Bemorralit- atc
BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—1It is not to be wondered at that the
lumberman’s trouble is mostly about his
board.
—Don’t throw your bats up yet, there
are twelve more days of the present Legis-
lature.
—Surface indications wonld lead us to
believe that the Democrats of Clearfield
are husy digging up their hatchets.
—The rapid transit business that we have
heard so much about, seems to be the kind
that is to be run in every way except upon
the level.
—The graveyard stillness that prevails
about the ROOSEVELT headquarters would
indicate that his advertising bureau is tak-
icg a long needed rest.
—There is no community in the Com-
monwealth that would kick against a strike
of the workers on the state machine for an
eight-hour day and fewer duties.
—With the thermometer up in the nine-
ties, the chronic complainer can have no
cause to charge the temperature maker
with a neglect of summer duties.
—Possibly the fact that the temperature
maker has been kept busy opening up the
Klondike will account for his failure to
get things warmed up hereabouts earlier
in the season.
—The reformers at Harrisburg, if they
try right hard, may yet be able to save to
the State its constitution and grave yards.
The want of material value in these may
possibly preserve them intact for the peo-
ple.
—It will take but a little more of the
same kind of work to have the country be-
lieve that Senator DEPEW and Congress-
man GROSVENOR are both laboring to scat-
ter the germs of a second third-term epi-
demie.
—$18,750,000 is the amount England
has agreed to pay for three battleships to
be built during the present year. Really
it is costing the country of his royal nibs,
King Edward VII, right smart to keep in
the swim!
—Now that the ‘‘roosters’’ about Harris-
burg have heen generally cared for, the
Legislature is finding time to attend to the
less important matters of providing for the
State’s charitable and educational instita-
tions.
—A reward of $50,000,000 is offered for
the head of SEE SHI CHIN the Chinese
leader, which leads us to remark that it
must be a much more valuable head than
those carried around by leaders of the
administration in this country.
—After all, the taxpayers of the State |
have some reason to be thankful. There
will be no necessity for them to be bled to
build larger vaults in the State Treasury
after the Legislature adjourns. For this
much at least let us make our acknowledg-
ment.
—If Mr. McKINLEY’S last think on the
third term question would only stand the
wear, the dark horses in the Republican
presidential stalls would know exactly
what to do. Unfortunately for them
everything is not ‘‘all wool and a yard
wide’? about the presidential think shop.
—While the balance of the population
of Pittsburg were shivering with the cold
last week, Senator FLINN found it entirely
too hot for him to remain at the head of
the Republican city committee. There are
other things than the rays of the summer
sun that are calculated to make some
men boil.
——Please don’t ask us to give you
the WATCHMAN for $1.00 a year when you
do not pay for it in advance. We posi-
tively can’t afford to do it and we hope
our readers will kindly bear this in mind.
We want to treat you all alike, so don’t
expect to get this paper for less than $1.50
if you do not take time by the fore lock
and pay in advance.
—The flelds, the orchards and the gard-
ens all give promise of a most prolific
yield. People may imagine this due to the
‘season, and the toilers who planted, pruned
and cultivated. Bot let them wait and
learn. When the dinner pail is filled from
the abundance that is promised, every Re-
publican squawker in the country will
‘stretch out his neck and quack about how
the McKINLEY administration has done it
all. And the country is full of idiots who
‘will believe them.
© —A Tuesday’s telegram from Washing-
ton tells us that ‘President McKINLEY,
this morning, declared his intention not to
accept the renomination for a third term.”
After working up our thinker it comes
back to us that Mr.McKINLEY has‘‘declar-
ed?’ himself on several matters, and events
have proven him about as reliable as a ‘‘de-
-clarer’’ as Mr. ANANIAS wasas a dissemin-
ator of the truth. - As the departed Mr.
WARD put it, ‘‘thar air them as kin stik
to what tha say and then agin thar air
them as kant.”
—When it is understood that the resolu-
tions adopted by the recent Democratic
county convention were revised and type-
written in the office of Republican Chair-
man, REEDER, the fulsomness with which
“they slopped over on some subjects,and the
dense silence they observed on others, will
not seem strange. It will, however, be a
surprise to the Democrats to know that the
head of the Republican county organiza-
tion is so nearly a Democrat, or, that
some of their own would-be leaders are so
closely allied with the Republican ma-
chine.
Demacratic
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TRO
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 46
The Third Terni Question.
Major McKINLEY takes the trouble to
inform the public that he is not a candi-
date for re-election. He has never given
the question of a third term a thought, he
adds, and singularly enough Senator
MARK HANNA who was about four hun-
dred miles away knew that that is just
what he would say. The President is ad-
monished to speak because ‘‘there are now
questions of the gravest importance before
the administration and the country and
their just consideration should not be
prejudiced in the public mind by even
the suspicion of the tbought of a third
term’’. Mr. HANNA is moved to speech
by different impulses, however. ‘‘Ac-
cording to my judgment’’ says Sir ORA-
CLE, ‘‘it is too early to discuss Presiden-
tial candidates.”
Bat it isn’t to early to discuss Presiden-
tial candidates and nobody knows that
better than HANNA. The Presidential
candidate has been discussed between
himself and the Major more than once
since the last election,it is safe to say.
The suggestion of General GROSVENOR
that the traditions be dispensed with hard-
ly originated with him. He spoke for
McKINLEY and HANNA quite as much as
for himself in the matter, ‘I don’t
think the precedent set by WASHINGTON
has a great deal to do with the matter,” ’re-
marked HANNA. ‘WASHINGTON knew
he would be beaten anyway,’”’ observes
GROSVENOR. But MCKINLEY is more
foxy than either. He avoids such danger-
ous thoughts. He knows that there is
‘undoubtedly strong sentiment against
such a proposition,” and consequently
he wouldn’t think of talking about it.
Besides he has learned from the comment
of the press that it is an unpopular idea
and therefore he believes it is prema-
ture.
But don’t imagine for a moment that
both MCKINLEY and HANNA haven't
thought of the matter or that they won’t
think of it more seriously in the future.
The Major has the bee in his bonnet as
big as a Rocky Mountain eagle and he in-
tends to be the candidate of his party for
the third term if he thinks there is half a
chance of: “elggtion. When the Paris
‘treaty was under consideration he declared
that an attempt to coerce the Filipinos in-
to accepting our sovereignity would be
“‘sriminal oggression.”” Now he doesn’t
hesitate to declare that we shall never
relinquish our sovereignity in the Asiatic
Archipeligo. Then he spoke unctiously
of our dnty to humanity, with respect to
Cuba. Now he is striving with all his
might to hold that people in subjection.
The truth is that he is like CZESER in
everything except brains.
The Boodle Bill Passed.
The capitol building bill passed the
House of Representatives on Tuesday with
an easy majority. It was amended last
week so as to cut the appropriation down
to $4,000,000. But the Senate refused to
concur in that and other amendments, so
that it will go to a conference committee,
where it is a safe guess that the original
figure will be restored. There would be a
liberal rake-off with the $4,000,000 ap-
propriation, for a fairly good building can
be made of the rather substantial shell
which the last building commission left by
an expenditure of $2,000,000. But the
cupidity of the QUAY. machine can’t be
satisfied with a steal of that amount. It
will take another million to satiate their
thirst for plunder. :
The Democrats in the House of Repre-
sentatives made a dignified but futile pro-
test against villiany. Representative
IKELER, of Columbia county, speaking for
the minority said, as the WATCHMAN has
frequently stated, that those for whom he
spoke had no objections to the amount of
the appropriation. ' They would have been
willing to have appropriated a larger sum.
But they are not willing to abdicate their
legislative power which belonged to them
—that of naming the commission to super-
intend the building and disburse the fund.
Moreover the Democrats of the Honse were
not willing to invest with the authority,
to name a commission to disburse such an
amount of public money, a man who pre-
fers as political associates men who have
violated the law and their oaths of office
by padding the pay rolls of the State.
The minority in the legislature was
wise, moreover, in declining the doubtful
honor of representation on the commission.
The Senate had put in the bill a provision
for minority representation. If that had
been allowed to stand, the Governor would
no doubt have put one of those reoreants
known as QUAY Democrats on the board
to have horne a share of the blame for the
'boodling that is certain to follow. For
that reason the Democrats insisted on the
elimination of the provision and the Re-
publicans will be compelled to saddle up-
on themselves all the responsibility as well
as the consequences. We want none of
either and when the time for réckoning
comes there will ‘then be no chance to
shift the blame.
Early Work or an Early Convention,
CHAIRMAN CREASY has called a meet-
ing of his executive committee, to the meet
at Harrisburg on the 27, to fix the time
and, place for holding the Democratic
State Convention. It is generally conced-
ed, and: we believe is generally desired,
that the Convention will meet in Erie.
Whether that be the place or not is imma-
terial. The most important matter in this
connection being the time that may ‘be
fixed.
For years back it has been the custom with
those having charge of the Democratic or-
ganization of the State, to put off the work of
arranging and preparing for the campaign
until after the ticket was placed in the
field. The Convention has usually been
called in mid summer, and after its ad-
journment the hot weather and busy-
farmer would be used as an excuse for fur-
ther delay in the work of the organization.
Things would be left drift along with-
out any effort to harmonize differences, con-
solidate efforts, secure a full registration
or get the party in trim-for a contest, un-
til within a few weeks or months, possibly,
of the election. Then it wonld be to late
to accomplish more than make an ostenta-
tious effort to get out the voters who had
registered and paid their taxes, and wait to
see how badly the party had been beaten.
If the same policy is to be continued
the present year. it don’t matter much
when the Convention is called, for it will
only be a question of the size of the lick-
ing we are to take when the time comes.
But if any effort is to be made to improve
the condition and prospect of the party,
the work sheuld begin now or the Conven-
tion be called at the earliest date possible,
and the details necessary to make a systema-
tic and hopeful campaign mapped out and
begun immediately after its adjonrnment.
The everlasting delay and putting off of
the work that brings success, until too late
to accomplish anything, is the underlying
cause of the almost hopeless condition of
the party in the State at this time.
It is time there was a new departure.
If we are going to try to do anything let
us get at it when there is a chance of ac-
complishing something. If not, and the
_usual-practices.are- to be. observed daring
the coming campaign, that have placed
us so hopelessly at the mercy of the enemy
in this State, let us know it and we can
prepare for the result.
Want a Change Already.
The machine managers of the Legislature
don’t appear to have known what they
wanted last week. They hurried the trol-
ley franchise grab bills through both
branches of the Legislature, and the Gov-
ernor’s office, with lightning rapidity and
now they have discovered that the measures
don’t mean wuat they wanted to express.
That is to say they didn’t want franchise
grab bills that would be open to everybody
who happened to know a desirable place
for a trolley railroad. They imply wanted
bills which would enable them to grab
franchises, as they discovered the opportun-
ities, and nobody else. They are like the
old man whose prayer was ‘‘Bless me and
my wife, my son John and his wife, us four
and no more, a-men.’’
The fact is shown in the introduction on
Monday evening of this week by Senator
ScorT, of Philadelphia, of a measure which
is practically a repealer. In other words
the Philadelphia Senator has introduced a
bill which provides that after its passage
no charters shall be issued, under the
provisions of the FOoCHT-EMERY bills, ex-
cept after thirteen days notice of the pur-
pose to apply and the route of the
proposed road has heen given by advertise-
ment in the newspapers of the neighborhood
and the consent of the Governor, the At-
torney General and the Secretary of the
Commonwealth has been obtained. Under
such circumstances no charters could be
acquired except by ring managers.
When the bills were pending in the
House of Representatives CREASY tried
hard to put some limiting amendments on
them. Among them, it may be said, the
one he clung to most tenaciously provided
for advertising in one or more newspapers
of the section concerned, for thirty days,
notice of the intention to apply for the
charter and a statement of the streets or
highways it was proposed to occupy. But
that suggestion was resisted with great ve-
hemence. The introduction of the Scort
bill now shows how insincere the promoters
of the FocHT-EMERY bills were. They
might as well have asked for a bill author-
izing the machine managers to take out
charters and forbidding competition in the
work. : ;
The Pace That Kills.
We are traveling at the pace that kills!
Not long age at the funeral of a ward poli-
tician in Philadelphia, the papers informed
the public, two large express wagons were
required to convey the flowers to the grave.
He was one of the machine men who conld
be depended upon to stuff a ballot box or
swear to a false return, if such service were
necessary to ‘achieve a desired result. The
vulgar display of flowers was in keeping
with a disreputable life, and the exhibition
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 14, 1901.
NO. 24.
was interpreted by his former associates as
a mark of great personal popularity.
When the President of the United States
started on his trip across the continent on
a train, the most magnificent that has ever
been made up, his vulgar admirers were
delighted with the exhibition as an evi-
dence of his popularity. An echo of this
thought was expressed in the suggestions of
General GROSVENOR, of Ohio,and Chauncey
M. Depew, Senator from New York, the
other day, when they said the time had
come to Break down the tradition against
the election of a man to the Presidency for
the third term, because the personal popu-
larity of McKINLEY would be certain to
overcome the public prejudices on that
point.
When Mrs. McKINLEY celebrated her
birth anniversary the other day there was
such a lavish display of flowers and pres-
ents that there was difficulty in finding
room in the Executive mansion to store
them away. This was likewise regarded
as an expression of confidence in and affec-
tion for the President. But as a matter of
fact, like the other incidents refered to, if is
proof of a vulgarity if nothing worse. The
railroad companies conferred favors on the
President which they never would have
dared to offer to any of his predecessors in
office.
Some years ago the President was re-
lieved of financial embarrassments, the re-
sult of unfortunate speculations, by finan-
cial contributions made by the beneficia-
ries of the Republican tariff policy. Subse-
quently he appointed some of the contribu-
tors to office and gave others favors of other
kinds. For the favor of the Imperial train
be has no doubt paid mn similar terms.
How the obligations, which made the cele-
bration of his wife’s birthday an exhibi-
tion of vulgarity, will be paid for has not
been revealed but no doubt it will be in the
usnal manner of the beggar on horseback.
Cuban Affairs Muddled.
Cuban affairs are in a muddle, according
to the news from Washington, and Secre-
tary of War,1.00T, is to blame. That gen-
tleman talked too much to the Commis-
sioners when they were in Washington, it
appears. It wiil be remembered that after
the dinner given them at the White House,"
on the éve of the President’s departure for
the West, they were turned over to ROOT.
Whatever he says will be all right, they
were assured. What he said to them was
plenty. He got them into an excellent
humor in a brief period of time. Within a
day or two they went away satisfied and it
was immediately stated that they would
accept the PLATT amendments.
So they did but with a string to the ac-
ceptance. That is to say they took Mr.
Roor's promises that the amendments
didn’t mean anything in particular as an in-
terpretation of the amendments and incorpo-
rated them into the acceptance. That puts
the President in the attitude of altering an
act of Congress to which he objects. If
that were all it wouldn’t amount to much.
But the President adds that Mr. Roo had
no business to make promises which it was
impossible to fulfill in the open,and,to save
himself RooT has been obliged to deny that
he made such promises. This of course
raises a question of veracity between RooT
and the Coban commissioners which is
bad.
The truth is that there is no escape from
the conviction that the scheme was to fool
the commissioners. The intention was
obviously to make certain verbal promises
in order to secure the acceptance of the
PLATT amendments and after the event re-
pudiate the promises. But the Commis-
sioners were too smooth to be worked in
that way. They put what they believed
to be the facts in black and white. Of
course they will be compelled to’ recede
from their position and accept the amend-
ments literally. But in reaching that re-
sult they have meantime put the govern-
ment of the United States in a shameful
and humiliating light before the world and
for all time this country will bear the
stain of the dishonor of this transaction.
Should Vote As He Talked.
Gen. HULINGS address to the graduat-
ing class at the State College, on Monday,
is most highly spoken of by every one who
refers to it. He went promisculously for
trusts, for corporate and, individaal greed,
for combinations $o crush individoal en-
deavor, and for all those things that are
tending towards imperialism and the for-
getfulness of the principle of government
that have made of us an independent and
happy people. Unfortunately, however, men
do not always follow the paths their teach-
ings point out as the proper ones. There
are scores of intelligent men to-day who
know and see the dangers that are
ahead of us; who understand the ra-
pidity with which we are drifting away
from the land-marks and safe-guards
of the Republic, but who go on voting for,
and sustaining, the leaders and policies
responsible for the conditions that exist
and the dangers that threaten. And Gen.
HuLINGS is one of then. If he would vote
as he talks there would be at least one more
solid Democratic ballot cast in the district
in which he exercises the right of franchise.
The People Want a Say.
From the New York Journal.
What Senator Tillman and McLaurin
started to do was to apply the principles of
the referendum to their differences. Their
method was an awkward one and expen-
sive, but it was the only one at hand, and
would have "heen effective if if had
been carried through. At least the South
Carolinians would have had an or-
tunity to say whether they prefe ‘the
Tillman or the McLaurin type of Dem-
ocracy.
The American voter—who is the most
conservative of human animals—is still
shy of those long words ‘‘initiative and
referendum.” He has a vague feeling that
they made the first appearance in a Popu-
list platform and he thinks that stand for
something incompatible with prosperity.
But all the time, in one way or another,
he as adopting the principle for which they
stand aud finding it good. :
Out in Illinois the other day the Legisla-
ture adopted an act which provided that 25
per cent. of the voters of any political dis-
trict could call for a ballot to test public
sentiment on matters of legislation affect-
ing that district. The expression of senti-
ment thus gained is not to be mandatory
upon the officials to whom it is directed,
but nevertheless may be expected to have
effect.
The fact of the matter is that this many-
headed populace of ours wants to have
something to say in the regulation of its
own affairs. For a time it thought it was
speaking when it sent Representatives to
capitols to speak for it, hut it duly discov-
ered thatthe Representative did not al-
ways deliver the message he had been en-
trusted with. So the people are looking
for ways to make their talking direct and
effective, and the politician who aspires to
popularity was to help them in the search.
That is one lesson of the South Careliha
situation. - Perhaps another one is that a
politician ought never to make a blufi—
even in the excitement of a stump speech
SERDlese he is quite prepared to have it
called.
Kind
Words for the
Nominees.
Democratic
From the Bellefonte Republican.
The deliberations of the convention were
saturated with harmony, indication, it
must be assumed, that sweet peace dwells
in the camp of the Centre county Dem-
ocracy and unanimity in sentiment and
concord in purpose cements the ranks of
the unterrified foe of Republicanism. The
convention from start to finish {was indeed
a veritable political love feast and the del-
egates must of a certainty returned to their
respective homes content with the knowl-
edge that they performed their functions
in accord with the wishes of their cungtit-
gens and with those of the leaders as
well.
Prothonotary M. I. Gardner and District
Attorney N. B. Spangler had no opposition
for nomination and the conventlon appro-
priately indorsed their administration of
the duties of their respective offices hy a
unanimous renomination. We expect to
do everything we can in an honorable and |
straightforward way to resist the election
of these gentlemen and we expect the Re-
publican county convention to nominate
men for the offices of Prothonotary and
District Attorney who will be in every
way worthy to succeed the present Demo-
cratic incumbents and candidates and cap-
able of giving commendable public service.
But we feel that we can compliment the
Democratic convention for its good judg-
ment in renominating men who have given
such a creditable account of themselves as
public servants. Messrs. Gardner and
Spangler have made exceptionally good of-
ficials and their records certainly merited
the mark of appreciation and confidence
their fellow Democrats paid them in the
action of their county convention.
The censure of the state administration
embodied in the convention’s resolutions is
justly deserved and in conformity with our
views, hence we have nothing but praise
for the action of the convention in this
particular, as well as in the renomination
of Mr. Gardmer and Mr. Spangler.
The Weal or Woe Depends on All Classes.
From the York Gazette.
The Indianapolis News takes issue with
the sentiment of Senator Hanna's speech
delivered at Buffalo a few days ago where
the Ohio boss said :
‘The weal or woe of this country de-
pends on men who condnot its commercial
affairs. When a man is engaged in profit-
able business, he is too apt to let public
affairs, political and otherwise, take care of
themselves. Speaking from my own ex-
perience, I would say it is worth the while
of any business man to devote at least one-
third of his time to such affairs.’’
The weal or woe of this country depends
| on its business men, says the News, pre-
cisely as each depends on all the rest of its
citizens. If this is what Senator Hanna
meant, there can be no possible exception
taken to his words. But if he intended to
suggest that our business men are to be our |
saviors in a sense that others are not and
cannot be, and that the country is to be
saved only by the activity of business men
selfishly seeking to further their own in-
terests through favoring legislation, he
made a serious mistake. The prosperity,
happiness, strength and virtue of this Re-
public can only result from the conscien-
tious discharge of public duty by every
American citizen. And its ‘‘weal or woe’’
does not depend ‘‘on men who conduct its
commercial aflairs’’ any more largely than
it depends on the professional men or the
workingmen. We cannot be ‘‘saved’’ by
business or commerce. :
Legislative Adjournment.
A Conference Decides Session 8hall Terminate
On June 27. '
HARRISBURG, June 10.—The Legislature
will not adjourn on the 21st of this month
as Tas proposed by some of the adminis-
tration leaders a few days ago. :
A conference of the Republicans was
held this evening, and it was decided to
continue the session until the 27th, the’
date fixed in the resolution
providing for
final adjournment. i
Spawls from the Keystone.
-
,—Petroleum has been discovered on the
farm of "Squire Womelsdorf, one mile east of
Huntingdon,
—There was a heavy frost in the moun-
tains east of Pittsburg Sunday morning, and
the thermometer was down to 28.
—Four new cases of small pox and a strike
of 200 girls working in asilk mill is the latest
news that Wilkesbarre furnishes the public.
—Judge Bittinger,at York, has scored court
house officials for taking a half holiday on
Saturdays. He said the offices should be
open for the convenience of the public.
—Mrs. Ezra Louser, of Oley Line, Berks
county, was bitten on the arm by a spider
two weeks ago. The arm swelled to large
proportions, bloed poisoning set in and her
life is despaired of.
—Some time during Sunday night of last
week Mrs, Solomon Henry, of Reedsville,
Mifflin county, discovered that her 6-weeks-
o!d daughter, had passed away. The child
had been in good health.
—It is reported that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company intends to have the figure of
a man carved in a large rock at Cotter’s Hole,
about a mile above Mifflintown. The scaffold
is already in position for the sculptor to com-
mence work.
—John Pepper, of Lusk Run, while work-
ing in the woods near Hyner, the other day,
had all the toes nearly severed by an axe,
which was in the hands of a fellow work-
man, glancing and striking him on the foot.
Mr. Pepper is at his house.
—At Lock Haven a team of horses attach-
ed to a wagon loaded with open barrels be-
came frightened by the fall of one of the bar-
rels, and, running away, plunged into the
river, swimming a full half mile before they
were rescued.
—A resident of Glen Campbell, Indiana
county, tells the Johnstown ZTribuke that
crops out there have been badly damaged,
and that in many instances in his neighbor-
hood corn and other grains have been put
out of business for good.
—Counterfeit money is afloat along the
Juniata valley, mostly dollars and half dol-
lars; Saturday at Landisburg, where the
Junior Order United American Mechanics
reunion was held, a large number of counter-
feit dimes were put in circulation.
_—Friday while Earl, the 12-year-old son
| of John Wolf, of Harvey’s Run, near DuBois,
was planting corn, he reached outto pata
dog of Samuel Smith. The dog jumped on
the boy, tore his mouth open wider and bit
his cheeks through. Several stitches closed
the wounds.
—Fifteen-year-old Lawrence Park,of Pitts-
burg, has developed into a hyppotist of won-
derful power. His ‘‘subjects’’ are playmates,
and he puts them under his influence and
they obey all his orders. His specialty isto
make larger boys submit to being whipped
by smaller ones.
—A movement has been started to have
the church authorities select Renovo as the
headquarters for the new Catholic diocese of
Central Pennsylvania. The parish in Renovo
is one of the largest and wealthiest in the
diocese, and its handsome new church can
be used as a cathedral. rey
"The fire which was stirted in the Luke
Fidler mine at Shamokin by a blast, and
which forced the mine to shut down, is still
raging. Itis feared that the mine must be
flooded. Fire in the Luke Fidler mine sev-
eral years ago killed ten men and damaged
the workings to the extent of $1,000,000.
—The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company is tearing down the Hammond
colliery breaker, in Schuylkill county, which
was closed down on Saturday because the
employes, who have been on strike for the
past three weeks, failed to return to work.
Seven hundred men and boys are out of em-
ployment. t
—Some unknown person visited the farm
of Joseph Rue, near Spring Hope, Bedford
county, on Saturday night and gave vent to
spite by cutting down 189 fine bearing peach
trees of four years’ growth. The tail of
Rue’s horse was also cut off and the buggy
top and cushions were slashed to ribbons.
All the harness was destroyed.
—The fruit crop in Chester county this sea-
‘son promises well. Cherries are not likely
to be quite as abundant as they were last
year, but sufficient to supply the local de-
mands. Peaches promise a big crop in this
neighborhood as well as in other parts. . Ap-
ple trees are very well set with fruit now,
and the prospects for a large pear crop are
good.
—George Garies, of Pine, who was a soldier
in the Philippines, is at home at present, hav-
ing served two years in the United States
army. He has some very fine relics from the
islands. The principal ones are, the’ hat of
the ex-President of Santa Cruz with his
blood on it ; a fine species of the bolo, weigh-
ing about three pounds, and a Filipino gen-
eral’s sword. They are highly prized relics.
—The supreme court has refused to grant
anew trial to J. C. Harman, of Penfield,
Clearfleld county, convicted of voluntary
‘manslaughter and sentenced to serve eight
months in the county jail. Harman was
charged with the killing of Ezekiel Hewitt
on the 3rd of July, 1899, and was tried be-
fore Judge Crawford, of Green county, who,
when he was found guilty, sentenced him as
above. - He will now have to serve his sen-
tence in the county jail. ! =
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' —The course of true love does not run
smooth over in Lycoming county, either.
Here is Joe Yeagle, whose home is near Wil-
liamsport, who gave Ella Kulp, now a resi-
dent of the city, $15, the idea being that she
would spend it in the purchase of various
articles needed for a wedding outfit and then
pective bridegroom’s money the young lady
vanished for a time and when unearthed de-
clared that she would never wed the forlorn
Joe.
—While there will undoubtedly be a large
yield of peaches, plums, cherries, pears and
small fruits in Butler county this season,
‘there are reports that the winterapple crop
will be a failure. Late apple trees, at least
those which bore fruit last year, have but a
few scattered blossoms. The prospects for a
big lot of peaches has not been as favorable
in twenty years, and the branches of trees
are literally loaded down. The fruit has so
far developed that only a heavy ‘‘freeze’’ can
cause it any damage.
marry Joe. But having obtained the pros-
any