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BY P. GRAY
Ink Slings.
I'd rather be a cake of ice,
Away up at the pole,
Or be a poor Hawaiian
And be boss’d around by Dole ;
Than be that learned Algie Crook,
Professor, fool, or “sis,”
Who lived for forty years or more
And never had a kiss,
—It is not strange that there was so
much blow about Buffalo on Monday.
ROOSEVELT was there in all his glory and
gush.
—The population of Ireland has decreas-
ed 5.3 per cent. during the last decade, but
the falling off is easily accounted for when
the increase in the New York police force
during the same period is noted.
—GROVER CLEVELAND'S household is
quarantined on account of the diphtheria
and the Hon. GROVER is penned up inside.
Wouldn't this be a fine time for DAVE
HILL to reorganize the Democratic party,
though ?
—Our Presbyterian friends who have so
lately discovered such a supply of sin in
Philadelphia on Sunday, might find an ex-
cess of the same article on week days, if
they would scratch out the eracks and
corners carefully. :
— Now that Philadelphia is rid of its ex-
travagant public building commission pos-
sibly that city will be able to help herself
a listle in the vital matter of making the
Delaware deep enough to accommodate the
larger vessels that cannot enter that port.
—Even in the face of the fact that the
State Treasurer reports a surplus in the
treasury, people wonder why the Legisla-
tare does not adjourn. And the same peo-
ple boast of their intelligence and imagine
they understand the motives that move
men.
—Failing in other reforms the failure of
the Legislature to provide a way for the
payment of old Legislative sprees, gives
hope that we will have at least a little
junket reform, out of the long session at
Harrisburg. For this much we should be
truly thankfal.
—England now has 249,000 soldiers in
South Africa. Already 14,978 have died
and 17,209 have been wounded and the
trouble is not over yet. Verily, Oom
PAUL spoke the truth when he said : “We
may be conquered, but if so it will be at
a cost that will stagger humanity.’
—It’s a pull between the regular and
the JEFFERSONIAN Democrats of Philadel-
phia, as to which shall be allowed to fur-
nish chairman CREASY with headquarters
for his organization. Mr. CREASY would
doubtless vastly prefer that each of these,
so-called, Democratic bodies would get to
pulling to see which can furnish the party
nominees the greatest number of votes.
—ANDREW CARNEGIE’S latest gift is an
amazing example of that remarkable man’s
generosity. He has given $11,000,000 to
pay the expenses of deserving Scottish
students at the leading Universities of
Scotland. It is wonderful, and at last
people should begin to regard, serionsly,
Mr. CARNEGIE’S oft-expressed intention of
dying poor.
—Minister CONGER is evidently going to
have trouble making himself the candidate
of the Republicans of Iowa for Governor.
He didn’t “fight, bleed and die’’ realistic-
ally enough in the siege of Pekin to stam-
pede the Republicans of his native State to
him, and it is beginning to look as if the
President will find himself the embarrassed
owner of a white elephant.
—After ALGIE CROOK’S announcement
that he had never been kissed it was too
much for Dr. Clark, of the Chicago Univer-
sity, to advise young men not to marry
College bred girls. The Doctor and ALGIE
are evidently friends of the closest kind,
for it is quite apparent that he is trying to
get even with the ladies for having permit-
ted ALGIE to grow into all these years
without having known the bliss of a kiss.
—GEORGY WASHINGTON declined to ac-
cept a third term of the Presidency because
he believed it was not for the best interests
of the country for one man to serve so long
a time. Wonld WILLIAM McKINLEY de-
cline a third term ? We apologize for ask-
ing such an unfair question. Unfair be-
canse McKINLEY is so much (2) greater
man than WASHINGTON that he knows his
country (?) needs him as long as he can
stay. -
—General BATES is home from the Phil-
ippines and is being kept as busy as a man
with the itch trying to explain the treaty
he made with the Sultan of the Suln
islands. The General declares that the
Sultan promised not to cut any of our
throats when we go over there and he was
tickled so much with our flag that he run
it up over his harem at once. Of course
there is very little wind on the island of
Jolo, where the Sultan lives, and the Gen-
eral had to agree to raise $12,000 worth
through the United States treasury and send
it over every year to keep the flag flying.
—The race question is becoming more
serious with each succeeding day. ‘The
North is just beginning to have a real
taste of what the South has had to endure
for years, and from the reports constantly
coming in from all parts of the State the
dose is not being relished at all in Penn-
sylvania. There is no real reason why
whites and blacks should not live happily
together. The trouble seems to be that
the latter do not appreciate the fact that
they are a dependent people and as long as
such conditions exist they must be content
in the privileges given them by the whites.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 46
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 24, 1901.
Ne Excuse For This Appropriation.
Philadelphia is to the front again, at
Harrisburg, asking that out of the treasury
of the people of the State $200,000 be tak-
en and expended in shoveling the mud out
of the Delaware river. This for the sole
benefit of the people of that city and its
shipping and business interests.
If the farmers of the country were to ask
that Philadelphia people should be taxed
to make the country roads so that the
products of the farm could be cheaply mar-
keted, or if the country merchant should
demand that the State should be at the ex-
pense of providing him high-ways and by-
ways that would enable him to compete
with those more favorably located, they
would only be asking for themselves what
Philadelphia business men, have the effron-
tery, to request when they are begging the
State to make the Delaware navigable for
them.
If it is either the duty, or the right of
the State, to help Philadelphia by assist-
ing it to provide facilities for increasing its
business it would have the same right, and
be under the same obligations, to aid every
other business locality in the Common-
wealth in the same way. Begin this busi-
ness once and where in the name of com-
mon sense would the end be ?
When, however, we come to remember
that within the past dozen years, Philadel-
phia business men have contributed over
two millions of dollars to debauch voters
in the interest of Republican candidates, it
is difficult to understand why that city
should come begging for a few hundred
thousand dollars, to open it a navigable
outlet to the sea. It is equally difficult
for the average citizen to convince himself
that a city that can raise the amount of
money Philadelphia annually does for the
benefit of ward-heelers, repeaters, bribers,
and ballot box-stuffers, deserves or should
receive either support or assistance from
outsiders.
It is true that the Delaware river needs
shoveling out. It is also true that the
business interests of that city would re-
ceive much more benefit from having i
put in condition, that ordinary vessels
could navigate it, than from the success of
the Republican “party. But its business
men can’t see it in that light. They go
on dumping their money into the Republi-
can campaigu treasury, and then have the
gall to ask that the people of the State he
taxed and robbed to do what they are am-
ply able and should do for themselves.
A city that can raise $600,000 in five
hours to satisfy MARK HANNA'S political
demands, as Philadelphia boasts of having
done only one year ago, surely has little
reason to ask financial assistance from the
public when its bigh-ways become clogged
with filth, and its commerce goes into a
decline, because of a lack of enterprise or
liberality on the part of its own people.
Unjust to the People.
On Monday evening, by a strictly parti-
san vote, the House of Representatives at
Harrisburg committed to the Committee on
Rules a resolution to fix a date for final ad-
journment of the Legislature. The resolu-
tion named June 1st as the day for dissolu-
tion, and in view of the present backward
state of the business’it was clear that ad-
journment on that day is out of the ques-
tion. But Mr. CREASY offered to move an
amendment fixing June 14th, or to per-
mit any Republican to name any day that
the leaders of that party would agree on.
The majority preferred to leave the matter
to the determination of the future, how-
ever, and referred the resolution for burial
in the committee. ]
For more than three weeks the Legisla-
ture has been dragging along without do-
ing anything of public interest or advan-
tage. The time is being spent in the dis-
cussion of trifling measures of limited in-
terest. In the Senate absolutely nothing
has been done within that time. The body
has been is session one or two days a week
for from thirty minutes to an hour each
sitting and the House might as well not have
been in session at all. It is not that there
isn’t something to do. In the Senate com-
mittee, on elections, the VAN DYKE primary
election bill is quietly reposing and there
are important bills in the other committees.
But they are not hronght out for considera-
tion and there is therefore nothing to do.
Every day’s session of the Legislature
costs the people from $2,000 to $2,500. If
any good was being accomplished the ex-
pense would he no just subject of com-
plaint. But holding the Legislature in
session at such an expense to the State in
order to achieve some hidden political pur-
pose is an injustice and outrage which ought
to be resented. The people are not so pros-
perous that they can take on new and need-
less burdens to subserve the selfish ends of
machine politicians. Money thus taken
from the earnings of the people deprive
the children of the commonwealth of neces-
saries, educational or otherwise. Men who
tamely submit to such robbery of their
families are unjust to themselves,
y es
——Sabscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Bumptious Mr. Beveridge.
Senator BEVERIDGE, of Indiana, an-
nounces that he is going to Europe to study
commercial conditions there. We are not
getting enough of the trade of Europe, this
bumptious Hoosier thinks, and he is going
over for a few days just to put the commer-
cial interests over there right.
That reminds us of an incident in the
life of the late General JoEN A. Log-
AN. “Black Jack,’ as he was called was a
man of considerable ability and unquestion-
able force. But nobody else put quite as
high an estimate on his capabilities as he
did bimself. In fact he earnestly believed
that no question was too complicated for
him to master in a moment, and "however
involved a problem might be he wonld un-
dertake to solve it at sight.
It will be remembered that along about
1870 the greenback theory ran over the
country ‘‘like fire in an August clearing, ’’
as Colonel MeCLURE would put it. It was
a rather abstruse question and puzzled the
ablest minds in the country. In Congress
and out, it was debated incessantly and on
the hustings it was the theme of which
spell-binders never wearied. Such intel-
lectual giants as BECK, of Kentucky ;
THURMAN and PENDLETON, of Ohio;
CONKLING, of New York, and BLAINE, of
Maine, confessed that it staggered them.
SUMNER, of Massachusetts, and FESSEN-
DEN, of Connecticut, ‘‘shied’’ off from it
and in fact the ablest minds of the country
were puzzled. Imagine thesurprise of all,
one day, when General LOGAN arose in his
place and announced that he was ready to
settle the question “finally and forever.”
He had studied the subject overnight, he
declared, and mastered it. Thereupon he
began a speech which lasted two or three
days and nobody ever could find out what
it meant.
Since that experience there has been no-
body in the Senate quite as bumptious un-
til young Mr. BEVERIDGE, of Indiana,
reached that august body a couple of years
ago. In fact before he got there at all, the
country had acquired some knowledge of
him. As soon as his election was secured
he announced that he was going to the
Philippines to see what was the matter
there and settle everything. He did ‘go
and nearly got lost in the mountains. Bat
unfortunately somebody found him and in
due course of time he returned and with a
flourish eof oratorical trumpets gave his
experience in a speech in the Senate which
was not unlike that of LOGAN'S on the
greenback question. His self appointed
mission to Europe will probably be fulfill
ed in the same way.
Speaker Marshall’s Characteristics.
When WiLLiam T. MARSHALL was can-
vassing the Members-elect of the Legisia-
lature for the office of Speaker, a contem-
porary observed that, better than any other
of the eligibles for the place,he would serve
the purposes of Quay. Stolid, courageous,
without conscience and with no guide to
his actions other than the exigencies of
politics, he was pre-eminently the man
that QUAY needed in the chair and he has
served him to the full limit of his ability.
No rules serve to restrain him when politic-
al necessities point the way. No law
holds him in check when party require-
ments urge him on. He is essentially of
the machine and obedient to the mandates
of the bosses.
In the history of the Pennsylvania legis-
lature no man has occupied the Speaker’s
chair who was constituted like WILLIAM
T. MARSHALL. Slow in mental opera-
tions, absolutely indifferent to public
opinion and entirely reckless of conse-
quences to himself or anybody else, he has
ridden rough-shod over the rights of the
members as he has trodden under foot the
traditions of the body, and held in con-
tempt his obligations to the constitution
and the law. Destitute of personal pride
he pays no attention to consistency and
will reverse himself as readily as he en-
courages the falsification of the records of a
roll call. There is nothing sacred to such
a man except party success. a :
It is a misfortune that such men, can
through subserviency to party bosses, im-
pose themselves on the public in important
places. It indicates degenerate public
morals. If there were less disregard of the
proprieties such individuals would be
condemned to universal popular execration
instead of being elevated to important offi-
ces. If character, ability or fitness should
be made the guide in the selection wu. men
for positions of honor and importance, such
men as MARSHALL would never be regard-
ed as a possibility in that connection. The
reputation he made two years ago as Chair-
man of the Committee on Appropriations
should have condemned him to obscurity
rather than commended him for Speaker.
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~The Philadelphia ring is seriously
contemplating the proposition to offer
Speaker MARSHALL and his clerks perma-
nent salaries to reside in Philadelphia.
Their ability as counters on election day
would be a great thing for. the gang, and
would largely make up for the loss occa-
sioned by the forced absence of the Hon.
SAMUEL SALTER.
Apology or Prosecution, Which ?
The Philadelphia Press is unjast to itself
and unfair to its contemporaries through-
out the State and country in resting under
the charge of licentionsness put upon it by
Governor STONE and Supreme Court Judge
POTTER. The Press charged that Justice
POTTER who was Governor STONE'S law
partner, until less than a year ago, when he
was appointed to the bench by Governor
STONE, gave his late partner and benefactor
advance information as to the action of the
court on a pending question. The Govern-
or promptly and emphatically denied the
accusation and wassupported in that course
by the Justice who also denied it in un-
qualified terms.
If a public newspaper makes an accusa-
tion which affects the reputation of a citi-
zen for honor or integrity and the accusa-
tion is denied it is the obvious duty of the
paper to prove the charge or apologize to
the person or persons injured, promptly and
amply. The Press has done neither of
these things. On the contrary it reasserted
the charge and endorsed the character of its
informant, hut didn’t reveal the name of
the informant. That was an insult to the
people of the State and an injury to the
Governor and his former law-partner, the
Justice of the Supreme court. Men in
their position have a right to be believed
unless they are proved to be falsifiers.
The Governor and Justice are careless of
their reputations it is t rue, in failing to
bring the newspaper to account for libeling
them. Tt will be remembered that while
Governor PATTISON occupied the Execu-
tive chamber at Harrisburg a Philadelphia
paper libeled him. His reputation was
much better able to withstand such an at-
tack than Governor STONE'S. But he
wasn’t willing to take the risk of impairing
it by remaining silent under an unjust accu-
sation. He brought suit and compelled the
licentious journal to make reparation for
its criminal libel. Unless Governor STONE
is guilty of the charge he should pursue the
same course.
—We do.’ know why people and
papers should worry themselves so about
the failure of the Legislature to adjourn.
If Bfvax law-making machine. is a good
to have, the longer it lasts the longer
thing to h
we have the opportunity of enjoying its
benefits and blessings. And the people
seem to think it is a ‘‘good thing.’” At
least they elected it and we sincerely hope
they will get full to the bursting point,
of just what they are getting, before it
quits and goes home.
———
The Machinists’ Strike,
ee.
Seldom in the history of the world has
there been as complete and at the same
time as peaceful a revolution as that which
is represented in the strike of the machin-
ists which began on Monday. On the day
set for the beginning of the movement 50,-
000 workmen went out and nearly half that
many were retained at. their work by the
assent of their employers to their demands.
It was estimated in the outset that there
are in the neighborhood of 100,000 machin-
ists in the organization, so that with half
the whole number out and with half of the
remainder satisfied, it may be said that the
movement was a success.
The mechanics of the country have not
had a just share of the fruits of the im-
proved business conditions. They are told
by the newspapers, and other agencies for
disseminating information, that the country
is in the enjoyment of a phenomenal season
of prosperity. They are able to see an in-
creased industrial activity and understand
the values of corporate property, at least,
to have greatly multiplied. Their expenses
of living have also increased perceptibly
but there has been no enhancement to their
wage accounts. This has planted the seeds
of discontent, but the result of the strike
shows that it has not inflamed their pas-
sions. :
It is safe to predict that the machinists
will achieve their purpose and it may be
added that they deserve success. It is
not alone that they are intelligent, indus-
trious and well meaning citizens, but they
are the wealth producers of the country,
and have a right to a more generous share
of the fruits of their labor than they have
been receiving. Moreover they have set an
example to other workingmen which prom-
ises well for the country. They have
shown that a labor movement which keeps
within the law has an infinitely better
chance of winning than one which is at-
tended hy violence and lawlessness.
—The strike of the National Association
of Machinists for a nine hour day at the
same pay they have been receiving for
ten hours is on in earnest and the
strikers will probably win because so
many firms acceded to their demands
before the men went out. While the
grind on labor, skilled and common,
cannot fairly be considered more exhaust-
ing than it is, perhaps, on their employers,
16 does seem that there ought to be more
in life for all . classes than work all day,
every day but Sunday, sleep all night and
eat a little between times. Of course la-
bor can produce far more in nine hours
to-day than it could in ten a decade ago,
but prices for the finished prodmct have
fallen at a corresponding rate.
NO. 21.
The Canteen Question.
From an unknown Exchange. 7
When Congress abolished the regimental
canteen it was supposed to have acted in
the interest of the soldier. ) Bus there are
protests, sporadic. yet constant, from all
sides and every quarter to the effect that
temperance in the army has received its
death-blow. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York,
in company with certain other gentlemen,
recently visited the government post at
Chicago in order to learn for themselves as
to the results of the new law. If the pub-
lished reports are true, they were not only
disappointed in their mission, but also re-
ceived in a manner not calculated $0 in-
crease one’s respect for army officials. = In-
stead of investigating the post, they seem
to have been investigated themselves and
given to understand that the mattter was
not within the radius of their personal con-
cern. 2
The regular army officer usually attaches
an undue importance to his position. * To
question his judgement he regards as an
impeachment of what he calls his honor.
Honor is something that does not belong to
position or profession. If the country has
any doubt as to this, the recent investi
tion at West Point must have settled it for
all time to come. Shoulder straps do not
indicate character. The wearer may he a
gentleman, then, again, he may be just the
opposite. Army officers are divided in
their opinions of the canteen—consecien-
tiously so, perhaps, but they are divided.
Some argue if is better than the old sutler
system of the Civil War, which is doubtless
true. But the question is not between the
canteen and the sutler ; it lies between the
canteen and nothing.
Theoretically the army canteen would
seem to be the lesser of two evils, but prac-
tically the result is questionable. The
theory is that the sale of beer is to be reg-
ulated by the officers, and every officer is
anxious for the good order and discipline of
his men. Chaplain Nave, one of the most
widely experienced chaplains in the service,
says that he favored the experiment thir-
teen years ago, but, after the most thorough
trial, he regards it as a pest and a sin.
During the entire thirteen years he never
saw a canteen regulated but once, and that
only fora few weeks, by the post com-
mander. He declares that the drunken-
ness, disorder and debauchery of the or-
dinary canteen would not he allowed in
an Eastern city for a single hour. He
further says that “army officers, according
to my observation—and I served with ten
regiments—will not demean themselves by
remaining at canteens to regulate the con-
duct of, and the quantity of beer given to
soldiers. A man intolerant of the rows of
drinking men, who with a strong hand
should restrict sales, would defeat. the ob-
jeots in view : first and foremost, to make
money ; second, to keep men from going
to outside drinking places. My observa-
tion is that the least regulated saloons are
army ocanteens.’’ ; 2
This is reasonable. Does any one believe
that a glass of beer a day is going to pre-
vent a soldier from going outside and get-
ting drunk? At Fort Niobrara he states
that four hundred men. consumed from
three to four carloads of beer every month,
The noise of the saloon could be heard dur-
ing worship in the chapel nearby, the
drunken, howling crowds taking up the
hymns and repeating them in their blas-
phemous derision. The officers might
have stopped it, but they didn’t, and they
won’. The canteen is gone ; it may re-
turn, but if it does let the world know that
it is in the interest of drunkenness and not
temperance.
—————
He Was Eligible.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The ladies who are in attendance at the
missionary meetings in connection with the
Presbyterian General Assembly, in Phila-
delphia this week, visited Girard College
but they could not take their husbands
along owing to a peculiar provision in the
will of the founder of that institution, who
stipulated that no minister of the Gospel of
any denomination should ever be permit-
ted within the gates. Which recalls the
case of Morrow B. Lowry, State Senator
from Erie from 1862 to 1870. He desired
to visit the college and approached the en-
trance in white necktie, long tailed coat,
spectacles aud other clerical attachments.
The attendant supposing him to be a min-
ister, told him he could not be admitted.
The Senator, somewhat incensed, respond-
ed, “What the h—I’s the reason I can’t?’
whereupon the gate was swung wide open
and the attendant said, ‘Walk right in,
sir; I see you are eligible.” :
Wearied in the Long Struggle.
From the Boston Herald. : ! !
Despite the Philadelphia pation to
Quay, this man is apparently in a despond-
ent mood. He is having to labor rat
to maintain his ascendancy for a man on
the eve of 70 years. He fought himself in-
to the Senate again, and the shouts of those
who had come ont to greet him were still
in his ears, but the elasticity of tempera-
ment necessary for the enjoyment of fight-
ing was apparently in a considerable de-
gree of the past with him. He remember-
‘ed that one of the most subservient tools
he had ever had, in the present Governor
of Pennsylvania, had ventured to rebel
against him in an important recent in-
stance, and that be had not held the State
Legislature altogether in the hollow of his
band in another. There is a certain weari-
ness in his acknowledgment of the latest
tribute paid him, for which those who
have kept a close run of the politics of his
State do not find it difficult to account.
Jast Sec.
From the Ebensburg Mountaineer Herald, 2 Gi
An exchange says that if a new
behind his back he would adopt another
calling. The exchange is mistaken, The
newspaper man who succeeds expects to be |
maligned by every law hreaker, swindler
and hypocrite, every carping critic and
every lover of notoriety who is i nored,
and in fact by all persons who do not agree
with him on public and private matters,
rr reeee—
Spawls from the ¥Keystone.
—It took twenty-six bullets to kill a mad
dog which raided Plymouth on Tuesday.
—Bodies of the three miners drowned in
the Silver Brook mine, Hazleton, were re-
covered Wednesday. »
—The new Lutheran church at Curwens-
ville was dedicated last Sunday. The build-
ing is of white stone, and one of the most
beautiful churches in that place.
—The Clinton county jail at Lock Haven
contains no prisoners now, the last one being
discharged last Thursday, so the outlook for
criminal business at the next term of court
in that county is very slim.
—Arthur Keefer and Charles Smith, each
aged about 13 years, have disappeared from
the Boys’ Industrial Home, and an appeal
has been issued to police, conductors and
trainmen to apprehend them.
—Rev. Gideon H. Day, known as the fath-
er of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist
Conference, died at his home in Riverside
Thursday morning. He was born in Elliott
Mills, Md., 1816, dying on the anniversary
of his birth—May 16th.
—Nelson Holcomb, a 14-year-old boy, of
Central, Columbia county, shot and killed a
300-pound black bear near his home on Tues-
day. The boy fired but one shot from a
navy revolver, and is very proud of his suec-
cess as a nimrod.
—1It is said now that the new trolley line
connecting Johnstown with Windber will be
in operation on June 1st, in which event it
will be possible for Somerset people to visit
the big coal town without having to drive
three miles over a rough road from Paint
Creek. :
—George Kepple, a carpenter, was crushed
to death by a wagon loaded with flour run-
ing over him in the Cambria Steel company’s
yards at Johnstown Friday. A singletree
struck him and knocked him down and the
wheel passed over his breast. Kepple was
born at Blairsville. He leaves a wife and
family.
—Charles L. Collison was committed to
the county jail at Honesdale, on Tues-
day night, for six days, to be fed on bread
and water, because he refused to pay a fine
of $4 for working in his garden on Sunday
last. Collison is a member of the Seventh
Day Adventists church at Chariel.
—At the Wallace show in Williamsport
Tuesday evening, the copper globe, which is
propelled up the spiral incline by Miss
French, suddenly swerved and fell off, when
about fifteen feet from the ground. Miss
French was at first dazed when taken out,
and limped to the dressing room. Shé did
not attempt the act again.
—Mrs. Martin Forry, of Carroll township,
Perry county, while feeding her chickens
Monday evening stooped down to pick up
something and in doing so struck her left
eye against an upright stick. The injury
was so painful that she was taken to town
and Dr. Moore extracted a splinter one-half
inch long from her eye ball,
—Arthur Cross a farmer, living at Jack-
sonville, Mercer county, predicted that he
would die on Friday on last week. Despite
the ridicule of his friends, he clung to his
assertion, although he said he Gould not tel
the manner of his death. His prediction
came true to the letter, for on the day ‘he
said he would die he was instantly killed by
a bolt of lightning. in
—Walter Walker, book-keeper for J. H.
Pihaler, a grocer of Meyersdale, while in the
act of filling an electric cigar lighter in the
store Thursday evening was seriously burn-
ed about the face, head and arms. He had
just finished the task and put aside a jar con-
taining gasoline, a few feet away, when the
explosion occurred through his trying the
sparker. The gasoline in the jar went off.
—The Babcock Lumber company has
bought the entire town of Arrow, Somerset
county. The purchase includes a new saw
mill with a capacity of 70,000 feet of lumber
aday, a planing mill, five miles of railroad,
two locomotives, ten ears, a large pond for
the storage of lumber, 3,000,000 feel of hem-
lock, cherry and popular lumber in the
yard, 5,000,000 feet in long and 60,000,000
feet of standing lumber, sixty houses, a gen-
eral store, postoffice, a school house, a church,
and a blacksmith shop.
—Ex-sheriff Smith, of Clearfield, had a
narrow escape from death Monday night.
He was driving from Curwensville and while
crossing the track his buggy was struck by a
freight train and knocked into smithereens.
Frank was dragged along for a hundred feet
and received several cuts about the
head and face. The horse was also badly
hurt. The sheriff says an insurance agent
saved his life, as he sold hima $5,000 ac-
cident policy in the Traveller's some time
ago, and if he hadn’t had that policy, his
name would have been “Dennis” sure. It
was a very close call.
—Vice President Roosevelt and party pass-
ed through Lock Haven Tuesday afternoon
on the east bound Buffalo flyer. The Vice
President was on his way east from Buffalo.
The train stopped only about a minute,which
did not give any one the coveted opportunity
of shaking the distinguished gentleman by
the hand, and as he did not take the trouble
to rise from his chair, the small crowd as-
sembled at the station were subjected to a
disappointment. The Vice President travel-
ed in 4 special Pullman car, which was on
the rear end of the train. He was the chief
guest of honor at the opening of the exposi-
tion Monday. HA ER
—The portion of Franklin county around
the village of Concord, in the Kittatinny
mountains, is stirred up over bears. Quite a
number of the black variety have lately
been seen there. Sam Clouser, the United
States mail carrier from New Germantown to
Concord, saw two big adult bears cross the
road ahead of his team, searing his horses so
that by the time he quieted them the bears
were gone. He now has two big dogs with
him as body guards. Saturday last Budd
and Roscoé Hockenberry, in driving through
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antic by an immense bear jumping across
man knew how many knocks he per zrntio by : Immense bear Jumping
the road just a few pacesin front of them.
The bear stopped long enough for them to
dash past and then ambled off’. Henry Hop-
plesaw two, evidently mates, in a field of
James Robertson, a mile from Concord, and
notified a party of men who are on their
trail, but have not yet reported with the bear
meat. : Bare