ed fae , Ink Slings.
© =The two minute trotter has come at
last. Everything is getting faster except
the Shamrocks.
—About the only way Sir THOMAS can
ever win is to have a Shamrock IV built in
this country.
‘—Remember that September 2nd will be
the last day for registering voters and no
‘September 4th. .
- ~Poor little Hiawattia ! She promises
‘to besdme as much of a nuisance as that
Georgia Camp Meeting once was.
—The average walking delegate seems
40 be abont as crooked as some of the em-
‘ployees of the Post-office Department.
—The trouble with Mr. ZIMMERMAN,
st Ohio, is that there was too much JOHN-
soN for him at Columbus on Wednesday.
—The ‘“‘special session of Congress that
was to have been called has evidently gone
to hunt that post-office investigation that
was promised.
—Summer arrived on Sunday, but the
weather man wakened up Wednesday
night to discover it was too late, and
straightway turned off the heat.
—Since QUAY has said Pennsylvania
will be for ROOSEVELT that little matter is
settled without mueh worriment to the
subservient Republicans of the State.
—The question now arises. Will PULIT-
ZER’'S two million dollar school of jour-
nalism propound the World style of jour-
nalism or aim at something higher?
—Down in Arkansas one candidate for
Governor knocked the other off a four foot
stand on which they were jointly speaking
up to the time when actions spoke louder
than words.
—Now is the time to get everything in
shape for next year. Make the organiza-
tion as complete and efficient as possible,
for there is work to be done, work that
everyone should be interested in.
—Senator QUAY’S announcement that
he will not be a candidate for re-election
$0 the Senate would be much more satis-
factory if he would only say how much his
successor will be expected to pay for his
seat.
© With the Turks killing scores of
christians all though Macedonia and the
Turkish cigarettes killing scores who ought
to be christians right here in our own coun-
try, isn’t it about time the Turks be put
out of the killing business.
- —Mrs. MARY HENDERSON, who died at
Franklin on Monday, was ninéty-one years | = °"
old and had smoked all her, life. Here is
the pipe isn’t as bad as it is said to be.
—~Socialism as a dream of a government
that supplies every need of its subjects is
as harmless as a sunbeam, but socialism as
a cloak for anarchy to hide its destructive
principles under is entirely too dangerous
to be given even a moment’s consideration.
—The mimic war that is being carried
on off the coast of Maine would be far
more like the real thing if the Secretary of
the Navy would jump in and pay a fabu-
lous price for all the old unseaworthy tubs
he can find tied up in the various Atlantic
ports.
—Col. EDWARD PRUNER is pushing his
candidacy for Senator from the Blair dis-
trict right along. At a picnic on Saturday
he made a speech that is reported as
a‘‘rouser,’’but whether it will rouse enough
votes to secure the nomination for the
Colonel remains to be seen.
--President ROOSEVELT has given union
la bor its bumps through the stand he has
taken in the government printing office. It
is said that Wall street advised him to do
it on the ground that they won’t furnish
any campaign funds for him unless he
takes a stand against union labor.
—The Sultan has made some more
promises of reform in Macedonia. The
appearance of some Russian boats in Turk-
ish waters started the Prince of Promisers
to telling what he would do, if they would
only give him one more chance, and now
he will start right out to do the same old
thing again.
—Few bridegrooms have the spectacular
receptions that was accorded R. A. BECK
and his wife last night. With a hand and
two fire companies to escort them to their
home mid the glare of red lights even the
eyes of that notoriety loving chap at Oyster
Bay might have turned a shade of green
had he been standing on Bellefonte streets
to witness it.
—The Johnstown 7Zribune, in discussing
the boodle features of politics, remarks
“For, il there’s nothing in it, what's the
" use of being a Democrat ?’’ Are we to infer
from this daring declaration that the Iri-
bune is Republican for what is in it? It is
hard to arrive at any other conclusion and
harder to believe that any legitimate fews-
paper would have temerity to make such a
confession.
—To set at ease the mind of some @®s-
thetic person who oraves a more refined
past-time than foot ball, base ball, tennis,
eroquet, polo or golf the Harrisburg Patriot
suggests archery. The suggestion is all
right, but it can hardly be regarded as be-
ing needed since archery has been a de-
cidedly important feature in all of the
sports mentioned,ever since they have been
sports. In fact were it not for the oppor-
tunities given for romance by little Dan
Cupid and his how gun there would be
very few past-times of any sort to enjoy.
other stumbling block. for the anti-to-|
VOL. 48
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Spectacularism in Public Life.
Ex-Senator Hin, of New York, has
greatly incensed the ROOSEVELT maniacs
of the country. In a speech before the
pioneers of Western New York the Sena-
tor referred to what he appropriately des-
ignated as the ‘‘spectacnlarism’ of the
present public life of the country. He
didn’ mention ROOSEVELT’S name. He
didn’t allude to the President of the
United States. He simply said that it has
become the fashion of high officials to ex-
ploit themselves in spectacular ways and
through the medium of press agents to tell
the public what they do morning, noon and
night, and on every possible occasion to do
such absurd things as to compel people to
comment on them.
As we have said, no mention was made
of ROOSEVELT and there was no direct al-
lusion to the President. But every reason-
ing man and woman in the broad land
knew to whom allusion was made. Certain
gypsy antics in the southern swamps and
the clownish operations in the Yellowstone
wilds came instantly to the minds of every-
body who reads and thinks and the ROOSE-
VELT-maniacs at once declared that the ex-
Senator of the Empire State had committed
lese Majestic for which he ought to be
punished. Maybe he ought but who will
frame the indictment and before what tri-
bunal will the cause be tried? An inter-
ested public is anxiously awaiting the an-
swer to these questions.
The facts are that what Senator HILL
bas said is scrupulously true. Since the
accidental elevation of that clown to the
Presidency the country has been scandal-
ized by a series of performances which in
an ordinary citizen would be followed by
an application in court for a commission to
inquire into the sanity of the man concern-
ed. That such a thing has not happened
is a matter for popular congratulation. But
there can he no doubt of a mental infirm-
ity. No man unafflicted in that way
would think of doing the things which be
has done and however patient the public
people and to the intense satisfaction of
our War Lord on Sagamore hill. That is
to say twenty or thirty of onr war ships are
pretending to make an attack on the land
defences of the coast at some point and the
amusement is costing the people something
like twenty or thirty thousand dollars a
day. But what’s the odds as long as there
is plenty of money in the treasury. Such
expenditures keep the people poor and
everybody knows that as long as they are
poor they will be unable to resent wrongs
or resist oppressions. Tyranny desires no
surer ally in a fight against liberty than
the poverty of the oppressed.
As long as the people are paying a hun-
dred millions or so more in revenues than
are required for the maintenance of the
government, and a billion or so extra every
year in exorbitant prices for necessaries of
life through the operations of the tariff
taxes, the people of the country will be too
poor to resist any outrage. When one of
the Kings of France was admonished
against the danger of oppressing the people
he replied that there was nothing to fear
for the reason that the people were too
poor to resist. Hungry men have no coor-
age and those who are naked will not fight,
he answered in substance. - But the people
saved out of their poverty and the guillotine
was his ultimate answer.
The policy of the present administration
in Washington is precisely that of the
French King who paid the penalty of his
folly with his head. In other words the
plan of the President is to so impoverish
the people as to make them docile for want
of strength to be otherwise. With that
purpose in view all manner of profligacies
are being practiced in order that an excuse
may be found for continuing needless taxes
and excessive exactions. But the people
may take the notion to save out of their
poverty, as the French did, and smite their
oppressors. There is no excuse for the
waste of treasure in the play at war on the
New England coast. It comes to no good
and is vastly expensive.
————————
A Correction.
Last week the WATCHMAN stated that
September 4th would be the last day on
which voters can be registered. The state-
ment was based on the old interpretation
that made the registering of voters possible
up to within sixty days of the election, but
according to a different ruling of the courts
September. 20d will be the last day. On
the 3rd the assessors must make their re-
tarn to the county commissioners.
Remember this day and don’t put the
matter off. You must be registered if yon
want to vote and while it is presumed that
the assessor has you on his list it is better
for you to look after the matter personally
and see that you are registered.
Rw
The Real Issue of the Campaign.
Any attempt to eliminate the press
muzzler from the pending political
contest is a mevement in the inter-
est of the QUAY machine. The most un-
popular piece of legislation enacted in re-
cent years is that iniquity. - The reason of
its unpopularity is tbat it is subversive of
every principle of personal liberty and in-
dividual right. The freedom of the press
is the corner stone of political indepen-
dence. With a muzzled press there is no
possible ‘means of enforcing integrity in
public life. Venal public officials can
laugh at the complaints of individuals if
the press is restrained in its right to oriti-
cise. There can be no redress of wrongs if
the press is compelled to remain silent.
Those who would ignore the press
muzzler as an issue in the contest in which
a Senator who voted for the measure is a
candidate for the chief office, say that the
measure'is a dead letter and in fact dis-
appointed its authors. That is true but it
is not for the reason that its authors have
changed their opinions or altered their pur-
poses. It is because the measure so out-
raged public sentiment and so revolted
popular conscience that its authors have
been afraid to put it to the test. Uncon-
stitutional, infamous, unjust and iniquitous
its friends wouldn’t trust it to a judicial
examination though it expressed their
views, their expectations and their hopes on
the subject to which it referred.
As it is the press muzzler represents
nothing but the malice of a condemned
political machine. = But it represents that
in every line'and to the full measure. If
it is condoned by silence in the campaign
and endorsed by the election of State Sena-
tor Wi. P. SNYDER it will no longer be a
dead letter. Then it will be enforced and
every criticism of official venality will be
punished by the application of the pro-
visions of that law. For that reason it
ought to be made not only an issue but THE
issue in the campaign and the only man on
the ticket of either party who voted for it
in the Legislature condemned to popular
execration by an overwhelming defeat.
. ——Let others dispute about the date
shat registration ehould legally close as
‘as they p . Goand get ter
ed at once and be sure you are on the safe
side.
Root and Miles.
In accepting the resignation of Secretary
of War Root, the President shows a dif-
ferent temper than that which influenced
him in retiring General MILES from com-
mand of the army. RooT had served
ROOSEVELT with the zeal and fidelity with
which Cardinal WooLSELY had served his
King. MILES had served his country with
an ability and energy which bas rarely
been revealed in the public life of any
country. MILEs was dismissed with a
sneer and without a word of commenda-
tion. His forty years of faithful and
hazardous service were over-looked and
disregarded. But he had served the coun-
try and pos the individual. He was guid-
ed by conscience and patriotism and not by
personal interest.
In dismissing Root it was different. *‘It
is hard, indeed, for me to accept your
resignation,’’ he wrote with a sob in each
sentence. ‘‘I do it,”’ he added, ‘‘nos only
with keen personal regret, but with a live-
ly understanding of the gap which your
withdrawal will create in public life. My
sense of personal loss is very great; and yet
my sense of loss to the Nation as a whole is
even greater.”” What loss has the Nation
sustained by the resignation of Root?
What has he done for the good of his coun-
try ? He has Europeanized the army and
imperialized the country. He has flouted
the constitution and insulted every tradi-
tion of the fathers of the Republic. But
he has flattered the vanity of the clown in
the White House.
The people of this country bave just rea-
son to be grateful because ELIHU Roor is
leaving the publicservice. Every day that
he sat in the office of Seoretary of War he
stood a menace to the liberties of the peo-
ple. He created discontent and built up a
personal machine to take the place of the
army. - He advanced favorites for no other
reason than that they were subservient to
his whims and those of the President and
humiliated faithful soldiers and grizzled
veterans because they failed to show obedi-
ence not to the constitution and the laws
but to Roor and his clownish master.
He has resigned and in his resignation the
country bas escaped a great danger.
——Young men who voted on age last
year must be registered if they want to
vote next fall. Wednesday,September 2nd,
is the last day on which you can register.
——Labor day means that you are to
take a day off and come in to town to see
the Eagles flying round.
——Don’t forget that next Wednesday
will be the last day on which you can be
registered.
ed th'escape
been brought’ to justice. That is what
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 28, 19083.
‘Senator Depew’s ldea.
Senator CHAUNCY M. DEPEW, of New
York, returned from Europe on Monday
and as usual began talking politics the mo-
ment he landed. Every newspaper in the
city had been notified of his coming and of
course each one had a reporter at the pier
to meet him and he chattered to them with
characteristic energy and = enthmsiasm.
“How about politics ?’” ventured one of
them cautiously. ‘‘I am of the same opin-
ion as when I went away,’’ he replied. *‘It
will be ROOSEVELT in 1904 by acclama-
tion.” “You said then,’”’ continued the
reporter, ‘‘that President ROOSEVELT'S
election depended somewhat on the way he
handled the postal scandal,’’ and the Sena-
tor promptly answered, ‘‘yes, I did, and I
am glad to say he is handling it well.”
Let us review the record of the handling
of the postal scandal by President ROOSE-
VELT. On his return from the West he
found the Department in confusion and
demoralization. The wife of the solicitor
general for the Department had invaded the
office from which her husband had been
suspended and abstracted from the same
every scrap of evidence of his complicity in
the looting operations. It had been shown
that PERRY S. HEATH, secretary of the
Republican National Committee and for-
merly first assistant Postmaster General had
pragtically organized the frauds and that
venality was rampant in every division. A
couple of unimportant subordinates had
been suspended and indicted when the Pres-
ident returned from the Yellowstone, and
he dramatically declared that he wouldn’t
leave Washington until a thorough exami-
nation had been made and every rascal
punished.
How did he keep that promise, Imme-
diately afterward he ordered that investi-
gations be made in secret and for a couple
of weeks there was a great pretense of
energy in the search for frauds. But at the
expiration of that time he left Washington
for Oyster Bay without bringing a single
rascal to justice. Then he gave his atten-
tion to other thinge and the time limit for
prosecutions was allowed to pass without
even an attempt being made to indict
PERRY HEATH. Subsequently BEAVERS,
one of the indicted conspirators, was allow-
scape and npot.a single criminal has
Senator DEPEW calls handling the postal
scandals well. It is certainly handling it
weli for the criminals, for it guarantees im-
munity from punishment for every one of
them.
——The young Democrat who voted on
age last fall should bear in mind that he
cannot vote at all, at the coming election,
unless he is registered. This must be done
before 9 o’clock on the evening of Septem-
ber 2nd.
Supersensitive,
In a recent issue of the WATCHMAN the
following paragraph appeared :
Since the post office system has been reor-
ganized it would be very convenient if postmas-
ter Montgomery would correct the collection
cards on the mail boxes.
The next day the Daily News published
what we presume to be an answer to it as
follows :
Postmaster Montgomery wishes us to state
that the time mentioned on the collection cards
on the mail boxes is correct. There was one ex-
ception, that of the box in front of the Warcu-
MAN office. Where it says 1:40 p. m. for the.
after dinner collection it should read 1:30
This is due to the fact that the time of leaving
for the Lewisburg passenger train has been
changed from 2:15 to 2:00 p. m. A small piece of
bared with 1:30 written on it has been pasted over
he 1:40 thus making the correction. The Warca-
MAN was a little hasty in criticising postmaster
Montgomery in this matter iu this weeks issue.
There is no more paingtaking official in the gov-
ernment employ than Mr. Montgomery who does
everything in his power for the improvement of
the service.
After reading the four line paragraph
and then the silly reply the sensible reader
can come to only one of two conclusions:
Either the postmaster Montgomery is su-
persensitive or the News is a fool.
The WATCHMAN had no intention what-
ever of ‘‘slarring”’ the ‘‘painstaking offi-
cial’’ and we fancy that even the News
might have found its magnificent command
of English taxed just a trifle to have more
politely called the attention of the post
master to a matter that needed it.
Since the post-office was moved up town
there has been an evening collection of
mail made from the boxes in the business
district down-fown, just as was the up
town collection when the office was in the
old quarters. This collection is made at
7 o'clock p. m. and as the last hour of col-
lection stated on the card on the box was
4 o'clock it will be readily seen that there
was considerable confusion as to when a
letter could really be dropped in order to
catch the evening mails, out-going.
If calling the attention of such a dis-
crepancy, in the politest language possible,
can be construed into a slur by the post-
master all we can say is that he is Snper-
gensitive and we have no apologies to offer.
If the News flew to his defense without
inspiration, which we wonld prefer to have
been the case, the incident may be regarded
as olosed, as it is only the News.
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
ae HSIEH
‘a good adviser.
NO. 34.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer. :
The samples of the new ballot which
goes into use for the first time at the com-
ing election show it to be still far from per-
fection, yet a vast improvement over the
old form. In the first place it is smaller
and, therefore, more convenient than the
large sheet formerly used, while we: get |
a step nearer to the real Australian ballot
by the abandonment of the party columns
and substituting therefor the names of
candidates in groups under the title of the
offices for which they have nominated. No
candidate’s name is printed more than once
no matter by how many parties he may be
nominated. :
Under the old form a single name could
appear in any number of columns, and
politicians took advantage of this provis-
ion to confuse and mislead enwary voters,
by a multiplication of the columns. This
will no longer be possible, but there is still
likely to be some confusion by having two
ways to mark the ballot. :
. The ballot reformers desired one system
of marking, justly contending that where
there was but one way the chance of blun-
dering would he reduced to a minimum;
but the Legislature refased: to carry the re-
form to that extent, and yielded to the de-
mand of those who insisted «that there
should be provisions by which a straight
ticket of any party could be voted by a
single mark. In the old ballot this was
done by making a cross in the circle at the
top of the party column; in the new ballot
it is provided for in the column ‘of party
names down the left side of the sheet.
The ballot in its new shape’ may not al-
together realize the hopes of the most pro-
‘nounced reformers, but it certainly is an
advance in the right direction. Now let
some method of ensuring an honest count
be found, and the ballot may at last be-
‘come expressive of the real voice of the
people.
And This from a Republican Paper.
From the Altoona Tribune. 4
The national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic pays a just if gen-
erous tribute to Lieut. General Miles in
the resolution concerning his brilliant and
long continued services in the army of his
country. The Tribune concedesthat Gen-
eral Miles made some mistakes, but all the
mistakes of his official life put together
would be far from equaling the great
blunder of President Roosevelt in permit-
ting the vengeful temper of his Sedretary
of War to lead to the curt retirement of
Miles, without a word in acknowledgment’
of his splendid services. It did not hurt
Miles, bus it did hurt the President and it
demonstrated that the Seoretary of War, in
spite of his very considerable merits, is pot
The Reliance Wins the
Second Races.
First . and
NEw YORK, Aug. 23.—In absolutely
perfect yachting weather and nothing to
mar the fairness of the trial, Reliance on
Saturday beat Shamrock III by seven min-
utes and three seconds, corrected time,
over a thirty mile course, fifteen miles to
windward and return. The American
yacht gained three minutes and twenty
seconds on the Briton on the beat to the
turning mark, and then, in one of the pret-
tiest runs home before the wind ever wit-
nessed, gained an additional five minutes
and thirty-nine seconds. In actual sailing,
boat for boat, Reliance beat Shamrock nine
minutes in the thirty miles, and demon-
strated even to the doubting ones that she
is the better all around boat and is able to
hold the cup. esi
It was a glorious fifty-second anniver-
sary of the victory of the old America in
the first race for the now celebrated cup.
Bright sunshine, a steady smooth sea greet-
ed the cup racers and the great fieet of ex-
cursion boats that met at the old red
Sandy Hook lightship at 11 Saturday
morning. But the wind was from the
southwest, and that necessitated a shift in
the starting place to a point some distance
out to sea, in order to be able to lay the
course into the wind and not endanger the
yachts by sending them into shoal water.
This change delayed the start of the race
forty-five minutes, but that proved no
hardship to the excursionists, for the race,
once started, was soon over.
The thirty mile course was covered by
the American sloop in three hours, thirty-
two minutes and seventeen seconds, which
bas been but once beaten in a windward
and leeward cup race. That one time was
in October, 1893, when Vigilant beat
Valkyrie II in three hours, twenty-four
minutes and thirty-nine seconds in a fif-
teen mile to windward and back course
from the Scotland lightship. But tbat
match was sailed in a gale of wind, where-
as yesterday twelve knots was the strongest,
aud it often softened to eight knots an
our.
Reliance Took Second Race!
NEw YORK, August 25.—In a glorious
whole-sail breeze, over a triangular course,
ten miles to a leg, the fleet footed cup de-
fender Reliance again to-day showed her
heels to Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenger,
taking the second race of the cup series
of 1903 by the narrow margin of one min-
ute and nineteen seconds. It was as pret-
ty and hard a fought contest as has ever
been sailed off Sandy Hook and, had the
wind not fallen during the last ten min-
utes, the record for the course, three hours,
twelve minutes and fifteen seconds, made
by Columbia two years ago in her memor-
able race against Shamrock II would have
been broken. As it was Reliance sailed
the thirty within miles two minutes and
thirty-nine seconds of the record, which
pesky wonders for her speed in the wind
that was blowing. Reliance’s victory, nar-
row as it was, would have been even smaller
had not Captain Wringe, the skipper of
the British ship, bungled the start, sending
his craft over the line nineteen seconds
after the last gun and handicapping her to
that extent. At every point of sailing the
defender’s superiority was demonstrated.
She gained one minute and fifty-one sec-
onds in windward work, forty seconds on
the run to the second mark, and forty-
five seconds on the close reach for home.
iy 3 -.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—A Cambria county farmer declares that
the country’s potato and wheat crops are far
above the average this year, :
—The Thirteenth Pennsylvania. Veteran
Cavalry association will hold its annual re-
union at Jersey Shore on Thursday, Septem-
ber 17th, 1903.
—Adam Schaefer, of Williamsport, inven-
tor and patentee of an eyeless and wireless
umbrella, which he has been making for some
time, has just equipped a new factory and
will manufacture on a larger scale.
—Helen M. Young, aged six and a half
years, daughter of groceryman T. J. Young,
of Altoona, was ¢ badly burned Friday that
she died Saturday night. The child was
playing with matches and her clothing took
fire. '
—Miss Esther Murphy, of Chester Hill,the
victim of the shooting affray at the Alle-
gheny house, Clearfield, a week ago last Sun-
day, hasso far recovered as to be able to
leave the hospital. She is again ‘at the Alle-
gheny house and recovering rapidly.
. —Early Thursday morning last a dog
knocked a lantern over in the barn of Frank
Mirely, near Cassville, Huntingdon county,
and the barn, with all its contents,except the
stock and some machinery, went up in
smoke.
—William Silas Shaffer, brakeman on the
Tangascootac railroad, several days ago dis-
tinguished himself by killing two large rat-
tle snakes with one stone. Asa testimonial
of the unusual feat his friends now refer to
Mr. Shaffer as ‘‘Rattle snake Bill.”
—Sherman Freeman, of Mammoth, met a
tragic death while hauling pit posts Friday
afternoon. He was on top of the load when
the wheel of the wagon dropped into a rut.
He was thrown from the wagon falling under
the wheels which ran over him, crushing his
head. He died soon afterward. The dead
man was 34 years old.
—A man whose name is unknown, but who
has been in the vicinity of Rockwood grind-
ing scissors for some time, was struck and in-
stantly killed near that place by excursion
train No. 13, running from Cumberland to
Pittsburg Saturday evening. Little is known
of the victim save that his home was sup-
posed to be in Punxsutawney.
| —Harry Moore, aged ten years. a son of J.
Hollinsworth Moore, of Williamsport, was
drowned at 4:30 o'clock Saturday. Thirty"
five boys were syimming nearby and none
saw him drown. When the boys were ready
to go home the little fellow was missed and
his clothes lying on a trestle where he had
left them were mute testimony of Lis death.
‘The body was recovered at 7:30,just as it was
becoming dusk and hope of finding it was on
‘the wane.
—While passing through Antia, near Du-
Bois, on Wednesday of last week, with her
daughter, Mrs. Peter Conroy, and a little
daughter, the horse driven by Mrs. William
Couch, of Rossiter, became frightened ata
locomotive and backed over an embankment
about thirty feet high. The horse and vehi-
cle fell on top of the occupants. Mrs, Couch
sustained injuries from which she died at?2
o'clock, and Mrs. Conroy and the child were
both severely hurt and are in a critical con-
ditien.. dish
“ ~The mangled body of a man named James
Casey,of Braddock, was found Sunday morn-
ing on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks
about one mile east of Summerhill. Casey
had been seen about Summerhill for a week
or so. It is supposed that late Saturday night
or early Sunday morning Casey started to
walk to Lilly or Cresson, when he was struck
by a train. His watch was found on his body
and the hands pointed the hour of 3:30, and
itis believed that it was at that time in the
morning he was killed. The body was badly
mangled, both legs being ground off and his
head terribly crushed.
—The camp meeting at Newton Hamilton
is now numbered with the past religious gath-
erings of the year 1903. It wasa successful
meeting from the beginning to the end. A
writer speaking of the work done by many
faithful people, says special mention is due
to the efficient and faithful services of Miss
Ida C. Nearhoof, of Warriorsmark, who pre-
sided untiringly at the organ throughout
all the services from the early morning each
day to late at night. Her sweet spirit and
patience won the admiration of all. Miss
Flow Stouch, of Altoona, and all who were
active in the various sessions were well pleas-
ed and declare their intention of returning
next year.
—The Pennsylvania railroad is pushing the
work of building its telegraph pole lines to
replace those destroyed for the Western
Union company, and expects to be able to
turn them over to the Postal company by
October 1st, when the telegraph company
will rush the work of stringing its wires. A
large force of wen is at work at present erect-
ing poles between Tyrone and Altoona, and
along the Northern Central and Cumberland
Valley railroads. The Pennsylvania rail-
road : will own all the poles along its right
of way, under its contract with the Postal,
and will merely lease them to that company,
in order to remain in command of the situa-
fion. Work is being pushed on the new
telegraph office at the Broad street station,
Philadelphia, and it will be ready for service
in a few weeks.
—On last Wednesday night or very early
Thursday morning, as a son or employee 0
John C. Goss, whose home isin Clearfield
county, but at present is doing some contract
work in the vicinity of Grafton, Huntingdon
county, was driving in a carriage near Graf-
ton, his horse plunged over a steep bank by
the roadside, and was killed. The driver
himself was uninjured. Mr. Goss was in-
formed of the loss of his horse and the man-
ner in which it occurred. He at once in-
formed the supervisor that he would make a
claim of $125. Rather than have a suit over
the matter the supervisor and some of the
leading citizens of the township where the
accident occurred, thought that it would be
best to settle the affair at once, for they real-
ized that the law strictly and definitely pro-
vides that all public highways shall be made
safe to travelers, and they well knew that
proper precaution had not been taken by
them. They, without very much delibera-
tion. decided to pay the damage claimed by
Mr. Goss, and on Saturday morning Anthony
Forshey, the supervisor, paid over to him
$125 for the loss of his horse.