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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The English are certainly between the
devil and the deep sea now.
—The greatest success the English are
having is in pushing the casualty list along.
—The English attempt to cut in on the
Boer flank looks as though they are a little
shy of ham at Ladysmith.
—The Boers give Gen. BULLER a check
everytime he calls and there are diamond
mines back of Boer checks, too, still Eng-
land isn’t satisfied.
—Only men in whom you have con-
fidence should be named for township of-
fices. Remember that they are the places
with which you are most directly connected
and you cannot stand extravagance there.
— All signs seem to point to the conclu-
sion that the great and only originator of
“‘the real thing’’ in Centre county politics
and the ‘handful of political nobodies’’ of
last summer are getting together again.
Just watch a little, see the inside move-
ments, and you will come to the same con-
clusion.
— Mormon Congressman-elect ROBERTS
says he “will cling so bard to the pillars of
liberty’’ that Congress shall not drag him
“from them without bringing down the
whole temple.’”” Maybe he will. He
doesn’t seem to reckon on the thousands of
modern DELILAHS who have shorn him of
his strength by circulating petitions against
him.
—The Philadelphia Republican papers
are wasting a good bit of time and space
just now deploring the disfranchisement
of thirty thousand of their voters in that
city because the committee had no money
to pay poll taxes. What useless worriment.
Disfranchising thirty thousand of them is
by no means serious to the Republican
vote in Philadelphia. If they all don’t
get a chance to vote there will be some pug
dogs and repeaters who will and they will
make up whatever deficiency this tax dis-
franchisement causes.
—An Oakland, California, minister re-
signed from the ministry on Sunday be-
cause he said he believes in taking a diink
if you want it, taking a dance if you like
it and slapping a stranger on the back and
yelling “Hello there Bill’’ at him, just for
good fellowship sake. Well, this California
ex-preacher might mean all right, but we
can just see him getting the tail kicked
clear off one of those left over Prince
Alberts of his some day when he tries that
back slapping salutation on some rustler
who has his store teeth jarred loose by it.
— Archbishop CHAPELLE, the presiden-
tial representative and papal delegate to
_the Philippines, might be all right in tell-
ing the newspapers to shut up about his
visits to those islands, because they know
nothing of the situation, but he is not a
very wise man who risks calling the men
behind the ink-pots ignoramuses, even in
such mild language. The truth is that the
moment the archbishop begins to snarl be-
cause his movements are being watched by
the great all seeing press-eye he lays him-
self open to suspicion and the people are
just curious enough to become more cu-
rious.
—When the gold contractionists were
trying to frighten the country four years
ago by asserting that the remonetization of
silver would double the values of all com-
modities, they evidently had little thought
of the present condition of affairs. With
silver remonetized there would have been
more money in circulation to meet the ad-
vanced prices of commodities, but how is
it now ? Prices are doubled on nearly
everything, while the money to pay them
with is becoming scarcer every day. The
gold standard has cut the poor man both
ways. It has increased his cost of living,
as well as contracted the source from which
he gets the wherewithal to buy it with.
—1It must have made the goldites very
sore to see the crowds that flocked around
BRYAN in New York on Tuesday. In fact
they unwittingly poured water on his mill
themselves, because their crop of rubber
was so great that they had to run around
to see too. And WILLIAM J. sized up to
‘the situation like the astute statesman that
he is. He neither said, nor did anything
that could be interpreted to his prejudice.
And it might just have happened, as a lit-
tle coincidence, that some of those jealous
gold defamers over there were accusing him
of being in league with AGUINALDO at the
very moment he was declining to see Dr.
LEVESON, tlre noted anti-imperialist of
Brooklyn, who took two Filipinos with him
to call on BRYAN.
— ANDREW CARNEGIE’S reported offer to
contribute largely to the Democratic cam-
paign fund, provided the next national
convention of the party declares against
expansion, need not be looked upon as an
attempt to bribe that body. In the first
place Mr. CARNEGIE could have no ulterior
motive in the acquisition or abandonment
of territory not contiguous to that of the
United States and, secondly, he knows that
no amount of money, however great, could
tempt the Democracy from the course it
believes to be right. If such were the case
no better an opportunity for such a barter
of principles could have been had than was
that of the Chicago convention in 1896.
At thas time all that was great and glorious
and good in the party turned from the
yellow light and impoverished itself, be-
cause it felt that it was doing right. No,
Democratic platforms are builded on prin-
«ciple, not on the promises of money from
wealthy campaign contributors.
Bad Investments.
Its a pretty mess that our greed for great-
ness, our desire for expansion and our turn-
ing towards -imperialism have gotten us
into. From every foot of territory that we
have acquired, whether traded for, bought,
stolen or taken, under the present admin-
istration, there comes the wail of distress
and the cry for aid.
From Cuba, which is by far the richest
and most valuable of all our island ac-
quisitions, comes the word that it will be
many, many years before its government
can be made self supporting, and that it
will be well on into the next generation
before its resources can be made to main-
tain its governmental, charitable and edu-
cational expenditures. It is to-day as was
the South immediately after the war—a
desolated, devastated country; without
means to begin anew, and with a popula-
tion that has neither energy nor enterprise
to build up the waste places, or to plant
where the havoc of war destroyed. It has
already as much of a population as it can
sustain and for years, and years, it promises
to be a drain on the people of this country.
Its hospitals and asylums are to be main-
tained, its schools kept open and its poor
kept from actual starvation.
Puerto Rico which, when taken posses-
sion of, was proclaimed to be the richest
field of the Spanish war, is appealing every
day for aid. Only on the 20th inst., the
Secretary of State, at Washington, was
petitioned to extend the time of payment
on all mortgages on property on that island
for six months, for the reason that pay-
ment was impossible and that fore-closing
would put ninety nine one hundredths of the
island into the possession of foreign syndi-
cates and make of the native population a
class but little better than public beggars.
Here, asin Cuba, the American people are
expected to establish and maintain both
public charities and public schools, to con-
trol and conduct governmental affairs, and
to make themselves responsible for the ex-
penditures necessary for these purposes.
With nothing to tax but people, nine-tenths
of whom are paupers, where is the money
to meet the out-lay necessary to secure
ereditable administration and schools and
public institutions to come from, if not out
of the pockets of the American taxpayer?
-And in Hawaii, that new possession that
came to ns, not as a consequence of war,
but, through the political manipulation of
Mr. McKINLEY and his backers, we find
the same condition of affairs financially as
in Cuba and Puerto Rico, and a worse
situation so far as the needs of its inhabi-
tants go. It is an island so densely popu-
lated that its products are not sufficient to
maintain its own people, most of whom
are doless, dirty, beggars. A land stricken
with the leprosy, the home of pestilence
and the breeding place of plagues. At pres-
ent it is costing hundreds of dollars a day
to quarantine against the spread of disorders
that spring from the filthy condition of its
native population, and to save other coun-
tries from the infection that contact with
them scatters. Like the other acquisitions
of this administration this one has people
and plagues, but it has neither revenues,
exports, schools, asylums, charities, roads,
public lands or anything that makes it of
value to any other country, nor is it pos-
sible that its condition can be improved so
that it will be a credit to the government
that seeks to control it.
As it is with the islands referred to, so is
it with the Philippines, only that these
latter cost us more than all the others
combined. They will cost more to at-
tempt to govern, and from them we
can hope to realize less in either value
or glory than from either of the oth-
ers. With every acre of the thousand or
more islands comprising the group we aie
fighting for owned by individuals who have
been made permanent enemies of this coun-
try; with not aday’s labor to give to Amer-
ican workmen, or no market for American
products; with scores of little governments,
each one of which will be a hatching place
for conspiracies to rob and wrong this
country; with a population that can eat
and use all that the islands grow, and that
knows better how to heg alms than to pay
taxes it is not probable that much in the
way of financial benefit will be derived from
them.
None of these islands are calculated to
make homes for American people. In not
one of them does the government own an
acre of soil. On not one of them will it
own the mineral deposit, the timber that
they produce, or anything tangible that
can be placed upon the mariet and sold to
repay the cost of acquiring them.
It is for the sake of governing the rabble
that inhabits them; for the glory of being
God-mother of the multitudinous beggars,
the plague stricken paupers, the lecherous
half-breeds, and polygamous natives, that
constitute the bulk of their population, that
we have paid what we have for those we
bave tought, and that we are now spend-
ing millions of dollars a day to maintain
armies to subjugate and hold others.
This may be laudable in the eyes of those
who will not see. It may be right in the
estimation of those who do not think, If
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may suit the purposes of political conspira-
tors for whom places will be made. It may
please contractors who will grow rich out
of jobs furnished by the government. It
will prove an excuse for larger armies and
an increased pension roll. But who will
be benefited ? What of the American pe
ple who must be taxed to pay it all, an
upon whose fair name will come the blot
that must follow a failure to create ‘silk
purses out of the sow’s ears’’ that have been
gathered into our governmental lap.
A Scheme That is Not Working Well.
One of the schemes -of the subsidy beg-
gars that is not working well is the one in-
tended to gull farmers into passing resolu-
tions deprecating the decaying condition of
the American merchant marine, and then
using it as an expression in favor of a sub-
sidy to American ship builders and Ameri-
can ship owners. It was nicely concocted
to furnish to each Farmers’ Institute, and
there are from two to a dozen in each coun-
ty of the State, a set of resolutions setting
forth the need of more vessels and the
necessity for legislation that would revive
our shipping industries, have them passed
and sent to Congress, where they could be
used by the lobbyists now pestering that
body for subsidies to the great syndicate
that controls the building of ships and the
ocean carrying trade of this country.
In these resolutions not a word was said
about subsidies. Farmers do not approve
of giving public money for private pur-
poses, and it was thought best to wave the
American flag, and appeal to American
pride in behalf of American interests. Bub
through all the flags, and the patriotism,
and the pride of country with which the
resolves were covered, the farmers soon
caught on to the trick, and up to this time,
less than half a dozen of all the Institutes
that have been held, have fallen into the
trap.
It is one of theschemes that is not work-
ing well. Itis one of the schemes that
shouldn’t work, because it is a case of pal-
pable and premeditated deception. If ship
builders and ship owners want the farmer’s
endorsement, of the thieving subsidies they
are begging Congress to give them, let them
ask for it in an honest, open way, that these
overtaxed and underpaid agriculturists
may know exactly what they are after and |
what the endorsement they ask endorses.
Let them say that ‘‘we want Congress
to pay us for building ships that we will sell
to Americans or others at such prices as we
may demand; that we are asking Congress
to pay us millions of dollars in addition to
the enormous freight now charged American
farmers for carrying their grain to foreign
posts; that we don’t propose reducing prices
beeause of any assistance given us out of
the public treasury, but that we are after
that assistance for our own individual ben-
efit, and when we get it, we will be free to
charge what we please, and sell our vessels
as our best interests demand.”’
This would be the manly, honest way of
asking for what they are sneakingly trying
to get, by parading all manner of Ameri-
can interests as having the dry rot for
want of it. It would be fair to the farmer,
because he would then know what he was
being asked to endorse.
Luckily the farmer is not a fool, nor is
he to be caught by such chaff as the lobby-
ists, and politicians who are interested with
them, are presenting in this matter of res-
olutions about a revival of our ‘‘Merchant
Marine’’ and the ‘‘rehabilitation’’ of Ameri-
can shipping interests.
——The result of Rev. CHAS. M. SHEL-
DONS attempt to conduct the Topeka, Kan.,
Duily Capital for one week as he thinks
a great christian daily paper should be con-
ducted will be watched with interest by the
public. Thereare many people in the world
who imagine they can direct the business
of others better than they can themselves
and to no business does the outsider turn
with his suggestions and advice more fre-
quently than to that of newspaper publica-
tion. In fact it has hecome a standing
joke in every community that there are to
be found in it a few who know how to edit
the local paper better than the editor does
himself. While it is noticeable that scarce-
ly any of such carpers ever amount to any-
thing more than fault finders we do not
intend to class Rev. SHELDON among them.
He has done something to command pub-
lic attention besides telling other people
what they should do. Rev. SHELDON is
author of the famous work ‘‘In His Steps, ’’
a christian volume that has been published
in the hundreds of thousands. His desire
to conduct the leading Topeka daily for a
week is, therefore, not because of a personal
displeasure at something it has published
or failed to notice. He knows what it is
to write, has written to please the public,
but his greatest hope is to demonstrate
that the daily press of the land, while pub-
lishing all the legitimate news, could be
made a great engine of christianity. We
are afraid that in this he will fail. All
newspapers should try to maintain as high
a moral tone as possible, but any attempt
to conduct them too close to secular lines
will fail, just as certainly as'have many at-
tempts to run first class hotels'on the strict-
ly temperance plan.
Setting Their Trap.
The fact that every opponent of the Dem-
ocratic party is so intent on forcing the
money question to the front, and on at-
tempting to make it the chief issue in the
coming campaign, should prove a pointer
| for Democratic politicians, who have the
policy of the party to fix and the marking
of the lines, along which, the the presi-
dential fight must be conducted. It is not
only men whose single hope is to contract
the currency and place the money of the
country within the power of the few to
control, who are ind ustriously and eternally
pressing the question of the money standard
to the front, but every designing politi-
cian and every Republican newspaper that
hopes for the success of Republican ideas
and candidates are at the same business.
Many of these do not care a bob-ee as to
what kind of money we have—how much
there is of it or by what standard it is
measured. In fact they care nothing about
it, and possibly know less, but with a mo-
tive in view they are persistently and pur-
posely trying to force the issue most prom-
inent four years ago and to be-little or
keep in the back-ground other equally im-
portant—possibly ‘more vital—questions
that have arisen since.
There are reasons for this.
In sections of the country where indus-
tries are active and people have employ-
ment, the money question is not the all-
absorbing topic—the pressing, vital issue it
was four years ago. Nor can it be made
such. An attempt to force it to the front
can only result in assisting to obscure and
screen other graver and more pressing
questions.
And this is precisely what scheming Re-
publicans and their allies desire.
They want to hide the wrongs their pro-
teges—the trusts—are daily committing
against the people ; they are anxious to
cover up the enormity of these cormorants
that they have builded up to eat the sub-
stance of the public. They would have the
infamy of imperialism forgotten ; they
would have the costs of expansion and the
corruption that it has fostered over-looked;
they would keep in the back ground their
treasonable alliance with the British gov-
ernment, and the sympathy and support
they have given it in the effort to crush
the struggling Republics of South Africa.
And in what way could this be done
more effectively than by forcing the fight
on some other questions.
In addition to the cover that the money
question, if made thesupreme issue, would
prove for Republican trusts and imperial-
ism, unconstitutional expansion and other
wrongs, it would arouse the moneyed in-
terests to an activity that would secure
contributions without stint to Mr. HAN-
NA’S campaign fand, and thus overwhelm
us again with the power of ‘‘cold cash.”
We will have this power to contend
with under any circumstances, but there
is no sense in having any more of it to
confront than is actually necessary.
The Democratic party cannot afford to
go back on any of its doctrines, nor should
it be asked or expected to do so. But it
can afford to meet conditions as they arise,
and those conditions make for us some
other and more pressing issues than the
money standard. The kind of money we
are to have, or the quantity that is to be
furnished, are not nearly so important as is
the kind of government we are to enjoy, the
protection of individual efforts, the safety
of legitimate business enterprises, or
the welfare of the people. Imperialism
threatens the one, trusts are forming to
crush the others. These are questions that
we should meet and settle.
It is to hide these, that Republicanism is
now making its great effort to revive the
money question.
Are Democrats foolish enough to fall into
the trap?
——In answer to the following inquiry
directed to it last week by a farmer : “Why
is wheat so low in price when everything
else is high ?”’ the Gazette, among its other
reasons, said : ‘‘The price of wheat is no
more subject to legislation than is the
number of potatoes in a hill.” And we
merely call your attention to the state-
ment because we know it will only be a
matter of a few months until the Gazette is
starting up the old cry it harped on in
1896 and which was, in its own words,
Vote for McKINLEY and Dollar Wheat !
Before the election, four years ago, the
Gazette would not have said that legisla-
tion has nothing to do with the price of
wheat. In fact its greatest effort then was
to make the farmer believe that the only
salvation for the high price of his product
was in voting for McKINLEY. The farmer
voted for McKINLEY, and the high prices
have come, but so far as he is, concerned
all the share he has is in the paying of
them.
—An Hon. JUNE GAYLE is being wafted
up from Bourbon scented Kentucky to
work his gentle breezes off on Congress.
He is to take the seat of Congressman
SETTLE, who has gone to his last accounts.
NO. 4.
A Republic or an Empire.
From W. J. Bryan’s Jackson Day Speech De-
livered at Omaha, Nebraska, Mouday evening.
_ ““Those who studied the money question
in 1896 foresaw the danger threatened by
the gold standard, and pointed out that its
permanent establishment would involve us
in every financial disturbance occurring in
Europe, but the bankers were for the most
part blind to the warning. What do we
see now ? Notwithstanding the increased
production of gold, a few victories won by
the Boers in South Africa have alarmed the
same bankers, and they are now fearing a
panic, unless England is successful. Their
financial interest in England’s triumph is
go great that many of them have silenced
their sympathy for a struggling republic
and are hoping for the extension of the au-
thority of the Queen.
‘‘If such agitation results from a war be-
tween England and a little republic what
must we expect if war ever breaks out be-
tween two gold standard countries of the
first class. Without financial independence
this nation cannot be independent either
in its foreign or its domestic policy and yet
the Republican party is even now to chain
America like a captive to Europe’s golden
chariot.
‘‘Those who studied the money question
in 1896 also foresaw that the retirement of
the greenbacks was a part of the gold
standard plan. Many Republicans scouted
at the idea and the President avoided any
mention of the matter in his letter of ac-
ceptance.
‘But now the scheme is being unfolded
and the financiers are to be empowered to
expend or contract the currency. at their
own will and for their own pecuniary ad-
vantage.
“Those who studied the trust question
of 1896 foresaw that an administration
placed in power by the aid of great mo-
nopolies could not be relied upon to de-
stroy the trusts, but many who could not
be convinced by argument are how being
convinced by the rapid growth and in-
creased audacity of private monopolies.
‘‘Any one who has read history or un-
derstands human nature knows that one
race cannot cross an ocean and dominate
another race without keeping an army
ever present to hold the conquered race in
subjugation, and yet the Republican lead-
ers thought, or pretended to think, that an
imperial policy would be accepted by the
Filipinos with delight.
“The decision of the nation on the Philip-
pine question will be an epoch-making
decision. We stand at the parting of the
ways and must choose between the doc-
trines of republics and the doctrines of
empires. At this supreme crisis in our
nation’s history, we may well recall the
words of Lowell :
¢ ‘Once to every man and nation comes the mo-
ment to decide
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good
or evil side. !
Some great cause, God’s new Messiah, offering
each the blood or blight, #
Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep
upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever, *twixt that dark-
ness and that light.”
Gage Should Follow Alger.
From the Northampton Democrat.
It took more than a year for public in-
dignation to force the eyes of President
McKinley wide enough open to see the
propriety of requesting Secretary of War
Alger to step down and out. It will now
be interesting to see how long a time it
will require for public sentiment to force
Secretary Gage to make his exit from Me-
Kinley’s Cabinet.
No matter what the merits may be con-
tained in Secretary Gage’s plausible de-
fence against the charge of violating the
law in his administration of the Treasury
Department, it is in evidence that in com-
pliance with a letter from vice president
Hepburn, of the City National bank, of
New York, asking for Government de-
posits, because the bank has ‘‘great polit-
ical claims,” the Secretary deposited with
this political bank upwards of $50,000,000
and kept it there for two years without the
Government receiving any benefit there-
from in the way of interest nor in any
other way. Then again the millions re-
ceived on behalf of the Government on ac-
count of the sale of the New York custom
house, which were directed by the law au-
thorizing the sale thereof to be deposited
in the United States Treasury, were de-
posited with this favored political bank, a
fact which the wily Secretary does not at-
tempt to deny but seeks to palliate his of-
fense by making the ridiculous claim that
depositing the money in his favored bank
which he has made a Government de-
pository is in a legal sense a deposit in the
United States Treasury.
Such methods of handling the public
moneys the people of Pennsylvania have
been long familiar with under the methods
of Quayism, but they must strike the peo-
ple of the country at large as being some-
what out of the ordinary rules of official
honesty.
A Death Rate that is Awful.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
General Otis supplements his frequent
bulletins of killed and wounded with a
long list of deaths by accident and disease,
and an exchange thinks best to accompany
this gruesome message with a reminder
that the death rate among the American
troops in the Philippines bas heen officially
stated to be much lower than in our great
cities. This is very reassuring, for city
death rates have failed to terrify rs, in
spite of the general admission that they are
quite too high, and include a large per-
centage of deaths from preventable dis-
eases; but when it is considered that these
city death rates include both sexes, and
from infancy to extreme old age, while the
army death rate applies only to the picked
young men, who must pass a careful
physical examination, and who would be
rated as first class risks by any insurance
company. the comparison is less reassuring.
And now the cable says that the bubenic
plague, that dread scourge of the Orient,
has been added to the list of Manila perils.
Perils that would not be worth a thought,
if the conscience of the Republic approved
the imperial rule of the Philippines.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—There are forty-seven inmates in Hunt-
ingdon county’s almshouse.
—The assessors for the several districts of
Juniata county made returns of 237 deaths
and 586 births during 1899.
—Quarryman Elmer Howard and Patrick
Cogsriff were mutilated by an explosion of
powder at Summersville, Lackawanna coun-
ty, the former dying from his injuries.
—Operations on the Kulp railroad, which
1s now constructed to a point six miles from
Loganton, has been suspended, owing to the
high price demanded for rails. All the men
have been discharged.
—John M. Holt, a lumberman, of Morris-
dale, Clearfield county, has filed a petition in
voluntary bankruptcy in the court at Pitts-
burg. His total liabilities are $23,495.30 and
his assets are $3,267.
—For the year just closed the management
of the Juniata county agricultural society,
after paying all expenses of the late fair and
other expenses pertaining to the property of
the society, had left in the treasury $2.47.
—The new Methodist Episcopal church at
Sandy Ridge is completed and will be dedi-
cated on next Sunday, January 28th, 1900,
The services will be of an interesting charac-
ter, and will be in charge of Dr. E. J. Gray,
of the Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.
—John Caldwell and Abe Morton were
cutting wood along Sinnemahoning creek re-
cently when they came across three bears
asleep under an old log. One man kept
watch while the other went home after his
gun, and returning killed all three of the an-
imals.
—Eighteen prisoners from Clinton county
were in the western penitentiary during
1899. The total cost for the 4,677 days’
maintenance was $1,621.36. From this
amount is deducted $452.11, credit by labor,
which makes the net cost for the commission-
ers to pay $1,169.23.
—B. F. Oliver, while working at Naugle
& Miller's planing mill at Burnt Cabins,
Fulton county, last Friday, attempted to
push a belt off the fly wheel with his foot,
when he slipped and the belt catching his
leg, whirled him around the shaft and broke
his leg about four inches above the knee.
—Mrs. George W. Bossler, wife of the pro-
prietor of the Hotel Normal at Duncansville,
Blair county, died Tuesday. She had
emptied a coal bucket in a stove without
looking at its contents. The bucket con-
tained oil instead of coal and in the explo-
sion Mrs. Bossler received injuries that
caused her death.
—Lizzie Sheesly. of Flemington, is suffer-
ing froma very sore head. Saturday, while
working in the silk mill in Lock Haven,
her hair caught in one of the machines.
The young lady’s head was drawn towards
the machine and had she not been rescued,
she would undoubtedly have been seriously
injured. As it was a portion of her scalp was
torn loose.
—H. H. Frank, of Howe township, is the
champion raccoon and opossum hunter in that
part of Perry county, if not in the county.
There has not been a week during the past
few months that Mr. Frank has not captured
several animals of the foregoing species.
This season he has captured sixty opossums
and fourteen raccoon. Some of the animals
were very large.
—Sixty-one carloads of steel are to be
shipped from this country to India at an
early date, and the metal will be used there
in constructing bridges. America leads the
world not only in the construction of
bridges, but in the manufacture of bridge
material. There is scarcely no part of
the world where these facts are not known,
and the steadily increasing export of this
class of merchandise indicates that these facts
are appreciated.
—John Bardine, through his attorney W.
C. Fletcher, entered a trespass suit in the
prothonotary’s office Friday against the Ga-
zette company, of Altoona, to recover $16,620
damages. He complains that owing to an in-
correct statement appearing in the Gazette,
charging him with deserting his wife, he was
discharged from the ‘Pennsylvania railroad
company’s employ, lost his insurance in the
Railroad relief fund, and his partner com-
pelled a dissolution of the partnership, en-
gaged in the laundry business.
—Lee A. and Mary S. Kambeitz received a
verdict for $8,000 Tuesday from the Dau-
phin county jury, which tried a damage case
at Harrisburg. Mrs. Kambeitz was injured
last August while attempting to get off a
trolley car in that city, and to save her life
her leg had to be amputated. The plea was
set up that the car was going when she sus-
tained her injury. Her husband sued for
damages on the ground that he lost his wife’s
services, which he valued at $12 a week.
He was given a verdict for $200 and
Mrs. Kambeitz for $7,800. The Harrisburg
Traction company, the defendant, has moved
for a new trial.
—The papers and finding in the court mar-
tial proceedings against Chaplain David H.
Shields, formerly a member of the Central
Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist
church, were sent from San Francisco to
Washington over a week ago, but Adjutant
General Corbin says he has not yet received
them. Itis altogether likely that the accus-
ed man has been found guilty, and dismissal
recommended, otherwise the papers would
not be sent to Washington, the department
commander having power to execute less se-
vere sentences. Shields was accused of
drunkenness by Bishop Hurst. He had been
in the army since August 17th, 1897.
—A story is going the rounds that a Hunt-
ingdon policeman visited Tunneltown near
Spruce Creek recently, and entering a speak-
easy called for a glass of beer. When the
beer was set out he concluded to have a
whiskey with the beer and it was produced
also. Then the officer asked whether whis-
key and beer were sold there. “Yes,” was
the reply, any d—thing you want, whiskey,
beer, gin, brandy or anything else.” The
officer then threw back the lapel of his coat
and displaying a policeman’s badge demand-
od that the dealer in lightning liquids go
along with him, whereupon the colored sa-
loon keeper reached under the counter and
bringing up a gun demanded back that the
officer at once produce twenty cents, gulp
down the liquid and make haste to get him-
self out of the door, promising to fill him
with lead if he ever returned. It is further
said that the officer got and has been careful
not to be caught in Tunneltown since.