Denoreatic; Watchman,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
——
Ink Slings.
—If England would help the cause of
silver in India she would not now be called
upon to support a half famished, financial-
1y wrecked colony.
—Sheriff TAMSEN, of New York, ought
#0 go into business as a sieve maker. The
frequency with which prisoners escape
from him indicates that he would do well
in such a line.
—PENROSE has been formally “elected
Senator, QUAY is happy, so happy that he
has to run off down to Florida to stay un-
3i1 March 4th. He is paid for doing that,
you know.
—JoHN SHERMAN thinks there is such a
thing as men remaining too long in public
life, but unfortunately Jonx is human and
sees every other man’s faults, while totally
blind to his own.
—Sauer-kraut is now on the list for pro-
tection when MCKINLEY gets in. It won’t
be long until the American back-bone will
need the stiffening which nothing but a
tariff seems able to give.
—The principal business transacted at
Harrisburg this week was the handing out
of rewards, in the shape of oificial appoint-
ments, to those who had been faithful to
QUAY, in his PENROSE fight.
—The generous and forgiving nature of
true Democracy had the first test of its
feeling towards the ex-gold bolters, at Du
Boise, last week, when onef of them return-
ed to the free silver ring and received a
eouncilmanic nomination.
—Massachusetts leads the van of States
with 1,472 twins and 7 triplets born with-
in her borders during 1896. The Yankees
are nothing if not ingenious. Then they
are so proud that they must even have
their babies different from those of other
States.
—There is one thing very certain about
Representative MCELHENY'S, of Pittsburg,
proposed bill to stop ‘‘treating’’ in Penn-
sylvania. If it ever becomes a law Mc-
ErLHENY will become a dead duck in the
political puddle. Politics and ‘‘treating’’
are too near akin to stand separation.
—The population of the United States
is increasing at the rate of over a million a
year, by births alone. It will soon be
necessary to legislate in regulation of the
size of families or the United States will
rapidly drift into that over populous con-
dition that is the greatest drawback -to
China and India.
—MARY E. HOBART wants to become a
United States Senator and is now trying to
persuade the Washington Legislature to
elect her. Though it does not seem quite
the right thing for a woman it is very cer-
tain that she would never traduce the dig-
nity of the Senate chamber by such lan-
guage as was used there by INGALLS and
TILLMAN.
—So the Governor has declined a cabinet
position, so they say. QUAY and PEN-
ROSE were in Canton, last week, on his be-
half and while the outcome of their visit
is not known it has been announced that
the Governor will not accept a cabinet
office, preferring to requite the people who
elected him by the largest majority ever
given a candidate. Things have changed
since then and we imagine the people
would sagt nicht if he would go.
—A resolution was presented in Con-
gress, on Tuesday, by Representative
STONE, of Pennsylvania, calling upon the
President to invite an expression of opinion
from foreign powers looking to the adop-
tion of international coins, that would pass
current in all countries adopting them.
This would be very nice for the customs
duties, tourists and counterfeiters, but the
bankers would wonder where their share of
the benefit would come in.
—The everlasting fault of looking for
motes in other people’s eyes affects nations
just as much as individuals. In her speech
at the opening of the British parliament,
on Tuesday, the Queen refers to the pur-
pose of the great powers to bring Turkey
to a sense of her duty. Shades of our an-
cestors, bear witness to England’s tyranny
to the American colonies and her outrage-
ous treatment of Ireland. Though Turkey
does need looking after VICTORIA had bet-
ter sweep her own house before she offers
her services to others.
—The sound money league of Philadel-
phia might find employment for their
speaking FRIDAY, THEO. C. KNAUFF,
during the inter-campaign seasons, by
having him figure out why itis that peo-
ple are starving, right here in Pennsylvania,
when the great cry of over production is
going up as the excuse for idle factories all
over the land. Can there be such a thing
as over production when millions are in
want ? No, it is under consumption and it
exists because there is not enough .money
with which to satisfy the needs of the
people.
—Two new road bills having been in-
troduced before the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture it is not likely that we will have any
CoxEY ‘‘good roads’’ movements until
their fate, at least, is known. Senator
BrowN is father of the bills, the first of
which calls for an annual state appropria-
tion of $1,000,000 to be expended on the
various roads of the State, through the
supervisors, in proportion to the number
of miles of highway in each township. All
roads to be made 12 feet wide and each
county convention of supervisors to have
an engineer and treasurer, and native tax
payers to be given preference in employ-
ment.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 22, 1897.
Reform on the Goldbug Plan,
The currency reformers have held their
convention at Indianapolis and . the reform
they propose is just what could be expect-
ed of parties strictly devoted to the gold
interest. The material of which that
assemblage was composed chiefly consisted
of representatives-of the money dealing
class, who spoke and acted for the syndi-
cates, corporations and banking institu-
tions which contributed the funds that
secured a victory for the goldbugs in the
recent presidential election. Therefore it is
not surprising that the leading propositions
they made for a refexm of the currency
were that the present gold standard should
be maintained, that steps should be taken
for the retirement of the greenbacks, and
that the national banking system should
be so enlarged as to multiply the number
of national banks and confine to them the
function of issuing the paper circulation of
the country.
It is not easy to see at what point re-
form makes its appearance in this pro-
gramme. The gold standard has been
maintained since 1873, yet the financial
and monetary difficulties have been cn the
increase until the country finds itself in
its present plight. How will this be rem-
edied by continuing the system under
which the general financial and business
situation has become, year by year, more
embarrassed and depressed ? For the cor-
rection of such a disorder the Indianapolis
goldites recommend persistence in the
monetary standard that has been largely
instrumental in causing the trouble. Their
decision, in regard to the maintenance of
the gold standard, is merely an endorse-
ment of the policy of Wall street, promo-
tive of the interest of the MORGANS and that
fraternity of money changers, against
which six and a half millions of American
citizens recorded their opposition at the
last elections.
The Indianapolis currency tinkers rec-
ommend, as a further remedial measure,
the retirement of the government legal
tender notes. They base the expediency
of this proposition on the trouble, expense
and danger involved in the necessity of
keeping these notes on a par with gold. It
is very true that this is troublesome, ex-
pensive and dangerous, but is it not so by
reason of the exclusive gold standard which
has been adopted in the redemption of
those notes? Would there be any trouble
of that kind if the treasury authorities
were to use their lawful option in redeem-
ing the paper money of the government
with either the gold or silver coinage of
the country ?
The millions of citizens who voted
against the goldbug policy at the last elec-
tion will not agree to the Indianapolis sug-
gestion to increase the bonded debt some
four hundred millions of dollars by borrow-
ing gold sufficient to redeem the green-
backs and retire them. It is undesirable
to increase the interest-bearing indebted-
ness of the government in time of peace,
but to pile up that debt for no other pur-
pose than to deprive this country of the
best, most convenient, cheapest and safest
money it ever had, and for no other rea-
son than to confirm the power of the gold-
bugs in controlling the monetary situation,
is a proposition that is not likely to meet
with the approval of the American people.
The Militia at the Inauguration.
The custom of crowding the capital city
with military on the occasion of a presi-
dential inauguration is one that could be
abandoned with no disadvantage to pitblic
interest, and, rightly considered, it may be
regarded as out of place in a government
that is not of a military character. At the
last two inaugurations this custom was car-
ried to the extreme, but there appears to be
a disposition to call a halt to what at least
is a meaningless parade.
Probably on account of this change of
view in regard to the utility of these demon-
strations, the proposition to send the en-
tire body of Pennsylvania militia to Wash-
ington on the 4th of next March to form a
part of the military pageant on that occas-
ion, is not meeting with an enthusiastic en-
dorsement.
If the National Guard, or any part of it,
goes to the national capital for that purpose,
there appearance there should cause no ex-
pense to the State. Apart from the use-
fulness of further continuing such demon-
strations, the expense attending them should
not be incurred at this time when there
does not appear to be enough money in the
treasury to pay the necessary expenses of
the state government. There should be no
ni for soldiering when legimate claims
against the Commonwealth, for school and
other purposes, are with held on account of
the want of funds to meet them.
{Che success of an administration in man-
‘aging the affairs of the nation does not de--
pend upon the number of soldiers that pa-
rade when its chief executive officer is
sworn in, and we doubt whether even so
many asa hundred thousand or more, fully
equipped and uniforméd, in the inaugural
processions on the 4th of next March,
would make any difference as to the ultimate
success of President McKINLEY in bring-
ing on the prosperity of which he is claim-
ed to be the advance agent.
Preparing to Fight Again.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Phila-
delphia Record, is not as cock sure that free
silver is dead as it was immediately after
the election, but is constrained to remark
that ‘‘passing events are making it ex-
tremely probable that the country will be
compelled, once more, in spite of the sound
money victory of last November, to meet
the free silver heresy.”
In all probability the country will have
such an encounter, and the almost absolute
certainty of its occurrence is due to the
character of the ‘‘sound money victory of
last November,’’ which the Record appears
to think should have settled the doom of
free silver.
‘When that victory is; examined it looks
more like a defeat for the goldites. They
had the assistance of the entire money pow-
er of the country. Every trust, moneyed
corporation and interested monopoly up-
held the gold standard. The mighty
agency of banded wealth supported the
cause of the goldbugs. It was backed by
the corrupting influence of a boodle fund
amounting to millions of dollars. The
mass of the ignorant population was in-
fluenced, either by fear or by purchase, to
give their votes for what they were told
was ‘‘honest money.’’ A system of intimi-
dation, deception and bribery was put in
operation that affected every class liable to
be influenced by such agencies, and to
complete the force which the money power
was able to exert in the cause of gold
monometallism, the most influential news-
papers of the country, almost as a unit,
supported thc goldite interest and employ-
ed every means of misrepresenting the
cause for which the supporters of free sil-
ver were contending. Back of all this was
the organization of a powerful but corrupt
political party, thoroughly disciplined,
fanatically devoted to the moneyed inter-
ests and the cause of monopoly, and direct-
ed by the most skillful and unscrupulous
political managers.
When, after all such appliances ofjvicto-
ry, it is found that if the nigger and Dago
vote were subtracted from the goldite vote
it would be in a minority of nearly a mil-
lion, there is but little reason for our es-
teemed Philadelphia contemporary to be
surprised that the fight will be continued
in support of what it calls the ‘‘free silver
heresy.’
Such a victory, instead of being a dis-
comfiture, is rather an encouragement to
the vanquished to fight again, with a most
reasonable assurance that they will route
their enemy the next time.
Spain’s Offer of Reform.
It is scarcely possible that the trouble in
Cuba can be settled by the offer of reforms
on the part of the Spanish government. A
recent ministerial meeting at Madrid, pre-
sided over by the Queen Regent, appears to
have acted upon the presumption that the
dissatisfaction prevailing on the island
ought to be removed by such reformatory
measures as the Spanish authorities may
see fit to grant to the insurrectionists.
But the Spaniards delude themselves in
believing that there can be any efficacy in
such a recourse at the present stage of the
contention that has been going on in Cuba
for two years.
The chief obstacle to a settlement of the
Cuban trouble by a promise of reform in
the Spanish government of the island is
that the Cubans have no confidence in
Spanish promises. They weredeluded into
laying down their arms in 1878, after a
struggle of nearly ten years, by a pledge,
on the part of the Spaniards, that the
grievances which were the cause of the in-
surrection at that time would be remedied.
This promise was entirely disregarded. If
there was any change in the Spanish
method of governing the island, its oppres-
siveness was rather increased than dimin-
ished. The policy of plundering the
Cubans for the benefit of the home govern-
ment went on with unalleviated rapacity.
With such experience it is extremely
improbable that any offered concessions
will weaken the determination of the Cu-
ban patriots to continue their rebellion
against the Spanish domination. The con-
dition that the proposed reforms will not
be granted until they lay down their arms
and cease their resistance to the authority
of Spain, is properly offensive to combat-
ants who would have had no concessions of-
fered them if they had not resisted, and the
lack of good faith on the part of the Span-
iards in fulfilling their former promises,
would justify the Cubans in rejecting any
offers made by Spain under the stress of
her present embarrassment.
The fact is that the Cuban patriots are
now not fighting for reform of government,
under Spanish rule, but for complete na-
tional independence, and may Providence
grant them what they have so e¢lear a
right to.
What a sorry state of affairs exists
in Altoona. A short time ago a woman
starved to death up there, because their
quick charity dispensation was no quicker
than the average district messenger boy,
and now an Italian rookery® has been un-
covered where little girls, ranging in age
from eleven to fifteen years, have been
enticed and seduced.
Corruption That Needs Correction.
A resolution introduced in the Senate
asking for an investigation of the methods
employed in the election of MCKINLEY re-
mains to be acted upon before the close of
the session, and if pushed with the earnest-
ness which its importance demands the de-.|
velopment of the corruption employed to
bring about a victory for the trusts and
bank syndicates will startle the honest sen-
timent of the country. Several speeches will
be delivered in the Senate on this subject,
which will create a great political sensation.
The speakers will include senators J. ONES,
of Arkansas, and TELLER, of Colorado,
who have had agents at work ever since the
result of the election was announced, in-
vestigating and gathering facts to be used
in the speeches they intend to make, and
to throw light upon the subject investiga-
ted.
If it is worth while for the American
people to preserve their free institutions
from the dry rot of corruption, it is high
time for them to set about putting a stop
to the vicious practices which are being
habitually resorted to in carrying presiden-
tial elections. If the republic is worth
anything to them they are called upon to
prevent its destruction which is threatened
by the operation of the boodlers who influ-
ence the result of political contests by the
money they put into them, making the
government a matter of purchase.
The progress which this crime against
the republic is making is really appalling,
and the alarm which it should excite has
reason to become the greater when it is
seen that the Republican party has delib-
erately and methodically adopted such
practices as its method of determining po-
litical contests and electing the President.
This political crime first developed large
proportions in HARRISON'S election when
shame had so far departed from the man-
agement of the Republican campaign that
a corruption fund of four hundred thous-
and dollars was openly employed as a
means of deciding the result. Its use for
that purpose was avowed, and the man
who came to the rescue of the party with
this corrupting appliance was regarded as
having performed a service that entitled
him to a seat in the cabinet.
Evils, if unchecked, always grow, and,
as an illustration of the growth of this
danger to our popular institutions, it is
seen that the crime, that was committed in
making the presidential election of 1888 a
question of money, is repeated with in-
creased enormity, attaining the fearful
proportions of a boodle campaign, in 1896,
in which millions of dollars were used to
determine the result by influences most
glaringly corrupt and vicious in their
character.
"There is not an intelligent American
citizen who can not see what such a system
of electoral crime will result in if allowed
to goon. It must end in the ruin of our
popular form of government, with plutocrat-
ic power substituted for the will of the
people.
1t Should Be No Speculation Scheme.
The readers of Gov. HASTING’S last mes-
sage will warmly approve his suggestion
that the State should buy some millions of
acres of waste land and go into arborculture,
on a wholesale plan, for the purpose of re-
planting the forests which have been re-
moved by lumber operations.
Many arguments can be advanced in sup-
port of such a project, such as the necessity
of restoring the timber exhausted by reck-
less management in the past ; the preserva-
tion of the streams that are being dried up
in consequence of the removal of the forests ;
the prevention of floods that have become
more destructive since the mountains and
valleys have been stripped of their trees,
and the conservation of equable climatic
conditions that are being changed for the
worse by such denudation.
These are plausible reasons why the
State should buy millions of acres of ex-
hausted timber lands and get to planting
trees, and if the object can only be ac-
complished without the speculation job-
bery, usually attendant upon such under-
takings, the State should greatly benefit
by its success. Surely something should
be done to protect what little forest land
we have left from the fires that are yearly
leaving them nothing but desolate wastes.
If the Governor can have adopted some
plan whereby this can be accomplished,
without the usual public robbery that fol-
lows such efforts, he will have accomplish-
ed a purpose for which coming generations
will have reason to thank him.
——The Philadelphia Record Alinanac,
for 1897, has been issued to the readers of
our esteemed contemporary in the shape of
a 136 page booklet, teeming with facts of
interest for all classes. Besides the usual
grist of weather prognostications, there is
afull compendium of the national and state
governments. A person hardly appreciates
the value of one of these almanacs unless
he has heen the fortunate possessor of one.
Next to Smull’s Hand-Book it is the most
valuable publication of its sort to a Penn-
sylvanian.
Te
‘view with him on Saturday.
Two “Boss” Ruled States.
From Harper's Weekly.
Each of the two most populous and
wealthy States in the Union is dominated
by a political boss. They are not new
States. They are as old as the government.
In their day they have heen conspicuous in
patriotic uprisings. They are now not
“only inhabited by prosperous and intelli-
gent people, but they are centres of educa-
tion and refinement. In each State are
great cities, whose society is adorned by
men of learning on the bench and at the
bar, in medicine and at the pulpit, and by
honorable and distinguished men of busi-
ness. One of these cities is the metropolis
of the country. And both New York and
Philadelphia boast of universities which
rank among the first in the Union.
A picture of these two democracies might
be truthfully set forth which would induce
the stranger to believe that here, if any-
where, the ideals of popular government
have been realized. But in reality there is
nothing baser or more revolting in modern
life than the political conditions of the
States of New York and Pennsylvania.
The government of the State of New York
is controlled by Thomas C. Platt, and that
of the State of Pennsylvania by Matthew
S. Quay, as completely as if they were
mediaeval despotisms, ruled by resolute and
irresponsible monarchs. So far as Mr.
Platt is concerned, he is as yet under no
obligation to render an account of his
stewardship. In law he is merely a pri-
vate citizen ; in fact he is the ruler of New
York. With Mr. Quay it is somewhat
different. He is a United States Senator,
and must therefore present himself from
time to time for re-election. Perhaps this
explains the fact that some opposition to
his rule has been manifested in the Penn-
sylvania Legislature. Despite this opposi-
tion at Harrisburg, however, which is inef-
fective, the laws of these two great states
are those which Mr. Platt and Senator
Quay dictate. The officers of the States,
from the Governors down, are the men
whom these two ‘‘bosses’” appoint. The
United States Senators are those whom the
Legislature elect at the dictation of the real
rulers of the State.
On the 5th of this month Senator Quay’s
majority in the Legislature of Pennsylva-
nia chose for United States Senator a young
man named Boise Penrose, against whose
candidacy for the Mayoralty of Philadel-
phia the virtuous voters of that city pro-
tested effectually. On the same day the
young man whom Platt has made Governor
of New York sent a message to the Legis-
lature, in which, for the delectation of his
master, he had inserted an ignorant assault
on the merit system of the civil service.
During the winter, it is expected that this
Governor will appoint to responsible offices
the men whom Plattselects, no matter how
unfit or how zorrapt they may Ly #®g 1s
expected that the Legislature will pass the
laws'that Mr. Platt desires. The statute
hook of the session will be the work of
Thomas C. Platt. He will give the Great-
er New York its charter. He will bestow
upon the liquor interests whatever he sees
fit. The millions borrowed for canal im-
provement will be expended by his crea-
tures. He will decree what taxes shall he
imposed upon the people, and the manner
in which the money shall be expended.
The like will happen in Pennsylvania as
to every matter in which Senator Quay may
be interested.
In these two states the form of popular
government is preserved, but the substance
is lost. The people do not govern them-
selves. They do not make their own laws
through their representatives. They have
no representatives except in name. They
are governed by machines, which, in their
turn, are controlled by two men of evil
character and reputation. In all the his-
tory of popular government nothing so ut-
terly abominable and disheartening has
been known. Tammany was vile, but its
powerand influence was limited. Here we
have Tammany methods and corruptions
spread over these two great, intelligent,
and wealthy States.
If the majority of the voters of New
York and Pennsylvania possess any of the
virtue that was manifested by the voters of
this city in 1894, they will be so thorough-
ly aroused hy the spectacle of defiant boss-
ism and servile obedience which is pre-
sented at Albany and Harrisburg, that the
struggle for good government will enter
upon a new stage, and acquire a new im-
pulse and a new fury of just and righteous
indignation. If such be the result of the
shame of this winter, we may sustain the
evil days better because of the confident
hope that eventually good is to come out
of them.
More Hope For Al. Dale’s Postmastership.
From the York Gazette.
The press reports say Senator Quay was
manifestly dissatisfied when he left Mc-
Kinley’s house, after a long secret inter-
Every poli-
tician in this state will be guessing just
what caused this mood in the senator. It
would make the Wanamaker crowd wild
with delight if events prove that McKinley
has decided to ignore Quay after he has
made one of his henchmen his colleague in
the Senate. But they will hardly be given
such a pleasure. The President-elect may
be a man born to make mistakes, but he
would hardly undertake to distribute pat-
ronage in Pennsylvania against Quay’s
wishes.
One of Shermans Conditions.
From the New York Journal.
It seems that Sherman will go into the
cabinet provided Mr. Foraker’s hired man,
who is holding the position of Gover-
nor of Ohio, will agree to appoint that
eminent tribute of the people, Mr. Mark
Hanna, to the vacancy that will be caused
in the United States Senate. This is but
one of the many little incidents which are
keeping step with the return of prosperity.
’ The Legislature is starting off to
make the people believe that it is composed
chiefly of reformists. The whole snap is
given away, however, in QUAY’S resolu-
tion that has been introduced in the House
to look into the accounts of the State
Treasurer. The time for such a looking
into was when the foxy MATTHEW occu-
pied that office himself.
Spawls from the Kcystone.
—Burglars broke into the Myerstown post
office, but left empty handed,
—The 506 pupils at the Carlisle Indian
school last year earned $19,238.
—The centennial of Sunbury as a mu-
nicipality will be celebrated on March 24th.
—Altoona’s board of health wants food and
plumbing inspectors and a garbage crema-
tory.
—Shenandoah’s fire companies have jointly
organized, with councilman Richard D. Reese
as president. -
—Rev. A. J. Rudisill was installed as pas-
tor of the Lutheran church at New Bloom-
field, on Sunday.
—Both of Edward Broome’s feet were
crushed to a shapeless mass beneath a coal
car near Shenandoah.
—Mrs. Martha Reiter, an insane patient,
hanged herself from a transom in St. Francis’
hospital, Pittsburg.
—Valentine Mills, aged 70 years, was dis-
covered and checked in attempt at suicide by
gas in a Hazleton hotel.
—In a shallow well in the basement of the
National hotel of McKeesport landlord S. E.
Carothers was drowned at night.
—Thomas Inavitz was shot through the ear
while attempting to capture burglars who es-
caped, at Minersville Tuesday morning.
—The commission to survey and mark the
boundary line between Juniata and Hunting-
don counties will begin its work this week.
—John E. Spears has been re-elected presi-
dent of the Reading firemen’s union, and will
be a candidate for president of the state asso-
ciation.
—Scranton capitalists, having subscribed
largely for $25,000 of its stock, have induced
a Williamsport shoe company to remove to
the former city.
—Mrs. Ann Mitchell, an aged widow, was
overcome with coal gas at her home in
Shenandoah and died withcut recovering
consciousness.
—After a quarrel with his wife and mother
in-law, at Reading, John Dwyer pounded the
latter until she was unconscious, beat his wife
and her sister and fled.
—The Franklin county medical society
met at Chambersburg and elected delegates to
the American medical society, which con-
venes in Philadelphia in June.
—Benjamin Hughes, general mine super-
intendent of the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad, was badly injured by being
thrown from his carriage in a runaway ac-
cident at Scranton.
—Steps will be taken by the district at-
torney of Westmoreland county to bring to
justice the white caps who so brutally as-
saulted Mrs. Jennie Anderson, of Stahlstown,
and the old pensioner who hoarded with her.
—Raymond May, aged 7 years, was fatally
injured near Pottsville last evening. He was
began to trot. The boy rolled under the
horse’s hoofs and was badly kicked on the
head, his skull being fractured. His condi-
tion to-night is extremely critical.
—After a sleep of seven days, Ida Melchos,
ing. She was known to be in a critical con-
dition, but it was thought that she would
live for some timé, even if methods of rous-
ing her proved futile. Liquid food was ad-
ministered as usual Monday night and she
showed signs of improvement, but toward
morning she went into convulsions and fail-
ed to rally from them.
—Abe Westerhouse of Slate Run, Lycoming
county, went into the Black Forest recently
to build a bear pen of logs. He seemed to
have been new at the business, for when the
pen was finished he set the trap and crawled
in to tie the bait to the spindle. In some
manner the trap was sprung and Abe was a
prisoner for five days, subsisting on a sheep's
head during his imprisonment. He was re-
leased by a party of hunters who accidental-
ly discovered the pen.
—The new water scoop which has been
adopted as a standard on the Pennsylvania
will enable trains to take water at full speed.
At a recent test the 3,000 gallon tank of the
locomotive was filled in nine seconds, while
running 70 miles an hour. It is being ap-
plied to all new engines and all old ones sent
in for repairs, and already 75 locomotives are
equipped with the new scoop. It will enable
the Pennsy to reduce the running time of
fast trains whenever the necessity for so do-
ing may arise.
—Charles Quiggle, the 1-year-old child of
Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Frownfelter, died at
Charlton Saturday afternoon. A few months
ago the child swallowed what was believed
to bea safety pin. The child was examined
by several physicians, but they failed to re-
move the foreign substance. About two
weeks ago the child became ill with an af-
fection of the left bronchial tube and grew
worse until it expired. Tuesday Drs.
Corson and Ball conducted a post mortem
examination when they found a large sized
carpet tack in the tube, which had caused
the child’s death.
—The state game commission met Monday
at Harrisburg and made a rough draft of a
general game bill, Another meeting will be
held January 27th to put on the finishing
touches. The proposed act will repeal all
existing game laws and make a uniform
game season from October @5th to December
15th. It will not apply to migratory birds,
but only to such game as deer, quail, phea-
sants, turkeys, woodcocks, squirrels and
rabbits. The most radical feature of the
proposed legislation is the clause prohibiting
the killing of game for sale or transportation
outside the state.
—Several young men at Williamsport and
Milton have been afflicted with the craze of
hypnotism, and have been endeavoring to
ply their assumed powers upon their friends,
much to the annoyance of the desired to be
victims. At Milton a few days ago one of
these self styled hypnotist had made several
attempts to put a young butcher asleep. The
butcher having grown tired of the would be
hypnotist’s importunities, began playing the
possum and apparently dropped off into a
sound slumber. The hypnotist said to him,
“Now, when you get awake, you will think
you are a butcher about to kill a stcer—now
hit him hard.” The young butcher got up
and landed a blow between the hypnotist’s
eyes that sent him sprawling across the
house. A number of bystanders enjoyed the
exhibition, but the hypnotist has retired
from business.
riding a horse and fell off when the animal
of Philadelphia, died early Tuesday morn-