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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
The fifteenth of April is coming along,
Have you got your rod and line ready ;
Your can full of worms,
And that same old song
Of ““the big ones” you've “lost already ?”
Have you got your high boots, your lunch, and
cheroots
Your flies, plain colors and mottle?
Forget all, if you will,
You're a fisher man still
If you only remember the bottle.
—What England seems to be most in
need of now is the ‘‘open door’’ policy for
her people in Mafeking.
—Visiting delegate on Tuesday—'‘Say,
let me have one of those strips of harmony,
1 wan’t to see who I am to vote for.”
—The harmony seed that Republican
statesmen believed they had planted in the
Porto Rican policy is not promising a
prolific harvest.
—Queen VICTORIA'S going up to Dublin
to live for a few days will scarcely make
up for the sons of Erin who went down to
Colenso to cease living for eternity.
—It seems to be‘‘nip and tuck’’ between
the gallows and the penitentiary as to
which will be most in demand when the
Kentucky conspiracy cases are ended.
—Possibly it was to save the difference
that his lawyers’ fees would have coss him,
that FRICK agreed to take ten, in place of
the twenty million asked, for his interest
in the CARNEGIE company.
—When the Centre County farmer looks
at his brown, winter killed wheat he will
certainly be struck with the conviction
that wheat won’t be one of the ‘all things
come to him who waits.”
—Look out, ‘Your Honor,” ToM’s
throwing bouquets at you again. He's
after something. Maybe he wants to slide
in under your coat tail to fish some of the
private streams you have access to.
Josep La Joie says he’s found the North
pole.
And states its a mountain of fire ;
But Josepn won't get his name on fame's
scroll,
For scientists say he's a—telling fairy tales.
—With all their try to make believe
that the war in the Philippines is over we
haven’t heard that the orders have gone
out to band masters in the army to prac-
tice up on “When Johnny Comes March-
ing Home.’
—Every time we think of the figures we
conclude what a good thing it was that the
CARNEGIE company was a limited cor-
poration. Had it been an unlimited con-
cern there would now be hut little in this
world left for the rest of us to struggle for.
—General JoE WHEELER thinks the
island of Guam is all right. He says they
have lots of flying boxes, earthquakes,
leprosy and too much rain. Just which
one of the four JOE got stuck on when he
wrote that optimistic report we have been
unable to find out.
—If this thing of Republicans confessing
to being participants in the plot to assassi-
nate GOEBEL don’t soon stop McKINLEY
will have to look for fellows of a different
political faith to fill his post offices in Ken-
tucky. All the available Republicans will
be preparing for the gallows or accepting
the hospitalities of the penitentiary.
—The Williamsport horse that ran away
and never got itself stopped until it
had crashed through a door in a private
residence and found itself in the parlor
must have been badly scared, indeed. We
have often heard of men getting drunk and
taking to the stable, but it is seldom that
one hears of a horse taking to the house,
because the dumb equine usually has more
sense than the drunken man.
—1If you have any idea that JOHN ToDD’s
English miners about Philipsburg are wear-
ing crepe because of JOUBERT'S death
you’ve got another guess coming. They’ll
more than likely be getting KIPLING to
take another spasm like he did on the
morning of ST. PATRICK’S day, except it
might run something like this, this time.
Oh Jonnsy Bur you must git full
When such news is goin round
Jousgrr is—well, 'es gone to—
Be buried in the ground.
—The Mt. Carmel boy who walked out
of the second story window of his home,
while asleep the other night, and then
walked on down street in his night shirt,
without waking up, is certainly a hopeless
case. He can’t have any brains at all or
they surely would have been jarred into
wakefulness by that drop from the window.
—1It is no wonder that things have gone
wrong with Kentucky lately. The sur-
prising intelligence has just been made
public that Senator JOE BLACKBURN hasn’t
taken a drink of liquor in eighteen months
By gad, sah, Colonel ; you'll have a great
deal to atone for, sah, for not having
drunk your share, sah. Especially when
portions are so large in Kentucky, sah.
—After calling ex-Consul MACRUM a
coward for hurrying away from Pretoria
shortly after the out-break of the war and
declaring him a diegraceto Ohio Republi-
canism for having done such an unheard of
thing as resigning a public office the Me-
KINLEY-ites at Washington have found
out, to their sorrow, that Mr. MAcCRUM
had a good and sufficient reason for quit-
ting his post. He threw it right into the
teeth of McKINLEY’S House committee on
Foreign Relations that he had too much
American manhood to represent an admin-
istration that did not have the back-bone
to protect its emissaries from British in-
sult. He proved that his official cor-
respondence was censored and rather than
live in an atmosphere where the stars and
stripes were regarded no more seriously
than the dust ruffle on Queen Victorias
skirts he came home. And he did right.
Demacrtic
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VOL. 45
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
MAR. 30, 1900.
NO15..
The Time to Insure Quay’s Defeat.
In the senatorial race, against both con-
stitutional requirements and the will of the
people, Mr. QUAY seems to have come to a
‘‘dead stop.” From the fact that Congress
is now entering the fifth month of its ses-
sion and that during all that time it has
not shown a disposition to take his case up,
and vote upon it, it is more than probable
that amnle excuses will be furnished for
continued delay until final ¢djournment,
and at the end the Pennsylvania boss will
be left just where he started. It is nota
pleasant position for the ex-Senator to be
in, but he has placed himself in it, and he
will bave to stay just where he is until
those whose mercy he is at, either find
courage to tell him the plain truth that he
has no title to the seat he seeks, or belittle
themselves by going back on the records
they have made on this question.
Under any circumstances the QUAY con-
| tention for United States Senator must
be a leading question in the coming
campaign. There is no avoiding that
issue. And the time to meet it is
when Members of the ILegislatare are
nominated and elected. If the people
want Mr. QUAY to continue as the Repre-
sentative of the State at Washington, this
is the time for them to be for him. If they
want some creditable representative there
in place of this old political rooster, this is
the time for them to he against him.
It is a question for the people of the State
alone to solve in the election of men whose
constitutional duty it is to elect a United
States Senator, and that question should be
met manfully and fairly. We have neither
excose nor sympathy for that class of Repub-
licans who berate QUAY during the entire
vear, and then do not have the moral cour-
age to vote against him when the opportu-
nity offers, nor is there apology for that
kind of asininity in politics that allows a
position like that of United States Senator
to be captured by one whom the majority
of the people despise and distrust.
If Mr. QUAY goes back to the United
States Senate it will not be for the reason
that the people of Pennsylvania want him
as their representative, It will be because
they have not the independence or prin-
ciple to act as their honest convictions
direct, and for the further reason that the
opposition to him have neither the organ-
izing ability nor good sense to "get togeth-
er as they should and make a united effort
against his return.
Mr. QUAY can be defeated and the time
to do that work is now, when tickets are
being made. It can’t be done unless the
tickets placed in the field are made with
that purpose in view, and unless this work
is undertaken soon the best that can be
looked for in that line, in the next Legis-
lature, will be an out-come similar to the
last and which has left the State without
full representation in the Senate since the
4th of March, 1899.
A More Than Ordinary Undertaking.
Congressman HALL, of this district, ex-
candidate for Governor GEO. A. JENKS,
Hon. SiMoN P. WOLVERTON, of Sunbury,
Geo. F. BEAR Esq., of Reading, and ex-
Attorney General STRANAHAN, have been
suggested as a committee to attempt the
job of fixing up the trouble among the
Democracy of Philadeiphia. Its a good
committee, and one which, if it gets down
to real work, will do as much in the line
of smoothing out the wrinkles, and pour-
ing oil on the chafed places of the Phila-
delphia Democracy, as any one that could
be named, but it will find a big job on its
hands, and it may as well start out with
that understanding at once.
Just how it is going to accomplish the
object for which it was created we do not
understand, but that it may be successful
and that it may get the HARRITY and anti-
HARRITY, the GORDON and anti-GORDON,
the Quay and anti-QUAY, the WaNA-
MAKER and anti-WANAMAKER, as well as
the reputable and old-time Democrats to-
gether and in that condition of mind that
they will work together, is our earnest
hope.
It will be the accomplishment of a job
that will place the names of these gentle-
men much higher on the roll of peace-mak-
ers than that occupied -by the Hague
commission, and it will make their services
in demand in about one fourth the counties
of the State.
——Governor HASTINGS own organ, the
Republican, has put an effectual quietus to
the stories abroad to the effect that he was
an aspirant for most every office in sight.
The tormer Governor says he is too busy
and happy with private business affairs to
enter the political arena again, at least for
the Vice Presidency, Congress, or delegate
to the National Convention. Like many
other politicians, he is out of politics for
the time being. In other words, out until
he sees a better opening than any of those
he was supposed to be trying to get into.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
A Most Marvelous Liar.
Senator CARTER who, a few weeks ago,
exhibited how little he knew of constitu-
tional rights and how much less he cared
for constitutional requirements in a speech
favoring the admission of ex-Senator QUAY,
has just given another exemplification of
how little he knows of some other matters,
or how small a regard he has for truth.
In a statement in which he was exploit-
ing the glories of Republicanism and the
benefits of expansion, he declared that
‘‘Alaska had paid back to this government
a million dollars for every thousand ex-
pended in its purchase.’
Now when we come to remember that
that ice bound, scurvy breeding, country
cost us in round figares seven million dol-
lars it is easy to compute how far this head
light of the Republicans has gotten away
from the truth. Seven millions of dollars
divided into thousands would he seven
thousand thousand, and a million returned
for every thousand, as Senator CARTER as-
serts has been the case, would mean that
we have gotten from Alaska seven thous-
and millions of dollars.
Possibly the enormity of this sum will
not be realized by the ordinary reader, but
when he comes to understand that it-isa
greater amount of gold than has been pro-
duced by the entire world from 1792, —the
date that statistics were first begun to be
kept, up to 1899, he can appreciate how lit-
tle this Montana advocate of imperialism
and expansion knew about the matter of
which he was talking or what a loose ton-
gued and gigantic liar he is.
Failing to Size Up.
One session of Congress has already met
and adjourned, and four months of another
session have gone by, since we became the
practical sponsor for decent and correct
government in the islands from which we
drove Spain. And what has this adminis-
tration done in the way of bettering their
condition ? If two Republican Congresses,
with the approval of a Republican admin-
istration, cannot agree upon and put in op-
eration some form of civil government for
the islands they have taken possession of,
and made the people of this government
responsible for, is it not about time to think
about making a change ? There ought
be men in this country who have ability
enough and honor sufficient to suggest and
put in force some sort of civil government
that would insure the peace and give a
chance for prosperity in Porto Rico and
Cuba.
Mr. McKINLEY and hiscrowd have prov-
en miserable failures in this line. They
have shown a disposition to follow in the
foot steps of Spain by a continuation of
military rule. They have proven their
incapacity to meet such questions as those
they have brought upon the country.
‘What do the people whose honor is at
stake propose doing about it?
A Place Where Fusion Will Win.
Last week’s primaries up in Blair county
show the Republican party to be still tied
to the QUAY juggernaut. The result, be-
tween what is known as the stalwarts and
independents, was excitingly close in some
districts but when summed up as a whole
the QUAY gang succeeded just about to the
same extent that they did last year. It
will now be in order for the people up
there, whether Democrats, Independents,
Prohibitionists, or whatever they may call
themselves, who are opposed to the con-
tinnation of QUAY rule and QUAY meth-
ods, to get together and make a united fight
against the election of those who will, and
expect to be nothing but tools of the state
machine.
A large majority of the honest people of
our neighboring county are against QUAY-
ism. Let them show that they are in
earnest by joining hands and redeeming
Blair county from the rule of the ring.
This they ought to do. This they can do.
It was done two years ago and should now
be done again.
——~Cap’t. GREEN, who now represents
the Berks and Lehigh district in Congress,
and Lieut. SOWDEN, who represented the
same constituency during the CLEVELAND
administration and later was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
are getting themselves worked up to a high
pitch as to which one shall be a delegate-
at-large to the Kansas City convention.
Letters from each, to the public, have been
flying over the State like leaves in autumn,
and it begins to look as if there would be
more fun in settling their case at Harris-
burg than there will be in all the other
work the convention will have before it.
All the WATCHMAN can do in the matter
is to wish them both success and to assure
the public that no matter what the out-
come may be the world will keep on
moving, and the chances of Democratic
success continue to brighten.
——Talk about Rev. SHELDON and his
daily newspaper running venture, there is
nothing quite as successful as running a
paper as its editor would run it.
Is it Intentional or Incompetency ?
The evidence of Republican unfitness to
grapple with, or determine, important
questions, is shewn by their inability to
agree on any positive policy as to the kind
of governments that are to be granted.
Porto Rico, Cuba, or any other of the new
possessions hereafter to be under the care of
the United States. It is now running into
two years since our army freed Cuba of the
incubus of a military despotism and the
robbery of Spanish rule. It is the same
length of time since Porto Rico became a
dependency of the United States. We
promised the people of both those islands,
and we proclaimed to the world, that ac-
ceptable and suitable governments would
be established for both of them. We as-
sured them that military dictation would
cease; that peace and protection would be
guaranteed them, and that they would be
left to work out their own prosperity and
happiness under the watchful care of the
government that had interested itself in
their behalf.
How have we fulfilled those promises, or
what capacity have we shown for furnishing
them a different and better government
than that against which we protested so
vehemently ?
Our soldiers are still encamped in the
fortifications that Spain’s armed forces oc-
cupied; they stand guard on the streets and
take the place of municipal officials; they
say what shall be done and what shall not
be done. Officers of our army dictate as
did those of Spain. Bayonets, in place of
courts, enforce order. Tinseled army offi-
cials issue the edicts that citizens muss.
obey, and the soldiers under them see that
their orders are duly respected.
There is nothing like civil government in
either of those islands, although almost two
years have passed since peace was restored
and this government become responsible for
their condition. As Spain ruled,so have we.
As Spain enforced order through the bayo-
nets, so have we. As Spain’s military au-
thority usurped the power and prerogatives
of the courts, so have we.
And why ?
Not because it is the will or the wish of
the people of this country that it should he
80. Not because conditions in those islands
‘yéquire the intimidating presence, and dio-
tation of an armed force. But simply be-
cause of the incompetency or cowardice, or
political venality of the present administra-
tion and the party sustaining it.
There has not been a day since the evac-
uation of Havana, or the capitulation of
San Juan that Mr. McKINLEY and the
Republican party could not have redeemed
the pledges of this country, to give to those
islands stable civil governments, if they had
the disposition to do so, and knew how to
proceed todo it. Either they do not in-
tend to fulfill their pledges or do not know
how to accomplish the work. Whether it
be one or the other it is the same. There
should be no excuse for deception, nor can
incompetency be condoned.
Of one or the other of these Republican-
ism, McKINLEYism, HANNAism, or what-
ever you may please to term it, is guilty.
Either deserves the promptest and most
positive condemnation by the people. Eith-
er should condemn to eternal shame the ad-
ministration that is practicing or guilty of
it. There should be no forgiveness for the
failure to fulfill our country’s pledges. And
Mr. McKINLEY and the party back of him
should be held to a strict account for that
failure.
Starting in that Direction.
The Philadelphia Record advises the
Democrats to give up the Chicago platform;
to give up the contest for bi-metalism to
give up the fight against expansion by con-
quest; to give up the fight against im-
perialism; to give up the fight tor BRYAN
and in fact to give up about everything
they have been fighting for, except a re-
vision of the tariff laws. Even in this the
Record shows some improvement in its
Democratic tendencies over four years ago.
Then it was willing to give up its efforts
for a decent and fair tariff, and everything
else it had ever advocated, in order that
McKINLEY could be assisted. And itis
ten to one that it will be willing to do the
same thing in the coming campaign.
At least it is heading that way.
——The Clearfield county committee
recently assembled declared for BRYAN for
President, endorsed the course of Congress-
man J. K. P. HALL, that of Senator WM.
C. HEINLE and elected the following dele-
gates to the State convention W. H. Yoder,
of DuBois; P. J. Drain, of Woodward;
Joseph Foster, of Coalport; Alexander
Shields, of Morris; N. B. Young, of Burn-
side, and 8S. J. McKendrick, of Curwens-
ville.
-—aA call has been issued for the assembling
of the Republican county convention in this
place on Tuesday, April 10th, for the pur-
pose of electing two delegates to the State
convention. C. P. LoNG, the Spring Mills
merchant, is in the field for delegate and
no better Republican or more popular party
worker on the other side could be selected.
EE ————CEEE
Franklin and Beveridge.
From the York Gazette.
In his speech before the Nebraska Dem-
ocratic convention Mr. BRYAN quoted
from a letter of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN fo
Lord HOWE in 1776. We give the extract:
“The well-founded esteem and the affection
which I shall always have for your lordship make
it painful to me to see you engage in conducting
a war, the great ground of which (as deseribed in
your letter), is the necessity for preventing the
American trade from passing into foreign chan-
nels. To me it seems that neither the obtaining
or retaining of any trade, how valuable so ever,
is an object for which men may justly spill each
other’s blood; that the true and ‘sure means of
extending and securing commerce are the good-
ness and cheapness of commodities, and that the
profits of no trade can euer be equal to the ex-
pense of compelling it and Ah Dd it- by fleets
and arms. I consider this war against us, there-
fore, as both unjustiandjunwise; and I am persuad-
ed that cool and dispassionate posterity will con-
demn to infamy those who advised it, and even
that success will not save from some degree of
dishonor those who have voluntarily engaged to
conduct it.”*
Can anyone read these noble words and
fail to ask : Have we sunk from this level
to that of Senator BEVERIDGE’S Philippine
speech ? And if so, it is not time to sober
up and do a bit of serious thinking ?
At a time of excitement and political
clamor it is well to question critically the
motives which actuate us in forming our
opinions or governing our acts. There are
mighty issues, vital to the life of the na-
tion and the progress of civilization, in-
volved in the approaching campaign.
On the Potter County Frontier.
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
Sheriff Farnsworth, of Potter county, had
an exciting time Thursday night, in raid-
ing a ‘‘pig’s ear.’’ The sheriff accompanied
by deputy Stevens, high constable Murphy
and three other sturdy men, rode into
Blowville about 10 o’clock for the purpose
of raiding a notorious resort conducted by
George Firth. A dance was in progress in
the house, about fifty woodsmen being in
attendance.
The sheriff and his posse, armed to the
teeth and with an effective flourish of
pistols, rushed into the dance hall. The
appearance of the officers was a big sur-
prise and before the inmates of the place
fully realized what happened, proprietor
Firth and his bar-tender, Joseph Lutz, were
placed under arrest and hustled out of the
building.
By this time the friends of Firth and
Lutz determined to take the prisoners from
the officers and a mob was formed for that
purpose. The sheriff: and his men were
equal to the occasion and leveling their
revolvers at the crowd, informed them that
at the first move to gain possession of the
prisoners the order to fire would be given.
This curbed the mob and the officers
were permitted to leave without moles-
tation. .
Gen. Lew Wallace Warns McKinley.
From the Altoona Times.
The revolt in the west against the Porto
Rican policy of the McKinley administra-
tion is growing and an evidence of its
growth is shown by a letter from General
Lew Wallace to the Republicans of Indiana.
In this epistle he advises them of the dan-
gers which threaten the country because of
the McKinleyite attempt to defy the pro-
visions of the national constitution.
The Mafeking Enigma.
Military Observers in London Are all in a State of
Doubt. Roberts Keeps His Own Counsel. Metheun
Has 6,000 Men at Warrenton, a Strong Force
Leaves for Griquatown and One from Kimberley.
LoNDON, March 27.—4:15 a. m.—Mili-
tary observers here, and even those in close
affiliation with the war office, are consider-
ably confused as to what is being done for
the succor of Mafeking. Some five or six
thousand men are engaged with Lord
Methuen at Warrenton and Fourteen
Streams, and now another column is about
leaving Kimberley, if it has not already
started, for the Griquatown, eighteen miles
westward. Its ostensible purpose is to
drive out the Boers. The force is described
as a ‘‘strong one,’”’ and the expedition as
“likely to attract much attention.
General French is reported from Bloem-
fontein Saturday as returning from Thabia
Nohu, without apparently having headed
off Commandant Olivier, with his fifteen
guns and miles of baggage. Boer horse-
men are in contact with the British out-
posts from Biggarsberg to Warrenton.
General Buller’s patrols had a sharp skir-
mish Sunday at Waschhank.
Lord Robert’s infantry have now been
quiet for fourteen days and newsof an ad-
vance is hourly expected at the war office-
Messrs. Wolmarans, Fischer and Wessels,
the peace envoys from the federal forces,are
due at Naples in a few days.
After visiting two or three capitals they
will go to New York by way of Antwerp.
It is understood that at The Hague that
they are invested with large powers, and
are prepared to agree to anything looking
to intervention.
The Times prints a statement from Cape
Town to the effect that the Boers, after de-
ducting heavy losses, are probably unable
now to put more than thirty thousand men
on the firing line.
A Lorenzo Marques special says the
Transvaal authorities are evidently re-
cruiting actively, as large numbers of
French, Dutch and Belgian volunteers are
congtantly passing through that place to
join the Boer forces.
A correspondent of the Daily Mail, tele-
graphing Monday, March 29, says: A
strong expedition will leave Kimberley to-
day, primarily for Griguatown. Its move-
ments are likely to attract considerable
notice.
BLOEMFONTEIN, Sunday March 25.—
General French has returned from Thaba
Nehu, having failed to engage the Boers,
who are trekking northward.
BARKLEY WEST, March 26.— A com-
mando of 400 Boers has re-occupied Pap-
kuel, forcing the rebels in the Herbert dis-
trict to rejoin the federal flag. Extensive
looting is reported in that direction.
——Suberibe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Charles Ballon has discovered near
Raubsville, an excellent quality of hema-
tite iron ore.
—While making repairs to his barn a few
days ago,. Ira Grugan, of Glen Union, split
his thumb the full length, by making a mis-
stroke with an axe.
—The Cumberland county commissioners
Monday gave notice that after April 25,
1900, they will not pay bounties on foxes,
wild eats and minks.
—A. 8S. Vanwickle, & Co., will erect a new
breaker at Colerain, Luzerne county, to take
the place of the present structure, to cost
$150,000. It will be of the most modern de-
sign and very large.
—Applications for the sale of liquor in
Westmoreland county were disposed of at a
record breaking rate. There were 164 appli-
cations for wholesale and tavern licenses.
The path of new applicants was rough, only
two or three out of thirty being successful.
—Robert Hamilton, the colored desperado
who was shot on Monday night at the speak-
easy conducted by Lewis Ayers, at Spruce
Creek, died Tuesday morning. John Davis,
also colored, is dying with a bullet through
his spine as a result of his attempts at mak-
ing peace.
—After an idleness of nearly two years the
spinning mill of the Bloomsburg carpet
works resumed operation Juesday morning.
The mill is one of the largest in the State,
and it is expected that several hundred
hands will be employed in a short time to
run the mill on full force.
—David M. Kriner, of Level Corners,
Lycoming county, died a few days ago trom
the effects of a small scratch. Some time be-
fore his death Mr. Kriner had been playing
with his pet dog when the animal accidental-
ly clawed the gentleman on the hand. Blood
poisoning resulted. Deceased was 73 years
old.
—Mr. David Brode, while assisting in re-
moving a stove from the Brode residence in
Bedford, to the pavement, slipped on the icy
steps and fell to the street, dislocating the
hip bone and the right leg was broken be-
tween the thigh and knee. It isa very serious
fracture and Mr. Brode is an aged man, be-
ing over 75 years.
—Still Duncannon grows. On Tuesday
evening the borough council met and ad-
mitted the whole of Baskinsville into the
torough, upon presentation of a petition by
a majority of citizens requesting same. This
will increase the borough’s population to
about 2200. The borough will now extend
from the P. C. station to Juniata bridge.
—A few days ago James O’Brien, a market
gardener, who resided near Empire, on the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad,
was found drowned in Toby creek. It is
supposed that as he was walking along the
stream he sustained a heart attack and fell
over in the water. He was 65 years old. He
is survived by his wife and three daughters.
—The civil service examinations required
of applicants for enumerators of the census
is causing Charles Zerbe, superintendent for
the Eighteénth district, much difficulty. Of
the many applicants for appointment wko-
tried the examination he writes that only
half will pass. Some of the papers contain
50 errors, some over a hundred and none is
nearly perfect.
—An incident which occurred at the Meth
odist conference at Hazleton last week is
causing manifest pleasure in ecclesiastical
circles throughout Pennsylvania. Father
Philips, pastor of St. Gabriel’s Roman Cath-
olic church, hospitably opened the doors of
his parish house to a merry group of John
Wesley’s followers. -. There was a leaven of
true Christian spirit in the act.
—Prominent lumbermen at Clearfield are
quoted as having stated that about 300 rafts
would be sent to the eastern markets this
spring. A greater number of the rafts, they
say, have already been purchased by eastern
buyers than last year and at higher prices
than prevailed then. There is a great de-
mand for timber and eastern purchasers are
getting impatient at the slow opening ef the
season.
—Saturday, Lewis Maloney, a wood cutter,
of Clinton county, while intoxicated,fell inte
the ash pit at the stave heading factory. He
was frightfully burned by the hot ashes.
He managed to crawl out of his hot bed om
to the ground, where he rolled in the snow
and extinguished the fire in his clothing. He
was a pitiable object, face, arms and chest a
mass of blisters, with eyes swollen shut. He
will live, however.
-—Bessie Irene Hartman, the 9-year-old
daughter of Charles W. Hartman, of Ev-
erett, was severely burned last Saturday
evening a week. She was in the bed-room
rocking the baby, standing with her back te
the hot stove, when her skirts caught fire.
She screamed to her mother, who was down
stairs, and by the time she reached her she
found her enveloped in flames. Mrs. Hart-
man wrapped her own skirts about her and
quickly smothered them. The child is very
severely burned about the breast and head,
but is expected to recover.
—On the evening of February 26th, a horse
belonging to Mike Moore was hitched in the
church sheds at Sylvester, Tioga county, and
when the owner called for it, the animal
was missing. It was at first thought
that the animal had been stolen, but the
mystery has at last been solved and the horse
was found on March 10th, ina sugar bush
on Fayette Pride’s hill farm. And, strange
to say, he was alive and nothing missing but
the cushion to the buggy. The horse had
gone without anything to eat or drink for
twelve days and nights.
—The new tunnel and the changes in the
line of the Pennsylvania railroad near Spruce
Creek are almost completed and it will be
only a matter of a week or two until they
will be ready for use. The new line elimi-
nates to a large degree the curves at the east
end of the tunnel and will allow of almost
unlimited speed by the big engines on the
fast express trains. This tunnel will make
the third tunnel put in use by the Pennsy
during the past twelve months, viz: the
Radabaugh tunnel, the old Portage tunnel,
and now the Spruce Creek tunnel. This lat-
ter tunnel will be used entirely for west
bound traffic, while the old one will carry
the east bound trains.