» S| Denar can. BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. I'll be the big boss of the whole blamed ma- chine, The grand Googoobum of the county; I'll drown imitators in an old soup tureen, And run things by payin’ the bounty. These new chingorees may continue to swell On the strength of their new found possession, But wait til old Googoobum starts given em — Well,—then watch them get in my procession. — Altoona will be nothing but one long drawn out Knight next week. —Two new postmasters appointed in Cen- tre county this week just means two new QuAY workers. One in Potter, the other in Harris. —Governor ROOSEVELT, of New York, painted a very excellent word picture of himself in his speech at Buffalo, a few nights ago, when he said: ‘“The average politician is a fellow who promises everything to the reformers then does everything for the organization.”’ ——The report is given credence among the local politicians that the HASTINGS people have the delegates already set up in every precinct in the county and that they are already felicitating themselves on con- trolling the next county convention and electing their state delegates. —If Dr. ROBERTS can demonstrate that injecting the life cells of a young goat into the human system will rejuvenate old peo- ple we are ready with a counter proposition to the effect that one contact with the but- ter end of an old goat will make the young- est person feel the effects of senility. —The persistence of the beggars became soannoying that ANDREW CARNEGIE had to leave London and fly for his Skibo castle up in Scotland. You know ANDY believes that it would be a disgrace for any man to die possessed of great riches and this army of mendicants are determined that so sound a minded man shan’t die in disgrace, if they can help it. ——The wild story that was sent afloat, on Sunday, to the effect that GROVER CLEVELAND had died suddenly while walk- ing about on Middle Bass Island, Lake Erie, proved to be a canard. GROVER died his political death’ three" years ago, but he proposes delaying the other as long as possible, and that is only human pa- ture. —Gov. STONE needn’t have told anyone that he is opposed to higher education. His action with the school appropriation bills speaks plainer than any words he could utter on that subject. What he should have done was to make known his feeling on such matters before he was elected, then the people would have seen to it that he wasn’t troubled with cutting down appropriations for ‘educational pur- poses. ——Dr. ROBERTS, a country practitioner down in Missouri, claims to have discover- ed a new elixir of life and a large institu- tion for treating patients is to be started in Chicago. His scheme is to take the life cells from the lymphatic glands of a young goat and inject them into the human sys- tem. The doctor has a great head. There can be no question but that a few hypoder- mics of such a fluid would make even an old man feel like a kid. —Dr. BRIGGS has landed in the Protest- ant Episcopal church. He was ordained on Sunday so that the once heretic Presby- terian is now a regular form Episcopalian. The Doctor insists that he is still on the road to Heaven; having merely changed his line. But if he continues questioning the accuracy of the Bible in the future as he has done in the past, he will waken up, when GABRIEL toots his horn, to find that he has heen side tracked en route. —Tyrone merchants are looking sad eyed at one another because a slick swin- dler has just done them to a turn. You know how it hurts anyone from Tyrone to be nipped and it is little wonder that they feel sore because they have just bought a lot of clay bricks, wrapped up in tin-foil, that were ‘‘guaranteed’’ to rid their stores of all kinds of pests, from the loafer who cuspidates on the stove, to the mice that have a binding contract with the cheese. The swindler got a good price for his clay, but he gave his victims a good ‘‘josh’’ that they won’t soon forget. —Our troubles in the Philippines are not near at an end, yet every day brings fresh rumors of a portentious nature from Cuba and Puerto Rico. In Cuba Gen. BROOKE fears grave trouble in distributing the $3,000,000 that our government has appropriated for the rebels. They hesitate about laying down their arms and under the influence of such malcontents as MAYIA, RODRIQUEZ, SANGUILLY and others are in- clined to resent our further occupation of the island. Another clash might not be far distant. In fact, the situation is re- garded as very serious. —If Governor STONE had gone up to State College and taken his recreation on the campus of the public institution at that place he would have found himself far more reinvigorated than he will by a West Virginia fishing trip. He would also have made the discovery, if he is not insensible to the Creator’s handiwork, that the camp- us there is the most beautiful, naturally, of any in the country. Perhaps if he had gone there and comprehended what Nature has done so lavishly for the place he wouldn’t have with held the $1,000 that was asked for the maintenance of the campus, walks and roads. VOL. 4d Who is Responsible. samme Under the circumstances the cutting down of the public school appropriation $1,000,000 by Governor STONE was proba- bly the best thing he could do. But who is responsible for the circum- stances? This is the question that the taxpayers will be asking when they get enough gumption into their heads to realize that there is something radically wrong and of- fensively rotten, both in the legislation and general management of the affairs of the old Commonwealth. The House of Representatives at Harris- burg during the last session of the Legisla- ture, was controlled by the anti-QUAY sent- iment of the State. The Senate was the sycophantic and subservient tool of the boss of the state ring. It was this ring that dictated the nomination and elected Mr. STONE Governor, and it was the same ring that influenced and controlled the action of the Senate. In the House a number of revenue hills were originated and passed that would have provided abundant means to support all the charities and public institutions of the State, as well as furnishing the usual amount of assistance to our public schools and educational in- stitutions. In every instance, when these bills effected corporations or interests from which the Republican state ring—-Mr. QUAY and his henchmen—annually draws its po- litical stipend, they were voted down by the Senate. The Democrats and antiQUAY Repre- sentatives did their best to furnish revenue sufficient to meet all the necessary expendi- tures and outstanding obligations of the State, but because they proposed raising part of these funds from sources that never "have, and do not now, pay their just pro- portion of taxation, a QUAY Senate, that heeded and was largely guided’ by the ad- vice and wishes of Governor STONE, voted down these propositions and left the finances of the State in the condition they are now in. It was to save corporations and brewers of beer from bearing a portion of the state taxation, that the public school fund has to be robbed now. This is the reason the revenues are short of the appropriations. : It is the reason the public schools are to be robbed of part of their income, and the burdens of increased taxation thrown upon the shoulders of those least able to hear them. The responsibility for this condition of affairs rests solely and alone upon the polit- ical ring of which Governor STONE is the official representative, and this responsi- bility can neither be shaken off nor lessened by any pretense of devotion to the inter- ests of the taxpayers or the financial honor of the State. It is Governor STONE and his friends who are responsible for the lack of revenue that necessitates the reduction of the appropria- tions for the public schools. This is a fact that every day’s proceed- ings of the last session of the Legislature will attest. : / ——When the coal miners and others, for whose relief and assistance the Philips- i burg hospital: was established, realize that that deserving institution has been com- .pelled to stand a reduction in its appro- priation from the State of $2,000 in order to relieve foreign and domestic beer brew- ers and the great corporations of the State from paying a fair share of taxation, they will begin to appreciate the kind of bene- fits that are to be had from the continuance in power of a political party that is willing to rob its own charities for the advantage of such interests. - Robbing the hospitals and schools to save brewers’ taxes should have a tendency to open the eyes, even of a Pennsylvania Republican. Original Ideas on the Production of Har- mony. In parallel columns the Republican says: “There are no satisfac- | “The Governor en- tory nor convincing rea- | deavors to explain his sons that can be advanc- | course in a feeble and ed for the continuance of | absurd manner, he will factionalism and dissen- | doubtless continue to sionin our ranks. **Let | defend his action, but us set aside everything | the fact cannot be de- prejudicial to the inter- | nied that to him, Quay ests of our party and, for- | and the machine be- getful of personal griev- | longs the censure and ances, fancied or real, | criticism of the people, unite together in giving | whose rights have been our friends, the enemy, | ignored, whose solicita- the stiffest proposition | tions have been disre they have met with in | garded.” Centre county in many a day.” ‘ In one column our contemporary urges Republicans of Centre county to get to- gether and in another it berates Governor STONE for having cut the public school ap- propriation. The Republican certainly takes an unique view of the situation. If it expects the QUAY men in Centre county to turn in with its side while it keeps on shooting away at the goose that is laying their golden eggs there is only one conclu- sion for us to come to and that is that the editorial writers on the Republican are as green in politics as they are in journalism. ——Many a Philipsburg girl is walking with a limp because the board of health of that place has ordered all vaccinated asa precaution against the spread of small pox. Ol er eurocradi RO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MAY 19, 1899. » - BIL Aaquy 0yeig I 66 rae An Interesting Problem. The army beef scandal has taken on a new form. The jobbers in and out of the administration, which includes Secretary of War ALGER, and the beef packers, are about to become aggressive. They have been on the delensive since the in- vestigation began, and were inclined to be conciliatory for a time. But now that the report has been in their favor they are likely to take a different view of the situa- tion. Instead of running with the hares they are now disposed to hunt with the hounds. It is the accusers that are to be on the defensive hereafter. Exposing crime is the vice and perpetrating it the virtue. That is the ALGERian rule, at least, and ALGER’S will is the law of the present administration. In view of these facts it is not surprising to learn that it will be impossible for Generals MILES and MERRITT to both remain in the army, nor is it difficult to conjecture which of the two will be obliged to get out under the circumstances. At the beginning of the war anybody with an analytical mind would have at once seen, under such condi- tions, MERRITT would be put on the toboggan. He was on record for having condemned . ALGER for desertion and cowardice and though MILES wasn’t in high favor at the time, he was preferred to MERRITT, but since then MERRITT has learned a thing or two. He has acquired the art of crooking the pregnant hinges of the knee ‘‘where thrift may follow fawn- ing.” Asa result he escaped the danger and privations of the Philippines and se- cured favor by what looks greatly like shirking. Having gone that far it is nat- ural that he should resort to sycophancy as a medium of gaining further favor. But it is doubtful if ALGER will be able to carry out his present plan of driving MILES out of the army in order to promote MERRITT to the chief command. The country will not tamely submit to an out- rage, and McKINLEY will hardly take the risk of provoking popular resentment in that way. Unless the signs are misleading there will be trouble enough ‘to secure a re-election without provoking additional opposition, and ALGER’S scheme would be prolific in that respect. Nobody can tell; however, ALGER was kind when money was needed and like most men who accom- modate in that way, he is exacting. Al- together it is an interesting problem and the public will watch the solution of it with deep concern. A Tempest in a Teapot. The EDWARD ATKINSON episode is very much like the traditional “‘tempest ina teapot.” It was a sensation for a day and will be a matter of regret for all time. The small minds that rule in the councils of the administration became frenzied over an imaginary offense and committed a crime against the spirit of the law and con- stitution, greater than that which they complained of could have been, even if it had heen what they imagined, which it was not. So palpable an evidence of incompe- tency and unfitness has rarely if ever been revealed in a civilized government before. Those peanut politicians in Washington are making a sorry spectacle of themselves. Mr. ATKINSON, whose passion for pam- phleteering, though amusing, is hardly harmful, had compiled from the Congress- ional Record some matter which he re- garded as pertinent on the conduct of the war with Spain. As we understand it there was little or nothing in the document he was distributing other than that taken from speeches of Congressmen, delivered on the floor of the House. But little CHARLES EMORY SMITH, who is rattling around in the chair once occupied by MONTGOMERY BLAIR and later filled by WILLIAM L. WILSON, conceived the notion that the soldiers in the army of occupation in the Philippines ought not to be permitted to read the mat- ter, and he took upon himself to rifle the mails and abstract from the pouches the ATKINSON pamphlet. He had no more right in law or reason to do that than any tramp has to cut a pouch on its way from the railway station to the postoffice in this town. The inviolability of the mails is one of the hoasted traditions in this country. But when cheap clerks are entrusted with the work of tull grown men, which seems to be a rule of the present administration, there is no telling what may happen in any given direction. There was nothing treasonable in the pamphlet which Mr. ATKINSON had pre- pared for circulation, but there is treason in the wanton violation of the constitution and laws as perpetrated by Postmaster Gen- eral SMITH, in rifling the mails enroute to the Philippines. But such things are among the natural developments of this era of immature minds. There are men who talk freely about the sacredness of the flag and think there is no harm at all in stufi- ing a ballot box. Criticising the actions of an official is, according to their ideas; a grave offense, but trampling the Constitu- tion under foot an innocent diverson. The ATKINSON episode is in point. The College Appropriations Cut to the Extent of $11,000. Governor STONE completed the work that was left for him to do by the last Legislature, on Monday, and started off on a fishing trip to West Vir- ginia. The all important matter to Centre county was his action on the ap- propriation bills for the Pennsylvania State College and the Cottage hospital at Philips- burg. He cut the later’s amount from $14,000 to $12,000 and the appropriation for State was pared down to the extent of $11.000. The Legislature had given the College $66,557.90 but the Governor pared it as follows before he would approve it: For repairs and maintenance of buildings and maintenance and improvement of steam plant, $2,500. For maintaining campus walks and roads, $1,000. For maintenance of the department of physics and purchase of additional apparatus for physical research, $1,000. For maintenance of the department of civil engineering and equipment of the hydraulic laboratory the sum of $2,500. For maintenance of the department of chem- istry, including the chemical museum, $2,000. For maintenance of the department of psyechol- ogy, including psychological laboratory, $1,000. For maintenance of the biological and botan- ical laboratories, $1, 000. ee —— President Atherton’s View of the Cut. Probably the matter of most interest to Centre countians before the last session of the Legislature was the appropriation budg- et, since our great institution of learning, The Pennsylvania State College, was hope- fal of securing just such sums as were actually needful for the carrying on of the work of its various departments. The Gov- ernor cut the appropriation, along with the others, and while his action will hinder the progress of the College to a certain ex- tent president ATHERTON looks at the act in a most philosophical and kindly way. While expressing his regret that the Gov- ernor found it necessary to reduce the al- ready small appropriation voted to the Col- lege by the Legislature, he believes that “the Governor acted in perfect good faith and with a purpose todeal as fairly and con- siderately as possible with all the conditions olvery perplexing situation. The Gov- emor’s determination to reduce the large outstanding floating indebtedness of the State must commend itself to the judg- ment of every citizen, and the College is willing to take its share of cutting until the finances of the ‘State ‘are in better shape.” —That thousand Princeton students, who tried to break up PAWNEE BiLv’s wild west show, on Monday, as they had done with WASHBURN’S circus last year, found that the cowboys and Indians were just a little ‘‘too many’’ for them. It was lots of fun for the collegians to pelt the passing paraders with stones, exploding cannon crackers and antique eggs, but when the helpless’ riders in the wagons called the ALKALI IKES and RUBBER NECK JIMS of the plains to their assistance the sport was changed entirely. The smart youngsters were lassooed, dragged and bumped about in a most unceremonious fashion and very soon cried for quarter. Most of them were afraid to go to the show that night as the circus people had told them very plainly that if they cared to preserve the contiguity of the various sections of their hide they had better stay away or behave. It was a lesson that was good for them. The circus people were comporting themselves credita- bly and it is a pretty commentary on the manliness of the students of one of our greatest universities that a crowd of red skins and cowboys should have to rebuke them for flagrant indecencies. ——Governor STONE has done what no other Governor has dared to do, cut down the appropriation to public schools. He has reduced the amount annually given to the schools by $1,000,000, which simply goes to show that the QUAY people don't hesitate at anything, even the hindering of public education, when they want to work for each other. ; In the Jaws of the Destroyer. The Linn & McCoy chain works, between this place and Milesburg, are announced as among the concerns forming the chain trust, organized last week. We hope it will not be with them as a similar move proved to Mann’s axe factory a few years ago. At the time it entered the trust it was doing a prosperous business and giving employment to from thirty to fifty men. Three months afterwards there was neither axe-factory, work for the men, nor income for the proprietor. The whole thing was wiped out completely, the works dis- mantled, machizery removed and buildings allowed to go to ruin. Whether the Milesburg industry will be spared the fate of the axe factory, time alone will tell. ——If you want fine work done of every description the WATCHMAN is the place to have it done. -orders of the Republican bosses. For years ‘delegates to a state convention to-nominate NO. 20. The Little Red School House Must Suffer. From the Pittsburg Post. : Papers throughout the country, as well as the educational interest—and it is an in- terest professionally and financially—are vigorous in criticism of the lopping off of nearly a million and a quarter dollars from the usual appropriation for school purposes in Pennsylvania. On its face it may be a retrograde step, but there are good reasons in the way of explanation. It simply re- sults from the extravagance and jobbery in state government that has been going on for years, and for which the Republican party and ites accepted bosses are exclusive- ly responsible. We heard nothing of this kind when Robt. E. Pattison was Governor and guarded and protected the financial in- terests of the Commonwealth with ability and integrity, even hampered as he was at all times by a hostile Legislature. If Geo. A. Jenks had been elected Governor we are confident that nothing of the kind would have occurred. A leading Republican paper of New York declares that the reduction of the school funds is a fitting sequel to the operations of the Quay treasury ring, and repeats facts well known in this State that the school funds were diverted to pet banks to be loaned to ring favorites. As a matter of fact and as a single instance the hundred thousand dollars that the late State Treasur- er directed should be loaned out of state funds deposited in the Peoples hank to the Quays was part of the school funds of Pennsylvania and in this way: At the time there was default in the payment of the school quota to the counties and instead of this $100,000 and many other thousands being applied to that purpose, it was loaned to politicians and speculators on the the school fund was plundered by these people or distributed as a reward for per- sonal and factional purposes. The counties, deprived of the state quota due them, were forced in some cases to issue bonds to bor- row money; in others the school year was cut down, and again in others the of teachers was reduced. And all that the school funds could be nsed for speculative purposes by machine politicians and specu- lators, or if they did not so use them, they shared in the interest contracted to be paid by such rotten banks as the Peoples for state deposits. Those very Republican politicians who have been raiding the school funds of Pennsylvania have been at ‘the same time posing and making capital and votes as the particular advocates and champions of ‘‘the little red school house.”” No State of the Union, unless some of the southern States under carpet-bag and negto rule, can match this debauchery of the public con- science here in Pennsylvania. And itis in progress to-day, as county after county is. s voting confidence'in boss Quay by: electing another candidate for State Treasurer to ‘his liking. He’s a Soldier Not a Show Fool. From the Philadelphia Times. The most utterly preposterous and shame- less proffer ever made to a brave man, a fine soldier and a great fighter is that which the State Fair association of Kansas has laid before Gen. Funston. It calmly pro- poses to pay the soldier hero of the Phil- ippines $1,000 to swim the Arkansas river with his nine soldiers of Calumpit and show his countrymen how they did it in the East. The enterprising association proposes to throw up earthworks opposite Wichita, where the fair is to be holden, and to man them with enough of competent cowards to give the whole matter the highest realistic form. They are to be captured amidst the greatest applause, of course, and it is men- tioned incidentally that this novel feature cannot fail to ensure the success of the fair itself, as well as to provide an interesting and valuable object lesson in the art and practice’of war to the youth of the State and to its visitors. It is needless to say that Gen. Funston will certainly decline the invitation to make a fool of himself. His business is real war, and in it he is the peer of the bravest soldier whose name honors our history. To be placed upon the level with a five-legged calf ora horned colt would be to permit himself to become more ridiculous than the unfortunate Hob- son, whose brave deeds are shadowed hy his mistaken choice of place for osculatory practice with admiring young women. The lesson of Hobson is not likely to be lost upon our returning heroes, hut that such a sublimely ridiculous offer should be made to Funston in a State which should feel dignified by his citizenship, and made in calm expectancy that it could be seriously entertained or fail to awaken a storm of derisive indignation through the country, is almost beyond the range of belief. The fool-killer has a job out in Kansas, and particularly with the people of Wichita and the Fair association which has head- quarters there. : Dingley Tariff Burdens. From the Boston Herald. The Dingley tariff law has been of no benefit to the wool growers; it has been of great disadvantage to the woollen and worst- ed manufacturers, and has compelled a great many of the American people to go without the clothing they have been ac- customed to use and are desirous of buy- ing. It furnishes an illustration of the disastrous effects of this form of protection, which injures practically everybody and is of advantage to nobody. An Honest Recognition of the Truth. From the Philadelphia Press. It would be idle to disguise the fact that the Democratic organization in Pennsyl- vania is far more respected to-day than it bas teen before for many years. The ac- tion of its representatives at Harrisburg during the legislative session has been such as to invite the confidence of the party peo- ple forfeited in former years by the in- trigues and, trades of corrupt and selfish leaders. ! Spawls from the Keystone. —The new frame Baptist church at Jersey Shore was dedicated Sunday. The building cost over $2,000. —The Juniata county Agricultural society has set the time for holding its annual fair at Port Royal for September 13th, 14th and 15th. —Miles Henderson, of Barree township, Huntingdon county, hasa dog that will hunt nothing but snapping turtles and catches lots of them. —The executive committee of the Old Pennsylvania Canal Boatmen’s association will meet at Blairsville in the near future to set a day and place for the next annual re- union. —The venerable Rowland Francis, one of Cambria county’s earliest settlers, died Sat- urday morning at his home in Cambria town- ship, at the age of 99 years. His death was caused by ailments of old age. —There will probably be no direct punish- ment for those who steal plants and flowers from graves and in some cases rob them of their top soil, but the person who has fallen to the level of a cemetery thief certainly oc- coe a place with degraded humanity no better than that of the highwayman. —The body of John Rohn, the wealthy lumberman of Three Runs, near Karthaus, who has been missing for a month, was found under a pile of saw dust near his saw mill Thursday. The several hundred dollars he had with him are missing, and he was evi- dently murdered. Detectives are at work on the case. —The Hazleton National bank and First National bank gave notice recently that on June 1st they will reduce the interest rate on deposits from 3 to 2 per cent, per annum. The local banks are not able to profitably invest all the money deposited with them. Over $3,000,000 are on deposit in the Hazle- ton banks. —The Queen’s Run fire brick company, of Lock Haven, has received by cable a large contract for fire brick from Brazil. The brick are to be of special sizes and shapes and will be used for purposes for which it is im- possible to procure suitable stock in foreign lands of as good quality as those made by the Queen’s Run company. The contract was secured without competition. © —During the storm on Tuesday of last week the barn ¢f J. R. Lute, near Grip post- office, Indian# éounty, was struck by light- ning, but was not fired. J. R. Lute, Isaac Lute John A. Keith, J. L. Davis, Samuel DeHaven, and G. W. Patrick had taken ref- uge in the barn and all were considerably stunned. A cow waskilled by the bolt, and the structure was somewhat damaged. —The county commissioners of Fulton county offera reward of $100 for the arrest and delivery to the jail in McConnellsburg, of McClellan Pennell, who shot William C. Beatty, at Barnes Gap,. Fulton county, ‘on the night of April 20th. Pennell is about 30 years old, height 5 feet 10 or 11 inches, of slight build, dark complexion, black hair, smooth face, nose drooped at end, long, slim feet. : —An oil spring was recently found near Elmer, Potter county. The oil appeared on the surface of the stream in such quantities that the matter was investigated and the spring was found to be overflowing with oil. The flow is not very steady, but once a day a small volumn of oil is given off, the flow last- ing for an hour orless. The spasmodic flow- ing of the spring indicates the presence of gas. —William Flick, proprietor of the Flick house at New Centreville, Somerset county, and the postmaster of that town, died Sat- urday a week ago, in the 66th year of his age. He was also postmaster during the Harrison administration, and was commis- sary-sergeant of the Fifty-fourth Pennsyl- vania volunteers, and served three years in the army during the civil war. A wife and one daughter survive. —Emanuel Getz, of Jersey Shore, is now lying in bed suffering from a very painful injury. Mr. Getz is a blacksmith, and while shoeing a horse the animal became obstreper- ous, and in his efforts to quiet him, Mr. Getz fell, and the horse fell on top of him. Mr. Getz’s body was bruised and all the ligaments in his left leg were torn loose. Mr. Getz was taken to his home where his leg was placed in a plaster of paris cast. —The corner stone for a new United Breth- ren church at Windber will be laid Sunday, May 28th. The structure, which will be frame, will be erected at the corner of Gra- ham avenue and Ninth street. Clark & Son, of Hooversville, have the contract and the building is expected to be completed within three months. The trustees of the church are the Rev. E. F. Wriggle and the Messrs. Hiram Baumgardner, E. L. Reed, H. R. Shaffer and David Reed. -—Mrs. Mary Beck, of East Ridge, near Cherrytree, Indiana county, perhaps the oldest woman in that or adjoining counties, slipped and fell several days ago, fracturing her hip joint. Dr. E. R. Erhard, of Cherry- tree, is the attending physician. He reports that although the break will not heal the woman has stood the shock well and promises to live for some time. She enjoys good health, and, although almost 102 years old, until two years ago she was able to do her own work. On June 2nd she will cele- brate her 102nd birthday, and if her health vermits her friends will make merry the ex- traordinary event. —PFor the first time in many years mass was celebrated at Spruce Creek, last Sunday, Rev. Father T. W. Rosensteel pastor of Saint Matthew's church, Tyrone, was celebrant. The services which were attended by several hundred people, were held in the improvised chapel at the home of James Cullen, one of the oldest and most respected residents of the church diocese. The saying of mass in the quaintold village revives a church service of many years ago, when Spruce Creek was one of the pioneer towns of Central Pennsyl- vania, and mass was at regular intervals celebrated by bishops and priests now de- ceased, and some yet living have grown old in service of their faith. The new railroad work at Spruce Creek has brought several hundred workmen to the town: many of them are Catholics. On the third Sunday of every month Father Rosensteel : will cele- —You ought to take the WATCHMAN brate mass at Spruce Creek at 10:30 o'clock.
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