BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Next week a lot of preachers
Will come shassayin’ into town
To sing and pray among us—
A sort of moral callin’ down—
Perchance, there'll be some scrappin’,
Behind Conference doors closed tight,
When the Swallow preens his plumage
And twitters ’bout that Hartzel fight.
But the greatest thing to happen,
In this ministerial fray,
Will be the pile of provender
These saints will stow away.
—March is fairly rivaling TEDDY in the
strenuosity of her nature.
—It is not so shocking as it is darned
disagreeable to see winter lingering in the
lap of spring.
—The husband of HErTY GREEN is dead.
Poor soul, he bad to die before anyone
knew there was such a person.
—The ground-hog, like the Irishman’s
mule, seems to be kicking out in all direc-
tions in his death throes.
—The married man is beginning to grow
shabby in the vain hope that the Easter
bonnet bill will thereby be considerately
kept as low as possible.
—The Yale professor who has decided
that the American workingman is eating
too much must be troubled with the dys-
pepsia.
—TFrench miners are obliged by law to
make provision for their old age. In this
country they do it without legal require-
ments by raising a family of boys.
—It was very like the Boers to release
Gen. METHUEN and it was an object}lesson
which even the British ought not be too
blind to see.
—The new Secretary of the Navy has a
good enough name—Moopy—but there is
not enough in a mere name to run that
important department of the government.
—Lord WOLSELEY has gone to South
Africa to give Lord KITCHENER advice.
What’s the nse, when the Boers are oc-
cupying all of his time in giving him h—.
—ELKIN won out in Blair county on
Saturday by a vote of four to one over
WATRES. The result in Blair county on
Saturday, however, was not an indication
of what it will be a few months later.
—The Sultan of Tarkey flatly refuses to
pay back the $72,500 we paid the brigands
for the release of Miss SToNE. In other
words he says tous: ‘Do you tink you
vas playin mit childs ?”’
-—Governor STONE has set apart April
4th and 18th as Arbor days for Pennsyl-
vania. He might have gone a step further
and made November 4th a special arbor
day for his friend Jonx P. ELKIN. His
grave will be about ready for something
green by that time.
—J. EpwaArp Haves, the American
surgeon in the Siamese navy, has just been
decorated by the King of Siam with the
royal order of the White Elephant.
hope it means something to be happier in
the possession of in that country than it
would here.
-——The beet sugar people baving lost their
fight for tariff eonsiderations in Congress
need not be looked upon as dead heats, for
they will flourish, notwithstanding. Grow-
ing bigger, juicier and redder every day
they will leave a crimson trail on the floor
of Congress before many years have passed.
—If President ROOSEVELT should act on
his snpposed intention to place Gen. MILES
on the retired list, the old warrior who has
fought himself to the command of the
army through the civil war and countless
bloody Indian campaigns might not find
himself as effectually retired as the Presi-
dent, himself. :
—The successful contest of the late Sena-
tor FAIR'S will will result in the division
of twenty-one millions amoung his three
children, two daughters and a son. The
daughters are Mrs. WILLIAM K. VANDER-
BILT Jr., and Mrs. HERMAN OELRICHS, of
New York. We areso glad they got it.
They are so poor that it will come in
ever co handy.
—Prince HENRY states that the thing
that impressed him moet during his recent
visit to this country was the great, gocd-
natured crowds that greeted bim every-
where. It is just as well that he didn’6
bappen into Boston at the time that street
car strike was on or he would have realiz-
ed that, in. America, as everywhere else on
earth, “‘all is not gold that glitters.’’
—Worthy-master HILL, of the Grangers
of Pennsylvania, resents the effort that
Hon. LEoNARD RHONE, of Centre Hall, is
making to find out the preference of the
local Grangers of the State in the matter of
gubernatorial candidates. While the Grange
is a non-political organization we can see
vo offense in the aet of ex-Master RHONE.
They would not need to take politics into
their order to discover where their best in-
terests lie all the time, bus this fall the way
will be so clear that the goddess Pomona
ought to see it, eveu though she is blind-
folded to things so foreign to her.
—Juadging from the manner in which his
honor, Judge LOVE, has squelched the
Christian Scientist propaganda in Centre
county it would appear that he hasu’t
snuch sympathy with the faith-cure bausi-
ness. It is not to be wondered at either,
for there is no man within the county who
bas had more experience with it than the
Judge. When he signed that made-to-
order school appropriation ruling he proba-
bly had a strong faith in getting into a
Superior or a Supreme court seat, but his
faith has grown thread-bare now and the
Judge is determined that no one else shall
be doped by such hoceus-pokus.
We’
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BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 21. 1902.
_NO. 12.
VOL. 47
. The Ship Subsidy.
The ship subsidy bill passed the Senate
on Monday evening, according to schedule |
previously announced, with nine votes to
spare out of a total of seventy-three. The
only surprise in the matter was that six
Republicans voted against the measure and
one was paired, whereas the subsidy mongers
confidently expected that all the Republi-
cans who voted would support the measure.
That expectation involved the surrender of
conscience by such Senators as ALLISON, of
Iowa, and SPOONER, of Wisconsin, both of
whom imagine that they represent the
highest standards of morality. It is grati-
fying to be able to state that they proved
the claim in part by refusing to obey the
orders of the machine.
An analysis of the vote is not altogether
encouraging to the friends of the bill, how-
ever. Six Republican Senators voted
against it and they are by common consent
the leading Senators on that side. ALLI-
SON is the oldest Senator in continuous
service and has been regarded asa presi-
dential possibility any time within the last
quarter of a century. DOLLIVER, his col-
league, is the best orator on the floor and
the ablest among the new members of the
body. SrooNER is another strong man
and the only presidential possibility on
the Republican side of the Senate. PRoC-
TOR, of Vermont, is the best lawyer now on
that side and his colleague, DILLINGHAM,
is a good second. QUARLES, of Wisconsin,
is new in the chamber, comparatively
speaking, but a strong man.
But the significant . feature of the vote is
that if the same influences which induced
ALLISON and DOLLIVER to vote against the
measure extends to the House the chances
that the bill will be defeated are more
than even. Speaker HENDERSON is also
an Towa man and under the rules of the
House the influence of the speaker over
legislation is paramount. During has last
session in the chair Speaker REED held a
bill which was supported by a large ma-
jority through the entire session and final-
ly defeated it. HENDERSON has an ad-
vantage that REED didn’t possess in the
present instance. That is to say he can
refer the bill to the committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce of which HEP-
BURY, another Iowa man, is chairman and
who can hold it for a month or two with-
out straining himself at all.
Teddy is Wabbling.
y: i
Poor "TEDDY is fast going to picces, al
they say of a wabbling horse in a hot race
or a prize fighter who is ‘‘groggy.”’ That
is to say the politicians have him going and
all the courage and dash of which his
friends used to boast has taken wings and
gone to the woods. When he first went
into the white house it was predicted that
all sorts of reforms would be inaugurated.
The machine politicians would be made to
tremble, it was predicted, and even Con-
gress would be up against something like
what CLEVELAND gave that body. In any
event the dignity of the office would be
maintained no matter what effect it would
have on his personal political fortunes.
But such expectations have not been fal-
filled. The habit which McKINLEY had
of bargaining with Congress for such or
such legislation and promising Senators
this patronage or that for ratifving a treaty
or confirming an appointment was bad
enough, but the spectacle which TEDDY
presents nearly every day of his life is in-
finitely worse. He doesn’t dare stand up
for a bargain but ruos from a group of
Senators or Representatives like a summer
girl would flee from a flock of geese. The
machine politicians like QUAY just rush in
and boss him like as il he wassimply a
guttersnip pelitician and after he has yield-
ed everything to them they don’t even show
him the courtesy of expressing gratitude.
The latest evidence of ‘“TEDDY’S’’ sub-
serviency is expressed in his promise to get
Major H. CLAY EVANS out of the pension
office. Major EVAN’S presence in that of-
fice has been a heartache to the sharks and
hounty jumpers who have been waiting for
several years for a chance to raid the treas-
ury. McKINLEY temporized with them
and gave generous promises that the pen-
sion flow would be opened upand let run
wild for a time. But he never would tun
EvANSs out and while he remained in the
treasury was safe from attack from that
quarter. TEDDY is not going to continue
the fight. He prefers to take care of his
political interests and will let the treasury
go to the dogs.
—— While in no wise liable or respousi-
ble for the accident by which little
Mortimer Miller met lis death on the rail-
road at the Valentine works last Wednes-
day the Nittany Valley R. R. Co. very
generously sent bis parents a check for $50.
It was a gracious act at the suggestion of
Sup’t. M. I. Gardner and one that was
very much appreciated by the parents of
the unfortunate boy, inasmuch as it was
enough to cover the funeral expenses and
they are needy people.
—— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Elkin’s Nomination Certain.
Whatever doubts of the nomination of
Attorney General ELKIN previously ex-
isted, were dispelled by the several pri-
mary elections held on Saturday. In the
only county in which there was a contest,
Blair, the Attorney General won by a ma-
jority so large that his antagonist was only
among those who ‘‘also ran,”’ and in the
several strong-holds, such as Lancaster and
Clearfield counties, the majority for the
machine was overwhelming. To summarize
the result of Saturday’s primaries ELKIN
got about twenty delegates and WATRES se-
cured two. In the future contests it may
be predicted that the same ratio will be
maintained.
These results practically settled the
question as to which of the candidates
Quay favors. Take Blair county for ex-
ample. No intelligent man will say that
ELKIN won in Blair. His delegates are
chosen beyond doubt, but it isn’t his vie-
tory. If QuAY had expressed a preference
for WATRES, or even indicated that he was
indifferent to the result, the chances are
ten to one that WATRES would have car-
ried the county. Nobody is for ELKIN on
his own account. He is neither magnetic
nor attractive, and WATRES is both. But
he represents QUAY and QUAYism and the
QuAY followers got the tip to support him
and they did it with the result that he had
an overwhelming majority in the county.
The truth of the matter is that the op-
ponents of QUAY and his obvious candidate,
ELKIN, haven’t a ghost of a show for the
nomination. QUAY and his friends realize
what the WATCHMAN stated a month ago,
that it will be as easy to elect ELKIN as
any other machine candidate and that EL-
KIN will be of infinitely more use to them
after he is elected. WATRES would be as
harmful to the QUAY machine in the office
as a Democrat unless he would pledge him-
self in advance to serve the QUAY machine
and in that event he couldn’t be elected
for the reason that the ballot box stuffers
would’t work as earnestly for him. There-
fore ELKIN will be nominated and the ma-
chine will take chances of electing him.
Powderly in His Right Place.
There is little cause for complaint in the
removal of TERRENCE V. POWDERLY from
\the office of Commissioner of Immigration:
and the appointment of FRANK SARGENT
as his successor. Under no possible cir-
cumstances could there be any cause of
complaint against the removal of POWDER-
Ly. If the office had remained vacant the
service wonld have heen improved by his
removal. As it is, however, there are rea-
sons to believe that a fit man has been
named as his successor. Mr. SARGENT has
been for a number of years at the head of
an important labor organization, and has
discharged the duties of the office well.
PowDERLY is a political adventurer,
and a perennial office seeker. He began
life as a Democrat and worked that party
for patronage as long as it would stand for
him. Then he became a greenbacker and
used that organization to work him into
profitable employment in labor organiza.
tions. He farmed the labor organizations
as long as there was any picking in them
and then joined the Republican party. His
first Republican vote was in 1896 and his
first office under that party came immedi-
ately after the election of that year. He
had previously, the same year, helped to
organize the Populist party.
Mr. POWDERLY has never been a sincere
friend of labor, though he.got more: profit
out of labor organizations than any other
man in this country. But he never under-
stood the philosophy of labor and was al-
ways a false guide for those who trusted
him. It is fortunate for the country that
he is no lounger in official life, or won't be
long. It is lucky for the labor organiza-
tions that he is no longer in position to de-
lude them. In fact he is now in the: only
pogition he adorns, that of a rather obscare
private station. It will not agree with
his temperament and he will not be long
content in it. Bat it is good place to keep
him. ¥
Mr. Watterson’s Idea.
Hexry WATTERSON, the famous and
able editor of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, is in Washington for the purpose, as
he himself states it, of ‘‘picking up a little
information and polish.”’ Mr. WATTER-
SON hardly needed polish, for he is a nat-
ural born leader of polite society and to
pataphase one of his own expressions, acts
like a man who had néver done anything
in his life except lead the German. Bat
being an intelligent man he always needs
information and we can conceive of no
place in the wide world that he is so cer-
tain to get it as in Washington. As a
matter of fact it is on tap ‘there all the
time and the flow is generous and unfail-
ing.
During his search for ‘‘information and
polish?’ Mr. WATTERSON has discovered
some curious things, which he has since
described in a letter to his newspaper, the
Courier-Journal, of Louisville, Kentucky.
Among these iy that political conditions
are all mixed up in the national capital,
that we have a ‘‘bronco-buster’’ in the
white house, and that factional lines are
growing more clear every day. ‘'Grad-
wally but surely,’ he remarks, ‘‘ROOSE-
VELT has been weeding out the distinctly
McKINLEY element from his cabinet. In
the fulness of time they will all go. He is
filling each vacated post with a practical
politician made in the ROOSEVELT image.’’
Out of this surprising and chaotic con-
dition Mr. WATTERSON discerns hope for
the Democratic party, if its managers are
wise and willing to take advantage of op-
portunities. In other words he wisely or
otherwise estimates that the friends of
McKINLEY will resent this manifest in-
justice to them and obvious viclation of
the pledge taken at the bedside of the late
President when Mr. ROOSEVELT declared
that the policies of MCKINLEY would be
carried ont during his adminstration. The
resentment will naturally take the form of
a revolt against the ‘‘bronco-buster,’’ and
in the split which follows the Democratic
candidate will win.
Judge Love Tabooes Faith Cure.
Jndge Lovk has just handed down a de-
cree in which he refuses the application
for a charter to incorporate the ‘‘First
Church of Christ Scientists of Howard.”
To the ordinary mind the ruling is not a
matter of great importance, but to those
who have given it thoughtful consideration
it will be construed as a timely and judic-
ious disapproval of a practice that is un-
doubtedly harmful to the physical, as well
as the mental welfare of the community.
Many States have already enacted laws
designed to prevent the practice of faith-
cure, which is the primary doctrine of
this new cult,and while there could be no
possible objection to their organizing and
maintaining a church for worship, accord-
ing to any doctrine they should elect to
follow, their puipose is undoubtedly to go
furt! er and practice medicine in a manner
that is barmfal in the extreme. The de-
cree of the court is as follows :
*“This is an application for a charter to
incorporate the ‘‘Firss Church of Christ
Scientist, of Howard.”” The purpose set
forth in the application is the worship of
Almighty God, according to the faith,
doctrine, diseipline, usages of said church
{robLPhe United States—of Amerie. We
have not heen furnished with ‘a’‘copy eof
the discipline of said church. We are not,
therefore, fully informed of its faith, pur-
pose and usuage. We, however, from
other sources of information, are advised
that the special object and purpose of the
organization is to disseminate the doctrine
of physical healing or cure by faith in the
exercise of divine power.
From our investigation the results of the
practice, based upon such doctrine, have
not demonstrated that they are certainly
beneficial to society, but on the contrary
hive mostly proved to be failures and hurt-
fal. ’
Those who practice the faith-cure are
mostly persons, uneducated and subject to
influence of religious superstition and ex-
citement and those upon whom they seek
to exercise their professed powers are of
the same class. Were the propagandism
they advocate at all reliable, then it should
be followed by certain, definite and beune-
ficial results. When such results follow
their profession of faith then they
‘may bave some right to denominate
themselves’ ‘Christ Scientist,’”” and
when such results follow then will flesh
and blood cease to be mortal and will be
rendered spiritual and immortal. The
necessity of sustaining life in accordance
with natural laws will no longer be re-
quired.
The ordinary food now used to furnish
blood to sustain life will be uunecesary and
useless. If, as they claim, all physical dis-
ease can be healed, regardless of or without
use of natural and scientific remedies, but
by simple belief, then they ‘ought to be
able to restore life and raise the dead.
So far as the practical results of this
claim to Christian Science is concerned, we
can, from its results, view it only as a
species of charlatanry that is more shurtfal
to society than beneficial and rather de-
serves the ban of the law than its encour-
agement and protection.
We are, therefore, of the opinion we
would not be warranted in granting the
application and it is therefore refused.
BY THE COURT.
——The Superior court has just handed
down a ruling confirming the judgment
of the court of common pleas of Centre
county in the case of Mike Katch et al, use
of the Biubaker Coal Co. vs. The
The case involved the wage claims of the
employees of the latter company, whose
property was sold to the plaintiffs at as-
signee’s sale, and included a lage amount.
It was carried into court here as an appeal
from a justice’s judgment, the judgment
was reversed and plaintiffs carried it ro
the Superior court, where the decree of this
court was affirmed. Blanchard & Blanch-
ard were the attorneys for the wuceessful
defendants. y
—In order to fix it up with Pennsylvania
agriculturists it has been decided hat the
time is too short now to prepare an exhibit
for the Charleston exposition, which closes
on June 1st, and that the $5000 appro-
priated for that purpose shall be covered
back to the state treasury. ‘The farmers
have a right to rise up in indignation and
demand to ‘know why the work was not
begun sooner.
Benton Coal Co. and G. Muriay Andrews. |.
The Buzzard and the Bee.
From the Commoner, Lincoln Neb,.
The buzzard bas a strong beak, a capa-
cious stomach and a ravenous appetite. It
sometimes soars in graceful circles above
the haunts of men, but it is always looking
for something to eat. Its eye is sharp and
its scent is keen, but all its energies are
employed in procuring food—and it is not
very discriminating in its taste. In fact it
revels in carrion while it lives and when it
dies leaves nothing but a foul odor to re-
mind the world of its existence.
commumes daily with buds and blossoms
and lives amid the perfume of flowers. Ig
sets an example of industry, patience and
frugality; it fares well, but in addition to
making its own living it leaves a store-
house full of honey to testify to itsactivity.
Among human beings there are some who
resemble the buzzard and some who are
like the bee. Some make no other nse of
their faculties than to search constantly for
food and drink. They live in the dining
room and, ignoring all appeals addressed to
the head or heart, keep close to the flesh
pots.
3 There are -others—and may the swarm
increase—who find pleasure in useful toil
and recreation in helpfulness; they extract
good from life, but they leave as a legacy
to posterity more of the good than they
themselves consume. Such enjoy life and
add to the enjoyment of hoth those who
live with them and those who live after
them. .
The buzzard must be a buzzard and the
bee must be a bee—this is fate, but man is
free to choose which he will imitate.
Now Because They Were
Fighters.
the Better
From the Nort hampton Democrat.
The capture of General Methuen is a
and his courageous men is due much credit.
There appears to be no roem for the pleain
this case that the British were ambuscaded
by a superior number of Boers, for the
forces are said to have been nearly equal
in numbers and the superiority of equip-
ment and artillery was all on the side the
British. The common and customary
strategy of the Boers in clothing their men
in British uniforms appears to have heen
responsible for the confusion in to which
the British were thrown, for, in the early
dawn, when this fight took place, such
tactics naturally paralyze the force exposed
to attack, who are able to distinguish be-
tween friends and enemies. But if the
British picket lines were far enough in ad-
vance it would seem impossible that even
a disguised force could penetrate withons
detection near enough to the main force of
a vigilant enemy to be dangerous, _
"The British bave had lessond *efiough
‘since the war begun to keep them from
undervaluing the fighting qualities" ‘of the
Boers, and it is easy to understand the con-
sternation with which the news of this lat-
est defeat has been received in England.
Trouble for Secretary Moody.
From the Philadelphia Times. 7
Crowninshield, who will he, if his nomi-
nation be confirmed, the youngest in rank
of all the rear admirals and the least ex-
perienced in sea service, is to have the
choicest naval appointment in the gift of
the President, the command of the Euro-
pean squadron, which is to take part in the
displays to be made in honer of King Ed-
ward VII. during the coronation festivities.
He may be said to have assigned himself,
by and with the consent of the President,
to this easy berth. Real sea warriors, whe
were fighting their country’s battles while
Crowninshield was deep in bureaueratic
red-tape and intrigue at home, and whose
title to any desirable appointments of this
kind is perfectly clear, have been passed
by in order that he might he gratified.
The invidious neglect of hetter “men is far
from creditable and will net help to re-
store confidence in the naval administra-
tion.
There is no Bounty on Cemire Conmn-
ty Farms Either. 3
From the Laneaster Intelligencer. .
We are paying bounties to Leet sugar
men. :
It appears to be settled that we are to
pay bounties to shipping.
Next ! Sid
Be it noted that to begin with, only one-
fourth of a erew of a subsidized ship need
be American citizens, and there-is no houn-
ty or protection for that husiness.
Just Abont It.
From the Lincoln (Neb.,) Independent.
The United States has more flour than
the people can use and less sugar than the
people want. The Cubans have more
sugar than they can use and not enough
flour to feed their families. Remedy : Put
up a tariff wall to prevent our people from
swapping flour for sugar and the Cubans
from trading sugar for flour. That is the
fundamental principle of the political econ-
omy of all protectionism.
Burglars at Postoflice.
Blew open Safe and Secured Moncy and Stamps.
CLEARFIELD, Pa., March 19.—Burglars
last night blew open the safe in the Wood-
land postoffice securing about $10 worth of
stamps, $100 of government money and
about $350 in cash belonging to the poss-
master. They then crossed the street to
the general merchandise store of D Ross &
Co., where they secared a large amount of
cash and some merchandise. : x
- There is no bank in Woodland, which
Central railroad, about six miles from here,
and Ross & Co, bad the receipts for several
days in their store when the robbers gained
an eatraunce. a gil tie
Shortly after midnight, as Edward Clem
‘was passing the postoffice, he saw a gang
fore he conld give the alarm he was seized,
bonnd and gagged and carried into the post-
office. After the men had taken «all the
stamps out of the postoffice they crossed to
Ross & Co's. store, where they forced an
+ entrance. : rn reARy
The bee has an instinct for sweetness; if |
feather in the cap of Delarey and to him:
is a small town located on the New York
of men working about the building. Be-'
Spawls from the Keystone.
' —Burglars visited six business houses in
Mount Pleasant on Friday night last, taking
money, jewelry and other articles.
—The revival at Grampian, Clearfield
county, has netted 232 seekers. Eleven peni-
tents were at'the altar Monday night and
eighteen persons rose for prayers.
—Neilson Roberts, the postmaster at Reno-
vo, Clinton county, was found dead in his
bed Friday morning. He was a son of Su-
perintendent Roberts, of the Philadelphia &
Erie Railroad.
—Payments on over 100 checks, drawn by
the P. R.R. company, in favor of the em-
ployes at Renovo, were stopped by the West
Virginia collecting agency. Several. of the
employes have resigned.
—A Fourth street Williamsport young lady
isstudying by correspondence the State Col-
lege course of agriculture. She has bought a
farm and is putting theory into practice.
Her enthusiasm is contagious.
—A force of men are at work remodeling
the interior of the Clearfield court house.
Pretty and substantial tile floors are being
put in the offices and corridors, and if is mak-
‘ing a decided improvement.
—William W. Birdsall, president of Swarth-
more college, the Friends’ school at Swarth-
more, this State, has tendered his resignation
which has been accepted by the board of
managers. His successor has not yet been
selected.
—Judge Wheator, of Luzerne county, in a
lengthy opinion handed down: Thursday, de-
cides that the act of May 5th, 1899; which
provides that the county commissioners of
the different counties of the state shall pur-
chase bridges, is unconstitutional.
—Harvey Doran, the 3.year-old nephew of
J. M. Harvey, merchant of Blairsville, drop-
ped a lighted match into a can of powder on
Saturday evening. A terrible explosion oe-
curred, and the child and a bystander, Chas.
Mulvehill, were badly injured. The Harvey
store was wrecked. :
-—A church people’s organization has been
started at Greensburg which will demand
that the post office shall be kept closed all
day on Sunday. It isnow kept open only
for an hour on that day. Besides the post
office, slot machines, soda fountains, cigar’
stands, etc., are to be closed.
—Thiity head of horses, the property ot H.
8. Kerbaug, the Philadelphia contractor whe
has charge of the Pennsylvania railroad im-
provement work about Latrobe, were cremat-
ed Sunday night at 10.0’clock in their stalls
between Bradenville and Derry. The loss
includes harness and stable supplies and is es-
timated at $10,000.
—Jersey Shore boasts of a young man of
great taste and talents. Besides being a skill-
ed engineer he does exquisite embroidery to
the admiration of all the ladies. His taste is
highly cultivated; his needlework wonderful.
While he embroiders he smokes. a cigar; and
enjoys himself more than if he were at the
club.
—George H. Hoffman has been awarded
$2,750 damages by a Potter county jury
against the borough of Coudersport. He
brought suit to recover damages for an injury
received resulting from a fall from a lead of
‘| hay, alleged to have been caused by a hole
in the street. Ome of Hoffman's witnesses,
Dr. C. S. Potts, a specialist of Philadelphia,
was paid $500 for six days.
—After eating a hearty meal at Lopez, Sul-
livan county, a few nights ago, Jacob May-
nard and Charles Adams started for a lnmber
camp where they were employed. While on
the trip Maynard became ill, and sinking in-
to the sleigh began vomiting. Shortly after
he expired. An examination revealed that a
chunk ot meat had been foreed into May-
nard’s trachea during his vomiting spell,
choking him to death.
—Andy Dulena, an Italian miner employ-
ed in the People’s Coal company mines, near
Webster, Westmoreland county, was fright-
ened to death by the report of a revolveron
Sunday morning. It was first reported that
Dulena was shot and killed aud the Italian
population of Jones’ Pateh took the warpath
with a view to avenging his death, but it was
discovered later on that he had been fright-
ened to death. \
—Madera will have a boom of no small di-
mensions in the spring. The contractors are
on the ground and about to begin the con-
struction of the railroad siding to the propos-
ed mine of the Morrisdale Coal company.
"The plant will be put in assoon as the weath-
er permits. All of those who suffered from
the fire, are building or have announced
their intention to build, large and more sub-
stantial buildings than were burned. -
—Miss Mary E. Adams, of Harrisburg, has
entered suit in the Mifflin county court
against Samuel F. Hollem, of Lewistown, to
recover $10,000 for alleged breach of promise
to marry. In her declaration ‘she says she
loaned Hollem $1,350 with which to:gointo
business, and that when they were married
they were to share alike in the income. It
is also averred that she had many other op-
portunities to get married but, being engaged
to Hollem, she refused all such offers and
that he recently married another. b
—The first rafts of the season floated into
the dam on the Susquehanna at Lock Haven
Sunday morning. The fleet was a pair of
prop timber rafts from Three Runs. Sunday
evening three arrived at the same place.
They were pine timber. The water is said to
be at a good stage for rafting and about twen-
ty five rafts have left the vicinity of Clear-
field the past two days. Togs are also run-
ning thickly. The indications are that there
will be a good run of timber on tlie present
flood and the bulk of the crop will pass
Lock Haven on this rise. ie.
+ —Four employes of the Penvsylvania Tele
phone company were convicted of assault and
battery a few days ago in the Dauphin coun-
ty court for maltreating Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
F. Kochenour, who resisted an attempt to
plant a pole in front of their home. Each
defendant was fined $50 by Judge Simonton,
who said : “As for the evidence submitted,
these people had no business there, or no
right to plant poles at that place. and, not
having any right there, they were obliged to
get away when notified by the owner. It
was no excuse for them to say thev were sent
there, as the company had no right to send
them there. The pavement belongs to own-
‘ers of the property, and the company has no
right to erect poles. The highways ave for
{ thie public and must be protected.”