BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —QUAY thinks he is still in the gresi- dential race, but then no one will deny him the right to guess again. —It is strange that with a daily death rate in the world of 93,848 the arch fiend HorMES should live until May 7th. — Allegheny county milk dealers have heen notified that they must have their attle tested. This means their cattle, not their pumps. —It is announced now that Congress doesn’t intend to adjourn soon. How Tong, O, Lord ! must this burdened country bear such a trial ? : —The unraveling of the Centre county Republican in knowing what has stirred it up. —1It is strange that fishermen have never referred to the stories of big catches that muddle would make a good prize problem for some journal interested | z CL , the new Know Nothingism. are found in the Bible as an apology for the | accounts of their first day of the season's work. —Throwing the discus was one of the! i pastimes of the ancient athlete. the practice is still in vogue in some parts, mud flinging has become a far more popu- lar business, whether for sport or animosity. —A new town. exclusively for colored people, is being incorporated in Kansas, ten miles east of Topeka. There are to be several small manufactories and, of course, plenty of crap shootin’ establishments, * —ARNOLD will be the Republican nomi- nee for Congress from this district, but not before he has assigned to REEDER the pow- Though "sections of the country. ; i Vv, VOL. 41 Dangerous to Its Handlers. That it is dangerous to play with such a political edged-tool as a sceret organization is becoming obvious to the Republican leaders, and the MCKINLEYITES are begin- ning to hedge on it by pretending to be op- posed to such an alliance, while they se- | cretly maintain, the closest relations with | This relationship manifests itself in all Col. MCCLURE, who Tecently spent some weeks in the | South and looked over the political field | in that quarter, found that McKINLEY money, a year ago, covered the South and corraled most of the Republican leaders, and that the ground thus gained in advance is being held by the A. P. A. in the inter- | est of McKINLEY on a cash basis. The “The same de- | Colonel goes on to say : velopments have been made in the North. It is only within a few weeks that the friends of the other prominent candidates for President have discovered that the A. I. A. organizations are enlisted for MCKiN- | LEY. intense bitterness It has aroused "among the friends of MCKINLEY’S rivals, | er to dispense patronage in Centre county should a time ever come when there will be any pap in the howl for Republicans. —The quickest way to settle the money question would be to substitute brass for silver. It is cheap, of course, but put six- teen parts of good, every-day unalloyed American brass up against anything vou like and it will hold its own every time. —The fifty members of the salvation army, who were fined from $5 to $10 each at Malden, Mass., the other day for making music (?) on the streets of that puritanical town, will possibly try to get even by de- nmanding a rebate from good old St. PETER. —As a white-washer HoLMES discounts the state senatorial investigation commit- tee. If he daubs it on in sheol like he has in his ‘confession’ his nibs, the satan, will have to keep up a big fire, else the walls won't he half as black as they are said to he. —DBoston is about to make a building limit whereby no building of more than eighty feet in height will be permissible. ‘nection with a «blind. ' ~ | party. The idea of an inanimate object seeking a | nose. It is little wonder that such restric- tion has been made. —The fact that a ; threw a glass of water in the face of the chairman of the state convention at Sedalia, Missouri Democrat higher elevation than the esthetic Boston | later organization and has chilled the ardor of very many | fair-minded Republicans who would be | quite willing to accept MCKINLEY if fairly nominated hy the honest expressions of the | Republican party.” While there may be an advantage in this | alliance, the MCKINLEYITES are beginning to see its disadvantage, as is evidenced hy their endeavor to cover their A. P. A. con- The bulk of the American people cannot approve of relig- ious proscription as a political force, and it | is for this reason that an alliance with a | proseriptive organization for a political pur- pose is a weapon that is calculated to do as | much harm as good to those who employ it. Organizations that have religious bigotry as their motive and sectarian persecution as | their object must necessarily co-operate in | political contests with the Republican | party. They have no affinity with Democ- | racy. Their nature is entirely opposite to | Democratic nature. When they act in poli- | tics they must naturally conflict with the | principles and purposes of the Democratic | It was so in the days of Know- Nothingism ; it is so at this time, when a | has arisen with its | schemes of sectarian hatred and religious ~ proscription. ‘of this creditable fact was furnished in the on Wednesday, shows to what pitch the fight between the gold and silver people down there has worked itself. an act been committed in Kentucky it would have been considered a mortal in- sult, no doubt. —The burglars who tried to break into the private cars occupied by Dr. CHAUN- CEY DEPEW and Mr. VANDERBILT, while Had such | standing in the Chicago yards the other evening, were really precipitate in their’ haste to get away when CHAUNCEY got awake. Chicago thieves are no fools. How were they to know that he didn’t volts at dark and sneaking methods is as | Tan : . ! ‘stead of being an arbitrary intervener in want to tell them a story, and that he merely wanted to tvy a big revolver on them. ~ dium of a municipal contest. —Mr. ARNOLD has possibly explained to Hon. JOHN PATTON, of Curwensville, by this time that it was only buncombe when ELT TOWNSEND, the spokesman of the AR- NOLD ring in the convention, on Tuesday, announced that he, Mr. ARNOLD, was ‘‘the ONLY Congressman’’ this district has ever | had. at as a factor in politics in Clearfield and it is hardly likely that ARNOLD will coun- tenance such a rubbing of his fur the wrong ; NX P N is sneezed ! : : JOHN PATTON is not to be sneezed ; a confirmation of Democratic methods are way—when the conditions are such as they ! are. —The Olympian games that were a na- tional festival in Greece until the fourth century have been revived and it was quite in keeping with the revival that the ath- letes from the youngest country should have carried off the palm. This revival of those ancient Grecian games has started | it, but this year it was an inspiration that | jut there are many Republicans to whom their party’s alliance with such an organization is repulsive. An illustration local elections at Youngstown, Ohio, weck before last. The A. P. A. by its effective | secret methods, controlled the local Repub- | lican “organization and named the candi- | date for mayor. Independent Republicans united with the Democrats in taking up | this dark-lantern challenge, and elected the | Democratic candidate easily in a contest | that brought out the largest vote ever cast in the city that is usually carried by the | Republicans. The true American sentiment that re- likely to express its disapprobation of such methods on the wider field of a national | election as through the more limited me- Jeffersonian Reminiscence. The celebration of the birthday of Thos. JEFFERSON, at Montecello, Va., last Mon- | | farmers of STATE RIGHTS AN BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 17. 1896. Potatoes and Protection. Last year’s crop of potatoes was the largest ever produced in this country. It amounted to over 400,000,000 bushels, the | consequence being that the tubers have been a drug on the market. crop is about 250,000,000 when the unusual yield of last year pro- bushels and duced 115,000,000 in excess of ordinary re- | quirements, an unusually low price was the necessary result of such an over supply. It is well enough to keep this fact in | view, for in a few months, in the heat of the campaign, Republican orators will be going through the country telling the farm- ers that it was the fault of the WiLsoN tariff that they did not ger a hetter price for last year's potato crop. 2 The New York enormous yield of potatoes in 1205 hy aiv- ing the figures in regard to it. It says ; that they are “fully 40 per cent cheaper | now than they were on a corresponding | fact which it attrib- | utes entirely to the recent enormous crop | © of 400,000,000 Dushels. date of last year,” a In view of this fact what humbug there | is in the claim of the protectionists that | potatoes need protection. of making the farmers believe that it is a great benefit to them a duty of 15 cents a - bushel has heen put on potatoes to shield them from foreign competition, when ac- cording to the 7vibune’s admission the vield has been so plentiful that ‘enormous quantities have been fed to live stock or left to decay in the ground, and in their anxiety to sell their crop the farmers have kept the market continually overburdened and there is now a large surplus stock on hand.” There ave but few years in which the this country’ are not able to more than supply the home demand not only for potatoes but all other kinds of agricultural products. They need no tariff protection, but an attempt is made to be- guile them into a support of general tariff spoliation by putting duties on their pro- ductions which are in no danger of foreign competition. But in regard to potatoes, do not he sur- prised if, in the course of the coming cam- paign, the voice of the calamity howler will be heard in the rural districts denouncing the WILSON tariff as being responsible for | " the low price of the potato crop. Settling the Cuban Trouble. The average | Tribune testities to the! With the object | D FEDERAL UNION. It Was Jefferson’s Idea. In attempting to reply to the suggestion of Ex-Lieut. Governor BLACK that the proper solution of the money question is to submit the issue to the people in the elec- | interpose a veto of such financial legislation as Congress may enact, the Philadelphia “what would JEFFERSON have thought of the principle that whatever Times asks : Congress should be accepted by the govern- ment ?*’ tion of Representatives to Congress, and | pledge the candidate for President not to. financial vagaries may he wormed through | Judging from the facts that JEFFERSON | is generally helieved to have had much to! do with the framing of the constitution ; | that he lived for many years after its adop- it, and that at no time during his long life lor public career did he advocate a change in that instrument that confers upon Con- gress not only the sole power to coin money but to “‘regulate the value thereof,” we should imagine that he thought the princi- | ple about right. If the Times has any information to the { contrary, or if it knows of any other authority, than that pointed out by Mr. BLACK, having the power to enact finan- cial legislation—or such ‘‘vagaries’” as are necessary to legalize the coinage of money and regulate the values thereof, it should give it to the public. Andif the coinage of money and the regu- tion of its value are duties of Con- gress, and of its only—why should not the question as to what kind of money the peo- the President be pledged to allow the peo- ple to have just such money as they would instruct their Representatives to give them ? If there is any “‘principle’” at all in this question, it is the principle that ‘‘this is a government of the people, by the people and for the people” and that the people have the right to have just such money as they desire, whether it is gold, or silver, or both, the bankers or the silver producers to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. BLACK’S suggestion would only secure to the people the rights and powers that is generally believed belong to them | i when the senior member of the firm has under the constitution. It is Democratic, and if the party is winner it will be adopt- ced. Spain is virtually bankrupt and without | the means of continuing much longer her "effort to suppress the Cuban insurrection. Being aware of this fact, if she is approach- ed in a conciliatory manner, she may be induced to gracefully yield the point which she is conscious of not heing able to carry ' by force of arms. It would seem to he the President's pur- | pose to effect a settlement of the bloody He will not | controversy in that manner. do anything rash in exercising the power with which Congress has invested him in this matter. By proper approach Spain may be made to admit the hopelessness of | her struggle, and the United States, in- the difficulty, may be instrumental in bringing about an amicable understanding between the two conflicting parties that are ravaging Cuba with their bloody strife. +, The United States are not bent upon the acquisition of the island. It would be of- fensive in this country to charge it with day, was a fitting tribute to the memory of such a mercenary motive ; but if Spain the father of American Democracy, and an | event most opportune at this time when an assertion of Democratic principles and 80 necessary for the welfare of the republic. | There have heen many commemorations | which England retains in Canada, such a could be induced to concede to the Cubans the right of autonomy, granting all the re- forms that are necessary for the well being | and good government of the island, and re- taining over it only that kind of sovereignty of the anniversary of JEFFERSON’S birth ; | settlement, we think, would satisfy all the Democrats have always delighted to honor interest that Americans can legitimately take in the controversy ; and it looks as if led them to have an especial assemblage at | the President, instead of resorting to offen- . Peecy - United States. testants had to give that they would not ‘throw’ any of the events they entered. From this it would seem that many of our | modern athletes had very early examplars in the business of selling races, ete. —The Republicans of Centre country are finding out that theirs is not a bed. of roses by a good deal. seems to be more than a little trouble and the rank and file hardly knows where it is from one day’s end to another. To try to unravel the complication is enough to send one to the mad house. For instance, Hast- INGS is (?) a QUAY man, but his friends here are all for MCKINLEY. ARNOLD is a QUAY man, yet HASTINGS lieutenants all worked against him and for REEDER, HASTINGS’ Asst. Adj. Gen. Now, if by somehook or erook, REEDER should be the nominee of the Republicans for Congress, what would HASTINGS’ do in the event of certain conditions that are very likely to confront him ? - Between the leaders there ‘the old JEFFERSONIAN faith. maintaining the principles which he im- parted to our institutions. The celebrants on this occasion were the ——It has been said that the friends of Mr. REEDER were very wrathy because members of the national association of Mr. ARNOLD presumed (?) to be in at- Democratic clubs, among whom are includ- | ed some of the leading Democrats of the | The orators were ex-Gov. RUSSELL and Senator DANIEL, representing the commonwealths of Massachusetts and . district he represents. tendance at the Republican convention in Centre county, a part of the congressional That is all very fine, hut when this same Mr. ARNOLD had fifty out of the one hundred and twenty- Virginia which were foremost in the time two delegates in that convention all ready that tried men souls when the tion of independence was evolved from the declara- | to fight for anything he wanted, he would have been a fine leader, indeed, had he not | mind and heart of the great apostle of Dem- | been there to encourage them. ocracy, whose birth they commemorated. Such a demonstration will have a god effect at this time. It will reinvigorate It will re- mind the people of their duty to principles that are the true basis of popular govern- ment. They need such a reminder at a time when a set of corrupt politicians are engaged in a shameless scramble for the presidential office and are using corrupt means to obtain the highest position in the government. A return to the principles of JEFFERSON is necessary to counteract the debauchery of MCKINLEYISM and to shield the country against the general demoralization of Re- | publican methods. ——WILLIAM I. Swooprk Ilsg., once | lawyer to a Centre county clientage, later atering to the wants of lawing Clearfield- ers, then a campaigner for Republicanism, ~afterwards editor of the Raftsman’s Jowrnal and finally clerk to a House committee at Harrisburg in which position his ser- vices were not remunerated half as liberally as he thought they should have been, is now on the lecture platform. The subject tof his pet theme is: “The hour.” i re r——rm res ——The Gazette acknowledges its ina- I bility to solve the Republican congressional | problem and tries to lard it over, but that won't do. needs of the | Interesting Facts. We had occasion to mention, some weeks ago, the interesting fact that the EDGAR A. tion ; that he was twice President under | NO. 16. A Satisfactory Appointment. From the Pittsburg Post, The president made an important ap- | pointment yesterday in naming General | ginia, as consul-general at Havana, in place of Mr. R. G. Williams, | Fitzhugh Lee, of Vi resigned, after holding the office for 12 years. “Fitz” Tee, as he is familiarly called, is a nephew of the Confederate gen- | eral, Robert E. Lee. He left the old army in 1861 to take part in the civil war on the southern side, and at the close of the war, after distinguished service, was in com- mand of the Confederate cavalry. After the war he took active part in State poli- | tics, and in 1835 was elected governor of | Virginia. His military service, as well as his prominent part in civil affairs, gives | some significance to the appointment. rr eerer————re Sentiment, But it Will Be Scoffed Aft. A Fine From the Altoona Tribune. There is neither room nor necessity in this town for another drinking club, and especially for one under the guise of a Re- publican society. So far as the Zribune knows there has never been a Republican club in this county which provided 'in- toxicating drinks for its members. If the individuals who are talking of organizing such an inst§fution in this town will stop and think a moment they will halt where they are or not mix the name of the Re- publican party in it. A Republican club organized to make drunkards out of moth- ers’ boys would not he a very popular in- stitution in this town. Always Something to Kick About. From the Pittsburg Post. Potatoes are so cheap in some parts of | New York that farmers are throwing them ple should have be determined in the clec- | tion of Representatives to Congress, and | away or burning them for fuel, as they frequently do corn in the west. An auc- tion sale disposed of ‘a big lot at 3 cents a bushel, and sales are reported at $2 a ton. The McKinleyites blame the low price of potatoes on the reduced tariff. They should i blame the Great Power that smiled on the | | country with crops hountiful beyond prec- | edent. People who buy potatoes don’t find low prices a misfortune. The trouble is, their transportation is so costly that all | parts of the country are not benefited by | the Tow prices as some regions. The Magnet Says: You are Fresh, Col. Reeder. From the Centre Magnet, Isn't it a little fresh in Col. or Lieut. W. F. Reeder to want the nomination for Congress. Some people never have enough {and the law firm to which Governor Hast- ings belongs seems determined to monop- olize everything. One would think that { such a conspicuous position the lesser lights r would be content to stay at home and practice law. Next thing we know Harry ! Quigley will he asking for the nomination | THOMPSON steel works had filled a con- { tract with the Japanese government for [10,000 tons of steel rails. It secured the | contract by heing able to furnish the rails, ! them. This was done under a Democratic | tariff which reduced the McKINLEY pro- delivered in Japan, for $2.18 per ton less | than the English competitors could supply | , McKinley gets the republican nomination | this interview will make a corking cam- | | tective duty on steel rails, but by no means | | diminished the Epcar A. steel works, nor interfered with its ability to undersell the English in a foreign mar- | ket. This is an interesting fact, but here is another one. A contract has heen made to ship 1,000 tons of Alabama pig iron to England, to be followed by others if the | quality is satisfactory. The price is en- | tirely agreeable to the English purchasers, | as it is below the English price. THOMPSON for State Senator. Campaign Capital Looking Up. From the Brookville Democrat. In order to give the democrats the right to circulate it under a Congressional frank, | i Representative Dinsmore, of Ark., had | Senator Chandler’s- interview charging McKinley with being a hoodle candidate read as a part of his speech against the resolution censuring Ambassador Bayard, |- which the house adopted. Chandler’s charges are explicit and emphatic, and if paign document for use against him. Trouble in Illinois. | From the Peoria, 11, Journal—Republican, | | | | { we will soon hear the MCKINLEY howlers | | vociferating for a higher duty on pig iron to protect it from English competition. | | fact. The Grand Trunk railway of Cana- { da has placed an order for 15,000 tons of steel rails with the Illinois steel company,’ | of Chicago, at prices lower than those which | English rails can be furnished at Montreal | or Quebec. | gineering and Mining Journal exclaim : | And we have still another interesting | In view of these facts, well may the En-: | | | | “The important point proved by these | cases is that our works are able, at the pres- ent time, to turn out iron and steel at costs { which enable them to compete with the | English and other European | grounds which they have always con- | sidered their own.” . | So much for the prosperity of the iron and steel trade under a Democratic tariff. ——When the returns came in from the Republican primaries in Howard and AR- winners there were a few people in Belle- | spect for Col. DuNuAM and his Hornet's | business end. | ——There was one man in his element on | Tuesday. Arn. DALE wash appy and every | time his crowd showed fight he whooped- l er-up for keeps. ——The rumor is current, in Clearfield, | | a candidate for nomination for Congress | in this district. 1 ——Subseribe for the WATCIIMAN. ; of recent mills on : Which might teach them that a change has | | develops 24,000,000 horse-power. Tanner as governor with another bood- ling legislature means death to the republi- can party in Illinois for a quarter of a cen- tury. If the democrats act with wisdom at their state convention Tanner will never be governor of this state. will require more than the Chicago toughs’ derrick and the ex-boodle legislature to And yet | hoist Tanner into the governor’s chair. : Big Guns Don’t Last Long. From Information. It is calculated that a modern gun, throwing a 2,200-pound projectile with an initial velocity of 1,970 feet per second, This, however, is less than 1-100 second at each discharge, and as the gun is ruined by 100 shots, the total period of active work of this terrible engine of destruction is one ! ! second ! ? The Current Is Changing. If the Republicans were not so complete- ly overtaken by crazy confidence it might be of benefit to them to consider the import elections. They are straws taken place in the current. There have been striking Democratic | gains in local elections in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and several other ‘ States. They certainly mean something that does not comport with the overconfi- | dence of the Republican party. It was the ! | He was given the minimum punishment un- | sagacious TILDEN who said : “Study the . NOLD and QUAY were seen tabe such easy | brought about this result. that Hon. JAMES KERR has declined to be | | of politics,” and the drift, this spring, at fonte who took on a new measure of re- ! town elections if you would catch the drift No never. It! | i Spawls from the Keystone. | —An overdose of laudanum killed Thomas | Lewis, at Trevorton. | —Robbers raided four Shamokin stores, se- i . Oe | curing $500 worth of hooty. —Two Allegheny City election officers were arrested for alleged irregularities. —The Lancaster fee cases were argued he- fore deputy attorney general Elkin. —Aged Abraham Heck, of Auburn, fell in- ' to the Schuylkill Canal and was drowned. | | { | , —Allegheny City orders the cows owned by | some milkmen to be examined for tuberculo- sis. { —A Pennsylvania railroad fireman. N. S 1 Deckerhoof, was killed by the cars at Al- | toona. | —In a runaway at Lebanon, young Joseph Dougherty was thrown froma wagon and killed. —The Delaware county teachers’ associa- tion held its annual meeting Saturday at Hinkson’s corner. —Police protected the Salvation Army, | which started Saturday night on a crusade | for souls in Bristol. —Knights of the Golden Eagle are prepar- ing at Reading for the State conclave, to oc- cur there next October. —Bishop Hoban conducted the ceremonies | Saturday, conseerating the new bell on the Catholic church at A#hley. —Janitor J. E. Best, in the Harrisburg high school building, fell from a ladder and was so badly injured he will likely die. —The Immigration Inspector at Pittsburg is investigating the charge that women of casy virtue are imported from Canada. —Richard and John Gaughan, brothers, miners in the Pine Brook shaft, at Seranton were crushed to death by a fall of roof, Tues- day. —Adam Thomas of Harrisburg, aged 60 years, committed suicide Tuesday by taking strychnine. He was troubled over financial matters. . —The last meeting of the Board of Ac- counts during State Treasurer Jackson's term was held Monday. 20 State tax cases were ! decided. I —Judge Simonton, at Harrisburg, man- damused the Attorney General, requiring him to. investigate the charges of alleged railway stock frauds in Reading. —Governor Hastings has fixed Thursday, June 30, for the execution of Joseph Orosz, at Pittsburgh. On the same day George Win- disch will be hanged at Wilkesbarre. —Masked BE ao terrozing residents of Muncy. Sunday night half a dozen of houses were entered by unknown parties who wore moccasins. They secured very little for | their trouble. —The Williamsport papers are bragging | about the business done in the postoffice dur- {ing 1895. The postal receipts were over 1 $100,000 and the money order business almost $177,000. Thirty-five persons are employed. —Pennsylvania railroad engineers are at | work on the Susquehanna river hetween , Cherrytree and Burnside. Our predictions j may yet come true and we can go to Cherry- tree by rail independent of Bradley junction. “Bellefontaine, 0.,”” was the place the Chica- £0 Tribune put the story of Ettlinger’s deeds. It i is hardly worth while kicking about a French paper locating Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . when such errors of locality are made nearer home. —During a fire in Williamsport on Satur- day morning Mrs. W. B. Rockey narrowly escaped death from suffocation. She isan in- valid and only after the greatest ditficulty was she carried from the building, which was | damaged to the extent of £500 hy the flames and water. —The editor of the Martinsburg Herald was married last week and he celebrated the event by printing the Herald on pink paper. That lively shade would contrast beautifully with the deep, dark hue of the editorial blues that so often sieze upon the average newspaper man, —The corner stone of the new Methodist church at Ironsville, near Tyrone will be laid with appropriate and impressive ceremonies at 3 o'clock next Sunday afternoon. Besides the pastor, Rev. D. F. Kapp, itis expected | that Rev. Dr. D. S. Monroe, presiding elder, ! of Altoona, and Rev. Horace I. Jacobs, of { Tyrone, will be present and deliver addresses. —John and Minnie B, Ale, of Warriors- mark, have a little daughter, Esther Eugenia, "4 years old, that can spell in the first speller ‘and can sing any tune she hears once from beginning to end, and keep the right tune and time. She singssoprano, her father bass and her mother alto, and her little sister, Eulalia Maud, not yet three years old, can keep the tune herself and knows the alphabet entirely. —A number of places have been visited re- i cently with a view to selecting a place to hold the July encampment of the Penna. National Guard. Several places are on tiptoe about the matter, and arc making cfforts to secure the encampment, Lewistown being the most active perhaps. But without ; being in possession of any information, we’ll : venture the prediction that Mount Gretna will be selected, even if that place has got to . be a chestnut. —A farmer named William Dunlap, near Williamsport, cut round pieces from an inch hoard and fitted them in the bottom of meas- ures which he used for dealing out apples to customers in that city. He was discovered {and fined £5 and costs, a total of about $9. der the law, it being his first offence so far as | known, but under the city ordinances he { could have been fined as much as $500, while various and widely separate points, has | the commonwealth statues provide a fine of been decidedly in favor of the Democrats. | In New York State the Democratic gains | have been general and in many instances overwhelming. Much of this is due no doubt, to the RAINES bill, but that is the | chief of many Republican causes that has The elections | in the cities and towns already heard from ; have given an expression that may be tak- | en as a forerunner of the expression that will be heard throughout New York State | next November. The party cause must be | { rather flabby if it can’t resist defeat on a | side issue. i | Pine creek. £250 and imprisonment. —An exchange says : On the summit of a hill in central Potter county, Pa., are four springs, so near together that a person may carry water in the hollow of his hand from one of them and drop some of it in the other three. In one of these springs the Allegheny river has its source. Another is the fountain head of the Genesee river. In the third the Sinnemahoning creek rises, and the forth The waters thus started from | one spring have their outlet in the Gulf of Mexico, those of another in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and those ef the other two in the Chesapeake Bay.