i BY PRP. GRAY MEEK. I ———— © Forget the bad deeds you lisve done In this old year nineteen-two = = And set your heart on nobler ones With the coming of the new. When turning over your new leaf, Whatever else youdo, = Resolve that to your wife and child You'll be good, and kind and true. —Poor DEWEY | Tt isn’t a case of “do be’’ with him any more. Tt is all MooDY | now. ‘ $ kee i i Su ~—A ball hose is better than no hose at all, but half hose are never heard of when San- ta Claus is round. pies ting The stocks that the bottoms have fall- | en out of are the ones that never had much bottom in them. : 3 —The Venezuela question is to be arbi- trated at last. How much cheaper it would bave been to have done that at first. * —There is a heap of “bloodless surgery*’ being done in Bellefonte every day, if pull- ing peoples’ legs is all there is to the new profession: +i E —The fact that United States steel has been as low as 31} this week hasn’t deterred MoRGAN from taking on another forty-five million obligation. : i _-—The cold weather has had a very dis- astrous effect on stocks. The water having frozen ous of most of them they have been forced to stand on what they are actually worth. ay ; —According ‘ to the last census report there are forty-four boys in Pennsylvania who are under fifteen years of age and mar- ried. There’s a case of forty-four mothers who didn’t know they were out. —With the slot machines out of business and a promise of all stores being closed tight on Sunday Bellefonte is certainly get- ting as good as the average Sunday school archin before the Christmas treat. —ROCKEFELLER has just given Chicago University another Christmas present of $1,000,000. His latest dividend from Standard oil being four times that amount he is not likely to go broke by such munif-; icence. "'—The miners rested their case before the arbitration commission at Scranton on Wednesday and let us hope that whatever the ontcome may be they will find a way to rest those little girls who work all night in the silk mills. 1 —The Senate having passed a pension appropriation bill carrying $139,847,000 leads us to wonder when it will ever stop. When the appropriation for that purpose reached the hundred million mark it was announced that the high tide had been reached. —QUAY is to leave for San Lucie, Flori- da, tomorrow. The first session of the Pennsylvania Legislature will probably be called to order at that place Sunday morn- ing. At all events the business of the entire session is to be closed up before his return on January 5th. —The Tyrone man who has just been di- rected to pay $2,466 damage to a Miss WELKER, of that place, for failing to mar- 7y her and causing her to lose many other chances, will feel very much as if he were one of the lobsters she is said to have serv- ed at mid-night to her gentlemen callers. —The announcement that Governor PENNYPACKER has appointed ‘a book- worm for his private secretary is right in live with the general impression that Cousin SAM is going to have a good time delving ‘into antiques ‘during the four years that Cousin MATT is to be acting Governor of Pennsylvania, ; —The people of Collingwood, Ohio, voted for local option on Friday, notwith- standing they have one hundred saloons in the town. The question was one of lose the saloons or lose the big shops of the Michigan Central Railroad and the Colling- wood people were not long in making up their minds which they-could best afford to lose. —It is rather an unfavorable commen- tary on the good morals of Bellefonte that the association of ministers should be com- pelled to threaten prosecution in order to keep stores closed on Sunday, but since there is so little regard for the Sabbath it is well that action of this sort has been taken. If buyer or seller can’t do all they need to in six days they had better chop off a little and save themselves from the danger of a coal shoveling job that there will never be any let up to. —The carpet knights of Washington are out; in all their pompous arrogance again. After sending DEWEY with the fleet to Venezuelan waters they have just cabled him that the Navy Department will direct his movements. This is equivalent to making the great Admiral as much of a nonetity as one of the stokers in his fleet, while Mr. Secretary Moopny, whose knowl- edge of naval affairs wounldn’t give a flea conges tion of the brain, assumes supreme command. 3 : —There seems to be considerable criti- ‘oism to the effect that the White House has been remodeled so much that there is no room left on the walls to hang the valuable portraits of the Presidents. Instead of the plain sides on which these historic souve- nirs of the past hung there are now so many fancy panels and niches for statuary that there isn’t even room for the picture of ‘GEORGE WASHINGTON, which must now either go to the kitchen or the basement. But that won’t break strenuons TEDDY'S ‘heart, so long as there are niches in which to place a few mud cowboys, mountain dion, eto. ® _ STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. To Wall Street's Santa Claus. The rich New York banks have organiz- ed a pool, we are informed, for the purpose of supplying funds to crippled financiers engaged in Wall street speculations. in stocks and on one or two occasions a panic was prevented by the timely inter- ference in behalf of the ‘‘bull’’ interests by ‘Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. It is estimat- ed by such experienced gentlemen as Mr. MORGAN that a panic at this time woald ‘be bad. It would result not only in a gen- eral liquidation but in a leveling process by which things would be reduced to actual valaes. While the watered stocks are in the hands of Mr. MORGAN’S friends that would be bad for them. Because of that the pool has been organized by which it is hoped that prices may be kept up until the ownership of the bogns securities is shifted from Mr. MORGAN'S friends to the other fellows. Previous to the election the Secretary of the Treasury acted as Santa Claus for the bull speculators. Whenever they got squeezed to an uncomfortable extent they would appeal to him and he would release from the treasury vaults by some process whatever amounts were necessary to supply existing wants. The Secretary was obliged to do this in order to keep up the delusion that times were good and the policies of the Republican party as expressed through President ROOSEVELT were wise. If a panic had set in in dead earnest at that time the loss of confidence would probably have caused a political revolution which would have been bad for the President's $ ambitions. Until recently the Secretary of Treasury wouldn’t have thought of saving his ‘party in that way. Daring CLEVE- LAND’S time such a use of the public funds would have been regarded as a crime. Now nothing is criminal unless found out. After the election, however, the Secre- tary of the Treasury came to the conclusion that he bad no further interest in the mat. ter of saving the country from panic. . The speculators alone, he made up his mind,are interested in maintaining the fictitious val- ues of watered stocks and incidentally the supremacy of trusts, and he refused to be Santa Claus any longer. Mr. MORGAN tried it a week and found the burden too heavy in view of the fact that there are oth- ers as deeply involved as himself. There- fore he insisted on them bearing a share of the burden and they have subscribed a matter of $50,000,000, which it is believed will serve the purpose until all the bogus securities have been worked off on the in- nocent lambs. No doubt their estimate is correct, unless the bears should also form a pool to protect each other and then there would be——what SHERMAN once said war resembled. South American War Begun. The war in South America has about be- gun, unless the proposed arbitration pute an end to it. On Saturday last the Aunglo-Ger- man allies bombarded the Venezuelan fort- ress at Puerto Cabello, demolished the fort- ress and sent marines from the British cruiser Charybdis to ocoupy the castle. The President of Venezuela had asked for arbi- tration and named the American Minister at Caracas as a man to whom he was willing to submis all differences... With respect to the matter immediately id issue President Cas- tro had directed the officials of his govern- ing those evidences of good faith and a will- inguess to be just, the allies bombarded a fortress of an American Republie, while ne- gotiations for the settlement of the difficul- ties were pending. the MONROE Doctrine, for since the Imper- ialists began operations there bas scarcely been enough of that left to cast a shadow. It not only forbade Edropean aggression, but pledged this country: to refrain from inter- ference with affairs ‘in the other hemis- agreement Europe probably felt that she hers and the bombardment is the logical consequence. It may be that there was an understanding between the governments of Washington and London, but whether that is true or not the aet has heen committed and one of the most cherished traditions of American government outraged. We can no longer set up the MONROE Doctrine as a principle of international law. Thus we are paying the penalty of setting a clown to regnlate the government of a great and earnest people. For nearly eighty years the MONROE Doctrine has been held as an inviolate principle of government, During President CLEVELAND'S last ad- ministration an attempt to blockade a port of Venezuela was resented as ‘an intolerable affront against the cherished traditions of the American Republic. But while the bronco buster isstadying the latest fashions in cowboy clothes and planning absurd excursions in western wilds in search of bear Great Britain and Germany send a fleet against a helpless sister Republic, look for protection to the United States,and destroy one of her principal forts.. It isa shame for which Americans will blush for generations to come. BELL Dar-. | ing last week there was an unusual slamp ment at the point to ‘give the British Ad- miral ample satisfaction.” Notwithstand- It is hardly. worth while to talk about phere. When we violated our part of the |: was absolved from an obligation to keep which from ite foundation has been led to. Judge Pennypacker’s Cabinet. ~ Governor-elect PENNYPACKER has se- lected his cabinet, we notice in our Phila- delphia exchanges, but at this writing he has not taken the public into his confidence EFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 19, 1902. Speaker Reed’s Withdrawal. It was the enemies of the late THOMAS B. REED who declared that disappointment because of his failure to get the presiden- tial nomination was the cause of his resigna- sufficiently’ fo state what gentlemen are | tion of the Speakership of the House, of his favored. ' Some of the papers state confi- seat inf Congress and of his withdrawal from dently that Secretary of the Commonwealth | public life. No doubt Mr. REED was dis- GREIST will -be reappointed and a good many are of the opinion that Mr. Ropa- ERs, of Pittsburg, the author of the ‘‘rip- per’ bill will be the Attorney General. There is unanimity, however, only with respect to one place. Every prognostica- tor declares confidently that the Hon. IsrAEL W. DURHAM will socceed him- self. This is one of the anomalies of politics. The friends of Judge PENNYPACRER de- clare with a vehemence which almost chal- lenges belief that he will be the Governor and that his aim will be to make his admin- istration an honor to himself, a credit to bis party and a benefit to the State. Yet it is universally agreed that he intends to appoint a man to one of the most impor- tant offices in his gift, who has filled it dur- ing the last four years and has not been in the office since the day of the Republi- can state convention last June and has not been in Harrisburg balf a dozen times since the Legislature adjourned in the early sum- mer of 1901. Of course the business of the office has gone on during all the time during the absenteeism and probably as well as if Mr. DURHAM had been constantly in attend- ance. Bat if that is true why not abolish the place and thus save to the State the something like $20,000 which DURHAM has drawn out of the treasury this year. If there is no need of the service there isjcer- tainly no justice in paying the salary and if there is need for the service [then a man ought to be appointed to fill the office who will give it the attention it requires. PENNYPACKER is beginning badly} in; ap- pointing such an officer. 2 The Solution of the Problem. Discussing a statement of Mr. JAMES J. HiLL, president of the railroad truss, to the effect that in the unsettled values as revealed in speculative operationsjin Wall streeb there are signs of an impending com- mercial aud industrial revolution, = Mr. PAUL, MORTON, vice president; of the Atobinson, Topeka & Santa Fee railroad, declared his belief that ‘‘the country will enjoy good times as long as the crops con- tinue good.”” There isno overproduction, ‘‘he added, except, perhaps, 1n securities.’’ There is the truth and the whole trath in a nutshell. The crops are the foundation of all pros- perity and commercial and industrial activ- ity in this country. Manufactures out a good deal of a figure in the United States and the increasing volume of production in that line and the enbancing export trade in manufactures is most gratifying. But She real wealth of the country lies in the area and fertility of the soil and from the beginning of the government prosperity has been measured by the success or failure of the crops. Abundant crops give employ- ment to men, freight to carrying compa- nies, business for manufacturing establish- ments, commerce for merchants and happi- ness to all. The man who says that the tariff pro- motes industrial activity is either a knave or afool. Can you enrich a man by rob- bing him ?. Certainly not, and it is no more possible to benefit a laborer by taking from his wages a greater proportion than the public necessities require in order to bestow the difference in the shape of unearn- ed bounties on some favorites in retarn for contributions to the campaign corrup- tion fund. Mr. MORTON has stated the faots. As long as the crops are abundant the times will continue prosperous and no longer. For an Honest Count. The WATCHMAN favors the adoption of voting by machinery for the reason that in | the end it will secure not only honest and independent voting, but will insure an hon- est count of the ballots cast. It is in the returns that the great frands in this State are perpetrated. The vote as cast is as the voter intends it to be but when the rascally election boards in the great cities get through with their manipu- lation it is not the ballots cast that they have considered but the demands of the bosses whom they serve. Prior to the elec- tion they are given orders as to the major- ities that eavh precinot is expected to re- turn and it matters, not whas the vote as cast would show if examined and counted, and the returns are bound to foot up just what the bosses have ordered. © And just so long as creatures of these busses have the ‘handling of the tickets and certifying to ‘ the results just so long will the frand now complained of continue. & With machine voting there’ would be no ballots to count; there would be no boxes that could be stuffed; there would be no way by which returns could be manipulat- ed or changed, for the face of the machine would show the nnmber of votes cass for each candidate and that would end frauds in the count or the returns. : - And this, above all things else is, what is needed in the cities. ; Ee, appointed when MARK HANNA entered the Republican convention at St. Louis in 1896 and bought the nomination, just as he buys iron ore for his blast furnaces. But that disappointment didn’¢ drive him out of public life. If there had been nothing else to influence him he would have remained in public life and the most conspicuous fig- ure in public life until the day of his death. Referring to the death of Mr. REED in our last issue we stated that he withdrew from public life becanse be could not sup- port the policies of his party when under the inflnence of the hucksters who controll- ed the administration then in power it be- gan drifting into the channels of imperial- ism. In this statement we are corroborat- ed by Hon. JosgPH G. CANNON, of Illinois, who will be the Speaker of the next House and was Mr. REED’S most intimate friend. In an interview, published in the Philadel- phia Press of Monday last, Mr. CANNON says: ‘REED did not quit public life be- cause of disappointment of his ambition to be President. ‘He quit because he desired better to provide for his family and because he bad no heart in the work of zarrying out a policy in which he did not believe.’ + The reference to his family is also a sub- terfoge. Mr. REED was nota rich man, but his family was abundantly provided for out of his congressioral salary, his law practice and his literary labors. That he didn’t care for great wealth is shown by the fact, developed since his death, that he had al- ready prepared to quit the practice of law and spend the remainder of his life in leis- ure. But he had an uncontrolled antipathy against the perversion of the principles and the sacrifice of the traditions of the country and be withdrew from public life because he abhorred that great crime but hadn’t the courage to take the monster Imperial- ism by the throat and stifle it. a great man, but not big enough for that supreme service which would have made him President. REED was Mr. CANNON says that REED regarded the Philippine policy of the McKINLEY ad- ministration ‘‘as a dangerous departure from old policies. Ee had opposed the an- nexation of Hawaii,”” continued his old friend, ‘‘and the interference in the Cuban troubles because he believed we should an- nex no outside territory.’”’ . But he hadn’t the sublime courage which would have en- abled him to throttle the treasonabie heresy when it first revealed itself if he bad set himself in opposition. He was a splendid specimen of American manhood, hut fell short of the heroie mould which made the revolution of 1776 not only a ‘possibility but a grand trinmph of principle and courage. Child Labor in Coal Mines. The strike commission, according to the published reports of the hearings in prog- ress in Scranton, has been greatly moved by the testimony of the children employed in the mines. That boys and girls so ten- der in years should be compelled to work, some of them all night, was a matter of surprise and some indignation to Justice GRAY, especially. But we regret to see that his indignation took the wrong direct- ion. “We will send for the parents of these children,”’ he said on one particular occasion, ‘‘and inquire why they permit ‘their cobildren to work in that way.” To our mind he ought to have sent for she presidents of the coal companies and made them tell why they violated the law. There is a law in this State which forbids the employment of children of tender age in factories and no doubt it likewise ap- plies to coal mines. The meagre wages paid to older employes, fathers of families, makes it necessary tosupplement his wages in some way to secure enough to provide food and clothing for the families. Be- cause of this fact miners will not give 1n- formation ‘of the violation of the law. Bat if the einployers would themselves obey the law there would be no such incidents as those which outraged the mind of Justice GRAY. Larger children or adults would have to be secured in that event and corres- poudingly increased pay would be the re- salt. No doubt there are careless, not to say brutal, parents among the foreigners in the coal regions who work their children too young and too hard. But the tendency ‘among working people is the other way and if the employers in the coal regions were compelled to obey the law with respect to the employment of child labor there would be no cause for complaint on that ground. For that reason Judge GRAY would better have addressed his indignation against the operators in whose mine the children are employed than against the parents of the children who are probably forced to the action by the necessities of their families. ——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAK. ~ NO. 50. From the Walla-Walla- (Wash. ) Statesman. Apostle Reed Smoot will be the next “ing the Mormons in that state and Idaho to vote the Republican ticket at the recent election. en the Democrats of Utah a few years ago elected Roberts to’ the lower ‘house of Congress the Republican papers ‘Republican preachers all over the country Joined in a mighty protest against the alleged polygamist being seated. oberts was refused a séat and the honor of the a humble member of the Mormon chureh. But now one of the chief apostles is to be sent to the United States Senate and the Republican ' papers and the Republican preachers are not uttering a word of pro- test. Smoot is a defender of the sanctity of polygamons marriages and the whole power of the church is behind him, but that makes no diference so long as he votes with the ‘“‘party of God and morality.” There was a time when the Republican party bad a holy horror of the ‘twin relics of barbarism,’ slavery and polygamy, but that was away back in the days of Abra- ham Lincoln and Charles Sumner. Anpy- thing goes with the ‘‘let well enough alone party’’ in these latter day. Why, Yes Why ? From the Commoner. “Ours isnot the creed of the weakling and the coward’’ says Mr. Roosevelt in his message, ‘‘ours is the gospel of hope and of triumphant éndeavor. We do nos shrink from the struggle before us.” We have heard much from Mr. Roosevelt con- cerning this ‘weakling and coward” baci- ness. If Mr. Roosevelt’s creed ‘is not that of the weakling and the coward, then why does he hesitate to require his Attorney General to deal with the rich rascals in the truste even as the humblest law-breaker is dealt with ? If his gospel is. one of hope and of triumphant endeavor, why in his so-called campaign against the trusts has he not provided the people with some gen- uine reason for hope as to the resnlts of that campaign ? If he does not shrink from the struggle before him, why does he not issue instructions to his Attorney General to begin proceedings against the violators of the antitiust law under the criminal clause of that statute ? ! A Place Where the Pickins Will Be Thin. From the Washington Post. It is hardly known outside-of Rhode Island’s bailiwick that the election of a Democratic Governor there isa defeat for one of the moss solidly constructed 4paliti- cal machines to be found on this continent. Many years has the Republican maghine beld hard and fast to all that was worth holding. The fact has been generally lost sight of in the hullabaloo over machine methods in such great Commonwealths as New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Some people predict that more Democratic days are coming for Rhode Island, stronghold that it-has been for the Republican faith. That may or may not be true, but for a while the Rhode Island Republican bosses will have very meager pickings.’’ And it might also be well to remember that this desirable result was accomplished in spite of the fact that the Democratic candidate for Governor ran upon the mnch abused Kansas City platform. How that “Independence” Has Petered & Out, From the Wilkesbarre Leader. Last fall the anti-Quay organs of the Republican party that were urging the election of Quay’s gubernatorial candidate, Judge Pennypacker, because of his alleged independence of machine domination and exalted character,are now convinced that he is all Quay’s. Hence, we read in the Wilkes - Barre anti - Quay Pennypacker organ that ‘‘Senator Quay hopes to be able to announce the selection for all the places in Governor Pennypacker’s cabinet not later than next week, possibly before the end of the present week. Durham for reappointment as insurance ‘commissioner is the only one the Senator has definitely decided upon.’’ It'isn’t in evidence that ‘Mr.Quay has even shown the Governor elect the courtesy of consulting him in regard to the appointments. : Where that Advance Comes From. From the Meadville Democi at. It is estimated that the advance in wages by the railroad companies will mean $50,000,000 for railroad employes, It is also seimated that the advance in freight tes will mean $120,000,000 for the rail- ‘roads. : Bubonic Plague. Three Cases Under Treatment in the Swinburne Island Hospital, Off New York. 1 NEW YORK, December 16.—Three cases of bubonic plague are under treatment in the Swinburne Island hospital at Quaran- tine. The sufferers are the first and second cooks and the second steward of the steam- er Saxon Prince, which arrived from Dar- ban, South Africa Tuésday, when, on in- spection of the crew, three were found to be ill. A thorough examination of the patients convinced Health Officer Doty that they had all the symptons of the plague and they were taken to Swinburne Island, where cultures were made. The examina- tion confirmed the diagnosis. One patient is convalescent, but the oth- er two arestill under treatment. The total number of the crew is thirty-one. There are five passengers on board, a woman and four children. The steamer will be sent to: sea to dis- charge the water and sand ballast taken on hoard at Durban. She will then return to Quarantine, when the passengers and orew will be transferred to Hoffman island, where they will be held for ten days for cbserva- tion. The effects of all will be thoroughly ‘disinfected and the eteamer will be washed and disinfected in every part before being ‘released. Dr. Doty says that there is no danger of a spread from the plague, as the whole matter:is well in band. | : ‘Republican United States Senator from | Utah. This is to be his reward for instruct- | rang with denunciation of the outrage and | nation was vindicated. Roberts was only: . Spawls from the Keystone, —There are seventg-eight applications for liquor license filed in Elk county. - —J.C. Neyhart, a popular citizen of Wil- liamsport, - died of paralysis last Tuesday evening, aged almost 52 years. —Nelson Slagenwhite is an inmate of the the serious charge of tampering with switch locks. —A Lancaster man has been fined $21.77 for uttering thirty-one oaths, or sixty-seven cents for each oath. It is presumed that he swore to himself when he found that he had to pay this fine. —J. E. Gearhart’s brick block in Clearfield was destroyed by fire Saturday morning. The firm of John Hoffman & Son and four families were burned out. Loss $20,000; partially insured. : —Eight carcasses of vension have been found in the woods in Sullivan county by ‘men employed by C. W.. Chapin since the close of the hunting season. In every case the deer were wounded by buckshot. —As the Rev. Eli Spoasler, pastor of the Waterville M. E. church, was driving along Pine Creek narrows his sleigh slid on the icy road and toppled over a fifty foot embank- ment, taking driver and horse into Pine Creek. Mr. Spounsler was rescued, but is seriously, if not fatally injured. —William Y. Lyon, 73 years old, for 50 years constable, police officer, special detec- tive, etc., and a leading Republican politician of Reading city, was Monday sentenced to six months imprisonment and a fine of $100, he having been convicted of extortion in ac- cepting $90 in settlement of two gambling cases in which he was the prosecutor. —John C. Winter, a well known builder and contractor of Lycoming county, while at Newberry, a suburb of Williamsport, su- perintending the construction of a building, jumped up on the porch, when a sharp butch- er knife which he carried in his pocket, se- verely wounded him on the wrist, almost severing an artery. —The Clearfield Republican says: The story is current in and about Clearfield that the Harbison-Walker Refactories company which today embraces all the fire brick plants in this and adjoining counties, with a few exceptions, will shortly ‘establish a chain of stores, locating one at or near ~ach plant. —But for the crying of their little grand- daughter early Friday .morning, Michael Riedy and wife and the little girl would have been smothered by coal gas from a stove in’ Williamsport. Riedy had just strength enough to raise a window. A long time was required to restore Mrs. Riedy to ‘conscious- ness. The child suffered least. —John ‘M. Pursell, who died in Williams- port Friday, will be entombed in a vault of his own invention. Fearful of being buried alive, he caused to be constructed, several years ago, a sepulchre of cast iron, with chambers to admit air enough to sustain life. The doors of the compartments can- not be opened from the outside, but they may be readily unfastened from within. The vault has been thoroughly tested. —G. W. Owen, who resides three miles south of New Bloomfield, met with a pe- culiar accident on Monday. He was putting new steel soles on his sled, which he had turned upside down, and had drawn ‘the steel bar down over the runner, when the chain slipped and the steel bar straightened out. It'struck Mr. Owen on the side of the face and knocked him about ten feet,render- ing him unconscious for a moment. —Wrapping himself in bedclothes at his boarding house at Rossiter, near Clearfield Thursday night, John H. Davis shot himself in the head. The flash set the bedclothes afire, and the other boarders, awakened by smoke, saved the suicide from cremation. Grief over the death of his wife was the cause. Davis recently transferred his bank account to his 9 year-old boy, and it is thought the deed was contemplated. —An unhappy Yuletide stares in the faces of the forty residents of Harleigh, near Hazelton, who on Friday were served with notices ot eviction by the firm of G. B. Markle & Co. These notices were served by an officer of the company, and it is stipulated that if the back rent due the company by these people is not paid before January 1st, 1903, that the tenants of the company so notified will be evicted at the expiration of that time. ~The pext Legislature will be asked to pass a law compelling all barbers: within the State to be licensed, passing a fee before Te- ceiving the diploma to practice. According to the proposed act every person now en- gaged as a barber must, within thirty days after the bill’s passage, make affidavit to his qualifications, and, if these are satisfactory, a certificate will be issued to him. Beginners must pass an examination and pay a fee cf $5. —John E. DuBois, who owns 200,000,000 feet of timber on Hicks Run, thirty-six miles from DuBois, will bring all that timber to his large mill at DuBois. To do this he must build fifteen miles of railroad track to reach the Low Grade road mear Dent's Ran station, from which point he will run his log trains over the Pennsylvania line to DuBois. This will be the longest haul of saw logs yet made in this section of Pennsylvania. The logs and bark will be loaded in the woods and be run to DuBois without any charge. It is estimated that ten years will be con- sumed in cutting and manufacturing. —Harry W. Mansfield, of Altoona, a through freight brakeman on the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania railroad was making a trip east Sunday and in the vicinity of Greensburg he attempted to step from one box car to another. Ashe did so he slipped and fell between the cars. ' In the descent his gum overcoat caught on the brake and he bung suspended between the cars unable to extricate himself and momentarily ex- pecting to fall beneath the wheels, Finally the coat gave way and down he went, feet foremost. When he got between the bumpers he was struck by the rear car, and as the train was going about twenty-five miles an hour, the force was sufficient to knock him over onto the adjoining track, where he lay unconscious and was found shortly after- wards by a track walker, who picked him up and bad him placed on Philadelphia express and sent to his home at Altoona. He was severely cut and bruised but will recover in due time. ; ' Lycoming, county jail, at Williamsport, on
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