the embarrassing dilemma of either
outraging decent public sentiment, or
offending a secret organization that
has largely contributed to the Republi.
can vote—a sort of “between the devil
and the deep sea” situation.
This case shows what trouble is
likely to arise when a party forms an
alliance with an organization whose
principles are fanatical, whose purpose
is proscription, and whose proceedings
will not bear the light of day. When
the party that has gone into such an
alhance is called upou to pass laws
that will carry out the purposes con-
ceived in uuder-ground, dark-lantern
conclaves, with the object of creating
sectarian disturbance, it must expect
that such partnership will be attended
with great embarrassment. The pas-
sage of the'Garb bill would be highly
gratifying to the A. P. A. animosity
toward the Catholics, but it would be
offensive to other sects that claim the
right to wear a peculiar garb, and re-
pugnant to the general good sense and
liberal feeling of the masses, who dont
want to encourage strife among relig-
ious denominations.
Bat why should the party managers
in the Legislature hesitate about
throwing the Garb bill overboard
through fear of their dark-lantern al-
lies, when they didn’t display any hesi-
tation in getting up a new and high
salaried office especially to be filled by
a Catholic? If the tear of the A. P. A.
did not deter them from providing Dg-
LANBY with a place that affords more
picking and stealing than any other po-
sition at Harrisburg, it should not scare
them into enacting the obnoxious Garb
bill. There would certainly be some-
thing.grotesquely inconsistent in put-
ting Catholics in important offices and
at the same time passing laws to re.
strict ‘the wearing apparel of their
school teachers. In whatever. light
this matter is viewed it presents an ap-
pearance of inconsistency, hypocrisy,
loose principles and bad politics.
Legislation for the Book Trusts.
The McQuowN text book bill, which
aims to strengthen the hold book
trusts have on the public schools of the
State, is one ot the most stupendous
instances of corporation favoritism that
promises to disgrace this Legislature
and leave a lasting stigma on the dis-
trict whose representative presented it.
The idea, of enacting a law that |
| mrile was made in 41 seconds, which is
makes it possible to change the
text books in our public schools only
once in five years and then ag
gravating the obnoxious measure by
requiring a change of all or none of the
books, could have been conceived in
no other mind than that of an accom-
plice «of the scheol book trusts that
‘hope ito profit from its enactment.
The people of this district are only
beginning to get a taste of the kind of
legislation that can be looked for from
the classof representatives they chose
last fall, :
A
——There is an ominous rumbling
of discontert among the coal miners
again. ‘Let us hope that a general
strike will not be the outcome.
———
Income Tax Rehearing.
The Supreme Cosst Decides to Give the Opposi-
tion Another Chance— Everything Depends on
Judge Jackson.
WasaHINGTON, April 23. —In the Su-
preme court to-day Chief Justice Fuller
announced that the petitions for a re-
hearing of the ineome tax cases would
be considered on Monday, May 6, and
that there would be a full bench pres-
ent. Thie means that Judge Jackson
will take pert in the case. X
It is believed that Justice Jaekson
*will hold that the exemption of rents
and State, county and municipal bonds
does not invalidate the law, and that it
will be declared constitutional.
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Death of Mrs Frank Leslie.
Kingston, N. Y., April 24.—After
an illness ot a year or more Mrs. Frank
Leslie, who was divorced from the well-
known New York publisher, now de-
ceased about twenty years, died at
Shokan of heart failure at noon to-day.
She had been leading a life of solitude
in the Catskills for the past ten years or |
£0, stopping at Broadhead’s Bridge and |
Shokan. One son, Alfred, survives her. |
The body will be taken to New York |
city for interment. :
General McCook Retired. :
Relieved From Duty After a Continuous Service i
of Forty-Three Years. |
WasHINGTON, April 22.—At noon
to-day Major General Alexander Mec. !
Dowell McCook was placed on the ar-
my retired list, he being 64 years old
and having been in continuous service
for forty-three years.
General McCook is a native of Ohio,
and he was appointed a cadet to the
West Point Military Academy from
that State in July, 1847. He was bre-
vetted five times during the war of the
rebellion—in July, 1861, to major for
gallant services in the battle of Bull
Run ; to lieutenant in March, 1862,
for gallant services in the capture of
Nashville, Tenn; colonel in the same
year for gallant services in the battle
of Shiloh, Tenn.; to brigadier general
in March, 1865, for gallant services in
the battle of Perryville, Ky.; and to
major general in the same year for
gallant and meritorious services in the
field during the war. He resigned his
volunteer commission in October, 1865
and entered the regular service as lieu-
tenant colonel of the Twenty-sixth In-
factry. He was made a brigadier gen-
eral in July, 1890, and a major general
in November, 1894.
For the first time in nearly half a
century the army is without a
McCook on its active rolls, and
with the retirement of Major Gen-
eral McCook today the last of the
“fighting McCooks” goes into private
life. It was never asserted that the
McCooks furnished the most brilliant
of American fighters, but it is a note-
worthy fact that a father and nine sors
were all fighting for their country at
one time, and that four of them at-
tained the rank of general. Alexan-
der, who retired at noon to-day, went
out as major general, He was a ma-
jor general in war times, and before
his thirtieth birthday ‘was command-
ing & brigade, had fought in Shiloh
and won the highest praises from Gen-
eral W. T. Sherman. Grant's attitude
toward Major General McCook was
construed by many to be prejudiced by
jealousy. Certain it is that in an arti-
cle written by him for a magazine he
assailed McCook, and in his memoirs
made a handsome retraction. Me-
Cook’s war record was an enviable one
and that it was not a magnificent one
was due to lack of opportunity. In
every engagement in which General
McCook took part he came out with
the highest honors of the day, from
his campaign against the Muscalan In-
dians in 1855 in New Mexico, when
only a brevet second lieutenant, all
through the war and up to 1894, when
without firing a gun or charging a
bayonet, he opened 10,000 miles of
railroad during a labor strike of na-
tional importance.
Over Eighty-Seven Miles an Hour.
The Most Notable Performance in Railroad
Speed Which Has Yet Been Made,
PHILADELPHIA, April 22,—The ex-
cellent physical condition of the Penn-
sylvania railroad’s line to Atlantic City
was fully attested yesterday in a record
breaking run made by the special news-
paper train from Philadelphia to that
popular seaside resort. This ferry boat
to catch the train put out of the slip at
Market street wharf, Philadelphia, at
5:30 a. m., precisely, and fifty-one and
4 half minutes thereafter the train came
to a stop in Atlantic City station.
The train left the station in Camden
six and a quarter minutes after the de-
parture from the Philadelphia side, so
that the actual running time from Cam-
den was only forty-five and ;three-quar-
ter minutes. The distance is 583-10
miles and the average speed was 76}
miles per hour. This is the fastest time
ever made between the Delaware and
the Atlantic ocean and is actually the
fastest time ever made by a railroad
train for the distance.
From Winslow to Absecon 249-10
miles an average speed of 83 miles per
hour was sustained. The fastest single
an average of 878-10 miles per hour.
This is the most notable performance in
railroad speed which has yet been made.
The Mikado's Proclamation,
Congratulations on the Result of the War and a
Warning Against Embreilment With Foreign
Nations.
Lonpow, April 22.—The “Central
News” correspondent in Tokio tele-
graphs that the Mikado, in an impe-
rial proclamation issued to-day, says he
is convinced that the peace concluded
at Shimonoseki will promote the na-
tional prosperity. He calls upon his
people to promote education and seek
to know the reflnements, but not the
effeminacy of life.
The Emperor rebukes sharply those
who, in the intoxication of victory, seem
inclined to insult friendly powers and
complicate the empire’s foreign rela-
tions. A strict obedience of his wishes
will be exacted from all his subjects.
WasainGgToN, April 22.—The re
ports that Russia 1s dissatisfied with
the terms of peace between China and
Japan, and purposes forcibly interfer-
ing to prevent Japan occupying any of
China's soil, are directly in conflict
with information received here from
the highest sources.
He Fooled the Governor.
Lewelling Looked for Hidden Treasure That He |
Never Found—Alleged Clever Ruse to Secure a
Pardon
Archdeacon Farrar,
The Well-KEnown Broad Churchman Appointed
Dean af Canterbury.
LoNpoN, April 22.—Frederic Wil-
ham Farrar, D. D., F. R. S., Archdea-
con of Westminister, has been appoint-
ed Dean of Canterbury.
The Very Rev. Dr. Frederic William
Farrar, the new Dean of Canterbury,
was born in Bombay in 1841, where
his father, the Rev. C. R. Farrar, held
the position of chaplain of the fort.
Frederic Farrar received his early edu-
cation at King William's College in
the Isle of Man, then entered King's
College, London, and afterward gradu-
ated at the London University, and
was appointed university scholar in
1842. Entering Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, he took his bachelor’s degree,
with high classical honors in 1854. He
was successively assistant master of
Marlborough College and Harrow
School ; was elected to a Trinity Fel-
lowship in 1854 and received priest's
orders in 1857. From 1871 to 1876 he
filled the position of head master of
Marlborough College, there he ex-
hibited that sympathetic intuition of
the schoolboy’s inner life which made
Dr. Arnold so successful at Rugby.
His tales of school and college life,
“Erie,” “St. Winifred” and ‘Julian
Home,’ though never so popular as
“Tom Brown's School Days,” did much
to dispel the popular delusions about
public schoo! life in England. Dr.
Farrar’s fame as an author principally
rests, however, on his later theological
works, among which the ‘Life of
Christ,” published in 1874, stands
prominently forward though his “Life
and Works of St. Paul,” published in
1879, showed no diminution in vigor of
style or picturesqueness of description.
In 1876 he was appointed one of the
canons of Westminister Abbey, and rec-
tor of the ancient Church of St. Mar-
garet's, which stands under the shadow
of the Abbey. In 1881 Canon Farrar
became Archdeacon of Westminister
and resigned the rectorship of St. Mar-
garet’s. It was from the pulpit of the
Abbey that, on July 4, 1879, he ad-
mitted the folly of the course which
alienated the American colonies trom
the mother country, and atthe same
time recognized the blessings to civili-
zation and progress, on both sides of
the Atlantic, which followed that dis-
ruption.
Doesn't Amount to Much.
The Excitement in Cuba Quieting Down and
the Troubles Will Soon be Ended.
New Yorx, April 24.—The Spanish
steamer Panama arrived at quarantine
this evening, after a trip of three days
and fifteen hours from Havana.
Among the passengers on board wag
Dupuy De Lome, Spanish minister to
the United States. The minister said :
“The excitement in Cuba is quieting
down, and I am confident that the
troubles will soon be settled. The cap-
tain general, Martinez Campos, will be
in Havana before many days. He is
now visiting the affected districts with
a view of suppressing any disorders
that may arise. The alleged insurrec-
tion is confined principally to negroes,
the whites not taking any active part
with them.
knowledge of the captain general, that
he will be prompt and energetic. His
perfect knowledge of Cuban aftairs
makes him the best man for the situa-
tion,” The minister will remain in
New York for several days and will
stop at the Hotel Savoy.”
A Notable Social Event.
The Marriage of Hon. George Curzon and Miss
Mary V. Leiter.
WASHINGTON, April 28.—The mar-
riage of Hon. George Curzon, member
of the British parliament, to Miss Mary
Victoria Leiter, eldest daughter of the
Chicago millionaire, which took piace
at St. John’s Episcopal church, was a
remarkably brilliant social event. The
marriage took place in the presence of
the Bristish ambassador and Mrs.
Cleveland and a large and distinguished
company, including guests from Eng-
land and from leading cities in this
country.
The bride received nearly a thousand
elegant presents, some of which were
not even unpacked, as they will be
shipped at once to her new home in
England, for which the couple will sail
this week. Mrs. Cleveland’s present
was an antique silver loving cup of
beautiful workmanship and great value.
The other presents were not shown to
any one outside of the two families.
Her father settled an income of $25,000
a year on her as one of his wedding
gifts.
Looking Out for Quay.
The Senator Said to be a Convert to Free Coin:
age.
HARRISBURG, April 22.—The Re-
publican leaders are anticipating the
promiged arrival of Senator Quay on
Thursday with much interest. It is
rumored that he has become a convert
to the free coinage of silver and that he
will endeavor to have passed through
the Legislature a resolution on the
silver question in the interest of Sena-
tor Cameron's candidacy for re-election
to the Senate.
Senator Keefer to night had hung up
{ the nomination of T. H. B. Lyon, ap-
pointed last week by Governor Hast-
ings Orphans’ Court Judge of Schuyl-
kill county. Itis stated the nomina-
Topeka, Kas, April 23.—W. S,!
Hancock, late storekeeper at the peni- !
tentiary, testified to-day before the |
legislative committee investigating the |
charges against Warden Chase that |
George H. Schonewaldt, a convict, in- |
formed him that there was a large |
treasure hidden in Arkansas. He re |
peated the story to Warden Chase, who |
| told it to Gov. Lewelling, who granted |
Schonewaldt a pardon. The Gover- |
nor, warden and Hancock went with |
the convict to Arkansas in search of |
the treasure. While on the way
Schonewaldt gave them the slip and
has not since been seen.
tion was made after the Senator had
been informed that no further action
would be taken on it until he was con-
sulted.
Martin Not Personally Interested,
PriLaperpHia, April 24.—David
Martin said te-night he understands
the proposed inquiry to be into the
manner of executing contracts, and as
he has no contracts with the city he
feels no personal interest in the matter
Mayor Warwick declined to talk furth-
er than to say he thought his admin-
istration would not be affected, being
in its infancy.
I feel assured, from my-
Civil Service Examination.
It Will be Held in Bellefonte on Saturday, June
1—Conditions of Entrance.
Court House in Bellefonte on Saturday,
June 1, 1895. The examination is or-
dered by the Civil Service Commission,
at Washington, and will be held all
over the United States by the local
boards. Two regular examinations are
held each year, in the months of June
and December, and all who desire to
take the examination here should make
application at once. The age limita-
tions are : Cierk, over eighteen, and
carrier, between twenty-one and forty.
The United States Civil Service Com-
mission takes this opportunity of stat-
ing that the examinations are open to
all reputable citizens who may desire to
enter the postal service, without regard
to their political affiliations. All such
citizens, whether Democrats or Repub-
licans, or neither, are invited to apply.
They shall be examined, graded and
certified with entire impartiality and
wholly without regard to their political
views ; or to any consideration except
their efficiency as shown by the grades
they obtain in the examination.
For application blanks, full instruc-
tions and information relative thereto,
apply at the post-office to the secretary
of the board. Applications will be re-
ceived until 8 o’clock p.m., Monday,
May 13, after which any applications
received will be entered for the next ex-
amination in December.
Being Taken to China.
A Nine Year Old Spanish Girl in Charge of
Criminals.
New York, April 24,—The Ward
line steamer Yucatan arrived in this
port to-day from Havana, with 10
Chinamen in the steerage. The Chi-
namen are in bond, and are on their
way to China. With thera is a pretty
little girl, about 9 years old who is not
registered on the manifest except as
the daughter of Jose Garcia, one of
the Chinamen. The child has not a
Chinese feature, and from her own lips
it was learned that she is not the
daughter of Jose Garcia. She said
that he is her uncle. The child’s
features are purely Spanish, which
language she speaks.
The custom house inspectors ex-
pressed themselves as being somewhat
ekeptical as to the child being a Chi-
nese subject, and said that as it is the
custom of Chinamen to take children
to China and sell them for large sums,
this may bea similar case. The Span-
ish consul will be made acquainted with
the circumstances, and make an inves-
tigation into the case.
England and Nicaragua.
Warships Appear in the Corinto Harbor to En-
force the British Ultimatum— President Zelaya
Asks Delay.
Managua, Nicaragua, April 23,—
The government is advised of the ar-
rival of the British warships Royal Ar-
thur, Wild Swan and Satellite, at Cor-
into to enforce the British ultimatum
‘of payment of £15,000 indemnity for
the expulsion of Consul Hatch. Presi:
dent Zelaya has cabled Lord Kimber-
ley. British Secretary of State for For-
eign Affairs, asking him to deter hos-
tile demonstrations until the proposi-
tion of compromise can be considered.
Washington, April 23.—No Ameri-
can naval vessel is at present under or
ders to go to Corinto, though the
{ Monterey’s general orders mav cause
| her to visit that port betweer. now and
| May 1. She can be reached by cable.
i A AR TSA
Kribbs May Get It.
He Is Suggested for the Mineral Land Commis.
sionership.
‘WASHINGTON, April 23.—The Presi-
dent has not yet had time to consider
the matter of filling the mineral land
commissionership left vacant by the dec-
lination of ex-Congressman Pearson, of
Ohio, who was appointed 10 days ago.
Among the names mentioned in con-
nection with the vacancy is that of ex-
Congressman George F. Kribbs, of
Clarion, Pa. Mr. Kribbs is not known
to be an applicant for the place personal-
ly, but it is understood his fitness for the
place has been called to the President’s
attention, as he has had practical ex-
perience that would enable him to take
hold of the duties intelligently. The
pradent has a very friendly feeling for
r. Kribbs, and it is not unlikely he
will give him the refusal of the mineral
land commissionership.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Millheim has two girl bicyclists.
——Aundy Reesman, of Centre Hall,
received his commission as a Justice
of the Peace oa Monday.
——Colonel Amos Mullen, of this
place, is an applicant for a position as
deputy factory inspector, under Has-
tings: -
—— Wash silks for waists, 24cts. and
30cts per yd.—Lyon & Co.
——The Walter L. Main circus,
grander than ever, will more than like-
ly visit Bellefonte this season. Our
readers will remember the terrible wreck
this circus was in near Vail two days
after its visit here in 1893. The
Louisville Courier Journal speaks very
highly of the circus this season. Tt
exhibited there on the 7th, and had to
turn people away the crowd was so large.
half notice.
——Our bicycle girls have been so
conservative in the past that they have
anything short ot the regulation street
attire, so it was quite a pleasure to see
other day in a pair of dark blue ‘‘knick-
ers.” They have long been the conven-
tional bicycle rig in the cities, and Belle-
' fonte has only been slow in catching on.
The Journal givesita column and a |
never ventured out on their wheels in |
Miss Lydia Bell go wheeling by the
——A resident of Port Matilda chased
would-be chicken thieves away from his
"hen 100st at the point of a revolver on
The semi-annual Civil Service exami- Saturday night.
nation for positions as clerk and carrier |
in the city post-office, will be held at the |
Philadelphia Press staff, will lecture in
——George Knox McCain, of the
the chapel of The Pennsylvania State
College this evening.
——Thieves, who blew the safe in the
P. R. R. station at Birmingham open
early Wednesday morning, got only
about $1 in small change for their
trouble.
——The handsome new church that
the Catholics contemplate building at
Johnstown, has been designed by the
Beezer Bros., architects of Altoona. It
will be pure Italian rennaissance in de-
sign and one of the handsomest build-
ings in the Flood city. Beezer Bros.
are originally from Spring township
and are gaining a wide reputation for
their work as builders of fine houses.
——If Walter Main ever owned half
the terrible animals that have either
been seen or captured and said to have
escaped from the wreck of his circus at
Vail, in May, 1893, he must have had
a much larger menagerie than he ex-
hibited here two days before that catas-
trophe. The latest of his wandering
animals to be captured was a huge
grizzly bear that two men caught on
Luke mountain, near Lloydsville, last
Sunday. It nearly ate them up, of
course.
~—The bill prohibiting the killing
of deer for a period of five years in this
State has passed the House finally at
Harrisburg, and will more than likely
become a law as it is looked upon with
favor by the Senate and Governor Hast-
ings.
and is the only step that is worth tak-
ing if our forests are expected to con-
tinue the habitation of any game. [t
will be a misdemeanor to transport, sell
or have in ‘possession any deer during
the prohibitory period.
——St. John’s Catholic church in
this place was crowded tc over flowing,
on Sunday morning when Father Ben-
ner Armor said mass for the first time
at the beginning of his work in the
priesthood of that church. The solemn
services were made particularly impres-
siveby elaborate floral decorations and
excellent music. Rev. McArdle, the resi-
dent priest, and Rev. Maher, of Milton,
assisted the young prelate in his first
ecclesiastical service, the latter having
preached a particularly able sermon on
the occasion.
— _s — a.
SuxpAy Base BALL Pravine.—It
is a regretable fact that already this
spring young men and boys have be-
gun putting in the Sabbath day by go-
ing to the outskirts of the town and
playing base ball. Last summer this
desecration of Sunday was keptup in
violation of law, but the police have
made up their minds to stop it and we
are authorized by Chief Montgomery
to announce that any persons found
playing ball on Sunday will be promptly
arrested, hereafter.
Another practice that the police are
determined to break up is the dangerous
one that boys have of running around
the streets shooting sparrows with Flobert
rifles and sling-shots. The police are
going to arrest this class of offenders too.
Perry THIEVING AT SNOW SHOE.
There seems to have been an epidemic
of crime in and about Snow Shoe re-
cently for last week no less than six
boys were arrested for various crimes,
ranging from train wrecking to robbery.
T. B. Budinger, the leading mer-
chant of that place, had been missing
many small articles from his store, but
did not have any clue to the thieves un-
til one day last week, when a box of
‘old honesty” chewing tobacco was
missed. The evening of the same day
a plug ot that brand of tobacco was
found on the rail-road track on the out-
skirts of the town and as an empty box
was there also the natural supposition
was that the box had been opened there
and its contents emptied, the thieves un-
intentionally losing one piece of their
plunder, :
This was the only clue until a man
named Vail; who is a telegraph opera-
tor at the “Summit’’ reported that some
boys had sold him eighteen plugs of
told honesty” for seventy-five cents.
As this was a lower figure than one
whole plug could be purchased for his
suspicions were aroused at once and the
arrest of John Lucas, aged 19; Frank
Haines, aged 16; and Philip Zindle fol-
lowed on Saturday afternoon.
They were all brought here without
a hearing in Snow Shoe and their par-
ent: knew nothing of their arrest until
after the boys were on their way to jail
in the custody of the officers. On the
road in they said young Zindle had had
nothing to do with any of the pilfering
and he was released. But William
Williams, aged 23 years, was implicated
as being the ring leader and an officer
arrested him in Snow Shoe on Sunday
evening. The Haines boy was released
on bail Monday morning. The others
claim that Williams has been carrying
‘on a systematic robbery of the Bud-
inger store for more than a year.
‘Haven,
The measure is an excellent one |
——Mr. Clifford Rothrock was mar-
ried to Miss Tillie Mason, in Lock
on Tuesday evening. The
groom lived in Bellefonte at one time,
his father having practiced dentistry
here.
——A happy wedding was that, on
last Thursday, that united Daniel A.
Grove, of Lemont, and Miss Catharine
Longwell, of Benner township, in mar-
riage. The ceremony was performed at
the bride’s home, Rev. G. W. Leisher,
officiating. The groom is a prosperous
young grain and coal dealer at Lemont,
while his bride is the charming daugh-
ter of Mr. Edward Longwell and is a
young woman of many accomplish-
ments.
CoMmiNG WEATHER—MTr, Foster says:
My last bulletin gave forecasts of a
storm wave to cross the continent from
the 233 to the 26th, and the next will
reach the Pacific coast about the 27th,
cross the western mountain country by
close of 28th, the great central valleys
from the 29th to May 1, and the eastern
States about May 2. A warm wave
will cross the western mountain country
about the 27th, great central valleys on
the 29th and the eastern States May 1.
A cool wave will cross the western coun-
try about the 30th, great central valleys
May 2 and eastern States May 4.
New CHURCH DEDICATED.—The ded-
icatory services of the new Disciple
church at Mill Hall, were held on Sun-
day last, afterncon and evening. Rever-
ends H. F. Kleck, E. E. Manley and
M. S. Blair officiating during the pre-
paratory services, while Rev. M, B.
Ryan preached the dedicatorial sermon
from the text, ‘Christ the true founda-
tion.”” This congregation had a build-
ing completed all ready for the plaster-
ers, but it was destroyed in the big fire
that almost wiped the town out last
July. The new building cost $1800
and the debt was all provided for but
about $100 of the amount.
SETTLED AT LAsST.—On Monday
Judge Love handed down an opinion
affirming the decree of the Supreme
Court, whereby it finally disposed of
the Armor will case that has been be-
fore masters, common pleas and su-
preme courts since June 6th, 1893. The
case was a petition by the heirs to
break the will of the late Ruth Armour
‘and oust David Butts, the executor un-
der it. Its hearings have already in-
volved thousands of dollars, but the
case is settled at last, the prayer of the
heirs having been granted.
In accordance with this opinion clerk
of the Orphan’s Court, G. W. Rum-
berger, has issued letters of administra-
tion to Monroe Armour and his sister,
Mrs. Samuel Miller, who are granted
full power to settle the estate.
TE WAY HE PAID THE PREACHER —
Quite a little joke is being told at the ex-
pense of Rev. W. O. Wright, the ven-
erable Presbyterian divine of Milesburg,
just now. It appears that he was sum-
moned to officiate at the marriage of
Chauncey F. York, the proprietor of
the widely used Malena remedies, to
Miss Jennie Noll, of this place, some
time ago. When he had finished the
services the happy groom quietly slip-
ped a little tin box into his hand. Mr.
Wright looked at it for a moment in
surprise, then realized that his present
from the groom wasa box of the Ma-
lena salve. Well, he had often received
pokes of beans and other such things
for tying Hymen’s knot, but this was
the first time he had ever been given a
salve warranted to cure chapped hands,
ete.
After the festivities were all over he
departed for home where he opened the
box to look at its contents. When lo, in
place of its being filled with salve, it held
a great shining, golden coin.
THE Joys oF AN EMBRYO FARMER'S
Lire.—J. Kyle McFarlane was in town
the other day laughing over the funny
side of his new life as a farmer. Hvery-
one wondered when he gave up his
handsome home on east Linn street to
move to his farm at Hunter’s Park sev-
eral weeks ago, what he meant, but
Kyle has satisfied the curiosity of his
friends by settling down to the calm,
independent life of an honorable hus-
bandman.
He remembers the happy days of his
boyhood on his father's farm in Harris
township and recounts : with pleasure
the many times be stumped his toes
while ‘‘fetchin the cows.” But Kyle
is a man now and a very busy one too,
so there was a deal of seriousness to him
‘when his biggest boy, Brown, took it
into his head to tumble down the hay
hole in the farm barn the very first day
the bloomin youngster reached his new
home. It would’nt have been so bad if
he had’nt scared the whole family near-
ly out of their senses by persisting in
remaining unconscious for hours, as a
result of the collision of his head with a
threshing machine. Brown recovered,
however, and all went well until the
other day when the next boy, doubtless
thinking to heighten his father’s love for
the farm, took it into his head to fail off
a horse and break his arm,
Kyle hurried out with this, promising
to let us into more fun (?) the next time
he gets {0 town.