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Ink Slings.
--One’s conscience should be his guide,
but many men have their conscience in
such complete subjection that its way is al-
ways lost.
—It ought not to be necessary to tell
people that your word is as good as your
bond. Make it so and everyone will know
it without having to be told.
— The man who has to take a back seat
in everything else, usually finds a place in
front in the church, for the leaders of secu-
lar movements rarely carry their leadership
into things spiritual.
—If QuaY’s foot is really scalded as
badly as reports make it out to be the an-
cestral hoot that his Cousin PENNYPACKER
has kicked off might be large enough to
cover the injured member and its ban-
dages.
— King EDWARD has no real reason to
swell up very much over his crown when
we have thousands of six-dollar-a-week
clerks in this country—wearing panamas
that they will swear cost more than the
English coronation emblem.
. —Even the mosquitoes have become ho-
bos. They can be found buzzing around
in any old placein the country now, where-
as there was once a time when they lived
in exclusive colonies at the watering
places.
‘—If THEODORE CRAMP bad adminis-
tered only such a blow to Attorney Gen-
eral KNOX as the latter has given the
trusts he would not have been knocked out
s 0 speedily in their encounter in the Gar-
den hotel cafe, in Atlantic City, a few
nights ago.
— The scandal which the North Ameri-
can has just unearthed in the Clarion Nor-
mal school would all have been brought be-
fore the Clearfield county court last Febru-
ary bad ajudge’s ruling out of evidence
not e mphasized the futility of trying to in-
troduce it.
—The Philadelphia Press says ‘‘Senator
HA NNA is a workingman himself and it is
but natural that he should stand by all oth-
er workingmen.”” True, Senator HANNA
is a workingman, but he doesn’t ‘‘natural-
ly stand by all other workingmen.” In
fact, he lives by “‘working’’ all other work-
ing men.
—Sir LANG CHEN TIANG, the new Chi-
nese niinister, who has just arrived to suc-
ceed Mr. Wu, is evidently just as smooth
as that other oriental soft-sonper, who has
been anos us for several years. ‘He starts
and an im
4 Bineralen; |
All the namutaciuters of harvesting
Tug having gove into a one hun-
dred and twenty million combine, the good
old hymn, ‘“What Shall the Harvest Be’
will have more significance than ever. The
manufacturer’s harvest will be the poor
farmer and the poor farmer’s harvest will
be, very probably, more poor crops.
—The old gypsy, who predicted that
King EDWARD would never be crowned,
bad better make more room on one of the
back seats for Rev. EPH JONES, the colored
pr ophet who says Atlantic City will bede-
stroved by a tidal wave on the 21st. He
will be ready to go way back and sit down
when he wakens up in the morning of the
22nd.
—Of course most people will understand
just what the Pittsburg Dispaich means
when ib says, ‘‘the President’s list of ap-
pointments to West Point is chiefly remark-
able for the fact that everyone of the ap-
pointees is a ‘son-of his father,” ”’ but the
few who won’t will have a great time figur-
ing out where they came from if they are
n ot sons of their fathers.
—While Col. A. E. PATTON, the Repub-
lican nominee for State Senate, isa very
nice gentleman, he has been accustomed to
baving his own way so long that it will bea
sight to see the fuss he will make when he
gets up against it in November, as he cer-
tainly will. He will find out then that
everything isn’t going his way like it did
at the conference in Tyrone yesterday af-
ternoon.
— Uncle SAM'S colored soldiers, who mar-
ried wives in the Philippines to satisfy
t heir lust and are now abandoning them
be cause of an order calling their regiments
home, are no worse, from a moral stand-
point, than are the American students who
effect unions de convenience with the grisetles
in Paris, and then abandon them when
their course of study is at an end. But
Uncle SAM will have a great deal more to
answer for in thie former case than in the
latter, for he is a party to the lecherous
practices, for having made them possible
and not punishing his men for their indal-
gence.
—THEODORE CRAMP, the great ship
builder of Philadelphia, with several
friends, all more or less ‘‘tanked up,’’ en-
gag ed in a fisticuff with Attorney Gener-
al KXoX in thecafe ofthe Garden. hotel,
at Atlantic City, last Thursday night.
The Attorney General’s attitude against
the trusts is given as the cause of the fight.
Mr. Cramp and his fellow belligerents
representing trust interests, were get-
ting even with KNoX for his sgpposed in-
terference with their plundering process-
es. But if they had given KX0X only such
knocks as he has ‘‘knocked’’ on the. trusts
KNOX would not bave heen knocked out
80 promptly.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. oe.
VOL. 47
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 15, 90,
NO. 32.
A Hopefal Sign.
The obvious improvement in the Demo-
cratic organization of Philadelphia, is a
just source of encouragement to the Demo-
cratic voters in every section of the State.
Heretofore there has heen a feeling wide-
spread and deepseated, that no matter how
well the Democrats of the State did, their
efforts would be overcome by fraudulent
votes cast in Philadelphia. The convic-
tion that such a condition conld not exist
without the collusion of the Democratic
organization made the matter more dis-
hear tening and the result was that the
Democrats throughout the State were prac-
tically withont hope at the beginning of
every campaign. however meritorious the
candidates or auspicious the conditions
otherwise.
This year, however, it can be confident-
ly stated that the organization in Phila-
delphia will exhaust every available expe-
dient to prevent fraud as well as to poli
a full Democratic vote. It would ' proba-
bly be too much to expect a complete eimi-.
pation of fraud from the elections in Phila-
delphia. Ina community where promi-
nent citizens promote frand by contribut-
ing funds for the compensation of the per-
petrators, there is sure to be some frauds.
But it may be predicted that this vear it
will be reduced to a minimum and that in
consequence of that fact the Republican
majority in that city will not exceed 25,-
000, if it goes that high. With that ma-
jority in Philadelphia the State is certain
to be Democratic.
In view of this fact the Democrats of
Centre county ought to enter the campaign
‘with more than usual energy. This coun-
ty is expected to do its share toward secur-
ing an anti-QUAY majority in the Legisla-
ture and it ought and will give the splen-
did Democratic State ticket a substantial
majority. Other counties in this section
of the State are under the same obligations
to enter upon the labor of the campaign
with zeal and energy and to feel justified
in predicting that in the event all do their
duty the State of Pennsylvania will be res-
cued from the blight of QUAYISM. A vast
number of Republicans are ready to put.
t heir. shoulders to the wheel and. Demo- |
man p of the Republican state committee, has
appointed W. E. GRAY and F. H. CrLEM-
s ON members of his state central commit-
tee to represent this senatorial district.
Quay’s Manifold Woes.
In the seclusion, not to say solitude, of
his sea side sick chamber Senator QUAY
might say with HERRICK: ‘‘thus woe su-
ceeds a woe, as wave a wave,”’ or with
HAMLET, ‘‘one woe doth tread upon an-
other’s heel, so fast they follow.” The
old man is certainly having a tough time
of it. Having escaped ‘‘by the skin of his
teeth’’ from a squall while Sunday fishing,
he has since almost boiled his foot to a jel-
ly by turning on the wrong spigot in the
bath tub. Most men who fish off the At-
lantie City coast have sense enough to come
in before a storm breaks over their heads
and small boys know enough to take their
feet out of hot water before the boiling is
complete, But QUAY appears not to have
been equal to either emergency.
Still we have the assurance of QUAY’S
candidate for Governor that the Senator is
a greater statesman than DANIEL WEBSTER
or HENRY CLAY. Can any one imagine
WEBSTER fishing on Sunday within ten
miles of shore and so lost to environment
and indications that a storm burst over
him with such severity as to imperil his
life? Would it be possible for anyone to
create a picture in his mind of CLAY stand-
ing helplessly in a bath tub with one or
both his feet immersed in scalding water
and yet unable to help himself. Itislittle
things like these which fit men for the
graver duties of statesmanship and we can
hardly believe that a man who doesn’t
know enough to get out of a boiling bath
tub is equal to the highest duties of states-
manship.
QUAY has been a shrewd politician and
maybe he has never lost a political fight,
as PENNYPACKER asserts. Bub every man
meets his match at one time or another
and who knows but that QUAY’s first de-
feat will be at the expense of his absurd
p anegyrist ? Indeed there would be some-
t hing like poetic justice in such a turn of
fate and the signs point unerringly to that
result. With an energetic canvass in be-
half of the Democratic ticket carried into
every section of the State and continued
without interruption or abatement to the
closing of the polls and a vigilant supervis-
ion of the count and returns, the election of
PATTISON is certain.
—Poor old Senator McQUOWN. editor
of the Clearfield Raftsman’s Journal, is mad
because he wasn’t given the constitutional
amendment to publish. It seems to us that,
in the language of the poet, ‘‘he has no
kick coming.’ He knew exactly what he
was doing when he helped to elect that wet
hen State Treasurer.
———————
End of the Philadelphia Times.
The consolidation of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger and the Philadelphia Zimes
the other day is a curious development of
modern metropolitan journalism. For
years it has been a proverb among news-
paper men that it is much more expensive
and difficult to rebuild a broken down
newspaper property than to establish a new
one, though that is both an expensive and
difficult undertaking. The Messrs OCBS,
who had undertaken the labor of rehabili-
tating the Zimes, bad been so successful in
other cases that they entered upon the work
in the greatest confidence. The consolida-
tion in question is official notice of their
failure.
The Times was started twenty seven and
a half years ago and its early life was phe-
nomenally successful. Beforeit had reach-
ed the adolescent age of six years it was
making money for its owners faster than
they could spend it and its influence was
felt in the politics of the country, from
‘Maine to California. Its preparation was
on the most expensive scale and its numer-
ous staff of well paid editors and special
writers cost annually ‘‘a king’s ransom.”
But the revenues were redundant, never-
theless, and the property became so valua-
ble that its managers grew careless. Then
the decay set in and for ten years it has
been degenerating. :
When the new owners found that it was
impossible for them to restore the property
to its high estate an alternative presented
itself to their keen intelligence. It was an
expensive one but they adopted it. It con-
sisted in the consolidation which hase just
occurred whereby the value of the second
purchase was greatly enhanced by diminish-
ing the competition and the revenues in-
creased. They could have sold the disap-
pointing property for a considerable sum,
but the difference'between the cost and the
selling price would have been a dead loss.
covered and the remaining property will
soon, it is boped, be worth all that was paid
for both.
——Judge LOVE has appointed JoHN D.
DECKER, of Potter township a jury com-
missioner to serve out the unexpired term
} WiLLIAM Ros! deceased, late of Car-
r, DEGKER bas served
ea] Fk
‘tore a as a jury. commiss oner, ‘consequen ty |
the duties will not be new to him.
Sulzer Denounces Roosevelt.
Representative SULZER of New York ex-
presses his opinion of President ROOSEVELT
in a rather free but very emphatic way.
“The President and his party,”’ : observes
Mr. SULZER, ‘have been weighed in the
balance and found wanting.” That ex-
traordinary Fourth of July speech deliv-
ered in Pittshurg was the occasion of the
Congressman’s remarks. The promise im-
mediately after the adjournment of Con-
gress to do a thing which requires con-
gressional co-operation, when no effort had
been made to do it while Congress was in
session, naturally excited the contempt of
an outspoken man like SULZER and he
expressed his feelings in no uucertain lan-
guage.
‘President ROOSEVELT is no better than
his party,’”’ Mr. SULZER remarked at the
outset of an interview given to the public
the other day, ‘‘and every one who can
distinguish the difference between a hawk
and a handsaw knows that the criminal
trusts of the country dominate and own
the Republican party, and that so long as
the Republican party is in power the trusts
will prosper and flourish like a green bay
tree and continue to rob all the people all
the time for the benefit of a few multi-
millionaires and a half dozen plutocrats.”’
Notwithstanding this palpable fact, how-
ever, President ROOSEVELT promised, in
his Pittsburg speech, that he would destroy
the trusts.
President RoOSEVELT is nothing less
than a braggart. No former President has
ever heen so regardless of moral obligations.
His reputation for consistency and his
pledged word are alike matters of indif-
ference to him and in his wild pursuit of
the nomination he is making alliances with
the most disreputable of the machine man-
agers all over the country. Professional
lobbyists like PAYNE of Wisconsin, pro-
moters of ballot frauds like QUAY of Penn-
sylvania and party adventurers of all types
and degrees of disrespectability are his
partners in intrigue and nothing is too rank
for him. The ‘‘bronco buster’ is fast
bringing disgrace on the great office which
be reached by accident.
——The trastees of The Pennsylvania
State College have decided to locate the
new Carnegie library building north of the
armory. Is will front on the avenue run-
ning north along the side of the armory.
Just why the trustees didn’t place it out
behind the ‘‘college barn’? when they were
at it will be rather hard for any one to nun-
derstand who is not acquainted with the
ultimate plans they have in contemplation.
As it is proposed the main building,the la-
dies eottage, botanical building, armory,
Schwab chapel and Carnegie library are all
huddled up in. an area 500 ft square,
while there are five hundred acres of cam-
pus surrounding them.
In the course pursued the loss will be re-
Quay’s Incongruous Committee.
Senator QUAY has begun his campaign
as chairman of the State committee by
throwing a sop to each of the discordant
elements of his party. Among the execu-
tive committeemen named on Monday he
included General JoHN P. ELKIN, and
Colonel Louis A. WATRES. HIRAM
Young, of York, a follower of WANA-
MAKER, is also included and taking it al-
together it is a collection of incongruous
spirits such as probably was never brought
together before. Possibly ELKIN and Gen-
eral MILLER will pull together fairly well,
for MILLER is the friend of STONE rather
than QUAY. But when they get together,
if there isn’t a scrimmage the meeting
will be the wonder of the age.
Of course QUAY’s purpose in thus com-
plimen ting the representatives of these
conflicting interests is to reconcile the
friends of each to the outrage perpetrated
upon them by the nomination of Cousin
Say. ELKIN is put on on his own account
and the same may be said of GEORGE T.
OLIVER, of Pittsburg,and Colonel WATRES.
General MILLER is clearly a bait for
SroNE, Colonel LAMBERT and Colonel
GILKESON for HASTINGS and GEORGE VON
BONHURST for the friends of the late C. L.
MAGEE. But in achieving a doubtful re-
sult of questionable value the old man
takes desperate chances of introducing dis-
cord into. the organization which will
be demoralizing, if not destructive.
Besides the committee would be ineffi-
cient even if it were harmonious. Except
ELKIN, DAVE LANE and Colonel LAMBERT
there is not a man in the list who can con-
tribute an idea to the campaign. General
MILLER can help materially in raising
funds, for he can give a fortune himself and
never feel it. GEORGE OLIVER might like-
wise prove useful in that respect. But so
faras any other service is concerned they
will all be ‘‘deadheads in the enterprise’’
and QUAY won’t even have the satisfaction
of a happy but useless family. Even PEN-
NYPACKER must loose faith in the face of
of such manifest iinbecility. He will cer-
tainly not strengthen his good opinion of
Cousin Marr by analyzing his committee.
Unis ana Probably © neem
‘truthful in “his reply to the proposition of
the King of Italy with respect to the par-
tial disarmament of Europe in order that
the difference in the cost of, maintaining a
small and large army might be used in
conducting a campaign against the United
States for commercial supremacy. That is
in declining the proposition he is unwise
and in asserting that Germany is able to
pay the expense of the present military es-
tablishment is hardly truthful.
Germany, like all other countries, is en-
joying at the present time an era of pros-
peritv. Bat it is not attributable to the
inherent resources of the Empire. If is, as
a matter of fact, ascribable to the British
wars in South Africa and elsewhere, which
have practically taken Great Britian out of
the industrial and commercial competition
of the world. With that practically dom-
inating force removed an unprecedented in-
dustrial activity has been maintained in
Germany from the proceeds of which the
people have been enjoying a fictitious
prosperity.
The emigration statistics of Germany,
however, is the correct standard for the
measurement of the capacity of the coun-
try to meet burdensome obligations. If
the people were able to bear the expense of
the military establishment which the
Kaiser maintains, there would be no’ such
exodus of the sons and daughters of the
Empire as has marked the past dozen
years. Men and women don’t leave the
home of their birth if they are prosperous
and happy there, and the United States,
where militarism has not obtained a hold,
is the only country from which the outgo-
ers are few and the incomers many.
——The advent of L. A. DRESSER, of
Bradford, in town last Thursday night
caused a slight ripple on theserenity of the
surface of Dr. M. J. LOCKE’S local political
puddle. As everyone knows Mr. DRESSER
has a bar’l and the way some of the boys
were warming up to him here was enough
to indicate that they would be perfectly
willing to sacrifice the ambitious physician
if they could thereby get at the Bradford
man's spigot.’ Of course Mr. DRESSER’S
visit was purely friendly, for LOCKE has
the endorsement of Centre county. He
came over to see the leaders with whom he
will he thrown in contact in fature manip-
ulations of the new district and, necessari-
ly; made inquiry as to whether Dr. LOCKE
could be seen, - As the latter was out of
town at the time it is only fair to say that
he was not seen,but there is a rumor to the
effect that REEDER fixed it up with DRESS-
ER whereby the McKean candidate is to
have four years in Congress and then the
Centre county chairman is to have the same.
They both thought it would not be well to
permit Dr. LOCKE to do anything that
might interfere with his practice,so he will
not go to Washington.
hody in which he became, during the last
: wledged
Real Heroes.
From an Unknown Soarce
While we're giving our attention to the heres of
this earth
And are boosting some to glory ev’ry day.
Let us not contract the idea that the men of
greatest worth.
Are the men whose deeds consist of great
display.
War produced some mighty heroes who have left
a deep impress
And are worshipped by the men of ev'ry
clime;
But when talking of real heroes let us honestly
confess
They’re the men who keep on hustling all the
time.
Let us not annex the idea that a hero's born of
war,
For the greatest heroes never fought a fight;
And the men who did most fighting—as a rule
you'll find they are
Fellows who were very seldom in the right.
No, the very greatest heroes that the roll of
history fills
Never had their deeds of worth writ up in
rhyme,
They're the heroes of the workshops, of the farms
and of the mills—
They're the heroes that keep hustling all the
time.
You may talk of martial heroes till the toot of
Gabriel's horn,
And declaim about -your warriors till you're
hoarse;
But they’re not the greatest heroes that into the
world were born,
For compared ith some their work is very
coarse.
The real heroes wear no tokens, save the blisters
on their hands;
They're the toilers that abound in every clime.
They're the very bone and sinew of all times and
of all lands—
Are the men who keep on hustling all the
time,
Onur Candidate for the Senate.
From the Harrisburg Star Independent:
The renomination of State Senator Wil-
liam C. Heinle, of Bellefonte, by the
Democrats of the Thirty-fourth Senatorial
district is the cause of popular congratula-
tion throughout the State. - It is a fit re-
ward for splendid past service and a prac-
tical guarantee of not only capable’ but
honest representation of the district in the
Senate for another term. During the last
two sessions of the Legislature Senator
Heinle was among the most earnest _guar-
dians of the interest of the people in the
cials are expected to a] Lenny the
temptations to become venal were unusu-
ally common and strong during the period
of his service, resistance ought not to at-
tract especial attention. But Senator Heinle
was more than that. He was capable and
vigilant as well as honest, and an active foe
of corruption as well as an earnest cham-
pion of the ‘cause of thé people. He not
only saw corruption behind its mask, but
attacked it wherever and whenever it ap-
peared.
There will be adetérniined effort mide to
defeat Senator Heinle’s re-election, it is
said, for the machine cherishes up resent-
ment and higiwork during the last session
is reme against him. But if the
people of the'district are just to themselves
he will be re-elected by an increased ma-
jority. The defeat of a public official for
no other reason than that he was faithful
to his obligations would cast an aspersion
on the people responsible for it and if Sen-
ator Heinle is defeated it will be for no
other reason.
What They are There For.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The expected has come to pass. Troops
have heen ordered to help the coal barons
in their fight againat organized labor. Os-:
tensibly Governor Stone sends his soldiers
to the anthracite region to protect the
peace. Really they go there to help the
Coal Trust to defeat the union. On the
face of things Governor Stone basa good
excuse. There has been -violence, and
greater violence is in prospect. But bas
there been no violence save that of work-
ingmen trying to safeguard their ehance to
make a living for themselves and for their
families ? It has not seemed necessary to
Governor Stone to order out the troops to
suppress the flagrant lawlessness of the
coal barons. But he makes haste to order
the State’s armed men to go to the hard
coal field to awe unhappy coal miners into
submission to a monstrous tyrauny.
Favorites or Victims.
From Bourke Cochran’s 4th of July Oration.
“Government of itself can oreate noth-
ing, There is but one source of property,
and that is the labor of human hands *ex-
ercised directly on the bosom of the earth
or on the products of the earth. ‘Since
government cannot create anything, it has
nothing of its own to bestow. If, there-
fore, it undertakes to enrich one ‘man, the
thing which it gives him it must take from
some other man. Where it has a favorite
it must have a victim, and obviously that
government only is just and truly ‘benev-
olent which has neither favorites nor vie-
tims.”
The Tariff Responsible.
From the Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel.
The people need not look to the Repub-
lican party for relief from burdens imposed
by the trusts, for the party, protection
mad, will not get at the root of the
evil and readjust the present tariff. It is
the tariff which makes trusts in this conn-
try possible, and the Republican party’s
attitude in this regard is one of the things
that will make an anti-trust. compaign by
President Roosevelt difficult.
' —Don’t worry because your ship has not
come in. ‘Perhaps it is foundering on the
troubled waves you are rolling up for it.
ah
"| pelled to draw on'it this week. It will soon
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Fire in the Altoona opera house building
Sunday caused a loss of $50,000 on the stocks
of clothing and dry goods stores on the first
floor.
: —Jesse Francis, of Haneyville, who last
fall violated the game laws by selling deer
after he shot it, was fined $100 and costs in
Williamsport Friday.
—The First Methodist. congregation. of
‘Clearfield, of which Rev. Dr. M, K. Foster
is pastor, have decided to erect a new
church. which with the Turnishings will
cost $47,000.
—Milton Keppler, the 4-year-old by who
fell off the river bridge at Renovo Thursday
and fractured his left leg in two places and
sustained a gash in his head, is getting along
as well as can be expected.
—All the locomotives owned by the Penn-
sylvania railroad proper will have the letter-
ing on the tender changed. The word
‘Pennsylvania’ will be substituted for the
“P. R. R.” heretofore used.
—Albert Jackson, a 10 year old colored boy
of Williamsport, while playing tag on the
logs in White’s saw mill basin Tuesday af-
ternoon, fell into the water and was drown-
ed. His body was recovered shortly after.
—Engine No. 3016 of the passenger type
has been turned out of the Renovo shops
after receiving extensive repairs. This is
the locomotive which engineer Schreiner
was running when he was killed near Jersey
Shore.
—Rev. I N. Moorehead, pastor of the
Grace M. E. church, Williamsport, has been
tendered a call to the First M. E. church at
Salt Lake City, at asalary of $2,500. The
official board, however, has refused to re-
leased him.
—To save the life of his 8 year old son,
Frederick Ketcham, of Antrim, Tioga county,
Tuesday, at the Williamsport hospital, gave
from his left arm four strips of skin, each
four inches long and a half inch wide. The
boy was burned a year ago, but the wound
would not heal, and skin grafting was resort-
ed to.
—A state law, approved March 23rd, 1900,
says that the owner or occupant.of land
abutting on any highway in the township
shall during September of each year cut and
remove all briars, bush and weeds, and in
case of failure to do so, the township com-
mittee shall cause such work to be done and
any owner shall pay such expenses incurred
with costs, if suit be necessary before a jus-
tice of the peace.
toona estimates that all previous records in
handling immigrants westward have been
broken since April 1st. An average of 400
daily have passed through Altoona, making
the grand total for the summer approxi-
mate 50,000. Of these 10,000 located in the.
soft coal fields and the Connellsville reigon.
Most of the immigrants are illiterates from
eastern Europe.
—A careful estimate of the anthracite coal
on hand on the Reading system, and which
has been reserved for company use, places
‘the tonnage at 165,000. About 78,000 tons of
this fuel ison cars and the balance at the
storage yard at Landingville and the water
station in Reading. The supply is rapidly
£ depleted now as the company was com-
‘be exhausted.
—A. H. Stuck, of Mifflinburg, planted a
plot of ground 23x40 feet in onions in the
spring, The crop recently harvested was
thirteen bushels. The plot contained 920
square feet—about one 47th of an acre. At
the same ratio an acre of ground would bring
611 bushels. We do not think it would be a
difficult matter to realize at least fifty cents
a bushel, which would be $305.50 for the
product of an acre. What pays as well?
—H. A. McKee formerly of this place but
now with the Fidelity Title and Trust Co. of
Pittsburg, recently left with the Recorder of
Blair Co. at Hollidaysburg a mortgage for
$625,000,00 to secure 12 Bonds of $500,000
each and 1 Bond of $25,000 given by the W.
W. Stewart Co. of Wilmington, Delaware,
the mortgage is given upon, the real estate
franchises etc., of a number of Cigar Co's.
in Pensylvania incorporated under the name
of the W. W. Stewart Co.
—Every now and then an incident comes
to light showing the prevalence of supersti-
tion. Recently a girl in Williamsport gave
a pretended fortune teller $150 for a charm
which was warranted to bring back a re-
creant lover. As the charm didn’t work the
girl set the police on the track of the sooth-
sayer and was lucky enough to recover her
money. It has leaked out that several other
persons were victimized in sums ranging .
from $25 to $100.
—Mrs. Isabella Tyler, died at her home at
Tyler, Clearfield county, Wednesday morn-
ing. She was 97 years old. Mrs. Tyler's
maiden name was Mahaffey, and she was
born in Iyycoming county,near Williamsport.
Her grandfather, John Clendennin, was one
of George Washington’s body guards. She
was married in 1830 to David Tyler, who was
better known as *Squire Tyler, and who re-
ceived his first commission as justice of the
peace from Governor Ritner.
of the big Steel plant at Clearfield. The
preliminary operation will cost $200,000. It
is the intention to erect 24 puddling furnaces
with a capacity of 50 tons of iron and suffi-
cient scrap will be re-rolled to make the
daily tonnage 100 tons. It is also the inten-
tion to re-roll steel rails into lighter sections,
the capacity for this work being about 50
tons a day. The buildings will have a floor
space of 70,000 square feet and will be equip-
ped with electric cranes and all of the latest
improvements.
0. Thomas Switzer, of Philipsburg, and
William J. Robison, of Philadelphia, start-
ed Saturday for British Columbia and Alaska,
tho British-American Dredging company ,the
corporation organized in Pennsylvania to
provide the capital for the development and
nick & Co., the Philadelphia brokers who
financed the corporation. Messrs.
and Robison will journey directly to San-
Franéisco where they will rescue their heavy
dredging machinery and have it sent by ves-
sel to Skagway whence it will be shipped by
rail to the company’sland.” They expect to
have their plant in operation soon.
—Pennsylvania railroad officials in Al-
— Contracts have been let for the erection
to inaugurate operations upon the valuable’
gold territory discovered by Mr. Switzer, for
work. Mr. Robison represents Benj. C. War- -
Switzer
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