_.. BY P. GRAY MEEK. i Ink SH. ¢ ET Mrs. NATION ‘were to come to Belle- ‘fonte she would die of ennui. .+ + =Thus far the ground hog has no apolo- * ‘gies to make. He ktiows his business. — What sleighing means: Jingle, jingle, away she goes. Tingle, tingle, a frosted nose. —From the way Mrs. NATION is smashing looking ‘glasses out in Kansas it is only “natural to infer that she has a spite at her- ‘self. — Now that the funeral isover and King Edward VII reigns the English had better turn their attention to South Africa, else there won’t be any army left to them at all. The Boers are rounding them up in two and three hundred lots every day. —The new congressional apportionment would be a very fair and equitable distri- bution, we don’t think. The 411,307 Democrats in Penusylvania are given only three Representatives, while 511,175 Re- publicaus get twenty-eight. Surely there is no scent of a gerrymander about this. —If the Legislature should decide to re- peal the libel act of 1897 and substitute therefore a new one which would require newspapers to submit proposed articles to the persons affected by them, before their publication; we would be very apt to have quite a voluminous correspondence with a few Centre county patriots. —STEVE BRODIE, the bridge jumper, ie dead, and it is to be hoped that his ashes rest in peace. STEVE jumped into notorie- ty by jumping off the Brooklyn bridge and for quite awhile he was a paying attraction at the dime museums, but imitators sprung up so numerous that, in the language of the Bowery, ‘‘they put bridge jumpin on de bum, see.” —The absolute monarchy of the United States and her colonies is fast becoming more absolute. The general in command of the military forces in the Philippines re- cently ordered the editor of a Manila pa- per deported to San Francisco, because the paper had had the courage to criticise the officer. ' What supreme arrogance to flaunt in the face of a Republic. —The Senate has given its first blow to HANNA’s pet ship subsidy bill. It was superseded on Tuesday by other measures as the unfinished business of the Senate, which is an indication that it is not in as good favor as Mr. HANNA hoped it would be. Let us hope that the next blow it gets will be one in the solar-plexus that will knock it clear out of the calendar. —Mis. CARRIE NATION is going on with her saloon smashing in Kansas and the practice threatens to become an epidemic among the. women of the Sun-flower State. She says that she is in the war to stay and it is probable that before her career is end- ed she will have given the hatchet another elaim to fame than the one GEORGE ‘WASHINGTON earned for it. —The Philadelphia Democrats whe imagine that having a banquet is the only certain and sure way of bringing harmony into their ranks will find out that it takes something more than feed and drink to do it. Banguets are all right in their way, but harmony can never issue out of the big heads and disordered stomachs that are certain to follow in their wakes. '—If the congressional apportionment bill, that was favorably reported in the Senate on Tuesday, becomes a law Demo- eratic statesmen from Centre county in the future are likely to have fheir congressional careers confined strictly to the galleries. Jefferson county, with two thousand Re- publican majority, and Clearfield with one thousand to the bad are not very consoling eompanions for Cenite to ‘make up a dis- triet with. —A Chicago firm “has been awarded the contract for raising the Maiue in Havana harbor. They will do the work for the salvage; it being their intention to manu- facture the hall and other parts into souv- enirs. While there will be more or Jess sen- timent attached to such trinkets the army bill, the pension list and the stamps we have to lick are daily reminders of the Maine that are not likely to let us forget it for a few centuries at least. * ~The statement of the county’s finances for 1900, as published to-day by the Audi- tors, is most encouraging in these times when Republican extravagance is running rife in state and national affairs. The saving that Democratic honesty can make for the tax payers here in Centre county will be greatly appreciated in ‘times when they are being taxed at the rate of $20 per eapita to support unholy wars, imperial- ism, furnish subsidies for ship sharks and soldiers for officers drawing fat salaries to command, Tt is consoling that we have evidence of economy somewhere. } —Up in Concord, N. H., on Sunday, a tramp entered a room in, Vohvich a member of the Legislature was. sleeping and made away with his trousers. The Legislator, awaking just as the hobo disappeared through the door, gave chase out into the snowy street, never thinking of his neglige dress. He caught the theiving tramp, however, recovered his pants, and turned the culprit over tothe law. What a differ- ence between New Hampshire and Penn- sylvania. At Harrisburg they would prob- my have had a life sized statue made of the tranip and kept it'on exhibition as a curio. For any thief who could fail to get away with all. the swag he wanted, while the present regime is ruling at the capitol; would certainly prove a curiosity there. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 46 Faithless Democrats Responsible, The suspicion that the QUAY machine has acquired a property interest in if net com plete control of a considerable number of the Senators and Representatives in the Legislature elected as Democrats is being confirmed every day. Last week Sena- tors BoYD, FAYETTE ; NEELY, CLARION ; HAYNES, YORK ; and STILES, Lehigh, voted with the Republicans to pass the Grady bill for the repeal of the libel law of 1897. Without the votes of all of them it could not have secured the constitutional number and thus the life of one of the most odious and infamous QUAY measures that has ever been offered was prolonged for a time at least. In the House on Tuesday of this week the bill creating a new court in Phil- adelphia and the notorious McCARREL bill were passed by the votes of men elected as Democrats. How will these men who have thus be- trayed the interests of the party they were elected to support, reconcile their constitu- ents to such a betrayal of faith © No doubt they are promised recompense in kind by the bosses, but the people of Pennsylvania do not approve of an unholy traffic in prin- ciples as is clearly implied in these log- rolling bargains. The Democrats of the State are particularly averse to such bar- gains. They have no such interest in the personal prosperity of unimportant indi- viduals as will induce them to yield con- sent to the sacrifice of principles for which they and their forefathers have contended for a century. That is preciselyi;what is done when Senators and Representatives in the Legislature vote with the Republi- cans on questions that are essentially parti- san. If all the Senators and ‘Representatives elected by Democratic effort and sacrifice had been faithful to their political obliga- tions, neither branch of the Legislature could have heen organized by the QUAY machine this year and QUAY would never have been re-elected to the United States Senate. In such a result an inestimable political victory for the party and the honest people of the State would have been achieved. If the Democratic Senators had been just to their constituents the Phila- delphia court bill, a nost atrocious ‘meas- ure wounld not now. be ready for the Govern- or’s signature andthe Grady bill for the repeal of the law which guarantees the pal- ladium of civil liberty, a free andjuntram- meled press, would not now be menacing the people with a carnival of vice. =Faith- less Democrats are responsible for these evils and should be held to account. What Can He Mean? In a dispatch to the War Department the other day General MACARTHUR, com- mander-in-chief of the army in the Philip- pines, and military governor of the Archi- peligo said: ‘‘Expeetations based on result of the election have not heen realized. Progress of pacification apparent to me but still very slow. Condition very inflexible and likely to hecome chronic. I have therefore initiated a more rigid policy.” This would probably be interesting infor- mation if it were less obscure. Asa mat- ter of fact in its present form it is ubiniel. ligible. What can the General of the army in the Philippines mean by the statement that expectations based ¢n the result of the election have uot been realized? What ex- pectations does he refer to? It can. hardly be possible that he put faith in the silly nonsens: that was talked on the stamp and through the Republican prints that the de- feat of Mr, BRYAN for President would be followed by the surrender or subjugation of the Filipino; Only weak minded chil- dren and idiotic adults put faith in that sort of rubbish. If the General of the army in the Philippines helieved that it is no won- der the war not only continues bat spreads. A man who believes that bas no business to be at large. | His place is in an snylum for teeble-minded persons. i Then what can he mean by ste state- ment that the condition is very inflexible an’ likely to “become chronic? Is it to be inferred that the insurrection is so strong and stubborn, ‘that there is no'hope of it yielding ? That would be the natural in- ference, but the added sentence, I have ini- tiated a miore’ rigid policy, is confusing again. Taken together the dispatch is sas- ceptible of ne other interpretation. shan that the commander of the army in’ the Philippines was drunk or crazy when ‘he |® sent ib. OTIS was bad enough but Mac: ARTHUR is worse. rr— . Dodging the Question. The closing days of the life of Queen Victoria were saddened by the news from South Aliica. The opening "days of the reign of her successor in office, King EpwARD VII, are unhappy, | it not actually jeopardized by the same disturbing. agent. Great Britain, alter an experieuce of near: ly two centuries in colonization is tottering under the burdens - which it involves. MR ishing and strength, fading away, the Eng- lish speaking people of the old world pre: sent an object lesson to those of the new. BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 8, 1901. Yet in the face of these plain admoni- tions, the authorities in this country are hastening, headlong, into the condition from which Great Britain is suffering. The President has within a week asked Congress to enact legislation which will enlarge his powers in the Philippines. Within a few days he has urged steps to check the progress of the Cubans toward self government. His purpose in both cases is manifest. 1t is to fasten more firmly the rivets of imperialism in the yokes of the people of the islands which have fallen under our control. Cuba has a constitution of her own now and the President wants fo prevent the as- sertion of the rights of the people under the terms made at the beginning of the war and all sorts of excuses are being of- fered to promote his purpose. The con- vention which drafted the constitution was not representative of the people. What is that to us. The delegates were elected by the people and they know what they want. If the people of Cuba are not per- mitted to govern themselves now the great- est crime against civil iberty in the history of the world will be committed, and those responsible for it will deserve to perish in infamy. The Congressional Apportionment Bill In the absence of corroborative evidence it would be impossible, probably, to make an intelligent public believe that the congressional apportionment bill introduced in the Senate on Tues- day, referred to the proper committee and reported within half an hour, was meant seriously. But the evidence on the subject is voluminous and overwhelming. It is really intended to jam the monstros- ity through hoth Houses and by the aid of a subservient Governor create it into a law. It will be travesty on justice and a mock- ery to fairness. But the machine cares nothing for such things. It thrives on them. Take the counties of Berks and Lancas- ter. for example. ‘Lancaster, with a popu- lation of 159,241i s made a separate district, while Berks, with a population of 159,615, is added to Lehigh, with a population of 93,893, to make a district. This is the penalty which Berks and Lehigh counties pay to the QUAY machine for giving a Democratic majority at the polls. It may be said that the forming. of York county, with a population of 116,413, and Adams, with a population of. 34,496, is a partial rec- ompeunse . for the outrage on the Democrats of Berks and Lehigh, but that is not ‘true. That district is formed for the purpose of compensating treacherous Democrats. in those counties for treason already com- mitted. This bill was framed in Wash- ington and sent to Harrisburg for ratifica- tion, It represents no Pennsylvania thought or interest and is a perversion of justice in every respect. Bat it will prob- ably be passed by the Legislature and be- come a law. The district in which the people of this county ‘are especially inter- ested, the twenty-second, Centre, Clearfield and Jefferson is not so bad itself, though a more compact arrangement might have been made. 194,621 as against nearly 40,000 less in Lancaster and nearly 60,000 more in Berks and Lehigh. Bus it is connted as a sure Republizan district and hence the doubt- favor. Mrs. Nations Error. Mrs. CARRIE NATION, who has been kick- ing up more or less of a disgraceful row ‘in the way of smashing saloons out in Kan- sas, appears to have encountered unex- pected opposition lately and surprising re- sults as well. That is to say now that the owners of the property which she has been smashing have recovered from the first gur- prise that paralyzed them, they are resist- ing her attack, striking back, so to speak, and the indications are that they will ac- complish what the authorities failed to achjeve, a discontinuance of ‘her destruot- ive practices. Mrs. NATION is all right in her asper- ations to suppress the drink habit and might be justified in her desire to dimin- ish the number of saloons in the neighbor- hood in which she lives. But she has adopted a very poor method of achieving the result she aims at. In other words, assailing evils with violence i8 "neither christian nor wise and if the total of her endeavors result in the multiplication of the evil and the discouragement of more ratioval methods of attack in the future, the public need not be in the least suar- prised for it is the logical ‘result. Temperance reform ‘conducted on lines of force can hardly, prosper. It is like spreading. christianity by .shooting it ont of 'a‘cannon, or ranning itin on the point of a bayonet. ann CHRIST dido’ 't proselyte.i in that way sien ‘he was on, earth spreading the (Gospel and he didn’t ‘recommend his disciples to do it either. . Temperance work is-a (good: deal like christian work. It ought to be con- dacted ‘in orderly and peaceful methods. Mrs. NATION is operating on wrong lines. It contains a population of | Who Will be Followers in the Foot- ‘Steps of Nineteenth Century Philan- thropists. In taking a retrospect of the century that is just closed there are two names that should be kept in grateful memory. I refer to JAMES HARRIS and JAMES DUN- LOP, the early founders of our beautiful town. They conceived the thought that this country would demand men of high educational training, of ideal character, not only to fill the learned professions, but to render efficient service in the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the country. They realized: that the ground work of such success lay in a sound pre- paratory education. This thought they energized by donating ground and furnish- ing a building—substantial and suitable at that time—for the fundamental work of this higher training of our youth. i Now, as we are entering upon a new éentury, with all its momentous problems before us let me ask in all honesty, were the thoughts and purposes of those dis- tinguished gentlemen vain and visionary or were they seed thoughts of truth and reality ? To-day, and for the immediate future, men of the highest culture and training are needed, not only for the professions, and the chief departments of government, but for the great work of the American en- gineer, both mechanical and electrical, which is now just at hand. Great rail- roads are to be baiit, canals to be con- structed, deserts to be cultivated, cables to be laid, the countries that border the Pacific to be developed and the tropics to be enlightened and evangelized. We need men of the highest training, both of the head and the heart, to adequately meet the responsibilities of the future. “The opportunity for the educational and untrained is past and gone. The day, for the young man with a well developed character, and a trained mind is just at hand. The sphere of governmental serv- ice, in all the technical, scientific and in- dustrial pursuits, is open and attractive to him, as never before since time began. The harvest is white and ready for his sickle. I6 may be asked how are the trained men of to-day filling these positions of trust? We have only to look over the broad and varied fields of service for the answer. 1’ think aboat 1 per cent. ‘of our youth ‘have had the training of our higher schools and colleges, and yet out of this small percentage there are chosen more men to fill the governmental departments and oth- er places of trust and responsihility, where’ expert service is demanded, than from the millions of those who are untrained in this higher education. It has been stated that the fouuders of our town had fructified their thought by erecting a building where the ground work of this higher education should be laid. Now, in looking over the past, has this in- stitution in any humble measure met the expectation and served the purpose of its founders? Was their investinent a sore one, and has it yielded reasonably fair re- tures? What are some of its results. It has to-day graduate pupils as clergymen in'most of the" religious denominations. It has contributed a fair’ percentage’ 0 the professions of law and medicine and jour- nalism.. . It has worthy representatives in the army aod navy. Its graduates fill responsible positions in the railroads of our land, in the mechanical and electrical engineering service of large and wealthy companies and the varied commercial and industrial pursuits of life. Neither bas the Bellefonte Academy. waned or weakened, but has waxed stronger and grown wiser inits experience, and bet-, ter fitted to help meet the coming issues. and to do a better work for the generations |. of the century just entered upon. May its eminence of location indicate the enlarge- ; ment of its future usefulness, Its present pupils number more than a hundred bright | and promising young men and women. It | has a fall corps of teachers, each a christ- ian, educated instructor. It has a com- plete. eurrienlam of stady to meet fully. the preparation of youth for college or ‘a busi- ness life. ‘The Bible is its chart and best classic and its discipline i is parental, kind hus jast. Such are some of the collisions and the equipment of the Academy to-day ~~ What’ do its friends and patrons think of ite fu- ture? What do you propose? What do you determine for the twentieth century ? —~—~THEODORE P. Wrrates, who has | heen oity editor of the Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin for some time is looking over Ridgway: as a field for a daily newspaper. He bas met with varving encouragement. The Elk Democrat is, no doubt, very ‘near the truth when it intimates that the local weekliea have frequently canvassed ‘the community and in their judgment it is not | yet large enough to support the kind of a daily paper the people would want. Lt ¥ RE Suberihe for % Wir, ody 0 ‘| matter was bronght before the Centre coun- ) NC —— jot TT - Is Our Free Government Dying 3 From the Doylestawn Democrat. If the Spooner bill shall pass Congress: for the government of the Philippines, will clothe the President with soli. power, as much, if, not more than any po- tentate in the world possesses. The salient features of this measure are found in the following extract from the bill: “When all insurrection (in the Philippines) shall have been completely Supfise ressed by the military and naval forces of the United States all military, civil and judicial powers necessary to govern the said islands shall, until ntherwise pro- vided by Congress, pe vested in such person and persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct for ‘maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of said islands in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property : aud religion.” This is plain enough. Under the guise of protecting the Filipinos in the enjoy- ment of their liberty, property and relig- ion,”’ they are made the absolnte subjects of the President of the United States. The administration imperialists pretend to find avthority, for their proposed action, in the act relating to the temporary government of Louisiana after its purchase, but when we compare the two—we find them wholly dif- ferent—Lonisiana was purchased of France in 1803. and, during the same session. of Congress, an "act was passed for its tempo- rary control, of which the following isan extract: Until the expiration of the present session of Congress, or unless provision he sooner made for ‘the temporary government of the said territories, all the military, civil and judicial powers exer- cised by the icers of the existin Government of the same shall be vested in such person and persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of Louisiana in the full enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion. The power given the President was granted only ‘‘until the expiration of the present session of Congress.’ Asa matter of fact, before the session expired, Congress had divided the Louisiana purchase -into two territories and an Act was passed estab- lishing territorial government over them. The treatment of Louisiana is not a prec- edent for the proposed government of the Philippines, the latter making the Presi- dent the absolute personal ruler of the islands. The fact of their misrepresenta- tion of the Act for the government of Louisiana, shows the conspirators against Republican government are nob honest. The resort to a lie is always evidence of fraud and deception. If the Spooner hill should get through Congress, it will be a great political outrage, greater than the theft of the presidency in 1876. With such political degeneracy, we cannot expeet our system of free government to last. much longer. Such ireatment of a prostrate peo- ple, and attempt to establish the rule of tyranny over them, would have horrified every American fifty years ago, now. the majority party of the conntry are prepared |; to do it, with hardly a i in hil own ranks. The country is r when the Stars and Stripes w i no me amet i represent. ‘theland of the free and of the brave.’ Tr Judge Love Likened Unto a Dull School’ Boy. From the Harrisburg Star-Independence. The decision of Judge’ ‘Love, affirming the right of the Governor to cut appropria- tions in a manner other than that author- ized by the constitution, will find little, if, any, respect in the public mind. The ty judge for the purpose of getting such a decision. It is so palpably contrary to law and reason that ‘the only effect it can pos- sibly have is to increase popular contempt for political judges. The opinion of the court is predicated. on precedents ‘established ‘by previous govern: | ors. ‘‘His distinguished predecessors in, office for twenty years past,’’ the judge de- clares, ‘‘exercised the power of veto upon appropriation bills in practically the same way.!’ But as a matter of fact they didn’t do anything of the kind. ' They exercised the ‘power of veto upon appropriation bills ‘in. precisely the way the constitu- tion authorized them to: do. Governor Stone ‘was the first. Governor to -ex- ercise the power in another way. Judge Love’s reasoning to the effect that a veto of the school appropriation bill would be a violation of the constitution because an appropriation of not less’ than one million is made mandatory by that in- strument is simply absurd. The mandate referred to is not on the Governor, but on the Legislature and the constitutional right -of the Governor to veto is absolutely un- restricted. Any boy able to keep up with his classes in a primary school would know, better than the Centre county judge ap- pears to, the law in that respect. It is a great, pity that the judicial office can be prostituted in the way that .it ap- pears to have been in this case. A matter in which only the Dauphin county court bas jorisdiction is brought in another tr unal manifestly because a perversion of the law i is wanted “rather than an interpreta- tion and the desired Berversion is based on such palpable absurdities as to provoke oni- versal contempt, Only a few such. inei- dents would be necessary to distro. the usefulness of the courts. The County 8 Statement. The statement of “thie Susveis! condition for 1900, as made by the Auditors, is. pre- sented to you in this issue, with: the . .com- pliments of the Commissioners. They have no apologies to make, for it needs none. The trath is they are to be congratulated by every tax payer in Centre county for the excellent showing it makes. ! With six times as much money spent on bridge accounts, twice as much given ‘in exonerations, nearly eight times as much id for commissions on collections and the ‘notes against the county reduced one-half over those of the preceding year, when a ‘Republican board was in-control, they still ‘show ‘a cash balance in the’ Treasurer's ‘hands of $14,055.84, which is nearly $2,000 in excess of that of the preceding year. ‘The statement should receive “your careful attention. You shonid’ kihow ex-' raotly where your nioney is going and itis due’ the Commissioners that you shonid | acquaint yourself with the facts and give’ them credit’ for rtbeir careful’ manaeieNs -~Char Mitch’ Seaght in cog sr at the Lebanon rolling mille Mandar was fatal- ly injured. — —Judge Little, at. Bleep. refused a new trial to Riter Goss, convicted of killing John Cole. —Charged with robbing a store at Bain- bridge, Jeremiah Brightbill was arrested at Palmyra, Monday. —The next couvention of the League of Cities of the Third Class will be held in"Erie, June 25th, 26th and 27th. —Reading women who go out house-clean- ing and washing will form an organization and adopt a seale of prices. —Rev. Jacob J. Cressman, of Kurtztown, has resigned as pastor of the Frieden’s Luth- eran church, Bernville. —Operators agreeing to pay semi-monthly, the strike at the Royal Oak Colliery, at Shamokin, ended Monday. —Application for 459 licenses to sell liquor in Berks county have been filed, a falling off of sixteen as compared with last year. —William K. Myers, struck by a locomo- tive and knocked down an embankment, at Shippensburg, Monday, was seriously in- jured. —DMay Brink and Daisy Hartman, 14-year- old Easton girls, who ran away from home last Friday are believed to be in Philadel- phia. : —John G. W. Myers, arrested on charges of incendiarism at Hanover, waived a hear- ing there Monday, and his case will go to court next April. —By the will of Miss Rebecca Hamilton, $500 each is left to the Witmer Home for Aged Women and the First Presbyterian chureh, in Lancaster. —Edward P. Swarp, of Gallitzin, a Penn- sylvania railroad brakeman, was struck by the Pennsylvania limited train in the Cone- maugh yards Saturday night and instantly killed. —The Tyrone division has been handling some of the large steel one hundred thousand capacity cars on the mountain for three days past. This is the first of the large cars that have been placed in the coal trade in this district. ~The largest tree in Indiana county is a pine on the Hoover company’s track at “Hooverhnrst.. It is nearly two hundred feet tall and is fifty-eight inches in diameter at the butt. The tree has been left standing as a curiosity. —Michael Sohl, of South Williamsport, on Tuesday drew $2,400 from a bank in that city, since which time he has not been seen Sohl’s family who cannot account for his ‘absence, are worried at his failure to return home. —Milton 8. Sooh, Maitland, Mifflin. coun- ty, a brakeman on the Pennsylvania rail- road, in cutting his train Sunday evening, slipped under the wheels and was killed, the body being dragged 400 feet. He was soon to have been married to Miss Annie. David- sizer, who was waiting at the crossing at the time of the accident for the train to pass: —Harry Trimmer, of Hecla, Westmore- Jad county, met with a serious accident Sat- | ‘ard lay while shooting mark with an old army |The barrel exploded and his left ‘was so badly injured that it had to be amputated at the wrist. Young Trimmer ‘was in a critical condition, but ‘it is now thought that he will recover. +—Rev, David H, Campbell, pastor of the Preshyterian church at Mt. Union, and well known throughout Central Pennsylvania, died at his home in the above named place Thursday evening of plenro pnenmonia, -af- ter an illness of less than 4 week. He was a native of Blair county, a veteran of the civil war, and was aged 54 years, 6 months and 3 days. His wife and two daughters survive. —Mrs. M. B. Lever, of Tyrone, submitted to an operation at Cooper hospital, Camden, Tuesday, and it was entirely successful re- sulting in the restoration of her voice. Mrs. Lever had suffered for the past ten years from an affection of the throat, which now seems happily at an end. She will remain at the hospital for about three weeks. The operation was performed by Dr. J.S. Baer, who is ason-ig-law of F. D. Beyer, of Tyrone. —A tool chest was robbed at the Bucher planing mill at Altoona Saturday night. About the same time the robbery occurred Patrolman Harlow dreamed he saw the rob- bery of a tool chest in a planing mill and that he saw the man who cemmitted the deed. He told of his dream yesterday and gave the man’s name, and it was that of the man who had actually committed the deed. The tools were recovered. They had been pawned for $1.75, —George Whipple, of Hughesville, Lycom- ing county, had a thrilling ride on the frout part of a freight engine early Monday morn- ing. He was driving across the Reading railroad tracks at Saeger’s station, when he was run down by an engine. The locomo- tive, in strking the carriage, cut the horse loose, while the vehicle, with Whipple i in it, was carried along on the cow-catcher. Final- 1y the carriage was thrown to one side sev- eral hundred feet from where the accident occurred. Whipple was unhurt. sid —C. K. Sober, the wealthy lumberman and crack shot, of Lewisburg, and a member of the State Game Commission has been work- ing zealously with legislators to secure ‘the ‘passage of a law permitting the killing of game without restriction and the sale of game within the state. His action has aroused the indignation of his fellow commissioners, who are trying to prevent the very thing Sober seeks to accomplish, and it is probable that he will be asked by Governor Stone to resign from the board of commissioners. —The Central Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal Conference: will meet in annual session in Chambersburg on Wednesday, ‘March 27th, and continue in session for ome week. The Central Pennsylvania Confer- ‘ence is one of the largest in the denomination, ‘haying 62,871 full members and 5,803 proba- tioners. There are 248 pastoral charges, but ‘many of these are circuits, with from two, to five preaching places, In, addition to those /in active service there are a goodly number of veteran preachers who have retired from ‘active service, but who always comes td con - ‘ference. | Besides ‘these there “will ‘be the ‘young eandidates for admission to the min n try and also the seeretaries of the missionary and other benevolent societies: | i 13 ‘of the | county’s:business. 1
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