‘Demorralic atc BY PR. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. When John C. gets his hammer out And knocks a time or two There are some men who never fail To tell John what he can do. But, lucky for the editor, He don’t have to do as told, Else he would spend most of his time Where he'd have no fear of cold. —_KITCHENER'S ‘‘regret to report’ is all forgotten in the $250,000 voted him for bringing the Boer war to a close. — There will be no cousin SAMUEL business at Erie. The choice of that con- vention will be the choice of the Democratic people of the State. —There is no suspicion that QUAY will try the water cure on any of the resaleitrant machine members. It is other methods that will be evoked in the inter- est of cousiu SAMUEL. —The predominance of physicians in the new French cabinet suggests the idea that the President wants to have lots of advice at hand in treating with the feverish peo- ple of that Republic. —The nominee of the Erie copven- ¢10n next week will be a man whose honor would spurn a nomination stolen from another or purchased of men willing to betray their people for the price an un- scrupulous boss was willing to pay. —The strike in the anthracite coal regions continues, with less prospect of a settlement than at any time since its in- auguration. Thus the public is made the victim of a process of extortion among operators that makes slaves of their em- ployees. —The New York and Chicago fliers seem to be the greatest achievements of rail-roading. Their every trip will be ap- plauded =util one of them (flies off the ¢rack and kills about twenty-five passen- gers, then they will get a chance to be fliers themselves, that is, if they have been good enough here below. —If Col. H. C. DEMMING, the geologist of Harrisburg, is correct in his assertion that the land in Pennsylvania was raised from two to twenty-four inches by the recent volcanic eruption of Mt. Pelee Penn- aylvanians should rejoice that nature at least, is trying its best to save the old[State from being dragged down to the lower re- gions by a corrupt political machine. —All that the Democratic convention at Erie next week will need to do is to name a man whose character is above reproach. Then the game will bg up to the voters of Pennsylvania. Upon them will rest the purden of choosing between one whom they know to represent all that is corrupt and disgraceful in the state government and one who stands pledged to redeem the State from the depths of shame to which it has fallen. —The advent of Dr. J. M. LOCKE, of Bellefonte, as a congressional aspirant complicates matters in this county where CLEMENT DALE Esq. bad been looked up- on as the only one. The former coroner seems to be sincere enough, inasmuch as he has announced in all of his regular party papers and that is a little too costly to be done for the mere pleasure of trying to scare a few field mice out of those lovely whis- kers which aunt CLEMENTINA sports. —The conferring of the highest degree ever received by an American citizen upon the Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND, by Villa Nova college, on Wednesday, was in itself a noteworthy incident, but it has addi- tional significance because of the fact that Villa Nova is a Catholic institution and Mr. CLEVELAND is a strict Calvinist. Harvard and Yale have both conferred honorary degrees upon eminent prelates of the Catholic church and as long as the great educational institutions of our country ex- ercise their prerogatives in such an impar- tial manner the relations between the protestant and catholic churches cannot but be pleasant. — President HARPER, of Chicago Uni- versity, is getting worried lest the girls become go numerous at the great ROCKE- FELLER institution that the boys will hes- itate ahont going there. Such a fate has befallen the Northwestern University and for fear of a petticoat domination presi- dent HARPER is mildly intimating that, hereafter, efforts will be made to educate the boys and girls separately. From this it would appear that the president has a sus- picion that the girls flock to Chicago more for the boys than for educational purposes, which might be true in part, but if he thinks he is going to stop that by educat- ing them separately be is not the ‘‘wise guy’’ the world bas looked upon him as heing. —J ust why the Philadelphia Democrats should assume the right to iame the can- didate for the party is a matter that the country Democracy will hardly be able to figure out. Philadelphia will not elect a single Democrat to office and if the Repub- lican machine should need ten, twenty, forty or even sixty thousand extra votes to offset the work of the Democrats in the country districts that city is the place it will look to to receive them and that oity is the only place so corrupt in the country that their delivery is unquestionable. And the very fellows who are now clamoring loudest to be heard in the naming of a tick- et will never raise a voice against or try to bring to justice one of the ballot box stuf- fers of their city, who have been stealing the electivns in Pennsylvania whenever it is necessary to do so for the salvation of the machine. —_—— comm—— STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 47 BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 20, 1902. NO. 25. Quay’s Two Browns. The disclosure of ISAAC B. BROWN’S at- tempt to steal a large tract of land in Forest county through the medium of the machinery of the office in which he was then a deputy and now aspires to be the chief shonld admonish the people of Penn- sylvania against voting for him for that or any other important office. Justice WiL- L1AMS, late of the Supreme court, himself a Republican of the straightest sect, declared that the action of BROWN was the worst form of political immorality and official dishonesty. If he is capable of such things as a deputy in the office there is no telling what he would do as chief. The facts in the case are that in his capacity as a public official he discovered a flaw in the title of a tract of valuable land which in a measure nullified the patent ander which it was held. As an officer of the State it was his duty to have the error corrected or if that was impossible to have the property escheated to the State. The faulty patent had served the purpose of a valid title for nearly a hundred years and had passed from one owner to another sev- eral times. Instead of performing his duty to the State, however, BROWN got out a pew pateut conveying the property to him- gelf. When he undertook to take posses- sion the rightful owner appealed to the board of property, of which BROWN was at the time a member and the only member sitting. By reason of that fact BROWN as the board of property, according to the evi- dence brought out in court, decided in favor of BROWN the citizen and proceeded to take possession. The owner then ap- pealed to court and common pleas Judge OLMSTED decided against him. He took it to the Supreme court and the lower court was sustained in a decision which prac- tically denounced him as a swindler. The people of Pennsylvania are now asked td®promote the wan who has thus violated the principles of public policy and common honesty and vote him into a posi- tion in whigh he will have greater opportu- nities to do harm. He is a fit associate on the ticket with Judge PENNYPACKER, whose only claim for public favor is that he wrote an absurd panegyric of QUAY and revealed an infatuation which implies a mental aberration. He is also a suitable companf¥n for W. M. BROWN, QUAY’S candidate for Lieut. Governor, who shared with DICK QUAY the profits of the invest- ment of the $100,000 of the people’s mon- ey drawn from the People’s bank of Phila- delphia which would have resulted in Sena- tor QUAY’s conviction on the charge of con- verting the public funds to private uses if he hadn’t pleaded the statute of limita- tions. The Sweet Bone of Contention. It, as now appears probable, the Republi- can party will split on the question of Cuban reciprocity, the country will have reason to rejoice because the subject was brought forward. That the party will split on that problem seems more] than likely for the President declares Congress wust pass some kind of a bill embodying the principles expressed in the Ways and Means committee’s measure which recently passed the House. In that body it was amended by inserting a provision which strikes out the differential duties on refined sugars and thus improved was passed by the votes of sixty-four Independent Republicans and all the Democrats except two or three from Louisiana. The recent special message of the Presi- dent has aroused a good deal of feeling. The President doesn’t want the differential duty repealed because it will take some- thing like $30,000,000 from the profits of the two sugar trusts. But the twenty per cent reduction on raw sugar grown in Cuba will help the eastern sugar trust without in the least benefitting the Oxnard beet sugar trust and the beet sugar men propose to clip the wings of their cane sugar rivals at the same timé that their own pinious are curtailed. With this purpose in view the Senators representing the heet interests propose to join with the Democrats and pass the House measare as it passed the House. This would not fulfill the desires of the Democrats in Congress, but it wonld be a long stride in the right direction. That is to say the Democrats believe that we ought to have absolute [ree trade with Coba or, at the very least, such a redaction in the DINGLEY rates, say 75 per cent, as would beyond doubt open our markets to Cuban sugar! But the repeal of the differential is something for it will make the importation of refined sugar from all producing coun- tries possible and cheapen the price of all grades of table sugars to consumers con- siderably. That is the purpose of Demo- cratic policies and if it is not possible to achieve all that is desired at onoe, it is wise to do the best possible. —Sixty thousand expatriated Russians have been granted permission to return to their native land. Is it possible that the Czar has not had enough bomb ex- citements lately ? Misuse of Cuban Funds The payment of a considerable sum of money to bribe votes in support of the Cu- ban reciprocity bill appears to have been not all or the worst of General LEONARD WooD's misuse of the public funds during his administration of the office of Military Governor of that unhappy new Republic. It has been discovered that he also paid $25,000 as a bribe to General GOMEZ to prevent an outbreak about the time that the last presidential campaign in this country was on. It was believed that an ontbreak at the time would be disastrous to the Republican ticket and WooD was instructed to take money out of the treas- ury to be used, illegally, to prevent it. Such a misuse of public funds is clearly a malfeasance in office and if a prosecution should be inaugurated there would be no escape from the penitentiary for General WooD, except on the basis that Major WALLER escaped from conviction on the charge of murder in the Philippines. It will be remembered that the Major justified the wanton killing of natives on the ground that his superior officer, General JAKE SMITH, had ordered him to make war on those lines, and as a soldier he couldn’t disobey orders. That was probably a valid defense for a man in the position of WALLER but hardly adequate for a man situated as General Woop happened to be. He might have safely refused to obey an order to commit a crime. In the case of WALLER the crime was admitted by the accused and the case of Woo it is acknowledge by his superior of- ficer. In other words Secretary of War RooT confesses that the money was nsed to bribe General GOMEZ, but insists that it was justified by the exigencies of the case. But that is not a question to he determined by the criminal. It should be determined by the court. Embezzlement of the pub- lic funds is a serious offense. Whoever is guilty of it ought to be punished prompt- ly and severely. If General Woonb is to be exculpated because he was a subordinate, acting nnder orders, then the superior who gave the orders has business in court. Secretary Root is due for a trial. —————————— a Salterizing the State. The nomination of QUAY’S candidate for Governor means, if it means anything, that ballot box-stuffing is to to be perpetuated in Philadelphia. The practices of SALTER are to be continued and perfected. It bas been made possible in the past by an aec- quiescent bench and the judicial courtesy will be invoked this year to help PENNY- PACKER. If the Judges had been faithful to their obligations and just to the com- munity the practice would have been brok- en up long ago. But they have encourag- ed ballot box stuffing by making it as dif- ficult as possible to convict the perpetrators of the crime. When SALTER disappeared in order to avoid trial, he knew that he was within the shadow of the penitentiary. If the machinery of justice bad not been per- verted in the interest of the machine, he would now be serving time at Cherry Hill. But with the help of the conrts the wit- nesses were spirited away or induced to commit perjury in order to make the defense set up possible. PENNYPACKER was not himself concerned in the transaction, pos- gibly, but his friends, those who helped to procure for him the nomination, were. They will likewise be concerned in the bal- lot pollution which will be perpetrated in November to compass his election. It the people of Pennsylvania want hon- est elections they must vote down the ma- chine which at present promotes ballot pollution. The Republican platform de- olares for ballot reform, but that is for the purpose of deceiving the people. Two years ago Senator QUAY pledged his sacred hoaor to the support of ballot reform legis- lation, but when asked to make good the pledge he protested that he couldn’t con- trol DuRHAM. The recent action of DUR- HAM in deserting ELKIN, after he had pledged his support, ‘sink or swim,’ shows that QUAY lied when he said he couldn’s influence him. The truth is that all of the machine men stand for ballot frauds and will never consent to honest elections. ——On Monday evening the inhabitants and loungers along west High street were treated to a horse beating exhibition, which would not have been so extended if a po- liceman had been in sight to carry out the orders of a member of the society for pre- vention of cruelty to animals. The horse beater was George Furey and we were as tonished that anyone, raised as he was and on a farm, would abuse a horse as he did that one and with so slight a cause. The horse was a pretty, young one and was, like the spectators, totally unable to comprehend the reason of the lashing and jerking, and though it does belong to the driver should be rescued by law from such cruel and brutal treatment as was given it that even- ing. —1It is not so much a desire to do right as fear of the strong arm of the law that keeps most men from being bad. The Erie Convention. The Democrats of Pennsylvania will meet in convention in Erie on Wednesday pext and no more important gathering of the people has ever been held in the State. The Republicans bave outraged every principle of decency by au exhibition of bossism unparalleled. The candidate of that party wasn’t known to a hundred men in the State, outside of Philadelphia, until he was brought forward as a candidate in reward for an absurd personal service to QuAY. Even now he is known only asa man with a blind infatuation for the most unscrupulous politician in the State. It will be the duty of the Democrats, when they assemble in Erie next week, to pursue a policy directly the antithesis of that of the Republicans. In other words the convention should he an essentially deliberative body and the candidate chosen because of eminent fitness for the service. Factional politics should be avoided like a pestilence and the former association of a man have no weight in the consideration of bis merits. The people want a man of ability and integrity in the office of chief magistrate of the State and ifthe Democrat- ic convention offers them such a man he will be accepted. : The Democracy of Pennsylvania is rich in material for the office of Governor. There are dozens of men who would adorn the office and scores who fulfill the JEFFERSON- IAN requirement of fitness and ability. That being the case there ought to be no trouble in nominating a successful ticket. In most instances the delegates have been wisely chosen. The convention will be an exceptionally strong and capable body. If the delegates will summon to their assist- ance the same intelligence which they ex- ercise in their private affairs the delibera- tions will result in the rescue of Pennsyl- vania from the odious machine which has been despoiling it for years. Pennypacker Stands for Salterism. The nomination of Judge PENNYPACK- ER for the office of Governor by the votes of the Philadelphia delegation in the Re- publican state convention can be interpret- ed in no other light than as an endorse- mens of the acquittal of SAMUEL SALTER by the packed jury by which he was tried. The same men who aided SALTER in pol- luting the ballot in the first place and pro- cured his acquittal by stuffing the jury wheel subsequently, composed the Phila- delphia delegation in the convention and nominated PENNYPACKER. He accepts the favor at their hands and thereby as- sumes responsibility for their crimes. Thus far the people of the State may not have suffered greatly because of the ballot frauds in Philadelphia. They have suffer- ed some, unquestionably, because without the frands fewer machine men would be elected to the Legislature from that city and with fewer of that type of men in the Legislature infinitely less vicious legisla tion would be enacted. Besides, if the Democrats had had a fair proportion of rep- resentatives in the last Legislature QUAY would not have been elected to the Senate and the State would not have suffered in reputation as it did as was shown by the article in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine which brought out PENNYPACKER'S ab- surd panegyric. But the people of the State will suffer in the future from the ballot frauds in Phila- delphia, if they are continued. Every rea- soning man knows that with a fair vote in Philadelphia this year PENNYPACKER can’t be elected Governor. His election means the perpetuation of the SALTERS and ASHBRIDGES in control of the politics of the State and that is a menace to politic- al morals which cannot be measured. The way to overcome such evils is for the peo- ple in the country to not only increase their votes against PENNYPACKER but to elect honest’ men to the Legislature. Penn- sylvania can drive out the rascals and must. The Watchman’s Guess. Since the refusal of Congressman HALL and Senator COCHRAN to allow their names to he presented at the Erie convention for the nomination of Governor, the WATCH- MAN, while making no predictions, will re- cord its guess as to the ticket that will ap- pear at the head of the Democratic papers of the State this time next week. Watch and see if it don’t read. For Governor RoBT. E. PATTISON, of Philadelphia. For Lieut. Governor GEo. W. GUTHRIE, of Pittsburg. For Secretary of Internal Affairs VANCE McCoORMIGK, of Harrisburg. ——On page 4, col. 1, of Tuesday’s News the editor of that paper undertook to make himself solid with the local Temperance ladies by acknowledging the receipt of a number of tracts and other temperance liter- ature. It was only natural for the new ed- itor to make it appear as if they were sent him for publication, but in Saturday’s is- sue, page 1, col. 3, appeared such a know- ing endorsement of Speer’s wines that we are almost led to the belief that John C. needed the tracts for himself and that the ladies knew it. : Bribery Will Not Down. From The Pittsburg Post, June 15. Dr. Swallow, the Prohibition candidate for Governor, raised the question whether Judge Penneypacker, as an honest man,can accept the Harrisburg nomination at the hands of delegates who sold themselves for so much gold, ‘If he does, ‘‘say the Pro- hibition candidate, ‘‘what must we con- clude as to his own personal character?” The turning down of Elkin in the peculiar way it was accomplished. Dr. Swallow says, ought to be worth several hundred thousands votes against Quay’s candidate. This question of the triumph of bribery and corruption in the Republican State Convention is one that will not down. It is evident that Mr. Elkin does pot intend to keep quiet. The office was put on the auction block as street railway fanchises and officers where disposed of by Stone last spring. It went to the highest bidder, aud Quay made the best offer. He was hand- ling the Penneypacker end. In his speech to his neighbors at Indiana on Thursday evening Mr. Elkin made statemnts as to how forty-one pledged or instructed dele- gates were got away from him that leave no doubt of the use of money in sys- tematic bribery. ‘When I went to Har- risburg last Monday,’’ said Elkin, ‘‘Ibad 193 delegates for me. I fully expected victory. Before last Wednesday, forty- one of these men deserted me.” Who in- duced them to repudiate their pledges and instructions ? It is not only the admitted fact, but the boast that Quay did the busi- ness. Elkin has been lose to Quay for years, and no one knows his methods so well. |’ ““This has been Quay’s most costly cam- paign,’’says Elkin,and he has posted Quay’s book is the past. The fact has leaked out that one Allegheny county delegate got $5,000 for his vote for Penneypacker, Ouoe, two, three and four thousands dollars are the figures set down, for other dele- gates. Offices were used to corrupt dele- gates or influential leaders when cash deal- ingswere inconvenient and dangerous. We quite agree with Dr. Swallow, the Prohibiton candidate, that Judge Penny- packer must speak out, either in defense or condemnation of the way the nomina- tion was handed over to him. We don’t suppose there is a well informed or candid politician in the Republican party of the State who does not bave personal knowl- edge or the strong belief that Jugde Penney- packer’s nomination was the most audaci- ous deal in corrupt politics ever known in Pennsylvania. The Prohibition candidate, Rev. Dr. Swallow, declares that it was. As- torney General Elkin, who in reality had a majority of the convention until it was bought away from him, says the same. The Quayites virtually admit it—they even boast of it as one of “‘the Old Man’s smaré- est tickets.”” What has Judge Pennypacker to say? Does he helieve the receiver. .ibad as the thief? He has probably expounded this bit of law from the Bench. What does he say when it enters directly into his relations with the people of Pennsyl- vania. The Two Browns. From the Phila., Evening Bulletin (Ind. Rep.) Neither the Brown of Lawrence county, for Lieut. Governor, nor the Brown .of Erie county, for Secretary of Internal Affairs, is a source of popular strength to the Repub- lican state ticket. They are both likely to put the Republican managers on the de- fensive in the campaign. Brown, of Erie, now Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs, already owes to the voters in Pennsylvania an explanation of his con- nection with the transaction on which the Supreme court passed judgment ubani- mously nine years ago, when an attempt was made to take away several hundred acres of former public land from a citizen in Potter county on the ground of defective title. This action was carried on in the pame of Deputy Brown,” who caused a patent to be issued to himself, and the Su- preme court condemned it as not only ir- regular and against public policy, but de- nounced it asa dangerous proceeding in the exercise of powers not authorized. There was no charge against the integrity of the deputy, but the peculiar manner in which the case was pushed, together with the condemnation of the court upon it, de- mands that the candidate shall explain his relation to it in order that the people may judge his fitness to stand for Secretary of Internal Affairs. Traitors. From the Altoona Tribune. The individual who goes to a state or county convention with certain specific in- structions from his constituents, and who casts his ballot for candidates for whom his county or precinct did not instruct, is a traitor to free institutions, for his vote makes possible the complete overthrow of the popular will and thus does grave violence to every principle of right and justice. An Important Discovery. From the Memphis “Commercial Appeal.’ The national platferm of the Republican ‘party wiil show that William J. Bryan and the Democracy are, together, respon- sible for the Martinque eruption. Clark Nominated for Rear Admiral. WASHINGTON, June 16,—The President to-day nominated Captain Charles E Clark, now in charge of the Naval Home at Phil- adelphia, to be advanced seven numbers in rank, and to be a rear admiral. The President has desired to make this promotion for some time, and had assured Captain Clark that he would do so as soon as the opportunity offered. In the mean- time Secretary Moody has been looking in- to the matter, and had determined that there was authority for the promotion. When he made this known to the Presi- dent he sent the nomination to the Senate. There is no question, it is said, of Cap- tain Clark’s confirmation. No naval officer stands higher in general estimation than ke, and the Senate will probably be glad to act promptly upon his case. A bill recently introduced by chairman Foss, of the house naval committee, to promote Captain Clark. It was believed Mr. Foss’ bill would pass. But the bill now seems unnecessary. Spawls from the Keystone. —The University of Pennsylvania gradu- ated 700 students- at the commencement on Wednesday. —Charged with using boracic acid to pre= serve oysters, G. W. Shaffer, an Altoona gro- cer, was found guilty at Hollidaysburg. —While trying to board a lumber train at Cammal, Orange W. DeLong, 26 years old, fell under the wheels and received fatal in- juries. —The Milton Iron company, which had been shut down for Several weeks, owing to _| labor troubles, started work Monday morn- ing in all departments, the men returning on the company’s terms. . —Sunday afternoon during the storm, two horses owned by Andrew Ferguson, Pine Creek township, Clinton county, were killed by lightning striking a tree under which they were standing. Two trees at Oak Grove were also struck by lightning. —The station and freight buildings of the Pennsylvania railroad company at Peters- burg, below Huntingdon, burned on Tues- day, together with a large amount of stored freight. Loss, $9,000 partially covered by insurance. —The ladies of Emporium have succeeded in collecting money enough to purchase a town clock and the same has been ordered from the manufacturers and will be put in position as soon as it arrives. The move- ment shows that when the ladies undertake anything it is generally accomplished. —Harry Beam, aged 10, was drawn into a hopper of corn at the grist mill of McDer mott, Wortz & Co., at Johnstown, Friday af- ternoon, and suffocated. Tons of corn had to be removed before the body could be re covered, the pressure having been so great that the corn was forced into the flesh. —The Knights of Pythias throughout Pennsylvania motrn the loss of Grand Chan- cellor Dr. Charles G. Ernst, who died at the hospital at Punxsutawney, Sunday, from the effects of uremic poison. The funeral which was in charge of the Knights of Pythias grand lodge officers, was held Tuesday. —A¢t Jersey Shore Sunday, 7 year old Guy Bassett climbed onto a scaffold outside the third story of a new house that he was ex- ploring, and lost his balance falling rapidly toward the ground. He struck a joist and was turned around so that he alighted feet first in a keg of water and escaped practically uninjured. : —Dewey, aged 4 years, and Irene, aged 12 years, children of Jeremiah Small, were drowned near Hendricks Station, Adams county last night by falling into an abandon- ed stone quarry. The boy fell into the water and his sister in attempting to rescue him, got beyond her depth and both were drowned. —John G. Lawsen, who went insane near: ly thirty years ago, through brooding over the death of his young wife, and who subse- quently murdered Amaziale Livingstone, an attendant at the Harrisburg insane hospital, has been pronounced sane by the trustees of Warren hospital, where he is now confined, and an order for his release is petitioned for in the Dauphin county court. —Mijss Katie Mickland arrived at McKees- port last seek from England to join her lov. er and with the intention of becoming his bride. She attempted to fill alighted lamp with kerosene, when an explosion occurred. Her clothing caught fire. With her dress a mass of flames, she ran from the house and fell exhausted in the street, where she burn- ed to death. —The Fifth regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, will not be mustered out of service, but will be strengthened and put on a good footing. For some time past rumors have been thick that the regiment would go, but these all have been stamped as untrue by word received from Governor Stone that the command would be strengthened out and the full quoto of men enlisted. —John Hamilton, a druggist, of New Cas- tle, dislocated his right shoulder Monday night while sneezing. He was at the pre- scription case when he felt the inclination to sneeze, and grasped a rail for support. The violence of the sneezing drew him into a position that threw his shoulder out of joint. Chloroform had to be administered before the bone was set back into place. —Wide circulation has been given to the report that the locomotive, No. 3016, that was wrecked near Jersey Shore recently on the P. & E. railroad, and which caused the death of Engineer Schriner, was the engine that ‘hauled the McKinley funeral train. This is a mistake, as the photographs taken of the funeral train show that it was hauled by en- gine No. 1096. James Bird was the engineer.. —Adjutant General Stewart held a confer— ence on Tuesday with officers of the commis- sary department of the National Guard as to the fare to be furnished at the annual en- campment at Gettysburg, in July. The whole matter of the rations allowed the sol- diers during the encampment was considered and it was decided to relieve the austerities of soldier fare. Cocoa will be served, and green cabbage and other wodifications of the fare will be allowed. —Capt. Frank J. Geissinger, of Morton, is the owner of a well preserved copy of *'Das Neue Testament,” believed to be a genuine Guttenberg, printed in Mainz in 1527. The author was burned at the stake in the time of Martin Luther. It originally came from the monastery of that city, and is believed to be one of the two copies now in existence. The Revelation of St. John is illustrated by large hand painted pictures. The book was pur- chased by the owner's father from a German tramp in 1810, and has been in the family ever since. An offer of $1000 has been refus- -ed for it. —The Berwick merchantsand the Woman's Christian Temperance Union are at war over the question of Sunday selling, and many ar- rests have been made and fines paid. Asa result, so many members of the Dairymen’s Association have been arrested and fined that the association now refuses to deliver milk between Saturday evening and Monday morn- ing, and the Sunday supply is cut off. A majority of the merchants arrested have paid their fines, but Draggists Deitterick and Mec- Michael, who have been arrested three times charged with selling soda water, have in each case waived a hearing and will appeal the matter to court. ’
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