Bn n B8Y P.'GRAY "MEEK. Ink Slings. i —Strange as it may seem the Loub bill is about the quietest thing in the present Congress. —Fusion seems to be getting in its work in great style. Even the mud and ice have got together. —1It is to be hoped that Mr. SANTA CLAUS’ coming campaign will be highly successful. —Just about a week and two days from this morning will be the time to plant your new resolutions. —The weather boss’ efforts to make the country roads navigable seem to he meet- ing with promising success. —Some of the Greensburg grocers have become soured on pure food commissioner POWELL because he wants them to stop selling impure vinegar. —Because Germany and this country are about having another discussion over the hog question is no reason why there should be any bristling up about it. —Its a wonder that the Republicans are not claiming it as an evidence of prosperity that the darkness manufactories are run- ning on full time at this season of the year. —There is nothing so very strange about President McKINLEY’S anxiety to have fusion between the blue and the gray. Its only a precautionary measure against an attack of the blues in November, 1900. —As yet there is no appearance of a white flag being displayed from the ram- parts of the supreme court. Attorney GRAMAN’S charges may have shattered some of its defenses but up to this writing there is no indication of a surrender. —The belief that there is danger in keep- ing one’s mouth open must hereafter be placed among other fallacies of the kind. As yet we have not heard of a single ill befalling one of the expansionists and their mouths are never shut. —The Spanish cabinet has fallen. It is not a great calamity, however, as cabinets can be raised much more easily than sunken ships and beleaguered cities. Wind is about all that is necessary for a Spanish cabinet. —If judge DAY and WHITELAW REID are each to get $100,000 for their work with the peace commission at Paris we will be very apt to have a horde of judges and newspapermen praying for more war, so that they can get peace commission jobs. —For a man with as many trials on his hands as Senator QUAY now has, to be con- fronted with the fact that no caucus will be given him until he submits to another one, is a tough situation to be in, when all the rest of us are enjoying these merry Christmas days. —TFirst school teacher—* ‘Hello there old fellow, where have you been keeping your- self? I have been around here all week and haven’t saw you yet.”’ Second school teacher—‘ ‘Why I seen you half a dozen times already still.” —The telegraphers of the Grand Trunk lines have about decided to go on a strike unless their wage rate is increased. It seems to us that wages ought to be a mat- ter of supreme indifference to them, for if any class of men in the world know how to get along on tick they do. —All Philadelphia is happy. From every corner of that city bouquets are being thrown at its Congressmen. They have suc- ceeded in securing out of the public treasury $350,000 for their Museum, and Philadel- phia is never so shoutingly joyful as when having a goed time at other peoples’ ex- pense. —Mis. JOHN VAN RENSSELAER has un- dertaken to climb the family trees of the smart set in New York for the purpose of deciding who are the real bon tons of Gotham. She announces that there are only twenty families who are high born enough to associate with one another. The fact that the progeny of these twenty fam- ilies amounts to six hundred and eighty- nine households is evidence, quite con- vincing, that in one line of business the elect are just as common as the rest of us. —~Senator PLATT, of Connecticut, did well to throw bouquets at himself and our other law-makers in his speech against the anti-expansion resolution which Senator VEST has offered. But notwithstanding the distinguished gentleman’s assertion that ‘‘the United States has shown a great capacity for government’’ there area few people who are willing to admit that the ‘‘capacity’’ isn’t abnormal, at any rate. They are the ones who haven’t forgotten the force bill, the tariff tinkering, the cur- rency contracting, war taxing, bond issuing short comings of comparatively recent years. —HALL KAINE, the English novelist and playwright, has returned to his native heath and, like all other tourists who visit our shores, has been having himself inter- viewed on American institutions and cus- toms. He speaks pleasantly of us, but says he failed to find a reciprocal enthus- iasm among the Americans over the pro- posed Anglo-American understanding or alliance. Mr. KAINE might have told his fellow Englishmen, had he been keen enough to read us thoroughly, that we all feel kindly towards England for the firm and friendly stand she took during the Spanish war, but we don’t propose to act like the effervescent I'rench in the matter of expressing our pleasure. He might also have added that we realize that England had an axe to grind, when she made such a parade of friendship for us. eeocral " TO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 43 BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 23, 1898. False Signs and Fake Reasoning. Itsa queer kind of prosperity that comes and people don’t know it; that is here and is not recognized or appreciated. But that is the kind we now have—if we have any. For months past a class of newspapers, that seem to believe the people dont know a good thing when itis about, have kept themselves busy telling the public what good times are upon us, and what an over- powering business boom is sweeping over the country. Ordinarily we are not much of a pessi- mist, but look as we may, imagine as best we can, it is impossible to either see or be- lieve that there is any particular prosperity around, except that which resulted from the unprecedented crops of the past two years, and the fair price paid for wheat in 1897, as a consequence of the grain famine in Europe. That there is a little boom in iron is true. Bus it is not based on present prosperity or the prospects of an improved condition of affairs for the future. Since 1893 rail-road building has been practically abandoned, and the expenditures for equipment and the betterment of existing lines reduced to the lowest figures possible. In fact, for the past five years, and up to the later part of the past summer, not a penny, except what was absolutely necessary to keep them in passable order, was expended on the rail-roads of the country. As a conse- quence their lines run down, their equip- ment wore out, and when the large crop of 97 was to be moved they were found to be short of cars, engines, sidings and other facilities to meet the demand. The situa- tion showed that five years of neglected tracks and of used but unrepaired rolling stock, left our rail-roads with worn out rails, with rickety and insecure bridges, and cars unfitted for the long and heavy hauls that the moving of a bounteous har- vest required. Something had to be done and that something was to make good the wear and tear of the past five years. It is that work that is now going on, and it is it alone, that has made the boom we have in iron, if we except the little export trade that profitless prices has secured for a few of our mills. Of course the efforts of the government to build a big navy and equip a large standing army adds to the general demand. hut that part of a business boom that exists only by public taxation, is neith- er to be credited to prosperity nor does it add one whit to the wealth or welfare of the people generally. So that when we get down to the bottom of the boom in iron, to which so many are pointing as proof of new business, of wid- ened opportunities, of awakened hope or increased wealth, it is merely the necessary effort to make good that which we have bad and used, and worn out, and which must be replaced and repaired, or the count- less millions it represents be allowed to go to waste. One might as well believe that an indi- vidual was prosperous, becaused necessity compelled him to patch his pants or go naked, as to claim prosperity for a country, when conditions require its rail roads to replace their worn out cars, repair their un- safe bridges, and relay their broken and battered rails. Another claim that we have prosperous times is based on the fact that money is plentiful in the banksand trust companies of the country. In place of this being an evidence of good times, and a condition of prosperity among the people, it is exactly the reverse. When times are good and the people prosperous money is busy. It isnot allowed to lie idle. It is needed and it is used. As well might one say that a sur- feit of blood in the head indicated a healthy condition of the body, as to allege that be- cause the banks have more than they can use, the country is prosperous. No condi- tion of affairs, not even crowded alms- houses or regiments of tramps tell more plainly or effectively the lack of business and the want of prosperity in a country, than its idle money. Money begging for investments is but a finger board to idle in- dustries, silent mills and abandoned busi- ness enterprizes. Start them and money will be kept busy keeping them running. Start these and give us even a taste of gen- eral prosperity, and every dollar that can be spared from the banks and trust com- panies will be in demand, to manufacture and supply those things that the necessities and comforts of the people require. A surfeit of money in the banks is only evidence of a lack of demand for it in busi- ness. This condition never exists when a country is enjoying prosperity. ———In a year from this time the present board of county commissioners will be pre- paring to bid a final and regretful adieu to the seats they are wearing out, and the salaries they are paying themselves for watching each other do nothing. ——1If the osculatory exercise is as much of a disease breeder as physicians and sour- faced mothers of pretty daughters would have one believe, HOBSON ought to be afflicted with every trouble to which human flesh is heir. | necessity, or excuse, for asking assistance Time for Danger Signals. There is no doubting the fact that the demand for ballot reform has taken root. There is no questioning the truth that the people are aroused to the lameness and iniquity of our present election laws and system of voting. Even the Hon. DAVID MARTIN, Pooh-Bah of the city of Philadel- phia, Boss-of-the-eastern-ring-of--Republi- can--Roosters, Dictator--General--for--the- Quaker-city and Secretary of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania, sees the storm and runs to cover crying for ballot reform. If there is one man anywhere who knows what frue ballot reform means it is DAVID MARTIN; if there is one man living within the confines of the Commonweath who knows where the weak places of our pres- ent laws are it is this same Mr. MARTIN; if there is any one man on God’s foot stool, who could, if he would, point the way to honest, intentional, effective reform it is he. But this is not what he wants. The adoption of such reforms as the people need and the welfare of the Commonwealth de- mands would be the undoing of Mr. MAR- TIN. It would leave him on his political uppers and with but little more influence than the ward heeler who now takes his orders and does his bidding. It is under the pretense of being for ballot reform that he expects to have a voice in such changes as may be effected. The present law was passed as a ballot re- form act. It is one of his kind. He has used it as a cover for every conceivable crime against the purity of the ballot. It has served him in ruling off the ticket the names of those he feared to have on; it has enabled him to organize and use his bands of repeaters wherever conditions made it necessary; it has protected his padded registry lists and given the stamp of legality to his fraudulent tax-receipts at every elec- tion in the city of Philadelphia; it has assisted and emboldened bribe-givers and bribe takers in every precinct of Pennsyl- vania; it has even allowed pug-dogs to be voted at Mr. MARTIN'S house, and has made effective and safe the false counting and fraudulent returns his necessities, at times, required. In fact 1t has served DAVID MARTIN'S needs and purposes so well that it is doubtful if another law so fully beneficial to him and his kind could be conceived and enacted into law. And yet with all its weak points and his knowledge of how to ‘‘beat it,’”” Mr. MAR- TIN has declared himself for a change. He sees and understands that the present law must go, and wanting to get the best he can falls in with the multitude in the hope of leading them to adopt the next best thing for——DAVID MARTIN'S needs in politics. Centuries ago the Romans were warn- ed against the ‘‘Greeks, bearing gifts."’ It might be well for the people of Pennsyl- vania to beware of the ballot reform, that is offered by such reformers as Mr. MARTIN. Should Be Considered Carefally. 1t looks very much as if there would be an overhauling of the election laws by the coming Legislature, and it looks equally certain that when this overhauling is through we will be in the same fix we now are, only a little more so. So far every proposition made begins and ends with the suggestion that the size of the ticket be reduced by grouping the names of all can- didates, for any one office, under a single head, and placing all the candidates for all offices to be filled in a single column, and then requiring the voter to place his mark opposite the names of those he desir- es to vote for. ; This, of course, would lessen the size of the ballot—one desirable improvement— but it would neither simplify the manner of voting nor would it do away with the in marking the ticket. A voter who can- not now go into a booth and place his mark in one of the rings at the head of the ticket, he desires to vote, without assistance, would make a sorry plight of picking out from forty or fifty names, all printed alike and in a single column, the five or six he intended to vote for, and placing his mark opposite each name. In fact such a ballot, be it the Australian system or what it may, would only increase the evils we now have and create additional excuses for asking as- sistance—just the evil that should be done away with entirely. If we cannot get a simpler ticket, no matter what its size may be, than the one we now have, it would be better to endure the evils we already suffer than to adopt another that will be full of the same com- plications and objections that. make it a failure. There are honest methods of vot- ing that are simple to understand and which insare honest results. Let them be looked into. Let us, as far as possible, be sure we are right before any change is made. For the method of voting by machinery, lately tested in Western New York, every thing good and safe and reasonable is claim- ed. It might prove to be just what this State needs. It might prove just the re- verse. But there could be nothing lost by a full investigation of its merits, and if it is what it is claimed to be, it will fit the situation here exactly. In trying to better matters, don’t let us jump out of the ‘frying pan into the fire.”’ Let us know that what we are going to adopt is better than that which we now have. The changes so far proposed would be no improvement on our present system. Not Caught With that Kind of Chaff. On Wednesday of this week the Adams express company delivered to this office, charges prepaid, a small box, upon opening which the following note appeared: To the Publisher :— We are commissioned to ship to you, free of charge, the plates contained in this box, which you are at liberty to print in your paper, if de- sired. You will note that the matter is Democratic in character. AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. Fearing that this might not reach the proper person, an envelope was also enclosed, addressed to the ‘‘Foreman,’”” and marked “Important,” in which was written a re- quest that the ‘‘publisher’s attention be called to the receipt of this box at once.’ It was, and upon examination, the ship- ment was found to be two columns of plate matter, purporting to be written by a Dem- ocrat presenting the political situation from a Democratic standpoint; showing the opportunities the party may have of electing a United States Senator; setting forth the merits of the Democrats who are spoken of as candidates for speaker of the House, and a lot of stuff about how Demo- cratic Members can secure such legislation as they may be interested in, providing they refuse to have anything to do with fusion. While the article is dated at Harrisburg, and pretends to voice the sentiment of Democratic leaders, it was written in Phil- adelphia, by a reporter whois in the pay of Senator QUAY, and is nothing more or less than an effort to line up the independent and wavering Republicans in the interest of the state ring, by attempting to]leave the impres<ion that there is no hope for fusion in the organization of the House, and that efforts in that direction have been practically abandoned. This attempt at deception may fool some, but it will show to others the desperate straits in which the state ring finds itself: the fear it has of the success of the efforts at fusion, and the means to which it will resort, and the expenses to which it will go, to defeat that effort. It is the most hopeful sign we have seen of the success of the fusion movement. If the QUAY adherents did not feel that there isa chance for its accomplishment, there would be no cause to resort to such dis- reputable and dirty expendients. Let who will be fooled by this effort of the ring, the WATCHMAN is not to be caught with such chaff. ——The Bedford papers are so mad at Dr. W. B. ATKINSON, of the state board of health, because he reported that he had visited one hundred and thirty cases of small pox in that place when there were not more than a dozen in the entire coun- ty, that they are charging him with bay- ing been drunk. They are very specific in their charges, too, for they say he was drunk on whiskey. Not Bedford water. But they forget that it was necessary for the doctor to stimulate his system against the small pox virus and how did he know how much stimulation he would need. He hadn’t learned the number of cases before he started out to examine them. —1It is now stated that if the Supreme court sends the QUAY conspiracy case back to the quarter sessions for trial. that the next effort made will be to secure a change of venue, that will place the case at the disposal of Mr. QUAY’s Beaver county court. This mignt save Mr. QUAY, bub it would save him in the same way that the culprit saves himself when he breaks jail and avoids the penalty of the law by keep- ing out of its clutches. It is beginning to look very much as if the safest place that the Senator can find, is the point that he can reach farthest from justice. ——The commissioners have been busy all this week watching the school marms, and trying to impress people with the be- lief that there is a necessity for their daily appearance about the court house. In the mean time the tax-payers are kept busy working to pay the $10.50 a day it costs to remunerate this body of county managers for the days they spend doing nothing. ——The Monday Daily Democrat of Lock Haven looked resplendent in a dash- ing Christmas cover. It was a departure from the regular style of the paper and one that was quite attractive, besides furnish- ing a splendid vehicle through which Lock Haven merchants traveled to holiday shop- pers. ——1If you want fine work done of every description the WATCHMAN office is the place to come. The Fifty-Second Annual Institute of the Public School Teachers of Centre County. Disagreeable Weather Does Not Detract from the Teacher's Work.—Nearly Three Hundred in Town All Week.—@rowing More Staid Year by Year. The 52nd annual session of the institute of the public school teachers of Centre county has been holding here all week. The weather has been anything but agreea- ble, but such trifles have no effect on the average country pedagogue. For if there is one person who has become inured to rain, storm and wind more than another it is the professor of everything from A B Cs up to mental philosophy and social econom- ics in the district schools of our county. Often times they have to walk several miles to their school every day and as the vagaries of the weather man are just as inscrutable in the country as they are in town you can imagine the conditions under which the walk is frequently made and understand why a majority of the visitors are not dismayed in the least by the sloppy weather we have been having. The Centre county institute has more than had its golden anniversary. In fact it was the first held in Central Pennsyl- vania and had rather a fitful inception. William G. Waring, of Tyrone, furnishes the following interesting historical sketch of the first session held and the work that led up to a permanent organization : ‘The first one that we have any account of was organized at Oak Hall, Harris town- ship, Centre county, the first week in Oc- tober, 1850. ‘‘It was not numerously at- tended nor long continued, but it was gratifying to all present, and gave evidence of its powers for good. The next session was a failure, and hope was falling when some friends of education in Howard town- ship, who had met at an examination of the Mechanicsville school, rallied around the sinking institute, and it is now estah- lished ‘strong in the hearts of men,’ and bids fair to realize all the expectations that have been so long deferred. The present is highly favorable.” *‘It was our pleasure to preside at this session of the Centre county teachers’ in- stitute commencing December 27, 1852. Its sessions have been regular since that time. Prof. Waring was then the prineci- pal instructor, and well understood his business. Teachers and diréctors in but a few localities were at this time petitioning the Legislature to pass a law providing for superintendents, but most of the people were not prepared for it.”’ ‘The districts above mentioned—Howard and Harris, were the first in Centre county to become interested practically in public instruction, and became so principally through the exertions of Samuel Baker and Nathan J. Mitchell, of Howard, and Wm. G. Waring, of Harris district.” The reputation of the schools at Howard became so well known that the undersign- ed was solicited, as early as 1849, by H. T. Beardsley, secretary of Lock Haven school district, to be principal of the public schools then held in the old Academy.” Of the 286 teachers in the county 281 are present at institute. The five whoare absent being detained by sickness from coming. The work of the week has been taken up in about the following order: All of Mon- day morning was taken up with the work of the enrollment and the routine of organi- zation. The following committees were announced : Elections—S. M. Weber, E. A. Hampton, W. S. Chambers. Resolutions—E. S. Latshaw, J.C. Morris, E. R. Hancock, J. T. Garthoff, Lillian Glossner. Auditing Accounts—J. Frank McCormick J. B. Strohm, T. L. Crust. Legislation—D. M. Wolf, D. O. Etters, G. W. Andrews, A. R. Rutt, H.C. Roth- rock. Memorial—J. Victor Royer, Rowen, J. M. Barnhart. At the afternoon session the teachers got down to real institute work and listened to talks by, W. W. Deatrick, professor of psychology at the Kutztown Normal, and Prof. R. M. McNeal, superintendent of the Dauphin county schools. The former spoke on psychological subjects and the Lucy M. latter on school government. Both are interesting talkers and worked hard for the teachers this week. The sing- ing is under charge of P. H. Meyer and has been one of the most entertaining features of the sessions. TUESDAY’S WORK. The first hour of the morning session was given to the discussion by the teachers of the following topic : ‘‘Special Exercises for Friday afternoon.’’ The subject wasably handled by W. L. Musser, W. H. Ott, Mary Warde, W. T. Leathers and A. R. Rutt. The Friday afternoon exercises were shown to be of great value to the young, in removing timidity and preparing them for the battle of life. This was followed by an interesting ad- dress by Prof. W. W. Deatrick, on the sub- jeet ‘‘Quick Wires of Intelligence.”” By means of illustrated charts he showed how the nervous system of the body is made up and how is made possible the intelligence of man. The sense of smell and taste was also shown to be due to our nervous sys- tem or live wires of intelligence, which tra- verse our body. After more singing Prof. McNeal con- tinued his interesting talk on ‘‘School Government.”’ He showed how a teacher by firmness and kindness could mould the lives of their pupils. At the afternoon session, after the usual service of song, led by Prof. Meyer, Prof. Deatrick resumed his interesting talk on the anatomy of the human body. Prof. McNeal then discussed ‘‘The Per- sonal Elements in Teaching.’”” He said, among other things, we are constantly im- proving our school systems, building bet- ter school buildings. We often leave out of our calculations the teacher. This is the most important factor in the school system, and his personality is very important. There are many people to-day who know that they are hetier people for having learn- ed under certain teachers. It was their personality that made this possible. Some- how he impressed himself upon you when you most needed help. You will find that the most successful teachers oye their Concluded on page 4. Spawls from the Keystone. —The Senate Wednesday confirmed the nomination of C. W. Scott to be postmaster at Williamsport. —The postoffice at Radaker, Indiana county, will be discontinued after December 31st, and mail sent to Rochester Mills. —Mrs. John Douthett, of near Indiana, recently fell down the cellar stepsin her home, breaking her neck, almost instant death resulting. She was alone in the house at the time of the accident, and her body was not found for several hours. —Daniel Martz, of Sunbury, a brakeman running between Sunbury and Renovo, was applying a brake at Nesbit a few days ago when his foot slipped, and he was thrown on the track. The toes of the right foot were severed and the left was mangled. He was taken to Sunbury. —One of the members of the Joshua Simp- kins company, C. L. Jackson, had an exper- ience in a Potter county ‘‘pig’s ear’’ that cost him $175 last week. While enjoying a glass with new found friends, he was relieved of the roll of money which he intended to send to his mother at Christmas. has made a will be em- —The Pennsylvania rairoad rule that hereafter no person ployed as fireman who is over twenty-four years of age. As new men are usually obliged to fire for three years or more before being competent to run an engine, their age is consiflered to be of some importance. —The Odd Fellows of Johnsonburg offer a reward of $25 for information that will tell of the whereabouts of John Neilson, if living or $50 for the recovery of his body if dead. Mr. Neilson left West Johnsonburg on No- vember 10th, and although diligent inquiry has been made, nothing has been heard from him up to the present time. —County commissioners Bubb, Sanders and Smith, of Lycoming county, Monday brought suit against register and recorder Keller to recover $7.50 each, claimed to be due them for services in computing the offi- cial returns of the election last fall. Re- corder Keller questions the right of the com- missioners to receive pay for their services. —While a threshing machine was in opera- tion in the barn of Thomas McConnell at Pennsdale, Lycoming county, Monday, the cylinder blew out. The flying piece struck Mr. McConnell on the right temple, driving the bones into the brain and rendering him unconscious. His recovery is doubtful. What caused the cylinder to blow out is not known. —Private J. E. Moore of the Rocky Moun- tain Rough Riders regiment, who was sick at the Altoona hospital during most of the sum- mer, left for his home in Cripple Creek, Col., on St. Louis express Monday night. Moore has been visiting his sister, Mrs. W. S. Lee, for the past month. He expects to resume his profession as assayer at Cripple Creek up- on his return home. —Albert Diffenderfer, a former iamate of the Huntingdon reformatory, who while serving out a parole on July last burglarized several Lancaster county residences, and in attempting to evade capture shot and ser- iously wounded an officer and several citi- zens, was on Mounday sentenced by Judge Brubaker at Lancaster to twenty-three years in the Eastern Penitentiary, being given seven years on each charge of felonious as- sault and two years additional for larceny. —The Bedford board of health reports the following persons in that town as having small-pox and varioloid: Charles Cessna, three children of A. J. Troutman, Fred De- enbaugh, daughter of Joseph Hemming, Geo. Carbaugh, son of A. Hughes, Charles Fletcher, Harry Earnest, Jerry Stiffey, Maud Spidel, Ross Earnest, George Wagner. In the above list it is claimed there is not a ser- ious case. Nearly every patient is getting along nicely, and there is no apprehension felt regarding their recovery. —The town of Bedford is reported to be rapidly freeing itself of the disease called small-pox. There has been no deaths and very few patients have been sick enough to be confined to bed. As a result of the scare, however, over 1,500 persons have been vacci- nated in the last four days. Under the di- rection of the local board of health a house- to-house investigation is conducted each day, and all sickness reported. Such of an erup- tive nature is quarantined and regarded as small-pox until proven not to be. Officers have been employed to keep suspected cases in-doors and prevent outsiders from visiting them. The public schools and all Sunday schools have been closed until the disease shall have been eradicated. —Last Thursday morning nearly opposite the depot at Huntingdon, the body of James B. Miller was found between several large rocks some distance down the river bank. He was aged twenty-four years and the son of David Miller, who at one time was a resi- dent of Huntingdon, but now of Lewistown. The young man was a member of Company A, Fifth regiment in the volunteer service. Weduesday evening he was known to be un- der the influence of liquor, and was last seen alive about 1 o’clock Thursday morning. It is supposed that in his bewildered state he wandered across the railroad tracks and fell over the bank among the rocks, cutting him- self about the head and breaking his lower jaw, In this condition he slowly froze to death. —Last Friday afternoon about 3 o'clock John Taylor, Sr., a farmer, of Bradford township, Clearfield county, had about as close a call as often falls to a:man, Mr. Tay- lor and his nephew, John Taylor, Jr., were in the woods not far from home making square timber. The younger man’s hands became numb and cramped with the cold and when his ax struck the log it slipped from his grasp and the helve struck his uncle, who was directly opposite, just under the chin. It then swerved, and the sharp blade cut a gash three inches long on the right side of the neck, laying open the jugular vein, the glands, ete., in a horrible manner. The un- lucky cause of the accident was paralyzed with horror, but his uncle, with rare pres- ence of mind, quickly bound his handker- chief about the wound, held it tightly, and with his nephew made bis way to the house, and from there was taken two miles to the doctor's, where the wound was sewed up. It bad bled very little, as the blood was chilled with the cold. No serious conse quences are anticipated, but it was about as near to death as a man would care to come.
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