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Ink Slings.
' THE CANDIDATE.
I'm runnin’ for an office now,
And I want to know the facts.
Do you think that I might get it
Where the chicken got the ax?
~The Hon. ARTHUR PHEW GORMAN
seems to be hoss dog again in the Maryland
tan yard.
—If you have too much company hang
out a small pox sign for a little while. The
érouble will cease instantly.
—1It looks to a man up a tree as if either
the Nicaragua or Panama canal routes will
be good enough, if cost has anything to do
with them.
—Have you heard anything lately of that
seat on the Superior court bench? About
the first thing STONE knows Judge LOVE
won’t take it at all.
—Harmony seems to have found her
tuning fork in Pittsburg and Philadel-
phia. Does this mean that Pennsylvania
iz soon to find relief from her machine
thraldom.
—The trial at Clearfield next month is
likely to disclose some facts about the fi-
nances of certain Pennsylvania statesmen
that even BRADSTREET’S or DUNN'S have
been unable to pry into heretofore.
—The Chinese court is getting back to
Pekin and an atmosphere of pagan royalty
once more pervades the imperial city. One
of its strong legs is gone, however, and ib
will never be the mysterious power it once
was.
—1It is strange but only too true that
most of the great inventions have been
preceded by a period during which a
skeptical public have not been able to find
words expressive enough to convey their
ridicule of the inventors.
—Thirty young Democrats observed
JACKSON'S day by a banquet at the
Bellevue in Philadelphia on Wednesday
evening, so the city papers announced yes-
terday morning. The announcement was
not unusual, except in the statement that
there are really thirty Democrats in Phila-
delphia.
Little doubt remains as to whether the
Panama or Nicaragua canal proposition
would be best. The Panama route is
shorter, would be easier maintained and be
much cheaper, but these facts ratherdis-
favor it in the eyes of the congressional
plunderers who figure that the moreex-
pensive the job the larger the rake off.
—Our esteemed contemporary; the Lan-
caster Infelligencer,is trying to stir up more
excitement over the possibility of the planet
Mars being inhabited. That old theory
has heen dead these two years and if there
is no ladder to be built hy which we can
climb up we don’t see what right the In-
telligencer has to get us all worked up again
with a curiosity that has no chance of
gratification.
—A Howard street girl went down toa
physician a few days ago to be vaccinated
and when he asked her : “Will you have it
done on the calf’’ she “budded’’ in before
he got a chance to finish his sentence and
snapped out ‘‘No, I want it done on my-
self.”” The innocent physician had merely
intended to ask the young lady whether
she wished to be vaccinated on the calf of
the leg or on the arm.
—These mutual manifestations of good
feeling between the nations are really get-
sing to be a little too thick to be passed
over without a degree of suspicion. The
President upset all rules of diplomatic
etiquet by taking the wife of the English
Ambassador into the New Year’s dinner at
the White House and the German Kaiser
inviting Miss ALICE ROOSEVELT, the Presi-
dent's daughter, to christen her new yacht,
are two incidents that look very pretty on
the surface, but it is altogether likely that
someone has an ax to grind.
—The Hon. W. C. ARNOLD, of DuBois,
seems determined ‘to get in on the ground
floor in the new congressional district in
which Centre and Clearfield counties have
been placed. He has just had himself made
a member of the committee of county lead-
ers that will meet at DuBois on the 15th to
formulate plans for work in the 27th.
The district looks safely Republican, but
we fear its safety if the DuBois statesman
tries it again, which is scarcely probable in
the face of Col. Ed. IRVIN’S popularity and
ambitions to be the next Congressman.
—The frightful accident that occurred
on the underground railway in New York
Wednesday morning will have the effect of
causing this mad, rushing, hustling, push-
ing, wreckless generation to stop but a
moment to consider which is best: To go
heedless and headlong into a short whirl
ablaze with success or to take a more cau-
tious and steadier step along life’s pathway.
What is the use of all this hurry, anyway ?
This hurry that congests streets and high-
ways and snuffs out lives on all sides mere-
ly to get something finished to-day that
could as well be done to-morrow.
—Mr. BRYAN'S idea of sticking to the |.
principles of Democracy is entirely proper,
but there seems tobe a wide difference of
opinion as to what those principles are. Not
so much as to what they are, perhaps, as to
the way they should be interpreted and
applied. It is true that the party ‘that
fights for principles will live long alter the
one that fights for plums has fallen under
the lethargic sway of public gormandizing
but some admixture of spoils to spur on
the workers who haven’t time to argue the
English of principles or concern as to how
they affect governments is not a bad thing.
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: Spawls from the Keystone.
.—ElNis Irvin, postmaster of Liek Run,
Clearfield county, is the oldest postmaster in
the United States. The Clearfield Spirit says
he is 95 years old and was register and re-
corder of Clearfield county over sixty years
ago.
—The erew of a railroad train found an un-
conscious man lying along side the track near
Big Run Sunday. He was brought to that
town where he died several hours later. 'It
is believed that he froze to death. Fiom pa-
STATE RIGHTS
BILLEFONTE, PA.,
AND FEDERAL UNION.
JANUARY 10. 1902.
NO. 2.
The Philippine Tariff.
The Philippine tariff bill that passed the
House of Representatives after two days of
intermittent debate will go through the
Senate as rapidly as it can be forced. Thus
for an indefinite period the government of
the United States will be taxing ‘‘subjects’’
under the authority of congressional legis-
lation, without representation, precisely
as the government of Great Britain taxed
the American colonies previous to that lit-
tle tea party in Boston harbor. Our fore-
fathers regarded that as unjust and the
civilized world estimated it as justifying
revolution. Bat those were old fashioned
times and, besides, it makes a vast difference
whose ox is gored.
But laying aside all questions of justice
and consistency the policy expressed in the
Philippine tariff bill is absurd from a com-
mercial stand point. Representative RICH-
ARDSON, of Tennessee, in his minority re-
port from the committee on Ways and
Means on the bill stated that the expenses
of our operations in the Orient thus far
have amounted to the enormous sum of
$450,000,000 and the expense of maintain-
ing our army in the Philippines last year
aggregated $85,000,000. Our trade with
the archipeligo amounted to about five and
a-half millions last year, on which the
profits netted a trifle over a million. Thus
we paid $85,000,000 in order to gain a lit-
tle over one millionwhich proves, not com-
mercial sagacity but financial lunacy.
But even if the trade with the Philip-
pines were profitable under reasonable con-
ditions the proposed tariff would not be a
wise measure from an economic point.
This can easily be demonstrated by analyz-
ing the trade operations of the last year.
The total value of imports and exports there
during the year amounted to about fifty-
three and a-balf millions of dollars. Of
this amount five and a-half millions came
to the United States, about ten per
cent. ‘though this country paid all the
expenses of government and by reason
of the exercise of control had consid-
erable advantage in the matter of di-
verting trade. But the tariff barriers pre-
vented traffic operations and the result is
that European countries which paid not
a cent of the cost of preserving order got
the benefit of nine-tenths of the commerce.
Under the proposed bill which is practical-
ly a legaliza' ion of the old schedules, nulli-
fied by a recent Supreme court decision, we
will continue to diaw the shell while our
commercial rivals will fatten on the lucious
oyster.
The Comedy of the Period.
There is probably no comedy of recent
creation that is quite as excruciatingly fun-
py as that which attends the occasional
movements of the Liberty Bell, from Phil-
adelphia. Singularly enough there is rare-
ly a request for the highly prized trophy of
the Revolutionary period from any section
except the South, and when the request is
made and granted the entire population of
the city goes into a fever of excitement
overit. First the councils take the sub-
ject up in the gravest manner, then the
people take a hand in the discussion, and
finally some plowmau who has broken into
the pulpit pronounces a protest.
To our mini all the excursions which
the Bell has made during, say the last
third of a century, have been funny, but
the one which has just been completed by
the arrival of the cherished token in
Charleston, caps the climax. The usual
ceremonial attended the departure from
Philadelphia. There was a military sa-
lute of thirteen guns as the baudsomely
decorated train moved off and the Bell,
beautifully adorned, was guarded by six
policemen every one of whom, three months
before, had probably been stuffing ballot
boxes to beat the band and doing other
things which would have made every man
who listened to the original Declaration of
Liberty blush with shame.
There was SAM ASHBRIDGE, the atro-
cious mayor of Philadelphia, throwing out
cheap platitudes about patriotism at
every stop of the train aud, assuming a
proprietory tone, telling the people what a
favor he and the people of Philadelphia
had conferred on them by giving them an
opportunity to get a peep at the historic
BELL. As a matter of fact it is a sacred rel-
ic and every man should avail himself of
an opportunity to see it. But it doesn’t
belong to Philadelphia any more than to
any other part of the country and the
mouthing of such men as ASHBRIDGE over
it is a desecration which everybody has a
right to resent.
——The Philipsburg Journal tells of a
young man who went to spend Near Year's
eve with his married sister in the outskirts
of that town. They all retired early and
when the bells began to ring and the whis-
tles to blow the New Year in the young
man, who is an active fireman, jumped up
and in his haste to dress and get down
town, got on his brother-in-law’s bat and
over-coat. The Journal is poking fun at
him for the mistake, but we can’t see any-
thing so funny in it unless he is foolish
enough to go back to his brother-in-law’s
again until the coat and hat are worn out.
Fighting the Railroad Trust.
The proceedings in the Supreme court of
the United States on Tuesday by the At-
torney General of Minnesota to prevent the
merger of roads in the formation of the
Northern Securities company will serve the
double purpose of testing the validity and
efficiency of the anti-trust legislation and
the sincerity of the professions of Attorney
General KNOX of a desire to suppress trusts.
In other words if the Attorney General is
sincere and the law adequate the Northern
Securities company will not endure a great
while. The litigation begun on Tuesday
is indeed earnest.
To our mind, however, the wiser course
for the authorities of Minnesota to pursue
would have been to bring their action in
the state courts. The main ground of
action in the bill of complaint is that the
organic law of the State is violated in that
provision which forbids the consolidation
or merger of ‘‘parallel and competing
roads.” That was precisely the action
complained of in this State when the Penn-
sylvania railroad company undertook to
purchase and own the so-called South Penn-
sylvania road owned by the VANDERBILTS
and in process of construction. The trans-
action was declared void, though the law
and the decision was evaded by the
abandonment of the ‘enterprise which
achieved the purpose the Pennsylvania
company had in mind.
In the present case that system of evasion
would be impossible for the reason that
the constituent companies are vast concerns
which could not be wiped off the map. For
example it would be impossible to abandon
the Northern Pacific railroad, if the merger
were declared invalid for its stock and
bonds amount to more than two hundred
million dollars and it would be nearly
equally impossible to wipe out the Great
Northern, which is also a corporation’ of
immense capitalization and business. A
suit in the state courts to presérve the in-
tegrity of the fundamental law would,
therefore, have been the safer form of litiga-
tion.
An Interesting Question.
The German government, according to
Washingten dispatches, is preparing to
make a demonstration against Venezuela ons
account of an alleged debt due from citizens
of the little South American Republic to
citizens of the German Empire. The debt,
according to the best information attaina-
ble, was contracted in the building of a lit-
tle narrow-gauge railroad in Venezuela.
Some Germans built the road and took
hounds on which the government had guar-
anteed usurous interest for their pay. Af-
ter over charging for the work they got all
the bonds they claimed but the road be-
ing over capitalized didn’t pay and there
was a default in the interest. 2
It is on account of this default that the
demonstration is threatened. A demon-
st ration in diplomatic parlance means
sending a fleet of war ships to the scene of
action, blockading some of the ports, seiz-
ing others and collecting all the revenues
until the obligation is discharged. A
demonstration against Venezuela under ex-
isting conditions would mean war and war
would eventuate necessarily in the con-
quest of the little Republic. That accom-
plished, if the example of Germany in
China or Great Britain in South Africa
were followed, the next step would be a
claim of sovereignty and an occupation of
the territ ory under indemity practice es-
tablish ed by Germany in France.
Thi s would be a violation of the MoN-
ROE doctrine. That doctrine asserts in
unequivocal language that European in-
stitutions must not he extended in this
hemisphere and monarchical government
must not be increased. Venezuela can’t
pay the claim. She is poor to the extent
of suffering now, A demonstration conse-
quently involves a violation of the MoN-
ROE doctrine and still the government at
Washington makes no protest. Can it be
that the authorities want to dishonor that
as they have disregarded all other cherish-
ed traditions of the country. We shall
wait patiently and see.
A Misleading Citation.
It is not altogether surprising that an
educator who will use the annual report of
the Department of Public Instruction to
eulogize a machine politician will also mis-
lead the public by citing statistics from a
biographical compilation published as a
money making enterprise in order to prove
a premise he himself sets up. What Dr.
SCHAEFFER, Superintendent of Pablic In-
structions, says in praise of education is
true. As a matter of fact the advantage to
an individual of liberal, and especially
scientific, education cannot be over esti-
biographical cyclopedias is no test of mens.
For example, the average biographical
cyclopedia is made up by adventurers, of
men who are willing to pay the price for
the notoriety of appearing in such a work.
The more pretentious of them charge $50
to $100 for the favor which usually in-
cludes a copy of the book and a full page
sketch with portrait. Others yary in price
forthe same service down as low as $10,
but unless in the way of flattering the
vanity of those who appear in the work it
is worth nothing. There is not at present
any one serving time in the penitentiary
who cannot secure admission to the next
volume of the average biographical work if
be is willing to pay the price.
Dr. SCHAEFFER cites the fact that a
great proportion of the persons whose
names appear in one of these publications
are graduates of colleges or universities,
probably for the purpose of creating in the
minds of the youth a desire for classical
education. The object which influences
the Doctor is unquestionably a good one
but unhappily he has adopted a mistaken
method of supporting it. He would much
better have cited the city directory of any
given town and chosen the successful men,
for in the proportion that he refers to they
are men of liberal education if not grad-
uates of colleges.
A Good Man Gone.
It is with the deepest regret that the
WATCHMAN chronicles the death of MICH-
AEL CAssIDY Esq., at his home in Phila-
delphia on Monday morning last. It came
after a short illness of pneumonia, compli-
cated with heart disease, from which he had
suffered for many years. Mr. CASSIDY
was one of the few men found in almost
every community who commanded the re-
spect of all and who makes others better
for having lived among them. He was a
real type of American manliness—truthful,
open and frank— loyal to every interest he
espoused, earnest in every duty he under-
took, faithful to every obligation, whether
to State, to church, to family, or to party,
or to friend, and above all, had the dispo-
sition and desire to do right by his fellow
man, whether friend or foe, and wherever
3 under whatever circumstance he was
placed.
He began life as a slate-picker in the
anthracite mines in which his father
worked at Ne:quehoning. He toiled and
studied and sa) ed until able to pay his way
through one of the state Normal schools
and fit himself for a teacher. A few years
after graduating he was chosen a member
of the Legislature and served during the
notable sessions of 1879 and 1880, when he
became widely known through his deciding
vote against the Pittshurg riot claims. He
was the leader in exposing an effort to bribe
Members of the Legislature to vote for the
bill makmg the State liable for the dam-
ages growing out of the riots. Upon his
return from Harrisburg Mr. CASSIDY was
elected clerk for Carbon county Commis-
sioners. Later he studied law. During
President Cleveland’s administration he
held the position of deputy surveyor of the
port of Philadelphia, every duty of which
he performed with intelligent care and the
strictest fidelity to the public good.
Afterwards he was made special superin-
tendent of the port, which position he held
until 1898. He was widely known
throughout the State as a staunch Demo-
crat and few were the party gatherings at
which he was not found or his opinion and
advice were not sought. It is not only
his stricken family who will miss and
mourn his early taking.
Asking Altogether too Much.
Consideration of justice compels us to file
a protest against the demand,inconsiderate-
ly made by a large number of newspapers
of both parties in this State, that Governor
STONE shall more specifically deny the
statement made by Ex-Recorder BROWN,
of Pittsburg, that he insisted on acting as
treasurer of the corruption fund raised to
bribe the Legislature into voting for the
“‘ripper bills.”” There is a legal principle
as old as the common law of England that
no man can be compelled to give evidence
against himself, and such an action on the
part of the Governor would be equivalent
to a confession of guilt.
The Governor has already denied the
statement in direct terms. Unfortunately
for him the denial of a previous accusation
so severely jolted his reputation for verac-
ity that subsequent denials have had no ef-
fect on the public mind. When it was
charged that Justice POTTER, of the Su-
preme court, had communicated secrets of
that tribunal to him, at the time a litigant
in the case of which the telephone talk was
the subject, the Republican paper concern-
ed in the matter, proved the proposition.
That was equivalent to impeaching his ve-
racity in a court of justice. Since that the
evidence of his denial amounts to nothing.
But when taking the matter into court will
still further batter his reputation, it is
unreasonable to ask him to take the step.
Everybody knows there was a corruption
fund for use in promoting the passage of
the bill in question. It is equally noto-
’ 861- | rious that it was freely used and the ques-
mated. But mention in one of the modern:
tion of who acted as treasurer is an unim-
portant detail. But it is reasonably certain
that Ex-Recorder BROWN knew all about
it. He was at the time in full aecord with
the movement and the first beneficiary of
the deal. He is a man of good reputation
for veracity and the people will, generally
speaking, accept his statement of the facts.
But the press ought not to ask the Govern-
or to go too far in the matter of denial. It
| might get him into serious trouble.
Don’t Swear Off, Just Moderate It.
From the York Gazette.
The Philadelphia Ledger, has discovered
a truly appropriate New Year resolution
and it is to resolve upon a greater regard
for moderation.
usual abstinence resolution to which so
many pledge themselves at the opening of
a New Year and generally disregard after a
few short weeks have passed. To possessa
regard for moderation is more than mere
temperance as that term is now used. The
word temperance is so generally associated
with the liquor question, says the Ledger,
that we hesitate to use it here,though most
applicable. Its real meaning is net absti-
nence, but moderation. It comes from a
Latin word which means *‘to mix with due
proportion’’—quite a different thing from
the ‘‘touch not, taste not, handle not” rule
which has assumed the name of temper-
ance. ‘‘Be temperate in all things’’ is an
exhortation which few, if any, of us follow
yet it is one which,f complied with, would
be fraught with incaleulable advantages.
We are, as a nation, inclined to extremes.
Our perceptions are keen, our enthusiasni
is strong, our feelings are warm, our hopes
are high, and with all this our tendency is
to go to excess in whatever engages our in-
terest and commands our energy. Of course,
this can only be done at the expense of otk-
er things. We have only a certain amount
of time, strength and opportunity in eaeh |
day or each year. It is the path of wisdom
so to apportion them as to fulfill, without
haste or waste, the various duties and
claims that press upon us. We shall hard-
ly go amiss, then, if among our New Year
resolutions we form the modest one of cul-
tivating moderation for, as Bishop Hall
well puts it: “Moderation is the silken
string running throngh the pearl chain of
all virtues.”
With all, He’s the Kind They Want.
From the Pittsburg Press (Rep.)
It is rather singunlar,in view of the warn-
ings that the dominant faction in the Re-
publican State organization in Pennsylva-
nia have received, to find the report that
Senator Quay is for John P. Elkin for Gov-
ernor, accepted in numerous quarters as
equivalent to Elkin’s nomination. :
If Elkin is to he nominated in this man-
ner the nomination will in all protability
prove a most unfortunate one for the Re-
publican party. He will be merely Quay’s |
candidate. And what has Quay done that
he should be permitted to furnish a guber- |
patorial nominee next year to the Republi-
cans of Pennsylvania? He is responsible |
for Stone as Governor. He is responsible
for the last Legislature, perbaps the most |
disgraceful that ever assembled at the State
Capitol. He is responsible for the “‘ripper’”
bill and all the obloguy and demoralization
of government it has brought upon. Pitts:
burg. The people of the State are not like- |
ly a year hence to give a eordial greeting to
any one who can he with the slightest war-
rant stigmatized as the Quay candidate.
A word to the wise is said to be sufficient
but a whole sermon from the voters of
Pennsylvania from the text ‘‘Thou shalt
not steal” is occasionally lost upen the
leaders of the machine, who never remem-
ber the lesson of the Delamater campaign
nor seem able to profit from more recent
experiences.
Mr. Bryam’s Call to Arms.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Mr. Bryan is right in his speeches, one
of which he made at Wooster, O., on Tues-
day, and others which he proposes to make
in New England, in maintaining that the
power and influence of the Democratic par-
ty depends on its faithful and courageous
adherence to principle. It was what gave
Jefferson and Jackson their power in the
party, and later Tilden, Thurman, Hen-
dricks and Cleveland. It is what gives Mr,
Bryan his sway over millions of his coun-
trymen, without the scrap of office or pat-
tronage at his disposal. =A party without
principles, he truthfully asserts, can have
no claim on public confidence. In a con-
test for the mere spoils of office and power
the Democratic party stands no chance.
When it is a contest for principles, in
which the masses believe and are united,
we can always make an earnest, and some-
times successful, battle against great odds.
Even if success is denied us, our duty re-
mains. It is no dishonor to he out-voted
this year when we may win next. Dis-
grace only comes with an abandonment of
‘principle and a shilly-shally or evasive
declaration of our faith in principles and’
policies which the people have at heart
and believe in more thoroughly than they
do in the spoils or the prestige of power.
Where Adjectives Fail
From the Lincoln, Neb, Commoner.
It would be interesting tosee what a
‘first-class circus advertising agent or press
representative like Tody Hamilton of Barn-
uni’s or Mr. Coxy of Ringling’s would do
with the glittering pageant that is to accom-
pany the coronation of Edward VII, Ifa
circus with three rings, a great Roman hip-
podrome a menagerie exhausts the adject-
ives in the Century dictionary, the corona-
tion of Edward VII. should put the circus
advertising ‘manager on his mettle and re-
sult in the coinage of a lot of adjectives
that would be a valuable addition to the
language. For glittering pomp and orgeons
pageantry the coronation of Edward VII.
will make the first circusas you see it in
memory sink into gutter insignificance.
But Edward is to be crowned but once. and
a coronation comes to but few men in a
generation, so it is not surprising that such
an event should call for a barbaric display
‘that would have made the ancient Romans
turn green with envy.
The Brutality of War.
From the Preston (Minn.) National Republican.
The brutality of the English manage-
ment of their concentration camps in South
Africa is shown by the mortality therein.
In October there were 3,156 deaths, 1,633
In November there were
2,807 deaths, 2,271 being children. "This
horror should be abated by honest. govern-'
being children.
ments, if there are any.
— Suboribe for the WATCHMAN
This is better than the
pers in his pocket it was learned that his
name was Timothy Fleming and that his
home was at Piedmont, W. Va.
—A dispatch from Huntingdon states that
Friday Frederick Rupert, aged 18 years, see-
ing a hawk after his chickens, attempted to
shoot the bird, but, finding that his gun
would not discharge, he attempted to locate
the trouble by blowing into the muzzle. The
gun exploded and the entire charge of No. 4
shot entered his mouth, blowing off his head.
—Lieutenant Edgar S. Stayer who. after
receiving his appointment as an officer in the
regular army of the United States, was as-
signed to the Twenty-third infantry, has
been promoted to the position of quarter-
master and commissary officer of his regi-
ment, which makes him a mounted officer.
Lieut. Stayer is the son of Dr. A. S. Stayer,
of Altoona.
—James R. Zeigler, of DuBois, who travels
for the wholesale firm of Silesky & Scott of
Bradford, was held up by three highway-
men on the Reynoldsville road Wednesday
night of last week and several shots were
fired at him, one of which inflicted a glanc-
ing wound and burned the hair on the right
side of his head, and another one passed
through his cap. Then he was gagged, his
hands and feet tied, and robbed of over $160.
—Anna Foster had a terrible experience at
the Sterns silk mill at Williamsport Saturday
and escaped death by a narrow margin.
While operating a loom she dropped a quill
upon the floor. Stooping te pick it up. her
hair caught in a rapidly revolving wheel and
she was jerked violently against the frame of
the loom. All the hair on the one side of
her head was pulled out by the roots, and
one ear was almost torn off. Her face and
arms were gashed.
—Sheriff-elect Samuel Deitrick. of North-
umberland, who assumed his duties Fanuary
1st, issued an edict which eaused untold con-
sternation among the constables of that coun-
ty. He stated that all court subpoenaes for
witnesses, jurors, ete., will be served by him-
self and his deputies instead of constables as
heretofore. The law, he says, gives him full
power to perform these duties and he avows
that he intends to earn the money previously
earned by constables. As a liberal fee and
ten cents cireular mileage is attached to the
work the new sheriff will be in. several thou-
sand dollars.
—Last spring Mordeeai Shauley, a young
railroader of Spruee Creek, and his first
cousin, Ellen Shanley, of the same place, de-
termined to get married. Ellen's parents,
| however, refused their consent and, as she
was under age then the eouple eould not pro-
cure a license. The girl, however, heecame of
age in December. On Tuesday while Shauley
| was on his way te work, he heard that that
day, being December 31st, was the lass day
first cousins could marry iu this State under
the new law. Without stopping to change
his clothes he boarded the first passenger
train to Huntingdon, get his lieense, return-
ed and was married the same evening.
—When G. B. Lever opened the doer of his
store at Warriorsmark early Tuesday meorn-
ing, a large volume of smoke burst into his
| face. By some effort he, however, gained an
entrance, and found that a smouldering fire
had slowly. eaten through the floor and near-
ly severed a eouple joists. Besides the small
damage to the floor, the goods in the store re-
ceived a most complete smoking, which in-
jured them more or less. The fire is suppos-
ed to have originated from a cigar stump
thrown down while yet lighted, and not be-
ihg noticed the store was closed leaving it to
leisurely eommunicate with the floor. For-
tunately it had no draft else there would
have been much more serious results. Two
hundred dollars would perhaps be a fair esti-
mate on damage to floor and goods.
—TFurther investigation has proved the
statement to be true that three children of
Zachariali Taylor, near Tipton are afflicted
with smallpox. The Taylors reside on a farm
one and one half miles northwest of Tipton,
and a rigid quarantine of the premises is be-
ing enforced, so that there is no danger of
any spread of the contagion. The children
are said to have the disease in a very mild
form and are now convalescent. . The rumor
that Grandmother McClellan at Fostoria was
afflicted with the same disease it seems is not
correct, as the old lady is in good health.
A further statement as to the origin of the
disease is that a relative of Mrs. McClellan,
accompanied by his little daughter, came to
visit her from their home in Lincoln, Nebras-
ka. On their way east they stopped at Kan_
sas City, where the little girl in some man-
ner contracted the disease, becoming: ill after
her arrival here. Keith then carried the dis-
ease to Figart, while McClellan, who is a
brother of Mrs. Taylor, visited there while
his little girl was still sick, they thus con-
tracting the disease.
—The thieves that robbed Senator J. Henry
Cochran’s house of $6,000 worth of jewelry.
New Year's night at Williamsport, selected
the best possible time for their visit. = Sena-
ator Cochran was entertaining a number of
guests and were all at dinner when the
thieves climbed into an upper window and
ransacked the upper rooms. They entered
the house through the window of a room oc-
cupied by Miss McNeely, of Philadelphia,
who is engaged to Garrett Cochran. They
were no respecters of persons, and jewelry
belonging to the Senator's guests went with
that of the family. Addison Kelly, one of
Prin ceton’s star athletes lost, among other
things, his fraternity pin and the gold
base ball given as a prize to the members of
the champion team of 1897. Other plunder
consisted of gold watches, diamond rings and
pins, which were greatly prized by the mem-
bers of the Cochran family. Among the jew-
elry stolen was a valuable pearl necklace,
soveral diamond pins, half a dozen diamond
rings, two gold watches, pearl crescent, pearl
circle and numerous other articles. Senator
J. Henry Cochran is a partner in the Jack-
.| son, Hasting & Co. hank at Bellefonte.
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