BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Battle ships are very much like politi- |
cal systems. It requires years to build one
up and only a few minutes to tear it all to
pieces.
—From the number of fake reports and
the general blow and do-nothing of this
Spanish affair one would imagine that Jim
CORBETT was at the helm on one side of
the water and BoB FITZSIMMONS on the
other.
—Mr. DuPuY DELOME, the Spanish min-
ister who had the American mission taken
from him so recently, has almost taken the
world’s breath by announcing that Ameri-
can newspapers lie. The news is so sud-
den.
—It may be a mistake, but it looks very
much as if the Republican nominee for
Governor will be Mr. P. A. B. WIDENER,
of Philadelphia. PETER didn’t give that
mansion at Broad and Girard avenue for
nothing, now see if he did.
' —Sherift MARTIN, of Luzerne county,
when on the stand in the Lattimer murder
trial, said : “I thought one man was enough
to die at once.” One would have been
bad enough, but unfortunately the sheriff’s
deputies were not of the same opinion that
he was for they never stopped killing until
the ground was strewn with a score or more
of dead bodies.
—The honorable CHRISTOPHER MAGEE,
of Pittsburg, has declared his intention of
running for Governor, but CHRISTOPHER
is an astute politician and doesn’t want to
be Governor nearly so bad as he wants to
control the Allegheny county delegation in
the next state convention. With that del-
egation pledged to his support and proba-
bly that of Westmoreland he’ll .be apt to
get a pretty nice hand when ‘‘the old man’?
begins to deal.
—DRepresentative FORD, the Allegheny
county Legislator who conceived the gigan-
tic notion of having the Governor call the
Legislature into extraordinary session in
order to settle the capitol building com-
mission, has just been informed by the
Governor that he has to go to California
and can’t give Mr. FORD the opportunity to
serve without pay. We surmise that the
Governor understands that one such ses-
sion as we had last year was extraordinary
enough for Pennsylvania.
—The influence that well executed
and thoughtfully designed cartoons have
upon the public mind is being felt wherever
the Philadelphia Zimes circulates. While
there are few people in accord with the
Times’ policy of holding back, yet its car-
toons on the “Yellow Kid” war booms
have done much to calm the impetuosity
of those who are prone to believe any-
thing and everything about Spain and
foolish enough to undertake to swim the
Atlantic in order to get at her.
—The Spanish press is just now airing
its opinions on the character of the Ameri-
can seamen. Among other pleasant things
El Correo, of Madrid, informs its readers
that the crew of a United States cruiser,
recently at Venice, were ‘‘rather pirates
than sailors of a civilized nation’’ and
that their ship was never free from the
fumes of alcohol and was a twin sister of
the Maine—the wonder being that in such
hands one of the ships was not blown up
every day. Possibly the day will come
when the American seamen will have an
opportunity of resenting this insult. If
it does Spain will find out that the *pi-
rates’’ of the United States cruisers are at
* once the bravest and most honorable men
that sail the waters. They are not butch-
ers, they are soldiers.
—Congress is reported to be ‘straining
every energy” to pass the appropriation
bills for an early adjournment. It is our
opinion that some of those Congressmen
had better not rupture their nerves in this
effort, for they will need them to sustain
them from the shock of the election in the
fall. The people have wakened up to the
fact that the DINGLEY tariff is not a maker
of good times and that Republican prosper-
ity promises are as hollow as the convolu-
tions from which our friend, the editor of
the Gazette, draws his ‘‘two columns of hot
stuff.” The complexion of the next House
will be changed and some of the congres-
sional roosters who are ‘‘straining every
energy’’ will be straining their very giz-
zards to get back in the fall, but the peo-
ple’s time will have come then.
—It is comical to see how the leaders of
the Republican party, including pious
JOHN WANAMAKER, are trying to mystify
the rank and file of their party by keeping
up a show of fight between the Quay and
anti-QUAY elements. QUAY, MAGEE and
MARTIN have a thorough understanding
that Mr. PETER A. B. WIDENER, the Phil-
adelphia Traction magnate, is to be kept
in the back ground until the proper time,
when he will be sprung on the convention
by a solid Philadelphia delegation. Ma-
GEE is the right-bower of the Traction com-
pany—which means Mr. WIDENER—in all
of its outside operations, DAVE MARTIN
looks after its interests in the Philadelphia
councils and Quay is a warm friend of
WIDENER'S, willing to give him anything
he wants in order to save his own bacon in
the senatorial fight. We merely publish
this to give our Republican friends an in-
side tip of what is really going on and the
result that they may expect. We hope it
won’t embarrass QUAY, WIDENER, MARTIN
and MAGEE to have their cat out of the
bag.
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OL. 48
BEL
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
LEFONTE, PA., MAR. 4, 1898.
Will the Maine Horror Be Huckstered?
The present deplorable spectacle in the
harbor of Havana in which are presented
the wreck of an American man-of-war and
the mutilated remains of nearly three hun-
dren American sailors, the probable viec-
tims of an unexampled act of treachery,
is chargeable to the weak and cowardly
course pursued by the executive authority
at Washington in its treatment of the issue
between Spanish tyranny and Cuban free-
dom.
‘When the present occupant of the presi-
dential office took charge of the govern-
ment the conflict between the Cuban pa-
triots and their Spanish oppressors had
reached that stage at which intervention by
this government would have been perfectly
justifiable. If the CLEVELAND adminis-
tration was censurable for withholding rec-
ognition of Cuban helligerency, how much
more blame was to be attached to McKIN-
LEY for entering into an agreement with
the bloody Spaniards that they might go
on with the process of killing and starving
the insurgents into submission under the
deceptive offer of autonomous government,
and with the cold-blooded understanding
that after Spanish tyranny had been restor-
ed on the island the United States should
have the benefit of an advantageous com-
mercial treaty ?
If, instead of so infamous a policy, as
sordid as it was cowardly, making dollars
and cents of more account than the rights
of an oppressed people, there had been
adopted the noble course of recognizing the
Cubans as belligerents, justifiably fighting
for their freedom, it may be believed that
the cause of right and justice would have
triumphed in Cuba by this time. Such a
course would at least not have made our
relations with Spain more belligerent than
they are threatening to be at this time and
it is not likely that if such a policy had
been practiced one of our naval vessels
would have gone to Havana to be treacher-
ously blown up in its harbo..
That fearful atrocity is the indirect prod-
uct of a nerveless treatment of the Cuban
difficulty. And what is to be its sequel?
There is a depressing apprehension in the
public mind that the inquiry into the
Maine horror is intended to cause as little’
trouble as possible ; that it will be manag-
ed so as not to provoke a difficulty that
may injure the ‘‘business interest ;’ and
that the administration intends to condone
the destruction of a national vessel and
huckster the blood of some hundreds of
murdered American sailors for the indem-
nity paid by the Spanish government.
If this should be the outcome of the
greatest outrage ever sustained by any na-
tion the McKINLEY administration would
be blasted by the withering condemnation
of American patriotism.
Captain Hart's Case,
There was something in the treatment
accorded to Cap’t. HART by the United
States court in Philadelphia some weeks
ago which, occurring almost simultaneously
with the blowing up of the battleship Maine,
presented a rather unpleasant coincidence
for the American people to contemplate.
The captain, after being convicted of vio-
lating the neutrality laws in showing too
ardent a disposition to carry arms and
ammunition to the Cuban patriots who are
struggling for their freedom, was sentenced
to a term of two years in the penitentiary
asa filibuster.
It is true that captain HART was an of-
fender against a federal law, but it must
be admitted that his offense was committed
in behalf of a noble cause. It was his mis-
fortune that the federal law he violated
was not of a different character. If he had
been the head of one of the big trusts and
had disregarded the federal law that pro-
hibits the practices in restraint of trade
which every combination of that kind is
guilty of, there would not have heen a
court officer under this administration that
would have tuined a finger to punish him
for such violation of the law. A federal
statute may be defied with impunity by
plutocratic monopolists, but when an old
sea captain allowes his zeal for the cause of
freedom to lead him into an infringement
of one of the neutrality regulations of the
United States he is arrested and punished
as a criminal, the punishment being in-
flicted almost at the very time when, by an
atrocious act of Spanish treachery, an Amer-
ican ship is destroyed and more than two
hundred and fifty gallant American sailors
are suddenly hurled into eternity.
If captain HART had been convicted as a
bank defaulter or an embezzling financier
it could be expected that President Mo-
KINLEY would pardon him, but as he is
only a sailor, whose generous sympathy
with an oppressed people was the motive
for his violating the law, he is not likely
to be made a subject of the President's
clemency.
——The Philadelphia Times took front
rank among the comic papers of the land
on Sunday. Its burlesque of the New
York World and Journal style of fake war
news was one of the cleverest and most
amusing features we have seen in a news-
paper for a long time. Perhaps it will do
the people who are so ready to believe and
repeat such rumors a world of good.
Flourishing at the Expense of the Poor.
A prominent Democratic leader in a re-
cent address in Tammany Hall, remarked
that ‘‘while the gold and silver question
may provoke contention and discussion,
the feeling among the great body of the
people against the monopolies which are
flourishing at the expense of the poor is a
very serious matter.’’
It is indeed the most serious matter that
the American people have to deal with,
and in comparison with it, no abuse con-
nected with the money question can be re-
garded of equal malignancy. This allusion
in Tammany Hall to the monopolies that
are robbing the poor is made the subject of
some intrusive remarks by the New York
World in which it claims to have reminded
Mr. BRYAN and his free silver supporters
that the robbery practiced by the monopo-
lies surpassed all other evils in its danger-
ous and oppressive nature.
This is characteristic presumption on the
part of the World. Mr. BRYAN and the
Democratic party did not confine their ef-
forts in the last presidential campaign to
the correction of monetary abuses. Their
platform was directed against every abuse
that has grown up as the result of Re-
publican policies, not the least of which
was monopolistic greed. The Chicago
platform denounced the trusts and kindred
combinations of greedy capitalists while
the World was supporting, on the money
question, the party that was responsible
for all the evils.
At this time ‘‘the monopolies that are
flourishing at the expense of the poor”?
claim the first attention of those who want
to correct the wrongs that have grown out
of the usurpations of the money power.
For this work good men of all parties may
unite. Difference on the money question
need not separate them on such an issue as
this. There is no more reason why they
should not act together for the suppression
of monopolies that rob all classes than why
they should not unite in a conjoint move-
ment for the correction of the abuses in state
government that injure citizens of the
State, without respect to the parties they
may belong to.
er ———
Unbecoming Reticence.
It may not be the correct thing for the
President of the United States to express
himself in regard to the destruction of the
battleship Maine, and the violent death of
more than two hundred and fifty American
sailors, in terms that would reflect upon
Spaniards as having been at the bottom of
that diabolical business, but there should
at least have been some official expression
from him recognizing the fact that so ter-
rible a calamity had befallen the United
States. But not a word on the subject has
escaped him, either verbally or in writing.
In the address he delivered at Philadel-
phia on Washington's birthday he had an
opportunity of expressing his sympathy, as
the head of the nation, for the brave men
of the American navy who had met their
terrible fate in Havana harbor, but he ut-
tered not a word or syllable on the subject
which at that time was engrossing the
thoughts of every true American. Was he
afraid that even an allusion to it would he
offensive to the Spaniards ?
At the very moment when the President
was ignoring the hideous sacrifice of an
American ship and her gallant crew, his
Minister at Madrid was banqueting the
high officials of the nation upon which the
responsibility for this great crime may be
laid.
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——Last week, when the war excitement
was at its height, it was announced as a mo-
mentous piece of news that the scare occa-
sioned great havoc in the stock market,
causing the loss of millions in a day. But
this sacrifice of values was merely fictitious
as the panic did not involve substantial
losses. Stock operations are largely of a
gambling character. When a panic of this
kind arises it is chiefly caused by one set
of gamblers trying to get the advantage of
another set. Nobody worth sympathizing
‘with gets hurt, and the country loses nothing
that is valuable ; and yet it is for the bene-
fit of such worthless operators that finan-
cial policies must be shaped. Even the
government must not be too bold in assert-
ing the nation’s honor as against foreign
enemies lest the gambling operations of
Wall street should be disturbed.
——HUGH LINDSAY, editor of the Hunt-
ingdon Local News, died at his home in
that place, yesterday morning, after a short
illness with kidney trouble. Mr. LINDSAY
was born in Philadelphia, May. 26th, 1845,
and entered Girard college in 54. Having
been graduated in ’60 he located in Hunt-
ingdon, a year later, when he entered the
Globe office and worked until 1873, when
he started the News and pushed it from a
weekly, to a semi-weekly and finally a
daily paper. He was prominent in veteran
organizations, the Odd Fellows and Hepta-
sophs and though of a quiet, studious, re-
fined temperament he was a genial man, an
honor to his town and profession and a
Christian editor.
Ex-President Harrison on the Cause of
Discontent.
Among the many addresses made by pub-
lic men on the recent anniversary of Wash-
ington’s birth none is more worthy of
notice than that of ex-President HARRISON
before the Union League of Indianapolis.
The tone of his remarks would seem to in-
dicate that a prominent Republican is be-
ginning to see that the encroachment of
wealth in this country is becoming the
cause of popular discontent and a source of
danger to the peace and well-being of this
country.
Adverting to this discontent Mr. HAR-
RISON said that ‘‘there is a feeling that
some men are handicapped; that the race
is sold ; that the old and much vaunted
equality of opportunity and of right has
been submerged.’” If the ex-President is
just beginning to observe the existence of
this dissatisfied feeling he is late in recog-
nizing the natural and inevitable effect of
the policies of his party that have destroyed
“the equality of opportunity and right”’
by conferring upon corporate interests and
a capitalistic class advantages from which
the common mass are excluded.
He observes that ‘‘more hitter and
threatening things are being said and
written against accumulated property and
corporate power than ever before,”” but he
should not be surprised at this when it is
seen that the methods by which the vast
accumulations of property are secured and
corporate power is promoted are of a kind
that correspondingly depresses the interest
and impoverishes the condition of the
generality of the people. It is natural
that these bitter and threatening things
should be said when, asthe ex-President
declares, ‘‘it seems to many that more and
more, small men, small stores and small
factories are being thrown upon the shore
as financial drift and wreckage,”” in conse-
quence of conditions in which only enor-
mous combinations of capital, invested in
gigantic operations, can occupy the field of
industry.
Mr. I ARRISON might have been more
candid and explicit in admitting that this
is precisely the effect of the monopolistic
cow¥inations of capital in the form of
trusts and other allied money interests,
which have been called into existence and
are fostered and promoted by the financial
and fiscal policies of the Republican party.
There can be no mistake asto the power
that is making “financial drift and wreck-
age’’ of the small operators, small factories
and small stores, which can not hold their
ground against the monopolistic combina-
tions that have been enabled to control all
lines of business.
Ex-President HARRISON comes to a very
weak conclusion when, in commenting
upon the discontent existing under such
circumstances, he condemns, ‘‘as mischiey-
ous, the indiscriminate denunciation of the
rich.”” There is no such denunciation.
He begs the question and misrepresents the
situation by making such an assertion.
The majority of the people feel and know
that a class are being helped to get enor-
mously rich by methods that are disad-
_vantageous to the mass, and it is this that
has excited and deserves their bitter denun-
ciation.
Their Tone Changed.
There is a decided change in the manner
in which the directers of Republican ex-
pression speak to the people in regard to
industrial conditions and the influences
affecting their prosperity. It was the
custom of these speakers in the past to
excite the expectations of the working
classes, and secure their support, by prom-
ising them great benefits through the agency
of tariff policies and protective measures.
Promises of prosperity through this source
were made to the people before every presi-
dential election, and unfortunately too
many were fooled by them. Now that the
failure of these promises has become mani-
fest, and the working people see that in-
stead of prosperity coming to them it is be-
ing enjoyed exclusively by trusts and other
monopolistic beneficiaries of a protective
system, the Republican talkers find it nec-
essary to employ a different tone in speak-
ing of the industrial situation.
Ex-President HARRISON gave a sample
of this change of language in an address he
made at Indianapolis on Washington's
birthday. No spell-binder was ever more
prolific than he was in promises of benefits
to the people from Republican tariffs, but
in his Indianapolis speech, instead of con-
gratulating them on the prosperity that
hasn’t reached them, he tells the people
that it is very wrong to be discontented
with the situation ; that “no poor man
was ever made richer or happier by it,”
and that ‘indiscriminate denunciation of
the rich,’’ who constitute the class that are
flourishing under existing conditions, has a
bad effect upon the poor, as it ‘‘perverts the
mind, poisons the heart and furnishes an
excuse for crime.”
This kind of talk is preferable to the
lying promises of prosperity, as the work-
ing people are less likely to be humbugged
by it.
LEGEND OF THE SAND CRANE,
Once I wondered in a lone land
Where the white men seldom come,
Where the coyote has his dwelling
And the antelope his home.
Where the prairies seem unending
Aud the lakes lie cool and clear ;
Where rank grass and flowers groweth
In the summer of the year.
There the birds make merry music
All the long bright summer day,
But the coming of the autumn
Drives them far and far away.
Then the icy reign of winter
Hides the lovely lakes from sight,
Neath wind driven, frozen snow drifts,
And the plains are cold and white.
Long, long, months the earth lies hidden,
Old Boreas reigns in state
’Tis a country then forsaken
Lonely, dreary, desolate.
There I roved one happy summer,
Never fairer land was seen;
All the lakes were fringed with timber,
All the plains a living green,
Camped one night beside lake Pleasant,
Fairest lake of all the plain,
My old chippewa friend and hunter
Told this Legend of the Crane.
Once there lived a tribe of hunters,
Many hundred years ago,
Long leagues north of Manitoba
In the land of endless snow.
Dwelling in their ice built houses,
Well content with fish and game,
But alas! one dreary winter
Pestilence and famine came.
Drooped and died the little children,
Men and women drooped and died ;
Until weak and starved the remnant
Unto the Great Spirit cried !
“Cast us fish from out the waters,
Cast us flesh from out the sky,
Give us wings, O, thou Great Spirit,
From this desolate land to fly.”
Then from out the eternal silence
A sweet, solemn voice was heard :
‘““Have thy wish, Oh heedless mortals,
Take the wings and torm of bird.”
Then a storm wind, rushing by them,
Smote them for a moment blind
Then away they flew, great sand cranes,
But they left their souls behind.
So the sand crane has the cunning
And the keen unerring eye
Of that far off race of hunters
Aud their wild unearthly cry,
Echoing far across the prairies
"Till the timid start in fright,
Is their mourning for their lost souls
In the silence of the night.
Winn Tri CREN Sg LLER,
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Money Giving a Sure Test of Character.
Sarah E. Harman in the Telescope.
In all our religious and in our Bible
study, ‘‘it is of the greatest consequence to
find out” what the mind of Christ is, to
think as he thought, and to feel just as he
felt. There is not a question that concerns
us, not a single matter that ever comes be-
fore us, hut we find in the words of Christ
something for our guidance and help.
We want to-day to get at the mind of
Christ about money, to know exactly what
he thought, and then to think and act just
as he would. This is not an easy matter.
We are so under the influence of the world
around us that the fear of becoming utter-
ly impracticable if we think and act just
like Christ easily comes upon us. Let us
not be afraid. If we really desire to find
out what is in his mind, he will guide us
to what he wants us to think and do. Only
be honest in the thought, I want to have
Christ teach me how to possess and how to
use my money. Nota gift for any part of
God’s work, great or small, but he notices
it ‘and puts its value on it’’ for the bless-
ing, if any, that it is to bring in time or
eternity. And he is willing, even here on
earth, in the waiting heart, to let us know
what he thinks of our giving. Giving
money is a part of our religious life, is
watched over by Christ, and must be regu-
lated by his Word. Every grace needs to
be exercised if it is to grow ; most of all is
this true of lovz ; and did we but know it,
our money might develop and strengthen
our love as it called us to the careful and
sympathizing consideration of the needs of
those around us, Do believe. Money giv-
ing may be one of your choicest means of
grace. Think of the poor; what help
and happiness is brought to thousands of
helpless ones by the timely gift of a little
money from the hand of love. Lord Jesus,
oh, give me grace to love thee intently,
that I may know how to give !
Soldiers Would Not Be Scarce.
If the American government should find
it necessary to call on its citizens to rally
around the flag in a conflict with a foreign
enemy, it would find a greater number
rushing to enroll themselves under ‘the na-
tional standard than it would have need
for in the field. There would be more vol-
unteers offering their service than the ex-
igencies of war would demand.
This would be so, not only for the reason
that Americans are very patriotic, but large-
ly because so many of them are idle in
consequence of the want of employment.
In the large cities and in most of the towns
thousands are ready to spring to arms, and
are anxious to be employed in the job whip-
ping the Spaniards, because they have no
other job that will give them employment,
This would certainly be a great advan-
tage to the government if it should be in
need of troops, as it would find a surplus
of soldiers willing to fight its battles with-
out a bounty, but such a situation is not
an advantage to the thousands who would
resort to war in order to have something to
do. The fact that there would he more
volunteers than would be needed, shows
that labor 18 to a great extent unemploy-
ed, and that the prosperity that was prom-
ised the working people has made such a
failure in putting in an appearance that
thousands are willing to undertake a job of
fighting because they can get no other em-
ployment.
Spawls from the Xeystene.
—Kane has two women M. D.’s. Dr. Holt
has recently located in that borough for the
practice of her profession.
—Elk county voters have decided to have
a county almshouse, and the plans for the
building are now being prepared for submis-
sion to the state board of health.
—The support of the ceiling of the court
house at Williamsport has weakened to such
an extent that repairs must be made at once
to prevent the ceiling from falling.
—An epidemic of spinal meningetis is
sweeping over Venango county, and the pa-
pers of Monday reported thirty-five cases
in the city of Franklin and fourteen deaths
within one week.
—The large suburban hotel at Darby, Del-
aware county, known as Thatcher’s Inn, was
destroyed by fire early yesterday morning.
The building was owned by Mrs. Thatcher
and was unoccupied. Loss $20,000, covered
by insurance.
—The protracted meeting at the M. E.
church in Clearfield, has entered upon its
eighteenth week and reports up to date 326
seekers at the altar and 306 conversions. 226
have been taken into the church and a num-
ber of others have joined sister churches.
—Wm. P. Orbison, the oldest member of
the Huntingdon bar, died Sunday night,
aged 84. He practiced law in that commu-
nity for 63 years. The Orbisons were among
the original settlers of Huntingdon. De-
ceased is survived by one son and two daugh-
ters.
—Earl Lindsey, John Lafferty and George
Lafferty, boys of Duncansville, played truant
from school and crept into the gas retort pipes
of the Portage iron works to hide from the
truant officer. Workmen found them un-
conscious from inhaling gas, but they were
revived.
—Wm. H. Rutherford, retired chief engi-
neer of the United States navy, died in Har-
risburg, on Tuesday. He entered the navy
in 1849 and served through the civil war and
until 1874, when he was retired for dis-
ability incurred during the war. He was
born in Philadelphia in 1828.
—James Musser, aged 21, a carpenter of
Bellwood, attempted to board a moving
freight train Friday evening to go to Tyrone,
with the result of falling under the wheels,
suffering a partial crush of one foot, and sev-
eral severe lacerations on the body. He was
removed to the Altoona hospital for treat-
ment.
—The largest number of coal trains that
have gone out of Jersey Shore on the Beech
Creek in a long time moved westward from
that town Sunday night. There were twenty-
three trains, which means a total of 2,000
cars to go and return. Each train had from
$500 to $300 worth of coal.
—The superintendent of the Altoona divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania railroad has issued
orders prohibiting all whistling in and around
the Altoona yards except in case of absolute
necessity so as to prevent accident, Whist-
ling is very rarely heard in the yard now.
Ret the order be made general all along the
line.
—Little Scott Carrier, of Summerville,
near DuBois, was the victim of an accident
that may result in death, or if helives will
make him a cripple for life. The child was
playing in his father’s grist mill, when his
clothing was caught in a shaft. Before the
machinery could be stopped by the frantic
parent the child was a mass of broken bones
and bruised flesh.
—Frank Decker, J. W. Rodgers, James
Anderson, David Throne, Alonzo High,
Joseph Moore and Robert Eger, of Mont-
gomery, left Monday for the Alaska gold
fields. They intend going through Canada
to Edmonton, where they will complete their
outfit. They will first look for the dust in
the Pease river region. If they are success-
ful at that point they will not go to the
Klondike.
—Last Friday evening a large crowd of
Grangers met at the home of G. G. Hutchin-
son, at Warriorsmark, and were royally en-
tertained. The guests numbered about 100,
all grangers or their friends. The table
groaned with good things, and after helping
to unload the table according to their ability
to contain, the party played games until mid-
night, when they bade host and hostess good
night.
—Representative Thomas J. Ford, a leader
of the last house, has sent a letter to Gov-
ernor Hastings, which advances the idea
that the capitol muddle is in such a shape
than an extra session of the general assem-
bly to straighten out matters would be desir-
able. Realizing that the cost of such a ses-
sion would be a principal objection to it, he
expresses the belief that the legislators would
agree to serve for a few days without salary,
and makes an offer to that effect, setting the
example.
—In conversation with a veteran rail-
roader in the employ of the Pennsylvania
railroad company the other day the ‘‘knight
of the throttle” said : ‘‘Oh, yes, we make
some very fast time with good engines, and
firm steel rails under us. Forty-five miles
an hour used to be counted fast running, but
now we are prepared and not afraid to run
sixty miles an hour. As long as no accidents
occur I am willing to go at that rapid gait,
but God help us all if something gives out
while running at that rate of speed.”
—Hon. Charles H. Noyes, president judge
of the Warren county courts, died Friday
evening of pneumonia after an illness of a
week, at the age of 49 years. The deceased
was a native of Michigan ; was admitted to
the Warren bar in '71, and was elected judge
in ’90. He was a delegate to the national
Democratic convention in ’84 and again in
’96. He was also the nominee of his party
for the superior court bench three years ago ;
he was a member of the Methodist church, a
public spirited citizen and an able jurist. He
leaves a widow and five children.
—Owing to the failure in the ice crop in
the localities from which the Pennsylvania
railroads has been securing its supply the
past few years, says the Oil City Derrick,
that company has placed an order for 400
cars with the Chautauqua Lake company at
Mayville, to be delivered to the Pennsyl-
vania company at Altoona, and the order
will be filled at once. It is estimated that
125 cars a day will be sent through Oil City
until this contract is filled. As thisis for the
one point—Altoona—there is a pretty
strong indication that other large orders
from the same source will follow.
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