BY RP. “GRAY MEEK.
Ink Sung.
— Take an oyster cocktail on the first day
of the month that brings back to us the
luscious bivalve.
—_McKean county will likely be plagued
with the itch asa result of the biggest
buckwheat crop in its history.
WALTER WELLMAN is back from the
arctic regions with another route to the
North pole. Of course it is not the one he
failed on last.
The window glass trust having fallen
through it wont be necessary for people to
resort to green apples and corn in order to
procure cheap pains.
__ Yellow fever has broken out again
among the soldiers at Havana. It seems
that the RooT frost hasn’t killed all the
germs of ALGERISM yet.
—_1f Uncle SAM should visit the Sultan
of Sulu and happen to be pleased with that
dusky potentate’s harem the world can
look out for a few more Miss Columbias.
—_The latest from the Filipinos is to the
effect that Gen. Pro DE PILAR called
Aguinaldo a liar and then shot him dead.
It is good that PILAR shot the Filipino
leader, for the latter would never have felt
himself aggrieved by merely being called a
liar.
—_The President won’t begin to get hap-
py until all these home coming volunteers
have arrived from Manila and been stowed
away in the country and the DREYFUS case
is ended, for then, and not until then, will
the people have time to listen to the toot of
his re-election horn.
—_The fact of the two Italian sculptors
having fallen dead while at work on the
DEWEY triumphal arch in New York has
led a great many Gothamites to believe
that it is a hoodoo. Nothing singular about
this. They are not the only foreigners
who have fallen dead while getting mixed
up in DEWEY triumphs.
— No one can successfully challenge Lt.
Col. BARNETT'S bravery in the Philippines,
but we fear he will not be so courageous if
elected State Treasurer. A dozen regi-
ments of Filipinos didn’t have near the ef-
fect on him that Mr. QUAY will. He will
be the AGUINALDO whom BARNETT will
not dare to defy.
—— Word comes from the Philippines that
Gen. Oris has been displaying acts of mer-
cy toward men who have been convicted
and sentenced to imprisonment for crimes
against the military regime there. Mercy
is at all times a christian visitation and it
is well that we can extend it some times,
but it has proven dangerous with the Fili-
pinos as the beneficiaries. Unhappily for
us they mistake it for cowardice.
—The people of Philadelphia sent $50,-
000 worth of provisions to the suffering
Puerto Ricans and the very next week
reached down in their pockets and raised
enough money to send the 1st Reg. from
that city to Pittsburg to participate in the
reception of the 10th. During the same
time Bellefonte's council was charging
famishing farmers 5 cts. a barrel for water.
What a contrast and yet we all believe that
there is only one good town in the State.
__Six years ago, last Tuesday night,
President McKINLEY, then Governor of
Ohio, began his campaign for re- election
by speaking from the porch in front of the
Col. Joux TAYLOR home in East Liver-
pool, Ohio. The President was there Tues-
day night, the sixth anniversary, and made
another speech. This time he needed not
to make a forma! opening of his campaign
for relection to the Presidency, but his be-
ing on that TAYLOR porch on Tuesday
night looks as if the President might be a
little “‘superditious.”’
—In mentioning the passage of the presi-
dential party through that city on Saturday
afternoon the Altoona Zimes concludes as
follows: ‘“The President shows but little of
the weight of the cares of office.” Good
joke. No one knew that the ‘‘cares of of-
fice’”” had been bearing down on the Presi-
dent very hard, for if they had his con-
science would not have permitted him to
run off up into New England when the
boys in the Philippines needed looking af-
ter. About the only ‘‘cares of office’’ that
seriously worry him are the cares of his
second term boom.
—The Philadelphia Press seems deter-
mined to stir up trouble whenever it is pos-
gible. In throwing bouquets at ex-Repre-
sentative EMERSON COLLINS, of Williams-
port, because of the speech he made at the
Republican convention last week, it is en-
couraging that defunct Legislator to usurp
the Hon. BILLY SWOOPE’S treasured nom
de plume ‘‘Boy Orator of the Susquehanna.’
The new DEMOSTHENES of Lycoming had
better be careful of the usufruct of the
Curwensvillestatesman or the waters of the
Susquehanna will run bloody to the Chesa-
peake.
—Dr. SWALLOW says President McKIN-
LEY has bowed to the liquor interests and
the Harrisburg Star-Independent says ‘‘Im-
possible!” Because he has been too busy
carrying water on both shoulders to risk
spilling any by making obeisance to either
side. The Independent's ground is well
taken, but it seems to have forgotten the
fact that in the President’s first campaign
Toy REED accused him of doing the coun-
try circus act of riding two horses at one
time and if he was political acrobat enough
for that trick then he must surely have
learned enough since to bow with out spill-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 1, 1899.
NO. 34.
To Be Expected.
We dont blame Republicans for attempt-
ing to divert public attention from their
management of state affairs to that of ques-
tions growing out of the attempt to gobble
the Philippine islands.
It is not to be wondered at that they
would rather hear encomiums on the flag
than about their debauchery of public of-
fices and their betrayal of public trusts.
* Tt is not strange that they show so much
interest in the necessity for good govern-
ment for the Filipinos and so little in the
effort to get honest government here in
Pennsylvania.
It is not surprising to learn how much
they bave to promise to the naked negroes,
and the leprous half-hreeds, of the Philip-
pine islands and how few professions of
better things they have for the business
men, farmers and taxpayers here at home.
It should astonish no one that they de-
vote so much time, and waste so much ef-
fort, to interest voters in matters that have
no kind of connection with the offices that
are to be filled in this State this fall, and
have nothing to say about the way the
duties of these positions have been perform-
ed under the direction of the ring.
There are reasons for this course. Sub-
stantial, imperative reasons. Reasons that
appeal both to their hope of success and to
the political existence of the machine.
A depleted treasury!
An over-taxed people!
Crippled charities; inadequate asylums;
unsupported hospitals; stolen school funds;
closed trade schools; useless officials; over-
paid and unworked clerks; padded pay-
rolls, and all the long list of wrongs,
by omission as well as by commission, that
are chargeable to Republican control in
Pennsylvania compels Republican silence
when these questions are raised.
It is to avoid meeting these; to escape
explanations that dare not be attempted,
and cannot be made, that commands such
grave-yard silence on the part of those who
speak for the Republican party of Pennsyl-
vania, when questions vital to the interests
of tax-payers are in the balance.
Is it to be wondered at that they point
to the flag, to the Philippines, or to any-
thing else on God’s green earth, rather than
| to their own rotten and digger) record?
A Good Tokigte For Other States.
The fact that a fusion of all parties op-
posed to Republicanism, as interpreted and
attempted to be enforced by McKINLEY
and MARX HANNA, has recently been ac-
complished in Nebraska creates no little
consternation among those who imagined
that Mr. McKINLEY’S way was clear to
a re-election because of the division of sen-
timent among those opposed to him. The
New York Sun, which wants to be consid-
ered a mouth piece of the administration,
warns the Republicans that what occurred
in Nebraska may be expected in ‘‘a broad-
er field and on a larger scale a year hence.”
And we cannot see why it should not.
If the voters are opposed tc the policy of
party in power, there is only one feasible
way of changing itand that is by putting
that party out.
This ought to be a government by a ma-
jority of the people. But it is not and sel-
dom has been. The foolish and frivolous
divisions among voters; the cranky idea of
having everything just as each individual
wants it or having nothing at ali, so divides
up the people into parties and organizations
—each withits own ticket in the field—
that in many instances, both of state and
national elections, the successful candidate
is elected by a minority vote.
In this State, which has been tax cursed
and boss rilden for years, the majority of
the voters are against the party and ring in
power. The present Governor is a minor-
ity official ky 12,680 votes. He was not
the choice ofthe people, nor is his adminis-
tration suchas a majority of the voters ap-
prove of: Why should this be so? Why
allow prejulice and individual ideas and
political whims to divide and distract the
many until he few who are banded togeth-
er, for theirpersonal advantage, are able
to win electbns, rob the State, oppress the
people and dsgrace and demoralize things
generally?
Pennsylvaiia could be made anti-Repub-
lican and ani-QUAY if those opposed to its
present rule would only work together.
Would thes not be glory and benefit in
doing so? Konest political effort leads, we
believe, in tlis direction.
We are glid to see that the people of Ne-
braska have lense enough to lay aside irrele-
vant issues @&d join hands to secure the rule
of the majouty. It should be done in every
State. If ilwere there would be much
less cause f¢ complaint and more reason
for respect f¢ governmental authority sup-
posed to be pade by the people for the peo-
ple.
Nebraska’ example, if followed by other
States willlprove the end of state rings,
as well as thideath knell of expansion, im-
perialism, thsts, syndicates, McKINLEY-
1sM, and Mex HANNA'S dictation. It
will make tis a ‘‘government of the peo-
ple, by the ople, for the people.”
It is thisfact that worries Republican
ing the water on either shoulder.
politicians.
What Such Reports Mean.
Some one who is either a political idiot
or is working for the pay he gets for
furnishing such news, has been telegraph-
ing from this place to the daily papers that
the Democratic hopes of carrying the coun-
ty this fall are based on the belief that Gov-
ernor HASTINGS does not intend support-
ing the local Republican ticket, for the rea-
son that most of the candidates upon it
were considered QUAY men before their
nomination. Whether the purpose
of the writer of the dispatches
is simply to get so much pay for
filling so much space, or whether it is an
attempt to leave the impression upon the
QUAY voters of the county that the ticket
is made up of their friends in the hope of
rallying them to its support we do not
know. But we do know that the hope of
the Democrats of carrying the county is
based upon no such an idea. And we know,
further, that any one who is green enough
to expect that Governor HASTINGS will al-
low the election of a ticket, made at his dic-
tation and with his vote, to go by default
if his work or money can save it—especial-
ly when its victory would be his victory
and its success be used as evidence of what
he can do when having control of the party
organization, is too green to know much of
politics and too obtuse to understand the
motives that actuate men.
Governor HASTINGS’ position may be a
peculiar one, but .it is just such a one as
will compel him to bend every energy, and
use every means in his power to secure the
success of his county ticket, in order to
hold the ground he has won here at home.
He has made himself the Republican boss
of the county. He has placed his recent
partner and closest friend at the head of his
organization. He has put himself in the
position to show what he can do as a leader
and a boss. He dictated the ticket. Asa
delegate he voted for every man upon it,'and
through his manipulation defeated those
whom he did not want nominated, as was
the case with GEo. W. SCHOLL, who aspir-
ed to be Commissioner. He boasts that he
now controls, and intends keeping control
of, his party organization, and he knows,
just as well as any one else, that any luke-
warmness shown on his part, or any betrayal
of his county ticket at the coming election,
would end all hope of his longer rule and
all expectations of the nomination and elec-
tion of two HASTINGS Republicans to the
Legislature in 1900.
This last is what he is after.
Should the Republican county ticket
prove successful, now that he is home tak-
ing an active part in local affairs and with
him the acknowledged boss of his party in
the county, is there any one silly enough
to think that he would not both claim and
deserve the credit for that success? And if
under his management he could secure the
election of his ticket, in a county that gave
1300 majority against Governor STONE only
last fall, would it not strengthen and build
him up all over the State ? :
His ambition has not yet been satisfied.
He is hopeful that in the fight for United
States Senator next year, his name will be
the one the Independents will present as
their candidate. To aid in this he wants
two members of the Legislature from this
county at the next election. To secure
these, the influence and support of the
county officials would assist materially. If
he can win these this fall it will assist him
just that much next fall and his success
then would goa great ways toward put-
ting him at the front again in the Republi-
can politics of the State.
This is his hope and the Democrat who
could be foolish enough to imagine that
Governor HASTINGS would, under the cir-
cumstances, give him any assistance,
would have about as much political sense
as the QUAY Republican, who imagines he
can help the ex-Governor carry the county
for his local ticket and not be adding to his
political influence and power.
At Work.
The Democratic state committee rooms
were opened at Philadelphia on Tuesday
last, and it is promised that the work of
perfecting the organization, registering the
voters and preparing for the election will
be vigorously pushed from this time on. It
is to be hoped that this promise will be
faithfully fulfilled. It may be late in be-
ginning the work, but it is better late than
never, and as conditions now appear te be
in this State, intelligent well directed work
on the part of those in charge of the com-
mittee may produce results that everybody
but the state ring will be thankful for.
With the Democracy united and har-
monious as it i8; with the dissensions there
are among Republicans, and the general
disgust there is with the rule of the ring,
there should be no trouble in making such
a contest as would relieve the Common-
wealth from the disgrace of being controlled
by a dictator, and from the debauchery
that has depleted her treasury and left her
charities and schools without adequate sup-
port.
There is plenty of work for the state
committee to do and if it sizes up to
the job there are substantial reasons for
hopeful results in November.
Closer Communion Needed.
It is very evident that Mr. QUAY, ex-
United States Senator, and, by reason of its
cowardice and subserviency, boss of the Re-
publican party of Pennsylvania, is not in
President McKINLEY’S confidence—at least
not to any very confidential extent. Boss
QUAY, for the sake of the patronage he
could get and the power that patronage
would secure him, was anxious to have his
party hurrah for and endorse just whatever
policy that patronage distributer desired.
Had he known what that was there would
have been no question about what his con-
vention would have resolved and in place of
blabbering about ‘supporting the war’’and
“maintaining the supremacy of the flag,’
his party in the State would have been as
positively committed to a policy that de-
mands the ‘‘permanent possession of’’ and
“sovereign control over” the Philippine
islands, as the President now is.
That Mr. QuAY didn’t get on the ground
floor in the presidential push; that the
party and State that he owns and controls
was not the first to declare for the new
doctrine of ‘imperialistic expansion,” and
the governmental responsibility for islands
that are no good toany one, as well as the
acts of 6,000,000 untutored savages who
know no law, is due entirely to the want of
confidence the President has in him. Penn-
sylvania Republicans stood ready to endorse
any doctrine Mr. QUAY might announce.
Mr. Quay was ready to endorse any
policy Mr. McKINLEY might have, but
through the mistrust of the President and
his want of confidence in Mr. QUAY the
great Republican party, of the greatest Re-
publican State in the Union, is left fighting
for the maintenance of the flag while its
presidential choice is going over the coun-
try fighting for the ‘permanent possession
of’ and ‘‘the sovereign control over” the
Philippines.
To look exactly right there ought to be a
little better understanding between the
Republican candidate for re-election to the
Presidency and the people whom he ex-
pects to re-vlect him. Want of confidence
is sometimes a fatal failure, but in this in-
stance it can doubtless be fixed up by a lib-
eral distribution of official ! potiage.
apologize to these ministers whose prayers
for rain we charged with not being full
enough of faith. It came last Friday af-
ternoon and there was more than one
thanksgiving went up to Heaven for the
refreshing rain that fell to quench the
parched earth in this quarter.
No «Republican Day” This "Year.
There was no ‘Republican day’’ at the
Williamsgrove Grangers picnic this year.
There will be no Republican day at any of
the big gatherings of farmers anywhere in
the State this fall. And there is reason
why there will not be. The farmers are
the people upon whom the Republican rob-
bery of the public school funds falls most
heavily. It is out of their pockets that the
local school tax comes, and they are just
beginning to realize how much more their
local tax will be in consequence of the re-
duction of the state appropriations to pub-
lic schools. Some of the farmers are queer
fellows. They are curious enough to want
to know the whys and wherefors of mat-
ters in which they are interested. They
are curious enough, at times, to ask ques-
tions, and to answer the questions they
might ask about the reduction of the school
appropriation, the refusal to tax corpora-
tions, beer brewers and others, while the
farmers were left to make good the needed
school tax, would be embarrassing.
It is to avoid this embarrassment, that
there will be no ‘‘Republican day’’ at
farmers picnics this year.
Mr. QUAY, Mr. ELKINS and the rest of
the ring, have determined that there is more
for them in talking about the advantage
of a freer government for the Philippines,
than about free schools and the tax to keep
them up here in Pennsylvania. Their
speakers are not expected to bother much
with the farmers this year. Hence the
shutting down on ‘‘Republican day.”
Paying a High Price for McKinleyism.
It is costing the people of the United
States $500,000 a day to carry out an im-
perialistic policy designed solely to aid the
re-election of President McKINLEY. It has
been costing them this for many months.
It may continue to cost them this for years
to come. When you get down to soberly
think of this expense, of the lives that are
sacrificed, of the sorrow and suffering that
comes with all wars, of the little to be
gained, and the trouble and never ending
care that must be saddled upon this coun-,
try if successful, don’t you think we are
paying pretty dearly for the glory of con-
tinuing Mr. McKINLEY in office four years
longer ?
——The President shows a long head in
not planning to stay very long at the DEW-
EY reception in New York. He knows
how his poor little glim will be hidden un-
der the DEWEY bushel and, who koows,
it might be doused entirely.
Annexation Not Advisable.
BUFFALO, Aug. 29.—Before the Ameri-
can har association to-day Senator William
Lindsay, of Kentucky, discussed the legal
aspects "of the Philippine question. He
first argued for the constitutionality of the
government’s right to acquire the Philip-
pines, by reason of its power to make war
and negotiate treaties, and he denied the
truth of the statement that these islands
must eventually be organized into a State
for admission to the Union. Discussing
the sims of the government in the East he
said:
‘‘American dominion in the Philippines
will destroy none of the ends of the gov-
ernment; will disregard no one: of the in-
alienable rights of man; will sanctify no
abuse of usurpation, but will terminate the
despotism under which their people have
lived for more than 300 years. The Fili-
pinos have never been free. In submitting
to the authority of the United States they
surrender no privilege or immunity. It
cannot be that their right to a govornment
to which they give their consent is more
sacred than was the like right of the people
to the seceding States.’
It may be admitted that we ought not
permanently to annex a country whose in-
habitants are incapable of attaining a ca-
pacity for self-government, and the climate
of which forbids the migration of Ameri-
cans or Europeans in numbers sufficient to
eventually control political and social con-
ditions. I do not claim that the govern-
ment of the United States is specially ad-
apted to a colonial policy, or that its meth-
ods of administration qualify it, in any
marked degree, to hold and govern depen-
dencies in any portion of the world, proxi-
imate or remote. On the contrary, it is
of doubtful expediency to hold colonies or
dependencies at all, and such’ holding can
only be justified by necessity. ‘When,
however, duty admits of no escape without
the sacrifice of national honor or dignity,
the necessity then exists.
The speaker referred to the fact that the
Filipinos attacked the United States forces
before peace had been declared, and then
said: ‘‘When Aguinaldo and his chieftains
determined to resist the transfer of the
Philippine allegiance from Spain to the
United States, they elected to continue a
war which the Spanish government had
solemnly renounced and abandoned. They
tendered an issue which the United States
could not refuse, and doing so, they assum-
ed the responsibility for all the evils that
have come, or may hereatter come to the
Philippine people, from a contest, which
on their part is as inexcusable as it is
manifestly hopeless. Therecan be but one
ending to the unfortunate contest. The
sovereign authority of the United States
will be established, and under and through
their beneficent control peace will take the
place of war, order will supplant laWless-
ness, and justice and mercy prevail, where
force and fraud and cruelty once seemed to
have their perpetual abiding place.”’
At the afternoon session Sir William R.
Kennedy, a justice of the high court of jus-
tice of England, was introduced, and deliv-
ered an address on ‘‘State Punishment of
Crime.”
Uncle Sam is Putting Up for a Sala
Harem.
From the York Gazette. =
ing that Congressman Roberts, of Utah, be
refused a seat in Congress because he is a
polygamist, and at the same time are de-
fending President McKinley’ policy in the
Philippines would be utterly ridiculous
and amusing if it were not so shameful.
It may not be generally known, but our
government is paying the sultan of Sulu,
in the Philippines, a larger pension than
he received from the Spanish government.
One of the grounds on which the sultan de-
manded this increase was that our inter-
vention in the Philippines has increased the
cost of keeping his harem.
We do not want to be understocd as de-
fending polygamy. On the contrary, we
approve of every possible legal means of
stamping it out here or anywhere else, and
if Congressman Roberts has broken the law
in this regard he ought to be punished just
like any other criminal. But we also con-
demn the spending of the people’s money
for the support of an eastern harem.
Presidential Toadyism.
From the Clarion Democrat.
It was solemnly announced in the Pitts-
burg daily papers the other day that ‘‘in
deference to the President’s religious opin-
ions, both ministers who take part [at the
reception to the Tenth regiment] in the
exercises are Methodists.” In deference
to American manhood somebody ought to
take a good sized stuffed club and beat
some common sense into the heads of a
whole lot of ‘‘toadies’’ who do not seem to
have enough manhood about them to walk
upright, but go crawling on their bellies
like a lot of lickspittles. You might just
as well say that in deference to the Presi-
dent’s religious opinions, there shall be no
ministers except of Methodist belief, and
that is no more disgusting or foolish’ than
the above expression.
We Have Them Right Here in Bellefonte
. Too.
From the Philipsburg Daily Journal.
Business men expect the newspapers to
boom the town, and thus indirectly boom
their business. That being true, the busi-
ness men should do all possible to boom the
newspaper. Good newspapers represent
the spirit of the town and its people. There
are several business men in Philipsburg
who are continually wanting us to do this,
that, or the other thing (which generally
concerns themselves more than the public),
but when we ask them to advertise it is
quite another affair altogether. Those who
do not advertise nor even subscribe for the
home paper are always the worst to com-
plain about the paper. ;
An Tuphoy cement on the , French.
From the Scottdale Independent.
In a Louisiana duel all four of the par-
ticipants were killed. If all duels would
terminate in that way the dueling business
sSpawls from the Keystone.
—Among the enlistments at the United
States army recruiting station at Williams-
port Saturday were Barney Lucas and Bert
Benehan, of North Bend.
—DMary Ricketts, a colored Williamsport
domestic, has been jailed in default of 3200
bail on the charge of stealing diamonds to the
value of $120 from Louis Cohn, her em-
ployer.
—Several dogs got into the herd of sheep
belonging to Andrew Smith on the George
Herr farm, near Salona, Sunday night, kill-
ing one, and so badly injuring three or four
more that they will die.
—The trial of J. C. Harmon, charged with
the murder of Ezekiel Hewitt, at Clearfield,
has been postponed until the December term
of court, owing to the illness of S. V. Wilson,
senior counsel for the defense.
—The oldest man in the P. R. R.com-
pany’s service is Edward Lockhard, 91 years
old. He is a laborer in the Altoona shops,
and is still able to do a good day’s work, al-
though his labor is made light for him.
—There was a head end collision on the
Beech Creek railroad near Beech Siding, Sat-
urday afternoon. Through some misunder-
standing two local freights crashed into one
another. Both engines were damaged, but
none of the crews were hurt.
—Altoona accommodation pulled into
Johnstown Saturday morning with a large
leghorn rooster perched on the pilot of the
locomotive. As soon as the train stopped
gateman James Greenwood attempted to
capture the bird, but just as he reached for
iv the rooster flew over to the hillside and
started to reduce the insect population. The
engineer said he didn’t know where the fowl
boarded the train, noris he able to under-
stand how it managed to stick to the pilot.
—The safes in the post office and P. R. R.
station at Cresson were blown open by burg-
lars early Saturday morning. Only $2 in
cash was secured, but the damage to the safes
and furniture amounts to $700. Probably
the same burglars robbed the Cambria coun-
ty treasurer's office Saturday night. The
thieves drilled into the safe and blew the
door off with dynamite. They secured be-
tween $300 or $400 for their pains and es-
caped.
—The Berwind-White coal company is buy-
ing from 4,500 to 5,000 acres of coal lands
from some thirty prominent farmers in Con-
emaugh township, Somerset county. The
deal has been in progress for some time and
part of the sellers have received their money
from the coal company, while ‘others are ex-
pected to transfer their property to the cor-
poration within the next sixty days. The
price paid per acre is said to be $18. The
land lies in the vicinity of Davidsville, Tire
Hill and Bens Creek.
—At Holidaysburg Thursday jail warden
Baird inaugurated the prison labor system
and had a ball and chain gang, consisting of
six burley prisoners, five blacks and one
white man, at work cleaning the grass from
the public street, gutter and pavement in
front of the jail. This gang, which is en-
titled to the distinction of having inaugurated
the ball and chain labor system in Blair
county, was selected from a number of hobo
tourists who were sent up for thirty days by
mayor Giles, of Altoona.
—The citizens. of Madera naturally feel
elated over the boom their town is likely to
experience as a result of the industry now be-
ing established there, known as the Carman
manufacturing company, composed chiefly
of local capitalists, for the purpose of manu-
facturing a new invention known as the Car-
man combination couch and bath-tub. A
3 ) | three-story building, 50x100 feet, is now in
The inconsistency of those who are urg- |
course of erection. Itis expected the plant
will be ready for operation about six weeks
hence, when perhaps over 200 hands will be
employed.
—Marion Werts, of Westport, made a mi-
raculous escape from instant death the other
night while driving a horse from Shintown
to his home. The boy was turning his horse
in the road a short distance west of Shintown
when the animal made a plunge over the
steep embankment. The distance from the
wagon road to the railroad crossing is more
than a hundred feet and down this dizzy
height horse and wagon went. Young Werts
probably owes his life to his presence of
mind. While he did all in his power to keep
the horse in the road, when he saw the ani-
mal going over the steep declivity, he prompt-
ly jumped and escaped with but little injury.
The horse rolled to the bottom of the hill
and was instantly killed. The wagon was a
complete wreck.
—George L. Denny, of Fayette county,
comes to the front with a curiosity in the
way of hatching chickens. Several weeks
ago he selected a large fresh egg, which he
marked for a nest egg and placed in a nest.
He would get over a dozen eggs out of the
nest each evening. A few evenings ago
while gathering the eggs he was surprised to
find a young chicken in the nest. He made
an investigation and found that the nest egg
had hatched. He said that so many hens
occupied the nest during the day that they
kept the nest egg at a proper temperature all
the time and as a consequence the egg
hatched. The little feathered beauty has no
mother to hover under but it makes its home
in a little box in the yard. Mr. Denny is
making a pet of it.
—The history of Mrs. Mary Anderson, who
lives in the wilds of Potter county, would
make an interesting one of lights and shad-
ows, if it were faithfully portrayed. She is
the widow of Ole Bull’s secretary in the fa-
mous Oleona colony scheme. Before marry-
ing Anderson she was the widow of one of
the early settlers of Potter county nam ed
French. After his death she became cook at
the colony where she got acquainted with
Anderson. In her days deer were plentiful,
elk were seen in droves and panthers and
wild cats prowled in every ravine, while
wolves made night hideous with their howls.
Mrs. French was an expert rifle shot, and
killed scores of these animals. One night
when delayed on her way home she was
treed by wolves. She could see their shim-
mering eyes, and, aiming, as directly as she
could, she killed five before her husband
could come to her rescue with a torch and the
ever trusty rifle. She is now 86 years old
would soon become unpopular.
and suffers from rheumatism.