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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—He will hereafter be
Lumbago THOMPSON.
—Even the winter is defying public sen-
timent by ‘keeping wide open.”’
—Mr. McKINLEY’S grip, except the one
known as
- hes trying to get on the Filipnos, is dai-
ly growing better.
—The wing of the death angel never
cast as broad a shadow as it did in the sad
closing of VICTORIA'S life.
—For once in many years winter is
not run for the special benefit of the
plumber and the ice man.
—If woman’s happiness is in obeying
there are lots of them in this world who
seem to cheerfully forego it.
—The insurgents still show signs of in-
surgin’ and peace among our Republican
friends seems as far distant as ever.
—Now that Mr. QUAY is fixed for the
time the people can turn their attention
to the barning question of the whereabouts
of Mr. PAT CROWE.
—The Boers have showed very little
signs to stopping for a period of mourning
over the death of Queen VICTORIA. They
are keeping everlasting at it.
—The West Point cadets took time by
the - forelock and unanimously voted to
stamp out hazing at that institution, lest
Congress might have voted to stamp out
the institution itself.
—We don’t quite see the consistency
of the temperance movement, in the Puilip-
pines, that denies the canteen to the boys
in the army and permits the schooner to
those in the marine service.
— Remember that the officers to be nomi-
nated for the spring elections are most im-
portant of every taxpayer. Lay personal
feeling aside and vote for the best man and
you will be voting money into your own
pocket.
—PHILIP D. ARMOUR, the Chicago mil-
lionaire pork packer, said that he made his
fortune by keeping his mouth shut. But
the world is full of men and women who
would sooner die paupers than do as AR-
MOUR said he did.
—-It is the natural consequence of the
mysterious mandamus proceedings brought
in Centre county on Tuesday that a great
many people should suspicion that Gov-
ernor STONE intends trying to convert our
court into a white-wash factory.
—The argument as to whether it is
spelled grip or grippe has little to do with
the epidemic. It doesn’t seem to be a bit
proud and fastens on the common person
who calls it plain grip just as bard as it
does on the fancy ones who want to make
it grippe.
—Another Kink Has just been added to
the snarl in Philippine matters by the
Commission now directing things in Ma-
nila. They have involved the govern-
ment in an altercation as to the teaching of
scriptures in the public schools that have
been established there.
—1It is a fair proposition to predict that
there will be no particular rejoicing a-
mong our Republican brethren when
‘Johnny comes marching home.’” There
is a lumbagoness about the leaders of both
sides of that organization in the county
that seems to say we‘‘need a rest and need
it badly.”
—RusseL HARRISON will hardly be like-
ly to accept the invitation to be an aide on
Gen. FrANcIS V. GREEN'S staff for the in-
augural parade. HARRISON was recently
removed from office in the Philippines pre-
sumably because his father bad attacked
the Administration’s foreign policy and it
seems to us a very cheeky proceeding to ask
him to serve in such a pageant.
— Another thief has turned up in the
Havana post office. This time it is JoHN
SHERIDAN, of Boston, to whose fingers $1,-
300 of public funds stuck. While he didn’t
have near the magnetism for coin that NEE-
LY and RATHBONE, the other Cuban postal
fand thieves bad, yet the case is ‘bad
enough to show the poor Cubans into what
merciful hands they have fallen.
: ' —Representative GARVIN, of Alas
county, who betrayed his party to vote for
MARSHALL says now that he did it in order
to insure an appropriation for a monument
in the public square . at Gettysburg. A
monument to whom ? Not to GARVIN, cer-
tainly. His treacherous act will live in the
minds of men long after a column of stone
will have crambled to dust or a tablet of
bronze fallen from corrosion.
—A good measure that is propesed for
enactment daring the session of the Legis-
lature is one to make all laws that have
been operative for a period of ten years
immune from. being declared unconstitu-
Under its pro-
visions future enactments would have to
be approved by two successive sessions.
The idea is a good one, for with our courts
growing more corrupt every day the time
is coming when we mayis not have any law
at all.
. ==—=The Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND has
delivered himself of another one of his
ponderous talks. He calls McKINLEY’S
policy ‘‘headlong national heedlessness’’
and says that decay is written on the walls
of our government. We would like to ask
the Hon. ‘Mr. CLEVELAND what makes
Republican governments stronger and more
enduring that earnest, honest political or-
ganizations in competition for their con-
trol? And who has done more to cause
the disintegration of one of these great
earnest political organizations than Mr.
CLEVELAND, himself.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 46 _
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 25, 1901.
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NO. 4.
Uncovering Itself.
It matters not that Senator QUAY was
repudiated at the. polls in November, nor
does it change the situation that his suc-
cess at Harrisburg was brought about
through means that reputable citizens de-
plore and political decency stands abashed
at. The one cold, undeniable fact stands
forth to shame every citizen of the State,
that a majority of a great party —a party in
control of every department of the State
government and largely in the majority in
three fourths of the counties of the Com-
monwealth—by its endorsement of him,
made itself responsible for all that be stands
for and all the evils and wrongs that QUAY-
ism can be said to represent, politically.
Heretofore the Democrats bave made
their fight against Mr. QUAY as if he,alone,
were the originator, the enforcer, the de-
fender and the beneficiary of the question-
able methods they contended against. They
were encouraged and aided in this seem-
ingly personal contest by scores of citizens
belonging to the Republican organization,
but professing to desire decency in politics
and honesty in public administration. As
far as it was possible the party that was
responsible for Mr. QUAY’S political power
was divorced from his political sins and
upon him, as an individual, the reproach
that political methods and political actions
resorted to merited was cast. It was
against him as a political individual, as a
political leader and as a party boss that
the fight was made, and the party that gave
him public standing, that recognized him as
its leader, that obeyed him as its boss, was
practically forgotten in the contest.
dereafter it will be different. The choice
of him for its representative in the most
honorable position to which a State can
choose a representative shows what Repub-
licanism in Pennsylvania is, and what it
proposes being. The infamy that has here-
tofore gloried in its power to debauch the
ballot; to select subservient tools as gov-
ernors; to bribe legislators; squander pub-
lic money ; pad official pay rolls; use the
public treasury for private speculations and
commit the thousand and more other of-
fenses against the public, and has been
known as QUAYism, ‘must hereafter be
known as Republicanism. The party that
bas made itself responsible for him, by
choosing hin for its representative in the
highest representative capacity to’ which it
could choose a citizen, must take the re-
sponsibility for all that he has been, for all
that he is, and for all that he attempts.
Its endorsement of him makes it the en-
dorser and approver of all that it charge-
able to, or has been charged against him,
It is the fathering of his sins—the recogni-
tion and endorsement of methods for which
he, individually, has, heretofore been held
as Sponsor,
Because of this open approval of QUAY-
ism, the action of the Republican legisla-
ture may in the end prove beneficial. It
will place political responsibility where it
belongs—upon the party in place of the in-
dividual. It will hold the Republican
| party of Pennsylvania to account for what
its convenfions, it caucuses and its repre-
sentative bodies do. That party must
hereafter bear the odium that it has hereto-
fore shifted to the shoulder of the individ-
ual it has chosen as its representative, and
will'no longer be allowed to hide from its
own sins, by charging them to the account
of Senator QUAY. By its action in endors-
ing him and his methods it bas proven it-
self no better or purer than is he.
For this uncovering of Republicanism
the people have reason to he thankful.
They know now what that party means—
what its methods and aims are. They under-
stand that QUAYism is Republicanism and
Republicanism, QuAyism. That ‘in these
there is no difference. They know, furth-
er, that in the fatare there can no longer
be a pretense of fighting for decent politics
by the denunciation of QUAY, while sup-
porting the party that endorses and makes
him its mouth piece and representative.
The amalgamation of QuAYism and Re-
publicanism . has been made complete and
he who is for the one must stand for the
other.
So much has the decision at Harrisburg
shown the people of the State.
——The York Gazette, the only professed
Democratic paper from that county that
we get hold of, seems determined to meas-
ure its own Democracy by that of the three
justly repudiatéd Representatives it sent to
Harrisburg. In its issue of the 19th inst,
it devotes almost a column in ab attempt
to apologize for their action, in the entire
space of which it does not furnish a single
reason thas palliates their offense or lessens
the enormity of their crime to the least ex-
tent. Such efforts, in place of giving
standing to the individuals who deserted
their party and betrayed the trost im-
posed in them, only tend to create the
suspicion that the newspaper that apolo-
gizes for this kind of work has been tarred
with the same stick that blackened and
besmeared those whose actious it attenipts
«| $0 excuse,
A Most Righteous Measure.
It is reported that the Finance Commit-
tee of the United States Senate purposes
presenting a bill reducing the stamp tax on
express receipts and telegrams to one-balf
cent and requiring the payment of that
sum by the companies.
Whether there is basis for that report or
not, is unknown to us, but there is no
movement in the line of a reformation of
taxation that the United States Senate
could suggest, unless it might be the
adoption of an equitable income tax law,
that would meet a more general approval
from the people, than an act compelling
express and telegraph companies to pay
their own taxes.
Since they began business these corpora-
tions—now monopolies—have practically
escaped taxation of all kinds, in this State,
except a moiety they pay to the State as
tax on capital stock and upon gross receipts.
In this county where the income of the
Adams express company averages from
$75 to $200 per day, it pays taxes on an
assessed valuation of $140—one horse in
Philipsburg and one in Bellefonte. Out-
side of this it pays no local tax whatever.
It uses our roads. It has the benefit of
our schools for its agents. Our constables
and police guard its tills and safes. Our
courts protect its rights; and in every way
the improvements that are made, and the
safe-guards that are secured by the taxes
paid by others, are assured it.
It does more business and cleans up
yearly a greater profit, within the county,
than the best fifty farms within the same
limit, and for the privileges it enjoys and
the protection that is given it, pays less
taxation than a day laborer, whose an-
nual income does not amount to $300. It
is the same in every county of the State.
And then when the necessities of the
general goyernment required a stamp tax
upon receipts, this corporation added the
penny that the government demanded to
its already exorbitant charges and forced
the shipper to pay it ; thus requiring those
who were paying local taxation for its
benefit and protection to pay its general
government tax also.
- We hope the Senate will show its: sense
of justice by speedily enacting the pro-
posed measure into law, and that it will
make it so plain than ‘the Sapreme court
will not dare misconstrue its intention.
Getting There.
Little by little we are becoming educa-
ted toa belief in the doctrines against which
our forefathers battled. Step by step we
are getting closer to the positions occupied
by those who represented King George
during the datk days of the American
Revolution. Slowly but steadily we are
absorbing the belief that those whom we
have gloried over as the heroes of 76 were,
after all, but misguided and mistaken
patriots.
And we neither recognize the fact nor
seem to care that if is so.
It is now almost a month since General
MCeARTHUR, without the formality of a court
martial, the presumed fairness of a civil
trial or even the pretense of a public hear-
ing, deported thirty Filipino leaders to the
sun baked, waterless sands of Guam.
Their crime, if crime they had committed,
was the devotion they had shown their
own country, and the efforts they had made
for the liberty and independence of their
people.
Up to this time not a word of protest,
against the arbitrary action of an Ameri-
can general, has been heard from any
source. ]
And we are descendants of the men who
wrote and promulgated the Declaration of
Independence. We ring our bells, explode
our fire-works, we shout, and glorify, and
go wild, each 4th of July, over the principles
declared in that, to us, immortal declara-
tion.
"While wedo this our generals declare it
a crime in others to believe as we profess
to, and we are silent. They establish St.
Helenas for the banishment of men who
long for the same liberty of thought and
action that we glory in, and we make no
objection. We hear of confiscated property,
sundered families and imprisonment for
those struggling for rights that we have de-
clared belong to “all men | and we make
no protest.
Surely we are reaching a point from
which it will be but a little distance to the
belief that our forefathers werea failure,
and their declaration of the rights of men,
but the mouthings of discontent.
——Since_ the Senate has confirmed the
President’s nomination of Justice! HAR-
LAN'S son as Attorney General of Porto
Rico, the country is anxiously waiting to
see whether that distinguished judge will
bave the courage to stand by the Constitu-
tion as against the President’s Porto Rican
policy in the cases now before the court
of which he is a member. Itis believ-
ed by some that there are ways of brib-
ing even occupants of the Supreme Court
bench. Justice HARLAN’S action, what-
ever it may be in the cases now pending,
Play tend to confirm or to disprove this be-
Suggestions as to Changes of Election
Laws.
It is a very easy matter to insist that the
paramount issue, with the Legislature, is
the enactment of election laws that will
prevent fraud at the polls and insure an
honest return of the vote cast, but to pre-
pare an act that would secure these results
is a very different question indeed. How-
ever, this is one of the duties that the gen-
tlemen elected as Senators and Members
were chosen to perform, and it is to be pre-
sumed that they are qualified for the work
entrusted to them.
So far we are frce to confess that we see
but little sign of getting better laws on
this subject, than the fraud-protecting stat-
utes that now disgrace the Commonwealth.
A number of bills have been presented and
urged, by those who imagine they are re-
forming existing evils, but all of them are
on the same line and propose retaining the
most objectionable provisions of the present
law.
Neither of the proposed changes contem-
plate the restriction of the powers of the
courts, when appealed to, to rule off or rule
on the names of any candidate they please.
Neither of them contemplate the sym-
plifying of the tickes so that assistance in
the booth can be prohibited.
No suggestion as to the numbering of
the ballot and the stub from which it is
torn, so that the ballots can not be secured
elsewhere than from election boards, is
made.
No thought of preventing bribery and
intimidation in the booth by denying assist-
ance, to any but those physically disabled,
is considered.
Nor is there any sweeping, drastic
changes suggested, by any of the proposed
measures, that will accomplish the purposes
for which a new election law is sought.
The WATCHMAN is of the belief that it
would be better to go back to the simple
old system we had prior to 1891 until,by a
change of the constitution, voting by ma-
chinery can be adopted, than to tinker with
the laws we now have, unless they are rad-
ically ehanged. If you would ask us what
alterations in the present laws would prove
most efficient, we would say :
t provisions regulating the primaries.
a uniform system and a fixed time
«| for nominating all candidates.
Restrict the action of the courts, in de-
vermining contested nominations, to viola-
tions of the laws governing them.
Print the ticket with stub and ballot
numbered to correspond, and in political
columns with a political emblem, that the
most ignorant voter can recognize, at the
head of each, and prohibit any assistance in
the booth, except for visible physical dis-
ability.
Let a single mark, under the emblem,
indicate a vote for the entire ticket.
Throw all the safe-guards possible around
the counting and return of the vote and
when fraud is alleged, by a fixed number of
reputable citizens, require the opening of
the ballot box and the recounting of the
votes in open court.
These provisions’ would tend to prevent
some frauds—not all.
——The tin plate trust, that claims to
be one of the infant industries of the United
States and demands ‘‘protection,’’ because
of its inability to compete with producers
of tin in other countries, has just held its
annual meeting. It refused to publish its
net earnings for the year, but the figures
given out show that in twelve months its
surplus has increased $4,500,000, and that
its net cash assets, after paying preferred
dividends and’ all fixed charges, are $5,476,-
693. On a capitalization of $28,000,000,
two-thirds of which is watered stock—it
has earned 16} per cent. When a fellow
who buys a tin cup, or atin bucket, comes
to understand that he pays 47 per cent, or
almost one-half more than the article
should sell for, as a tariff tax to keep up
its price, that a trust like this can earn
and pocket its millions annually, he will
begin to appreciate what a blessing (?)
tariff taxes are. He should at least see who
is the beneficiary of protection.
——If rumors are correct, the CLEAR-
WATER-HALL congressional contest will
open the eyes of the people as to how the
Republican majority in this county was
manufactured. In the borough of Philips-
burg, and the townships of Rush and Snow
Shoe, alone, more fraudulent Republican
votes were polled than the majority that
party had in’ the county amounted to.
Here in Bellefonte and in adjoining dis-
triots a half dozen instances of repeating
have been discovered,and scores of instances
uncovered in which men voted who had
not paid a State or county tax for two
years. By the time this contest is through
it is very likely to show that the entire
Democratic ticket in the county was elected
last fall, and in all’ probability will end
with a number of Republican patriots
ascertaining what a county jail is built for.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
i From the N.
A Business Slump Noticeable.
According to Bradstreet’s Review for the
past week there is depression in all but
one or two branches of trade. Bradstreets
is one of the two great financial agencies in
the country and their report is looked up-
on as carrying the weight of well informed
centres with if.
During the last campaign the reports of
these agencies were most persistently re-
ferred to by Republican spell-binders who
will probably close their eyes to such dis-
couraging reports as are being published so
soon after McKINLEY’S re-election.
The gist of this report is as follows :
‘‘Lumber appears to have been inactive at
the west and wholesalers have done more
at the east, but export trade lags in this
line, as in all others.
The textile is not altogether clear. Cot-
ton has weakened on increased stocks at the
south, and reports are current that south-
ern yarn and fall print cloth manufacturers
are considering shut-downs, in spite of
reitera tions of light crop estimates.
The shoe trade is in good shape, so far as
spring orders are concerned, and leather is
rm.
War, or rather rumors of war, have been
the chief subject of discussion in the iron
and steel trade this week and, to some ex-
tent, have exerted a depressing effect on
sentiment. New demand at this time,
however, is never very large and conditions
as a whole are healthy and even promising.
Certainly mills are well sold ahead, and
pig iron production is very large. Prac-
tically nothing is heard of advances in
prices and if is almost certain that steel
rails will go no higher. .Some good busi-
ness in this line is transacted, and, despite
reports that export trade is "dead, 20,000
tons have been sold at Chicago to go abroad.
The claim is made, however, that this busi:
ness was placed at a considerable sacrifice
when domestic quotations are considered.
Sales of pig iron will foot up a good total
as a whole.
. The labor outlook in iron does not prom-
ise as well. The announcement of the
Bessemer producers that they will reduce
wages 15 per cent. has been met on the
part of the men by a demand for 10 per
cent. advance. A reduction of $1 per ton
on freight rates from Pittsburg to New
York is expected to help a when it
picks up again.
Business failures in the United States for
the week number 290, against 322 last
week and 255 in 1900.
Canadian failures for the week number
fifty, against thirty-six last week and
thirty-five in this week a year ago.
Facts Without Comment, ne
- Y. Sun, (Rep.) i
The annual Pension Appiopriation bill
now before Congress carries $145,245,230.
This is the largest appropriation on record.
The amount to be appropriated this year
for pensions, thirty-six years after the close
of the Civil War, to which the enormous
charge is chiefly due, exceeds the aggregate
payments on the same account during the
five years from 1879 to 1883, inclusive.
It is more than double the appropriation
for 1890, eleven years ago.
It is more than double the expenditures
of the Federal Government, for all pur-
poses, in 1861, the first year of the Civil
War.
It nearly equals the total expenditures
of the Federal Government, excluding in-
terest on the public debt, in 1871. only
thirty years ago.
It is more than five times what the Re-
public was paying for pensions in 1878,
thirteen years after the end of the Civil
War.
The total number of pensioners now on
the roll is 993,529. Ten years ago there
were 537,944. Twenty years ago there
| were 250,802.
The total number of claims allowed last
year was 40,645, exceeding by more than
two thousand the reduction occasioned in
the roll by the deaths of old pensioners,
thirty-six years after the end of the Civil
war.
One Trust Boycotts Another.
From the Cleveland Leader (Rep.)
It is said that one of the big packing
companies at Kansas City has concluded to
purchase the salt it requires in its business
from refiners at Libson, Portugal, and have
it shipped five thousand miles, rather than
poy the price charged by the American Salt
rust. One cargo of Portugese salt has
already arrived in this country, and part of
it has been shipped to Kansas City.
Here is an object lesson in Trust extor-
tion. The average housekeeper who nses
less than a pound of salt in a week, does
not feel this extortion, but a packing com-
pany which consumes fifteen or twenty car-
loads.a week does feel it. There is anoth-
er object lesson in the salt question, how-
ever.
The Kansas City Packing Company is
one of the big corporations which compose
what is called the Beef Trust, and two or
three times a year that organization takes
occasion to mark up the price of all kinds
of meat two or three cents a pound.
While the big packing company can send
to Portugal for salt, and thus get abead of
the Salt Trust, the average person can es-
cape neither the Salt Trust nor the Beef
Trust by sending to another country for
salt and meat. The individual consumer
must pay the Trust pri rice without protest.
It is uratifying to know that while the
Meat Trust is being squeezed by the Salt
Trust; those big packers will havea chance
how it feels. . n
Senator Elkins Re-elected,
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan 22. —Stephen
B. Elkins, Republican, was re-elected
United States Senator by a majority vote
of the two Houses of the Legislature today.
F. M. Simmons Elected Senator.
RALEIGH, N.C. Jan. 22.—F. M. Sim-
mons, chairman of the state Democratic
committee, was today elected United States
Senator to succeed Marion Butler. pre
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Mrs. Sarah Messimer, of Sixth street,
Renovo, is suffering from a gash four inches
long in her head. The lady sustained the
injury by falling down the stairs while
walking in her sleep a few nigats ago.
—John 8. Considine, the well known track
foreman, has received from the Pennsylvania
railroad ‘company twenty-five dollars as a
prize, for having the best stretch of track.
Mr. Considine’s division extends from Jersey
Shore to Renovo. He is a faithful employe
as well as an efficient foreman.
—The projectors of the new railroad line
through Fulton county now ask the citizens
of that section to subseribe to $26,000 worth
of the capitol stocklof $200,000. If the citizens
of Fulton county agree to do this, the New
York representatives agree that it will be
but a short time before application will be
made for a charter.
—A dispatch from Beaver Falls, under
date of Thursday says: A letter from Harvey
E. Fleming, formerly of this place, who has
been gold hunting in Alaska, was received
this morning. It was dated Nov. 1900, at
Rettles station, Koynkud river. He reports
that Thomas Douds, of Clearfield county,
was found dead in his cabin a short time
before. He had frozen to death.
—For some time parties have been drilling
for oil, gas or anything that could be come
across in the Muncy hills, a little east of the
town of Muncy, in Lycoming county. As
the drill drilled away day by day the inter-
est and excitement became greater but all
has collapsed. The hole has been drilled to
a depth of 1,600 feet, but so far there has not
been anything found out of which a cent of
money could be made.
—Miss J. Guss Ditting possesses the repu-
tation of being the only woman gas plant op-
erator in the State. She is the president and
principal stockholder in the Hollidayshurg
Gas Company, having purchased the works
of this corporation at Sheriff’s sale in August,
1899. The plant has beea conducted under
her personal supervision ever since that
time, and she has displayed acute business
capacity in its management.
—John F. Blair, retiring postmaster of Du-
boistown, is dying as a result of the admin-
istration of kneck-out drops. On Saturday
he settled up his accounts with Uncle Sam,
turned over his office and went to Williams-
port. While sitting in his carriage waiting
for a train to pass Pine street, in that city, he
lost consciousness and remembered nothing
more until the following day, when he found
himself wandering about at Vallamont near-
ly dead from cold. His gold watch was
gone, the chain having been cut. It is be-
lieved his condition is the result of drugs
administered by persons at present un-
known.
—Clara Hixon, the Fulton county girl who
more than a year ago had her scalp com-
pletely torn off by her hair catc hing in some
mill machinery under which she was pass-
ing, was taken to her home about three
weeks ago from the Philadelphia hospital in
which she had been placed for treatment.
Skin grafting was the only hope for the
child. This was resorted to and for more
than a year has been in progress and has
proved successful, The whole head is now
covered with skin and is almost entirely
healed up. There remains a place on top of
her head, which is in a healthy state and is
fast closing together. She is now 11 years of
age and is bright and happy.
—In order to encourage manufacturing
plants and to build up its home community
the Williamsport board of trade has advanced
the proposition to establish a guaranteed
fund of $200,000 to be used for such purpose,
portions of the same to be loaned to manu-
facturers, and such supervision retained by
the board as will enable it to learn whether the
industry is conducted profitably and satis-
factorily, and if not to be able to take con-
trol of the same. It is expected in this way
to put to use large sums of money lying idly
in banks owned by citizens and financial in-
stitutions, and it is expected there will be lit-
tle difficulty in raising the required sum.
— While in the vicinity of Shade Gap,
Huntingdon county, the past week examin-
ing timberland, Frederick Johnston, a lum-
ber dealer of Cambria county, accidentally
learned that he had a sister living there
whom he ‘had not seen for thirty years.
They drifted apart in Hagerstown, Md., and
at the age of 18 years Johnston left home,
and for the last twelve years his friends have
mourned him as dead. Since then he has
been engaged in the lumber business in Blair,
Clearfield and Cambria counties. A happy
climax to this meeting was a birthday party
given Mrs. James Piles, the missing man’s
sister, by her neighbors, last Friday night,
at which Johnston was the principal guest’ of
the evening.
Lieputy Revenue Collector W. J. Dixon,
assisted by Policeman Fred Dupont and Es-
quire Gildoer, of Rockwood, Wednesday
evening captured what 1s claimed to be the
largest moonshine still ever taken in Somer-
set county. There were two large cop-
per kettles, with a capacity of about 240 gal-
lons, both bright and lately put to use.
There were also eight coils of copper, known
as a worm. The still was situated about
one-half mile from Jacob Jinkey’s in a ra-
vine in the heart of the Laurel. Hill mount
ain, in Middlecreek township. Two paid
guides led them to the spot. They also des-
troyed one barrel of whisky, twenty-four
gallons of wines, twelve barrels of mash,
twenty-five gallons of molasses and 150
pounds of chop.
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—1It was stated in the Hirtibity
the other day that the presentati
battle-flag of the Kirst regiment to the
the flag carried by the regiment through the
Spanish-American war, was the first instance
of the kind since the closing of the war. As
a matter of fact the flag of the First was not
the first to be returned. | The flag of the
Sheridan Troop, of Tyrane, which troop par -
ticipated in the Porto Rico campaign was the
first flag to be returned to the State, and
shortly following the presentation, Captain
Frederick M. Ott, of the Governor’s Troop,
Harrisburg, presented the ‘State: with the
- | banner carried by that organization 11 Porto
Rico. ‘As a matter of fact, however, the flag
of the First regiment was the first. retu med
with public ceremony, the presentation of
the others being private.