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Ink Slings.
—The foot ball season's on apace,
With weather crisp and fair;
And college youths are in the race,
To grow the longest hair.
—The Columbia led the Shamrock up to
the last leg she had to stand on, then the
Irishman sailed around our defender.
—Look out for the big deal that is in-
tended to defeat the Democratic county
ticket and glorify the Republican boss of
Centre.
—If the Boers and English get to fight-
ing along the Buffalo river in the Transvaal
that stream will become as popular in verse
as the Wabash once was.
—Their sending SCHLEY off to South
Africa isn’t going to make the people for-
get the hero whose crown of laurel
SaMPsoN would like to pilfer.
—The dogs of war are barking so fero-
ciously over in South Africa that LILLIAN
RUSSEL ought to be sent over with her
¢‘Bride Elect,”’ that she might give orders in
song to have them unchained.
--It is said that the Americans use two
hundred and fifty million poker chips every
year. This is only another evidence of the
patriotism of our people. They love to
gambol with the red. white and blue.
—The editor of the New York Sun more
than likely would have taken a duck fit
.had he seen DEWEY embrace SCHLEY.
You know the Sun has been one of the rob-
bers that has tried to despoil SCHLEY of the
laurels he won at Santiago.
—From the frigidity of the atmosphere
around here lately we are almost led to be-
lieve in the theory that the great Muir
glacier in Alaska was broken up by the
recent earthquake up there and is floating
down this way in chunks.
—The signs seem to point to the conclu-
sion that Prof. ANDRE has found the
north pole, but the trouble now will be to
find ANDRE. Why not have our govern-
ment take a hand in the hunt for the ex-
plorer. Here would be a good mission to
send OTIS and SHAFTER on.
—THosE who keep a record of such
matters say that Spain has more days of
sunshine than any other European country.
Three thousand hours is given as the year-
ly average, but the statistician certainly
could’nt have figured 1898 in it, for had
that been done the sunshine would certain-
ly have been pulled away down.
—Another aeronaut has been killed by
being shot out of a wooden cannon while
high in the air. The experience of NED
CRISSEY, at Punxsutawney, and young
TowNSEND, at Des Monies, ought to prove
that cannons are dangerous, whether they
be iron ones on a battle field or wooden
ones hung from the bottom of a balloon.
— As might have been expected the
State College Times has twisted the legs of
its editorial tripod and is now shouting for
the HASTINGS’ county ticket with all the
vociferousness of its boiler plated lungs.
Gymnastics are not new in this world of
politics and money, but the fresh paint
sign is very apparent on the Times’ editori-
al page.
—The members of the Tenth Pennsylva-
nia are sensible men, as well as brave sol-
diers, and they will certainly be able to see
through the scheme to use them for politic-
al purposes. The Republican machine is
behind it all and rubbing its sides with
glee as the hattle stained khaki uniformed
boys are paraded over the State by Col.
BARNETZ, who has fallen a victim to the
machines’ intrigue.
—Filthy flings from a filthy maw will
not detract from the good reputation CYRUS
BRUNGARD, the popular candidate for
sheriff, enjoys about his own home. There
is where the people know him best and
there is where the best testimonials of his
sterling qualities are to be had. Go ask
the people who had dealings with him to
the amount of thousands of dollars ahout
what kind of a man he is.
—J. P. REESE, of the National Mine
‘Workers Union, is of the opinion that all
capitalists ought to be driven into the
ocean and that no miner’s kit is complete
without a winchester or a krag-jorgensen.
‘While we cant say that we approve of
such a display of arms among the imple-
ments of a peaceful class of workers, per-
haps MR. REESE only suggested the rifles
in order to perforate the capitalists after
they are driven into the ocean. He knows
that the most of them are so tight that
they would float in the sea and could only
be made to drown after being pumped full
of holes by a winchester.
—It would be rather hard to guess just
what President McKINLEY thought when
he read HANNA’S remarks about the talk
of making DEWEY a presidential candidate.
HANNA said: ‘“To force upon this brave
and gallant sailor the necessity of again
and again declaring he will not accept any
political office is, in my opinion, con-
temptible, and places this man of integrity,
stern purpose and determination in the
ranks of those shifting aspirants for po-
litical honors, who have not the stamina
to resist the flattery or blandishments of
political schemers.”” Now what do you
think McKINLEY thought when he read
what MARK had to say. Of course the
dollar-mark statesman only gave voice to
such an expression in order to carry his
Washington pet a little farther out of
danger, but if the President has any con-
science at all it must have smarted a little.
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VOL. 44
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 6, 1899.
NO. 309.
What They Stand For.
The great Democratic carnival which has
been holding at Dallas, Texas, this week
has had the effect of attracting to that place
many of the recognized leaders of Democ-
racy in the United States. Not merely
the fellows who parade and hurrah, be-
cause they have a petition for some federal
position tucked away under their vests
against the time when the party is in pow-
er to consider such prayers, but the men
who are Democrats for the country’s weal
and shape the destiny of the party with de-
liberative statesmanship as their only mo-
tive.
Naturally the expressions of policy as
voiced at such an important gathering will
be heralded, everywhere, as indicative of
what the party will incorporate in its plat-
form for the presidential campaign of 1900.
Everyone is cognizant of this fact; more es-
pecially those who have made the speeches
at Dallas this week and for the most part
every utterance has embodied the truest
and most acceptable principles of Democra-
cy. While there have been some extremist
doctrines declared they are not to be ac-
credited to the party as a whole, but to the
fanatical individuals who proposed them.
In this class there are a number of men
whose misguided brilliancy flashes out dan-
ger signals from all parties and to this class
belong men who, while unquestionably
sound on some questions, are widely er-
ratic on others.
Judge JAMES TARVIN,of Kentucky, pre-
sident of the Ohio Valley League of Bimet-
tallic clubs, who made the first address at
Tuesday’s carnival, expressed some person-
al sentiments ahout the plan of campaign
for 1900 that would be anything but prac-
ticable, but he certainly displayed keen in-
sight into the pclitical vista when he said :
“The Republican party of the United
States stands today as the tool and the ma-
chine and the representative of the money
power and the trusts and the corporate in-
terests of the United States. It is dominat-
ed by HANNA, its figurehead, McKINLEY,
and its principal ornaments are GRIGGS,
HoBART, QUAY, CLAPP, EAGAN, CORBIN
and ALGER, withthe demagogue, ROOSE-
VELT, as asideshow.”’
‘The Democratic party of the United
States stands today as the representative of
the laborér and producer of the land, of the
common and obscure people of the United
States, of the doctrine that every man is
entitled to the benefit of his own labor and
to no more.”’ .
Here we have the most concise and effect-
ive declaration of what the two great par-
ties stand for that is possible to he made.
The present condition of governmental af-
fairs shows, beyond a doubt, that the Re-
publican party is the willing instrument of
the trusts and corporate interests, while
the Democratic organization has been im-
poverished and made unpopular with the
money classes, because of its constant con-
tention in the interest of the laboring
classes. :
The one stands for all that is selfish and
avaricious in government; the other for all
that is equitable and honest. The one is
dominated by men who order laws to be
made to suit their own private ends as the
return for fat eampaign subscriptions;
while the other includes the poor masses
who have to bear the burdens of unequal
taxation placed upon them by these dicta-
tors of what is popularly supposed to be a
free government.
The question comes home to every voter
in Centre county today. It should be giv-
en the serious consideration that its serious
nature demands. There is no State in the
Union in which the people have had more
opportunity of seeing the reins of govern-
ment taken from them by the dictators—
the moneyed bosses—than in Pennsylvania.
Its schools and hospitals have been closed
to save money for the creatures of the boss
who want places; its treasury is emitting a
mighty stench that betrays the rotten
methods that have prevailed there for years;
its judiciary is prostituted to the demands
of the wealthy classes who stand behind
the great boss and keep him in power
with their corrupting contributions so that
he may be in a position to direct legisla-
tion as they will.
These are the conditions that confront
the free people of the Union and of Penn-
sylvania, as well. Are they to be acquies-
cent or will they make the beginning of the
end this fall? Kill the QUAY octopus in
this State in November and be in trim for
the finish of the HANNA drag next year.
—— ALEX ARCHEY, the Democratic
aspirant for register, is a man fitted in
more ways than one to fill the office he
seeks. His years of life on the farm have
made him straightforward and. practical,
his experience as a school teacher has made
a scholar of him and his service as a justice
of Ferguson township has had the effect of
acquainting him with the legal side of the
work in the register’s office. Mr. ARCHEY
merits the support of all the voters of the
county, because he is an upright, honorable
citizen, well prepared for the duties that
devolve upon a register.
Be Honest With Yourselves.
If there is a single taxpayer in the coun-
ty who can give any plausible reasons for
voting for either the Republican state or
county ticket, it would be a relief to the
public if he would step to the front and let
others know what they are. There are
scores of voters, no doubt, who will vote
that way because their party affiliation and
inclinations are too close and strong to per-
mit of enough independence to do other-
wise; and there arejothers, very many of
them, who do not know exactly what they
will do, but whose prejudices incline them
to vote the straight Republican ticket, all
of whom would he delighted to hear some
valid reason why they should stick to the
ring in the State and to Governor HAST-
ING’S ticket in the county.
As yet we have failed to see a single rea-
son given why any man should vote that
way. There is no end to the argument
why they should not. There is no denying
it from any quarter, nor is there any ques-
tion about the fact that the best interests
of the taxpayers, both in the State
and county, demand that a change
be made in the management of the State
Treasury, as well as in that of the office of
county treasurer and county commissioner.
Politics ought to have some sense in it—
and the sensible thing for those who pay
the taxes to do is to vote as it is best for
their interests.
If it is best that the State be kept in the
power of the ring, that is squandering the
public money; that is excusing great
corporations from the payment of their
share of the public burdens; that has multi-
plied offices and increased salaries until the
expense of the state government is greater
than that of the United States government
prior to the war; that discriminate in its
tax levies against the individual and in
favor of syndicates and corporations; that
farms out the State’s money, in place of
paying the State’s debts with it; that re-
duces the school appropriations in order
that beer brewers and those whom it is
under obligation to for campaign contribu-
tions may escape taxation; and that com-
mits all kinds of offenses against public
interests and the people’s welfare, then
these are all reasons for men voting to con-
tinue its control.
But in place of giving any legitimate
reason for endorsing an administration that
has shown itself as unworthy as it is in-
competent, the people are appealed to to
vote for the Republican state ticket, because
McKINLEY is President, and because there
is a war going on in the Philippine Islands.
They are the only arguments used by the
supporters of the ring; why BARNET and
ApAM’s should be supported in the State,
and why the Republican county ticket
should be voted for here at home.
In the name of all that is reasonable or
sensible what has a State Treasurer or a
Superior court judge in Pennsylvania, or
the Republican nominees for county of-
fices, to do with the war in the Philippines
or with questions of national import ? Sure-
ly the people are not fools ? Surely there is
sense enough in the hearts of taxpayers
to see through and understand this evasion
of the question most vitally important to
them.
If the ring had done right, and the State
Treasury management, while it has been
under their control, had been honest and
correct, would then its supporters not come
to the front with the evidence of its good
work and prove to the people that its con-
tinued rule would be for the best interests
of the taxpayers? Would it be ashamed to
publish or refer to its own record ? Would it
fail to find reasons!why its ticket should
be supported ?
The one fact that it does not, can not,
and dare not refer to its own management
of state affairs, is the strongest evidence
that can be given why that management
should be changed and why those inter-
ested, and every taxpayer is interested,
should join in making that change. ;
Ask and answer yourself, frankly) and:
conscientiously, what reason you have for
voting either the Republican state or coun-
ty ticket this fall. Be honest with your-
sell. There is not a man to be elected who
can enforce or influence a political prin-
ciple, after it is done. Why then should
your partisan feeling prevent your acting
as is best for your individual interests ?
——“I believe the Senate will seat Mr.
QUAY,’’ said Senator CHANDLER, of New
Hampshire, in talking over the situation in
Washington on Sunday evening. While
his belief, as chairman of the Senate com-
mittee on privileges and elections, has con-
siderable significance and may be taken as
a sort of straw showing which way the
wind blows, yet it is by no means final. If
it should happen, however, that Mr. QUAY
is again seated in the United States Senate
we hope the people who are responsible for
his being the misrepresentative of Pennsyl-
vania will bave the manliness to father
their work. The insurgents will be the
guilty ones. Guilty, because they did not
turn in with the Democrats at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature and elect GEORGE
A. JENKS.
A Fair Count in Philadelphia.
If the assurance of Senator DAVID MAR-
TIN, of Philadelphia, that he purposes that
there shall be a fair count of the votes cast
in that city this fall, would carry convic-
tion to the voters of other parts of the State
that such will really he the case it would
prove the most hopeful incident that could
be looked to for the success of the clean
government forces in their fight against
the machine. The returns from Philadel-
phia have been so notoriously manipulated
in past years as to discourage any effort on
the part of other sections to accomplish
any reform movements. And, unfortunate-
Iv. Senator MARTIN has been so intimately
connected with the machine in that city
that this stand of his for a fair count will
hardly be accepted in good faith.
He has been credited with having said that
‘‘there will be an honest election in Phil-
adelphia. Those who have a right to vote
will cast their ballots, unmolested, and
know that the count will he fair.” If
Senator MARTIN means what he says and
intends to see to it that a fair election shall
be held he will do more for the people of
Pennsylvania, in their effort to throw off
machine rule, than can be accomplished
through any other agency.
No man knows better than he does the
practices that are resorted to to swell the
machine vote. MARTIN knows how re-
peating is accomplished; how pug dogs are
registered as voters and votes counted for
them on -election days, how returns are
made unanimously Republican from cer-
tain ;recinets, notwithstanding that there
is a Democratic inspector with a Democratic
clerk on the election board who might be
reasonably expected to vote the Democratic
ticket, he knows how returns have been
made from Philadelphia just to suit the
ante-election predictions of majorities in
that city. All these schemes of the ballot
box manipulator are known to the gentle-
man, who now declares for an honest count,
as well asis his own name and if he is sin-
cere in his avowed intention he has cer-
tainly the a.1vantage of being fore-armed by
virtue of being fore-warned.
While the determination to have a fair
election in Philadelphia for once, if carried
out, would doubtless result in the election
of honest farmer CREASY to be State Treas-
tirer the fear that it will not be done should
not deter the good people of the State from
going out to the polls on election day and
casting their votes where conscience and
purity direct.
CREASY, MESTREZAT and REILLY are
better men than the machine candidates,
because they do not wear the machine
collar and this latest hope that is inspired
by Senator MARTIN'S statement will cer-
tainly bear fruit, if the Senator means what
he says.
—1If ever there was a competent official
ina public office CAL. HARPER, the recorder
of Centre county, has been that one. No
one can question his acquaintance with the
business of the office, nor dispute our asser-
tion that his treatment of those who have
had occasion to go there has been anything
but courteous and obliging. For this reason
CAL. will be re-elected to the office of
recorder.
Did They ¥Keep Down Valuation to Get
Passes.
It is seldom that favors are done either
individuals or officials by great corporations
unless a return is made in some way or the
other. People whohave known the fact
that the Republican county commissioners
have been riding on rail road passes since
they took charge of that office, wonder
what return these. officials have made for
the favors granted. We will not allege that
they paid for these in any way, but when
it is called to mind, that the Pennsylvania
rail road has taxable property, upon which
the commissioners have the last say as to
its valuation, in a half dozen districts of
the county, it is very easy to imagine the
influence that could secure them free trans-
‘portation. A few hundred dollars on what
the assessors would return the property as
worth would pay the railroad company to
issue passes over its roads within the coun-
ty in return for such reduction. The rail-
road company has assessable real estate in
Rush, Taylor, Snow Shoe and Spring town-
ship and other boroughs of Bellefonte and
Milesburg, amounting, as now valued for
taxes, to a little over $9,000. Possibly itis
because the properties are not valued high-
er that the courtesy of free travel is extend-
ed them by the great corporation. We
don’t say that it is, but taking everything
into consideration there is a look that way
that is at least raises suspicion. One thing
is certain, the rail road company is not in
the habit of granting favors without some
adequate return. What return has the
Republican commissioners given for the fav-
or extended them? The columns of the
WATCHMAN are open for any explanation
they can make.
——You must have your taxes paid or
you can’t vote. A receipt for taxes paid
within two years of the date of the election
will be sufficient, but if you don’t have
that see to it at once.
Administrative Inconsistency.
From the Pittsburg Post.
It is recognized that Mr. William J.
Bryan in his brilliant canvass concluded on
Saturday in his own State of Nebraska got
in some very effective work against the
McKinley administration on trusts, tariff,
imperialism and the money question. On
the latter Bryan took as his text the finan-
cial resolution of the Nebraska Republican
convention, which he described as ‘‘one of
the most unique and delightfully original
planks ever written.” Among other things
this resolution says that the people of the
United States, by a majority of more than
500,000, decided in favor of the gold stand-
ard, “after more than twenty years of
harmful agitation.”’ Bryan pointed out
that during this period of what the Repub-
licans now call ‘harmful agitation’ Mr.
McKinley himself voted for independent
bimetallism at the ratio of 16 to 1; that
Republican platforms indorsed it and con-
demned Grover Cleveland for opposing it;
that ‘‘even in 1896 the whole Republican
party declared against the gold standard,
and pledged itself to beg Europe to help
this country to let go of it,’ and that an
expensive commission was sent by Mr. Me-
Kinley to Europe to try to get rid of the
gold standard. Not one of these state-
ments can be controverted. Mr. McKin-
ley not only voted for the free and inde-
pendent coinage of silver, but he voted to
override President Hayes’ veto of the
Bland silver coinage bill providing for the
turning out of silver dollars to the extent
of $5,000,000 a month, and making them a
legal tender for all debts, public and private
—for Uncle Sam’s greenbacks and bonds as
well as John Smith’s grocery bill.
Mr. Bryan also pointed out that in 1890
—the same year McKinley made his Phila-
delphia speech opposing imperialism—he
engaged himself in making free silver
speeches in the West. In one of these
speeches, at Toledo, O., where the Repub-
licans were all for free silver, Mr. McKin-
ley complained that ‘‘during all of his
(Cleveland’s) years at the head of the
Government he was dishonoring one of
our precious metals, one of our great prod-
ucts, discrediting silver, and enhancing
the price of gold,’’ and made it an especial
grievance that throughout his first admin-
istration Cleveland had persistently used
his power to stop the coinage of silver
dollars and make ‘‘money the master,
everything else the servant.”
But what’s the use? When you come
to look into McKinley's record—and it is
pretty much the same on all questions—
you involve yourself in a web of wriggles
and contradictions that dispel the thought
that he has steadfast convictions on any
subject.
Both Young and Old Could Learn to
Advantage, §
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
We bave in our schools in this country
classes in the three rs, in grammar, in
in geography, in history and in
various other things, hut none in courtesy
and common sense. Often it appears as if
there was a more imperative need of this
class than of any other.
Why not impart a little slant toward
morality in the reading of the common
schools—not religion, by any manner of
means, but ethics. The boy or girl who
reads a story or an incident in which the
essential wrong of theft is illustrated, who
is made to see the self injury it works, as
well as the hardship on others, is the less
likely to be affected hy unwholesome sur-
roundings and vicious example. Educa-
tion is a moral help in itself, and crime
finds its followers chiefly among the ignor-
ant; but conduct ought to be as much an
affair of public solicitude as information
and reasoning have becore, and the
papers set before us a daily list of circum-
stances that prove how crude the ideas of
many people are in respect of their morals
and bebavior. A few words spoken in
time by a teacher, or one in authority,
might check the thoughtlessness of those
children who throw banana peelings on the
sidewalks to the risk of the whole public;
who smash the glass in lamp posts for
amusement; and it might inform thousands
that in America it is the rule of the road
to pass to the right instead of criss-crossing
every which way and bumping against all
comers. Especially, it might instruct
them in the absolute worthlessnesss of
sticks and stones that so many hoard as
‘‘relics,”’ because they were stolen from a
place of interest.
Why Not Fix it Up at Once.
From the York Gazette.
. The Republicans will have a majority of fifteen
in the House and at least fourteen in the Senate,
at the opening of the fifty-sixth Congress. With
the Jiepublissns in full control of the government
until March 4th, 1901, a good many . questions of
importance should be settled by that time.— York
Dispatch.
Among others there is the little question
of trusts. Now if the Republican party is,
as the Dispatch has averred, against all that
is evil and injurious in the trusts, there
will be a splendid opportunity to prove it.
There is no reason to wait, as the President
coyly hinted some time since, until he (the
President) is returned to office. Suppose
he should not be returned. He had better
take advantage of the opportunity to serve
the people while he has it.
The coming session will disclose the sin-
cerity or insincerity of the Republican pro-
testations.
——When a man attempts to arouse re-
ligious prejudices or drag into a political
canvass the sacredness of church precedents,
be shows his unfitness for the position he
aspires to fill, and his little respect
for the higher and holier things of this
life. To arouse church feeling has been
the principal effort of the indiscreet friends
of candidate HERMAN, and they are begin-
ning to ascertain that the insult they offer
to the members of the church they are
striving to embroil in a dirty political con-
test, is beginning to re-act in a manner
hat will leave him with fewer votes than
any other man on the ticket.
-—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Mine drainage is killing the fish in the
rivers in the vicinity of Latrobe.
—The Lycoming county fair association
cleared $7,000 on the fair recently held in
Williamsport.
—At Kylertown, a few days ago, 12-year-
old Frank Smith in attempting to climb over
an iron fence, slipped, and his body fell on
the sharp pointed pickets. His abdomen was
frightfully torn.
—Thieves ransacked the house of J. H.
Haine, of Liverpool township, Perry county.
while the family was at church and stole
$20 which belonged to a camp of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
—Theresa, the 14-year-old daughter of
Louis Miller, of New Bloomfield, Perry
county, fell from a fence one day recently in
her efforts to get away from a cow. Her left
arm was broken above the elbow.
—The body of Thomas Huish, known as
“Tom, the butcher,” of Lewisburg, was
found in the canal at Milton Saturday. How
he met death is not known. He was 45
years old and is survived by his wife and
daughter.
—The board of health of Williamsport is
taking vigorous measures to stamp out an
epidemic of typhoid fever which has brok en
out in the western part of the city. Eight-
een cases are reported to exist in one block.
—Frank McDonald, aged 18 years, at-
tempted to jump a freight train at Cha m-
bersburg on Sunday. He missed his foo t-
hold, went under the wheels and his left foot
was crushed so badly that a portion of it had
to be amputated.
—John Heavern, a young man of Browns-
town, a suburb of Johnstown, was struck and
instantly killed by fast line east Saturday
night at the Brownstown crossing. He is
the second person to be killed at that point
within a week.
—There is a pear tree in Judge Barnett’s
vineyard, in Perry county, that had a crop
of pears on this year and there are still some
on it, and it is now out in full bloom. It is
white with blossoms and the ripe fruit can
be seen on it at the same time.
—G. W. Bell, of Bell's Landing, has har-
vested his crop of honey. He had 2,150
pounds of comb honey and 500 extracted.
He took first premium for fancy honey at
the Philadelphia bee keepers’ convention
and received ten dollars for twenty pounds.
—Henry Gable died Wednesday night,
aged 82 years. He was the oldest living
native born resident of Williamsport, and for
sixty years resided in the same house. He
was a gunsmith. During his life Mr. Gable
never traveled upon a railroad or rode in a
trolley car. He was never more than fifteen
miles away from Williamsport.
—Work was started Friday on the new
water supply for Lewisburg. It will provide
pure mountain water from a point six miles
from the mouth of White Deer creek, where
a big storage reservoir will be built. The
service will deliver 1,700,000 gallons daily
against 500,000 gallons supplied by the pres-
ent standpipe system of river water.
—A few days ago Mrs. Fred Kirchoff, of
Romola, this county, while in the garden
cutting off cabbage, felt something strike
against her ankle. Looking down she dis-
covered a copperhead snake trying to bite
her. Her stocking was thick and the fangs
of the snake did not penetrate the skin.
Mrs. Kirchoff stepped back and struck the
snake with 2 stick crushing its head to a
jelly.
—Rev. P. S. Kohler, is another Jersey
ough. The Presbyterian congregation was
greatly surprised Sunday morning when that
pastor tendered his resignation. He has
been pastor of the church for the past thir-
teen years, and during that time the con-
gregation purchased a parsonage and erected
a fine church edifice.
—The 3-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Hilborn, of Slate Run, was roasted to
death Sunday. The tot was left asleep in a
cradle in charge of a 3 year old sister while
its mother went out into the yard to hang
up some clothes. The older child began to
play with fire and ignited the cradle. When
the mother returned she found the cradle in
flames and the babe a mass of charred flesh.
—While Jacob and Frank Test were drill-
ing an artesian well at Retort last week,
Jacob had occasion to go to the crown pulley,
which is a distance of 35 feet from the
ground. Notwithstanding his 67 years, Mr.
Jacob Test climbed the distance hand over
hand, did what was to be done, and return-
ed to terra firma in the same fashion. Not
many men of Mr. Test’s age could rival this
feat of climbing.
—Mary Flook, an aged woman, was found
at her home in Montoursville Tuesday dying
from cold and exposure. Sunday night she
was knocked down by a bicycle and specta-
tors of the accident assisted her home. When
left alone she found that she was unable to
move. Neighbors found her sitting in a
chair almost crazed with pain, benumbed
with cold and halfstarved. She was unable
to build a fire. Chances for her recovery are
slight.
—At Newberry Sunday evening three men
driving a horse attached to a spring wagon
drove into a carriage, to which was hitched
two horses. All the horses started to run.
The spring wagon upset and the occupants
were thrown out, but were not injured. The
horses in the carriages ran until they collided
with a fence. They ran through the fence
and one of the horses bumped against a
{ cherry tree. It was so badly injured that
he had to be shot. The other horse escaped
injury, but the carriage was demolished.
—A two-year old child of T. L. McBryan,
of Danville, had a close call last week. One
evening the little one swallowed a whole
nutmeg, a drug when taken in suflicient
quantities is either fatal in effects or results
in stupor and insanity. The nutmeg being
whole, however, dissolved slowly in the
stomach, so that while the child was several
times nearly overcome by drowsiness the ef-
fects were not so marked as they would have
been had the nutmeg been in a grated form.
Dr. Thompson, who has the case in charge,
has strong hopes of saving the child’s life.
Shore pastor who intends to leave that bor-.