BY P. GRAY MEEK. —————— Ink Slings. With the coal-oil can, Mary Ann The fire nicely started She was to blame for by that flame Her breath and her were parted. _Oo! We're stabbed two times. —Let us be thankful for pleasanter weather. __If it is true that politics makes strange bed-fellows there must be lots of people who need introduction when wakening up in Republican camps these mornings. —With Oleo JOHN in the newspaper bus- iness in Centre county the public may ex- pect some pretty smooth things in journal- ism from that source. — Wu Tine FANG dancing the two step +at Newport couldn’t have been a whit less amusing than his fellow Chinamen walk- ing Spanish at Peking some time ago. —TFor fear no one will know of it we ad- vise all of our friends to get a copy of the last issue of the Republican and discover what a ‘grand rascal” the editor of the - WATCHMAN is. —If JouN HAMILTON wounldn’t be quite so zealous he wouldn’t make quite 80 much of an ass'of himself. He isn’t the whole QuAY machine that he need fight all of its fights. —The Profs, D Ds, and LL LDs at Chi- cago University may come down to plain ‘Mister’? in addressing one another in the tature, but the Kentucky Colonel will hold onto his handle, “by Gawd sir.” — France is getting ready to fall on Rus- sia’s neck again, all because the feverish French want friends against the time when some of their enemies might show an in- clination to fall on France's neck,—but in a different way. & * _It ‘must be pretty hard for a bright ‘young man like editor HARRIS, of the Republican, to father the shallow maunder- ings of tin-horn, shoe-string authorship that are finding room on the editorial page of that journal. —When wireless telegraphy becomes aniversal there will be no need of high back fences to keep clashing neighbors from linguistic encounters. They will simply sit down at their machines and shoot a few dots and dashes at each other then. —In Havana they are innoculating peo- ple with yellow fever germs for experi- mental purposes. but it can hardly be said that the poor subjects are dying, asa re- sult of it, merely for experimental pur- poses. But they are all the same. 4 —We would suggest that the fair pro- ‘moters secure the editor of the Gazette for ne of the entertainment features at the thousands who will gather there for a few moments, at least. —Representative JoHN K. THOMPSON is getting a little more free advertising than he needs just now. The less said about the defunct would-be statesman from Philipsburg the happier he will be, but his traitorous act at Harrisburg will be like BANQUO’s ghost, it will never down. —Though Commissioner WRIGHT might think that Manila is ‘‘extremely peace- able’ the fact that four more companies of infantry are to be sent there to strengthen the available garrison of one thousand men and five hundred police is evident that someone else in authority thinks different- ly. —The blowing up of the Delaware river steamer ‘‘City of Trenton,”’ on Wednesday afternoon, was one of the most frightful catastrophes in the history of pavigation on that river. It was accompanied by the loss of many lives, all innocent of the ap- parent [act that some one who had their safety in keeping was neglecting his duty. —The announcement that WILLIAM BARRETT RIDGELY, of Illinois, is to suc- ceed CHARLES G. DAWES, as comptroller of the currency, came rather fast on the heels of the one from Canton stating that after a visit to the President Senator CoL- LUM is favorable to passing the ship sub- sidy bill at the next session of Congress. Especially does it seem so when it is known that Mr. RIDGELY is a son-in-law of Senator COLLUM. : —The balsam ladened woods of Maine were not enough to soothe QUAY .into lin- gering long when he heard of the trouble in the tall timber of Pennsylvania. The told man’ has a proposition on his hands now that is likely to keep him , guessing until 1905, it be is permitted to tarry that long at the old stand. Talk about ‘‘the great Rocky Mountain game,” QUAY has been hiding them and the other fellows have been trying to find them for, lo! these many years,but the time is com- ing when the board will have to be cleared - and poor old Pennsylvania will geta new © deal. —1It the Republican, or any of its guerilla editors, imagines for a moment that the editor of the WATCHMAN aims to ‘‘CON- TROL a single precinot, ward, township or delegate of his party in Centre county’’ it is as badly mistaken as it is in the idea that the ‘‘cheap guff’”’ that that paper is publishing is going to be a salvacea for ABE HASTINGS wounded feelings. We have a few friends in Centre county, but we wouldn't insult them by the use of the word “‘control’’ in speaking. of them, for no one could control the kind that are the WATCHMAN’S friends. Nor has it ever been necessary for its editor to debase anyone by the use of such persuaders as “the real thing.’ N= ple. But he underestimated VOL. 46 The Republican Platform. The platform adopted by the Republican state convention last week is a marvel in political literature. For the first time in the history of the politics of this or any other State the newspapers have been denounced as a whole and a private citizen has been made the subject of an animadversion in a state platform. The newspapers are condemned and a curtail ment of the liberty of the press recommend- ed in the platform of the convention be- cause they are tempted to protect the inter- ests of the people from the predatory incur- sions of a venal political machine. A pri- vate citizen bas been assailed in the same paragraph of the platform because, on ac- count of extensive business relations, he has acquired considerable influence with them. Political platforms have hitherto been sup- posed to give expression to grave thoughts of political leaders on questions of public in- terest and present moment. The politics of the parties and the aspirations of the statesmen of the country have heen con- veyed to the public through the medium of party platforms and they have been as sob- er in thought as they were expected to be dignified in language. Imagine the sur- prise of the intelligent and patriotic mén of the Commonwealth, therefore, when they read in the Republican platform adopted last Wednesday that the leaders of the Re- publican party are ‘‘amused rather than concerned’’ hecause the convention of a great party held the week previously had denounced the machine which had usurped the place of the Republican party as the most corrupt combination of freebooters which had ever been formed to loot the publie. Is it any wonder that thoughtful people of the Commonwealth are beginning to look forward with apprehension when the leaders of the dominant party in the State thus flippantly dismiss an accusation against the integrity of the government? TWEED once said derisively ‘What the h—1 are you going to do about it ?’’ when he was arraigned at the bar of public opin- ion for less flagrant crimes against the peo- ‘the depth of grown much older became fugitive from justice and ultimately died in prison. Will history repeat itself in the case of the managers of the QUAY machine? It would be poetic justiee if the strong arm of the law reached out and rebuked these arrogant treebooters and it will be surprising if they escape much longer. Quay’s Increasing Troubles. For a man who is out of politics Senator QUAY is having a great deal of trouble abont politics. Those to whom he entrust- ed the work of managing the Republican state convention also gave him heart dis- ease by their follies, and since. that his perplexities have multiplied. He bad “taken to the woods,’ so to speak, and hoped to enjoy the seclusion of Maine forests for weeks to come. But he was unable to do so for the reason that so many unex- pected and undesirable things have been occurring at-home lately that the law of self-preservation forced him back. He arrived there last Friday evening and since that has been having what might be called a strenuous time. The burden of his troubles was the re- sult of Governor STONE’S dealing with Senator FLINN. It can safely be said that QUAY had no objection to FLINN and any bargain which STONE might make with the late leader of the insurgents would be entirely satisfactory to QUAY if they ‘were agreeable to others in interest. 'FLIXN tried to put QUAY in the penitentiary a couple of years ago and except for the statute of limitations, he wonld probably have succeeded. Sebsequently QUAY tried to pnt FLINN in the penitentiary and failed only for the reason that the Pittsburg Sen- ator had a firm grip on the machinery of justice. But neither holds any grudge against the other. Both are ready at any time to forget if oblivion promises person- al advantage. But unhappily for both rec- onciliation between QUAY and FLINN might cause other hearts to bleed and for that reason STONE'S reconciliation with FLINN makes tronble for QUAY. In other words the peace between STONE and FLINN means war between QUAY and the BIGELOWS and the OLIVERS unless they are reconciled to the conditions. That is what brought QUAY home and may cause a repudiation of the STONE-FLINN bargain. This bargain involves the politic- al estates of two persons very close to FLINN. They are city solictor BURLEIGH and director of public safety J. O. BROWN. STONE has promised to keep them both in office, whereas the BIGELOWS and OLIVERS gave up‘several ‘thousand dollars for ex- penses in passing the ‘“‘ripper” in order to get them out. Both sides ‘are pressing QUAY severely and he is threatened with insomnia. The public is watching the case with deep interest. © ~~ © ——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. BELLEFONTE, PA., and for Greatness That Could Be Utilized At Home. It is a great thing to be a Clearfielder— a real, genuine, hemlock-tanned, coal- smoked native of a county, whose citizens have gristled their gable ends over cordu- roy roads, blistered their brown bands at log rollings and stump pullings, and wrest- led with the buckwheat itch as the sturdy citizens of that county have. But great as it is to be anative of Clearfield, it is great- erstill to be a Clearfield politician; ab least there are those who would have you think so. Two weeks ago the Democrats of the State held their convention at Harrisburg. They made a platform, named a ticket and so conducted the work of the convention as to give the most unlimited and general satistaction. Even that class of “citizens | known as Independent Republicans, who have never seen anything that pleased them but themselves, could find nolffault with what the convention did. Its ac- tions met the universal approval of the people and its work is sure to strengthen and encourage the Democratic prospects. Along with others, we have thought the work of that convention was the outcome of the combined wisdom of the Democrats of the State, the registered judgment of the delegates of the different counties of the Commonwealth, but judge of our sur- prise on learning, through the Clearfield Republican of last week, that Demo- orats in other sections of the State had lit- tle or nothing todo with it; that it was the work of Clearfield politicians and Clearfield statesmen. According to that pa- per they appeared upon the ground before others thought of going. They threw out their tentacles, issued their edicts, and made things go just as they wished them to. They annihilated DONNELLY and RYAN-ism, they harmonized Judge GOR- DON, théy taught Col. GUFFEY a thing or two, they set ex-Governor PATTISON in the shade, they changed the rules of the party, they nominated Judge YERKES, they bound togethered the bruised and battered fac- tions of the party in Philadelphia, they declared what should be and what should being done the sole benefit of the Demo- crats of the Commonwealth; that is, if our neighbor of the Republican is not magnify- not be, aud did and prevented ‘ing the ability and importance of some of his own people. ; We would be sorry to cast a reflection upon so influential a power as that of our Clearfield ‘‘brethren !”” We are glad they have come to the front; we hope they will stay there. Time was when Clearfield pol- iticians were most important factors in state politics. It was when under the wise control and persistent efforts of the late ex-Governor BIGLER and ex-Senator WAL- LACE that county rolled up Democratic majorities varying from fifteen to twenty- fire hundred at each annual election ; when its Democratic representatives were to be found at Harrisburg and Democratic officials filled its local offices. It is dif- ferent now. In fact it bas been different ever since the death of the lamented WAL- LACE. Republican representatives speak for its people at Harrisburg and Republican officials increase the tax rates in its local offices. Why this should he so we do not understand. If Clearfield still bas the men who can dictate state policies, determine state issues and settle state questions for the Democracy of the Commonwealth, the wonder to us is that political matters at home should be with them ‘as they are. After thus learning and acknowleding their influence, their ability and their power in state politics, we are forced to suggest that a little of the energy, a little of the potency and a little of the earnestness that is said to have characterized them at Harrisburg would not be out of place within the con- fines of their own county. Their own bat- tered and demoralized organization needs considerable’ doctoring. Their own de- feated and divided Democrats need to be harmonized and made hopeful. Their own despondent followers need to be made to feel that their leaders are both honest and in earnest. In fact, there is much these statesmen can do right at home and we hope that inasmuch as they have shown | their ability to manage the affairs of the Democracy of the State they will show equal skill and earnestness in redeeming their own county from the clutoh of the Republican ring. : ——Shivery’s traction engine caused what might have been a serious ranaway on west High street Wednesday morning. The horse attached to Shivery’s dairy wagon frightened and tore loose from a post in front of the post-office. Galloping toward the railroad it collided. with Dag- get's trap, in front of the Bush house, and was going on in its mad flight when Wal- lace Reeder did a little sprinting and stop- ped it.” Had Mr. Shivery’s milk wagon en smashed up it might have been a cost- ly reminder to him that the law requires a man to precede traction engines to give warning when they are passing along pub. lie highways. ~ STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. AUGUST 30, 1901. © What Will He Do About ft? gince, can be relied upon. the credit of any administration. overflowing. TINGS must stand sponsor for. would’ ment. ticket. was in office? We wait to see. The South African War. issued the same kind of proclamation no greater success. saddle. and ordered to give up their treasures. and civilization. petrated. Boers are victorious. or RAI “Seven ‘millions of dollars is quite a hig sim. A very large sum for a state admin- $ istration to juggle with or a state platform Bf» No. matte ae El mins tiv semtion In Vile these, SNE Soles the state ring would rob the administration of Gov. HASTINGS of the credit of accumu- lating if, we say IF, the statement the ex- ‘Governor gave to the public a few days * In its state platform last week the Re- publican ring alleged that Gov. STONE bad ‘inherited from the preceding administra- wion a deficit of nearly $3,000,000. That was Governor HASTINGS’ administration. After shaking the torpidity ons of his liver, and clearing up his brain by a ride through | extortion. A e mountains, the ex-Governor, on Tues- ay last, proceeded to interview himself and give to the public facts showing how stu- pendous a falsehood this statement is. In a long array of figuresand a verbose presen- tation of what he claims to be facts, be shows that in place of a deficit of $3,0C0,- 000, Gov. STONE was furnished with a sur- ) plus of $4,000,000 to begin political busi- fruit. Peaches can be bought a6 50 ness with—a simple difference of $7,000, | = * : e. to § 000—an amount to add to or detract from dy against 50c. to 60c. a year ~ To the public, and particulatly the tax payers, it matters little which of these con- tentions is right. Under Republican ad- ministration—and both administrations re- ferred to were Republican—it is all the same whether there was a deficit or sarplus. Extravagance, corruption and prodigality ‘go on, whether the treasury is bankrupt or ‘The question about this matter that will most interest the people of the Common- wealth is what is Gov. HASTINGS going to do about it? ‘It the figures he gives are cor- teot the claim of the Republican state plat- form is a plain and unblushing libel of his administration. It isan attempt to take the credit that should belong to bis admin- istration and give it to a man who is will- ing to steal glory from his predecessor and use it to maynify his own merits as an offic- ial. It is an effort to falsify facts and besmirch au administration that Gov. Has- /1f this were the charge of a newspaper or oe] Republican party of the State, expressed in its platform and the approval of that plat- form is the indorsement of that charge and right here ' is where our fellow townsman must find himself in a peculiar predica- To vote the Republican ticket is to indorse this platform. To indorse the plat- form is to libel his own administration, to discredit his work as an executive. He ie the head and front, the owner and controller of the Republican party of this county. His money is expected to enthuse the “boys’’ and his efforts are depended upon to get out the vote for the Republican state Are these to be used, this fall, to ‘Tally the Republican masses for a platform which seeks to diseredit his administration and would leave the impression that he was either incompetent or dishonest while he General Sir HERBERT KITCHENER, com- mander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa, bas just issued a proclamation inviting all the Boers still alive and under arms to surrender under penalty of deport- ation to some penal colony. Lord ROBERTS year or so ago and got little for his pains and Sir HERBERT will probably meet with In fact, President STEYN, of the Orange Free State, and Gen- erals BorHA and DEWETT have already in- dicated that they have no intention to sur- render but on the contrary they will fight as long as they have strength to sit in the In’ the history of the world there has never ‘been as cruel and unjust a war as that of Great Britain to rob the people of | those little Republics of their liberties and property. Having acquired, by honest in- dustry and patient labor, homes and fire- sides in a fertile but unexplored section of the world they were pursued hy the greed which bas always characterized the Beisiy 000, if Andrew J. Palm were as well was an unparalleled ontrage against justice Yet there was no protest from any quarter aud the civilized world, with its professions of Christianity held in subjection, permitted the outrage to be per- In the end, no doubt, those courageous men who love liberty and justice better than life will be killed on" the field of bat- tle or starved into submission. But it may not be soon, and whenever it comes in the eyes of the best element of the world the In other words for a handful of peaceful people to hold out against the hosts of the most powerful and wealthiest empire that exists today or ever has existed is an evidence of military prowess never equaled in the history of the world. The final triumph over them. will be secured at a frightful cost and before it is oumpleted the expense will be vastly in- * | 1t Costs Too Much to Live. — Ge “ From the Pittsburg Post. People are always interested in what they eat and what they wear. No into the calculations of every man : woman of thinking age, and are of especial interest to the men and women who have families to maintain. The question of eat- ST oma po of: . Peoplemay get along with very few clothes, but must have a certain amount of nourishment if they wish 0 be healthy and vigorous. ~~ The cost of nearly all classes of food is very high, some 1s being more than double the price of the corres ing time a year ago. Take the case of Polaloe, ‘which is the staple food of many fami es, ‘and the prices asked to-day seem almost an ) 186 19 a year ago potatoes: ‘were $1.25 fo. ) a barrel; to-da are quoted in a wholesale way at $4 $4.75a barrel. This, too, in the face of the fact that the government report for July shows the conditions of the potato crop in Pennsylvania to be better than that in a number of other States. Onions, cabbages and green beans are also away up. 5 ng The difference is not so Pears, bananas, and can are all higher than they were a year nn, ‘while there is no. corresponding improve- ment in the quality. : Po Egus are quoted at 17 to 18 cents a dozen against 15(@ 16 cents a year ago ; cream ‘butter at 23 to 23} cents now, § 186 21 -21} this date last August. In the jobhing grocery line many items are higher tha they were a year ago, such as canned goods and dried fruits. In thisdepartment ther are Some exceptions to the general rule, several staples being lower now. than they were August 1900, notably sugar and cof- fee. Flour is now quoted at $4 to $4.10 a barrel, while $4.10 to $4.20 was asked a year ago. : ha On the market page of this issue will be found a list of 22 articles, most of which are regarded as staple foods, that shows the comparative prices of leading food products now and a year ago. In this list it will be found that ouly three are lower $han a year ago, one unchanged, while the bal- ance is higher, some very much higher. Inquiry among dealers discloses the fact that all share in the opinion that the high range now prevailing is due to the usual crop shortage. The supply of everything verage, is mttribul ¢ sharp Gon tween refiners, .while the low coffee is songht to be explained on the ground that there is a large crop and that a keen rivalry exists between competing importers. The most discouraging feature of the case in regard to many things is that the shortage is likely to continue un- til another crop season is due, and under such conditions a continuance of high prices is to be looked for. flour is slightly lower than it Ba. Li LOW! fig T puSnga ¢ 2% BL Fo Mr. Palm's Nomination. From Meadville Morning Star, Ind. Rep. In nominating Hon. Andrew J. ‘Palm for State Treasurer, the Democratic state convention made no mistake. There is not in politics in either party today in the State of Pennsylvania a cleaner man, nor one more deserving of the honors of public office. He has been tried and not found wanting. His career in the State Legisla- ture is an open book, and no breath of sus- picion rests against his character. He bas gerved two terms in the House of Repre- sentatives, has worked faithfully in the in- terests of the State and his constituents, and won the respect and confidence of hon- est men of both parties. Like most men who havesucceeded in climbing the ladder, Mr. Palm was born and raised on a farm. He was horn near Sheakleyville, in Mercer county, June 21, 1848, on the farm where his boyhood and early manhood ‘were spent. Through his own efforts he manag- ed to secure an academic education, after- wards graduating from the State Normal 8 | school at Edinboro in 1871. He served for three years as prideipal of New Lebanon Academy, and three years as principal of Middlesex schools, and was then elected county superintendent of Mercer county schools, which position he filled for six years so acceptably as to achieve more than turned his attention to newspaper work ‘and for seven years edited the Mercer Press and a part of the time also the ‘‘Education- al Review,” of Pittsburg. In 1892 he founded the ‘American Journal of Poli- tics,)’ which four years later was merged ‘with the “‘Arena,”’ of Boston. Asa writer not afraid to denounce corraption and fraud, whether it be found in his own po- litical party or elsewhere. His views are broad and liberal, and he has ever been a ready advocate on the side of humanity. sylvania is anywhere from 100,000 to 300,- known and appreciated throughout the State as he is in Mercer and Crawford coun- ties he would be elected by the largest ma- jority ever fiten a State Treasurer. Honest ‘men in politics is the crying need of the times, and in the future the question of the voter will not be, ‘‘is he a Republican’’ or ‘“is he a Democrat,”” but ‘‘is he an honest man?’ To havea man in the State Treas- urer’s office at Harrisburg with the intelli- gence and honesty of Mr. Palm would be a “‘consummation devoutly to be wished,’ and there are not a few Republicans in this pats of the State who will vote to that end. : A Warning to Other States, From the Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer. The condition of Pennsylvania to-day is the frightful consequence of political de- generacy. And itis a warning to every other State in the Union to fight ocorrup- tion in politics with all its strengsh at the first battle; not to permit a single triumph of the system that saps resisting power un- til little short of a popular revolution can shake it off. - A almost soept wheat seems to be below. the | er price om | ‘a local reputation as an educator.” He next his style is vigorous and positive, and he is: Although the Republican majority in Penn- Spawls from the Keystone. —The “‘ankle bug” has taken the place o f the “kissing bug’’ in many places. A num- ber of persons have been badly crippled for a week or more as the result of its bite, which is very painful. As yet the insect has not been identified, and is known only as the “ankle bug.” Persons wearing low shoes are easy prey. —During a quarrel in the Pointdexter hotel Williamsport, Saturday night, Charles Payne shot Benjamin Trice, both colored, in the left breast. Trice will recover. Payne was arrested. He is charged by Trice with kill. ing a man at Coatesville, and is suspected of being the man who murdered the darkey at Karthaus several weeks ago. —There is at present time a swindler oper- ating in the State who is making money in a new way. It is said he goes from house to house and extracts teeth without cost, pro- vided a set is ordered. He calls again in a short time and gets half the price and the plate and then disappears, leaving the vic- tim minus teeth and cash, There is weep - ing and wailing but owing to the circum- stance, no gnashing of teeth. —William L. Woodceck, of Altoona, has been appointed a delegate to the ecumenical conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which convenes in London, England on the 4th of September. Dr. Edward Gray, of Williamsport, and Hon. Thomas H. Murray, of Clearfield, will also be in at- tendance as delegates from the commun ity. very notable bedy. It will represent Metk- odism throughout’the world. —Near the southern edge of York county is a walnut log for whieh $1,500 was recently refused. It was found bya man who was making an excavation in the bank of a creek, and who realizing partially the value | of his discovery went tothe owner of the marked in and and secured possession of the piece for $75. He dug it out of the sand and clay, and '|'a lumberman who examined it offered the price first mentioned. The owner asked $1,800. The wood has been covered for pos- sibly centuries, and is as black and hard as mahogany. —As a trial to give an idea as to whetbter the proposed movement to establish consumptive camps on the state’s forestry reservations will be a success or not, two or three con- sumptives have been sent to the reservation in Pike county. The results have been most satisfactory. The patients have been great: 1y benefited, and while their permanent re- covery cannot be assured, the improvement in their condition is such as to strengthen the hope that camps will be carried out ona more extensive scale. ) —The lumber firm of Wm. Whitmer an Sons, Co., of Sunbury have purchased 19,00 0 ‘acres of timber land in the Seven mounta‘ns. This purchase with the 10,000 already owned ‘by that firm ‘gives them nearly 30,000 acres | or'about forty seven square miles, in that section. The holdings embrace all the tracts ‘from Poe mills to Potter's mills and between Penn's valley and Big valley. itis the inten- tion of Whitmer and Sons to operate on the trast cutting prop timber, paper wood and match wood, utilizing everything down to a growth of six'inches, this will give them an immense field for operations for years to come. LATE : ’ ! —Traffic, both freight and passenger, is totally suspended on the Pittsburg, Johns: town, Ebensburg and eastern railway, owing to the resignation of General Manager Frank Patterson, who has telegraphed President S. P. Langdon that he refuses to take the responsibility of running trains because the roadbed is so imperfect. The accident last week, in which part of a train was thrown over an embankment, is responsible, Mr. Patterson says, for his stand. Spreading of the rails caused the accident. The road taps the Dougherty coal district and sand- stone fields, and is the only road running to Wopsononock, the famous summer resort. —The engine on the Ebensburg & Black- lick passenger train has twice recently jump- ed the track because of an open switch. This was rather costly as well as very dan- gerous, and a detective was assigned to watch the switches, with the result thatlast week he caught several boys of Vintondale in the act of opening a switch at'a point so dangerous that the passenger train, then soon due, must have inevitably plunged headlong over an embankment with its hu - man freight. The boys were so small that the officer after getting their names and the names of their parents, released them to re- port to his superior, and it is not yet known what disposition will be made of their case. Work upon the new line now being built by the Vanderbilts between Clearfield and Karthaus to get rid of the heavy adverse grades on the Beech Creek railroad in the transportation of coal to tide is progressing rapidly, and, according to the officials of the Beech Creek, the road will be finished by next spring: The new line, which is twenty five miles in length, runs through a very wild and practically undeveloped country. The builders, in hewing their way through the dense underbrush, have encountered hundreds of rattlesnakes, which have not taken kindly to being disturbed, and there have been many fierce encounters between ‘the workmen and these reptiles, in which the former were victorious only after battles. In fact, so numerous and vicious are the snakes that it has been found necessary to form gangs of men whose duty it was to un- earth and destroy them. —Representative Beaver, of Juniata county, recently wrote to Attorney General Elkin with reference to the late act prohibiting the sale of tobacco in any form to persons under 16 years of age, desiring to know if a mer- chant could fill an order from a parent to be carried home by a minor child under 16. The attorney general replied: “Replying to your letter of recent date with regard to the act prohibiting the sale and furnishing of tobacco persons under the age of 16 years, 1 would advise you, unofficially, that section two of the act of July 1, 1901, referred to, which reads that no person or persons shall either by purchase, gift or other means fur- nish tobacco in any form toa person under the age of 16 years is broad enough to cover the cases which you suggest in your; letter. By the terms of this act the sale and furnish- ing of tobacco under any circumstances to persons under 16 years is absolutely pro- hibited. Savy
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