Ink Slings.
—The WATCHMAN
Democratic.
is nothing, if not
—Will JAMES B. STROHM be made com- |
missioner’s as)
—BRYAN was not beaién as badly as was
HARRISON in 1892.
—The national administration will ‘‘take
care of ABE MILLER,’’ so they say.
—AIl credit and praise to the good old
Democratic precincts on ‘‘the other side of
the mountain.”
—There’s a farm in the valley that makes
a tenant's home, for the next commission-
er’s clerk will be JAMES B. STROHM.
— BRYAN got ahead of MCKINLEY in
one thing anyway. He is not having the
life pestered out of him by office seekers.
— BRYAN has begun the campaign for
1900. If there is anything in that early
bird story he ought to get it sure this time.
—1If the last election proved one thing
more than another it proved the BAKER
ballot an enormous nuisance and a travesty
on secrecy.
—The holder of election bets is the fel-
low who has to do the hustling just now.
Temporary wealth invariably leads to last-
ing extravagance.
—1f it be true that politics makes strange
‘bed-fellows there must have been some
queer nights spent in Centre county during
the few weeks preceding the election.
—Mr. BRYAN has not been conquered.
No leader is so strong as the one who
knows what a defeat is and renews the
fight the better prepared to win a coming
victory.
—The old soldiers of the 28th Congress-
ional district of Pennsylvania have ‘‘their
friend” Mr. ARNOLD now. Everyone of
them should strike for an increase of
pension.
—There is only one thing we want to
ask of Mr. MCKINLEY and that is to give
us the “‘prosperity’’ that his campaigners
promised would follow his election to the
Presidency.
—The election being over and the prize
fighters being close mouthed, for some un-
accountable reason, gives the Cuban war
another chance to be fought out in the
Americans papers. >
—The horse show is the thing in New
York just now and plenty of the blue rib-
boners have more sense than the people
who pay fancy prices for the privilege of
gushing over them.
.. —MCcKINLEY's majority in Clearfield
county was 899. They had 218 free silver
votes, 3 socialist labor, 4 national, 36 Mc-
KINLEY citizens, 90 people’s, and 91 Jeffer-
sonian votes out there,
—We sincerely hope the rumor is correct
that arch-bishop IRELAND is to be removed
for participation in politics. Such a fate
is what he deserves and bishop NEWMAN
ought to be bounced too.
—The gold papers can howl their lungs
out about industries resuming and general
business revivals begetten by ‘‘sound
money’’ but such parades won't delude
the laboring man into imagining his
stomach well filled and back comfortably
clothed.
—Word comes from Harrisburg that
Governor HASTINGS is eut of the senatorial
fight and that it lies between WANAMARER
and BROWN now. If the Governor is thus
to be set aside he will demand the dictator-
ship of patronage in this district then what
will become of AL. DALE and the post-
office.
—1It is a significant feature of the cabi-
net making writer’s appreciation of the
eternal fitness of things that ToM REED is
not spoken of as a possible member of Mr.
MCcKINLEY'’S political house-hold. ToM’s
old story of the country acrobat who could
ride two horses at one time was too true to
be forgotten so soon.
—When the straddle bug lays eggs of
gold and the silver bug golden bricks, and
SAM MILLER has all his stories told, and
there’s an end of political tricks ; then AL
DALE will wink, with his fine weather eye,
at the tail of the combine kite, and say:
“It is I who will win, when HASTINGS
grows thin, in the Bellefonte post office
fight.”
—Politics was politics when America
- was but a pup, politics is politics while
America i$ growing up ; I am a selfish
goldey bug and I want the yellow *‘mon.,”
and every silver advocate is a blatherin
The above is the first
effusion of the new school of poets that will
flourish at Washington during the next
four years.
— ——
—Mrs. CASTLE, the wife of the San Iran-
cisco millionaire, has been released from
Wormwood Scrubbes prison, London, for
shop lifting. The woman’s frail physical
condition is given as the cause of her re-
lease, but had she ‘been some wretched
outcast, who had been forced to steal to
keep herself from starvation, she would
have been left to die in prison and then
been considered ‘‘better off.”
—The colored people are doing right in
organizing to demand something for their
race from President-elect MCKINLEY.
The Republican party has never had any
further use for the colored people that the
help their votes give and it is about time
they are receiving some recognition at the
hands of the party they always help to
power. The Democratic party has always
recognized the negtoes with some good
offices. =
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDE
RAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. NOV.
13. 1896.
The Rescuers of the Country’s Honor.
The comments of the gold-bug news-
papers on the result of the election is not
very pleasant reading for honest Americans
who despise the opinions of a subsidized
press, but in the midst of the repulsive
literature appear specimens of down-right
gall that excite laughter, of a derisive kind,
by the grotesque impudence of their as-
sumptions. For example, the old political
renegade and editorial cut-throat who
directs the expressions of the New York Sun,
in speaking of Tuesday, November 3, says
that it should forever be a red-letter day in
the American calender, as ‘‘it witnessed
the tread of uncrowned kings marching to
the rescue of the country’s honor.”
In taking a retrospective view of this
army of ‘‘uncrowned kings’ to whom the
country is said to be indebted for the
rescue of its honor, the motley and in-
congruous material of which it was com-
posed, would - be a subject of merriment if
it were not such a proper object of righteous
reprobation. At the head of these rescuers
of the ‘country’s honor” was MARK
HANNA, a leader among the organizers of
trusts and the most relentless of the ‘‘labor
smashers’’ who have put their heels on the
necks of the toilers. Back of him came
them ulti-millionaires whose boundless for-
tunes have been accumulated by the ab-
sorption of what others have earned, and
whose ill gotten wealth was the source
from which millions were contributed for
the corruption of the election. > Following
these was every banker and money changer
whose interest demanded a constricted cur-
rency ; every bank syndicate that looked
forward to the profits of further gold loans ;
every member of the trusts and trade com-
binations that anticipated the favors that
would be accorded them by restored Mc-
KINLEYVISM, and every rich man who
sought to evade the taxation that is justly
due from him for the support of the gov-
ernment. This array of ‘‘honor rescuers’
unfortunately included a large force of
working people who were scared into sup-
porting the candidate of the trusts and
syndicates by the threat that they would
be deprived of employment, and that desti-
tution should overtake them, if BRYAN
should be elected ; and to. this largely un-
willing detachment of ‘‘uncrowned kings’
who marched to ,‘‘the rescue of the coun-
try’s honor,”’ was added the ‘‘dam-phoole”’
contingent that was influenced by the 53-
cent dollar humbug. The array was com-
pleted by a mercenary press that applied
the base charge of anarchism and repu-
diation to the great mass of honest and |
patriotic citizens who resisted the monstrous
wrong of surrendering the republic to the
control of a greedy and heartless plutocracy,
and sought to restore to the currency of
the country the kind of money which the
constitution prescribes.
DANA’sarray of uncrowned kings, march-
ing to the rescue of the country’s honor, is
a presentation that has at least the merit of
exciting merriment after the stress and
turmoil of the fight.
Ignomintous Extinction.
The combination of political narrow-
mindedness and sectarian bigotry, known
as the A. P. A., presents & contemptible
appearance as shown up by the result of
the election. The exhibit it has made of
its weakness clearly divulges its insig-
nificance.
Two or three years ago it entered the
political arena with a great swagger, avow-
edly intending to exert a balancing power
in the politics of the country, and to deter-
mine the question of victory or defeat be-
tween political parties, but those who were
ableto gauge the capability of such an or-
ganization, as limited by its narrow spirit
and purpose, had no fear of what it might
be able todo, and regarded it with the con-
tempt it deserved. They could read its
fate in the disgraceful episode of Know
nothihgism. They made no mistake in
anticipating its contemptible failure to ex-
ert an influence upon the result of the
contest just closed.
When the opposing forces were being
arrayed for the pending conflict the
A. P. As assumed to dictate conditions
upon which their friendship or their enmity
would be exercised on one side or the other,
and they did it with an air that indicated
their belief that they were going to be the
determining force in the fight. Candidates
were demanded to make confessions to these
political inquisitors and to answer interrog-
atories as to how they stood on political
and sectarian issues: Major MCKINLEY
was weak enough to give some attention
to this bigoted impudence, but none of the
national conventions paid attention to the
assumptions of the dark lantern politicians.
As they operate under ground it is im-
possible to tell how they were affected by |
the snubbing they received from the politi-
cal parties, and to which side they turned
their inconsequential force, but that it was of
small account is evidenced by the fact that
they were unable to prevent their leader,
LINTON, from being most thoroughly beat- |
en in his candidacy for Congress.
A. P. As die as ignominiously as the Know
nothings did some forty years ago.
A Dying Issue.
There is a probability that the tariff will
go out of politics, and the country will
certainly be the better for it. As a polit-
ical factor it has been the source of much
evil from its corrupting tendency. For
the past decade, and even longer, it has
been used by the managers of the Republi-
can party, to alarm and intimidate a large
class of voters, and it never failed to draw
from expectant beneficiaries the funds
which Republican managing committees
required to corrupt the ballot in presidential
and congressional elections. It was their
chief reliance when they wanted to affect
the public mind by a fictitious apprehen-
sion of calamity.
Contrary to MCKINLEY’S original cilcu-
lation in this campaign the tariff, as a fac-
tor, did not cut as big a figure as it did in the
two preceding presidential elections.
This was neither MCKINLEY’S nor MARK
HANNA’s fault, as it was intended that
it should be the leading issue. Had this
not been the intention, MCKINLEY would
not have been the candidate, as his promi-
nence was entirely due to his tariff record.
He was put on the road more than two
years ago as the tariff claimant for the
Presidency ; his canvass, which extended to
all parts of the country, having been back-
ed and his expenses paid by the syndicate
of trusts interested in higher tariff duties,
of which HANNA was the head.
The tariff was the leading object in this
programme up till the meeting of the St.
Louis convention, the public having a
distinct recollection of the struggle between
the tariffites and the geldites as to whether
protection or the gold standard should
predominate the platform and it was much
against his will, and only by the insistence
of the Wall street interest, represented by
ToM PLATT, that MCKINLEY wasn’t put
on a platform which, in addition to its
high tariff declaration, would have recog-
‘nized the claims of silver to co-ordinate
standing with gold in our currency. Thus
it is seen how narrowly the major escaped
being a ‘‘repudiator’’ and an ‘‘anarchist,”
and how near he came to being put on a
‘“‘dishonest money’’ platform.
During the campaign MCKINLEY, in the
stereotype speeches he made from his front
porch, did what he could to keep the tariff
to the fore, but his efforts grew feebler as
the contest progressed, and his election
finds the public mind prepared to regard
the tariff asan issue that hasn’t much life
left in it.
Cuba and the President.
The public reasonably expects that Pres-
ident CLEVELAND will have something of
great importance to say about Cuba in his
forthcoming message. Indications point
to a crisis in the action of our government
relative to the conflict between Spain and
her insurrectionary dependency, which has
now been in progress for nearly two years
with no appearance of Spain’s ability to
suppress the rebellion.
The retugn of General LEE from Havana
is portentdttSyf some decided action on the
part of the President. Mr. CLEVELAND
most prudently refrained from adopting a
decisive course in a matter of such great
importance, the consequences of which
might be serious to our government, until
he was assured of the situation in the island,
from an official and reliable source, and
for this purpose General LEE was sent as
consul general to Havana, with such in-
structions, no doubt, as would direct his
observations. He has been on the island
sufficiently long to ascertain the real con-
dition of affairs existing there. He can
speak from observation, and the action of
the President will no doubt be based on
the information that will be imparted
through that source. :
The public can reasonably conjecture
what General LEE has communicated to
his chief in regard to the situation in Cuba.
The general tenure of the intelligence from
the island makes it evident that Spain is
not progressing in the suppression of the
island, that the insurgents are doing more
than holding their ground, as their re-
sistance is wearing out the military force
and exhausting the resources of their
Spanish assailants, and that the protracted
character of the conflict is proving the
billigerent capability of the Cuban patriots.
These are facts which have made them-
selves patent to the world by general ap-
pearances, and it may be supposed that
they will furnish the text of General LEE’S
communication to the President.
Upon this supposition the American
people may expect that Mr. CLEVELAND'S
message will recommend a course of action,
on the part of Congress, that will have a
determining effect upon the issue of the
Cuban insurrection.
——The difficulty with the Venezuelan
boundary is to be fixed up soon. The
United States and England have gotten
together. The former will appoint two
arbitrators, the latter two and King Oscar
The |
I II, of Sweden, will be the final arbitrator.
{ The question has been a long drawn out
| one and the possibility of an early settle-
‘ment is looked upon with gratification.
Deceptive Indications of Better Times.
While every good citizen will wish that
prosperity may return to our country his
discernment is unable to see how MCKIN-
LEY’S claim to being the ‘advance agert of
prosperity’’ is going to be fulfilled.
Those who have been deceived by the
promises and representations of the Repub-
lican spell binders during the campaign are
flattering themselves with the idea that
“better times’’ have already struck the
country, as a consequence of MCKINLEY’S
election, the improvement being indicated
by reports of mills and factories having re-
sumed operations since it has been posi-
tively assured that the Republicans have
recovered the control of the government
and the policies of that party will prevail
in the management of public affairs. Ad-
mitting that industrial works, which have
been idle for some time previous, have been
started again since the election, it is a fool-
ish assumption to claim that the result of
the election has been the cause of it. In
not a single instance have those mills more
of a legitimate reason to operate now than
they had three or six months ago. They
were closed with the object of having an
effect upon the votes of their employes,and
that object having been effected, their re-
sumption is most fallaciously published as
the immediate evidence of the returning
prosperity which MCKINLEY'’S election
assures to the country.
The requirements of the market which
justify this resumption of manufacture ex-
isted for many months past, but it suited
the political purpose of the proprietors to
keep their mills idle. Having assisted, by
this kind of campaign ‘‘education,”’ in
electing a President and Congress from
which they expect a restoration of tariff
favoritism, they start their works, but
with no more substantial reason for it, in
an industrial sense, than they would have
had in July or in April. Nothing could
be mor¢ preposterous than to suppose that
the demand for their products would not
have set their mills going if BRYAN had
been elected.
That there will be a spurt of industrial
activity can hardly be doubted, but what
are the prospects of substantial and contin-
ued industrial prosperity? It is discour-
aging to contemplate it, but no discerning
man can avoid the conviction that during
the next four years we are going to have
the hard experience of the past four.
There can be no real prosperity under a
constricted currency system that gives all
| the advantage to the money lenders and
none to the producers and the active busi-
ness men who require money for their op-
erations. The increase of tariff duties,
which MCKINLEYISM implies, will only
aggravate the disorder. Active manufac-
turing production will, in less than
nine months, more than supply the needs
of a population whose purchasing capacity
is depressed by a contracted currency, and
then the suspension of industrial operations
will necessarily follow, with the attendant
depression of labor interests and trouble
among the industrial classes.
This will be the unavoidable experience
of the next four years, furnishing that
practical education that will lead the Amenr-
ican people to the adoption of a system of
currency from which they and not the mon-
ey changers will derive the larger share of
advantage.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN has
been offered a salary of $25,000 per year to
take charge of the law department of SIE-
GLE & COOPER'S great department store in
New York. Mr. BRYAN declined the offer
because he does not want to do anything
that will jeopardize him in the fight for
silver that he intends continuing.
Who Will be Commissioners’ Clerk
Now that the talk of how it happened
has been dropped politicians, big and little,
are commencing to look around for the
plums that are to fall from the national and
local administrations. None of the offices
are attracting any more attention than that
of commissioners’ clerk just now and there
are a number of good Republican aspirants
who are bustling for the favor of Messrs.
RIDDLE and FISHER, the Republican board.
Among them is present Commissioner,
JAMES B. STROHM, who has lately taken it
into his head that he would like to grow
fast in the office. He has been Commis-
sioner for the past six years and two years
before that he was clerk to the board, so
you see if he is successful as an applicant
for clerk again it will give him eleven years
in the office with a chance for fourteen
years if the board-elect should be re-elected
in 1899.
Mr. STROHM is thoroughly capable of
filling the place and from what we hear
stands a good chance of securing it. In fact
we are almost persuaded that it would be
wise to announce that he will be appointed,
for he is said to have promised his farm in
Penns valley to another man. Hisappoint-
ment would be in keeping with the Repub-
*lican policy of life tenure of office.
~The President has proclaimed that
Thursday, November 26th, must be set
aside as a day for general thanksgiving.
Part of the Dishonesty that Elected Mc~
Kinley.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
The farmer vote for the free coinage of
silver at the late election was much small-
er than anticipated. While many Repub-
lican farmers worked and voted for Mr.
Bryan’s election, yet the great mass of
Republicans who till the toil stood by the
gold standard, which has been so disastrous
to their interests. We believe the farmer
has again been fooled by the politicians, as
the following two paragraphs taken from
the same issue of the strongest gold paper
in New York would seem to indicate :
Mark Hanna in Evening|Evening Post editorial.
Post. : It was a square fight
‘We put in xo much|between the single silver
work in the middle West|standard and the single
because there especially gcld standard. Any poli-
the farmers and labor-tician who now goes to
fooling with the delusion
of international bimetal-
lism will be held, and
rightly, to be proposing
to go through the Sport
all over again, and will
be apt to have his own
portion of the agony
served out to him in ad-
vance.
ers in cities had been
misinformed in regard
to our position. any
of them had the idea
that the Republican par-
ty stood for gold mono-
metalism ; if McKinley
were elected silver
would disappear as cur-
rency. e explain to
them that we stood on|
the St. Louis platform,
which advocates bimet-
allism under an interna-
tional agreement, and
that we were not gold
monometallists. he
result of our campaign
of education is’ showu
in the vote all through
the West.”
Now, if what the Evening Post intimates
editorially is to be the policy to be pursued
by the McKinley administration, then
there will be no hope forsilver, even by in-
ternational bimetallism. Yet Mark Hanna
admits that he caught the farmer vote of
the West by holding out the hope of inter-
national bimetallism. Even so soon after
election the farmer is given notice hy the
Post that he has been buncoed, when that
paper says that international bimetallism
is a ‘‘delusion.”’
The farmer has simply voted to continue
the present system of finances, and how he
is expected to be benefitted thereby is be-
yond comprehension. We all hope that
he may be, but we fear that he has been
caught by the Post’s ‘‘delusion.” A tem-
porary revival in business will, of course,
benefit all the people, but we fail to see
anything in the situation that will result
in permanent benefit to the farmer. We
would be glad to be mistaken in this view
of the case, but the evidence points the
other way.
What of the Future ?
From the Gettysburg Compiler.
A prominent Republican of York, a man
who is very conversant with the question
of theday, writes'to a gentleman in Gettys-
burg : :
Tam not a prophet, but unless relief is
given to the country by a larger supply of
money in the next four years the election in
1900 will deluge the Republican party. We
fought and won, but oie at the facts—a
high tariff’ will only prove an additional tax
and offer no relief. The stringency in the
market will continue. Overproduction will
follow the election of McKinley and add to
the general distress.
“A few months of over zealous manufac-
turing will bring the manufacturer to realize
that without money the people cannot buy
the products of labor and then the bubble of
the ‘‘advance agent.of prosperity,”’ will
burst and the dream of our. ‘over-enthu-
siastic “sound money’”’ advocates will van-
ish like mist before the morning sun.
“There will be more idle labor the next
four years than during the past four years.
The single gold standard as it now exists, is
inhumanitarian, cold, cruel and selfish and
illy adapted to our form of government. If
one keeps cool he will see results directly op-
posite to what is expected and promised by
our Republican friends.
‘‘The only ones that will be benefitted by
its continuance are the holders of gold bear-
ing bonds and investors of like securities.”
Had Better Begin at
Bishop Newman
: Home.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
An interesting lesson in finance as it is
practiced by preachers and churches is fur-
nished by the reports of the proceedings of
the Methodist committee of church exten-
sion in session at Pittsburg. Resolutions
were presented demanding the strict collec-
tion of loans made to churches, and in case’
of neglect to pay, the mortgages were to be
foreclosed. In support of this sternly
worded resolution Bishop Foss declared
that in many cases churches and pastors
had no sense of their obligation to pay ;
sometimes there was no apparent intention
to try to pay. The splendid audacity of
some pastors in securing loans was fre-
quently commented upon. Some pastors
seemed to consider a loan asa gift. Dr.
Thomas said that the trouble lay not in a
lack of business knowledge but in a lack
of moral sense on the part of some church-
es and pastors. The resolutions in all
their sternness were nnanimously adopted.
If this arraignment of the financial in-
tegrity of the clergy did not come from a
tribunal of preachers it might be bitterly
resented, particularly by those who have
been preaching for ‘‘honest money.”
Indisputable.
From the Washington Post.
William Jennings Bryan is a shining ex-
ample of American grit and spirit. No
matter how much one may differ from him
his courage is to be admired.
An Explanatory Comment.
From the Detroit Tribune.
Of course the Republicans and the Na-
tional Democrats will quarrel, but that is
merely in order not to appear as if they
were just married.
What we Think of Our 93.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
We hope the 181 gentlemen in this
county who voted for McKinley aid candi-
dates feel proud of their work.
— Miss Francis E. Willard, with her
secretary and other temperance advocates,
has arrived at New York from England.
unusually active.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—George W. Kein, aged 23, committed sui-
cide by shooting at Middletown.
—W. Oscar Miller now holds the double
office of city solicitor of Reading and State
senator.
— Matthew Lesher, the fourth victim of the
Centralia boiler explosion, died Monday at
the miners hospital.
—The official vote in the nineteenth con-
gressional district gives George J. Benner,
Bryan Democrat, 778 plurality.
—The week of prayer is being observed by
the Reading Young Men’s Christian Associa-
tion with four meetings daily.
—The people of Yochoro, near York, have
raised a flag to an unknown man who voted
for Bryan, the only silver vote in the place.
—The Hazleton Young Men’s Christian As-
sociation will erect a new building and $35,-
000 has already been subscribed for the pur-
pose.
—0O. H. Shumway, son of (. Shumway,
publisher of the Pottsville Chronicle, who
died at Denver, was buried in Pottsville
Monday.
—The election officers of the South Cass
polls, Schuylkill, was taken into court for
failing to sign the returns, reprimanded and
made pay the costs.
—Recent deaths in Juniata county: Mrs.
Rebecca Ann Evans, Beale township, aged 73
years ; Samuel A. Thomas, Fermanagh town-
ship, aged 53 years. ;
—By a decision of the Supreme court
handed down recently itis decided that a
stockholder in a water, gas or electric light
company, having a contract with a city or
borough for the products of his company can-
not hold .a position in the council of such
city or borough.
—A new disease is attacking horses in dif-
ferent sections of the State. Veterinarians
are unable to diagnose it. The leading symp-
toms are loss of appetite, rapid rise of
temperature, discharge at the nose and loss
of vision. Death usually follows within
twenty-four hours of attack.
—A dispatch from Johnstown says, the un-
known burglar shot by officer Kelley died at
the Memorial hospital last night, without re-
gaining consciousness and without being
identified. The bullet was found lodged
near the skull after passing through six
inches of brain. Officer Kelley was again
placed under arrest.
—An old stone grist mill, about a mile
from Altoona, was set afire by tramps, and
totally destroyed Wednesday evening. The
Altoona ice plant, natatorium and four dwell-
ings were ignited by sparks and were badly
scorched. The total loss will be about $15,-
000. The old mill was owned by Dr. S. C.
Baker, and was a landmark.
—Elliot & Storer, of Churchville, shipped
seven tons of the new crop of dried apples to
Philadelphia last Wednesday. The greater
portion is usually packed in cases, but five
tons of this lot were packed in sacks for ex-
port to Germany. It appears that apples
packed in cases swell so much from the damp
air while crossing the ocean that the cases
are often burst open, but this swelling does
not affect the sacks, which simply stretch.
—Thomas English, a young man who has
been working about the Clearfield jail for
sheriff Smith during the past summer, con-
cluded to try his penmanship Thursday last
and accordingly forged the sheriff’s name to
a check for $85. The check was made to J.
M. Gibson and English endorsed it and pre-
sented it at the bank for payment. The for-
gery was detected and the young man ar-
rested and placed in jail to await trial. He
will no doubt get a trip to Allegheny next
month.
—Word comes from Sullivan county that
chestnuts are unusually plenty in that region
this year. Also that the ‘‘pot hunters” are
New York houses have
placed orders forall the birds thatcan be
bought up, and one man in Dushore has al-
ready this season shipped one hundred dozen
pheasants to a single house in New York.
This means annihilation to this king of
game birds and is an object lesson that our
legislators should carry with them to Harris-
burg this winter.
—There is residing in Bradford township,
Clearfield county, a man named M. B. Cow-
drick, who is afflicted with an ailment that
he can remain awake day and night for ten
days without effect. He seldom sleeps more
than two hours at atime. Mr. Cowdrick’s
is an affection of the nerves, and he suffers
excruciating pains incessantly. He was
quite a wealthy man eleven years ago when
fi attacked, but most of his money has
since been spent for medicines and treatment.
For patent medicines he has expended over
$2,000.
—A young couple from the rural distriets
created quite a sensation on a Hollidaysburg
street yesterday afternoon. The young man
was under the influence of intoxicants, yet
seemed to be an ardent lover, and gave pub-
lic exhibitions by frequently kissing and em-
bracing the young lady as they passed along
the street. They visited the temple of justice
and endeavored to procure a marriage
license, but Judge Bowers, of the prothono-
tary’s office, by reason of the condition of the
man, denied the much coveted document,
whereupon the young man became indignant
and gave expression to his dismay in unmis-
takable terms, all of which was enjoyed by
the listeners.
—A bear story comes from the Black For-
est, near Cammal, Lycoming county. Itis
to the effect that Jim Myers, a well known
hunter, while out looking for bears last
week, tracked one into the forest. The
bear's tracks led to a decayed tree trunk,
and with his trusty old rifle cocked he
kicked the tree over and a big bear jumped
out and made for him. Myers fired and the
bullet lodged in bruin’s hide, but the hunter
tripped and fell to the ground, his rifle flying
through the air and falling some distance
from him. The wounded and enraged bear
made for his prostrate foe, but Myers made a
foxey move well known to bear hunters by
falling limp to the ground and lay as if dead.
Bruin sniffed him from head to foot and ex-
hibited a trait peculiar to bears of not harm-
ing dead bodies (or those apparently so), and
finishing his inspection trundled off. Myers
quickly rose to his feet when the bear was
some distance from him, and regaining his
rifle fired several shots, which ended the
bear's career. Bruin weighed 300 pounds
dressed.