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Demon alc Tat,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
QUAY says MCKINLEY will carry,
He says lie will win in a walk;
Though QUAY has the faith of a PARRY,
Weadvise: ‘Dear Matthew don’t talk.”
—BRYAN will be the next President of
the United Staigs.
—BRYAN’S enthusiastic tour of Michigan
would seem to leave no question as to
where the electoral vote of that State will
go.
—The only “important’’ things that are
done now-a-days appear to be arrests
made by city police. According to the
papers every fellow who is arrested is
‘‘mportant.”’
—Every Democrat in Centre county
should be at the pollson November 3rd.
There are lots of Republicans who are go-
ing to vote for silver and it is the duty of
Democrats to be out, so that their part of
the work will be done.
—PALMER and BUCKNER do not have a
large enough following in West Virginia
to ensure their names a place on the official
ballot. This doesn’t look much as if that
State is going to be lost to BRYAN by the
aid of bolting Democrats, at least.
— France refused to float a loan for Russia
when it became known that Russia wanted
to borrow money with which to goon a
gold basis. France has bimetallism and is
happy and prosperous as any country could
be. She refused to be a party to Russia’s
foolishness. :
—Register GEORGE RUMBERGER is the
man who has the people of Centre county
behind him. He has been one of the most
efficient and obliging officials this county
has evet had. The people want him back
in the Register’s office and you will find
him there for the next three years.
—W. M. CRONISTER'S candidacy for
sheriff is booming. He is a pleasing, intel-
ligent young man who offends no one and
in this respect is directly opposite to his
opponent, MILLER, whose whole life has
been spent in abusing Democrats or those
of his own party who have dared to stand
in the way of his greed for office.
— Boston has refused to accept MACMON;
NIE’s nude statue for the central fountain
in the new public library. No reason is
given. The great sculptor’s figures are us-
ually so perfect that the angular women of
the Hub would have gone frantic with envy
every time they beheld the lovliness
of the inanimate creature.
—HELEN KELLAR, deaf, dumb, and
blind, has been admitted to the regular
course at Harvard University. Though
without so many of her faculties HELEN
has come to compete with her more fortu-
nate brothers and sisters and is reported to
be a phenomenally bright girl. Her train-
ing is being made a scientific experiment.
—TUncle Sam’s got his dander up.
There’s to be no more foolin’ with Turkey
and our gun boats have heen ordered to go
right up the Dardanelles. The Bancroft is
the vessel that is over there, and though
she is only a practice boat it is likely that
she will be quite enough to impress
npotn he unspeakable Turk the notion
that time for foolin’ is no more.
—1Tt is really almost as essential that sil-
ver Legislators be elected as that a silver
President and Congressman be voted for.
The next session of the Legislature will be
called upon to elect an United States Sena-
tor, and, if possible, he should be a friend
of silver. A vote for SCHOFIELD and Fos-
TER will be a vote for a free silver Senator.
If you are earnest in your desire for it you
can’t consistently do anything else than
vote for these men.
—Candidates MEYER and HECKMAN, the
Democratic nominees for Commissioner, are
getting around among the people. There
are those who are telling malicious lies
about both gentlemen, but no one will be-
lieve such. Both of the men have spent
their lives among the people whose support
they now ask and neither one fears the |
most searching investigation. Whatever
the stories you hear, remember that MEY-
"ER and HECKMAN, are sensible, Centre
county farmers and can be depended upon
for economy.
—The great storm off the Atlantic coast
has been something frightful in the de-
struction to property. However disastrous |
it has been there is no comparison between
the losses sustained by it and those occa-
sioned by the single gold standard. Since
the gold wind has been blowing land val-
ues have disappeared and contracted until
they are only half what the once were, and
hundreds of millions of doHars have been
swept away from the farmers. This dev-
asting gold wind can be stopped. A: vote
for BRYAN and SPANGLER will do your
share towards it.
—CRAWFORD, the St. Louis merchant,
who discharged twelve of his heads of de-
partment because they are going to vote
for BRYAN, did not hesitate long in taking
them back. He discharged them one day
and declared that he wanted the world to
know why. Part of the world, at least,
heard his declaration, for two men sus-
cribed $1,500 each to try him for coercion
and the labor organizations of St. Louis or-
dered a boycott on his store. In the face
of such troubles CRAWFORD declared, the
next day, that it is but human to err and
manly to correct a mistake, so he took the
men back and told all of his employees
that they could. vote for whomever they
please.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_ BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 16, 1896.
No. 4a.
The Momentous Character of the Con=
q test.
Never was there so momentous a conflict
as that which is now being waged in the
arena of American politics between the
people and the plutocrats.
The fight that is being made by the peo-
ple is not merely for the material advant-
age that will be gained by rescuing the
currency from the grip of the SHYLOCKS.
It is for the preservation of rights and the
protection of interests that are of a far
higher order.
True it is that they will be greatly bene-
fited by the restoration of the double
monetary standard which, previous to the
crime of 1873, prevented a money monopoly
and gave them the advantage of a cur-
rency that could not be cornered by the
money sharks. But they will gain more
than this by a victory achieved in defense
of popular rights and Democratic princi-
ples, which are endangered by the encroach-
ment and usurpation of a plutoeratic in-
fluence that has succeeded in controlling
the policies of the government.
Such a victory will reassert and confirm
the constitutional intention that this shall
be a government of the people and not of
the money power.
It will proclaim, with an emphasis that
shall not be misunderstood, that the inter-
est of wealth must cease to be predomi-
nant in dictating governmental measures.
It will give notice to a grasping and ar-
rogant class that bank syndicates, gold
speculators, government bond dealers, tar-
iff beneficiaries, and the selfish influence
exercised by trusts and trade combina-
tions, shall not have exclusive control of
congressional legislation, shall not have
their interests promoted by their owner-
ship of Presidents put in office by their
money, and shall no longer be permitted
to formulate tariff and currency laws for
their own especial benefit.
It will rebuke the insolent assumption
of wealth that the chief end of government
is to contribute to the advantage of a pluto-
cratic class, and that the business interests
to be served by public policies are entirely
comprehended within the limits of tkeir in-
terests.
It will teach the beneficiaries of tariff fa
voritism that their heartless practice of dis-
tressing the working people by a suspen-
sion of employment previous to elections,
with the object of influencing their votes,
isa method of coercion that is of no avail as
one of the means of forcing an obnoxious
policy of spoliation upon the American
people.
It will fix the seal of the severest repro-
bation upon the corrupt practices of such
vulgar plutocratic ruffians as MARK HAN-
NA, whose base instincts allow them to put
to higher valuation on popular suffrage
than that of dollars and cents, and who as-
sume to carry elections by immense boodle
funds contributed by mercenary interests
that expect to profit from the debauchery
of the ballot.
All this will be gained by a triumph of
the people in the pending contest.
There has been a gradual impairment of
the popular institutions and Democratic
principles inherited from the founders of
the government. Selfish and unpatriotic
influences have sapped and weakened them.
They stand in danger of being subverted
and a government of wealth substituted
for a government of the people. Interests
of more vital importance than that in-
volved in the money question are at stake,
as they pertain to the people’s right of self-
government and go to the very basis of our
Democratic institutions. :
These are what the American people are
called upon to vindicate and preserve in
this conflict with an overgrown and ag-
gressive money power, an issue that appeals
more strongly to freemen than any mone-
tary interest that may be involved.
The Ratio as It Now Stands.
How stands the count, as positively as-
certained and established by the returns of
elections already held this year ?
Surely the figures it presents are replete
with encouragement to the friends of an
unrestricted currency and the money of
the constitution,
In the gold bug column appear the two
New England States of Maine, with 6 elec-
tors, and Vermont, with 4; making a meagre
total of 10. In the column that represents
free silver and government by the people
and not by the syndicates, appear the
States of Oregon, with 4 electors; Alabama,
8; Florida, 4 ; and Georgia, 13; making an
auspicious aggregate of 40.
‘When the ratio already stands at 4 to 1,
who can doubt that November will quad-
ruple it and make 16 to 1 an accomplished
fact.
——The Republicans ought to be ashamed
to carry their campa. n into Penns valley.
They did not consider that rich region
worthy a place on their ticket, yet they
have the brazenness to sue for its support
in this amps.
——Read the WATCHMAN.
The Importance of Free Silver im Con-
gress.
‘What the people expect to accomplish by
the election of BRYAN would remain unat-
tained without the election of a Democratic
majority in Congress. The currency could
not be relieved from Wall street control
without such a majority to confirm, by leg-
islation, the measures of relief which Presi-
dent BRYAN would recommend.
There must be no trace of the crime of
1873 left on the statute hooks of the nation,
but this can not be eradicated without a
Congress to assist the President to . correct
that national wrong by which the people
were deprived of the advantage of a double
standard and the currency was contracted
to suit the easy management of the money
dealers.
That was a secret, sneaking act, perpe-
trated for the sole benefit of the money
dealing conspirators, who counted on their
profit by making money scarce and dear,
and beating down the price of the country’s
products. It was an act of legislation that
was asked for by no party, demanded by
no popular interest, champi®ned by no sec-
tion. It was done entirely without the
knowledge of the people, who knew not
how they were injured until they began to
feel the grip of the money lenders and gold
Reheculators fastening around them, and
growing, each year, tighter until they now
find their declining prosperity in danger of
being completely strangled.
If it is their purpose to relieve themselves
of the ruinous effects of that crime it will
be well for them to understand that the re-
lief which their condition so urgently re-
quires cannot be secured without a Demo-
cratic Congress to assist a Democratic Pres-
ident in restoring the money of the consti-
tution and giving them the advantage of a
plentiful currency.
Itvshould therefore be the determined
purpose of every supporter of free silver, of
every citizen who, in the profits of his busi-
ness, in the wages of his labor, and in the
price of his products, has felt the injury of a
contracted currency and the appreciation of
the value of money by the gold standard,
and of all who are opposed to every interest
being sacrificed to the money interest and
every right and privilege of the people be-
ing subjected to the money power—it
should be the determination of all such cit-
izens, irrespective of party, to vote and
work for Congressmen who will stand by
BRYAN in wresting the government from
the control of the money sharks, the bank
syndicates, the government bond dealers,
monopolistic combines, and general pluato-
cratic interests that are spending millions
to secure its management, with MCKINLEY
as their agent and servant.
Out of Sight.
Governor HASTINGS’ oratory doesn’t
count for much in a political campaign on
account of its platitudinous character, but
what it lacks in argument it makes up in
vociferation, and just now is making a
noise in various parts of the country with
the object of benefiting the gold-bug in-
terest.
He addressed a meeting of commercial
travellers, in New York, last week, and in
the course of his remarks got off the follow-
ing wonderful expression: “If BRYAN is
elected, on the eve of November 3rd, we
will hear it about 8 o'clock, and at 8.30 all
the gold there is in the country will go out
of sight.”
We really should be proud of having a
Governor with a mind powerful enough to
originate so profound an idea. But after
having ventilated that immense thought he
should have proceeded to inform the assem-
bled MCKINLEY drummers what gold there
is in sight that will go out of sight in
case of BRYAN’S election.
The coin of the gold-bug habitually keeps
in hiding. There is very little of it at any
time visible to the naked eye as a circulating
medium. It may be found in the vaults of
the bankers and the chests of the misers,
but it is never around to assist the plain
people in their every day business transac-
tions. It is too valuable to the money
dealers to be sent out for daily use among
the common masses.
If the people were to depend upon gold
as a medium of exchange the jingle of coin
would seldom be heard in their pockets.
They rarely have a chance to see any of it,
and yet the Governor talks about this in-
visible money going out of sight. In the
event of BRYAN’S election it may be as in-
disposed to come out of concealment as it
always has been, but it will not be missed
when the country isin the enjoyment of a
plentiful supply of silver dollars, every one
of them worth 100 cents and as good as
gold.
One of the best young Repuiicodis
in Penns valley was turned down, last
year, to make a place for ABE MILLER’S
forlorn hope. This year all of Penns val-
ley was turned down by the Republican
convention. Not a single place on the
ticket was given to that side of the county,
yet the Republican speakers are over there
every night trying to hoodwink the people,
who are beginning to discover that the en-
tire Republican machine is run for the
benefit of a few pets of Bellefonte leaders.
Not Calculated to Carry Much Weight
With It.
The Bituminous Record, Mr. R. A. KINs-
LOE'S paper, published at Philipsburg,
jumped into a decidedly anomalous posi-
tion, on Saturday, when it came out against
CoL. J. L. SPANGLER, Democratic candi-
date for Congress in this district. The
Record still advocates BRYAN’S election
and thus espouses the cause of free silver,
yet it seizes the most trifling excuse to bolt
the congressional nominee of Mr. BRYAN’S
party and lends its aid to the election of a
man who will do everything in his power
to defeat the purposes for which Mr. BRy-
AN will be elected. The remonetization of
silver will never be realized unless silver
Congressmen are elected.
Now the Record has bolted Mr. SPANGLER
because of the ‘‘consistency’’ of its record
“in the past ten years” in ‘defending the
true interests of miners and other wage
workers.” It is just such ‘‘consistency’’
that guided it to HASTINGS’ support two
years ago that is guiding it in its present
anomalous position.
If the Record was sucha friend of labor
and the miner why did it support a man
who raised the price of the oil both classes
use for domestic purposes? If this is the
‘‘consistency’’ that the Record boasts of
then it is not a surprise that it has bolted
Col. SPANGLER, while supporting BRYAN.
If Col. SPANGLER were not an enthusiastic
silver advocate and the editor of the Record
did not conscientiously believe that the
demonetization of silver was the primal
curse that began the blight of the business
conditions of the United States, then it
would be easy to discover why he has turn-
ed from his support. But when a ‘‘con-
sistency,’’ the explanation of which proves
it inconsistent, must be the apology he
gives to his readers *we are loath to believe
that the editor of the Record is as sincere in
this bolt as his paper tries to indicate.
However it is hardly likely that the Rec-
ord’s course will have much of influence
with the wage workers among whom it
has a large circulation. ARNOLD'S friends
are making the most extravagant claims as
a result of the Record’s influence and they
announced that if the election were to have
been held last Saturday he would have
carried Clearfield county by two thousand
majority. Supposing he does carry that
county by such a figure—which is an ab-
surd claim—all Mr. SPANGLER will need to
have will be the same vote given to Mr.
KRiBBS, in 1892, and he will have a ma-
jority of 923 over Mr. ARNOLD in the dis-
trict. It'is not unreasonable to suppose
that Mr. SPANGLER will get such a vote
as Mr. KrisBs got in Clarion, Centre and
Elk counties. His majority in this county
was only 898.
Thus it will be seen that the silver can-
didate has a hatural margin to goand come
on, not considering the sentiment for the
cause in the district and the very proper
disgust a great many Republicans have for
ARNOLD.
The People’s Battle.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, Democra-
cy’s candidate for President of the United
States, is fighting the people’s battle. .
He is making the most heroic contests for
popular rights and popular interests that
have been made by any one since the foun-
dation of this republic.
JEFFERSON had to fight the enemies of
popular government and Demooratic prin-
ciples, but neither the power nor the num-
ber of the foes which he was forced to con-
tend with in his defence of the people’s
rights equaled the banded array of pluto-
cratic interests which BRYAN is confront-
ing in the contest that is to determine
whether this is to be a government of the
people or of plutegrats; of manhood or of
money.
JACKSON maintained a orion conflict
with the money power of his day and crush-
ed it, but the United States bank and its
financial allies, which aspired to substitute
a moneyed oligarchy for the government of
the people was an enemy vastly less power-
ful and dangerous than the overgrown and
rapacious combination of trusts and bank
syndicates, tariff beneficiaries and money
dealers, against which BRYAN is leading
the fight for the rescue of the government
from subjection to its control, and for the
relief of the people whom it is so grievous-
ly oppressing.
It is a giant of wrong and oppression that
this young champion is grappling with,
and in his battle for the rights of the peo-
ple his only reliance is the people’s help.
He is made the mark of reckless misrep-
resentation and malignant abuse, but so
were JEFFERSON and JACKSON misrepre-
sented and abused when they upheld the
people’s cause against the fiercest and most
vindictive opposition.
Political history is but repeating itself
in this contest. As the people stood by
those earlier champions of their rights, so
will they now stand by their young leader
in this greater conflict.
——Subscribe for the WATCHM AN.
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The Tariff in the Campaign.
The protectionist manufacturers who
have been suspending their work and dis-
tressing their workmen during the past
summer for political effect, are finding that
they are losing money by it, as the condi-
tion of the market is such that there isa
ready demand for their products at re-
munerative prices. There was no reason
for this suspension except the purpose of
influencing the votes of their employes by
the untruthful representation that the
stoppage of work was in consequence of the
injurious effect of the Democratic tariff.
As this method of electioneering is prov-
ing rather expensive to them, they hasten
to terminate it as soon as possible by .rep-
resenting that the prospects of MCKINLEY’S
election has already had such an effect up-
on business that they areable to start their
factories. This dodge is easily seen through,
but it helps to save them from a further
loss of money in consequence of a stoppage
of work at a time when there is a profit-
able market for their goods, while, at the
same time, they can avail themselves of the
pretense that the certainty of MCKINLEY’S
election makes it safe for them to go on_
with their work, and can impress their
working people with that humbug.
The fact is that the WILSON tariff has
ensured conditions under which every
American industry can prosper. It is only
those manufacturers who want the exorbi-
tant protection of MCKINLEY-ism that are
kicking against the Democratic tariff, and
endeavoring to starve their workmen into
voting for the champion of tariff robbery.
Most of the lines of manufacturing indus-
try have been doing a very fair business
since the WILSON tariff law went into op-
eration, and some of them, particularly
that of iron and steel, have shown unprec-
edented activity. There has been less
trouble about wages than under the Mc-
KINLEY measure under which there were
constant strikes.
A remarkable and very favorable effect
of the WILSON law is the extraordinary in-
crease in the exportation of American
manufactures. Under the more liberal
provisions of the Democratic tariff the
amount of the products of our mills and
factories exported to foreign countries
greatly exceeds, both in bulk, ! var@ts and
value, the export of manufactures. when
MCcKINLEY’S tariff was in operation.
But the greatest success of the Demo-
cratic tariff is as a revenue. While afford-
ing ample protection to home industries,
without impesing burdensome exactions
upon our own people, and while stimulat-
ing exportation to foreign countries, it is
producing more revenue than McKIN-
LEY’S system of monopolistic protection.
Notwithstanding these facts the mon-
opolists and trust members, who are back-
ing MCKINLEY, propose to bring the tariff
again before Congress in the event of his
election, and restore the system of robbery
by which their profits may be made ex-
tortionate at the expense of the people.
This spoliation can be prevented by the
election of a Democratic President and a
majority of Democratic Congressmen. In
addition to the money question, the voters
of Centre county should bear this fact in
mind and poll their votes for BRYAN and
SPANGLER.
This duty is particularly incumbent upon
the Democratic voters.
A Word to the Silver Man.
If you are conscientiously opposed to a
single gold standard, if you believe that
silver ought to be restored to its rightful
monetary position, if you believe that
wages and prices, generally, are too low,
if you believe that interest rates are too
high, if you believe that the aim of a Re-
publican form of government should be
the greatest good to the greatest number,
you should vote for Mr. BRYAN. But the
vote for him will be thrown away, unless
it is backed up by a vote for the silver can-
didate for Congress.
There could be NO HOPE of a revised
system of currency if Mr. BRYAN be elected
President and his admirers fail to back him
up with a Congress in sympathy with his
ideas. Congress has the SOLE POWER
‘‘to coin money, regulate the value there-
of, and of foreign coin.’”” Consequently
there can be but one thing for every HON-
EST ADVOCATE OF SILVER to do .in
this district and that is to vote for Mr.
SPANGLER.
As we understand it the silver sentiment
is deep seated in every one of its advocates.
They feel that a great governmental wrong
has been done, a wrong that has struck
particularly at the poorer classes of peo-
ple. The idea is to correct it. But of
what avail if the work is to be only half
done. Lay aside all personal feelings in
the matter and rise to that unselfish ground
where you will see only the means to jus-
tice for your fellow men, and vote for Mr.
SPANGLER.
He is not the embodiment of personal
feeling$ in this campaign, he is the means
to the great end we are striving for. If
you de not vote for him you are not a
friend of silver.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The eastern Reformed Synod, at Beth-
lehem, adjourned on Tuesday.
—The Genesee Methodist conference has
adjourned to meet at Wellsboro next year.
—Allegheny’s director of public safety de-
mands thatall wires in the city be put under-
ground.
—M. J. Connelly was appointed fourth-
class postmaster at Branchdale, Schuylkill
county.
—Mrs. Samuel Clawson, of Gallitzin, com-
mitted suicide by plunging head first ifito a
well.
—John B. Dampman, formerly editor and
proprietor of the Reading Herald has be-
come an editor of the Pittsburg Times.
—The orchard vein has been found at the
Reading's Draper colliery, Shenandoah, and
is eight feet thick and of excellent quality.
—After lying eight hours in an abandoned
mine pit, into which he fell at Gilberton,
Evan Davis was rescued alive by means of a
Tope.
—The survivors’ association of the nine-
tieth regiment of the Pennsylvania Volun-
teers will have a fine reception at Reading
Saturday.
—It will cost $49,000 to rebuild the Cata-
wissa bridge over the Susquehanna, in Col-
umbia county, and the Dauphin county court
has appointed viewers therefore.
—A straw vote taken recently at the Wil-
liamsport pug mill resulted as follows,
says the New. Bryan, 76 ; McKinley, 29;
Levering, on ational Detiacrats, bt
—The Methodist conference at Towanda
adjourned after receiving the new appoint-
ments. Its 36,613 members are credited with
raising $50,000 for benevolence last year.
—The debt on the Port Carbon M. E.
church property has been paid, and that fact
and the fiftieth anniversary of the church
are being celebrated by services daily this
week.
—The Miners’ Journal, of Pottsville, was
awarded the contract to print and furnish
the ballots for the coming election in Schuyl-
kill county. The bid is $803 or $73 per
column for eleven or more columns. ,
—A sermon on the text : ‘‘Judge not, that
ye be not judged,’’ from the new pastor, Rev,
B. R. Wilburn, conquered the North Avenue
Methodist church, Allegheny, which has re-
belled in favor of Rev. D. S. Colt as its pas-
toral appointee.
—Arthur B. Williams, ex-cashier of the
Traders’ National bank, of Scranton, who
pleaded guilty in the United States court at
Williamsport, to making false returns of his
indebtedness to the bank, was sentenced
three years to the penitentiary.
—The body of Mrs. Ramsey, of Brisbin,
was found hanging from the transom of a
door at her residence a few days since. She
had been partially demented for some time.
Instead of using a rope to commit the deed
used a ball of miner’s lamp wicking.
—A West Huntingdon lady is the possessor
of a considerable quantity f dried sweet
apples which she cut and dried herself over
twenty years ago, and occasionally makes an
inroad on the stock to furnish a well known
German dish yclept ‘‘snitz and kenep.”’
—William Getty, of Hughesville, was kill
ed on alogjob on the Loyalsock creek, near
Proctor, a few days ago. Getty was em-
ployed by Correll & Dunlap, and while
working on a skidway his cant hook slipped,
and a heavy log rolled-over him breaking
his neck. He was 21 years old.
—General superintendent Robert Neilson N
of the Philadelphia & Erie and Northern
Central railroads, West Fourth street, Wil-
liamsport, died Tuesday night, between 11
and 12 o'clock. Mr. Neilson had been in ill
health for some time, but relinquished the
performance of active duty about two months
ago. As he was able to walk out up until a
few days ago, his death was quite a shock to
all his friends. Heart failure was the imme-
diate cause of death.
—The largest car of corn ever seen in this
section of the country was placed on exhibi-
tion at the Clearfield fair by D. A. Luther,
Jr., of Carrolltown. The ear was 31 inches
in length and 15 inches in circumference.
Mr. Luther had many calls for seed, but the
price of $1.00 per pound looked rather high
for the farmers, besides the seed would be
useless to a man who did not own a planing
mill. It wasa very fine ear of corn, how-
ever, and had many admirers.
—The old Columbia bridge which spanned
the Susquehanna river between Columbia
and Wrightsville, blown down by the recent
storm, will be torn down and a new steel
bridge erected there instead. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad company has decided to sell
the material in the old bridge, the purchaser
being compelled to clean up all the debris.
It is believed that quite a good sum will bg,
realized from this sale, as there is consider-
able lumber and iron that can be used for the
construction of other work.
—A few days ago C. LaRue Munson, a
Williamsport attorney, well known in that
city, with a number of other wheelmen, left
Williamsport for a run on their bicycles.
When neay Muncy, Mr. Munson lost control
of his wheel, and was precipitated over a
fifty foot cmbankment. When about half
way down he seized a bush and cheeked his
descent, or he would have been dashed to
death on the jagged rocks. Fortunately, he
was only slightly scratched, and succeeded
in climbing down the balance of the dis-
tance.
—What was evidently an exhibition out of
the ordinary is reported by a visitor to the
Bedford county fair from Huntingdon.
Among the various horses present to take
part in trials of speed was an animal owned
by a Harrisburg gentleman. Both horses
and men during the fair were quartered on
the exhibition grounds. One night the stable
boys were awakened by peculiar sounds
emanating from the stall occupied by the
aforesaid animal. By some means the pin
closing the door of the stall had become mis-
placed, and they were surprised to see the
animal step out the building into the bright
moonlight and walk leisurely down the race
track, up which he turned and slowly can-
tered. After passing over the track in a
leisurely manner the beast seemed to enter
into the spirit of the thing and broke into a
regular race speed, and a more beautiful sight
was seldom seen than that of the unattended
racer speeding down the track at his greatest
speed, and sweeping past the judge's stand
like a meteor. *