“Windsor Castle,
TY
Bemoreaic atm
Ink Slings.
.—Turkey’s slaughter of Armenians
wasn’t a circumstance to America’s slaugh-
ter of Turkey, yesterday. $
——1If man can only be reached through
his stomach there is no better day to get
after him than Thanksgiving.
—We hope that as President McCKIN-
LEY wont make as much of a failure as he
did in business for himself.
—England’s trying to suppress the bread
riots in India with ledden bullets will be
about as effective as doctors’ attempts to
cure lead poisoning with bread pills.
—That offer of $5,000 for his head must
have had something to do with WEYLER’S
hurrying back to Havana. He would far
rather lose his official head than have that
big part of his anatomy that suriounts his
spinal column chopped off and implanted
along the Trocha on a patriot pole.
—They just brought JOHN WANAMAKER
out as a candidate for United States Senate
the other day. What a farcical bit of po-
litical deception on the part of the pious
store keeper’s friends. Do they hope to
make the public believe that WANAMAKER
Thasn’t been fighting for Legislators in var-
ious counties in the State for the last year?
—The Republicans arealready beginning
to claim that all of the sound money Demo-
crats will be sound Republicans by the
time of the next presidential contest. Let
it be so, if it is to be so. It is far better
for any party to be rid of all snakes in the
grass and experience has proven that the
Democratic party has had its share.
—General GOMEZ, the ‘Cuban patriot
leader, has thirty-five thousand well armed
men under him. He knows how to
handle them too for there isno marching
them up the hill then marching them down
again where he is concerned. Every move
he makes has a well defined strategical ob-
ject and is usually accomplished, while
WEYLER bobs around like a cork org
storm tossed sea.
—Captain General WEYLER is back in
Havana where he will continue the win-
ter’s campaign after the FITZSIMMONS-
CorBETT plan of shooting off with his
mouth. It is much pleasanter in Havana
than running the risk of being shot in the
hills of Pinar del Rio, where the rebels have
their strongholds.
—They called it eccentricity when Mil-
lionaire JOHN E. DuBols had a man stand
at the doors of the Methodist and Presby-
terian churches, in DuBois, last Sunday,
and hand every one who entered the build-
ings an envelope in which he had placed
90cts. It was his idea of making a sub-
scription to the church, for the envelopes
were all dropped into the collection bas-
kets. Possibly it was eccentricity but it
was of the kind that will always gladden
the ministerial heart and help church work.
You need not be ashamed of being called
such an eccentric.
—1I¢t is éertainly remarkable the causali-
ties that have followed the hanging of
HowLMES, the multi-murderer, in Philadel-
phia, some months ago. The judge who
tried the case, a number of the jurors,
several of the witnesses, some of the law-
yers and jailers, have died or suffered some
mental trouble since participating in the
trial and, on Tuesday, HOWARD PERKINS,
a warden of Moyamensing prison, commit-
ted suicide by shooting, to end his worry
about HOLMES’ hanging. There are those
who say that HOLMES had an ‘‘evil eye.”
— Ambassador THOS. F. BAYARD, to the
court of St. James, had to cancel his en-
gagement to preside at the Thanksgiving
dinner of the American colony in London
hecause the Queen had “‘commanded’’ him
and” Mrs. BAYARD to dine with her, at
that day. That word
‘commanded’ has a kind of autocratic
sound to we Americans who are accustomed
to do as we please in matters pertaining to
our eating, but in this case it sounds a
good deal worse than it means. It is mere-
ly a form of invitation.
—While Uncle SAM has very little to be
afraid of inthe event of war with Spain
there are some things that are causing him
to scratch his head and wonder how he is
going to protect our woefully defenceless
extensive coast line with nine boats that
are calculated for heavy fighting. We
have plenty scattered over the world to
blow Spain clear out “of water, but should
we become involved before they could be
called home it would take pretty large
shooting for the nine boats now ready to
ward off Spanish attack from Eastport,
Me., clear around to the mouth of the Rio
Grande.
—The fellow who goes to a rafflin’
mateh to get a turkey cheap has about the
same idea of economy as the woman who
pays 25cts extra car fare, and rides miles
out of her way, to save two cents on a
vard of ribbon at a bargain sale. A Belle-
fouter who has dropped enough to buy
turkeys for nearly every poor family in
town, without winning one, gave it up in
disgust, Wednesday night, and went home
to give his moral to the world in verse.
His poetical muse must have been as fickle
as was she who swayed his fortune, as the
following will show :
A frugal man to a rafilin’ went
To get a turkey cheap;
He threw away ‘till his money was spent
And quit with none to eat.
8Y P. GRAY MEEK. {
“VOL. 41
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONT
, PA., NOV. 27. 1896.
D FEDERAL UNION.
Crushing the Free Silver Cause.
In the heat of the recent political conflict
the representatives of the money-power were
loud in declaring that such a blow would
have to be given, to those who supported
the cause of silver, as would completely sup-
press that alleged monetary delusion. A
particular boltocratic organ in Philadelphia
fairly foamed with the fury of its invocation
to the people to rise up in their wrath and
administer to the free silver ‘‘anarchists’
and “‘repudiationists’’ so thorough a beating
as would prevent them from again conspir-
ing against the integrity and honor of the
nation and the peace and good order of
society. Such was substantially the foolish
language it used in this connection.
Well, the punishment which the organs
of the trusts, bank syndicates and general
plutocratic interests demanded, as the just
desert of the free silverites, has been ad-
ministered, and what has it amounted to ?
The majority against freesilver in the House
of Representatives, elected along with Mc-
KINLEY, is not nearly as large as the Re-
publican majority in the present House.
BRYAN has been defeated in the electoral
college by an adverse majority less than
that by which HARRISON was defeated four
years ago. The popular vote cast for
BRYAN, although he was defeated, is larger
than that which elected Mr. CLEVELAND
in 1892. MCcKINLEY’S popular majority
of about 800,000 does not equaP by at least
200,000 the negro vote, which was practical-
ly unanimous for him, so that it appears
that he owes his majority to the negroes,
and when to this is added the fact that the
ignorant Italians, Hungarians and the low-
est class of naturalized voters were, by rea-
N son of coercion and misrepresentation, al-
most if not entirely solid for MCKINLEY, it
is obvious that the great majority of the in-
telligent voters of the country were opposed
to the candidate who represented what the
gold-bugs called ‘‘honest money.”
The following figures fairly show to
what extent the result was secured which
the trust organs demanded as necessary to
| crush. free silver and bury it beyond the
| hope of resurrection :
Negro vote solidly
cast for MCKINLEY, 1,000,000 ; Dago,
Hun. and similar low-down foreign vote,
practically solid for MCKINLEY, 500,000 ;
total of this mass of ignorance, 1,500,000 ;
McKINLEY’S majority of the popular vote,
800,000 ; majority of intelligent vote against
McKINLEY, 700,000.
Can there be any question as to free silver
surviving such a defeat as this ? Is it not
rather to be regarded as a victory when it
is considered that the supporters of the
people’s money, the constitutional cur-
rency of the country, had to fight the com-
bined power of all the trusts; banks,
moneyed corporations, millionaires and
general plutocratic interests, which threw
ahoodle fund of at least twelve millions of
dollars into the contest to influence and
corrupt the election ?
When all these circumstances are taken
into account nothing could appear more
ridiculous than the assumption of those
minions of the money power who proposed
to achieve a victory that would crush the
life out of the party whose contention in
the recent election was for the maintenance
of that honest currency prescribed by the
constitution, which must be restored to its
original position in our monetary system if
the country would recover the prosperity it
has lost since the demonetization of silver.
| Instead of having been defeated, the
Democratic party, which has assumed the
championship of constitutional bimetallism,
has only begun the fight which is bound to
end in victory.
——There is another RICHMOND in the
field for United States Senator. P. A. B.
WEIDENER, the millionaire street railway
owner, has resigned the presidency of the
Philadelphia Traction company to look
after his fences for the office which it seems
that none but millionaires are now compe-
tent to fill. Shades of BIGLER, BUCKALEW
and WALLACE look down on us! What
are we coming to when such men as
WEIDENER aspire to represent the great
State of Pennsylvania in the upper house
of Congress.
——The man who is anxious, and able
to work, though he may not be able to
secure it, isnot a tramp. In every com-
munity there area few men who are not
working simply because it is an absolute
impossibility for them to secure any, yet
they are none the less esteemed for their
predicament. It is the class of lazy loafers
who would rather stumble over a stick in
their path than go to the trouble of re-
moving it, that should be forced to know
ST. PAUL'S injunction: “If any will not
work, neither shall he eat.”
——The designer of the great FERRIS
wheel is dead. GEORGE FERRIS, the en-
gineer who conceived the idea of building
the famous wheel that attracted the eyes
of the world at Chicago, in 1893, died at
Mercy hospital, in Pittsburg, on Sunday.
He had typhoid fever. Like so many of
the inventors of remarkable things he was
proclaimed crazy when he announced his
scheme, but he proved the great possibility
of engineering and made over $100,000 out
of it. He lost most of it in later ventures,
however.
st TREC BE ES
Did You Ever Look at in This Light.
No one will deny the assertion that a
newspaper, however poor it may be, is
some good to the community in which it is
published and circulates. Certain it is
that any journal can give publicity to facts
about a town or an individual, for that
matter, that might be either injurious or
beneficial. The public expects only the
latter and on what grounds ?
There is not a community in the United
States that treats its paper with the same
consideration that it demands in return.
It is nearly a safe statement to assert that
in every community in which a newspaper
having a job working department is locat-
ted there is forty per cent of the printing
consumed done in some out of the town
office. :
Asked the reason why such a condition
exists the answer invariably comes “it can
be procured at a lower rate, elsewhere than
at home.”” Is this the fact? It is un-
doubtedly true that in a few lines of work
the well equipped country office cannot
compete with the large city job establish-
ment, but is it just that the former should
suffer on account of the slight discrepancy
in prices? The merchant answers : ‘‘Of
course it is just ! don’t we have to meet all
kinds of competition from traveling agents
of city houses ?”’ While this answer has a
certain amount of reason in it there is a
salient point that seems to be overlooked.
‘When this same merchant complains that
he should be protected from such infringe-
ments and goes before council to demand
that a tax be put on the traveling vender
he expects the home newspaper to support
him. If he should be unfortunate enough
to get into trouble of any sort he expects
the home newspaper to suppress what the
public has a right to know, but if, on the
contrary, he makes any improvement in
his store, has a particularly artistic window,
or gets fresh paint and paper he condemns
the newspaper as being no good unless it
devotes a half column to his praise.
These are not suppository cases at all.
They are hard pan facts that confront every
country newspaper manager in the land.
He gives more and gets less than any other
business man in the community. Why is
it? Simply because the newspaper man
has allowed himself to be imposed upon so
long that he doesn’t have the courage to
stand up for his rights.
Bellefonte has her share of these people.
A large share too. There are merchants
and other business men in this place who
give their work to out of town concerns be-
cause they can get it a few cents cheaper,
yet they expect their home newspapers to
keep booming away at the town in order
that they may reap the benefits of what
business the newspaper brings.
ES =
The Collapse of a Trust.
The American people, who have suffered
from the spoliation of the trusts, should
derive some comfort from the announce-
ment that one of those trade conspiracies
has been compelled to discontinue its career
of plunder. We refer to the wire nail trust
which practiced its extortions with such
rapacity that the trade was compelled to
take measures for its own defence against
the extortionate system that held it in
subjection. This resistance resulted in
such a curtailment of the demand for wire
nails as compelled the trust to close nearly
90 per cent of its mills, and finally to dis-
solve its monopolistic combination.
This is a gain for the public interest as
far as it goes, but there still remain dozens
of these trade conspiracies to oppress the
people by their extortions. Apparently
such gigantic monopolies as the sugar trust,
the beef trust, the steel trust, the com-
bination of anthracite coal operators, known
as the coal trust, the Standard oil com-
pany, and a score of other confederated
despoilers of the public, continue to plun-
der the people with no apparent abatement
of their greed ; and most extortionate of
all, and most injurious in its general ef-
fects, is the gold trust that has cornered
the currency and by the process of contrac-
tion has brought the money of the country
within its control.
But of what account is the isolated fact
that the wire nail trust has collapsed when
dozens of others of greater magnitude con-
tinue their rapacious business, with Mc-
KINLEY'’S election affording no prospect of
their suppression? We observe that some
of the Republican newspapers are joining
in the denunciation of the trusts, but of
what little avail is the expression of their
disapprohation, and how much it sounds
like mockery, after they have helped, in
the election of a high tariff President, to
bring about conditions that will strengthen
the position of the monopolies in dominating
the business situation. The trusts were
the chief agencies that secured the election
of MCKINLEY and a tariff Congress, and
they are already clamoring fora special
session to furnish the tariff legislation
they require, and for which they invested
their money in MCKINLEY’S election. The
count.; can entertain mo hope of being
relieved from the extortion of the trusts
fog, the next four years at least.
Greenbacks Must be Retained.
The money sharks who have succeeded
in constricting the currency by means of
the gold stardard, are now conspiring to
subject it to a further limitation by with-
drawing the greenbacks from circulation.
Such a design is encouraged by the verdict
of the recent election, which has been ren-
dered in favor of monetary contraction.
If the people are agreed to limiting the cir-
culating medium by the restriction of the
gold standard, the money dealing interest
considers itself justified in believing that it
may go a step further in cornering the cur-
rency by putting out of circulation the
government paper money which has been
so helpful in meeting the business necessi-
ties of the country.
Various specious reasons are being ad-
vanced for the retirement of the greenbacks
preparatory to the commission of another
monetary crime. It is urged that the gov-
ernment has no right to engage in the bank-
ing business, and that itis time for it to
desist from the performance of that func-
tion, an evidently false presentation of the
character of the government’s action in is-
suing paper money. Its issue of that kind
of money has no more the nature of bank-
ing than has its coinage of the metallic cur-
rency it furnishes the country. Designa-
ting it as banking is a misrepresentation in-
tended to create a false impression. The
creation of money is clearly a govern-
mental function, and it is too late in the
day to question the legality of the govern-
ment’s issuing paper money, since it has
been decided by the highest legal authority
that the issue of the legal tender notes did
not conflict with the constitution.
The design to retire the greenbacks is in
line with the general policy of the banking.
interest to bring the currency completely
within its control. A big step has been
made in that direction by the endorsement
of the gold standard in the recent election.
It is proposed to follow this up with a fur-
ther contraction by removing the legal ten-
der notes from circulation. With silver
reduced to a mere subsidiary position, and
the paper money confined to such as may
be issued by the banks, the money dealers
would have removed every obstacle to
their successful cornering of the currency.
We trust, however, thateven in the next
Congress there will be such opposition to
the monetary contraction proposed by the
retirement of the greenbacks as will re-
tain that serviceable paper money for the
continued use of the people.
Spain’s Hopeless Conflict.
The news from the seat of war in Cuba is
discouraging to the expectation of the Span-
iards that General WEYLER’S grand move-
ment against the rebel stronghold held by
MACEO’S forces would wind up the cam-
paign with a blaze of victory, and bring
about the speedy termination of the rebel-
lion.
WEYLER has made his movément with
the largest army that Spain has mustered
against the rebels, and it appears to have
turned out to have been a complete mili-
tary fiasco. The particulars have not been
given to the world, but enough appears on
the surface to indicate that the personal
leadership of the Captain General in the
tion of the patriots, who have either beaten
off the Spanish attack, or evaded it by their
superior strategy.
It is reported that in consequence of
WEYLER’S failure he will be superceded by
another commander, but such a change will
avail but little for the success of the Span-
ish arms, as against the enduring heroism
of the Cuban patriots.
WEYLER’S defeat gives a hopeless ap-
pearance to the Spanish cause, but not-
withstanding such a reverse the stubborn-
ness of Spanish pride may induce them to
continue a lingering warfare, with no pros-
pect of ultimate success. Buf this should
not be allowed by our government. The
claims of humanity, the rights of the Cu-
ban patriots, as well as the feeling and in-
terest of the American people, demand that
our government should take such action as
will bring this conflict to a. conclusion in
the interest of justice and freedom.
Dunham’s Scurrility.
Col. DUNHAM, editor of the Howard Hor-
net, went to Mill Hall recently and made a
speech at a MCKINLEY and HOBART ratifi-
cation meeting. While there is no steno-
graphic report of what he said to refer to,
we imagine it must have been very scurri-
lous, and not having had time to blow it all
off there, he wound it up in the last issue
of his paper, as follows :
‘‘The friends of the murderers of Etlinger
rolled up a Populist-Democratic majority of
twelve hundred on the other side of the
mountain. Those demo-pops people over
there think they own the earth. Each pre-
cinct has its oracle from whom the people
take political instruction, and these oracles
get their instructions from partisan manipu-
laters in Bellefonte and carry ‘them out for a
consideration. Etlinger was hounded to
death because he was a mechanical genius
and a Republican and was increasing the Re-
publican vote in his precinct.”
PFE
field has proved a signal failure ; that no
impression has been made upon the posi-:
5 dois
TRISTESSE.
To-day I'm sad ; and wherefore sad,
Since all in nature seems so glad ?
The sun its cheerful radiance sheds,
And earth once more its beauty weds.
The hill tops gleam in burnished gold,
And smile though they are stern and old:
The autumn woods, and meadows fair,
Still summer's lingering vest ments wear.
The river mocks the azure sky,
And mimic clouds go sailing by
Within chrystal depths, and why
Wears not my soul a mimic sky?
Yet I am sad ; and wherefore sad,
Since earth and sky and stream are glad?
’Tis not that some past pain renewed
With sorrow hath my soul imbued.
'Tis not that some dear friend or kin
Now sleeps the charnel house within;
Whose once glad voice and cheerful smile
No more life’s weary hours beguile.
But tis alas ! my native land,
For which my father’s drew the brand,
Dishonored is, and bartered, sold,
Her freemen’s rights for British gold.
Nov. 7, 1896. H. H. G,
Where Booms McKinleyism.
From the Wetzel, W. Va. Democrat.
Since the McKinley election the busy
buzz of hilarious humbug has been heard
in the land.
Ground was broken this week over in
Brooklyn for a jewsharp factory, to be lo-
cated in the neighborhood of Nuzum'’s Mills.
This industry will employ all the men who
want to quit drink, and all the boys who
are playing hookey from school. If Bryan
had been elected there would have
been no jewsharp factory in Brooklyn.
A bean-stringing factory will be started
in this neighborhood some time early in the
spring when beans get plentier. All that
keeps it from starting right away is lack of
beans. It will employ quite a number of
people who want to quit work, and the
only skill required will be ability to thread
a darning needle with your eyes shut.
Good thing Bryan was beaten. .
A pumpkin distillery, for the manufac-
ture of pumpkin whiskey, will be located
on Doolin as soon as arrangements can be
made with the government. Pumpkin
whiskey is quite a fad with the up to date
boozers, and this industry will necessarily
employ large numbers of men in order to
have always a sufficient supply on hand so-
ber enough to roll a barrel. Wouldn't
have happened if Bryan had been elected.
A mush-stick factory will shortly be in
operation on Pone Ridge, just over the Ty-
ler county line. There has been a great
scarcity of mush-sticks ever since the:
threat of free silver was made by the an-
archists, and now that confidence is re-
stored the manufacture of mush-stichs will
receive a great impetus. :
A pawpaw canning establishment will be
located in this neighborhood as soon as a
proper site can be secured. This luscious
and delightfully flavored fruit will thus
delight the palates of epicures, instead of
being wasted for ’possum bait.
And so onward comes the advance agent
of prosperity. and the shining gold bugs
flutter and fly through the frosty nights
like fire flies in the steamy, smelly nights
of June.
Centre County’s Representatives Will not
Vote for this Steal.
From the Wilkesbarre “Record.”
State Senator Kauffman, of Lancaster, and
other prominent members of the Legislature
are already discussing and denouncing the
scheme for securing an appropriation of
$100,000 to defray the expenses of the Sen-
ate committee appointed to ‘‘Lexow’’
Philadelphia. The wise member of the
Legislature will do a good deal of serious
thinking before he gives his supvort to
such an appropriation. The so-called
Lexow committee was appointed for no
other purpose than that of enabling one
faction of the -Republican party of Phil-
adelphia to break the power of unother
faction of the party. Th€ committee was
to beused asa club by one faction on
another. It has along been expected that
this committee would come before the next
session of the Legislature asking for an ap-
propriation, but until recently no one
dreamed that it would reach the propor-
tion of $100,000. The simple truth is that
no such amount of money was legitimately
expended. The committee hung around
Philadelphia whenever an attack was to
be made on the co-called combine, but it
never accomplished anything in the way of
genuine reform. The state should not pay
t a cent for the ‘‘Lexowing’’ farce in Phil-
adelphia, If that job is put through the
Legislature it will be the political death of
more members than was the Pittsburg riot
damages steal.
Will He be Retained: It is Merely
Conjecture.
From the Dubois Express.
It is very probable that Harry Alvin Hall
will be retained as U. 8. district attorney
by the McKinley administration. On Sep-
tember 26, he bolted the Democratic party
and in a communication of over 1,000
words addressed to John M. Garman, Dem-
ocratic chairman of Pennsylvania, resigned
as an elector and called the people who
had helped him into a fat office ‘‘anar-
chists’’ ‘‘socialists’’ and other bitter names.
He even decided to vote for McKinley
straight in preference to supporting the
Paimer and Buckner decoy. His action
was heralded far and wide by the gold-
bug press and told he was one df the
brightest, most learned, and the most bril-
liant attorneys in the whole country.
Hall's help was sought particularly in
this Congressional district where it was ex-
pected he would carry Elk county for Ar-
nold but he failed. He went on the stump
for McKinley and ardently supported
Quay'’s favorites.
He is likely to be rewarded for deserting
his party by a re-appointment. Numer-
ous candidates were after his place as soon
as it was known that McKinley was
elected but Senator Quay is alleged to have
announced that Hall will retain his place
and all the candidates except Heiner
of Kittaning have dropped out of the
race.
—
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Six squares of houses have begun to crack
and settle above the colliery at Gilberton.
—The Slatington rolling mill is on full
blast and the men are working on full time.
—The teachers’ institute, of - Lebanon
county, commenced Monday with a large at-
tendance. :
—A $30,000 monument to soldiers and sail-
ors will be erected by the York county com-
missioners.
—With only one exception all the slate
quarries in the Lehigh region are now being
operated.
—Nearly 600 teachers are in attendance at
the York county institute, which was opened
Monday.
Andrew McGreever, a well known Shen-
andoah miner, dropped dead on his way home
from work.
—A baby's body found in an Altoona street
"has started an investigation as to an infanti-
cide mystery.
—Joseph Langsdorf’s Sons, of Philadelphia
“will employ 500 hands in a big new cigar fac-
tory at Perkasie.
gu —Ex-City treasurer George D. McCreery*
of Philadelphia, delivered an address before
the Y. M.C. A.
—Thousands of dressed turkeys are now
being shipped from Hanover, York county,
to the big city markets.
-—A piece of wood which Samuel McCue, of
York, threw at a dog, rebounded and destroy-
ed one of his own eyes.
—Burglars entered a warehouse of the
wholesale confectioners, R. M. Shell & Co.,
Tremont, and stole a lot of candies.
—Governor Hastings, having refused a
further respite to Eckard, the Luzerne coun-
ty murderer, the latter must hangon De-
cember 8.
—York’s Highland park trolley line will
hereafter have its current turned on night
and day, to prevent further thefts of trolley
wire.
—Eli Atmyer, of York, had his eye pierced
by a splinter two feet long. He will recover,
however, as the missile didn’t reach his
brain.
—An unknown passenger jumped in his
sleep from a flying Reading train at High
Mines, near Tamaqua, ond almost miracu-
lously escaped injury.
—Oliver D. Schuck, chief clerk to the de-
partment of agriculture, says that 954 differ-
ent brands of fertilizers were licensed for sale
in Pennsylvania for the year ending Decem-
ber 31st. This number is in excess of any
previous year, and fully proves that the sale
of artificial or commercial fertilizers are con-
stantly increasing.
—A traveling troupe of four people gave a
show at Logantown in Clinton county, the
other evening, They paid 25 cents to have
their trunks hauled from the "depot and 15
cents for cheese and crackers. The receipts
for the show amounting to 48 cents. Net
profit 8 cents. It isn’t stated whether they
walked out of town or pawned their effects.
—A pack of hunry wolves has created ter-
ror among people beyond Mechanicsburg at
the foot of Laurel Hill in Westmoreland
county, and the vicinity of Beam’s church,
near Somerset county line. The howls of the
beasts keep people awake at nights. Hogs
and sheep and other stock have been destroy-
ed. Those who have lost their stock are
Jacob Miller, Noah Baker, Rev. J. M. Beam
and W. M. Carnes. The other day a large
deer was chased from the mountain by the
wolves, and in an open field was an easy prey
to a hunter.
—A few weeks ago a lumberman stated
that in certain districts nearly all the timber
was cut, and that there would not be very
much doing this winter. Now come reports
from the lumbering districts of Centre, Clear-
field, Cambria, Elk and Cameron counties to
the effect that the coming winter season, if it
is at all favorable, will witness far greater
activity in the lumering regions than has
been known for the past ten years. Though
much of the territory in thislocality has been
cut over, there is still considerable excellent
timber standing and lumbering is quite pro-
fitable. >
—Last Friday one of a number of track-
men who was working on the railroad east
of North Bend went to the abandoned watch
box at that point, and found lying on the
floor a man in an unconscious condition, and
who, evidently, was starving to death. The
man was a tramp, and had heen seen last
Monday, eating a roasted potato. It is
thought that he was either locked in the
watch box or had taken refuge therein him-
self, and that he could not open the door.
He was almost reduced to a skeleton when
found. He was taken to°the Thompson
House at North Bend, where a physician was
summoned to attend him. The man did not
regain consciousness, however, and died on
Saturday.
—Alfred Truman, of Bendigo, has written
a very interesting article concerning the re-
maining tracts of hemlock timber in Elk
of hemlock timber is placed at 1,530,000,800.
The amount already manufactured is placed
at 1,300,000,000.. The yield of bark has not
been less than 1,600,000,000 tons. At the rate
hemlock timber is being cut in the county
the supply will be exhausted in ten years.
When the last hemlock tree has been felled,
then must the great hemlock manufacturing
industry cease forever, but not so with the
tanning of leather, for by the aid of science
and different known substitutes for bark,
this latter business is destined to continue for
all time.
—Bank Commissioner Gilkeson in his re-
port on the building loan associations in the
state, says that all the domestic associations
are in sound financial condition. The total
assets of the 1,131 associations chartered un-
der the laws of the state are $99,519,917.50;
receipts aud disbursements, $44,505,361.93 ;
borrowing members, 79,144; non-borrowing
members, 174,716 ; number of shares in force
at the end of the year, 1,796,311; admission
fees received during the year, $110,503.71;
number of forclosures during the year, 857.
The following shows the condition of foreign
building and loan associations doing business
in Pennsylvania: Number of shares in force
in Pennsylvania, 262,185 ; loans on real estate
$3,367,555.25 ; loans on the stock of such asso-
ciations, $67,348.69; value of real estate
owned, $67,487.65.
county. The estimates on the various tracts -