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GRAY MEEK.
Sy P.
Ink Slings.
—And, lo, the SWALLOW becometh the
cat bird !
—Can it be that this restoration of
confidence is making times so hard that
mother nature has even to soak her earth ?
—March was tottering on the legs of old
age, but lion-like one grand effort was
made, on Wednesday, and spring was
knocked out as effectually as FITZSIMMONS
did the business for CORBETT.
—Liquors and wines of all kinds have
been scratched from the White House menu
since the advent of the MCKINLEYS. So
much to their credit, but we quake for the
President’s future, as the shade of the de-
parted HAYES rises up before us to pro-
claim : I did that, too, and spent my old
age in raising chickens.
—Governor PINGREE, of Michigan,
knows how to keep on top if he didn’t
know how to work it to hold the guberna-
torial office and be mayor of Detroit at the
same time. Though the supreme court
ousted him from the latter office he manipu-
lated the nominating convention and named
his own successor.
—The headsman of the new administra-
tion, in other words the fourth assistant
post-master general, is Josgpi L. BRis-
Tow, of Kansas. Quite appropriate that
the political headsman of McKINLEYiSm
should have been elected from a State
where blood seems to be the one thing they
all know and think about.
—President MCKINLEY is of the opinion
that lynchings should not be tolerated in a
great and civilized country like this. He
is right, but there is only one way to pre-
vent them and that is to knock the leaden
heels off of justice. Take away the tech-
nical loop-holes through which criminals
are allowed to slip and make an end of
delaying lawyers.
—If work is to be stopped in all penal
institutions our penitentiaries will soon be-
come incubators for maniacs. Give the
prisoners something to do that will pre-
serve their minds to them, at least, and if
needs be let the product of their labor be
given, free, to charitable institutions in the
State. Rob a convict of his mind and you
take away a channel through which he
suffers most of his punishment.
—The announcement that the gold Demo-
crats are not to receive any reward from the
present administration, for their service
last fall, is being sent out from Washing-
ton. This ought not to be discouraging
news to our PALMER and BUCKNER friends.
They weren’t working for rewards. They
were working for a continuation of the
gold standard and these prolifically good
times we are having—Nit.
—The United States naval officers will
not have much ground for laughing at the
Turkish seamen who ran one of the Sul-
tan’s big battle ships into a bridge a few
days ago. . It has come to such a pitch with
our boats that they are getting afraid to
send them out of sight of land, for nearly
every time one of them ventures seaward it
runs aground on the way out or has an
accident after getting into deep water.
—The joint Senate and House commit-
tees appointed by the Legislature to in-
vestigate the state treasury and the auditor
general’s department have reported. As
was expected it is the most lavish case of
BL that has come before the
blic in years. The report is sixty thou-
, ot fand words long, without the six thousand
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seven hundred pages of testimony. The
committee needn’t have gone so far around
“~ the bush about it, everybody knew that
they were not expected to find anything
wrong.
—If a new capitol is to be built we move
that two great bronze statues of THOMAS
KEENAN, of Pittsburg, be ordered and set
in niches, one immediately behind the
speaker’s chair in both House and Senate,
there to stand as lasting memorials to an
honest man and an ever present monitor
for extravagant Legislators. Think of it !
, This man KEENAN actually paid back to
the State an unexpended balance of $7,500,
left over from the Atlanta exposition com-
mission. Such a thing has never been
heard of before in Pennsylvania.
—When the DINGLEY bill is passed and
becomes operative the United States manu-
facturer, who made slaves of his men by
ceercing them to vote for McKINLEY, will
not be expected to complain if France and
Germany both institute a system of re-
prisals on American trade. If both those
countries were to retaliate by discriminat-
ing against agricultural, petroleum and
food products from the United States, who
would be the loser ? We tell you that last
year our exports exceded our imports by
$350,000,000. Now answer the question
for yourself.
—There seems to be a scarcity of de-
sirable men for office in the business men’s
league part of the Republican party of
Pennsylvania. So it would appear from
the number of times WANAMAKER has to be
called upon to supply their needs fora
candidate. Just now they are talking
about reforming the state treasury and
WANAMAKER is the only man they can
think of as a desirable candidate. Proba-
bly that is because JOHN can command
more boodle than any of the rest of them
when it comes to a case of supplying the
sinews of war.
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BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 26, 1897.
The President and International Bi-
: metallism.
It is said that President MCKINLEY has
hurried up the appointment of the min-
isters to foreign countries in order that they
may be at their posts as soon as possible to
urge the governments of Europe to join
with the United States in an international
conference for the restoration of bimetal-
lism of the monetary systems of the nations
which have demonetized silver. Senator
WoLcorT, who was sent abroad to as-
certain the sentiments of European money
authorities in regard to silver, has made his
report to the President, and it may be sup-
posed to have been of such a character as
to encourage him in his design to get the
nations together in an international bi-
metallic conference.
This movement on the part of President
MCKINLEY may be supposed to be based
on the pledge in the last Republican plat-
form favorable to bimetallism, if it could
be brought about by international agree-
ment. The party managers who put that
clause in the platform can be credited with
no other design than to retain the votes of
those who believed in the advantage of
silver as a co-ordinate part of the currency,
and were willing to vote the Republican
ticket if they were given assurance that
the party would do something for the
restoration of bimetallism. While the
platform makers may be believed to have
been insincere in making this pledge, as
the gold-bug interest dominated their con-
vention, President MCKINLEY appears to
take it seriously, and in doing so he shows
that he is influenced by that free silver
sentiment to which he 30 often gave ex-
pression in speech and action previous to
his nomination for the Presidency.
It is understood that his line of action
will be to take the initiative in the move-
ment for an international conference, ex-
tending an invitation to European govern-
ments to send delegates to meet representa-
tives of the United States in a convention
to be held at Washington to confer upon
the question of the rehabilitation of silver
as standard money. There is a bare possi-
bility of such a movement producing its
intended result. Those who control the
monetary situation abroad are perfectly
content. with the advantage which the gold
standard gives them over a debtor nation
like the United States, and are but little:
inclined to agree to have it changed. The
President would stand a better chance to
secure attention to his invitation if he
should accompany it with the notice that
if there shall not be European co-operation
the United States will act alone in restor-
ing to its currency the use of silver asa
standard money at such a ratio as the rela-
tive value of gold and silver would war-
rant. The assurance that such would be
the action of this government would drive
the European nations to a similar course as
a matter of self defence against the com-
mercial and industrial advantage which
bimetallism would give the United States.
But would President MCKINLEY dare to
give this notice to European governments,
and act upon it, after the gold-bug in-
fluence, which elected him, had assured
the people that the restoration of silver to
its old place in the currency was simply
repudiation and anarchism, that it would
cut the workingmen’s dollar in two, and
reduce by at least one-half the value of
| their deposits in the savings banks ?
There is every probability that it is
reserved for the next administration to
prove the complete hum duggery of this
alarming assumption of the gold mono-
metallists by restoring the money of the
constitution and making free silver the
monetary policy of the government, to the
great advantage of the country’s general
interest.
Its Enemies Working for Free Silver.
The severe thrusts which WILLIAM J.
BRYAN, in his recent speeches, has been
aiming at the trusts and other monopolistic
combines, with but little allusion to the
silver question, has led some of his enemies
to infer that he is abandoning the cause of
free silver.
There could not be a greater delusion
than this. The robberies that ate being
practiced by the trusts furnish a subject for
denunciation that is always in order, and
“at this time, when new tariff measures are
about to be enacted that will afford these
monopolies additional encouragement and
protection, there is more immediate occa-
sion for Mr. BRYAN to make them the ob-
ject of his denunciation than there is for.
him to speak on the money question.
All things have their season. The cause
of freesilver, even though its supporters
are not saying as much about it as they did
during the last campaign, is far from being
neglected. Its opponents are furnishing
the strongest arguments in its favor. By
the restoration of their monopoly tariff,
which will increase the business depression
and make the times harder, the enemies of
the free silver policy will convince the pub-
lic mind that their tariff nostrum cannot
cure the industrial and financial ailment,
and will confirm the fact, that nothing but
‘dent DELANEY by Rev. SWALLOW.
the restoration of silver to its old place in
the currency, and a general enlargement
and cheapening of the circulating medium,
will restore the prosperity of the country.
There is not much occasion for Mr.
BRYAN to talk while the enemies of free
silver are doing this work that is so cal-
culated to advance the free silver cause.
When the effect of this work is fully shown
in the increased industrial depression and
the continued distressful condition of the
people, then will the advocates of free
silver be heard, with increased emphasis
and unquestionable result. Their cause
can afford to wait for the blasting effects of
a combined MCKINLEY tariff and gold-bug
currency contraction.
The Swallow Libel Suits.
We have given it as our opinion that the
state officials didn’t show themselves off to
the best advantage by rushing into court
with libel suits against Rev. Dr. SWALLOW.
He made charges against them, or rather
against their method of public service,
which, if untrue, could have been shown
to be such in a way more convincing to the
public than through the medium of prosecu-
tions for libel. Besides, in their proceed-
ings there was the appearance of an inten-
tion to overwhelm the doctor with the
penalties of the law, rather than a desire to
furnish the public with satisfactory assur-
ance that he was wrong in his charges.
The verdict in the first suit, relating to
the soldiers’ orphans schools, rendered on
Tuesday, leaves the issue undetermined,
so far as concerns the impression on the
public mind. Dr. SWALLOW is declared
by the jury to be not guilty of libel, and
although the verdict is modified by the
cost being put upon him, its import to the
public mind will be that the accuser had.
some ground for making his charges. The
result leaves a very unsatisfactory situ-
ation for the prosecutors.
In regard to the second suit, that brought
by superintendent DELANEY, the court
could have very properly handed it over
to the investigation asked for by the reso-
lution of representative NESBIT on a
charge made by him in the House, last
week, which was a good deal more specifié
than the charges made against superinten-
asked for an investigation of allegations
that were being made to the effect that
among the items of material for the alter-
ing of Grace church for the use of the Legis-
lature, there were many thousands of feet.
of lumber charged to the State which could
not be found, and that $55 per thousand
was charged for lumber which it was claim-
ed could be purchased at $15 per thousand.
DELANEY’S case, which was brought to
court for his official vindication, would be
a more proper subject for the consideration
of the investigating committee asked for by
representative NESBIT’S resolution.
Every intelligent observer of these court
proceedings must be forced to the conclu-
sion that the state officials blundered in
bringing libel suits against Dr. SWALLOW.
Judge Shiras and the Income Tax.
The people have a right to be interested
in the question whether judge SHIRAS was
the member of the Supreme court of the
United States whose change of position on
the question of the constitutionality of the
income tax law, at the last moment, lost to
the United States government the advant-
age of that fair and equitable method of
taxation, and took from the shoulders of
the wealthy the tax burden which they
should share with the poorer class of citi-
zens.
There are circumstances which point to
judge SHIRAS as the member of the court
who made that fateful change. He has
been openly charged in the House of Rep-
resentatives, by two reputable Congressmen,
with having altered the opinion which he
had at first assumed that the revenue tax
law was constitutional, going over to the
side of wealth in that momentous issue, at
the eleventh hour, and determining the
question by his vote.
The proceedings on the occasion of the
decision were secret, and the judge, al-
though solicited for an expression on the
subject, will not say whether he did or
didn’t do this thing. In deference to the
opinion of the great majority of the Ameri-
can people who believe that this was wrong,
justice SHIRAS should not deem it beneath
his judicial dignity to make some expres-
sion that would assure them thathe was
not the judge who made the change that
was so beneficial to the interest of wealth.
The absence of such assurance may lead
them to believe that he was that judge,
and to put their own construction upon his
motive.
——1It is gratifying to know that at
least two of the five United States justices
of the Supreme court who have gone on
record as being against rail-road pools were
also in favor of an income tax. They are
HARLAN of Kentucky; and Brown, of
Michigan. - The other three are FULLER,
of Illinois ; BREWER, of Kansas; and
PECKHAM, of New York.
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The Gold Standard in Japan.
The supporters of gold monometallism
were premature in their report that Japan
had adopted the gold standard. This was
announced some weeks ago, but it had
nothing more to support it than the ecir-
cumstance that a bill proposing to change
the bimetallic system of Japan had been
introduced in the parliament of that
country.
The Japanese surely have no visible reas-
on for a change in their monetary policy.
Their country has been extremely grosper-
ous under the double standard. Within
the past twenty years, with gold and silver
on an equality in their monetary system,
they have made the most remarkable prog-
ress in manufactures, commerce, internal
improvements and general trade interests.
By comparing their great industrial and
commercial development and general busi-
ness prosperity during that time with the
condition of nations which in the same
period have had the exclusive gold stand-
ard, the shrewd Japs will find but lit-
tle in the comparison to encourage them to
discard the double advantage of bimetal-
lism. Itis something over twenty years
since the United States discarded silver as
a standard money. Has prosperity been
so evident a consequence of this policy
that the Japanese should want to take it as
an example? It is a fact, which may not
escape their notice, that while their own
country has marvelously progressed with
the two metals equally recognized as stand-
ard money, the industrial and commercial
condition of the United States has grad-
ually declined under gold monometallism.
As an explanation of the movement in
the Japan parliament to adopt the gold
standard it may be remarked that the great
material development of that country has
been attended by a remarkable growth of
the banking interest, which is responsible
for this movement the purpose of which is
to demonetize silver and place the currency
of the country on a gold basis which could
be more readily controlled. The bankers of
Japan would find their profit in a contrac-
tion of the currency, the same as have those
of the United States and Europe who
brought about the demonetization of silver;
but it is to be seen whether the usually
shrewd Japs will allow their money
changers to enjoy such a special advantage
at the expense of the general public
interest.
A Job in Contemplation.
Nothing could more strikingly display
the complete dependence of our state au-
thorities on the will and wish of Senator
M. S. Quay than the spectacle that was
presented, the other day, by a delegation of
our state lawmakers going to. Washington
to learn what the Senator wants done in
regards to the building of the new state
capitol. They report that they had a con-
ference with him on this subject, and it is to
be inferred that they propose to act in the
matter according to his direction.
To ia majority of the citizens of the
State it will be a query what QUAY has to
do wii a work of this kind, and what au-
thority he has over it which requires that
he should be consulted. The people have
their representatives in the Legislature
who are expected to provide for the build-
ing of that structure in a manner that will
give satisfaction, and it not necessary that
it should be done to suit Senator QUAY.
The people want a creditable building, but
they don’t want its construction to furnish
an opportunity for discreditable jobbery.
If the Governor and Legislature do their
duty this can be effected without the assist-
ance of M. S. QUAY, or any other party
boss. Interference from such a source
would have a suspicious look:
Up to this time there has been an ap-
pearance in the proceedings relative to the
new capitol that has not been very assur-
ing to those who want its construction to
be an honest job. At the very start there
was an attempt to give the contract to
favored parties, Without competition,
and since the detection of the trick by
which that was intended to be effected,
there is evident maneuvering going on to
put the work in charge of a commission
something like the one which has made a
twenty-four years’ job of the Philadelphia
city hall, costing over eighteen millions
of dollars.
The Governor assumes to he opposed to’
these schemes. We trust that he is sin-
cere in his opposjtion, and will use his
veto if the corrupt inclinations of the Leg-
islature should induce it to pass a bill that
would enable a set of jobbers to plunder
the State in the building of its new
capitol.
-——The bill providing for the appoint-
men of a county detective in counties hav-
ing a population of not more than 150,000
has passed the Senate finally. Should the
House concur the detectives will be ap-
pointed by the court of quarter sessions and
will have the same power as constables.
——Read the best and most reliable
news. It will be found in the WATCH-
MAN.
The Governor Will Have His Way.
From the Philadelphia Times.
As predicted, the Legislators at Harris-
burg have concluded that Governor Has-
tings was right about the kind of new
capitol building that will be suitable for
the sittings of future Legislatures. The
House by a decisive majority has recalled
its refusal to confer with the Governor on
the subject, and a bill to carry out the
Governor’s plan to erect a new capitol at a
total cost not exceeding $550,000 has been
introduced into the Senate and is likely to
pass that body without serious opposition.
There will still be some attempts by mem-
bers of the House to secure a compromise
on a million-dollar capitol and a big legis-
lative building commission, but the Gov-
ernor’s plan will be adopted without im-
portant modifications.
The cause of this change of base on the
part of the members is obvious. The
smaller capitol can be erected in time for
the next regular session without increas-
ing taxation. The people of Pennsylvania
are not in a mood to welcome or even sub-
mit to an increase of their tax burdens.
Governor Hastings understood popular
sentiment on this subject better than the
members of the Legislature did, and the
latter understand it now. They have been
hearing from their constituents with the
usual result. What their constituents
want they will conclude they want, too,
and this means that a modest but entirely
sufficient capitol building will be erected.
It is fortunate that the capitol question
has been practically settled at this early
day. There will be no more time frittered
away deciding what is best to be done.
Time is important in this case, for there
won’t be any to spare if a new capitol is
to be erected and fitted up before January
1st, 1899, when the next regular session of
the Legislature will assemble. The ad-
vantage of the early decision is that plans
can be prepared at once and work begun
with the opening of the summer season.
The Verdict in the Swallow Libel Sait.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
That Harrisburg. jury. which acquitted
Dr. Swallow of libeling the state officials
in charge of soldiers’ schools, evidently
found that he had cause for his accusa-
tions against’ their management ; but they
also found, when they decided that he
should pay the costs, that he had not had
sufficient cause to justify his assertions in
all their length and breadth. The evi-
dence'did not show that the charges against
the board of managers were well founded,
but indicated some irregularities among
subordinates. The jury evidently be-
lieved that Dr. Swallow made his publica-
tion in good faith and in: pursuance of
what he conceived tobe a SE 3
and the jury was about right.
And Bully Wagner of Bellefonte Was
One of Them.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
We think we live in an enlightened age
and belong to a city and nation on the very
cowcatcher of the locomotive of progress,
but it is somewhat humiliating to find a
collection of our fellow-citizens gazing
open-mouthed at the planet Venus, now
rarely brilliant in the evening sky, and ex-
plaining their unusual interest in things
celestial by gravely repeating | that they
lave been told the thing is a new electric
light, sent up by a Pittsburg genius who
is about ready to take contracts for the
illumination of Pennsylvania and adjoin-
ing States
The Kind of Law-makers We Have.
From the Hazleton Plain-Speaker.
In the Pennsylvania Legislature will be
found one gambler, one hase-ball umpire,
one preacher, eight men who declare they
are ‘gentlemen,’ nineteen without oc-
cupations, twenty-seven lawyers and one
pugilist. Of the members three were con-
victed of larceny, one was tried for murder
and acquitted, three have been in insane
asylums, while eight have been at Keely
cures and four are divorced.
Times Have Changed Since Then.
From the Greensburg Democrat.
In our neighboring town of Indiana is a
glass factory that paid its employes in gold
just before the November election. The
object was to show how abundant the yellow
coin is, and advance the interest of McKin-
ley. Just now that factory is not paying
its employes in any kind of money. In
fact, itis closed down, the reason given be-
ing "ack of orders.”
Bresent School Term Stays.
The Bill to Increase the Minimum Term From Six to
Seven Months is Killed in the House.
HARRISBURG, March 23.—By a vote of
93 to 78 the House to-day killed a bill in-
creasing the minimum school term in the
State from 6 to 7 months. This measure
has been up at every session for ten years
and has always been knocked out by the
rural members. Twelve years ago the
term was increased from 5 to 6 months,
and no legislation on this point has since
been enacted.
Mr. Hermann, of Snyder, led the opposi-
tion to-day and won after a hard fight.
The bill was called up for third reading
and final passage by chairman Hammond,
of the education committee. Mr. Seyfert,
of Lancaster, started a long discussion with
an earnest speech in favor of the proposi-
tion. He showed that 27 other States in
the Union have longer school terms than
Pennsylvania, and that 28 per cent. of the
schools in this State are only kept open six
months a year. He spoke of the greatness
of Pennsylvania in everything but her edu-
cational facilities, and declared an increase
of one month a year in the school term
would make very little difference in the
taxes. Mr. Hermann replied to Mr. Sey-
fert, and was followed by Mr. Martin, of
Lawrence, another rural member. The
discussion lasted nearly two hours and was
closed with an earnest: plea for the bill by
chairman Hammond.
——Subscribe for the WATCMAN,
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Gas has been reduced to $1.25 per thous-
and feet in Scranton.
—0il well drillersin Eldred, McKean coun-
ty, struck a promising vein of gold quartz.
—The East German conferenco of Metho-
dists convened at Scranton yesterday.
—Fakirs who did business on curbstones in
Reading haye been driven Off by the police.
—Mayor Brant has promised the York min-
isters to recommend the passage of a curfew
ordinance.
—Reading army and navy veterans have
organized a command, and will probably
name it after General Gregg.
—A dividend of 45 per cent., making 75
cent. altogether, has been declared in favor
of the stockholders of the First National
bank of Clearfield.
—The Buhl steel mill at Sharon, and the
South Sharon steel works, will have their
new plants ready to start with about 500 men
in a month or so.
—Judge Scott, at Laston, awarded the
Evangelical association (the Esher-Bowman
faction) title to the church at Danielsville
claimed by the Dubsites.
—Prison warden Wright, of the Western
penitentiary, has gone to Harrisburg to join
in a general protest of prison keepers against
the Seyfert prison bill.
—Foreign roughs, bent on revenge, stoned
John Dougher’s house, at Wyoming, and
knocked down a lamp that set Mrs. Dougher
on fire and severely burned her.
—In connection with charges on which she
was invited to leave the Lutheran church, 80-
year old Mrs. Catherine Miller. of Wilkes-
barre, has sued her pastor, Rev. Paul Rowalt,
for $5,000 damages.
—While John Bordner was shooting spar-
cidentally shot his young friend, Harry
Peffly, and the latter may die. The shooter
is crazed with grief.
—Highwaymen on the railroad track at
Reading made Andrew Smith, colored, of
Philadelphia, take off all his clothes but his
undergarments, and left him to wander till
the police sought relief for him.
—The Northwestern mining and exchange
company has purchased a 2,000-acre coal
tract to the south of Brockwayville, Clear-
field county, and various adjacent railroads
are likely to extend spurs into the region as
it develops.
—Governor Hastings on Wednesday made
the following appointments for members of
the state board of medical examiners, repre-
senting the Eclectic medical sociéty of Penn-
sylvania; C. M. Ewing, Tyrone; L. P.
O'Neal, Mechanicsburg ; H. Yeagley, Lan-
caster. :
—At Williamsport Sunday, a young man,
Clarence Ingersoll by name, underwent an
operation for a perforation of the bowel, caus-
ed by three attacks of appendicitis. When
the surgeons made the incision it was found
that the appendix completely encircled a
knuckle of the intestine like a ring and that
both had become perforated. Although ina
serious condition, itis believed the patient
will recover.
—1I¢ is forty-one years since the town of
Everett, Bedford county, Pa., was incorpor-
ated as Blood Run, and twenty-four years
since it was given its present name. Bloody
Run was far to the front on the occasion of
the chicken raid in secession war times, when
the militiamen rallied for the defense of their
personal belongings against a flanking enemy
impudently and defiantly moving on Penn-
sylvania highways.
—Announcement is made by the Pennsyl-
vania board of fish commissioners that they
can receive no further applications for brook
trout; they state that the applications for
this species of fish now on hand are more than
double the supply from the two hatcheries.
The commission further authorizes the state-
ment that if their bills now before the Legis-
lature become enacted, they will, within two
years, be able to supply nearly if not more
than double the number of trout fry they can
now, with scarcely an appreciable increase
in expense.
—A few days ago Mrs. John Ifox, of Defi-
ance, Bedford county, having placed a pot of
meat with a tightly closed lid upon the
kitchen stove, returned after a short absence
and found the room filled with smoke. The
water in the pot was exhausted and the pot
and contents were burning. Mrs, Fox pick-
ed up the pot to carry it outside, but when
the overheated pot came in contact with the
cold aivit exploded, the hot grease being
thrown over the lady’s face and hands. She
was very seriously burned.
—Altoona police raided a stable in the
eighth ward of that city on Saturday night
where a prize fight was in progress just after
midnight. A hundred or more citizens were
pretty badly scared, some of them, strange to
say, being somewhat prominent in business
in the mountain city. Toh’ : from the blue
coats the fellows secreted the.nselves where-
ever they could find a place to crawl into,
some covering themselves over with oats in a
bin, others erawling under the hay in the
mow, cte., cte. But it was left for one man
to select a bad corner to hide in. He ran
into a stall occupied by a mischievous horse
and the animal jerked the trousers nearly oft
him and inflicted a wound that will cause
him to have no use for a chair the next week
or so. 2
—There is great excitement in the Bedford
region over the discovery of gold in the Tus-
sey mountain. P. H. Schuss and D. Y.
Swayne, of Huntingdon, and C. M. Halder-
man, of Bedford, have sunk a shaft to a depth
of eighty feet, which reveals a bed of heavy
red shale, containing 20 per cent. of copper
and some gold. From the side of the moun-
tain two tunnels, each 100 feet in length,
| have been dug, and in them is found a gray
"quartz which contains a high per centage of
gold. Prof. M. G. Ihlseng, mining engineer
at the Pennsylvania State College, assayed a
sealed check sample containing $513 in gold
per ton. Prof. Thlseng said : *‘I donot know
that the sample I assayed came from Tussey
mountain, though I believe the person who
sent it to me is confident that it did. I as-
sayed another rock which showed only $11
worth of gold to the ton.
does not run higher than that the mine will
pay, if properly worked.” It isthe inten-
tion of the owners to continue prospecting
and investigating.
rows near Lickdale, Lebanon county, he ac- *
Even if the gold a
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