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GRAY MEEK.
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—Nature celebrated the first day of
spring by putting on a new snow white
dress.
—March came is like a lamb and there
seems to be little doubt that she intends
going out like a lion.
—Spain is reported to have no coal. If
such is the case how in the world can she
make it hot for Uncle SAM.
—It has come to the worst at last. The
sailors on the English battleship ‘‘Anson’’
are actually engaged in sewing petticoats
for the women of Crete.
—The Altoona Zribune calls WANAMAK-
ER ‘the people’s candidate.” From the
reports of Saturday’s convention in Lan-
caster county we infer that he is the candi-
date of some of the people only.
—Mrs. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT'S
application for a divorce from her husband,
Dr. SWAN M. BURNETT, goes to prove that
even mammas of ‘Little Lord Fauntle-
roys’”’ can make a mistake in selecting
papas for such characters.
—Everybody is calling him “Uncle AMoS
MyLIN” now and if, in the vagaries of
modern politics, he should be elected Gov-
ernor how in the world will he find places
for such a troop of nephews? They will
insist on the relationship then.
—That Somerset county hen that is lay-
ing eggs with a big letter W on one side
and the American flag on the other will
soon be getting so patriotic that she will
be cackling ‘‘America’’ to announce her
having deposited her daily war bulletin in
her nest.
—They say that the English people are
very ignorant as to the real magnitude of
the United States. Much or little, they
seem to know enough about it to invest
all their surplus in our securities and we
are gillies enough to pay them interest in a
money that costs us twice as much as it
ought to.
—1In the little Dutch village of Diuxver-
loo they imprison people who hang their
underclothes out to dry on wash day, that
is if the drying lines are in public view.
How modest and chaste they must be in
Diuxverloo. Here in America we pay all
sorts of fancy prices to sit in the front row
at the theatre and often times all we see is
just about what these simple Dutch folk
imprison people for exposing.
—The most notable feature in the Sun-
day war news was the announcement that
‘Secretary LoNG went to bed at 9 o’clock.’’
It is a great wonder that such a remarkable
occurrence didn’t precipitate war at once.
The idea of Secretary Long going to bed is
ridiculous. He is not supposed to go to
bed and it behooves Spain to file a protest
against any such an untoward action.
—As positive proof that the Spanish
don’t know anything about us let us pre-
sent the advices from Madrid to the effect
that they have fitted out ninety cruisers
for preying on American merchantmen.
Spain doesn’t need cruisers to find the
merchant vessels of the United States,
what she needs are detectives and magnify-
ing glasses.
—Our friend Tom COOPER is having
more than his share of trouble just now.
Putting in sleepless nights worrying over
how he might purge his party of political
impurities and be Governor of Pennsylva-
nia was bad enough, but to add to his
troubles judge McPHERSON wants a re-
ceiver appointed for the Guarantor’s trust
company of Philadelphia. Poor COOPER !
It is good he is so hopeful.
—The Harrisburg News says that ‘‘HAST-
INGS may deliver Centre county and Me-
CORMICK may try to do the same with
Lycoming, but it will take far more than
that to nominate and elect Holy JOHN,
Governor of this State.” We observe the
permission the News gives DANIEL in the
use of ‘‘may,’’ but Mr. QUAY will have the
delegates from Centre, the Governor’s
wishes to the contrary notwithstanding.
—No sooner had the Tyrone people
heard of Col. PRUNER’S determination to
build a memorial hospital in Bellefonte
than they began to throw all manner of
bouquets at him and to try to make him be-
lieve that they love him—even unto death.
The Colonel has lived too long to be gulled
with such flap-doodle and fully under-
stands that the ‘‘proof of the puddin’ is the
eatin’ thereof.’”” When they wouldn’t elect
him to council from a Republican ward,
especially when he owns thousands of dol-
lars worth of property in that town, he
would indeed be obtuse not to see through
this precipitate scramble of Tyrone people
to fall on his neck now and call him be-
loved.
——According to the latest announce-
ment from Clearfield county the Republi-
cans over there are not going to ask for
either the congressional or senatorial nomi-
nation in this district. They do not feel
kindly to Col. REEDER, of Centre, how-
ever, nor does COOK, of Forest, suit them.
They want an out and out QUAY man not-
withstanding the strong WANAMAKER sen-
timent that is developing in Clearfield.
If the proper man can’t be found in Cen-
tre county to take the senatorial nomi-
nation McQuowN will go after it again,
rather than see another than a QUAY man
get it. If they are so anxious for Centre to
have it and want a man who would be an
excellent subject for QUAY’S hypnotic sug-
gestions why not take Arn DALE. That
would take him out of the post office race
and leave the way clear for our friend, the
editor of the Gazette, the ORIGINAL QUAY
man (?)
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STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAR. 25, 1898.
Wanamaker’s Arraignment of Quay.
The fight against the QUAY predominance
in state politics has been vigorously com-
menced, with WANAMAKER as the leader
of the faction that has arrayed itself against
the boss. Having announced his consent
to assume the leadership of this anti-QUAY
insurrection, the Philadelphia dry-goods
politician and bargain-counter statesman
has opened the fight with some rattling
speeches from the stump, in which he
shows up the political delinquencies and
official corruptions of the gang who run the
QUAY machine.
An intelligent public recognizes the truth
of the charges which WANAMAKER is
hurling against the rascals who are mis-
managing the state government and cor-
rupting it in all its departments, but it is
not necessary that this information should
come from that source, as the people were
well aware of the corrupt character of these
machine politicians long before ‘honest
JOHN’ set about exposing them in public
speeches. They knew all this before he
had separated from the gang for factional
reasons. They knew it while he still con-
tinued to maintain his association with the
vicious agencies which he now denounces.
In his Lancaster county speeches last
week WANAMAKER drew a heavy bill of
indictment against the QUAY machine, re-
counting its various political iniquities
and official malfeasances. He charged
it with corrupting the elections and ‘‘so
manipulating the primaries and conven-
tions as to defeat instead of register-
ing the will of the voters.”” He arraigned
it for having ‘farmed out millions of dol-
lars to favorite banks ;’’ for having created
a state capitol commission that is “planning
a capitol that will cost millions in excess
of the authorized limit.’’ He included
among its corruptions such venalities as
indemnity bonds for the payment of un-
lawful salaries, padded pay rolls, dishonest
charges for sham Lexow investigations,
legislative junketings and mileage grab-
bing. These and other charges which
WANAMAKER pours like hot shot into the
QUAY camp are true in every particular ;
but Democrats have made the same charges
long before the present leader of the anti-
QUAY faction - turned his guns on the old
boss. QUAY isnot a bit more corrupt as a
political leader, at this time, nor are his
methods a bit more dangerous to public
interests, or more corrupting to political
morals, than when, as the manager of the
HARRISON campaign, he received from
JOHN WANAMAKER the $400,000 fund
which no one could use with greater ef-
fect in corrupting a presidential election.
When WANAMAKER is carrying on his
crusade against QUAY’S vicious domination
itis well enough to bear in mind his former
connection with QUAY’S boodle methods.
The Way Clear for the Capitol Job.
The state capitol building commission,
after more than a year’s manceuvering, has
succeeded in removing the obstacles that
stood in the way of the extravagant job
which it is proposed to make out of the new
capital construction. The state supreme
court having declined to sustain the injunc-
tion against the scheme of the commission,
the work will now proceed on the plan
that is intended to admit of indefinite and
unlimited extension, and expenditure.
The people of the State may expect a
repetition of the performance of the Phil-
adelphia public building commission which
has succeeded in extending a profitable
source of plunder through a period of twen-
ty-six years, and at a cost of more than twen-
ty millions of dollars, with no immediate
prospect of its termination. When the
conflagration of the old capitol removed
that venerable structure, the example of the
Philadelphia city hall job was sufficient to
suggest to the Republican ringsters the
profits that could be made out of the new
capitol. Every movement since that old
building was burnt appears to have been
intended to put things in shape for an un-
limited and protracted expenditure of mon-
ey on a structure that is designed to be as
long and expensive in its construction as
the Philadelphia public buildings have
been. There may be no injustice in be-
lieving that the design to secure such a job
was the motive for the conflagration of the
old capitol. Almost any turpitude may
be associated with the corruption that per-
vades our state government.
By the failure of the injunction against
its proceedings the ground is now cleared
for the state capitol building commission
to imitate its Philadelphia prototype and
carry on the job into the dim and distant
future. When boys who are now going to
school shall be bearded tax payers the work
on the capitol will still be going on, and a
quarter of a century hence money will con-
tinue to be expended upon the uncompleted
building. ;
This is the prospect ahead for the Penn-
sylvania tax payers in regard to the state
capitol job. They will most assuredly
have this experience if the corrupt agencies
which for years past have controlled the
government of this State are not deprived
of their power.
Stock Jobbing Patriotism.
The people will be well pleased if it
shall turn out that ‘‘the great financial
interests,’”” which proposed to step in
and trade off the honor of the country
for the maintenance of ‘‘values'’ in the
stock market, will fail in accomplishing
their dastardly object. There has been a
disposition on the part of this administra-
tion, in the pending Spanish difficulty, to
yield to this stock jobbing influence that
would have disgraced the country in order
to avoid a conflict which might interfere
with Wall street interests though required
for national vindication. This base in-
fluence however, appears to be losing its
hold on the administration, which has been
admonished by the patriotic spirit of the
people.
There is something really nauseous to
patriotic citizens in the movement of a
syndicate of bankers, headed by former
vice President LEVI P. MORTON, who went
to Washington with the object of patch-
ing up the trouble with Spain in a way that
would be more for the interest of the bank-
ing fraternity and the stock jobbers than
for the honor of this nation. Too much
of a disposition to arrange a settlement on
a cash basis has been inspired hy the stock
ticker, a disposition that would set aside
the impulses of patriotism and yield to
the sordid sentiment that peace at any price
is better than war.
The backing which the people are will-
ing to give the President may finally brace
him up against the base stock jobbing in-
fluence that has been operating for the dis-
honor of the country ever since our war
ship was blown up and our sailors mur-
dered in the harbor of Havana. While
the operators in the stock market want to
fix up this great national wrong and out-
rage, proposing to ‘‘adjust it on business
principles’ that would involve a cash pay-
ment, the people will not be satisfied with
anything short of a full reparation for the
Maine outrage and such a settlement of
our trouble with Spain as will ensure the
freedom of Cuba.
If the President shall continue to resist
the unpatriotic influence of the stock mar-
ket, and keep on the high plane of patriot-
ism where the people have placed them-
selves, continuing steadfast to the end, he
will avoid the odium which a yielding
policy will bring upon his administration.
For the sake of American honor we hope
and trust that he will be firm.
The York County Example.
The Democratic committee of York coun-
ty has set the example which should be
followed by the Democrats of the State in
fixing the issues upon which the party
should act in this year’s campaign. This
example does not encourage the policy of
bringing national issues to the front in a
state contest, but sets them aside as irrele-
vant to the interests actually involved.
The action of the York county committee
will commend itself to the common sense
of Democrats who are unable to see how a
national issue like that of the currency can
have any relation to the question of remov-
ing the abuses that have grown up in our
state government, but can easily compre-
hend the embarrassment to which this legit-
imate object of a state contest would be
subjected by mixing it with so extraneous
an issue as the money question. To them
nothing could appear to be greater folly
than that Democrats who agree in their
desire to relieve the State from bad govern-
ment should be prevented from operating
together for that purpose by their disagree-
ment in regard to the money standard.
A common ground upon which the Dem-
ocrats of the State can stand in the coming
state campaign is furnished by the York
county resolutions which declare that State
interests constitute the only legitimate is-
sues in the election of a Governor and Leg-
islature, enumerating as subjects for cor-
rection the abuses in our ballot system, the
corrupt management of the state treasury,
the waste of public funds by extravagant
legislation, the tendency to increase the
number of public officers and to enlarge
their salaries, and the prostitution of the
executive and legislative functions to the
service of corporations and capitalistic in-
terests.
These are the evils that have been ruin-
ously developed in our state government,
and if they are to be extirpated all other
issues must be laid aside except those that
directly relate to such a corrupt state of
affairs.
The Source of a Great Evil,
One of the most powerful monopolies
that is now being projected is the wire and
nail trust, with a capital of $50,000,000.
This scheme that has been nearly complet-
ed meets with an obstacle in several of the
heaviest nail and wire firms declining to go
into the combine. Their co-operation is
necessary for the success of the monopoly,
they being too strong to he crushed by
the usual trust methods ; but the project-
ors of this monopolistic enterprise hope to
he able to overcome this opposition by the
first of April, when they count upon hav-
ing the nail and wire product of this coun-
try completely under their control.
It is indeed a remarkable feature of ex-
isting business conditions that a project
for the unlawful restraint of trade can be
deliberately planned and put in operation
in defiance of the fact that it is contrary to
law, that it conflicts with public policy,
and that public sentiment is opposed to it.
The cause of this is to be found in the
other fact that political policies have pro-
duced conditions which encourage the for-
mation of such monopolies and give them
protection. When tariff laws are passed
which enable such combinations to control
the market and restrict the natural course
of trade it is not to be expected that they
will refrain from taking advantage of their
opportunity. Nothing could be more futile
than legislation which declares trusts to be
unlawful when this whole system of mo-
nopoly finds its support in the fiscal regun-
lations of the general government. There
will be trusts and such like monopolistic
combinations as long as high tariff duties
place consumers at the mercy of producers
who are thus assisted in carrying out thei
conspiracies for the restraint of trade and
for the practice of extortion upon the gen-
eral community.
Neglected Coast Defences.
When Secretary ENDICOTT was at the
head of the military department in Presi-
dent CLEVELAND'S first term, a military
board under his direction arranged and sub-
mitted a plan for a complete system of
coast defence. Notwithstanding the length
of time that has passed since then these de-
fences are so far from being completed that
of the 1818 guns needed for the perfecting
of this system not a sixth of them has been
put in place, and the fortifications as de-
signed by the ENDICOTT board are in an
incomplete condition.
This situation has encouraged the Span-
iards. The organ of the Spanish army pub-
lished in Madrid, upon authority whick it
claims to be authentic, says that but one
hundred of the large guns intended for the
defence of our coast have been mounted,
and by such a statement it encourages the
Spaniards with the idea that our sea-coast
is open to Spanish attack. The situation
is not as bad as that, and the Dons would
be awfully fooled if they were to act upon
such information, but there is no denying
that there has been great remissness in re-
gard to the coast defences, money for that
purpose having been withheld while Repub-
lican Congresses have been wasting the
public funds on all kinds .of extravagant
schemes, and in profligate expenditure of
money that should have been used for the
public advantage.
As a consequence of such dereliction it is
seen that when we get into trouble with
even so weak a nation as Spain our sea-
coast cities do not feel secure, and hurried
efforts are being made to complete the de-
fences which were planned by the ENDI-
COTT hoard, but for the completion of
which there was a failure to appropriate
sufficient means. In emergencies like the
present a country most seriously feels the
effects of bad government.
Sympathetic Values.
Accounts from India represent the com-
ing wheat crop in that region as unusually
large. Last year the failure was so com-
plete that there was no exportation of
wheat and scarcely enough to keep the na-
tives from starving. This year millions of
tons will be exported.
This fact will have a decided bearing up-
on the agricultural interest of this country
during the coming year. The recent great
‘demand for American wheat in the Euro-
pean markets, running the price up toa
dollar a bushel, and greatly improving the
financial condition of our western farmers,
was due to the deficiency in India and the
failure of the crop in Russia and other
wheat producing countries. A repetition
of conditions so favorable to the American
farmers is not to be expected this year
when India will have a large amount of
wheat for export and the crop in Russia is
represented to be very promising.
Under such circumstances it would be
unreasonable to look for a maintenance of
the high price of wheat that prevailed dur-
ing the past season, particularly if the
American harvest should be abundant.
The recent advance in the price of that
cereal gave the gold standard advocates an
opportunity to deride the assertion of the
silver supporters that the price of farm
products sympathized with the price of sil-
ver, and that the value of the white metal
could not he lowered without correspond-
ingly depressing the market price of agri-
cultural productions. The sudden and ac-
cidental rise in the price of wheat, while
there was no appreciation in the value of
silver, was taken by the gold-ites as a ref-
utation of the sympathetic value of silver
and wheat, but they may find before this
year is out that the two are again on the
same level in depreciated value.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Four Years as a Congressional Term.
A movement has been started in Congress
to extend the congressional term, and for
the accomplishment of this object a bill is
being prepared that proposes to make the
term of members of the House four years
instead of two. No good reason can be
advanced for such a change. The interest
that would be promoted by curtailing the
opportunity of the people to change their
representatives is not a popular interest.
This movement is suggested by motives
that do not spring from a popular source.
The object aimed at is not intended for the
good of the people. There are interests
springing up in this country and claiming
governmental consideration and promotion
that will be better served by allowing the
people to exercise their right of election
as seldom as possible, and it is from that
source that the movement for doubling the
length of the congressional term evidently
comes.
The control which a constituency should
exert over its representatives would be im-
paired by this change. Popular influence
over the lawmaking power is maintained
in greater vigor when there is not too long
an interval between the elections at which
the people may approve of or condemn the
conduct of their representatives. It may
suit the ‘‘great financial interests,” and
may be advantageous to the moneyed class,
to have prolonged congressional terms that
would afford less chance for the people to
change their representatives and alter the
course of unpopular legislation, but the
people’s interest will be best served by the
constitutional right to pass judgment on
their representatives in Congress every two
years.
Moreover, if the term of the members of
the House is to be extended to four years
would it not furnish a reason for doubling
the term of United States Senators, and as
the Senate is assuming the character of a
house of lords, might not the next step be
life terms for the members of that body
with titles of nobility? Imagine MARK
HANNA a life member of the Senate as a
Buckeye duke.
An Alliance With Englan
It is the opinion of DAVITT, the Irish
leader, that the desire of the English to
enter into an alliance with the United
States, about which much is being said in
England at this time, involves a large
element of selfishness. The friendly senti-
ments expressed for this country, as against
Spain, is intended, as the Irish leader be-
lieves, to produce reciprocal feeling of good
will on the part of the Americans towards
the English nation which is threatened
with trouble in the far east.
It is entirely probable that the American
republic is not more loved by the average
class of Englishmen at this time than it
ever was, but the disliked yankees would
be tolerated if they should consent to be-
come the allies of John Bull, who has ex-
cited the enmity of most of the nations of
Europe, and would appreciate the assist-
ance which the United States would be
able to render him.
But after all, selfishness is the basis of
friendship between nations, and while
England would seek our good will chiefly
for her own advantage, the fact that she
takes about three-fourths of our agricul-
tural exports, and is by all odds our best
customer in Europe, would incline us to
stand by her in preference to any other
European nation.
If such a thing should happen as that
the combined enemies of England should
attempt to cut off her food supply by gain-
ing a naval superiority, the United States
would most seriously object to have her
trade interrupted with a nation that takes
annually many hundred million dollars
worth of her food products. Under such
circumstances Uncle Sam might be willing
to help John Bull fight his enemies who
should attempt to starve him out.
Scarcity of Seamen.
Great efforts are being made by the naval
authorities to secure experienced sailors to
man the ships of the navy which may soon
be called into active service against a for-
eign enemy ; but the number that are be-
ing secured is remarkably small.
This is one of the greatest embarrass-
ments experienced by the government in
this emergency. Money can supply the
deficiency of ships by purchase from other
nations, but as the United States under
protective tariffs and navigation laws that
blight the merchant marine, has ceased to
be a maritime nation, there is the greatest
difficulty in getting enough American sea-
men to maintain the honor of the nation on
the ocean.
Af this juncture we are suffering many
of the evil consequences of bad government,
not the least of which is the blight of the
ocean commerce which has deprived the
country of that splendid race of seamen of
which it was so proud in the old days of
Democratic tariffs and liberal navigation
laws.
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Four inches of snow fell at Hazleton on
Ionday.
—Anson Behney, of West Lebanon, started
on Sunday night on a trip awheel to the Pa-
cific coast.
—A horse and carriage belonging to How-
ard A. Freigh, of Shenkel, Chester county,
was stolen Sunday night.
—Mrs. Edward Labengood, aged 65, of
Panther valley, near Cressona, committed
suicide Sunday night by hanging.
—DMichael Tocki, an employe of the tan-
nery at Lewisburg, died of anthrax Saturday
night. He was ill only a few days.
—Richard Hayes, with stolen articles in
his possession, was arrested at Lancaster
charged with a number of robberies.
—Frank Arndt went to sleep on a trolley
track at Annville Monday night and narrow-
ly escaped being cut in twain by a car.
—Lightning struck the house of Philip
Meyer, at East Keating, Lycoming county,
Sunday night, and stunned the inmates.
—DMike Corolla and Mike Tirritta, of Ma-
hanoy City, were sent to the Pottsville jail,
charged with passing counterfieit money.
—A 2-year-old child of John Wilson, of
Fairfield township, Lycoming county. fell
into a vessel of boiling water and was fatally
scalded.
—Howard Reimard and Charles E. White-
night fell 30 feet from a building, at Blooms-
burg, Monday, and the latter was painfully
injured.
—The united mine workers in the Hazle-
ton region are pushing the work of the organ-
ization, and meetings will be held in every
town in the region.
—Clare Catlin, aged 10, was instantly
killed at Bridgewater, Susquehanna county,
by the accidental discharge of a gun in the
hands of a younger brother.
—Wilton M. Lindsay, of Warren, was ap-
pointed president judge of the Thirty-sev-
enth judicial district, composed of Warren
and Forest counties, vice Charles H. Noyes,
deceased.
—There will be no sheriff sales this quar-
ter in Franklin county. It is beyond the
recollection of any of the court house officials
when such a thing occurred and speaks well
of the progress of the county.
—The town of Canton, Pa., was suddenly
plunged into darkness Saturday night by the
cutting off of the electric current, and Monday
an eel measuring nearly four feet was found
in the pipe which feeds the water motor that
makes electricity.
—George Vosburg, aged 4 years, died a few
days ago at Driftwood from laurel poisoning.
The child and his brother and sister were out
in the woods gathering tea berries, among
which it is supposed he gathered laurel
leaves, which he ate. That night he became
very ill, and suffered intensely until he ex-
pired.
—A marriage license was granted at Wil-
liamsport this week whose combined ages are
102 years. The man was 61 and the woman
41. Both have been married before. He is
the oldest prospective bridegroom to take out
a license this year, and she is the oldest pros-
pective bride. The youngest bridegroom
was 19, and in two cases the bride was 16.
—Peter Herdic, who, with other Wil-
liamsporters, went to the Alaska gold fields
some time ago, has been heard from. The
party is located along Minook creek. Their
claims have paid from forty cents to $130 to
the pan. Nuggets were taken out werth
from $5 to $100. They anticipate handsome
clean-ups and good shipments of dust on the
boats coming out in the spring.
—Christian Gaffey, a DuBois boy, died last
Thursday night from excessive cigarette
smoking. The youth was taken sick only
about twenty-four hours before he died.
When a doctor was called the boy wasin a
collapsed and unconscious condition, and past
restoration. Cigarette smoking is one of the
most dangerous habits to which human kind
is addicted, to say nothing of its obnoxious-
ness.
—George Lebo, whose critical illness was
noted a few days ago, died Saturday at his
home, near Haneyville. George was the de-
mented son of Isaac Lebo, and his name was
frequently mentioned during the Edna Cri-
der murder trial. The father and brother of
the diseased are now serving terms in the
Williamsport jail. Deceased was about 22
years old. His funeral took place at Haney-
ville.
—Charlic Cresswell, aged 10 years, of Mon-
toursville, while playing with several com-
panions stepped on a pier of a bridge that
spanned Loyalsock creek. While watching
the logs, Charlie became dizzy and tumbled
into the stream. He floated down with the
current and over a dam, where he was res-
cued by men who went into the stream for
him. He was nearly exhausted when
caught.
—Jersey Shore’s council has adopted a
resolution authorizing the borough consta-
bles to arrest every tramp or suspicious look-
ing character seen within the borough limits.
The vagabonds will then be taken before jus-
tice Potter and a fine imposed. If the
amount is not promptly forthcoming they
will be turned over to the street commis-
sioner who will place a ball and chain on
them and put them to work in the stone
quarry. The balls and chains were ordered
yesterday morning.
—Dimeling & Co’s. mill, at Viaduct, is
probably the busiest place in Clearfield county
at present. The mill crew has for some time
been working 12% hours per day, or the
equivalent of 1} days every 24 hours, but
Monday two crews were put to work and the
mill will be run day and night during the
summer. An electric light plant has been
put in, and the mill and yard will be lighted
by electricity. More than one hundred men
are employed by this company on the mill
and in the woods.
—The fishermen of Osceola have organized
a club to protect the trout streams in that
section from unprincipled parties who fish
out of season and in other respects violate
the law. Three men have been hired to
guard the streams, and are out every reason-
able fair day looking up offenders. A few
days ago one of the guards was scereted in
the bushes, and a fellow came along and was
in the act of cutting a pole to do some fishing
when he unexpectedly happened to see the
guard. He naturally concluded to postpone
the fishing business.