BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The frost is on the pumpkin,
And the fodder’s in the shock;
And “your uncle’s” started humpin’
To get his ulster out 0’ hock.
—If HANNA'S legis what is troubling
him it will certainly hang on longer than
ever, after those Ohio heelers get to pull-
ing it.
—Tt is an ill wind that blows nobody
good.” The government will get two mil-
lion dollars war revenue tax from the es-
tate of the late CORNELIUS VANDERBILT.
—Notwithstanding the reported stringen-
cy in the money market in New York
they will be burning it over -there
when DEWEY comes home.
—If they could only send Tod REED
abroad again and have him return on the
same boat with PERRY BELMONT perhaps
that recalcitrant Democrat would step
ashore in New York as thoroughly won
back to his old love as was RICHARD and
CROKER.
—If the ‘“Adobe itch’’ is as bad as it is
reported to be in the Philippines it is little
wonder that the President has set his heart
on those islands. He has had the office
seeking form of that virulent malady for
years and his hankering for the sun baked
home of the Filipino is the best of evidence
that he has a light touch of this ‘‘Adobe”’
form of it.
—The latest report is to the effect that
Gen. OTIS contemplates purchasing a news-
paper through which to fight his eritics.
What an expensive and long way around
it. Why, General, all you need to do is to
get to work and fight the Filipinos then
you will have no critics to fight. You are
employed to lead brave men, not to run
newspapers and suppress the truth when it
happens to reflect upon your dilatory tac-
tics.
—Lieut. PEARY is about to start on an-
other trip in search of the North pole.
Judging from the number of astempts this
young explorer has made to hide himself
in the ice bound regions of the North the
public can come to but one conclusion:
Either the pole is as elusive as the pot of
gold that is said to be at the end of the
rainbow or the Lieutenant doesn’t know
what it is to feel areal severe ‘‘frost’’ right
here at home;such as lots of poor actors
could tell him about.
—The Lehigh county commissioners who
tacked their own names, as well as those of
their solicitor and clerk, onto the hand-
some soldiers’ monument recently erected
at Allentown, were rudely awakened from
the dream they must have had that the
monument was for the perpetuation of their
memories. Judge ALBRIGHT very politely
informed them that the real purpose of the
monument is to perpetuate the memory of
the “soldiers: of the county and that their
names must be removed at once.
—There has been bloodshed at the mines
about Carterville, I1l., and six dead negro
miners is the record of Sunday’s work by
the strikers out there. This terribly fatal
culmination of a labor problem gives rise
to another. Why are there such things as
strikes? Why is there unrest that leads
to murder among laborers? The answer
comes back: Because laws are only a hollow
mockery of justice and men can’t bear the
terrible yoke of oppression that is placed
upon them by organized wealth.
—In concluding his letter of thanks to
the people of the First Maine congression-
al district and wording the epitaph for the
memorial to his long connection with its
politics the Hon. THOMAS BRACKET REED,
now of New York, says: ‘Whatever may
happen, I am sure that the First Maine dis-
trict will always be true to the principles
of liberty self government and the rights of
man.” If ever a people have been ‘‘true
to the rights’’ of one man those of the First
Maine have been true to those of ex-speak-
er REED. And the rights arrogated to
himself were such as no man ever as-
sumed before him or is likely to assume in
the future.
—Governor JOHNSTON, of Alabama,
doesn’t have a world wide reputation for
inhumanity but he has lately gone on rec-
ord with an act, the conditions of which
will certainly be the cause of the drowning
of one poor negro in his own mouth water.
The coon had been sentenced to a year in
the penitentiary for stealing chickens, when
the Governor commuted it to twelve
month’s total abstinence from chicken eat-
, ing, whether the fowl be procured by do-
nation, purchase or theft. Might just as
well have ordered that poor black to stand
on a block of ice in his bare feet for the
same time. The predicament couldn’t be
any more trying.
—If the five million Grangers in the
United States could only be brought to
realize that the greatest drawback to their
prosperity is the trusts how speedily the
octopus could be wiped out. If a man is
not to vote for his own best interests there
is very little use of his voting at all and
there is no question of its being to a Grang-
er’s best interest to vote with the party
that is allied against the trusts. The Dem-
ocratic party is irrevocably committed to
fight any combination of capital that has
for its purpose the advancement of prices
or commodities which the poor, alone,
need. The Republican party is fostering
trusts by acts of favorable legislation and
exempting corporations from bearing their
fair share of taxation, all of which places
the burden the heavier on the shoulders of
the poor. Choose, ye, Grangers as to which
column you should use when you come to
vote for your own hest interests.
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“VOL. 44
Only a Suggestion.
The question of a diplomatic dress or
uniform for high officials of the United
States is being agitated at Washington
again and while it is the consensus of opin-
ion that something in this line should be
adopted to distinguish our representatives
from hotel waiters and flunkeys, generally,
no one has been able to suggest an appro-
priate uniform.
Of course we appreciate the fact that
when such dress is adopted it ought to be
done for all time; consequently too serious
thought cannot be given to the end that
it shall be refined, elegant and while re-
splendent enough to compare favorably
with that of foreign powers will not be so
much so as to appear gaudy. Such condi-
tions are hard to harmonize, but it must
be done before we can have just what will
be in thorough American taste.
Inasmuch as Secretary HAY is seemingly
exercised about the embarrassments to
which our diplomatic representatives are
subjected on account of their simple fune-
real suits of black we would suggest a dress
for temporary adoption. One particularly
appropriate for representatives of this ad-
ministration.
The hair should be worn long and woolly,
suggestive of our desire to assimilate the
Filipinos; it should be powdered also, as
this administration has great faith in pow-
der as an aid to assimilation. Instead of
the regulation linen collar a stock or chain
should be fastened about the neck, for that
would show at once that the present policy
of Mr. HAYS superior is favorable to the
trusts and syndicates that are chaining
labor to the lowest depths. A shirt front
of the star spangled banner would carry
out the idea that where the flag is once
placed it would be disgraceful to remove it.
The old style shad-belly coat would be a
very proper caper with ornamental gold
buttons fashioned after the dollar mark
and having a miniature of MARK HANNA
emblazoned on each. The shad-belly cut
would leave no doubt as to the general re-
lation to the gudgeon family. The trous-
ers should be cut ala Honolulu, so that
should any of the foreign establishers of
money values wish to fiddle a little Presi-
dent McKINLEY’S representatives could
give them the real thing in the way of a
dance. Socks would be quite unnecessary.
—JERRY SIMPSON didn’t wear any—and as
for shoes plain United States leather prod-
ucts, with the number of small tanneries
closed by the octopus stamped on the soles,
would be just the thing. A chapeau to
carry on the arm might be made of a stuffed
eagle in the beak of which could be fas-
tened a tiny black Filipino, in one talon a
Puerto* Rican, in the other a Cuban, and
immediately under the tail could be sus-
pended a rosette with ALGER and EAGEN
as its centre piece.
Taken as a whole it is our opinion that
such a dress would be a very proper and
suggestive one to be adopted by the present
administration, but let it be distinctly un-
derstood that it must be abolished with
the end of the McKINLEY tenure.
Why They Should Be Worked For.
Aside from the pride every good Demo-
crat should bave in party success there are
other and more important reasons for
working for the county ticket this fall.
The business management of the county is
bidding fair to surpass in looseness and ex-
travagance that of the State and unless
something is done at once to halt it we
will be plunged hopelessly in debt by a
board of commissioners who seem to think
that all they need do is reduce millage to
delude the tax-payers into believing that
affairs in that office are all right.
The Democracy presents a ticket, the
make-up of which has never been surpassed
in the history of the party that always pre-
sents the best men for your support. We
herein challenge contradiction of the as-
gertion that every man is competent to fill
the office he seeks. Aye, more than com-
petent. For while being qualified for the
various clerical duties that will devolve upon
them they are men of such courteous dis-
position that it will be a pleasure to trans-
act business in the court house with them
as public servants.
In addition to this reason, sufficient in
itself for arousing a feeling of interest in
all Democrats in the county, there is the
other and more important one of working
to prove that the colors of Democracy in
Centre will not be struck before the baleful
and corrupting money element that has
lately been injected into local politics.
The Democratic party is not ready to ac-
knowledge that this county, in which it
has had a majority of the voters ever since
its erection, has become so debauched as to
be bought and sold like the pug dog, re-
peater precinetsin Philadelphia. The par-
ty has and will stand for more than such a
debased condition of affairs. Its record for
purity in the past must not be smudged by
any departure at this late day.
——The Philadelphia Times didn’t ex-
actly ‘‘get there Eli” after all with its
great ‘‘scoop’’ on the SHAW case.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 22. 1899.
The Farmer and His Troubles.
The time of year has come when the
farmer finds the season’s work gradually
diminishing, the evenings are becoming
longer and instead of dragging himself
wearily off to bed after working in the
fields until dark he has time to sit down
and hold converse with his family or read
a little after the evening meal. Naturally
his mind will run to estimating the profit
he has made during the long hastle that
began with the spring plowing and will
not end until the corn is husked and in the
crib. No class of workmen know longer
hours or more continual toil, or are called
upon to exercise more brain work, if they
hope for any return, than do the farmers,
yet they are the poorest paid class of all.
‘The Centre county farmer who sits in his
quiet country home these September even-
ings and looks at his situation soberly will
almost shudder when the discouraging facts
are laid bare before him. With scarcely
half a wheat crop, corn eaten by the worm
or dried to nothingness by the drought, he
has only his oats to fall back on and the
price of the latter is so low as to make it a
mooted question as to whether it is not
grown at a loss, even when there is a large
crop. This is the view he will have of his
own productions; the result of all the labor
of his family and hirelings for a season.
There is no way for his income to be in-
creased one farthing. He has done his best
and it has yielded him but little; now
comes the despairing work of making ends
meet. With the scant surplus of grain he
will have to sell, after his needs for family,
stock and seed have been taken out, at
prices lower than they have been for years,
he will try to figure out enough to pay
the bills that have been running through
the season. :
Alas, for the poor farmer. He will find
it a hopeless task. Just as reasonably
might he try to make five by adding two
and two as to try to figure out a living and
pay his bills this season. Everything he
has used, his plow-shares, binder twine,
implement repairs, all necessaries in which
iron is used, much of his food stuffs ard
clothing, as well as his taxes, have increased
in price, while his products have dimin-
ished.
Can a more dispiriting condition of affairs
be imagined. Yet it will not be an. idle
dream when the whole discouraging pano-
rama passes in review on these long fall and
winter nights. The sensible farmer will
shake off the horrible spell and begin to
look about him for a cause. He knows
that his work, if expended in any other vo-
cation would have netted him something at
least, and it does not take a long head te
figure out that there must be something
wrong with economic conditions some-
where.
Taking Census Bulletin 378 and the fig-
ures of the official statistician of the De-
partment of Agriculture, he finds that the
the value of farm products for the average
farm in the United States was $538.94. Al-
lowing 5.64 persons to each farm, as report-
ed by the census, and dividing the $538.94
among them equally, he finds that the ag-
ricultural population receives an average
annual per capita income of $93.89. Divid-
ing this amount by the number of days in
the year (365), and he discovers that for
those who depend on the farm for a living
an average per capita income of 23.8 cents
a day is all that they have.
Further investigation of the question
discloses the fact that the $538.94 is the
gross income of the average farm ; not the
profits. “‘It includes that portion consum-
ed on the farm as well as that portion sold.
Out of this amount the farmer must pay
his taxes, insurance, interest, the cost of
seed, hired help, wear and tear of farm im-
plements, repairing of fences and buildings,
and feed for his teams for one year while
cultivating the crops. All these items
must be paid out of the $538.94 before the
farmer can have anything for himself and
family. The question then is, how niuch
will the average farmer and his family have
for their own support after paying all these
items? Will they have fifteen cents a day
per capita? No. Will they have ten?
Possibly yes, it isa question. For argu-
ment’s sake, however, we will admit that
our agricultural population receives a per
capita income of ten cents a day, with
which to buy food and clothing, educate
the children, and pay incidental expenses.’’
Here is the bald truth confronting him
and it is little wonder that the farmer knits
his brow in amazement. Here are facts
and figures taken from the most reliable
source possible to obtain them. The farm-
er is figuring and thinking in his own
home. He is not being confused by cam-
paign distortions, but is where his judg-
ment is cool and undisturbed and he is
looking at the matter squarely and fairly
for himself. Shall he sit in indiffereuce or
conclude that he is well enough off when
such appalling facts and figures stand
staring him in the face from the pages of
the open Census Report ? Or shall he make
up his mind to join forces with those who
are striking to readjust our national econom-
ic, aud financial systems so that the farmer
shall be called to bear only his equitable
share of the burdens of citizenship and
that he will be protected against the rapac-
ity of corporate greed, that leeches upon
him whether his crops be bountiful or a
failure.
He will realize that all he need do is to
rally with his fellow husbandmen at the
ballot box and the burden will be lifted.
But he must strike and strike desperately
against the party that is in power and per-
mits such an iniquitous system to exist;
that permits the combinations of wealth to
rob the poor ; that permits the exemption
of corporations, brewers and liquor dealers
from just taxation in order to curry their
favor in elections; that permits school funds
to be robbed that useless officials may
be retained ; that permits the increase
of taxation on those least able to bear it.
The interest of the farmer is certainly
not with the Republican party now.
Are the Taxpayers Being Fooled.
Has any Republican paper given you any
reason why you should vote to continue in
as important an office as that of county
commissioner, the same two men who have
been controlling its affairs for the past two
and a half years? We have not read, or
seen a word, either attempting to justify
their management or explanatory of their
short comings. We know that they went
into office under a pledge of reforming
everything about that office. They were
elected because the taxpayers believed a
change in the management of county af-
fairs would be to their advantage, and now
after two and a half years experience with
the kind of reforms they have made, and
the changes their management has brought
ahout, we ask the people of the county,
what reason or excuse has any man to give
for voting for them a second time.
Since they went into office both county
expenditures and county taxes;have been in-
creased. To do this they have put in more
days and charged the county higher rates
for their service than any other board of
commissioners that ever held office in the
county. They have not only done this but
they have failed to give an intelligent state-
ment of the county finances, and have con-
spired to cover up the real condition of af-
fairs by publishing that kind of an ex-
| hibit, that no one understands, and which,
while claiming a balance in the treasury,
shows in plain figures a deficit of over $15,-
000 a year.
The WATCHMAN last week gave the
figures, just as the commissioners furnish-
ed them, showing that the total taxes levied
and collected by them amounted to less
than $41,000 yearly, while the expenses
claimed to have been met each year was
over $60,000. Had there been an available
balance in favor of the county at the time
these men went into office, such a thing as
paying out more money than they. were
taking in might have been accomplished,
but unfortunately for their statement, that
with an acknowledged shortage of over
$15,000 a year between the amounts levied
as taxes and the amounts paid out as ex-
penses, they actually claim to have increas-
ed the balance in favor of the county. .
It don’t take any special financial ability,
to see how false or fraudulent this claim
must be. Youcan’t pay $60,000 with $41,-
000. Yet that is what Messrs. FISHER and
RIDDLE, certify they have done and then
to magnify the deception have reduced the
tax levy one-half mill, so that their income
for the present year will be less than $35,-
000, while their estimate for county ex-
penses for the same time is fixed at $53,000.
In all earnestness we ask, are men who
will thus deliberately attempt to deceive
the taxpayers by certifying to a statement
that bears such evidence of either incom-
petency or fraud upon its face, the kind of
men the taxpayers should choose to manage
their county affairs?
This is a matter of most serious import-
ance to every tax-payer. It is due them
that they have the fullest knowledge of
the financial condition of the county.
This is the one thing they are interested
in. It is the one thing about which they
should demand the most minute and defi-
nite information. And yet which one of
them know anything about it, except that
we are paying out yearly over $60,000, and
taking in less than $41,000. Everyone
knows what this means a county deficit,
which means a county debt, increasing each
year at the rate of $19,000.
And this is what Messrs. RIDDLE and
FISHER bave given us.
——Not withstanding the increase in pop-
ulation since 1892 and the consequent in-
crease in the consumption of beef that
might naturally be expected the receipts
of cattle shipments to the four great mark-
ets of the West have fallen off 612,554
head in the year 1898, as compared with
1892. The beef trust has done it and the
result is an advanced price for the consum-
er to pay, while statistics show that the
grower receives less for his stock. The
trusts are keen to cut at both ends, but
they always keep themselves in. the mid-
dle. *
NO. 37.
A Fall Jingle.
From the Altoona Times.
Beside the old brass kettle now
The country maiden stands,
As drips the sweat from off her hrow
Into the fire's brands.
But faithfully she works away
With thoughts too fierce to utter,
For she must roast the live long day,
And stir the apple butter.
The Grange at Last Waking Up to Fight
1ts Enemy.
From the York Gazette.
The National Grange has actively enter-
ed into the fight against the trusts and if
this body. which consists of over 5,000,000
farmers, gets thoroughly aroused something
is going to happen.
The Grangers believe that they are di-
rectly injured by the policy pursued by the
trusts in limiting production, shutting
down factories and crushing out competi-
tors. They believe this stifles enterprise
and progress and will, if continued. sub-
vert all the principles fought for and gain-
ed by our forefathers. They declare that
trust methods are no better that robbery
and that the attempts by the trusts to in-
fluence legislation and the courts should
meet with the condemnation of every hon-
est, honorable and loyal citizen.
In response to questions coming to him
from people of all kinds, Aaron Jones, of
Indiana, master of the National Grange,
has issued the following suggestions to
those who desire to organize in the fight
against the trusts:
“First. Prepare petitions to Congress and cir-
culate them to have them signed by all the peo-
ple who favor freedom and the rights of property
and forward these petitions.
‘Second. Prepare like petitions to your several
Legislatures in your respective States and de-
mand strong anti-trust legislation.
“Third. Attend your political caucuses in
whatever party you affiliate and demand a strong
anti-trust plank in your platform and see to it that
every officer nominated shall be in full sympathy
with this plank.
“Fourth. Think more of your country and the
rights of labor and property than of your party
and give all parties to understand that all patriots
will stand together on thisissue. This issue over-
shadows all others. What difference whether we
have free trade or protective tariff—whether the
outlaying islands of the sea, proximate and re-
mote, are made colonies or not—if the individual
is deprived of the free use and benefit of his labor
and property.
“Fifth. Give your party and the country to un-
derstand that resolutions alone will not suffice, but
that effective laws must be passed and enforced.
“Sixth. Supplement all this by being active in
educating the public to the great dangers that
menace the industrial interests of our country.
We commend these suggestions to every
citizen of any party. The Grange is nota
partisan organization and it does not direct-
ly enter a political fight in favor of one
party or another, but it has very decided
opinionsand it knows how to fight for them
and if, in the case of this issue of the trusts,
it transpires that the Republican party as
is naturally expected, becomes the defend-
ers of these combinations ‘and the Demo-
cratic party takes up the cudgels against
them, this fact of the parties thus aligning
themselves should not deter any citizen,
whatever his political views, from support-
ing the contention of the Grange.
It is to be remembered that parties do
not exist merely for the purpose of winning
victories and gaining offices. They exist to
enforce principles and furnish the people
good government, and when any party fails
to live up to this standard it no longer de-
serves the allegiance and support of its
members. y
However, the question is still open, na-
tionally, and there is no reason, partisan or
otherwise, why every member of every par-
ty should not to the best of his ability fol-
low the suggestions of the master of the
Grange and do everything he can to create
a sentiment in favor of destroying or con-
trolling these monopolies.
Democratic Headquarters.
CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Chicago will he the
working centre of the Democratic national
committee during the campaign in prepara-
tion for the next presidential election.
This was decided to-day at a meeting of
the executive committee held here, thus
definitely settling rumors that the head-
quarters would be changed.
J. G. Johnson, of Kansas, it was decided,
will bave charge of the headquarters’ of-
fice. Those present at the conference were:
Ex-Governor Stone, J. G. Johnson, J. M.
Head, of Tennessee; George Fred Williams,
of Massachusetts; J. M. Guffey, of Penn-
sylvania, and J. B. O’Brien, of Minne-
apolis. :
It was decided that the members of the
executive committee meet in Chicago every
sixty days to confer with Mr. Johnson,
and to aid him in carrying out the party
plans.
The ways and means committee was call-
ed together during the afternoon by chair-
man John R. McLean, and the present mat-
ter of financing the campaign was discussed.
The press committee was also convened by
Mr. Johnson,and plans looking to the effec-
tiveness of that committee were discussed.
Hanna Must Look to Ohio.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Mark Hanna arrived in New York yes-
terday on a hurried call from home that the
services of the eminent dollarmark states-
man were badly needed in Ohio just now
to save his friend McKinley from a disas-
ter that would have a decisive effect on the
Republican national convention. Mr.
Hanna will have his hands full of money
and work for the next six weeks. Every
federal office-holder in the United States
will be pinched for a contribution. What
is left of civil service will go by the boards,
and the trusts will be invoked to put their
shoulders to the wheel. True, Hanna had
his Ohio convention denounce the trusts,
but he did it with a wink that the trusts
well understood. Mr. Hanna affects to be
well isatisfied and content with John R.
McLean’s nomination, but as he could say
nothing else without giving up his case the
opinion does not carry much weight as a
genuine expression.
He Led the Snake Into Temptation,
From the Big Run Tribune.
Chief of Police Dickey says that while he
was riding his bicycle to Punxsutawney
the other day he encountered a large rattle
snake on the McCracken hill which took
after him and chased him to the bar-room
of the Washington hotel.
Spawls from the Keystone. =
—It is estimated that 60,000 people visited
the Williamsport fair during the four days
and the total receipts were $12,000.
—George W. Meyers, of Liverpool, Perry
county, raised a potato this year which
weighs thirty-two and one-half ounces.
—On account of the spread of diphtheria at
Sinnemahoning, a representative of the state
board of health has ordered the schools to be
closed.
—After a lingering illness Henry Pater-
son, a well-known resident of Johnstown,
died at his home in that city on Sunday,
aged 51 years.
—A few days ago John Wilett, an employe
of the steel foundry at Burnham, Mifflin
county, was so unfortunate as to have one of
his feet smashed by an 8 pound weight fall-
ing upon it from a crane overhead.
—The Coudersport window glass company,
with its plant just completed and ready to
begin operations, has sold out to the trust,
the American window glass company. This
will delay starting up for about a week.
—Daniel Pye, colored and aged 31, is now
in the Memorial hospital, Johnstown, a suf-
ferer from a knife wound in the abdomen,
which he received in a drunken brawl which
took place near Morrellville Saturday night.
—The total production of coal in this State
for the year up to September 1st shows an
increase over the previous year of 5,392,000
tons. The total tonnage of coal moved from
that district during the year was 29,145,000
tons.
-—Burglars broke into the residence of A.
H. Borland, at Kane, Monday night and
chloroformed that gentleman and his wife.
They did not regain consciousness until late
Monday, and both are very ill. The burglars
did not get any booty.
—Mrs. Edith C. Rick, wife of the late
Chaplain Rick of the Twelfth regiment, who
died of typhoid fever, has been granted a
pension of twenty dollars a month. The
chaplain ranked as captain, hence the pen-
sion is in keeping with the rank.
—At Williamsport a few days ago, Martin
Weasner. of 1017 Franklin street, was repair-
ing a shed at his home. He slipped and fell,
and alighted in such a way that one of his
arms caught on a picket fence. The arm was
jerked out of the socket, and the ligaments
were badly torn.
—His ginseng plantation having been raid-
ed by thieves, J. G. Osborn, of Westfield,
Tioga county, set guns and strung wires so
that no robber could lift any ginseng with-
out shooting off a gun. The job was finished
at dusk Friday evening and as Oshorn was
leaving the field he accidentally ran against
one of the wires and was filled with bird
shot.
—Morris Conrad, a dairyman, drove over a
twenty-five foot bank at Sunbury, Thursday
morning, and was probably fatally injured.
The horses hung for an hour by their har-
ness to trees which they struck in their
descent. The accident was discovered by
the vietim’s wife and son while on their way
to market with a load of produce over the
same road.
—The biggest dog and the smallest pony in
Pennsylvania, possibly in the United States,
are owned in Ulysses, Potter county. The
dog is the property of D. C. Chase. It is a
half St. Bernard and half English mastiff, of
imported parents. It weighs 218 pounds and
is about four feet high. The pony is a Shet-
land, stands 37} inches high and weighs 225
pounds.
—Bishop William Taylor, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, is the guest of his brother,
Rev. A. E. Taylor, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Wrightsville, York coun-
ty, with whom he will make his home. The
Bishop’s voice has failed and incapacitated
him from active church work. He has preach -
ed fifty-five years, most of the time as a
missionary on the Pacific coast and in Africa
and India.
—An old gentleman walked into the Perry
county railroad station in Duncannon on
Friday last, and asked if this was the train
to Landisburg, saying ‘it is seventy-one
years since I was in Perry county.” No
doubt he saw many changes. The gentle-
man was Solomon Dunkleberger, now a resi-
dent of Waterloo, Iowa. He was born in
Spring township and left when he was 7
years old.
—Frederick J. Shollar, a Tyrone architect,
is the successful competitor for the designs
for the new hall and library building to be
erected at Alexandria, Pa., his designs hav-
ing been accepted by the builders in prefer-
ence to those of several other architects, four
of whom came from Philadelphia. T he
building will cost in the neighborhood of
$12,000 and, when completed, will be a
handsome structure and well adapted for the
uses intended.
—A Lehigh county jury decided that as-
sessments made on candidates for office are
legal. The decision was made in the suit of
Dr. S. A. Rabenold vs Joseph C. Rupp. In
1896, when Rupp was a candidate for the
Legislature, the county committee assessed
him $125. He paid $75 of thisin install-
ments, but when defeated declined to pay
the balance. Or. Rabenold, who was coun-
ty chairman, brought suit for the recovery
of the balance and won the case.
—Two new and serious cases were admit-
ted Saturday for treatment atthe Cottage
hospital Philipsburg, the first, Fred Wilkin-
son, a miner, who was run over by a trip of
eight cars in the mines at Munson, sustain-
ing a compound fracture of the leg, injuries
to the spine and internal injuries; the other,
John Bruno, of Patton, aged about 18, who
fell and had his right hand run over by a
mine car, terribly injuring the right hand
and forearm.
—The state board of health ina circular
letter issued with reference to the spread of
smallpox in this State gives the information
that since the disease was first reported in
Bedford county, in the month of November,
1898, it has made its appearance in twenty-
one counties and more than 100 different
localities. The number of cases reported
has been about 900 and the number of deaths
seven. The board urges that in all com-
munities the proper precautions be taken in
the way of general vaccination, isolation of
patients, and the providing of emergency
hospitals.