Demorratic Waldman Until February 1st, 1899. Terms, 81.00.a Year, in Advance. Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 9. 1898. P. GRAY MEEK, - - Ebprror. The Watchman for $1.00 to January 1st, 1900 A business proposition requires us to add 1,000 new names to the subscription list of the WATCHMAN by the 1st of Feb. next. Itisof such a character as will permit of special inducements being of- fered. Ordinarily the paper could not be furnished at the price we propose of- fering it at until that date, but the prop- osition is such that we can save in an- other way all that may be lost in send- ing out the paper at less than its actual cost, and we purpose giving those who help us in this matter the advantage. From this issue until the first day of Feburary, 1899, new subscriptions will be taken at $1.00—which will pay in full to Jan. 1st,1900,—making the price less than one dollar per year for those who sub- scribe prior to January next. These payments must he made in- variably in advance. 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This opportunity is offered; until the 1st day of February, 1899. — The Disfranchisement of the Poor. The necessity of the situation may make strange and startling innovations in our gov- ernmental affairs before many years pass by. It may at least create excuses for attempts at changes that none would dare suggest to-day. From the time of the organization of this government until the present day, any man who could get an office was en- titled to it. It mattered not whether he was rich or poor, capitalist or workingman, the possessor of property or a homeless wanderer, he had the right to aspire to any position and if the people elected him, to hold it. . It may be different some day and that day may not be long in coming. If, and when, it does come, that change can be charged ;to the growth of imperial ideas, bred by -imperial necessities and nurtured by imperial practices. Already the deter- mination is to fix the qualifications of those holding official positions in the Hawaiian Islands, one of our new possessions, on the value of the property owned and the amount of inconi¢ received by applicants for place. A candidate for Senate mus possess $2,000 worth of property or have an income of $1,000, and a candidate for Representative must own $500 in property or receive an income of that amount. Unger these con- ditions the unfortunate poor man, no mat- ter how: intelligent or worthy, will he denied the privilege of holding office, ang only those who are fortunate enough to be owners of property, or the beneficiaries of incomes; will be allowed the distinction and emoluments that come from official positions; Conditions in Hawaii may require this distinction, in order that the ignorant and half civilized natives may not he chosen to positions’ they are unfitted to fill. Such qualifications may be right there. But how about home? How long after the recognition and enforcement of such a quali- fication and principle by our government, in one of its out-lying colonies, will it be until then is a d emand for its trial here ? There are many now who property © qualification. They are those who own property. The necessities that imperialism creates will be an excuse for its adoption for one part of our possessions. Can we deny it to another, when its ad- vocates demand it? Can we apply differ- ent principles of government to citizens of different ‘Sections of it, and be consistent ? Verily,.imperialism and annexation are threatening clouds that hang heavy over the hopes and prospects of the workingmen of this country. They may not see it now. They will understand it later. —_— — ——Yale won the debate from Princeton on Tuesday evening because she could talk better, which goes to show that all talk isn’t wind. For if ig had been Yale's wind that won the debate why mightn’t Yale's wind have won the annual foot-hall game, as well. approve of a Continued from page 1. Convening of Congressmen. EXACTLY AT NOON SPEAKER REED’S GAVEL CAME DOWN IN THE HOUSE. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—~Exactly at noon Speaker Reed’s gavel came down with a crack and the great ebony mace, entwined with silver and surmounted with a silver eagle, was lifted into the place upon its green marble pedestal, the spreading folds of the American flag were broken to the breeze, above the brilliant stained glass ceiling, through which representatives en- tered upon the closing session of the mem- orable war Congress. The scene within the great hall was animated, brilliant and picturesque. A majority of members were in there places, while above the circling galleries were banked to the doors with people. The publie seemed to feel that this was to be an epoch-making session, and for hours before noon a steady stream of peo- ple debouched from the corridors into the galleries. VIVID REMINDER OF THE WAR. Here and there throughout the throng were officers in full uniform, unwonted figures on the floor and a vivid reminder of the war. At 11.45 the floor was cleared of all those not entitled to the privilege. The leaders as a rule were late arriving, but as they appeared they were surrounded and cor- dially greeted. Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, chair- man of the committee on foreign affairs; Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, one of the members of the committee on rules, and Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, of the same com- mittee, were each given an ovation. As the-hands of the clock pointed to noon, the giant form of the speaker push- ed through the green baize doors of the Jobby in the rear of the hall and Mr. Reed ascended the rostrum. A wave of applause swept floor and galleries upon his appear- ance. A slight smile played over his benign features as be raised his gavel aloft. HUSH FELL UPON THE ASSEMBLY. When it fell with resounding whack a hush fell upon the vast assemblage. The blind chaplain stood in his place. A mo- ment the speaker waited, with every eve riveted upon him. Every Member and many of those in the galleries arose. At the conclusion of the chaplain’s prayer the speaker announced that the first business in order would be a call of the roll to determine the presence of a quorum. While the responses were being made, General Wheeler, of Alabama, came in and took his seat in the row immedi- ately in front of the speaker’s rostrum. He was instantly surrounded by half a hundred Members and received the ovation of the day. The roll call developed the presence of 267 members, 179 being a quorum. Three new members were sworn in. Mr. Gros- venor, of Ohio, presented Mr. Chas. Dick, elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Northway; Mr. Allen, of Mis- sissippi, Mr. Thomas S. Spright, elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Sullivan, who was elected to the Senate, and Mr. Grow, Pennsylvania, Mr. William H. Graham, elected to fill the va- cancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Stone, elected Governor of Pennsylvania. With up lifted hands they took the oath. General Wheeler, of Alabama, intro- duced in the House, through Representa- tive Stallings, a resolution providing that, in “recognition of the patriotic devotion and bounteous benevolence of Miss Helen Miller Gould to the soldiers of the army of the United States during the war with Spain, the thanks of Congress are hereby tendered to her and Congress hereby au- thorizes and directs that a gold metal, with appropriate designs, be prepared by the director of the mint and that said medal be presented to her by the President of the United States at such time and in such manner as he may determine.’ General Wheeler arrived last night from the camp in Alabama where his troops are stationed. General Wheeler said he prob- ably would resign from the army but his plans were not definitely fixed. A Monument to the Dead of the Maine. WASHINGTON, December 6.—Senator authorizing the secretary of the navy to erect a monument in Havana, Cuba, to the memory of the sailors and marines who lost their lives by the explosion of the Maine. The bill is recommended by the navy de- partment. : ADDITIONAL LOCALS. ——The Kane opera company will sing here on Monday night, Dec. 12th. er ——The first sleigh of the season was seen in Millheim, on Monday, when George Kister, of Aaronsburg, drove in with hells jingling. —— ——The storm last Monday blew the gine house in Tyrone. To escape being hiv with flying debris one of the employees jumped into the fly wheel, but it was fly- ing just then, else he might have had a fly time. es —J. T. Plummer and G. W. Curtin have each been held in $1000 bail to an- swer the charge of conspiring to burn the Flynn block in Tyrone. They had a cigar and pool room in the building and it is charged that they solicited Edward Couch to burn the place by setting fire in their room. ee ——A letter from Charley Swigert toa friend in Tyrone states that teamsters are getting $40 a month, cooks $40, black- smiths from $75 to $100 and carpenters $65 in Porto Rico. He says the days are warm, but the nights are nice and cool. He went down there with Sheridan troop and re- mained on the island when the troop came home. ——— Two ¥RoM STATE COLLEGE.—Rumor has it that Phil. D. Foster has about closed a deal for the purchase of the University Inn at State College for $11,500. If this is true the amount will about pay the mortgages against the house, leaving the stock-holders with their stozk but nothing else. The water question is being agitated in the borough again. The local company has offered the borough its plant for $17,- 000, but the borough isn’t ready .to buy just at this time. Hale to-day introduces a joint resolution | Offenbach’s opera “The Grand Duchess” i roof off of Morris’ machine shops and en- | MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the list of marriage licenses granted by or- phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur- ing the past week: : _ George M. Gettig and Nellie Griffith, both of Spring township. Elmer E. Heverly, of Mt. Eagle, and Anna E. Fetzer, of Runville, Pa. Harry A. Tressler, of Nittany Hall, and Mary A. Statten, of Rote, Pa. Charles E. McClain, of Hublersburg, and Florence M. Harshharger, of Walker Twp. Henry C. Bloom and Nora E. Osman, both of Pine Grove Mills. Sel LIEUTENANT BOWER.—In accordance with an order issued from the Adj. Gener- als department an election was held in the armory of Co. M, last Friday night, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 2nd Lieut. W. C. Cassidy. Maj. G. W. Simpson, of the 2nd Bat. of the 21st Reg., held the election which resulted in the ele- vation of private John J. Bower to the rank of a commissioned officer. There was no one to contest the honor with him and he received the office by ac- clamation. Owing to his not having suf- ficiently recovered from the wound in his shoulder Lieut. Bower was not able to be out to the election, but his popularity with his fellow soldiers was such as to insure his success whether there or not. >to — ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR GREGG Post.—To-morrow night the regular annn- al election of officers for Gregg post, No. 95, G. A. R. will be held in the post rooms in the Harris block, on High street. The nominations have already been made and as they are equivalent to an election the foliowing officers will be elected to serve during the year 1899: Commander, Samuel Sheffer; senior vice commander, D. C. Wal- ters; junior vice, Amos Garbrick; quarter- master, H. B. Pontius; officer of the day, Gen. John I. Curtin; post surgeon, Thomas Donachy; chaplain, James Harris; officer of the guard, Charles Eckenroth; ordnance officer, John Bryan; trustee, S. B. Miller; delegates to the state encampment, S. B. Miller, S. H. Williams, Charles Eckenroth and Thomas Donachy. The post has sixty-three members in good standing, a relief fund of $562 and quarters about as fine asanyin the country. —ede — AN UNFORTUNATE SHOPPER.—On Tues- day morning Mrs. Lettie Lonberger, of Linden Hall, came to Bellefonte to do some holiday shopping. Before starting on her round of the stores she went to the Centre county bank and had three checks cashed. They were for $42, $22 and $3, each carrying some odd cents in addition. She placed most of the money, about forty- five dollars, ina purse she was carrying and left enough change in her hand bag to meet the expenses she expected to incur. At Irvin’s hardware store she bought a $2.40 purchase was made, she spent 50cts. at Joseph’sand then went to Montgomery’s, where she bought a bill of $3.75. It was while paying this latter that she missed her purse and search as she would she could not find it. She had still a fraction over $11 in her bag, but the purse, with its con- tents, was gone. She had not used it any- where and could not account. for its myste- rious disappearance. The police were notified at once, but nothing has been heard of it yet. If she was not robbed the loss probably occurred .on High street, between the bank and Alle- ‘gheny street. A PHILIPSBURG STABBING AFFRAY.— Philipsburg had a stabbing affray, late Tuesday night, that came very near giving the Centre county courts another murder case to handle. As it is Ed Gill was held under $500 bail for his appearance here nexs January term and John H. Derr is lying in a precarious condition, with ugly knife wounds in his left cheek and just below the heart. ‘The Philipsburg Jowrnal published the following account of the stabbing : John H. Derr, who lives at the corner of Front and Beaver streets, while on his way up Second street at mid-night Tuesday, when near the Presbyterian church, was savagely | assaulted and seriously stabbed and cut with a knife by Ed. Gill, of Sixth street. Here is the story as we learned it from the hearing Wednesday morning. Derr, the assaulted man, and Gill and Har- ry Paul were at the Central hotel until a late hour. All had been drinking. Derr and Gill got into a dispute over a beer glass that | ended in this affair. Gill left the hotel, and shortly afterwards Derr and Paul started for ‘their homes, going up second street. Paul left his companion and entered his home, which is on the corner of Second and Laurel ‘streets. He had hardly closed the door after entering when he heard the cries of murder from Derr. He rushed out into the street -and near the Presbyterian church he found his companion bleeding profusely from a | knife cut on his left cheek from ear to mouth, . a stab below the left eye and a more serious "wound below the heart. Paul saw the man’s | assailant as he ran out Laurel street toward the railroad. Paul than ran back to his resi- dence and awakened his father, Daniel Paul, who started for Dr. Carlisle. While on his way for the doctor he ran across night police- - man Batchelor and hastily told him of the affair. Policeman Batchelor immediately summoned constable Ira Howe to the scene of the fray. In the mean time Paul had taken Derr in- to his residence and Drs. Carlisle and Hen- | derson dressed the wounds, which are serious but not necessarily fatal. Derr asserted posi- tively that hisassailant was Gill, and Batche- ‘lor and Howe, after learning from Paul the direction taken by the man seen by him, went down to the railroad, where they found Gill in the steam house and immediately ar- rested him and locked him up. Derr had been taken to his home. Wednesday morning Gill was given a hear- ing before Squire James Williams on the charge of assault with intent to kill. Gill claimed he knew nothing of the affair, but when officer Batchelor produced a knife and hat that had been found near the scuffle he admitted thearticies belonged to him. Squire Williams held him for court under $500 bail. Both Gill and Derr are married men. Constable Howe brought Gill to jail in this place yesterday afternoon. “Jack” Derr, the man who was stabbed. is a former resident of Bellefonte. He worked on both the telephone and electric light lines in this place. small call bell, at the Model shoe store a A Boy's HAIR, RAISING. EXPERIENCE Wirth A WiLp CAT.—Charley Gilfoyle is a boy of about sixteen years, rather under- sized, who lives with his parents out in Burnside township, along the main road leading from Pine Glenn down to the river at Karthause. It is one of the wildest sec- tions of Centre county and not far from the lonely spot where Clara Price was so atrociously murdered some years ago. Charley has been practically brought up in the woods and where town boys have spent their leisure moments on hall fields, follow- ing circus parades, and shooting marbles, he has been forced to turn to the forests for his pastime. He knows every knob and dell in the mountains for miles about his home. No path is needed to guide him back after a day’s tramp with his dog and gun, for every falleif tree, every great out-cropping boulder is a landmark as familiar to him as are the street corners to the boy who has been raised in Bellefonte. He began to handle his father’s old smooth bore rifle when he was scarcely past ten years. From the practice of shooting mark 1n the clearing about his home he soon learned the trick of sneaking away into the woods with the weapon. His parents scolded and threatened him at first, but their remonstrances were without avail, for the boy became so much infatuated with the solitude of the forests that he would slip out under their very noses and would not be seen again until evening; when he would return, invariably bringing with him some small game. While his father thought it was all right his mother - fretted continually, lest he might meet with some fatal accident and never return and in order to relieve her worriment the old gun was locked up out of his reach. Disappointed by this depriva- tion the boy moped about the house for sev- eral days, but the attraction of the mount- ains was too great for him to resist and he started again on his daily pilgrimages, without the gun, but followed by his faith- ful little companion, “Tug,” a keen scent- ed, deadly fighting dog, a cross between a hound and a bull dog. Charley became a child of the forest. He knew no fear and roamed over the wild Alleghenies with as much assurance as if he had been in his father’s house. His daily migrations neces- sarily revealed to him many of nature’s secrets and he has oftened pointed out to his father bee trees sweet with their stores of honey. It has been his unerring judg- ment that has located many good deer licks in that section and we have been told that the boy has developed a wonderfully acute conception of coal out-croppings. Even without a gun he managed to find enough game to lend a certain amount of excitement to his daily rambles. As he grew older he would venture out at night and soon got to hunting coons along the borders of the corn fields up on Dr. Stew- art’s farm. “Tug,” would strike their trail and call his little master after him by rock to rock, vault logs and dodge the low limbs with the agility of a deer, as he would fly away in the darkness after his dog. When “Tug” wonld tree a coon the boy would cut a sapling about ten feet tall, trim off the branches, and then climb the tree on which the ring tailed game had taken refuge. Drawing the pole up after him he would use it to knock the coon off the tree with. This done he would slide down as hastily as possible to be in at the finish of the great fight that was sure to follow when the coon struck the ground and was pounced upon by the dog. Only those who have seen the exciting struggles between dogs and coons in the mountains at night can imagine how that boy’s hlood must have coursed furiously through his veins, as he watched the tide go or come with his favorite. Thongh “Tug” is as game as they make them, everyone knows that a coon can put up as good a fight as the best dog wants to run into, and often Charley had to help him out with stones or his ax, especially when the chase had been long before the coon treed, thus exhausting the dog. One morning, after the boy had sneaked stealthily to his little chaff tick in his half story room away in the night, his parents found three coops skinned and placed nicely in a brine in a crock, while the skins had been tacked up on the inside of the wood- shed. They looked at the game then talk- ed over their son’s singular infatuation for the mountains. They deplored the fact that there were no schools near enough to send him to, but were rather glad that Charley preferred the solitude he always sought to what they knew might have been worse for him—the companionship of the men about the lumber camps and coal operations. He was thirteen years old then and secretly his father was full of pride over his son’s skill as a hunter. He argued with mother Gilfoyle that Charley was old enough then to have the gun and the result of his talk was that the rifle was brought out of the long chest and given to the boy that day—as *‘his very own.’ His joy knew no bounds, when he got the gun back and his life was spent almost entirely in the woods. From morning till night he would be gone, day in and day out, winter and summer. It was not until he was fifteen that he shot his first deer, a fine spike buck, but he had scarcely had the gun a month until he had killed two bear cubs. The story of their capture was full of excitement and would make a chapter in itself to tell how, after he had shot the cubs, the old she bear chased him clear home, with “Tug” leading him in one of the best sprintshe had ever made, but we haven’t space for that now when the thrilling episode that happened last Sunday is to be told. It has always been a rule that the hoy | has respected, never to take the gun out of his tonguing. Charley. would-leap from / ‘fast. the house on the Sabbath day. He goes, however, out into some of his familiar haunts on Sunday and has a sort of com- munion with nature. He knows and loves all of the wild flowers and nearly every Sunday evening in the early spring he can be seen when he strikes the road near his home ladened with the dainty arbutus that scarcely waits until the last bit of snow is gone until it begins breathing its sweet breath into the mountains. Then comes the rhododendron, the honeysuckle and all the other wild flowers that he gathers and carries home in arms full. Several times this fall when he had been hunting coons up in “Laurel Hollow” “Tug” had treed some sort of an animal that would always jump to the ground when Charley would climb up to knock it off. Once or twice the dog had attacked it, but by the time the boy would get down to the ground again the dog would be whimp- ering and apparently. frightened. Charley made up his mind that it wasn’t a coon, but what it was he hadn’t the faintest idea. He had heard of wild cats and catamounts, though not enough of them to know their habits nor to lead him to be- lieve that this animal that had been treed so often, only to escape both himself and his dog, was either. : Last Sunday Charley walked up into “Laurel Hollow’’ and was climbing about through the thickets under the great pine trees, looking for nothing in particular when a little reddish brown looking animal about half-way up on a high tree arrested his attention. At first he thought it was a red squirrel, but on looking again he dis- covered that it was a weasel. Its strange actions made him curious to know what it was doing, so he sat down and watched the little fellow. It would run up into the urn-like top of the tree, then down again. Its little, short broad ears were standing erect, its keen bead-like black eyes flashing and on the whole it appeared to be in a regular fighting mood. The boy knew that weasels were game fighters, ex- ceptionally wary and knowing also that they often make their homes in hollow trees he made up his mind that there was a weasel’s nest up there and that the weasel was evidently entertaining an unwelcome visitor. He had heard that some times the weasel carries dead prey, small game and even chickens, to its nest, preferring to eat them in a putrid state to sucking their blood on the spot. But he could not imagine what kind of an'animal might be up there trying to forage on such a decay- ing store. He decided to sit still and await developments. His wait was not long, for he had scarcely gotten himself fixed in a comfortable seat among the gnarled laurel roots when there was an unexpected scraping sound up in the tree. The branches began to shake violently and Charley was amazed to see a large, cat-like looking animal come out of the thick top and start down the tree. The "Weasel was following; snapping and snarling “at the short tail just beyond reach. As we have said before the boy does not know what fear is, so he sat still and enjoyed what ap- peared to him to be a race down the tree. It was but a few seconds until the larger animal struck the ground and bounded into the thicket right in front of where Charley sat. He had nothing to strike at it with, but his hunter’s instinct prompted him to do something and he undertook to kick it in the head, by swinging his' right foot around over his left knee from the sitting posture he was in. No sooner had he moved than the animal turned: like a flash and stood facing him with mouth wide open, ears laid back and whiskers standing stiff as the quills on a porcupine. Charley for once was at a loss to know what to do. He had never seen such an animal before, he had no weapons, was in ‘an ‘inextricable laurel thicket, but realized that he was on the point of being attacked. What the outcome of such a conflict would have beenhe will never tell you, for a quietus was put to his vicious looking adversary in a most startling manner. In fact so wonderful that only those who know the boy’s truthful nature and saw the outcome of his thrilling experience will believe it. You must bear in mind that all this hap- pened in a very short space of time and, also, that for a few seconds we have lost sight of that little weasel. It was follow- ing rapidly down the tree and started off after its enemy with those peculiar undu- lating leaps that weasels make when going tack on so large an adversary or was just harrying it, as you have often seen a tiny sparrow do to a hawk, can’t be told, for just at the instant that the great wild cat— for such it was ——wheeled about to resent Charley’s lunge at it, the weasel was mak- ing aleap and its long brown body half disappeared in the open mouth of the cat. And there it stuck. It would neither be swallowed nor shook out. Its short hind legs were wriggling furiously and the cat struggled to free its throat of the animal that shot into it as if from a catapult. The struggle did not last long, for it was evi- dent from the bulging eyes of the cat that it was choking to death and almost before the boy had recovered from his amazement the cat had rolled over in its last throes and was feebly elawing at the projecting part of the weasel that it could not dislodge. When it was quite dead Charley picked it up and started home. He did not re- move the weasel from the beast’s throat. But left it, just as it had imprisoned itself, to show his father what a wonderful ex- perience he had had. There is no doubt that the cat was a genuine specimen of the wild cat. Its fur is soft, long and thick, the face is yellowish grey, with black spots toward the muzzle, with two black stripes passing from the eyes, over and behind the ears; the back, sides and legs are gray, Whether it intended to make an at- | darker on the back and with a black stripe along the back-bone. - The tail is short and ringed and exclusive of it the pelt is a lit- tle over two feet long. "As such genuine specimens of the wild cat are not known to exist in the Alle- gheuvies it hasaroused considerable specula- tion as to where it .might have come from. The general supposition is that it escaped from the menagerie of the Main circus tha ‘was wrecked at Vail, in 1891, and has made its lair in the fastness of ‘‘Laurel Hollow,’ eversince. In fact, since hearing of the capture several farmers in the vicinity of Snow Shoe think they have discovered the real cause of the frequent disappearance of lambs from their flocks that have pastured in the clearings in that vicinity. The pity is that the Gilfoyles ‘did not know enough to send the animals to a taxidermist and have them mounted, just as they were; for no one will believe this story unless confronted with such satisfy- ing proof of it. Mrs. Jacob Walizer has been seriously ill for the last six weeks. John Winters has been confined to the house since the day of his sale on account of serious sickness. On last Saturday Austin Gramley had sale preparatory to going to Mifilinburg where he will take charge of a hotel. Cornelius Stover, Rebersburg’s new school director, visited our schools last Tuesday and it was such a good beginning that we hope he will keep up. The Methodist meeting at Kreamervile un- der Rev. Faus’ leadership is promising much success, two conversions have taken place and others are at the altar. Last Sabbath Rev. Salem preached a trial sermon in the three Lutheran churches in this valley and the congregation all voted him a call which he will likely accept. Luther Miller, teacher of the Smith school in Penn township, spent Saturday and Sun- day with his parents and while here preached both evenings in the Methodist church. Considering the practice Luther has had he did very well and no doubt will make a success in the ministry. Tn SS————————— Centre Hall. D. J. Meyer and wife have been to Millers- town for the last few weeks. C. H. Meyer is conducting a livery stable at that place and it is his parents’ first visit to him. “Come and help us,” will be the cry of tke tenant in Centre Hall next spring. Come to Centre Hall and build new houses ‘is what is meant. There is practically a scramble for houses as the New Year comes around. A dozen new dwellings could be rented easily next spring beside those under construction at present. Your correspondent, out of kindness, wish- es to acquaint his critic of the rule in vogue “over the mountains’ to pen up and detain seed hogs and tom-noddies when found on the streets or alleys, or that if when romping . this way, any inconvenience results from the enforcement of this regulation ignorance can- not be pleaded. Pesky thieves, however, are permitted to run amuck. Capt. George M. Boal and family moved to this place Wednesday, and until spring will occupy the house of the late Squire James C. Boal, whose widow and daughter will abandon housekeeping until the balmy days of spring. In the meantime Mrs. Boal and daughter will live with Lycurgus Lingle on the old homestead at Earlystown. Capt. Boal for many years lived on his farm above Earlystown and has been a successful tiller of the soil. He will make a good citizen and postmaster. Chas. W. Slack, a son-in-law of the captain will operate the farm. Harvey Musser sustained serious injuries while shredding corn fodder last Saturday, at the barn of Peter Smith, Centre Hill, where he is regularly employed. The corn shred- der consists of an old-fashioned horse-power threshing machine, which has a solid cylin- der. The speed was furnished by horse- power and was so rapid as to burst the cylin- der, a part of which struck Musser on the breast and knocked “him down He was at first thought fatally injured, but the informa- tion at hand indicates that the accident didn’t permanently injure him, although he has been suffering much pain. With the WATCHMAN a dollar a year it makes it not only the best newspaper pub- lished in the county, but the best—decidedly the best in all respects—newspaper published in Central Pennsylvania. There is more original editorial matter in the WATCHMAN in one issue than appears in any other jour- nal published within the county linesin a month. And then the quality compares like a lion to a poodle dog with the other Jjour- nals. The DEMOCRATIC WATCHMAN de- serves the support of every adherent to the Democratic party, especially, because it is truly and always Democratic. It deserves the support of every person who wants the county local news. It deserves the support of all who want a neatly printed paper—it leads in every respect. The “Ink Slings” of the WATCHMAN is the pithiest column to be found in in any of the Keystone weeklies. What might have been a very serious affair in the accidental shooting line occurred in Wolf & Crawford’s store one day last week. Roy Miller came into the store with a rifle and handed it to Simon Ripkah, its owner, who, while examining it to see whether or not it was loaded, discharged the weapon. A number of boys were standing by and the bullet in its flight passed through Musser Coldren’s breeches at the knee. The lad of six was badly scared, but no harm was done him at all. If the gun had not been loaded tris paragraph would not have been written or young Coldren’s breeches have two ‘extra holes. In connection with the accident it is proper to say that the loafing of children of school age should be strictly prohibited dur- ing school hours by all who have places of business. There is entirely too much of this sort of thing permitted in this town. It is surely some one’s business to see that all children of proper age are at school, and if all places of business were closed against tru- ants it would materially enlarge the attend- ance of the public schools in the borough.
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