BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
We did the turn in "82.
We did it eight years later,
And what we’ll do in 1902 ?
Just ask poor DELEMATER. !
—Ere’s ’cping that the King lives !
— PATTISON—GUTHRIE — NOLAN — all
good men. A cheer for them, boys.
— With a little firecracker, and a stick
of punk or two, next week the patriotic
boy will have all that he can do.
—QuAY will find that even a PENNY-
PACKER won’t have money enough to buy
the people of Pennsylvania next fall.
—The man who can’t support the ticket
made at Erie on Tuesday is the fellow who
approves of QUAY methods in Pennsylva-
nia.
— There is something to be thankful for:
QUAY thinks he will be well enough to
leave for the Maine woods within a few
days.
—Fearless, honest, - upright, christian
BoB PATTISON is the candidate. You can
support him. If you can’t there is little
virtue in you.
——The inclination to make light of the
Hon. BrLLy MAsoN’s candidacy for the
Presidency is a decidedly heavy job, espec-
ially in the face of the Senator’s ponder-
osity.
—All that the Philadelphia Democracy
needs to do to prove that it was unfairly
treated by the Erie convention is to in-
crease its vote for the State ticket in No-
vember.
— Perhaps Capt. HOBSON'S desire to get
out of the! navy is engendered by the idea
that his osculatory organs should not be
made impossible toadmiring young women
by a Department muzzle.
—The Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND, the
Hon. DAvID B. HiLL. and the Hon. WIL-
LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN might emulate
the example set by our good Methodist
parsons at Harrisburg by getting together.
—There will be little use in making a
campaign on a ‘‘ballot reform’ “platform.
Quay will be for “ballot reform’’ too—
until after the election—and the political
gudgeons who helped him nominate PEN-
NYPACKER have taken his bait.
-—T1¢ there is to be no arbitration in the
anthracite miners’ strike and the miners
are to return to work at their employer’s
terms, as one of the employers arrogantly
asserts, then why is there a strike at all.
Why in the world doesn’t the master lash
his slaves back into the mines at once ?
—The Democratic party of Pennsylvania
has taken no middle ground in its declara-
tion of principles. The platform is confin-
ed to state issues alone and everyone of
them is of great importance to a people
who are crushed and ashamed under a gov-
ernment that is entirely unworthy of so
vast a Commonwealth.
—The English physicians are coming in
for their share of abuse now that they have
permitted the King to. get appendicitis
when they were telling the public that he
was affected with lumbago. Kings and
physicians are only haman, both are likely
to make mistakes, but in this instance we
trust it won't be buried.
—Kentucky isn’t proving very fertile
soil for the Mormon church. Some out-
siders opened fire on two elders, who were
conducting a meeting down there a few
nights ago, and while no one was shot
bloodshed was only postponed, for the Ken-
tucky Colonel is too gallant for more than
one wife at a time and he will have no
Mormonism, ‘‘by Gad, Sah !"’
—The clean ent, incisive statement made
public on Sunday by president JOHN
MiTcHELL of the American Mine Workers
Union, hasalready made a great impression
on the public mind. The position he has
taken in support of the strike in the anthra-
cite regions is also strengthened by the
anonymous answers that are being publish-
ed. They are generally believed to be
the product of the mine owners, them-
selves, who seem to be afraid to come out
into the open and discuss the questions in-
volved.
—Germany’s acknowledgment that she
recognizes the MONROE Doctrine, as is de-
veloped by the publication of the papers in
the Venezuelan controversy, is in marked
contrast with the way European powers
laughed several years ago at our intimation
that we wished it respected. Since that
time, however, there have been doings in
Manila and Santiago bays and on San Juan
hill that have disclosed the fact that the
old injunction to keep hauds off the Amer-
ican continent has something back of it
that is worth respecting.
-——Mr. BRYAN’S rather lengthy excoria-
tion of former President GROVER CLEVE-
LAND'S attitude toward the party, as ex-
pressed in his speech at the Tilden club
banquet in New York, a few nights ago,
may be true enough, but it is certainly not
calculated to promote the harmony that is
being so earnestly sought. While CLEVE-
LANDS second administration was not all
that was, expected of it and he did things
most arbitrarily and to the detriment of the
party the Nebraskan should remember that
no one in political history has ever taken a
more determined position against the will
of an entire convention than he displayed
at Kansas City in 1900, when it was prac-
tically the unanimous opinion that some
of the planks of the Chicago platform should
be eliminated from the one to be adopted
then.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 47
The Ticket Named at Erie.
In its issue of last week the WATCHMAN
ventured a guess as to the make-up of the
ticket to be named by the Democratic State
Convention held in Erie on Wednesday.
Inasmuch as it turned out to be correct in
every partiular, except the name of the
nominee for Secretary of Internal Affairs,it
scarcely need be said that the WATCHMAN
is pleased with the work of the convention.
The candidates presented to the voters of
Pennsylvania are men of unimpeachable
character ; standing high in the estimation
of their fellows and in all those character-
istics which go to make for the best citi-
zenship. Both in its personnel and geo-
graphical arrangements the ticket is all
that could be desired and if it does not ral-
ly the support of every Democrat and In-
dependent Republican in Pennsylvania
then it will be because the latter are not
sincere in their professions of wanting re-
lief from the corrupting influences of one-
man domination.
‘There is something strikingly impres-
sive and exceptional in this third nomina-
tion of ROBERT E. PATTISON. In 1882,
when first nominated, he was the youngest
man ever put before the people of Pennsyl-
vavia for the office. He had just completed
a term in an important municipal office in
which he had won high honor from all par-
ties, for his administrative ability, integri-
ty and courage. He was elected as a re-
buke to an odious Republican machine. He
served four years, retired to private pur-
suits for four years, and in 1900 the people,
irrespective of party, joined hands in again
electing him in repudiation of the machine
candidate appointed by the Republican
boss. Eight years bave now elapsed since
PATTISON left the gubernatorial chair, and
legislative, executive and even judicial ad-
ministrations have gone from bad to worse,
and this great State has sunk to the lowest
depths of official and political dishonor ever
attained by any State of the American
Union.”
‘And so the people called on PATTISON
again, and the Erie convention has ratified
and accepted the call. Conditions are worse
than when he was first elected, in 1832;
they are infinitely worse than when he was
elected a second time in 1890. The third
call is one of the most striking incidents of
American politics. “It shows faith and con-
fidence in the man and appreciation of his
eight years’ services as an executive of this
great Commonwealth,”’
‘“The call came from the people of the
Commonwealth, regardless of party lines,
aud we believe will be ratified by them in
November as it was in 1882 and 1890. The
emergency is greater than ever before. Cor-
ruption and bribery and all manner of evil
administration are in supreme and active
control at the state capitol. The people
feel that a PATTISON is the man to cleanse
the filth of political degradation and cor-
ruption and start our grand old State once
more on the high way of honest and effi-
cient administration, free from the taint of
bribery and the degradation of a STONE.”
The nomination was made by the people.
It came about as a ground swell from the
farms, the shops, and mines, the marts of
business and centers of professional activity.
It will be ratified. The battle will be a
hard one, but the people will win. From
this hour until the sun goes down on the
November election day the courage and
confidence of victory should inspire every
true son of Pennsylvania.’’
“In all respects the nomination for the
second place on the ticket is a magnificent
inspiration. It is a climax of political wis-
dom and expediency. To a greater extent
than any other public man in the State
Mr. GUTHRIE stands for ballot reform,
honest elections and municipal betterment
in all the channels of city life. He has made
these great concerns his study for years,
and is accepted as an authority on them
thoughout the Union. Mr GUTHRIE'S nom-
ination will add many thousands of votes
to the Erie convention ticket. He is a rep-
resentative man and leader in the best
thought as to a higher standard of politics,
in legislation and in lJawmaking, especially
as regards honest voting and honest munic-
ipal government. With PATTISON and
GUTHRIE ob the stamp enforcing these great
principles with their powerful arguments,
strong sincerity and wonderful capacity to
deal thoroughly with them, Pennsylvania
will be stirred up this year as never before
on home rule, honest elections and honest
legislation, from the Delawaie to the
Ohio.”
The platform adepted is exactly what
was needed for the forth-coming campaign.
Not wandering away for issues, but confin-
ed strictly to the great, vital questions of
honest government in Peunsylvania. It
ap peals with convincing sentences to every
‘voter of the Commonwealth and has no
room for irrelevant matters. The outrages
of the last state administration are con-
demuned in language that leaves no doubt
as to what the Democtacy pledges itself to
do in the event of success. Ballot reform
is paramount in this campaign, for with
that once secured to the people of Pennsyl-
vania there will be an immediate end to
the pernicious government enacted hy men
who have in the past had no fearjbecause
of their entrenchment behind election
methods that have proven impregnable.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 27, 1902.
The King is Onty Human After All.
For a year the world has read stories of
the matchless splendor that was to have
been the feature of the coronation of King
EDWARD Seventh, of England. Gold and
silversmiths have been at work on the most
costly jewels and heraldic ornaments that
have dazzled human eyes since the days
when King SoLoMON and the Queen of
Sheba were snyonyms of all that was
beyond conception in lavish display. The
richest fabrics of the looms have been pro-
duced for the hangings and a pageant plan-
ned the gorgeousness of which would have
far outshone the ostentaticus appearances
of medieval monarchs. Peoples from all
quarters of the globe had gathered in Lon-
don to participate in the revelries attendant
upon the crowning of a King upon whose
possessions the sun never sets, millions up-
on millions of dollars had been wasted in
preliminaries and then, just when the dull
English mind was fully aflame with excite-
ment, an incident occurred. An incident
of mighty import to the entire world, for it
is God’s way of showing that while a King
may be a King he is only a human being
for all that.
‘‘Man proposes but God disposes’ is a
reverent old saw that is not much in fash-
ion, but fits very well with the natural
drift of thought upon the collapse of the
coronation of King EDWARD VII.
Yesterday he was to have been crowned
in Westminster Abbey with the greatest
state and dignity, and all the pomp and
pride of the elaborate ceremonial, and
long programme of festivities and celebra-
tions for many days thereafter, aimed at
the exaltation of the monarch above the
mass of mankind; for even in the most lib-
eral and Democratic of monarchies there
is yet great reverence for the fiction of
‘divinity which doth hedge about a king.”’
Parades and ceremonies and rejoicings
had been planned and programmed to the
minute. The coronation glories of ED-
WARD VII and his Queen ALEXANDRA
were to dazzle the world.
That was yesterday. To-day the sun
shines brightly and the world rolls on, but
it ie all changed and as the Lancaster In-
telligencer says : Pomp, majesty, dominion,
power and glory give place to an inflam-
mation of the blind gues.
Was there ever a more tremendous con-
trast or revulsion ? Ever a more sharp re-
minder that from top to bottom, and
through all the differences of place or per-
son, or intellect or character, we are all of
the same poor mortality, subject to the
same troubles and dangers and worthy of
the same sympathy ?
The King, who is now so desperately ill,
and who may even die, as our President
died a few months since, in spite of fa-
vorable bulletins, has been a very good
King of his limited kind in the very brief
reign thus far allowed him. He is credited
with having forced Mr. CHAMBERLAIN to
make peace with the Boers upon terms so
liberal that the vanquished even seem to
trinmph, and actually show gratitude to
their victors. He has maintained a state
and dignity and cultivated a gracious
urhanity well calculated to strengthen the
taste for royalty among a people so de-
voted to venerable institutions and ac-
customed to the fixed degrees of rank and
power. Even in his extremity he has
touched a chord of sympathy and respect
by ordering that the banquet to be given
in his name to the poor of London should
not he postponed, and by requesting that
the provincial celebrations should
go on. He is even said to have urged
that the Queen should be crowned without
him, that people might not be disappointed,
and we are assured that he went to the
operating room as serenely as he would
have gone to take his seat upon the Stone
of Scone to 1eceive the crown and scepire of
his vast dominions. It is true that his past
has not been particularly brilliant. Indeed,
the shadows thereof are thrown forward, so
that his chances in the present extremity
are doutfully affected by the high and most
questionable living of the long period of his
heirship, If he should die, however, be will
be very likely to be sainted. We shall then |
discover that he was not half so bad as he
bas been painted; and even now it is only
fair to take him as he is, rather than as he
bas heen, and to forget the fanlts of other
yeas in measuring the man of today.
Therefore, we may ecbo heartily fiom
this side of the ocean the British cry of |
*‘God Save the King,”' for with us it is an
expression of sympathy and good will that
cannot he misunderstood.
——The Philipshurg Ledger makes the
somewhat questionable assertion that
‘‘Philipsburg never gets left,”’ but in the
particular instance referred to Bellefonte
has to bow to the superior accomplish-
ments of her sister town. While we had
only sleet on Tuesday there was a de-
cided snow in Philipsburg. Not enough,
of course, to block the street car tracks over
there or interfere with the progress of the
$325 street sprinkler, but it was snow all
the same and in June that is truly remavk-
able.
The State Ticket,
By an overwhelming vote, on the first
ballot—223} to 89% for all others—Hon.
Ros’'r. E. PATTISON, was for the third
time, made the candidate of the Democracy
for Governor, at Erie on Wednesday. And
by the unanimous vote of the convention,
for both,Hon. GEO. W. GUTHRIE, of Pitts-
burg, was named as the candidate for Lieut.
Governor, and JAMES NOLAN, of Berks
county, for Secretary of Internal Affairs.
We know that the Democracy of Centre
county will be rejoiced because of this
good work of their representatives, and feel
that every good citizen will join with them
in congratulations over the opportunity
now given them to elect a ticket that will
do honor to the Commonwealth. A cleaner,
stronger or better ticket than the men
named has never been placed before the
public by any party, in this or any other
State, and if there is any desire on the
part of the voters to secure honest govern-
ment, or a decent administration of state
affairs in Pennsylvania, the way has been
made clear for them to accomplish it.
This paper predicted last week, the nomi-
nations of the men who bave been chosen
as the standard bearers of the party, for the
campaign that ends in November. It he-
lieved it knew the sentiment of the people
and had faith in the expectation that that
sentiment would be recognized by a Demo-
cratic convention. For the good judgment
of the Democratic masses that made the
demand for pure men as candidates,and for
the obedience to that demand that is shown
in the work of the convention, all have
reason to be thankful.
To the personality, the ability, the record
or the |purposes of the candidates we
have neither time por space this week to
refer. We can at this time only express
our satisfaction with the ticket given us,as
well as with the line of battle marked out
by the platform and the bright prospects
of succes these present to the Democratic
voters of the State.
——The kind of weather we have been
having lately is not the kind that will put
many shekels into the pockets of the sea
shore hqtel and bath hoase men.
——"he tune most popular at meetings
in the Central Pennsylvania Methodist
Conference now is when the SwaLLOw
Homeward Flies.
How He is to Be Elected.
Judee PENNYPACKER, it is said, is “‘not
disturbed hy the reports of disaffection
among the country Republicans over his
nomination.”” Possibly he is not. The
Judge knows how elections have heen won
in Pennsylvania and has been conversant for
years with Philadelphia methods. This
knowledge doubtless adds to his tranquility
just at this time. It is natural that it
should. He knows what has been done
and understands what will be done if it be-
comes a necessity.
According to the Pittshurg Dispatch, a
very reputable i2epublican paper hy the
way, Mr. Is. DURHAM, the great mogul of
Philadelphia Republicanism, has pledged
that Judge PENNYPACKER ‘‘will carry
Philadelphia by 100,000, or as much more as
may be necessary to insure his election.’’ And
Mr. DURHAM is not the only one who has
slopped over in this way. His private sec-
retary, one CLAYTON ERB, is reported as
having boasted,on the streets of Harrisburg
immediately after Mr. QUAY’S cousin was
made the standard bearer of the party, that
“it didn’t matter a d——n if every county in
the State gave a majority against him, and
every dung-hauler and hay seed of the country
would count enough of votes to elect him.”
Of course with such assurance the cousin
(of MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY ought to feel
entirely undisturbed over the reports of dis-
| satisfaction over the manner of his nomi-
pation,
—— Charles Hardesty’s fine St. Bernard
dog ‘“‘Leo” was poisoned recently and is
dead. The dog was the most splendid look-
ing creature of its kind ever seen in this
place, registered and full blooded and the
person who would do such a contemptible
hing is not worth as mach to the commu-
nity as ‘‘Leo’’ was.
——County detective Joe Rightnour ar-
rested quite a number of illegal fishermen
last week. Some were hauled in for scoop-
ing and setting ontlines in tront streams
law by using nets in the Bald Eagle.
wh
—- Altoona had a snow squall on Mon-
day, while Bellefonte did nearly as well by
shivering in showers of rain and sleet.
——The State Gravge hae decided to hold
its next meeting in Clearfield in December.
Nl ———————————— 2
—Peace has come as last fn South Africa
‘but the price bas been appalling.
| S——————
~—Subsdribe for the WATCHMAN.
voled against him, Philadelphia could and
while others fell into the clutches of the |
It Isn’t Courage, it is the Inclination
He Lacks.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
When Mr. Roosevelt became President
anyone who breathed a doubt as to his grit
and courage would have been ridiculed.
An excess of grit and a particularly stren-
ous and effervescent brand of courage were
conceded to the new chief executive; and
it was ouly feared that the very strength
and abundance of these qualities wonld
lead him to impetuous and disastrous ac-
tion. He has, nevertheless, shown admir-
able self-restraint save in some conspicuous
instances of minor consequence as in his
rough riding over Dewey and Miles and
Schley, but it remains for the ultra Repub
lican Philadelphia Press to venturea frank
and bluntly expressed doubt of his grit and
courage.
Commenting upon the deadlock over Cu-
ban reciprocity the Press says :
* *“The voice of the country is unmistak-
ably for reciprocity. The question then is
simply whether there is grit and courage
enough at Washington to fight it throngh.?”’
Who's afraid ? Surely, not Teddy ?
A Plan that Few Employers Follow.
From the Altoona Times.
Andrew Carnegie made this remark :
Cut your profits rather than the salary ofa
good employe. You will lose less money in the
end.
Carnegie spoke from the fullness of his
knowledge. To-day, as the result of his
policy, he is a millionaire many times over.
Every successful corporation in this coun-
try has adopted Carnegie’s policy. The
result has been that all of them have pros-
pered.
They Should Move, of Course.
From the Easton Sentinel.
The Vanderbilts, who own fancy stock
farms and pay over one-half the taxes of the
State of Rhode Island, are considered too
valuable residents by town authorities to
cause their arrest for fast aatomobiling.
Rhode Island is a good State to live in by
the Vanderbilts, but how about the com-
mon people who don’t ride in antos?
Price of War in the Philippines Has
Been Nearly $250,000,000.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 21.—Imperi-.
alism is costing the people of the United;
States an enormous sum annually. The War
Department is expending a sum equal to
the entire cost of the civil and miscellaneous
expenses of the Government.
Despite the claims of the administration
that the war is over in the Philippines and
that there had been a general reduction gf
expenses, the Treasury department shows
that before the expiration of the fiscal year
ending June 30th, the War Department
will have expended $117,000,000. The en-
tire civil expenses of the Government, in-
cluding the pay of the President, Senators,
and Representatives, Coarts, clerks in the
various departments and all other expenses
will be in excess of this amount only a
few hundred thousand dollars.
Since 1897, the year before the outbreak
of hostilities with Spain, the war expenses
of the War Department have grown to a
sum which was never dreamed of at that
time. The following comparisons show
this rapid increase.
INCREASE OF WAR EXPENSES.
. $48,950,267
91,992,000
229,841,254
1900...... wr 134,774,167
1901.. 144,615,687
177,000,000
Daring the same period the cost of the
Navy has grown from $34,000,000 annually
to $70,000,000—more than doubling in
cost.
The combined cost of the Army and Na-
vy of the United States is equal to a per
capita tax of $2.15 on every man, woman
and child in the United States. Thesesums
do not include the enormous’ amounts ex-
pended on the Army and Navy by officers
in the Philippines and in Cuba, which were
paid out of the insular treasuries.
To the present time neither the Philip-
pines, Porto Rico, Guam or Cuba, has net-
ted anything to the Government. The col
ony possessions have been a constant strain
upon the national treasury, and through it
upon the tax-payers of the country.
PENSION ROLLS AUGMENTED.
Four years after the close of the civil war
—the most disastrous the world has ever
known—the war expenses of the Govern-
ment amonnted to but $78,501,900.and that
of the navy $20,000,000, a total of $98.501-
900, as against $187,000,000 four years af-
ter the close of the war with Spain.
Secretary Root, in a report to the Senate,
places the cost of the war in the Philippines
alone at $170,326,586, which does not in-
clude the $20,000,000 paid Spain as an in-
demnity. Sl
The total cost of the war in the Phiiip-
pines, including navy and other expenses,
will be in the neighborhood of $250,000,-
000, without the chances for the return of
a single doilar. In addition to this, the pen-
sion rolls will be largely augmented by rea-
son of soldiers incurring disability in the
tropical service and through deaths and
wounds.
Thousands of soldiers have heen killed
in battle or by disease. Gin
Senate Approves the House Measure Pro-
viding for Court in this State.
WASHINGTON, June 23.—The Senate to-
day passed the House bill creating a new
judicial district in Pennsylvania. It is to
be known as the Middle district, and will
include Scranton, Harrisburg and Wil-
liamsport. The records of the court are to
be kept at Scranton.
The bill provides that the Circuit and
District Courts of the Middle district sball
be held at Scranton, beginning the fourth
Monday of February and the third Monday
in October in each year, at Harrisburg on
the first Monday in May and the first Mon-
day in December and at Williamsport the
second Monday cf January and the second
Monday of June in each year.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The present strength of the Red Men in
the State is 48,611 members, an increase of
3318 for the year.
—There are twenty applications filed for
the principalship of the Houtzdale schools
for this coming season.
—The corner stone of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at Bakerton, Cambria county, will
be laid on Sunday next, June 29th.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will build a tunnel 400 feet long above -
Altoona, to operate passenger trains over
the mountains independent of all others.
—The threatened strike of machinists em-
ployed at the two plants of the American
Wood Working Machinery company, in Wil-
liamsport, has been averted. A compromise
scale was agreed upon.
—Mayor John Pendry, of Johnstown, has
appointed ten special officers with no other
duties to perform than to see that the quar-
antine rules are rigidly observed concerning
ten houses containing small pox patients.
—A prominent Methodist named Kime
traveled on the Bald Eagle valley road Tues-
day and went up on the P. and E. Rev.
Kime is 97 years old, but notwithstanding
his advanced age he will preach a memorial
sermon Sunday.
—Anthony Stambreas was shot and killed
Sunday at a christening at the home of Frank
Yonicas at Mahanoy City. When dying he
accused Yonicas of the crime, and the latter
with Anthony Casper, the dead man’s broth-
er-in-law who owned the revolver, are un-
der arrest.
—By the flange of a car breaking, ten cars
on a Beech Creek east bound coal train were
piled up at Cato Saturday shortly before noon.
Brakeman Jesse Ebersole in jumping was
caught in the wreckage and badly injured.
His left leg was fractured and his shoulder
dislocated. He was taken to Williamsport.
—At Williamsport last Friday E. H. Doyle
dived in water fourteen feet deep to rescue a
14-year-old girl who had fallen into the
river. In his pantaloons watch pocket was
his gold watch unattached to a chain and
when Mr. Doyle came out of the water he
found that the timepiece was missing, it hav-
ing dropped into the river when he made the
plunge for the drowning girl.
—The four span wooden bridge crossing
the Juniata river at Millerstown was destroy-
ed by fire last week. The fire caught from a
coal oil lamp used to light the bridge. In
less than fifteen minutes the whole structure
was in flames and in thirty-five minutes the
bridge had fallen into the river. The bridge
was insured for $3,000. Under the act of
1895 the State will be required to re-build the
bridge. °°
—The reunion of the Clearfield] county
Veteran's association, held at Osceola last
week, was largely attended and greatly en-
joyed by the grizzled boys in blue. Henry
Liveright, one of Osceola’s most prominent
citizens, did a graceful and generons deed in
tendering an elegant dinner and supper to
all the old soldiers who were at liberty to
accept his hospitality. The day’s program
wound up with a camp fire.
—The body of Atkison C. Watson, 21 years
old son of John Watson, of Castle, Greene
county, was found in a woods near his home
Saturday evening with a hullet wound in
his head. He had ‘gone hunting in the
morning and his dog returned to the house
without him Saturday. The coroner’s jury
decided, it was suicide, though some of Wat-
son’s friends adhere to the theory that it was
an accident or murder, since no powder
marks were found upon him.
—Thad Robison, of Carwensville, was
taken to the Philipsburg hospital Thursday’
with both arms broken and other painful in-
juries. Robison is a painter by trade and
while standing on a shed roof painting, Tues-
day, he stepped back, and being nearer the
edge than he thought, lost his footing and
fell a distance of twelve feet. He struck on
a brick pavement and throwing out his
hands to save himself he broke the right arm
near the wrist, his left arm between the
elbow and shoulder and injured one of his
legs. He also received bad bruises on his
head.
—A gang of swindlers ave reported to be
victimizing the farmers of nearby counties
with a scheme that it seems no sane person
would entertain fora moment. The sales-
men, as they claim to be approach a man
with the proposition that he shall become
their agent for a patent pitchfork. He is
presented with a sample for his good looks
and bis neighbors. The agreement proves to
be a judgment note and the poor man finds
himself impaled on the pitchfork that the
other fellow was using. The slippery gen- .
tlemen have made some good hauls, their
profits ranging from $75 to $450 per fork.
—Clearfield is having a boom and just now
an effort is waking to secure a steel works
there, the promise being that the industry
will come if the Clearfield people buy a cer-
tain number of lots cut from a farm near the
town. A real estate firm boosting the pro-
ject holds forth the awful warning that ‘if
the project fails all will agree that Clearfie 1d
will fall as flat as Tyrone, from which ca-
lamity may the good Lord deliver us.”’” Pre-
sumably if this impending disaster cannot
hasten the sale of lots at fancy prices noth-
ing can. Glory and growth to Clearfield!
The old town has waited patiently a long
time for it. »
—William C. Wiau, a Huntingdon cigar
maker, had an exciting experience with a
chipmonk, or ‘‘ground hackie,”” the other
day. From some where on the hill north of
town the family’s pet dog had chased the
squirrel to the Wian domicile on Oneida
street, east of Sixth, and withont much
ceremony the little thing went into the very
heart of the family home. Locating the
squirrel in one of the first floor rooms, Mr.
Wian and other members of the family set
about to catch it. The squirrel was here,
there ‘and everywhere apparently at the one
time, the head of the house puffing and
sweating, when suddenly the little rodent:
fought refuge in one of Mr. Wain’s pant legs.
Then there was fun and agreat display of
calisthenic maneuvers. the head of the house
being apprehensive that the squirrel might
bite him. On up the pant leg the ‘ground
hackie’’ climbed, until he reached the waist
band, when a deft hand encircled his throttle
and forced him into submission. The ex-
perience was respensible for the introduction
of a chill on a hot day.