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BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The real issue that affects most of us
and the one we all stand on is the ‘‘good
long green.”
—By state enactment Colorado will have
no more ‘docked’ horses. The jack-rabbits
are evidently enough tail-less quadrupeds
in the Centennial state.
—The Boers have crossed the Rubicon.
T hey are now on British territory and will
stay, no doubt, as long as too many of
them don’t cross the Styx.
—The purple aster promises to be the fa-
vorite flower at foot-ball games this fall.
Presumably because the color will be much
in vogue with the players after the games
are over.
—What doth it profit the farmer if all
the iron furnaces and ore mines in christen-
dom are in operation and he gets only 60cts
for his wheat and bas to pay an advanced
price for every implement he uses.
—Oo0M PAUL might volunteer to mediate
between AGUINALDO and McKINLEY as a
mild reminder to our President that he has
troubles of his own without getting mixed
up in the English-Boer controversy.
—The President didn’t care enough to
go to New York to greet DEWEY, conse-
quently it need not surprise you if the Ad-
miral’s suggestion tosend MILES and MER-
RITT to the Philippines is not acted upon.
—It is almost a paradox that Uncle SAM
is working out when he brings the Indians
in from the frontier and educates the war-
like spirit out of them at Carlisle, then
sends them off to the Philippines to educate
it into them again.
—This is the chestnut season indeed; but
not all of them are to be found showering
from the spreading branches of forest trees.
There are many wormy ones falling from
stumps in many cities in the State and the
GOBIN propaganda is bumpin’ the stump.
—It is quite evident that McLEAN has
HANNA on the run out in Ohio. When
they are compelled to assess government
employees from other States to furnish
hoodle to hold the old Buckey in line it
must be looking blue indeed for the boss
and his bar’l.
—If foghorn JoE FORAKER had given
his wind apparatus to the New York yacht
club when the international races begun
they would have been over by this time
and that statesman would have had plenty
left with which to blow Nasu’s mill out
in Ohio.
—Tosay that DEWEY is an expansionist
merely hecause he has failed tosay that he
is not, is the burden of a recent effort of the
Boston Globe. And there is about as much
sense in such argument as there would be
in the contention that DEWEY wears seal-
skin pajamas, simply because he has never
said that he doesn’t.
—Oo0M PAUL has sent his ultimatum to
England and be calls her majesty’s atten-
tion to a few things that he wants done in-
stanter; principally the immediate removal
of the British troops from the Transvaal
frontier. There is one thing quite evident
and that is that O01 PAUL has his Dutch
up and isn’t to be cowed by Mrs, Vic. and
her soldiers.
——It’s beginning to look as if the
Yacht race was only a monumental bluff,
If more wind is needed there is Teddy
ROOSEVELT right at hand, Fire-alarm For-
AKER not far distant, and Gassy GOBIN
over at Lebanon. Either are prepared, at
a moment’s notice, to blow a dozen yachts
over any race course. Oh, no, gentlemen,
there is no excuse for failing to race in a
country full of wind machines such as this
one is afflicted with. You must give us
some more plausible reason.
—DEWEY wouldn't be a Yankee if he
wasn’t a little foxy. He says he prefers a
house already built to waiting until one is
built to his order. The Admiral knows
enough to take the tide at its flood. If he
were to wait for the house that would have
to be built yet it is a possibility that he
would be too old to enjoy it before its com-
pletion. And there would even he a possi-
bility of its being like the GRANT monu-
ment, which was started with such a rush
and is never completed yet.
—The glorious war in the Philippines
still goes on and every day the policy of
the administration regarding it changes.
On Tuesday our soldiers abandoned San
Francisco de Malabon, after having captur-
ed the city at the price of good American
blood. How is this, Mr. President 2 How
does it come that the flag is permitted to
be hauled down from a place where it has
_been planted by American valor? You are
forgetting the great patriotic play you made
some time ago in extenuation of your course
in the Philippines ?
--When the farmers in Centre county
were threshing out enormous crops of grain
last fall the Republican spell-binders were
throwing up their hats in praise of the Me-
KINLEY administration for having brought
about such a prolific harvest. That was in
the fall of 1898. This is the fall of 1899
and these same farmers are barely getting
their seed out of their wheat crops. Now
who is responsible? If it was McKINLEY
in 1898, when crops were good; why is it
not McKINLEY in 1899, when crops are
bad? It has only taken a year for that
great campaign rooster of hountiful crops
brought about by benign Republican ad-
ministration to get home to roost and we
are waiting to see whether itis to he ac-
knowledged as part of the fruit that flew
the Republican coop too scon.
Demoerlic
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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NO. 40.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 13,
The Necessity of a Full Democratie Vote.
Democrats should remember that a full
Democratic vote means a glorious Demo-
cratic victory on the 7th of November.
When they think of the manner in which
the management of both state and county
affairs have been conducted; the useless ex-
penditure of the peoples’ money; the job-
bery that has been resorted to; the increas-
ed cost of every department; the way the
taxes are running up ; and the wild gratifi-
cation there would be on the part of those
who are striving to continue this sort of cor-
rupt and debauching control, it shouldn’t
be a hard matter to poll a full Democratic
vote. Every Democrat who pays taxes is
interested in the honest management of
state, as well as of county affairs. They
know that the only way to have honest
management is to put out the ring and its
creatures and put in careful and competent
Democrats. It is to their interest to do so.
Why then should anyone hesitate about
getting to the polls.
In the last ten years the cost of running
this county under Republican judges, and
with Republican commissioners has increas-
ed, as the WATCHMAN showed two weeks
ago, twenty-six thousand dollars a year.
There is that much more taxes needed now
to pay the ordinary, every day expense of
county affairs than there was when Demo-
crats had control of the courts and the com-
missioners office. This money comes off
the voters. There are about eight thousand
of them within the county and the average
increase of taxation amounts to about $3.25
for every man who is upon the tax dupli-
cate.
This would have been saved had we had
different management. But the careless-
ness of voters and their indifference to their
own interests kept many from the polls,
and they feel the result of that indifference
now in the increased taxes they must pay
every year. And it will be more hereafter,
if they don’t waken up and put a stop to
it. It is growing worse every year, and
Republican taxpayers who should be equal-
ly interested in the economical and careful
management of county matters seem will-
ing to bear this additional taxation that
their party may win at the polls.
The only hope of bettering matters and
of getting back to the inexpensive days of
Democratic management is in the Demo-
crats of the county waking up to their
own interest and polling the full party
vote. This will cure the evils that are
upon us, and it will give us all reason to
rejoice. It wont take much work to do
this. Let each one do his shareand it will
be accomplished.
—*'0ld man’’ SPEER is like farmer
CREASY; the very embodiment of all that
is honorable and upright. Vote for the
one for State Treasurer and make the other
one county treasurer and you will be cer-
tain that the public funds are being proper-
ly handled.
How They Are Making Their Campaign
Expenses.
If the taxpayers of the county want to
continue paying ten dollars and a half each
day for the incompetent and wasteful
management of county affairs that has run
the county expenditure from $40,000 a year
ap to over $60,000, all they need do is to
assist Messrs. RIDDLE and FISHER hold on
to the office they now have. Badly as these
two men want re-election they want the
salary they can secure themselves more,
and day after day from Monday until Sat-
urday, they put in their appearance at the
court house, talking politics and charging
the taxpayers for the day.
During this time of year there is no work
to be done in the commissioners office that
could not, by proper management, be ac-
complished in one day of each week, but
three dollars and a half a week wouldn’t
pay campaign expenses like three dollars
and a {half a day does and, to make the
taxpayers bear the brunt of their ex-
penses, they come here every forenoon,
have their names recorded as present,
charge the county for the day, and, then
strike out to hég votes for themselves.
Of the six ‘hours a day that they
pretend to serve the county, not twenty
minutes of that time is put in in the inter-
est of the taxpayers or attending to the
business of the county. Every moment
of their time is taken up electioneering,
and day, after day, after reporting in the
morning and getting their names on the
minutes as present, so that the day’s salary
can be charged up, they disappear and
nothing is seen of them again until the fol-
lowing morning. It has been this way
ever since the campaign opened, and it
will continue this way until the election,
aud for three years longer, unless the peo-
ple of the county vote them out of office in
November.
——For sheriff of Centre county none but
the hest men should be voted for. Cyrus
BRUNGARD is a type of the county’s
sturdiest and most representative citizens.
He will make a creditable officer in ap-
pearance and conduct and merits the vote
of every good citizen.
An Error.
The WATCHMAN has no desire to be un-
fair or untruthful in its statements con-
cerning the management of the county’s
business by the present board of commis-
sioners and voluntarily takes this oppor-
tunity to correct a misstatement that ap-
peared in last Friday’s edition.
Under the heading of ‘‘Taxed $12,000 to
make improvements amounting to $4,000”
it was stated that immediately upon as-
suming the duties of their office, in 1897,
Messrs. RIDDLE and FIsnzr had raised the
millage from 3 to 3} and in that way had
secured an increased revenue of $6,000 for
the year 1897, as well as for 1898, when a
} mill levy was laid. The duplicates for
those two years, according to our state-
ment, gave them about $12,000 in excess
of what the previous Democratic board had
received for a similar period. And with
this $12,000 extra revenue we contended
that the matter of making their much
boasted of $4,000 improvements was not a
matter to be crowed over at all.
Since publishing that article it has devel-
oped that they laid only a 3 mill tax in
1897 and we want to do them the justice of
this acknowledgment of our error in say-
ing that it was a 3} mill levy. But, in
1898, they did levy a 3} mill tax, which
brought $6,146.21 additional revenue into
their hands, derived by increased taxation,
and it ought to have been a very simple mat-
ter to make $4,000 worth of permanent im-
provements; in fact it would have been
very fanny if something tangible had not
been done with it. But what has become of
the $2,146.21, unaccounted for in the com-
missioner’s boast.
Contrary to its being a matter for con-
gratulation that the commissioners did
make improvements to public properties to
the amount of $4,000, with the increased
revenue of 1898, it is a result that any
school boy could have accomplished. Had
they been able to make improvements of
the nature they are now claiming credit
for without levying an extra tax at all;
with the savings they had effected by a
careful and economical conduct of affairs,
then there would have been something to
command public commendation, but as the
matter now stands they have done nothing
that the most extravagant and the imprac--
ticable could not have done and in ac-
knowledging an inconsequential error in
our statement last week it will be seen
that the principle involved in the article
is not, in the least, effected.
CAL. HARPER'S record as recorder
of Centre county cannot be improved upon.
There are hundreds of men in the county
who have reason to be grateful to him for
courtesies extended them from his office;
little kindnesses that he was actually not
obligated to do in the faithful performance
of his duty, but which he has never hesi-
tated toextend whenever possible. People
remember such things and that is the rea-
son CAL. will be re-elected. He is one of
the most obliging men who has ever been
in the court house.
One Hundred Dollars Worth of Stone
Steps for Ten Dollars.
An illustration of how carefully (?) the
present Republican hoard of commissioners
care for the interests of the tax payers was
shown in the sale of the surplus stone steps
that were taken from the front of the court
house last spring, when repairs were being
made to the entrance. The job of resetting
the old steps was given to Mr. JAMES Mc-
CAFFERTY, who, by the way, did it well.
When completed upwards of one hundred
feet of nicely cut lime stone steps, eight
inches high, fourteen to sixteen inches wide
and varying from six to ten feet in length
had heen saved. To quarry and dress such
stone, masons tell us, would cost from a dol-
lar to a dollar and a quarter a foot, or not
less thanj$90 under any circumstances. The
beauties who are taking care of the coun-
ty’s interests sold the whole lot to a couple
of friends for five dollars and fifty cents;
one gentleman paying $3.00 for the larger
ones, and another taking the balance for
$2.50. Stone cutters who know the amount
of labor there is in getting out steps of the
kind, say they would have been cheap at
$75. and that any one who had use for any-
thing of the kind would have had a great
bargain by paying $100.00 for them.
This is but one instance of the incom-
petency or reckless management that the
taxpayers have to stand with RIDDLE and
FISHER doing business for them. In the
matter of little things they are as incom-
petent as in larger ones, and it is no won-
der that county expenditures have increas-
ed to $60,000 a year under their manage-
ment. If the taxpayers want more of this
kind they know how to have it.
——BRUNGARD is not running over the
county defaming anybody. He isa clean
man, himself, and does not expect to gain
strength by flinging mud at others. He isa
straightforward, upright gentleman who is
not conducting a back alley campaign and
if he can’t be elected sheriff of Centre
county by creditable methods he doesn’t
want to be elected at all.
A Dismal Failure.
The state ring’s great aggregation of
treasury manipulators, over-paid office
holders, Filipino warriors, political blus-
terers and the rag-tag and bob-tail that
hangs onto the public teat at Harrisburg,
that is traveling the State hurrahing for the
flag, with expectation of tightening the
clutoh of the bosses on the State Treasury,
don’t seem to be creating the enthusiasm
that its originators expected. Under the
pretense of illness the chief bugleman,
BARNET, has been withdrawn already, the
real reason being his flat failure as a
political stumper and his inability to an-
swer the questions fired at him about the
State Treasury.
He discovered, during his first speech
at Lebanon, that it was not the
condition of the Filipinos, so much as
the condition of their own State Treasury,
that the voters of Pennsylvania were in-
terested in, and as he dared say nothing
about the latter, it was deemed best that he
should not he kept in a position where per-
plexing questions could be asked him and
he was promptly retired, and will be kept
retired until the election. The rest of the
show, including the flag, the uniforms,
Latra’s whiskers, and GOBIN’S never
ceasing blow, is still on the road, but at
every stand the audience grows smaller and
the performance flatter. It may run for a
week yet, or possibly until the election,
but its influence is proving a most dismal
failure, and its effects, if any, are only
arousing and solidifying the opposition to
ring rule, and disgusting decent voters
with the devices that are resorted to to se-
cure their votes.
——When you hear a man go round and
try to arouse church prejudices ; to drag
religious beliefs into political contests ; and
create dissensions among Christian denomi-
nations, you can be sure that man is un-
worthy the support of any respectable citi-
zen. This is what JAKE HERMAN is do-
ing, wherever he thinks he can make a
vote in that way. By the time he hears
the election returns he will discover that
churches will not allow themselves to be
disgraced by being dragged into politics,
wed. that any decent citizen in the county
despises the man who attempts this kind
of campaigning. ;
The Officlal Organ Admits Riddle’s Guilt,
The Bellefonte Republican, the official
organ of the Republican party in Centre
county, surprised every one yesterday by a
frank admission of the guilt of Commis-
sioner RIDDLE, in having overdrawn his
account to the amount of $309.50. The
Republican sees the utter folly of trying to
bolster up Commissioner RIDDLE’S un-
business like act and speaks of it as fol-
lows:
County Commissioner Matthew F. Riddle
has overdrawn his account with the county
and, according to the records of the Commis-
sioners’ office as shown on page 394, Ledger
I, he stood indebted to the county on Octo-
ber 2, 1899, for the sum of $204.50, represent-
ing the amount of cash in advance received
by him in excess of that due him for services
rendered up to that date. On August 14,
1899, Mr. Riddle’s overdrawn account
amounted to $309.50. Since that date and
October 2nd he has reduced the sum $105.00.
It must be admitted that Mr. Riddle exhibits
a disposition to liquidate his indebtedness to
the county.
Mr. Riddle makes no denial of the circum-
stances published in the Centre Democrat and
in the WATCHMAN. It would be absurd as
well as useless for him to do so in the face of
facts which are in black and white in the
commissioners’ ledger. He offers no excuse
in extenuation of his action other than to say
that personal financial matters requiring im-
mediate adjustment obliged him to accept an
advance of salary, which he did, and with
the full knowledge and consent of his fellow-
commissioners and his bondsmen.
Mr. Riddle has yet seventy days remain-
ing of his present term of office and in that
period it is reasonable to suppose, therefore
safe to say, that his service to the county
will more than cover his “overdrawn ac-
count.” If after the expiration of his term
of office he stands indebted to the county for
any amount, large or small, then his honesty
can be questioned, his character assailed.
It isn’t a case whether Mr. RIDDLE will
be able to serve his “seventy days remain-
ing of his present term,’ it is the principle
of the transaction.
‘What right has he to take $309.50 of the
public money out of the treasury to meet
‘‘personal financial matters requiring im-
mediate adjustment ? ’?
The tax payers of the county are bending
under their burden of taxes already and
why should they be called upon to pay
taxes for interest on money borrowed from
the banks for Commissioner RIDDLE to
use?
—After to-day the yachts will make a
try for a race every day. There will be no
further rest of a day between attempts and
it is to be hoped that the weather man will
raise enough wind to end the suspense. Al-
ready five trials have been made without
success, as neither boat could finish within
the time limit set for a race.
—1If you want to elect men who won't
use the county money for private purposes
you will have to vote for MEYER and
HECKMAN. RIDDLE and FISHER have
been in charge three years and they have
overtaxed dogs and overdrawn accounts
and misused county funds.
Quay and Barnet Mean One and the Same
Thing.
From the Altoona Times.
It is impossible to separate Colonel Bar-
net, the Republican candidate for the
State Treasurership, from Mr. Quay. They
stand together and if the nominee for the
office of Treasurer is defeated, it will be a
defeat for Quayism. Governor Stone was
one of the speakers at the convention of
the league of Republican clubs held at Har-
rishurg last week. In an address he de-
clared that there were no state issues be-
fore the people of Pennsylvania this fall.
On this subject, we find that Colonel Bar-
net isin accord with the Governor. He
declared that there are no state issues and
that the great question before the people is
the war in the Philippines. We perceive
why the Governor and Colonel Barnet make
such statements. They want to draw the
attention of the people away from the vital
state issues, a discussion of which would
be injurious to their cause. The Governor
declares that his illegal attempt to prevent
an amendment of the Pennsylvania con-
stitution and his unconstitutional reduc-
tion of the amount of the school appropria-
tion are not questions for the consideration
of the voters. He would have such doings
brushed aside as inconsequential.
Barnet Was Not Popular With the Men
in the Ranks.
From the Milton Record.
If the outspoken expressions of the mem-
bers of the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment
may be taken as evidence, Barnet, the
commander of the regiment and the nomi-
nee of the state machine for treasurer, is
not to receive the unanimous support of his
command at the coming election. Accord-
ing to the statements of the men, Colonel
Barnet was never popular with his men.
The spirit of ‘“comraderie,”” as they say,
was not a trait of the commander’s disposi-
tion. He preferred hotel comforts to the
hardships of camp life when on the firing
line in the Philippines. His men now have
an opportunity to resent the colonel’s in-
difference and should manifest it in the
‘only effectual way open to them—vote for
William T. Creasy for State Treasurer.
As Others See Us.
From the Bucyrus (0.) Forum.
What does our boasted government
amount to under such conditions when the
bosses and rings and political bribers,
tricksters, bulldozers and swindlers of a
single city can add 80,000 fraudulent votes
to their party strength at any election ?
This will carry a State or elect a Legisla-
ture, or give Congress or the Presideney to
a party by fraud. And still the méfigom-
poops of the land prate about the ‘‘suver-
eign people’ and ‘‘consent of the govern-
ed.”” We can look forno change for the
better, however, until good people come to
their senses and conclude to take charge of
affairs.
A Voter’s After-Thought,
From the Age of Reason.
‘ ‘The politician is my shepherd; I shall
not want any good thing during the cam-
paign. He leadeth me into the saloon for
my vote’s sake; he filleth my pocket with
good cigars; my glass of beer runneth over.
He prepareth my ticket for me in the pres-
ence of my better judgment. Yea, though
I walk through the mud and rain for him
and shout myself hoarse when he is elect-
ed, straightway he forgetteth me; lo, when
I meet him in his office, he knoweth me
not. Surely the wool has heen pulled over
my eyes all the days of my life, and I will
kick myself forever.’
Was it Daisy” or Was it “Dash?”
We have no desire to accuse the commis-
sioners apologist of being untruthful or of
attempting to misrepresent facts, but we
must inform our friend up town that
‘Daisy’ or “‘Dash’’ won’t do as writers for
the intelligent people of Centre county.
The people want something a little more
sensibleand without such glaring evidences
of ignorance as the following; which, out
of charity, we credit to other sources than
the editor of the apologist.
In last Friday's Gazette the following
paragraph appeared in the article contain-
ing the comaissioners famous defy:
For example: In 1890, after a Republican
board had been in office for three years, it
turned over to a Democratic board assets of
$17,871.70, and liabilities of $5,267.63, or a
surplus of $12,604.07. In 1896, after the Dem-
ocrats had been in office six years, they turn-
ed over tothe present board assets of $31.-
177.91, and liabilities of $17,476.21, or a sur-
plus of $13,701.70.
Instead of leaving a surplus of $12,604.-
07 to their Demooratic successors, in 1890,
the Republican board of commissioners,
that went out of office that year, left debts
to the amount of $5,267.63.
‘Daisy”’ or ‘“‘Dash’’ or whoever did it,
didn’t take a good look at the statement of
the Republican board’s account that was
published over the signatures of JNo. B.
MircHELL, E. H. CARR and SAMUEL T.
GRAY, auditors, in January, 1891. Put
them up again and see if they can’t find
these lines.
FINANCIAL S1ATEMENT.
LIABILITIES,
Potalusrssiivtueivnsiinriiiirmiitisins $23,139.33
ASSETS.
POR Laver iriviosiasnsssmisssns ase rinse $17,871.70
“Liabilities in Excess of Assets,
County Indebtedness ................... $5,267.63
This is what your Republican hoard
turned over, in 1890, to their Democratic
successors, an indebtedness of $5,267.63.
and those Democratic successors promptly
turned the balance to the other side of the
account, as the blundering apologist ac-
knowledges.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
_—Plans are in preparation for a large silk
mill, to be erected at Lancaster by Stehli &
Co., of Geneva, Switzerland. and New York.
—Nimrods in ‘Columbia county are rejoic-
ing this year over the abundance of game
throughout the county. Rabbits, quail and
pheasants are to be found upon all sides.
—On Friday night last Mrs. Susan Mussle-
man, of Point, Bedford county,lost a valuable
cow. Its death was caused by eating acorns.
When the cow was opened about a gallon of
acorns were found that were not masticated.
—Joseph, the 4-year-old son of George
Adams, of West Taylor township, Cambria
county, was playing under a heavily ladened
coal wagon on last Thursday. The team
started and the wheels passed over the little
fellow, crushing his life out.
—DMiss Gertrude A. Shields, of Altoona,
has been engaged by Democratic State chair-
man Rilling to accompany farmer Creasy and
fellow campaigners over the State as official
stenographer. Last year Miss Shields ac-
companied George A. Jenks in his canvass for
Governor.
—John Rowe, a well-known plumber of
Altoona, met with a serious accident on Sat
urday last which resulted in his death.-
While engaged at making a pipe connection
in a ditch the dirt caved in, covering him to
the neck. He was removed, but not until
he had been frightfully squeezed.
—During the past week about sixty-five
car loads, a total of 32,500 bushels, of potatoes
were shipped to market from points along
the Schuylkill and Lehigh branch of the
Philadelphia and Reading railway. The
crop in northern Berks and the western part
of Lehigh has not been so large in years.
—Jack Campbell, the hero of the ‘Fightin’
Tenth’ regiment, who swam the river in the
Philippines with his gun in his hand and his
cartridgesin his mouth and made the capture
that Gen. Funston got the credit for, isan
old Houtzdale boy. He is now located at
Greensburg,
—Small-pex has broken out in Punx-
sutawney. The 14-year-old daughter of
Wm. Stuthers was taken to the hospital,
supposed to be ill with typhoid fever, but
the ailment developed into small-pox. In
Bell township, Jefferson county, five mem-
bers of one family are ill with small-pox.
—A syndicate of New York capitalists has
purchased the property producing kaolin and
white clay, heretofore operated by the Phil-
adelphia Clay company, on the Philips land,
one mile west of Hunter's Run, Cumberland
county. The new company has started in on
the work of erecting an immense establish-
ment.
—The barn of W. H. Brought in Gran-
ville township, Mifflin county, a short dis-
tance west of Lewistown, was destroyed by
fire Friday night. The live stock was saved,
but all the crops were burned, this year’s
grain not having been threshed yet. The
loss was at least partially covered by in-
surance.
—A syndicate composed chiefly of Phil-
adelphians have contracted for the purchase
of the entire capital stock of the Bonneville
Cement company, whose mills are located at
Siegfried, Northampton county. The pur-
chasers expect to have an output of 1000 bar-
rels of Portland cement and 500 barrels of
Rosedale cement daily.
—At Williamsport Saturday John Gres-
singer, with the assistance of a companion,
was unloading a heavy barrel from the rear
eud of a wagon. The horse started sudden-
ly as the barrel was balanced upon the tail-
board of the wagon, and both men were
thrown prostrate to the ground. The barrel
tilted from the wagon and fell upon Gres-
singer. Hisbhack is injured and he is hurt
internally.
—Governor Stone is interested in the
movement to preserve the State’s forests, and
in a conference with Dr. J. T. Rothrock,
State forestry commissioner, he assured him
he would do all he could in the matter of ac-
quiring more land for State reservations.
Something, it is admitted, must be done
quickly to preserve Pennsylvania’s wood-
lands. A meeting of the hoard of public
property will te called shortly to consider
the purchase of more land.
—Some weeks ago when county physician
B. E. Leipold was attending the colored
small-pox patients in and about Clearfield, he
wore a certain suit of clothing; on all visits,
and upon returning home would repair to a
room in his stable, divest himself of that
clothing, use proper disinfectants and don
another suitin an adjoining room. When
all the small-pox patients recovered Dr.
Leipold left the small-pox clothing in the
barn and there it remained until last week
when some thief entered and stole the whol e
suit.
—The employes of a coal mine at Grass
Flat, near Peale, Clearfield county, recently
found a monster snake in a petrified condi-
tion imbedded in a coal bed. They proceed-
ed carefully to remove it. About ten feet
have already been taken out. The head is
about eight inches in diameter. Some of the
sections taken out are from 18 to 20 inches
long. The indentations in the hardened
mess plainly indicate the scales of the reptile.
The sections taken out look like stone, yet
they are as heavy as pig iron. Efforts will be
made to take the remainder of the reptile out
without damaging it in any way. The find-
ing of the petrified specimen opens a vast
realm of speculation as to the age when the
reptile was alive.
—Great gxcitement prevails in Selinsgrove,
owing to several children having been bitten
by a dog which investigation has proved to
be a victim of hydrophobia. About six weeks
ago a dog showing symptoms of the rabies bit
several dogs, among them being a valuable
Gordon setter pup owned by Dr. A. R. Pot-
teiger, a veterinary surgeon. Dr. Potteiger
kept his dog chained, but as it showed
no symptoms for several weeks he allowed
his and his neighbors’ children to play with
it, and it is known that seven or eight were
bitten. The dogacted strangely on Saturday *
and the doctor, who had also been bitten,
took the animal to New York city for ex-
amination. On Monday Mrs. Potteiger re-
ceived a telegram from him stating that the
dog had hydrophobia in its worst form. The
entire family, four in number, accompanied
by several of the neighbors’ children, left
for New York at once. It is known that
several other dogs have been bitten and there
will be a number shipped to New York for
examination.