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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Moxpay's Waxrts,
A rod and a line,
A hook and a can
Of angle worms
For the fisherman.
Gum boots, a basket
Of lunch, and a bottle
Of bait for the frog
That gets in his throttle.
—The English have captured the Boer
capital again, but no Boers,
—The Punxsntawney Spirit wants to
know ‘how to make men out of boys.”
Let em grow up, brother SmiTH, that’s the
surest way.
—If an anti-spitting ordinance were
passed and enforced in Bellefonte we fear
that some of the street corner loafers would
drown in their tracks from internal floods.
—Tt is lucky for EGAN and some of tiie
rest of his ilk that the lime trust wasn’t
formed two years ago. The white-washing
they got then might have been far more
costly than it was.
—Every man, woman and child in
this’ community will join us in the prayer
that should our lime industries be absorbed
by the proposed trust they will not meet
the fate of the old Mann ax works.
—The English army has stopped buy-
ing horses and mules in this country, but
that is no sign that the warin South Africa
is over. Mayhaps they are going to put
the **Bobbies”’ all on foot so that they will
have to fight the Boers or he captured.
Russia is said to be satisfied at last
and will not fight Russia just at this time
and, we suppose, the Czar of all the Russias
is breathing as easy now as all those stu-
dent troubles and attempts at assassination
will permit.
— Yesterday brought the hands out of the
pockets of many a lazy fellow it was so
mild and balmy, but they all had to find
a friendly hitching post or store front to
support them after they had gotten their
flippers out of winter quarters
—The pretty daughter of Admiral
Hi1CHBORN who has persistently declared
that she will wed young JIM BLAINE,
against the wishes. of both her father and
mother should have a care of the kind of
bed she is making, for she will certainly
have to lie in it.
—The Rev. SAVAGE, of New York,
who thinks that our vocations in Heaven
will he the same as they are here on earth
must certainly have original ideas as to the
qualifications for admittance to the heaven-
lv portals. We want another job when
we get up there, for Heaven won’t fulfill
our ideal at all if we have to be running
around after deliiquents all the time.
— Bellefonte borough lays 2 mills on a
total valuation of $1,600,000 for street pur-
poses which nets about $3,200. With this
the streets are kept in repair for an entire
year and the street lighting bills are paid.
As the lighting, alone, costs $4,800 a year
the uninitiated are naturally looking for
the recipe by which council is able to
keep the streets in repair on that minus
$1,600. !
—With FLixN and STONE gone into a
deal to capture the leadership in Pennsyl-
vania from the ‘‘old man’’ there seems to
be another combination of misfits on hand
in the Republican party. While we never
have bzen on the inside of the other camp,
as seen from our point of view the only
time QUAY will ever be licked is when
some of the opposition takes an undertaker
into the combine against him.
—The drunken oil well shooter who
drove recklessly through the streets of
Ravenna, Ohio, on Tuesday, had sixty-four
quarts of nitro-glycerine in his buggy and’
about one quart of fire water under his
vest. He drove over curbs, fences and
everything in sight, sending the towns-
people into shivers of fright, but the fire
water preserved him, for the nitro didn’t |
have the nerve to blow out such a beautiful
+ ——A country correspondent writes to
the Connellsville Courier that he “‘will
have to decline to quit corresponding’’ for
that valuable journal because he has ‘‘a
position now in which he hasn’t time to do
it" and editor HILARITY PLEASANT SNY-
DER picks up the poor fellow’s English.
in a wholly untenable fashion. Why
wouldn’t the correspondent in question de-
cline if he wants to quit or why shouldn’t
he quit if he declines ?
—The effort among learned men and
women to fix a code as to what does and
shall constitute a gentleman is likely to
result iu little more than the effort. For
while there are, in general, many char-
acteristics that must be found in a person,
before he can properly lay claim to the
honor of being a gentleman, they are so
widely diverging in their nature as to make
any set rule impossible. A gentleman might
be found ‘in the ‘occupant of the crudest
backwoods hut as well as in the cultured,
refined college settlements; a gentleman
might be found driving a coal wagon, as
well as presiding over the fortunes of some
great business enterprise;a gentleman might
be found among the roughest types of long
shoremen as well as among the first ‘cabin
passengers of the fastest ocean grev-hound.
Wherever honor, virtue, courtesy, in-
tegrity and respect for the rights of others
are found 1n a human being there can also
be found a gentleman; no matter what code
may be laid down by the learned men and
women who attempt to regulate such
things.
| diferent, tobe sported
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA
The Pittsburg Surprise.
An Atrocious Proposition.
The political sensation of the week was
of the appointment; Saturday, of Major
BROWN, of Pittsburg, to be Recorder of
that city. The appointment was made un-
der the recently enacted law known as the
Pittsburg “Ripper.” The act provided
that within thirty days after the signing of
the bill by the Governor, he should appoint
a man as Recorder of each of the three
Second class cities of the Commonwealth.
Within a few days of the time a Recorder
was appointed for Scranton. «That was
easy, as the Mayor of that city being of the
QuAY machine variety, was willing to lend
himself to the uses of the machine. But in
Pittsburg and Allegheny it was ' different.
In both of those cities the Mayors held out
for their rights and the Governor took the
full limit of time to make the appoint-
ments. Saturday was the last day and he
appointed men who have thrown the poli-
ticians into conniption fits.
It is not because the Governor has made
a bad appointment that the people are sur-
prised. After his previous use of the ap-
pointive power by which he has filled the
public service with political crooks and
moral degenerates the appointment of
Major BROWN caused astonishment because
it was so respectable. But that was not
the greatest source of surprise. The fact
that after a continuous and exceedingly
bitter contention of upwards of two years,
with Senator FLINN, he should name one of
the closest friends of the Insurgent leader
to the office is what took the breath
away. The bill was passed to tear FLINN’S
political influence in Pittsburg out by the
roots and scatter it to the four winds of
Heaven. But in enforcing it the Governor
has not only not done that but he has actual.
ly strengthened FLINN in his entrenchments
and made it possible to nail every friend of
QUAY in the city to the political cross.
Of course there are all sorts of conjectures
as to what influences produced this
phenomenal result. The most popular
notion, probably because it is the easiest to
reach, is that the Governor and FLINN have
formed a political alliance. With MAGEE
in his grave a man of FLINN’S temperg-
ment would naturally run to cover and as
STONE'S moral fibre is also of the spurious
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press who gets inspiration,
doubtless, from the Postmaster General,
who is editor of that paper, writes such
rubbish as this : “This talk of the United
States ever having made any pledge to the
Cubans is ridiculous. It would have been
impossible to make a pledge. Where were
the Cubans to whom this pledge was made?
The few thousand men who composed the
revolutionary army were scattered around
on inaccessible hill tops and in swamps and
certainly were in no position to demand a
pledge or receive one Not one in a thou-
sand of them ever heard of the TELLER
resolution until months after it had been
adopted by Congress. Hence to talk of the
United States having made a pledge to
these people is absurd.” As they say in
the play ‘‘and still we wonder at crime.”’
‘When the world was shocked by. the
atrocious crime committed in the harbor of
Havana, the blowing up of the war ship
“‘Maine,’’ war with Spain became inevita-
ble, and preparations for the encounter be-
gan on both sides. So far as this country
was concerned the ‘‘unpreparedness’ for
such a struggle was appalling. But Con-
gress was prompt and unanimous. With-
in a few days a resolution declaring war
was introduced and discussed. Pending
the consideration all conspicuous men in
both Houses protested that if war ensned
it would be one for humanity. The pro-
tests of faith in this direction were frequent
and almost unctious. Finally Senator
TELLER, of Colorado, who is practical,
moved an amendment to the declaration
of war to the effect that the purpose of the
United States was neither conquest nor
territorial aggrandizement, and that as
soon after the cessation of hostilities as the
Cuban people were able to establish a stable
government of their own, the United States
would withdraw from the Island and leave
the people to work out their own destiny.
That is the pledge made by the United
States, not to the people of Cuba alone but
to the whole world, and a more sacred and
binding obligation has never been taken
by any government in any period of the
world’s history. = Government pledges
are not made to individuals, but to:
the world. They are binding so long as
conscience guides the action of those be-
hind them. No act of Congress rests more
clearly on the citizens of this Republic
than that pledge to give liberty, indepen-
dence and self government to Cuba. It is
trae that Cuba bas not the strength to en-
force the obligation. She can’t collect
damages for a pledge forfeited by the Unit-
ed States with thirteen-inch guns on the
deck of a wat ship. But the violation of
the pledge is as much a crime as robbing a
bank and only the most depraved will rec-
ommend ite violation,
necessarily involve the sacrifice of Qu Y
and the old man is not lenient with those
who betray him. In view of all the condis
tions, therefore, it is reasonably safe to
out of politics with the expiration of hb
present term, and that after his election he
gave STONE ‘letters of marque’’ to engage!
inany form of political piracy ‘that would
promote his own selfish purposes. "The al-
liance with FLINN is the first exercise of
the right under that agreement and it is
like raising the black flag on the high seas
of polities. Ee 5
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The Capital Building.
Interesting Political Comedy.
An interesting bit of political, or sball
we say parliamentary, comedy was played
in Harrisburg last week, which deserves
more than a passing notice. It was the
actual revolt of the members of the Ways
and Means committee of the House of Rep-
resentatives ‘against the action of the’
chairman of the committee. It appears
that the chairman, _ex-State Treasurer
BEACON, has been holding all bills except:
such as he personally favored in his own
“inside pocket.” The members of the
committee objected to this and as
The spoliators who are striving to get in-
to the State Treasury under pretense of:
building a capitol have been getting some.
pretty hard jolts lately, and ‘there was a
time last week that it Tooked as if they
would be compelled to be reasonably hop-
est. When the Fox bill came up in the
Senate on third reading Senator FLINN
moved to amend by striking out the ma-
chine commission, the Auditor General,
monstrances proved President pro tem. of the Senate and Speak-
together and by resoltiofh very | er of the House of Representatives and in-
bill in the eon ‘00K ‘and in- | sert in their places any business men
Hd
on the | of high character and exoellent capaeity.
Sl
calendar. © 0 lis The amendment failed but ‘there were
Only those familiar with the proceedings | enough votes for it to admonish the spoliat-
of the House of Representatives will fully | ors of danger. Yan
appreciate the significance of such an action. :
As a rule all the ‘*pinch’’ bills. go to the
committee on’ Ways and Means. The
“‘pinch’’ bills are those introduced not to
pass, but to compel people interested in
the subject to which they refer to pay for
killing them. This year all such meas-
ures have been put in the pigeon hole. Mr.
BEACON said that this conrse was adopted
in order to save the reputation of the Leg-
islature. Some of the authors of the bills
say, however, that the chairman was doing
the collecting act and keeping for ‘his own
use all the proceeds. Be this as it may
the bills were kept in committee and were | sion composed of
unavailable for use as black-jacks to extort
money from interested persons. 4
The funny thing about the affair, how-
ever, was the brief life of the revolt. It.
occurred well on'in the middle of the after-
noon of last Friday and ‘ended before mid |
night. Beacon, whose dignity was
wounded by the affair, called up DURHAM
who had gone to Philadelphia, om the long}. J ey
distance phone, and told his ‘troubles. | yrinopdror of Williatspor
DURHAM came back on the first train and WeCogirion, of Wi
i illiame 5 gy HENRY
Bub or J. C. BULLITT, of Philadelphia ; 8.
summoned the recalcitrants to appear be- “ , of Philadelphia ; 8
for him. This they did with the usaal
P. WOLVERTON, of Sunbury ; B. F. MEY-
promptness and the boss ordered them to ERS, of Harrisburg, or RICHARD COULTER,
reassemble the committee and reverse | Of Westmoreland county. We do not insist
themselves. It was a most humiliating
¢ ) on all Democrats or even a majority of that
thing far Zien to do hab Shey bod Bg alter faith. Bat we do insist on. men of known
. m in carries | . : 3 BATHE
re DIERot os Hie roat | (itegtity and unquestionable intelligence,
lers have to get along without the proceeds | aud there are plenty of that kind of men in
of their Dlacemailing schemes. : both parties in this State.
There is the most urgent
capitol building at Harrisburg.
ent unsightly and unseemly mon:
a disgrace to the State and should be com:
pleted or torn down. But the people will
not consent to such a gigantic robbery in
order to provide such a building as is
needed. In other words they will not per-
mit the Legislature to put $5,000,000 into
the hands of a group of political adventur-
ers who will erect a $3,000,000 structure
and steal the difference. That such is the
the State themselves or permit anyone else
todoit.
Properly drawn the capitol construction
bill could be passed thtongh both branches
of the Legislature within a week. We do
.,» APRIL
sort, there would be nothing unnatural ia | °
their getting together. But that would. |.
reach the conclusion that QUAY is 1 oing
| other than a fit man possible.
wpletegls,
~
The New Attorney General.
The new Attorney General has been
sworn in and ‘attended his first Cabinet
was introduced to his assoziates and ac-
cording to the newspaper reports of the af-
fair, he made a favorable impression.
of affairs, has been making $100,000 a year
as attorney for the. CARNEGIE steel com-
parv and affiliated corporations, and knows
how +» make himself agreeable ii such a
company as he met at the President's
cabinet table. He was gracious enongh,
it may be said that the country is safe, |
It is to be hoped now that we will hear
nothing further of the Attorney General’s
reluctance to leave his profitable profes-
sional engagements and enter upon public
obligations at great sacrifices. That: farce
was over played in the case of Mr. KNOX,
who hesitated for several] weeks before con-
senting to the .self-abnegation. But it can
he said that the hesitation was all to the
galleries. In the privacy of the cabinet
chamber there was no hesitation. The
CARNEGIE concern having been absorbed
by the most colossal trust ever created the
attorney who had served it so faithfully
was needed where he could do the most
good. ‘Accordingly Mr.,J, PIERPONT MOR-
GAN demanded his appeintment and com-
was obeyed instantly.
We are also informed that the new At-
torney General will first turn his attention
to the prosecution of the worthy and re-
fined gentlemen of New York and Phil-
adelphia who assisted Captain OBERLIN
M. CARTER to rob the government of a
million dollars or two a few yeas ago. = It
will be remembered that strong efforts were
made to prevent the punishment of Captain
CARTER and they almost succeeded through
the friendly offices of Attorney General
GRIGGS, Mr. KNOX's predecessor in office.
The announcement that the others con-
cerned in the crimes are to be prosecuted
| now would_be significant if it were not
that the President tried his best to induce
IRIGGS to remain in office. Under
he entire lime interests of the
cou! 3 While we are not prepared to
makea ctatement as to the probable out-
‘come of it, at this time, it is true that the
three big'eompanies operating here, A. G.
Morris, McCalmont & Co., and A. A.
Stevens, have all been approached on the
matter and two of them have signified a
partial intent to go in.
The Democratic Organization.
As thie time for the reorganization of the
Democratic state committee approaches,
public interest in the subject multiplies.
A short time ago bat few names were men:
tioned in connection with the chairman«
ship and those were mostly of Democrats
whose connection with the QUAY lobby in
Hacrisburg, rendered them unfit to repre:
sent the party. But withip the past week
‘names of men have’ been brought forward
from all parts of the State, and under’ ex-
isting circumstances nothing. but the most,
direct betrayal of faith on the part of cer.
tain leaders will make the election of any
TH 5 fia
The leading papers of the State have
been discussing the kind of man ‘wanted
and thJre is so wide a discrepancy in their
that the subject acquires new in-
6. . A staff correspondent of the Phila-
\ Times; writing from Harrishurg the
welt long and with manifest sat-
ots the proposition that the Demoo-
a chairman who is thoroughly
th the pevious practices of prac:
tical city politicians knows all about
the influences of ‘General Spinner,’ mean-
sreenbacks in campaigning. Another
r holds that such a man is not wanted,
but as a matter of fact the chairman should
be so thoroughly grounded in integrity
that his personality would be a guarantee
that he had no familiarity with the men
| and 3 icated. ;
‘We agree with the views of the last
mentioned writer as to the ‘present needs
of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania.
The hope of our party is in commanding
‘the confidence of the masses of the people
aud aronsing the hopes oi the Democrats.
Both these results can be achieved by or-
| ganizing the party committee on the high-
¥
est plane, thus giving the public substan-
til assurance that the party deserves suc-
‘cess and having acquired it will not sell it
to the enemy for the consideration of pat-
ronage or money. The selection of a man
of the highest character for chairman will
accomplish this result. :
~From the amonut of indemnity de-
manded from China from the powers it ap-
pears that the widest open door taey are
after just now is that leading to the Em-
peror’s treasury.
32
12, 1901.
meeting on Tuesday of this week, when he
Naturally he would do that. He isa man
moreover, to say that he was pleased with |
his environment, and all things considered
manded the acceptance. “In both cases ‘he’
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
The President (advaneing to the footlights from
the center of a ehorus of ‘cabinet’ ministers and
Senators) :
When we told them we’d make them' a
And free them in time—
That we looked upon foreed annexation |
As aggression'and crime —
"When we lured them by every assurance
To fight by our side i
And flattered their pluck and endnrance
The fact is— {
Chorus (smiling) :
Why, the fact is, we'lied!
The President: ;
Now we're one of the great lying powers.
In the days of our youth, a
When struggle and weakness were ours,
Then we dabbled in truth,
But when we grew big like the others
And strong in our pride,
Gave our word to our weak island brothers,
The fact is—
Chorus (chuckling) :
Why, the fact is, we lied !
nation
The President : }
We have joined the great circle of robbers.
It was tong, long ago Ly
That we criticised grabbers and jobbers
And were honest and slow. be
Now we're laughing from Main downto Texas
At the idiots who cried,
“But you promised us not to annex us!"
For the fact is— ' 51
Chorus (laughing) :
The fact is, we lied’!
The President: od
Thus the Czar swore to Riga and Finland
With a lie for an oath,
And then from the coast away inland
He trampled on both, ;
Thus the nobles who govern Great Britain
. Told lies on. the Nile
And canceled the pledge they had written
In falsehood and guile.
i
And we, are we less than the British,
Whose word is so glib?
He must be uncommeonly skittish
Who shies at a fib!
Shall we yield to the masterful Russian
As he perjures his name? ’
It is hardly a thing for discussion—
‘We must play the same game.
Thank the Lord, we are not sentimental !
It is dollars and trade
That govern the soul governmental,
That's the way we are made.
If we praise up the old Declaration
On the Fourth of July
And man’s equal rights by creation,
| The fact is—
All Together (winking) :
Why, the fact is, we lie!
— Ernest. Crosby in Life,
These are People Who Really Mind
Their Own Business. | ila
From the Altoona Tribune, :
No less surely is a private citizen's
dwelling his castle, over which no hostile
foot dare cross without his consent, save at
its own peril, than that the same citizen’s
personality is his own affair and not an-
others. His pecularities, his business, his
family relations, his habits, his opinions,
his benefactions are his own, and nobody
has either the legal or the moral right, to
drag him to the front and expose his frail-
ties or his virtues to the glare of publicity.
It is true some persons enjoy the notoriety
of public print. They forever itch ta. see
their names in type and would rather be
notorious than unknown. But these are
the exceptions. The men and women who
do the world’s work from day to day are
quiet, unobtrusive people, and they decid-
edly object to the mistaken kindness of the
reportorial friend who would extol their
virtues in public.and no less to the impu-
dence . or the malice which attempts to
make them the subject of public ridicule or
contemapt. When one enters public life
'the case is different. He must then. sub-
mi to the indiscreet and untimely praise
of ignorance, as well as to the slander of
‘malice. Sometimes it is hard to bear, but
it is the penalty which, the ‘American pub-
lic man pays for the privilege of being a
public servavt. . Feds al
‘Such Men are Few.
From the Doylestown Democrat. dt
. The Morgan billion dollar steel trust in-
vited Abram S. Hewitt to enter that great
combine with his iron mills, but he de-
clined. . The reason of his refusal does hon-
or to his head and heart, and may be sum-
med up in a few words ; that be had some
five hundred workmen, who had been en-
conraged to buy or build houses in the vi-
cinity of his mills, and he was not willing
to endanger their investment by placing
them under non-resident : ma ment,
‘which might close down the works and
throw them out of employment.’’ Such an
employer is worthy of employes, and be-
tween them, there will always be harmony
of interest. y i i {Harel
The World’s Disgrace.
From the Williamsport Sun. Ly
The story of the looting of the Chinese
by the soldiers of the allied powers was
bad enough, but the revelations of ont-
rages upon Chinese women by these same
soldiers, now finding their way into print,
are almost too shocking for belief in this
age of boasted civilization. Those who
bow to the god of war will have to answer
to the great and only God for the deeds of
infamy that have followed the invasion of
China. As was the case in the looting,
the American troops have been exonerated
of participation in the terrible crimes com-
mitted upon the Chinese women.
re error
What Japan Objects To.
| YOKOHAMA, April 9.—The dissatisfac-
tion of Japan with Russia’s action is not
in regard to the Manchurian of reement;
the leading ‘papers here affirm, but with
Russia’s action in: Manchuria. Hence
Japan declines, according to an important
section of the press, to consider the abandon-
ment of the agreement as a final settle
ment of the Manchurian question. It is
argued that this question should be brought
before a conference of the ministers, like
the other Chinese questions.
em al
ne.
nt,
~The Superior court convened at Pitts:
burg on Monday.
— Mrs. Catharine Bunk, of Farmers, aged
69, was'on' Monday married to her fifth ‘hus-
band; the other four being dead.
—The repairs: to: the Everett: glass works
have been completed and fires started and
the blewers expect to return to work during
this week.
—Charles Parker, an aged citizen of Bun-
ker Hill, Sugar Valley, was stricken with
apoplexy, while shelling cern a few days ago.
He fell off his chair to the floor and fractured
“his left arm. :
sna
—By a strange coincidence an eight-day
clock which has been in a Norristown family
for over a century stopped at the very min-
ute Helen R. Corson, an intimate friend of
the family, died at her home, in King-of-
Prussia, four miles distant.
—An abandoned mine, which runs under
the residence portion of the Association
grounds at Connellsville caved in on Mon-
day. About 100 yards of earth caved in on
Connell avenue, carrying with it parts of
dwellings, out-houses and stables,
—Charles Wagner, employed in a saw mill
at Lewisburg, Friday fell against a buzz saw,
which severed his hand. Wagner picked up
his hand, walked to the telephone and sum-
moned a physician to his home, and then
walked home and had his arm dressed.
—The saw mill owned by the Indiana Lad-
der company which was located on the Albert
Shearer farm in Buffington township,Indiana
county, was totally destroyed by fire last
Saturday evening. The mill was new and
had been only recently located at Shearer’s.
No lumber was destroyed, and the loss on
the mill is fully covered by insurance.
—At Williamsport Sunday night, Mrs.
Coney was astounded to see-a strange man
walk boldly into her room through the front
door. Her cries brought her daughter, Ella,
into the hallway. Without any hesitancy
the girl hurled herself against the intruder
with such force as to send him through the
doorway, when she closed and: bolted the
door. Then she telephoned the police.
—Chief engineer William H. Brown, of
the Pennsylvania railroad Monday awarded
the contract for the construction of the new
elevated railroad through Newark, N. J.
The name of the successful bidder was not
made known. Mr. Brown also issued pro-
posals for the construction of six sections of
double track, aggregating thirty-two miles,
between Lock Haven and Keating on the
Philadelphia and Erie branch.
—Mrs. Walter Li. Main, wife of the well-
known circus man, has returned from Cali-
fornia to Jefferson, Pa., and filed a cross
petition to her husband’s suit for divorce.
She denies his charge of neglect, and makes
the counterclaim that he had neglected and
abused her.- On one occasion, in 1892, when
she lay at the point of death, she said, he
left lier and went to a place of amusement.
She asks for their home at Geneva, and
liberal alimony money, in addition to divorce.
—Johu Gulick, who murdered his mother
and brother, was taken from his cell into
jail office at Sunbury Monday, where he was
arraigned before justice of the peace Shipman
on two charges of murder. When: asked
“guilty or not guilty 2’ the prisoner was
peechless. His counsel, J. Simpson Kline,
answered “Not gafity” in'hisstead: Through
out the whole proceeding Gulick showed no
emotion, whatever. His defense will be
insanity.
—Charles Losch, 25 yearsold, a farmer of
Tomb’s Run Lycoming county, had been
missing from his home since early Saturday
morning. Tuesday a party of searchers
found his body in the forest about: a mile
from his home. The body was lying face
downward, the head resting in a pool of wa-
ter only two inches deep. There were no
marks of violence on the body aud it is pre-
sumed that he was attacked by some sort of
fit and falling into. the shallow water was
suffocated. :
—Tast week'a giant red oak which has
stood as a great sentinel in the lumber forests
of Knox township, Clearfield county, and
which has been admired by hundreds, was
felled on the job of Samuel Mountain and
Clarence Witherow recently. It measured
seven and one-half feet across the stump and
cut five logs which’ scaled 7,109 feet. Thus
one by one, says the Public Spirit these old
forest land marks are vanishing and very
shortly the last raft will go down the Sus-.
quehanna. ald #4 . rd
“Charles Clinton, the 18 month old son of
: Harry €. and Margaret E. Smelser, of Al-
toons, died Friday evening from poison.’
About 10 o'clock in the morning the child
went to the kitchen cupboard where on a
lower shelf was setting a dish ‘containing a
quantity of dye, which had been, used in
coloring Easter eggs. The child swallowed
a mouthfal of the dye and then went into
the sitting roo where on the table lay sev-
eral morphine pellets, which had been
prescribed for the mother, and which she
bad let lay. fora few minutes. He caught
hold of the table spread and in pulling it the
pellets dropped on the floor, and he picked
up several of them, it is not ‘knowp how
many, and swallowed them. ‘A ‘physician
| stated that two pellets were sufficient ‘to
Sele a ts
=A very unfortunate affair occurred Mon-
day afternoon at McCartney, the terminus
of the Moshannon branch. Johni Howard, a
well-known ‘and highly esteemed citizen: of
sceola, is mine boss at the Fairmont mines,
operated by the Liverights at McCartney.
That afternoon a couple of Hungarians went
to the mines, and finding Mr. Howard be-
tween the mouth of the drift and the tipple,
asked for work. They were told that there
was no opening for them at the present time.
We understand that they kept on insisting
that they be given employment, and as Mr.
Howard was very busy at the time, he or-
dered them to leave and no longer interfere
with his work. This they refused to do, and
in the midst of the affray that beceame more
exciting, Mr. Howard picked up a shovel
and in self defense struck ‘one of the men on
the head. Unfortunately the blow proved
fatal, the man dying not long after. Mr.
Howard gave himself up tothe authorities
without delay. Noone than he feels more
keenly: the sad termination of this unex-
pected tragedy. He is known as a quiet,
sober and highly esteemed citizen, and there
is very general ‘regret that this trouble has
overtaken him, soa wily