Er a BY P. GRAY MEEK. ae er —————————— Ink Slings. —Russian diplomacy seems to be very much on the ‘Shifty Sadie’’ order. —Well, the Governor has done what ev- erybody expected he would do and what nobody thought he could do. —Governor PENNYPACKER seems to be anable to lift himself out of the personali- ty of SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER. — Possibly Governor SAM wouldn't have felt so bad had the North American pictured him as a jay rather than a parrot. —PENNYPACKER’S apology for signing the muzzler was certainly long enough to convince the public that he knew he was doing wrong. We rise to remark that there seems to be a scarcity of spring poets. Isit possible that the winters are getting too bard for them or the tastes of the people too strenu- ous. — When it comes to making a Republican national platform the ‘‘Iowa Idea” will probably be as much a thing of the past as the ex-speaker of Congress who bailed from the State. --Tt is significant that HANNA will de- cline to permit the Ohio state convention to say. a word of endorsement of ROOSE- VELT's candidacy for nomination for the Presidency. —It is stated that now that Governor STONE is a private citizen he intends to sue any newspaper that abuses him. In other words, since he is out of the postsoript busi- ness, he must intend assuming the role of bogy man. —We would like to know, in this latest LovE-REEDER harmony deal, whether the mountain came to Mohammed or whether Mohammed came to the mountain and which one was the mountain and which one Mohammed. —Up in Scranton the county grand jury has indicted all of the fitty-nine councilmen of the oity for not improving a certain neglected street. We merely refer to this incident for the sake of nine gentlemen and Water street in Bellefonte. » —The Department of Agriculture having announced that prospects for winter wheat exceed anything in the history of the na- tion it only remains for TEDDY to pop up somewhere along his California route and shout ; Here It is, the only real Ceres what is. —The President found his ‘ideal wo- man?’ in San Jose, Cal., a few days ago. She is the mother of thirty-four children and he thinks¢'she ought to be president of some- thing.’ That is true, presidential qualifica- tions run in very peculiar directions these days. t —There is an Italian living near Philips-. burg who named three daughters Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic. He had a fourth, but didn’t give her the name of the southern ocean, probably hecause he realized that Arctic would become Aunt Arctic when At- lantic or Pacific had children. —The political skies are certainly clear- ing up in fine style for Judge LOVE. He has scared off all opposition to his can- didacy for renomination and it remains for only one more year to develop him as the absolute boss of the Republican organiza- tion in Centre county. —Baron VoX Surow, who has just been sentenced to eighteen month’s imprison- ment in Germany, for having ‘‘lied like a gentleman,’’ can occupy his solitary home in prison trying to figure out why German law can’t discriminate between a gentle- man liar and one of the ordinary type. * —1f ROOSEVELT doesn’t keep on the look- out the Republican newspapers of the coun- try will have CLEVELAND heading the G. 0. P. presidential ticket. They are gush- ing over him so much that if they can’t gull the Democrats into taking him up again they all might bave to do it them- selves, just to make good. —Some college boys stepped on GROVER CLEVELAND'S foot, while at a base-ball game at Princeton on Saturday. While the injury is not regarded as necessarily fatal, the same papers announcing the terrible ca- lamity state that CLEVELAND is out of the presidential race now. It wasn’t the bad foot, however, that put him ous of the run- ning. l : —Our esteemed contemporary; the Phil- _ adelphia Press, speaks in no measured terms its opinion of Governor PENNYPACK- ER’S action in having signed the GRADY- SALUS libel bill. It is to be presumed that the Press sentiments are really those of she Hon. CHARLES EMORY - SMITH and when, we read such passages as this ‘‘We are pro- foundly grieved, for Governor PENNYPACK ER’S own sake, that be has made the irre- trievable mistake of signing the bill and of adding to that wrong the still greater folly of an unspeakably shallow, silly and wrong-headed message of attempted justi- fication * * * jt compels a recognition of the lamentable truth that an honest man has proved himself so narrow, so jaundiced so pitifully small as to share in a great public wrong,” we understand why Mr. SMITH was go loath to go on the stamp for PENNYPACKER last fall and why he desert- ed it so early in the campaign. The ex- Postmaster General is as broad and bril- liant as the present Governor is narrow and dull. And it is quite probable that he discovered the puny character of the booted antiquarian that sits in the gubernatorial chair while listening to some of his vapor- ings last fall. VOL. 48 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Justice Brewer’s Views. Among the notable contributions to the twentieth anniversary number of the “New York World,” issued last Sunday, was a letter of Justice BREWER of the United States Supreme court. The num- ber celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the acquisition of that great newspaper by its present owner and editor, Mr. Jos- EPH PunLIiTzER. With characteristic cour- age and enterprise Mr. PULITZER solicited opinion of public men of all shades of polit- ical views on the work of ‘‘The World" during the period. Friends and enemies were alike invited to speak on the subject, having something to say worth saying be- ing the only consideration. Many public men responded to the invitation and Jus- tice BREWER’S contribution was among the most interesting. : Justice BREWER is a great lawyer, a dis- tinguished jurist, an illustrious citizen and a creditable public official. A ripe scholar and profound thinker, whatever he says or writes is of public value. A$ this time, { therefore, his contribution. to the anniver- sary ‘‘ World” is of especial significance to Pennsylvania for the reason that hisjtheme was ‘‘The Effect of a free Press on Ameri- can Life.”” Would that Governor PENNY- PACKER, with the GRADY-SALUS press muzzler before him, bad taken that sub- ject under consideration and given it the same intelligent consideration which Jus- tice BREWER devotes to it in the letter in question. Like BREWER, PENNYPACKER has had a judicial training. But unlike PENNYPACKER, BREWER is never in- fluenced by spite or malice. ‘‘In the evolution of the court of public opinion, that court mightier than any organized tribunal, at whose bar are judged all men, events and purposes,’’ writes Jus- tice BREWER, ‘‘the press does mighty work. It collects the universal opinion, announces its conclusions and whirls them against all for gloom or glory. These facts speak most for the up-lift of the nation,” he adds, ‘‘and in each the press has been one, if not the great factor.’”” In conclu- sion he says : ‘May it continue its work, promoting national unity, hastening the solution of the great social problems and bringing all matters before the court. of the public opinion—a court of increasing wisdom and power.”” There is no petu- Iané complaint of the licentiousness of the press in that expression. It is the broad view of a great mind upon the most impor- tant question of present public considera- tion. President Roosevelt’s Sunday. The newspapers of Monday published with unconcealed delight the statement that on the Sunday before the President de” clined to review the troops stationed at Fort Monterey, California, out of respect for the Sabbath. This must be a new tan- gent of his strenuous excellency. He took a horseback ride in the morning, the histo- rians of his junket inform the public, and in the afternoon attended religious services. The evening was spent in strolling through the hotel grounds, it is gravely added. The public is, moreover, expected to give its in- stant and unequivocal endorsement to his performances. Some of the organs treat it as if we ought to be grateful that be didn’s bave a bull fight especially arranged for his entertainment on that Sunday even- ing. : : . We would like very much to go into ecstasies over these evidences of contrition on the part of the President, but must de- cline until farther information as to the reasons which influenced him in his actions is received. We recall that during a visit in Virginia last winter he went riding through the country like a wild man on a rainy Sunday and while bunting in Mississ- ippi lass fall, though be didn’t follow the chase on Sunday hedid take a ride through the hunting grounds and took his guns with him. But there may bave been neo harm in that. In fact it wonld be infi- nitely better than a hypocritical pretense of obedience to the commandment which enjoins the. remembrance and. respect of the Sabbath day. That is the gravest of all offenses. wr To our mind the President was inflaen- ced to his guiet Sunday bya desire for com- plete rest and if that conjecture is correct we have no complaint to make. He has been leading a strenuous life since the pres- ent junket began and it would neither be surprising nor discreditable if he were lit- erally exhausted. He doesn’t like to admit the fact, however, besause like many an- other, he takes pride in his ability to fight the weaknesses of nature and conguér the frailities which subdue other men. Bat yielding finally to’ what could be no long- er resisted, his friends have no right to claim a virtue that he doesn’t possess. In other words, he probably paid no more attention to the sacredness of the Sabbath day than did the boys in the remote valleys of this section who spent it clandestinely fishing for trout. ——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN. Roosevelt and the Tariff. President ROOSEVELT is coming back from the West, we are informed, filled up with the ‘‘Towa Idea.”’ That is to say he has become convinced that the tariff sched- ules should be changed whenever such a thing is necessary ‘‘to prevent their afford- ing shelter to monopoly.’’ Heretofore he has refused to admit any such thing. In one of his western speeches last fall he de- clared that ‘‘the real evils connected with the trusts cannot be remedied by any change of the tariff laws.”” In his message to Congress last December he expressed the same thought exactly. Now he is said to have changed around and taken up the “Iowa Idea,”’ This may be said of ROOSEVELT. Either he doesn’t understand principles or else he doesn’t care anything about them. He changes his views with every passing breeze. Tt will be remembered that in his Fourth of July speech in Pittsburg last year hede- clared that the existing legislation wasam- ple to restrain the trusts and as soon as he got back to Washington he would take them by the throat and strangle them. Within the next few weeks, or during his New England stumping tour, he expressed five different views of trust remedies and declared that each was the only specific. It turned out that in each case he was express- ing the opinions which prevailed in the community in which he spoke. Wish that record as a guide it is safe to conjecture that the President hasn’t under- gone any change of opinion with respect to tariff taxation or tariff schedules. What he bas done is trim his sails to suit the western breeze. He forgets that the news- papers prin all his startling speeches and that every time a new notion is promulgat- ed the people know of it and laugh at him. But that is precisely what happens every day. The people realize now that he is without sincerity and that so long as the trusts supply the corruption funds for the Republican committees ROOSEVELT will be against any alteration of the tariff sched- ules. More Awvout Miles’ Report. It has been discovered that essential features of General MILES’ report on con- ditions in the Philippines have been ‘‘cnt out.” That given to the public, there- fore, is an ‘‘expurgated’”’ edition. The most severe charges have been eliminated and will never reach the public eye or ear. It may be said, therefore, that in abstract- ing from the safe in the office which he once occupied as Assistant Attorney General for the Postoffice Department, General TYER simply followed the customs of the admin- istration. Whenever evidence of an in- criminating character is discovered, ‘‘cut it out.” But the manner in which General MILES’ report was expurgated is more reprehensi- ble than the cutting out itself. For ex- ample, according to the Washington gossip, the report was cus up into sections by the Secretary of War and sent back to different officials, military or civil, in the Philippines with instruction to refute them if possible and if that were impossible to answer them: In a good many cases neither one nor the other was possible and so such sec- tions as gave that kind of trouble were lost. It was calculated that MILES would not carry the facts in his mind and therefore it would be impossible for him to reproduce the charges. The performance was not far removed from what in plain language would be called criminal. But it served the pur- pose for which it was intended. That is to say it kept from the public the particulars of atrocities which would have outraged the public mind, not only for the time be- ing but forever. MILES was so roundly denounced for what was made public that as a military officer he would be restrained from producing the worser features reveal- ed by his investigation even if he were able to do go. The facts put Secretary of War Roor in a bad light before the public and it is not unlikely that an investigation will be made as soon as he leaves the office. Too Tender With Crooks. Postmaster General PAYNE'S treatment of the postal scandals is laughable, If he imagines that the public will be deceived by such an investigation as he is conduot- ing he is likely to find himself gravely mistaken. There is a good deal of credulity among the American people and the poli- ticians have worked it to the limit success: fully. But the Postmaster General has overtaxed it unless he alters his plan of operations in the near future. In other words unless more drastic remedies are ap- plied to the evils which are now known by everybody to exist the people will come to the conclusion that there is no desire to have them brought to an end. It will he remembered that some time ago evidences of frand in the office of General TYNER, assistant solicitor of the department were uncovered. Instead of dismissing the accused official and making a complete exposure, however, the Post- master General asked him to resign at his BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 15, 1908. convenience and take a vacation until if would suit him to get out. The General determined that it would be agreeable for him to quit the office about the first of May and 4 few days before that sent his wife to the safe to remove all the evidences of venality. After this had been accomplish- ed the Postmaster General indignantly dis- wissed the delinquent officer. : . Recently the trail of corruption was fol- Towed to the. office of the superintendent of the free delivery department. evidences of venality in that department were so obvious that cbservers fell over is. All sorts of extravagances had been in- dulged in to the end that there might be a rake-off for the superintendent, a man of the name MECHAN. But though bis guilt is clear and his venality unmistakable, he hasn’t been summarily dismissed and pos- session taken of his office. On the con- trary, he was suspended in a polite note a the Postmaster General which em- bodies a practical apology for the incon- venience it may entail. : Penrose tor Chairman. ‘Senator QUAY has determined on his colleague, Senator PENROSE, for state obairman. PENROSE didn’t want the of- fice and won’t pay any attention to the labor which it entails. But his private segretary, Mr. WESLEY R. ANDREWS, has aspirations to see how it would feel to con- duot a campaign according to his own no- tions and the only way he can manage it is to have PENROSE elected chairman. He would have preferred to have himself elect- ed to the office, for in that event he would have had the glory as wellas the game. But the ELKIN contingent wounldn’t allow ANDREWS to have the office. They are trying to make themselves believe that PENROSE is “‘it.” ; This idea expresses one of the strangest features of Republican politics. Party leaders and party followers equally like to be fooled. It probably lends an atmosphere of mystery to the matter which is enticing to men schooled as the QUAY followers are. For example, every man of the ELKIN crowd knows that PENROSE won’ be chair- man except in name and that ANDREWS will be chairman in everything else. Yet when QUAY proposed ANDREWS for chair-. man they protested with a vehemence that: ed the question instantly. When he proposed PENROSE, however, though they knew he would simply be a mask for AN- DREWS they all consented and looked as pleasant as possible over the affair. It may safely be predicted that as be- tween PENROSE and ANDREWS the friends of ELKIN would have bad an infinitely bet- ter chance with ANDREWS at the head of the organization. ANDREWS is ambitions and intelligent enough to understand that in the nature of things QUAY can’t last much longer. With the disappearance of QUAY it is absolutely certain that PEN- ROSE will be lost. Therefore ANDREWS is certain to be looking about for a safe harbor to anchor in when QUAY goes out and PENROSE falls ont. What is more natu- ral, therefore, than that he should attach himself to the young and ambitious ELKIN. But the wonderful desire to be fooled in- fluenced them to be for PENROSE against ANDREWS. It is All Patched Up. Judge LOVE is to have no opposition for renomination, Col. WILBUR F. REEDER is ‘to have no opposition for county chairman and is to succeed SOLOMON R. DRESSER in Congress next year, and Col. A. E. PATTON is to be choked off with one term to make a seat in the Senate for THOMAS HARTER, who declares, since he cant get to be a pure food inspector, that he is ‘‘going to go to the Senate just to show them fellows that he can get whatever he does want up here.” : These are the details of the latest Re- publican deal in Centre county. Theseare the reasons why the Republican primaries tomorrow to elect delegates to chose dele- gates to the state convention will be of no consequence. j 6 There was talk of a fight between WiL- SON I. FLEMING, heading the LoVE faction, and Col. REEDER for county chairman, but that is all off now because LOVE was afraid’ to fight and REEDER didn’t dare do it. What has become of that wonderfully promising organization which the young Republicans were going to build up last fall when they were snubbed and made to feel as if they amounted to absolutely nothing we don’t know, but it looks as if their bubble had been properly pricked and the old feHows will continue running. things as usual. : Of course Republican politics is not the WATCHMAN’S specialty but the above facts are substantially correct. If is all very nice, this Centre county. plan, but from the position of a man up a tree it looks pretty tough to see the Honorable DRESSER and Colonel PATTON being relegated to the back seats before they have had half a run for their money. : ——Suberibe for the WATCHMAN. SHO In fact the: NO. 20. The Reward of Virtue and Democracy. From the Lewiston (Me) Journal. Gladstone lamented because the youth that he saw ahout him was so old. Him: self over 80,he was legislating constiuctive- ly, editing Greek letter manuscripts and leading a Liberal Parliament—Premier in- tellectually and politically, while other men of 40 were jaded and worn out. A distinguished citizen of Lewiston would have ‘delighted Mr. Gladstone, for he is of his fibre. Ninety years of this day May 6th), be is attending a session of the merican Society of Medicine at New Orleans and speaking before that body. A 3000-mile journey, more or less, is nothing tohim. A year or so ago he packed his band grip and trotted down to South America. Twice and thrice a year he seeks the Pacific coast ; runs out to Denver or hies him down to the Gulf State cities. At home he practices medicine over # radius of 30 miles ; defies trolley and automobile in “‘a one-horse shay’ behind young Mor- gan blood, stepping coltishly, and occasion- ally bolting into gutters ; attends all pub- lic meetings and still votes the Democratic ticket, joyously and hopefully. =~ = *“The old doctor,’’ we call him eo. ernor Alonzo Garcelon, the more formal title—a gentleman, a scholar, one ‘of the oldest living alumni of Bowdoin College, | the pioneer native-born resident of Lewis- ton, an ex-Governor of Maine, an ex- Mayor of Lewiston, a man of heart and sentiment, blood and fibre; friend of the soldier, a soldier-surgeon in’ the Rebellion himself. In him Gladstone would have been most glad, for his old age is still young. Into it he has carried his énthu- siasms—even his ambitions. Tireless, fear- less, consistent, unselfish, he embodies the wisdom of years with the courage and hope of a boy. % What Mr. Proctor Needs is More Brains. ? 1 From the Pittsburg Dispatch, Mr. Proctor of the United States Civil. Service Commission is reported as desiring. the United States to ‘‘assume’ its responsi- bility as a world power and preserve its markets for surplus products by deelaring in the strongest diplomatic language that any attempt by European nations to dis- member the Chinese empire is dangerous to oar peace and safety and as such is an, unfriendly act.’’ ; ¥ In other words, Mr. Proctor desires the United States to make an extension of the Monroe doctrine which will flatly repudi- ate its essential principle, that the United States does not undertake to dictate or control the destinies of non-American na- tions, and therefore will repel any at- tempt from outside to dictate or control: the destinies of American nations. As the Bole reason for this new example of “world-power”’ talk is to preserve mar- kets for surplus products why should not the United States interfere with politics in Europe, which buys more American pro- ducts in one year than China does in 20? Mr. Proctor: should; devote his exclu- sive attention to enforcing the civil service laws. That is what he is paid for, and he may be of some use in that capacity. But asa ‘‘world-power’’ adviser of the United States his ideas are altogether too large for his judgment. Circamstances Alter Cases. From the Pittsburg Post. “Al” Adams, the policy king who rob- bed for many years the unsuspecting youth and the equally suspecting professional gam- blers of New York, has developed diabetes, tuberculosis and a threatened attack of pa- ralysis since his imprisonment. But he will not be removed, for the doctor thinks daily exercise will supply the nervous en- ergy thus abruptly denied him, and which he once found in plying his nefarious game. Almost a score of years ago the attempt was made to apply the law to this fleecer of men whose families were deprived of the necessaries of life by his unblushing occupa- tion. He walked down Broadway like the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, and defied all efforts to suppress him. = His string of maladies was never divulged un- til he reaches the mat room of the prison, and then within four days he discovered himself as a sympathetic victim of the whole list. : Not an Exigency of War, From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Ste. Genevieve, Mo., is a town dis- tinguished by no characteristics which mark it for signal honor at the hands of the United States government. ' So’ far as known, it is commemorating no historic event requiring the presence of a vessel of war. Certainly no terrors threaten its de- voted citizenship to avert which a formid- able monitor must lie throughout the win- ter with guns trained upon the approaches to the place. But the purposes of Nature are | sometimes unrelated to those of the Feder- al government, and if the receded waters of the Mississippi bave stranded the Arkan- sas on a mudbank in the heart of the con- tinent, the Navy Department must recon- cile itself to the fact. Probably the girls of Ste. Genevieve have already done so. One Trip for Everybody. From the Westmoreland Democrat. At the request of one of his constituents, delegate Flynn, of Oklahoma, will present a rather novel bill at the next session of congress, It provides free transportation to every citizen of the United States to vis-- it the national capital once during his life- time. Should he go as a representative or as a lobbyist for the trusts he will find that free sransportation is already provided for. Let ‘er Go On. From the Atlanta Constitution. The war is not over. The war of opinion must and will go on until everywhere in the land the humblest come-tumble may re- cord his biffle-baffle, and until the wiil of bunkles—the real binkles in nation and State—shall, under the hipple-hopple, be sinktum in the thingsof which it should of right have sanktam. Temi Spawls from the Keystone. —James Mahaffey has sold the Hotel Wind. sor at Clearfield to Draucker & Smiley for $55,000. —Clearfield is having the automobile fev~ er. Three or four citizens of that town now own these horseless carriages, and several others are going to invest. : ~—Three young men’ from Osceola were caught fishing on the Sabbath and were ar- rested by the fish warden. The hearing took place on Monday and it cost them $30 each. —George, the 6-year old son of John Eden- bo, residing near Greensburg, was given some liquid to drink last Friday and, later, obtain- ed more in some mysterious manner. He was seized with convulsions and died in great agony. —A big black bear made a raid on the sheep pen of Farmer Kleckner in Sugar Val- ley Thursday night. Mr. Kleckner, hearing the racket, rushed out with his gun and fired at bruin, but in the darkness his aim was bad and the bear escaped unharmed. .—The Young Men’s Christain Association of Clearfield has secured an option on an ‘eligible lot and will now ask the people of that town to subscribe $18,000 for the pur- chase of the ground and the erection of a modern building, fully equipped for religious and social work. —The famous ride of Jobn Gilpin was sur- passed over in Gallitzin township the other day when ’Squire Geo. J. Myers at the age of 86 rode home a bull which had strayed away from the place. One fall is credited to Tau- rus and one to our venerable friend but as no injury resulted the belt belongs to the Squire. ~—John Mills, of Houtzdale, accompanied by his brother, S. H. Mills, of Windber, sail- ed on Thursday for England to complete the evidence of their claim to a portion of an és- tate valned at over $150,000,000 left by a childless old banker, of whose sister the mother of the Mills brothers is a descendant. ‘The brothers expect to be able to prove their ‘claim to the estate now held in chancery. —William Henry Meyers, a New York Central brakeman employed in the Jersey Shore Junction yards, had his right foot caught between the knuckles of the automat- ic air brakes of two freight cars Satupday af- ternoon. His foot was crushed and the ankle joint was laid open. The injured man suf- fered a profuse hemorrhage. He was taken to the Williamsport hospital, where the foot was amputated. —Mabel Phillips, a nine year old Williams- port girl, was struck by a trolley car Satur- day night and received injuries which re-' sulted in her death shortly after. She was dragged about a hundred feet and when the car was stopped, she was found wedged un- der the motor with her clothing tangled in machinery. To get her out from under the car it was necessary to back it up and work about fifteen minutes to release her. —On Saturday Sheriff McCullough and three deputies left Clearfield with eight pris- oners, who had been sentenced by Judge Gordon for various crimes, to serve terms in the Western pemitentiary. Among the pris- oners was the man ‘‘Turner,”” who was sent over from DuBois for a series of robberies. The sheriff and deputies got along smoothly with their charges until they were virtually at the doors of the penitentiary, when Turn- er slipped his shackles and escaped, and no tidings of him have since been heard. —One thousand sports from Wilkesharre, Scranton and Pittston went on a Lehigh Val- ley special to the isolated Seibel’s grove, Ranson township, Sunday afternoon to at- tend an ostensible clam bake, but in reality to witness a 20-round fight between Danny Dougherty, of Philadelphia, and Joe Quigley, of Pittston. The Christian Endeavor society, of Scranton, however, got word of the affair, and served notice on Sheriff Schadt to pre- vent it. He arrived on the scene as the princi- pals were getting ready to enter the ring. The fight was called off, and the sports went away disgusted. —Charles M. Schwab and wife, and the parents of Mr. Schwab, J.-A. Schwab and wife, with a number of other people will ar- rive at Williamsburg in Blair county on May 19th, where the corner stone of the new pa- per mill will be laid on that day by C. M. Schwab. It will be a spread eagle day for the old Blair county town in commemoration of Mr. Schwab’s goodness to his old home. There will be a speech from him on the occa- sion, as well as from other eminent men who have been invited and signified their willing- ness to be present on the occasion. All the orders, as well as school children, will join in a big parade. Two bands will enliven the occasion. —Harry M. Golder, organist at the First Presbyterian church of DuBois, committed suicide Sunday at noon by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. C. H. Keefer, at Olive avenue. Golder has been ill for some time. During the past week he imagined enemies were undermining his characier by circulating scandalous stories about him. He. left a long note to his sister. It wasextreme- ly morbid and was left unfinished and un- signed. In one place he wrote: ‘‘What the world wants is vengeance. I hope the world will be satisfied.” He was a gifted musician and conducted a large class in music. He came from New York city three years ago, previous to that time making his home at Williamsport. ~~A newspaper corresondent, writing from Beech Creek, Clinton county, says: ‘“‘Farm- ers here have begun to drive their cattle to the mountains for pasture during the sum- mer. Several herds have already been taken | out to the ’Scootac regions and mere will fol- low. The vast unoccupied territory, which comprises thousands of acres and extends for miles between the Susquehanna river and Beech Creek, makes a fine grazing ground for hundreds of cattle. Itis not without its dangers to these animals, however, and each year some are lost, dying either asthe re- sults of accidents or disease. . Last year near- ly fifty head were lost, the dead bodies of | some being found, but the greater part never ‘| seen or heard of. The prospects for this year’s pasturage are bright, the warm weath- er and spring rains have brought the grass out finely. The pasturing of these cattle on the mountains is a matter of considerable economy to the owners allowing them the use of their ground for other purposes. The custom has been kept up for years and has benefitted the farmers to the extent of thou- gands of dollars.”
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