Bemoraai iadpn.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
&
Ink Slings. .
__Ttis a kind of a cross between the sil-
ver and gold bug that is found in the whis-
kers of the Populist. | GC
— Mrs. MARY ELLEN LEASE has stopped
her populistic cryin’ and is talkin’, more
at ease, for the Democratic BRYAN.
— In nine cases out of ten the fellow who
howls loudest for gold hasn’t a dollar in
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~ BELLEFONTE, PA
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
., JULY 24, 1896.
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his pocket and has been 2 financial dys- |
peptic all his life.
—The gold people are going to the ex- : -
treme of closing manufacturing plants they You ask. How will the free coinage of
are interested in all for the sake of saying silver benefit the laboring man and
(tthe prospect of free silver did §t.7 Ph
od i -ention at St. Louis e answer, in many, very many ways.
has Tepp a er Pop- One of these ways for the laborer and
alism and”Democracy better than anything one way for the farmer will be that:
: It will make a demand for labor.
he subject.
digs intesn Us toned fhe ii ey § It will make a demand for the products
—The Republican campaign will be
of the farm upon which labor must exist.
formally opened on August 5th. The first De
So > : > When in operation the silver mines of
gold cure institutes will be located in Min- | 4: conntry, now nearly all idle, employ
nesota and Nebraska.
more laborers than do the iron mines and
—Poorold Lewistown raised $5,000 tose- | mills of Pennsylvania. Toremonetize silver
cure the division encampment of the N. G. | is to put these mines at work again. To
P. and now that she has it she is mad be- | start them working is to give employment
cause the soldiers are not spending enough | to tens of thousands of laborers who have
money. now nothing to do and who are crowding
__If the wealth of the United States were others out of their places at other work, for
equally distributed among all men, Wo- | wages that will hardly keep soul and body
men and children of this country there | together. To give employment to these
would be just $200 a piece. We're not in | thousands upon thousands of laborers, in our
for a “‘divy’’ until we can get 16 to 1. silver mines, is to lessen the number of work-
—Judging from the daily sights on Belle- | men now seeking something to do in other
fonte streets even the young girls are con- lines of labor, and make the competition
vertsto the 16to1 theory. With nearly for places less. With less competition, or
every girl in town entertaining two or three fewer laborers, for the work that is to do,
others the proportion is about 16 girls to | comes better wages for all workingmen.
This is where one of the benefits to labor
will come in if the free silver policy is
adopted.
For the farmer there will be an increased
demand for the products of his farm. Tens
of thousands of workingmen, now unable
to properly clothe and feed themselves and
families, will be furnished the means of
procuring a comfortable living, and the
wages they earn will go into wheat and
vegetables and meat for food, and into wool
and cotton and linen and leather for cloth-
ing, and thus, without reference to any
general financial advantages, will the farmer
The Democratic party in Pennsylvania | reap a benefit from the adoption of this
should look around for a candidate for| policy. -
United States Senator who would be in| But you ask what will be done with the
harmony with the BRYAN and SEWALL silver, the mining of which, is to furnish
administration. Centre county can d0 | the basis of employment for tens of thous-
something to this end by electing SCHO- | ands of idle workingmen ?
FIELD and FOSTER. Part of it will be manufactured into
— Retaliation is one of man’s first means knives and spoons and general tableware
of getting even. If England tries to scare and into such other articles as the people
us by saying we will make you give us two | need, thus furnishing labor to another
of your new silver dollars for every hun- | class of workmen. Some of it will be
dred cents worth of stuff you buy from us “minted into money. This money will not
can’t we make her pay two for every hun- | be piled in a corner to look at or be kept
dred cents worth of beef or bread stuffs she | locked up under the protection and care of
wants from us. a policeman. A greater portion of it
—They ery about this going to be a would go into the hands of the workmen,
campaign of education. Why, Lord bless who mined and smelted it, as wages. From
you all, the people of the South and West | them it would go to the farmer, the grocer,
have been studying this silver question for the dry-goods dealer, the furniture man
five years and as ex-Senator INGALLS says : and others—in every instance creating a
«MARK HANNA might as well sell his gold | demand for labor in other vocations.
pamphlets for old paper’ and realize on | The surplus or profits would go into de-
them while he can. | veloping new properties, building needed
Now is the season when the ‘‘poor railroads, erecting houses, factories or mills
overworked minister” is being sent of for jo whatever enterprises or improvements
its owner would see proper to make, each
a rest by his congregation, while his pay | Be 3
goes on. The hot weather makes the devil | and all of them still increasing the demand
all the more active and there is no one left | for labor and with the increase in the de-
at home to take care of the people but the mand for labor, making a greater demand
editor, who never gets tired. Now will for the necessaries that farmers and others
you be good. supply, and upon which labor exists.
oo * a
—The goldites jumped quick to use the | Gelfish and vicious legislation has closed
recent closing of the DOBSON woolen me our own mines that furnished one of the
in Philadelphia, asan argument agalnst|metals classed as “precious” and which
free silver. Mr. Wi. DOBSON, himself, | was recognized and used as money for
has nipped this in the bud by saying: “The | ages before the betrayal and crucifixion of
Oe a Christ. In consequence we are forced to go
Wi e stoppage of our mis. to Europe to borrow the other with which
have heen getting steadily worse for sever- | to do business. Thus by borrowing we
al years.” create a demand that adds to the value of
— In the Republican national platform of their gold mines while we make our sil-
1888 we find this declaration on the money | V¢* mines worthless ; thus we help to keep
question : ‘‘The Republican party is in | their workingmen employed while we
favor of both gold and silver as money.” starve and pauperize our Own. ‘
Four years later the national assemblage of In the name of all that is christian like,
that party declared that : ¢‘the American | humane or sensible, what kind of a system
people, from tradition, and interest, favor is it that produces such results, and why
bimetallism and the Republican party | should “this existing condition” be con-
demands the use of both gold and silver as tinued, as demanded by the advocates of
standard money.” How about that ‘‘tra- the gold standard ? :
dition and-interest’’ now.
How Free Silver Would Benefit Labor=
ing Men and Farmers.
1 man.
—The free silver sentiment is not going
to be cried down by the howl that all the
old tea pots, carriage trimmings and shoe
buckles of the effete nobility of foreign
countries will be sent here to be made into
money. .
Millionaire oil producers THEODORE
and BYRAN BARNSDAL, of Bradford, life
long Republicans, have both declared for
BrYAN and SEwALL. We would advise
Maj. MCKINLEY to have the Governor go
up and fix them up.
Afraid of Joint Debate.
—To what straits Republican newspapers
are reduced for mud to fling at BRYAN is
shown in the latest attack of the Pittsburg
Gazelle. It charges him with being a busi-
ness failure. Democrats should not at-
tempt to answer thisargument by shouting
that MCKINLEY is another, even if he did
fail, not more than three years ago, for over
$100,000. Mr. BRYAN is a successful law-
yer, the best proof of which is the fact that
a large railroad corporation recently offered
Li Slo year th Sige Pas BELL came in contact on the stump several
road campanies are in the Rbit of employ-| vo;s 490 and he came out of the war of
ing the BEST professional mep tobefound. | {oo very badly used up contestant
—During the fiscal year just closed we | With the recollection of that rough ex-
exported products to the alue of $880,- | perience still lingering in his mind, it is
000,000 and imported to the value of $780,- | not surprising that he should refuse to
000,000, a favorable balance of $100,000,- | meet another antagonist, whose ability
000 for us. During the fiscal year of 1893, | would be likely to inflict a worse drubbing
the most prosperous period of the McKIN- | than that which he sustained at the hands
LEY tariff, and eight months of which was | of ex-Governor CAMPBELL.
under HARRISON'S administration we ex- It will be far safer for the major to re-
ported to the value of $847,665,194 and | main in Canton and address delegations of
imported to the value of $866, 400,922 an | tariff devotees and admiring lady visitors
adverse balance, for us, of $18,735,728. | from his front door-step. Not only is the
How about that necessary protection to | cause of the trusts and the’ Wall street
home industries? The WILsoN bill seems ning on pas wens ORy MMi pe => 3%
to give more than MCKINLEY’S pet meas- | counter the forceful logic and vigorous
ure did, without extorting robber tariffs. eloquence of the Democratic candidate.
There are no doubt prudential reasons
for a special dispatch from MARK HANNA'S
headquarters at Cleveland, which says:
«It is well understood here that MCKIN-
LEY will refuse to hold any joint debate
with BRYAN.”
The major is evidently shy of an en-
counter with the young orator, and there is
good cause for his shyness. He is not
particularly strong in a joint discussion,
as was shown when he and ex-Gov- CAMP-
The Aspersion of the Chicago Convention.
It will not be long before those who
have been using vile terms in stigmatizing
the Chicago convention, and have charac-
terized it as being composed of disreputa-
ble and dangerous elements, will find that
they have made a mistake which will re-
turn with damaging effect upon themselves.
They will suffer the consequences of
having slandered the bone and sinew,
the heart and conscience, the patriotic in-
stinet and rugged intelligence of the Ameri-
can people.
Some of those hasty revilers, who pict-
ured the greatest national convention that
was ever held on this continent, as a set of
“fanatical cranks’ and ‘evil minded anar-
chists’’ are already endeavoring to make
antends for so vile a misrepresentation. As
a sample of such retraction we may mention
the New York Post, a leading organ of the
gold interest, which says : ‘The sound mon-
ey men must not stand off and call the peo-
ple who are inclined to favor free coinage
anarchists, blatherskites and fools,” and of
the convention it says :
“The Chicago convention had its ALTGELD
and its TILLMAN, it is true, but an intelli-
gent eastern observer, who has attended
these national gatherin for many years, tes-
tifies, in the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
that : ‘‘the men composing the convention
were in the main representatives of an hon-
est and reputable citizenship—men more ac-
customed to the prayer meeting and the
church than to the barroom and the club.”
How do the howling tirades about ‘‘an-
archists’” and fanatics, as the constituent
element of the convention, compare with
this admis8ion of the high moral and re-
ligious character of the men who mainly
composed that gathering? Nothing could
be more natural than that a high order of
moral character should prevail ina body
that was largely drawn from the farmers of
the western and southern sections of the
country. Will not the slanderous asper-
sion of such a representative hody bring
shame and punishment to those who have
been guilty of it. 7
If further testimony as to the pure mo-
tives and honest purpose of the Chicago
convention be needed we can give that
which is furnished by Hon. JOHN RUSSELL
Young, a distinguished Republican of
Philadelphia, who personally attended its
proceedings. Speaking of it he says :
«This has not been a mercenary body.
You did not feel the presence of money.
The delegates were too earnest, toc serious,
and not the kind of people susceptible to
money influences. A gifted friend of mine
said on the first day of the convention that it
was a battle between ROTHSCHILDS and
BLAND, and that if BLAND were beaten
RoTHSCHILDS would win. When the nomi-
nation was made he leaned over my shoulder
and said : “The ROTHSCHILDS are beaten.”
® And is it not because the ROTHSCHILDS
were beaten that the minions of the money
power are hurling such epithets as ‘‘blath-
erskites,’”” ‘‘lunatics” “revolutionists’’
and “‘anarchists’’ at the sensible, true and
honest men who won so glorious a victory ?
The Full Dollar.
It would be interesting to know what
candidate MCKINLEY means by a “full
dollar.” In one of his speeches to the
crowds that are visiting him at Canton he
remarked, after his usual blather about the
benefits of protection, ‘‘and my country-
men, there is another thing the people are
determined upon and that is that a full
day’s work must be paid in a full dollar.”
What does MCKINLEY consider a full
dollar? When he was a Congressman he
voted that there should be four and a half
million dollars coined every month, and
the product of the BLAND coinage bill,
which he supported with his vote, was
over four hundred million dollars, all
silver.
Are these to be considered as among the
«gull dollars’ in which a full day’s work
must be paid? Having been instrumental
in their creation does he regard them as
having the full purchasing power of any
other dollar, or would it be defrauding
labor to pay it with this kind of dollars?
But candidate MCKINLEY'’S party has
put him on a platform which demands dol-
lars of quite a different kind. It declares
that those which he helped to create by the
millions are dishonest ; that they are worth
only about fifty cents, and that to pay
labor in them is to defraud it.
The Republican candidate should be
more explicit in declaring which kind of a
dollar should be used for the payment of a
full day’s work ; whether the silver dollar
which he favored when he voted for the
BLAND bill, or the gold” dollar which is
the favorite coin of the Wall street and
is demanded by the platform on which the
t‘gold-bugs’’ have placed him, apparently
againt his will.
The major did _ considerable straddling
beforeshis nomination, but he should now
stop acting the straddle-bug.
—The Populists and Silver people are
having a great time at St. Louis. The
‘keep in the middle of the road’? fellows
are not in favor of endorsing BRYAN and
SEWALL, but indications point to their
running off into the hye-ways and hedges
| before they get through.
o
Misrepresentation of the Democratic
Platform.
Those who represent the Chicago plat-
form as inculcating revolutionary and dan-
gerous doctrines know they are guilty of
gross and unworthy misrepresentation.
That platform re-affirms the Democratic
doctrine that a tariff should be for the pur-
pose of revenue only and not for the object
of favoring special interests. There is no-
thing revolutionary or incendiary in such
a proposition. It is but the maintenance
of the old Democratic principle of the
greatest good to the greatest number. There
is nothing dangerous in the re-affirmation
of the doctrine that a special benefit is not
the kind of protection that is best for gen-
eral interests, nor is there anything an-
archical in the declaration of the platform
that “we hold that the most efficient way
of protecting American labor is to prevent
the importation of foreign pauper labor to
compete with the home market.’
This is the kind of protection that pro-
tects, and is more calculated to prevent
than to encourage anarchy.
The platform especially insists upon
economy in the administration of the gov-
ernment, and reproves the profligate ex-
travagance which has characterized Repub-
lican administration. Is this a dangerous
declaration? Does it indicate the reckless
spirit of the mob to denounce the abuses of
Republican rule ?
It is particularly insisted that an anarchic-
al spirit is displayed in the platform’s
protest against arbitrary federal inter-
ference with local affairs. But this expres-
sion is neither new, nor is it revolutionary
or anarchisti¢ in its intent. It is but a
re-iteration of the old Democratic doctrine
of the right of local self-government—
doctrine as old as the party itself. It
was this doctrine that always arrayed the
party against the invasion of the sovereign-
ty which the constitution guarantees to
every State. It was incorporated in our
platfrom when troops were being massed
throughout the North to defeat the gallant
soldier, GEo. B. MCCLELLAN, in 1864. It
was incorporated in the platform upon
which the great SEYMORE, made his canvass
in 1868. It was the slogan of the party
during the re-construction days, when
carpet bag governments were being forced
upon fire people of the South, and it was
this doctrine that inspired the Democracy
in its resistance to force bills and -to every
measure that threatened the constitutional
rights of the States. If this <is-anarchy it
is greatly to he deplored that there is not
more of it.
A great offense is ascribed to the plat-
form by the charge that it displays a revo-
Iutionary antagonism to the supreme court
of the United States. Courts are but
human institutions, liable to human frail-
ties, and if there are indications that they
prevent the course of justice and subordi-
nate the interests of the mass to that of a
class, it is idle to contend that they should
not be open to public censure, and it is ab-
surd to say that such censure is inspired by
the spirit of anarchy. The supreme court
strained the constitution in its desire to
serve the interest of wealth by declaring
the income tax unconstitutional. This
was certainly a perversion of right what-
ever difference of opinion there may be as
to the construction of the law in the case,
but apart from that question, it is outrage-
ously false to represent that the most just
and equitable of taxes is an anarchistic con-
ception.
The silver plank in the platform does not
attempt to introduce a revolution in the
currency of the country. It presents no
new monetary fad. Gold and silver con-
jointly have always been the money of the
constitution, and the charge that the en-
deavor-to go back to the first principles of
our monetary system is revolutionary, an-
archistic and destructive in its intent, is
on a par with the general misrepresenta-
tion of the Chicago platform.
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~ More Gain Than Loss.
Governor HASTINGS is quoted as say-
ing that Berks is the only county in
the State that will stand by the Democratic
national platform and candidates. The
Governor is poor authority to speak for the
Democracy. As they have not taken him
into their confidence, and he is entirely un-
familiar with their sentiments and inten-
tions, it is presumption for him to say
what they are going to do at the next elec-
tion.
But why should not the Democrats in
this State carry all the counties this year
that they have been accustomed to carry ?
They never had a better cause to contend
for. Their platform never more fully ex-
pressed the sentiment of Democracy. They
never had better nor more popular candi-
dates. There is no reason why there
should he a diminished Democratic vote in
any county in the State. Those who count
on a falling off of the party vote on the
money question forget that if there is any
loss on account of freesilver it will be more
than made up on the same account. The
| gain will probably he greater than the loss.
Pens
What 16 to 1 Means.
From the Mercer Press.
There are so many inquiries and so much
misunderstanding as to just what is meant
by the coinage of silver at 16 to 1, that we
give an explanation condensed from a fi-
nancial authority :
The ratio of 16 to 1 means, in practice,
that 16 ounces of silver should be worth as
much as one ounce of gold. An ounce of
gold, American coin standard of fineness—
that is 600 parts of pure gold to 100 of alloy
—will coin in gold dollars $18.60. Sixteen
ounces of silver, American coin standard of
fineness—that is, 600 parts of pure silver to
100 of alloy, at rate of 412% grains to the
dollar (the weight of the present standard
silver dollar)—will coin $18.60 in silver
dollars.
In gold coin thealloy is silver and copper.
In silver, the alloy is copper. A gold dol-
lar has 23.22 grains of pure gold and 2.18
of alloy. In the silver dollar are 3711}
grains of pure silver and 41% of alloy.
Advocates of free coinage favor a law
that will allow any holder of silver bullion
to take it to any mint of the United States
and have it coined. Itis argued that ab
the present market price—say 70—there
would be a profit of $4.80 to the silver
holder on an investment of $11.20, the cost
of 16 ounces. On the other hand the silver
men claim that under a free coinage system
the price of silver bullion would rise to par.
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A Political Straw.
From the Dubois Express. :
During a trip on the B.R. & P. the
other day, a gent Matt Lundergan had a
little experience which surprised him.
Two strangers were arguing the money
question. The talk waxed warm and the
silvef man offered to bet the gold man that
the majority of the occupants of the coach
were silvermen. The bet was promptly
accepted. There were twenty-eight men
on the car. Slips of paper were provided
and each passenger was asked to write his
financial preference on the slip. Two tell-
ers were appointed and the votes counted.
It stood twenty-six for silver and two for
gold. The men in the car were nearly all
strangers to each other. They had never
met before and were not likely to meet
again. Neither the gold or silver man was
able to tell which would win the bet.
When the count was made it surprised
them. The incident was a trivial one but
it tends to show the trend of public opinion
on the question of the day.
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It Is Our Turn Now.
From the Cambria Freeman.
In Minnesota over one hundred Republi-
lican weekly newspapers and several dailies
have bolted their party. Only a few days
ago many-of the leading Republicans of that
State, including Congressman Charles A.
Towne, of Duluth, whose speech in Con-
last winter electrified the whole
country ; the Hon. John Lind, ex-Con-
gressman from the second district, the
Hon. Frank A. Day, Lieutenant Governor ;
the Hon. Frank M. Nye, the late Bill
Nye’s brother, and hundreds of other lead-
ing Republicans, including many State
Senators and members of the Legislature
joined in signing a manifesto renouncing
all allegiance to the Republican party.
Such defections in Republican strongholds
will certainly result in the defeat oi the
Republican national ticket.
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Ideas Suggested.
From the York Gazette.
There may be nothing in a name, but is
there not something in the : association of
ideas? MCKINLEY lives at Canton, which
suggests China, the Chinese wall, a high
tariff. BRYAN lives at Lincoln, which sug-
gests emancipation, freedom, free trade.
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McKinley’s Boss and His Effort to Re-
duce the Wages of Labor.
A correspondent of the New York Jour-
nal furnished the following facts relating
to the man who holds the mortgage on
candidate “McKINLEY,” which working-
men will read with interest, and possibly
with some profit to themselves.
Speaking of strikes, what are the Knights
of Labor and kindred bodies—made to-ele-
vate workmen as well as revenge their
wrongs—doing about Hanna ? This deep-
stomached vulgarian has so far swallowed
McKinley, even as the whale did Jonah,
that one should be more interested in Hanna's
record than that of the nominal candidate.
A world need not forget, even if not remind-
ed of the fact each day, that McKinley is
absolutely the property of a syndicate which
paid $118,000 for him in direct dollars, aside
from millions of campaign expense. Mc-
Kinley is only a candidate nominally ; elect
him and you elect Hanna and the 1 which
put up the purchase price adverted to above.
Therefore the K. of L., or any body be-
sides, might very logically take Hanna's
trail and run it backward. What he was,
rest assured, he will be ; what he did, fear
not but he will do.
Here are a few bluff reminders to Sover-
eign and the others as to where they can cut
Hanna's trail. There is the sailors’ war
‘with Hanna, which lasted trom 1882 to 1886
and resulted in Hanna crushing labor union-
ism on the great lakesand cutting sailors’
wages from $2.25 to $1 a day in summer and
from $4 to $2.25 in the wreck-strewn months
of November and December. Lynch, former-
ly president of the Seamen’s Union, at Cleve-
land, can tell all about it.
Then there are the mine strikes on the
north peninsula of Michigan, the coal
strikes in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania,
as well asthe lumber shovers’ strike that
shook up Chicago on a dya ; Hanna was the
nigger in each of these wood piles.
He makes money by strikes. Hanna
boasts that he, the Winches, Selah Cham-
berlain and the Alva Bradley estate have
made over $10,000,000 already as the direct
saving from low wages paid sailors ; the re-
sult of the cut brought about in the lake
strikes in ’82, ’83, '84 and 85. Quite enough
to elect McKinley.
And speaking of that eminent mute, one is
reminded that Hanna even found MoRinieY
in a strike. Hanna's coal men had struc
down near Canton. McKinley was their
attorney. That was the first time McKinley
and Hanna met. When the strike was over,
Hanna ‘had’ McKinley, and he’s had him
AHL
| ever since.
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{ Spawls from the Keystone.
—Afgera quarrel, Michael Demsko serious-
ly stabbed Thomas Little at Shamokin.
—The department of Internal affairs issued
cighteen mine foremen certificates.
—George Harnack was sent to jail at Brad-
dock, accused of murder ontine, 111.
—The Schuylkill republican convention
will have 330 delegates, a decrease of 29 since
last year. 2
—Charged with being a horse thief, George
Judy, of Lancaster, has been put behind the
bars.
—General J. K. Sigfried, of Pottsville, was
buried with military honors on Wednesday
afternoon.
—The march of the army worm has
brought him to Hereford, the most eastern
corner of Bucks county.
—As a result of chewing match ends, Samu-
el Werner, engineer of the Lebanon match
works, is expected to die.
— John Stimba stabbed Andrew Blosas and
Martin Bunas, at Mahonoy City, and the
wounds of both are serious.
—Grieving. over the death ,of her father,
Mrs, Frank Lemle, of Harmanville, made an
unsuccessful attempt to drown herself.
—In an encounter with an enraged bull
Henry L. Brubaker, a farmer, of Lancaster
county, received injuries from which he may
die.
—A dispute over the election of a pastor
for the Presbyterian church, at Parnassus,
led Dr. A. J. Hindman and Dr. G. C. Park,
members of the flock, to a fistic encounter.
—J.W. Rhine, while digging a post hole
on the Sperring farm near Mill Hall last
week, found a ‘copper cent dated 1812, and
Mr. Sperring found one dated 1839. The
coins are both in a good state of preservation.
—James Walsh, who stole a horse in Phoe-
nixville a year ago, was taken from the Lan-
caster county jail, where he served a year’s
sentence for another crime, and is in jail at
West Chester, where he will be tried for
horse stealing.
— Bass are reported to be very numerous in
the river near Farrandsville. On Saturday
evening while Mrs. L. D. Armstrong, who is
occupying a cottage at Riverview, was out
rowing on the river a large bass jumped out
of the water and landed in the boat.
—George and Charles Hall, of Lawrence
township, Clearfield county, have furnished
to tanneries in this state 10,000 feet of four
inch wood pipe during the past three months.
These gentlemen are the only persons in this
section of the country who make wood pipe
for these industries.
—There is every prospect of an abundant
crop of chestnuts next fall. The trees have
recently been in bloom and the blossoming
was profuse. The weather was favorable to
them and now there is an abundance of small
burs set all over the trees. Last year the
crop was a light one but the boys may take
courage now. They will have the joy of
gathering fine stores of nuts this year.
—A quiet wedding was ‘solemnized, on
Wednesday, July 15th, at Mackeyville, when
Miss Flora B. Brownlee became the wife of
August Kuehn, of Eagle Grove, Towa, Rev.
Chas. S. Long performod the ceremony at
noon in the presence of their immediate rela-
tives. Mr. and Mrs. Kuehn will leave Mack-
eyville in a few days and will make their fu-
ture home in Eagle Grove, Iowa.
—Dr. Nathan C. Shaeffer, the superintend-
ent of public instruction, yesterday refused
to commission George W,. McIlhenny as su-
perintendent of Dauphin country. The pro-
ceedings in this case will be of interest to
every school district. MecIleenny was elected
county superintendent over R. B. McNeal,
the present incumbent. His election proved
a surprise, as he had been defeated three
years ago on immoral grounds.
__A man with a double ended fountain pen
is visiting farmers in the western part of the
state. He offers machinery at low rates, ask-
ing the farmer to sign an agreement to pay
for it when delivered if satisfactory. The
agreement is written with the fading end of
the pen and the name signed with the indeli-
ble end. The agreement fades off in a day or
so and a note is written above the signature
instead. :
—Secretary of Agriculture Edge will ask
the next legislature to pass an important bill
in relation to the care of cattle and also to ap-
propriate $100,000 or more for the extermina-
tion of all diseased animals in the State. At-
taches of the deparment are working on the
matter now, securing statistics from other
state to be submitted to the legislature, along
with the request for the enactment of such
legislation. On account of the rapid spread of
tuberculosis Secretary Edge thinks every
precaution should be taken to check the dis-
ease. He is anxious for a liberal allowance
to be used in the investigation of suspicious
cases and to make proper experiments.
bear created a sensation in the Sixth regi-
gent Saturday night. He had been captured
in the mountain below camp by a mountain-
eer on Saturday aud taken into camp for
sale. This bear was the height of a medium
sized dog and was kept in restraint by a rope
and one of the jokers in the Sixth, ‘anxious
for diversion, cut the cord. He got i. The
cub once at liberty made a dash at the liber-
ator and he proceeded to the rearat a double
quick. Then the animal turned its attention
to the crowd, and in a half second the regi-
mental street was occupied by a satisfied bear
while fifteen privates were climbing tent
poles or mounting tables in mess tents. The
terror was recaptured by a lasso and taken
back to the hills.
..—On Saturday afternoon about 1:30, officer
C.F. Nepps, plumber at the reformatory,
went with three prisoners named Hutchson,
Roach and Walton to the pump house
on the river bank opposite the gate
for the purpose of making repairs to the
pump. When near the pump house, the
three men made an attack upon Nepps, one of
them striking him with a hammer which
knocked him senseless for a few minutes.
They then took his revolver, bound his legs,
and were about to throw him in the well
when ie plead so carnestly that they con-
cluded not to do so, but stuffed his mouth
full of waste and tied it with a string so that
he could not scream. They left him in this
condition, and went up the river where they
demanded a boat from a Mr. Seers at the
point of the revolver and crossed over to the
railroad, and made their escape.
—At Camp Gibbon, near Lewistown, a cub +