BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink SHings.
—-Have you noticed how sociable certain
people are becoming as election time draws
nigh ?
—The equinoctial storm bas either es-
caped abead of time or our almanacs have
all gone wrong.
—The flippant man never feels as fool-
ish as he looks and the conscious man never
looks as foolish as he feels.
—Sir THOMAS has found out that Ameri-
can corn on the cob can give him evena
worse set-back than American yachts.
—The storm at Atlantic City ‘Wednes-
day gave the Heintz pickle pier a variety
that had never been numbered among the
forty-seven before.
—1If kissing babies amounts to anything
as a campaign popularity maker down in
Alabama HOBSON ought to win out easy in
his congressional fight.
—It' the navy is to take $100,000,000
next year, who, under the blue canopy of
Heaven, can conjecture what it will need
the next and the next and the next. . .?
—A state quarantine tug launched yes-
terday was chiistened ‘‘Governor Penny-
packer.” That is one of the misfortunes
of being a tug. It can’t help what it is
called.
—When Wednesday’s storm struck him
off the Jersey coast the President found ont
that when it comes to strenuosity old
Boreas can make him look like a spring
zephyr.
—SAM PARKS, the New York walking
delegate, seems to be as notorious as Say
JONES, the evangelist. They are both
SAMS, the only difference being that the
one is a bad man and the other trying to
be good.
—Senator CARMACK’s proposal to re-
peal the fifteenth amendment would meet
with the most hearty co-operation in both
houses of Congress if the members were
voting their personal feelings, instead of
playing the game of politics.
—The Democrats in Philadelphia are
fighting again, so the papers say. This
will be news throughout the State where
very few people know thas there are any
Democrats in Philadelphia. The only
time they are ever heard of is when they
are fighting.
~~ —Judge BIDDLE, of Carlisle, has just
notified policemen and constables that they
are in duty bound to arrest persons they
hear swearing. He says he will five of-
fenders sixty-seven cents per oath. If of-
ficers in Bellefonte were to do the same
thing the borough debt could be paid off
in a jiffy.
___—There being one MooN already in Con-
gress the aspirations of Mr. MooN,.of Penn-
gylvania, to break into that body appears
like an attempt to over do the moon busi-
ness. Supposing he does get there,
wouldn’t there be a luminosity abou
Washington if both Mooxs got full at the
same time ?
—Of all the little potatoes and few ina
hill the President of the United States is
trying to become the littlest. Making a
fuss because he couldn’ be the ONLY.
guest of honor at a yacht club banquet
might have been all right from some swell
headed popinjay, but from the President it
is pitiable.
—The High school scholar is getting as
bad as the college lad on the hazing ques-
tion and everyday some serious accident is
reported as a result of this pernicious prac-
tice. ‘Out in Indiana a boy died the other
day from the effeots of hazing and down in
Harrisburg they had to call out the police
to break it up. It is beginning to look as
if good hard sense were at a premium
am ong the rising generation.
—1It might be because yellow and green
are considered an harmonious combination
that ex-fish policeman HARTER is trying to
blend them. He always bas showed a
very large streak of yellow, but not until
the last issue of his paper was it known
that there is so much green in him. Its
always the way with some people. They
are never satisfied. Now tbat fish job was
just his size—mentally, morally and phys-
ically—and yet he is fairly green with
envy of everybody who has anything else.
—The eastern penitentiary is just more
than springing surprises. With a gang of
counterfeiters doing a thriving business in
s purious coin within its walls, hundreds of
thousands of convict cigars sold in viola-
tion of the law, hundreds of thousands
of convict stockings stolen and drunken
keepers reeling in at the public entrance,
the public would be justified in thinking
that if the tables were turned and some of
the officers put behind the bars the interest
of 1aw and morality would be better con-
served.
——1In speaking of the great responsibil-
ity that is vested in the people of a Repub-
lican government at Pine Grove Mills, on
Saturday, Judge LovE urged the better-
ment of citizenship, as a means of insuring’
the right aims in the sovereign power of
the people. The sentiment was a very
creditable one and worthy of deep thought,
but the question wiil arise in the minds of
those who consider it most carefully as to
whether the Judge, himself, conserves thie
better end in the matter of granting natur-
alization papers. The only danger this
country bas is from the awful inflax of
foreigners, with their inflammatory isms
and ists, and our couts are the sole safe-
guard against the admission to citizenship
of men who may think liberty is license.
VOL. 48
Unexampled Churlishness.
President ROOSEVELT revealed the little
ness of his nature in a most striking man-
ner the other day. He had been invited
by the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht
club of New York to attend the banquet of-
that organization at its club house across
the bay from the summer oapital this
evening, and accepted the invitation.
Subsequently he learned that Sir THOMAS
LrproN had heen similarly invited and had
also accepted. Thereupon the President
notified the banquet committee of the club
that unless he were the only guest of
honor at the banquet he would be obliged
to withdraw his acceptance and absent
himself from the function. In explanation
of the matter, subsequently, his secretray
said ‘‘the President couldn’t have the honors
of the affair divided with anybody.
The banquet committee was, of course,
obliged to withdraw the invitation to Sir
THOMAS LIPTON and make such apologies
as the ingenuity of its members could sug-
gest. What explanations were made to
him have not been revealed but the excuses
made to the public have been lame affairs.
Mr. CoLGATE Hort, chairman of the
board of governors, denied that Sir THOMAS
had been invited. Mr. FRANCIS C. STEW--
ART, secretary of the club, admitted the
invitation to LTPTON and declared that “he
did not know that Mr. HoyT had promised
President ROOSEVELT not to have any other
honorary guests at the banquet,”’ and Mr.
WILLIAM LOEB, the President’s secretary,
declared that upon his own responsibility he
informed Mr. HOYT that if Sir THOMAS was
to be a guest the President would probably
decline the invitation.”” Later Sir THOMAS
bims elf, stated that he had not been invit-
ed.
Sir THOMAS LIPTON is probably tie most
conspicuous yachtsman in the world. It is
estimated that he has spent in all upwards
of $3,000,000 in attempts to lift the Ameri-
ca’s cup and it is admitted by all that he
is the most sports-man-like and generous
competitor who bas ever contested for that
trophy. The disappointment of his last
defeat would have heen greatly mitigated
by the courtesy which the officers of the
club in question proposed to bestow on
him. But the inordinate vanity of the
‘clown who occupies the office of President
prevented so gracious an act. The fear that.
with LipToN present he wouldn’t be the
whole thing at the feast impelled ROOSE-
VELT to put on the club conditions which
excluded the distinguished visitor. Such
an exhibition of contemptible churlishness
has probably never been made before.
Assertion of Military Power,
Ten days ago a sentry at the Alleghény
arsenal, Pittsburg, shot and killed a man
named CROWLEY who appeared to be tres-
passing on the premises. Subsequently
the civil authorities of Pittsburg applied
to the commandant of the arsenal, lieu-
tenant W. R. DRURY, for the body of the
perpetrator of the orime. The Lieutenant
refused to surrender the man, giving as a
reason that he had no information as to the
right of the persons making the demand to
possession of the acoused. A warrant of a
Justice of the Peace was presented by a
constable, but that didn’t satisfy the
Lieutenant. . The General commanding
the military department was appealed to
and he telegraphed orders to surrender the
man but the Lientenant refused to obey
and at this writing- the eivil authorities
have been unable to make the arrest.
This is the first exhibition of the policy
of making the civil authority subservient
to the military in this country. It is the
first real exhibition of the power of a mili-
tary government. The fifty-ninth article
of war, which, up until the present case,
has governed the conduct of military offi-
cers under similar circumstances ‘declares
that ‘‘when any officer or soldier is accused
of a capital crime, or of any offense against
the person or property of any citizen of the
United States, which is punishable by the
laws of the land, his commanding officer
is required, except in time of war, to use
his ntmost endeavors to deliver the acoused
over to the civil magistrate upon applica-
tion duly made in order to bring him to
trial.’ For the first time in the history of
the government this course has not been
pursued.
The sentry who killed his man declares
that he believed the tresspasser was steal-
ing copper from the premises of the arsenal
and that it was necessary for him to com-
mit, we were going to say murder but will
medify it to, ‘‘the killing,’ in order to pre-
vent the larceny. Possibly that was true
and the question of whether a man’s life
may be taken in order to prevent him from
committing petty larceny may be left to
the determination of the law. But the
right of the civil authorities to the custody
of the offender is beyond question and
should be enforced. In the case in point
the provision of the article of war which
provides for the dismissal from the service
of any officer who ‘neglects wilfully to per-
form his duty in turning an accused man
over to the civil anthorities,”’ ought to be
strictly enforced also.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Condemnation the Course.
i
Have our esteemed Republican contem-
poraries in this State all forgotten their in-
dignation over the press muzzler? It was
denounced very vehemently immediately
after its passage and during the interval
between that event and the meeting of the
Republican state convention Republican
contemporaries found great satisfaction in
declaring, with all the energy and earnest-
ness that they could command, that under
no circumstances would they ever support
any man who voted for it or otherwise en-
couraged its passage, for any office. Buta
change appears to have come over the spir-
it of their dreams. Now they ‘‘pipe as
meekly as a sucking dove.”
One of the principal supporters of the
press muzzler heads the Republican state
ticket.
Without the acquiescence of State Sena-
tor WILLIAM P. SNYDER it may be safely
asserted that the measure never would
have passed. It is not that he exercised so
vast an influence in the Legislature, gen-
erally speaking. As a matter of fact he
didn’t, for he never took the lead on any
measure during his prolonged service in
House and Senate. But the conditions
under which that measure passed were
peculiar. There were a dozen Republican
Senators ready to revolt and all that was
needed to complete the movement was one
man with nerve enough to defy the bosses.
SNYDER had every reason to do that but
failed.
In other words the present Republican
candidate for Auditor General had no
grievance against the press of the State.
He had been treated kindly by it and had
every reason to protest against the mani-
fest injustice which was contemplated.
Bat he lacked the courage. The manhood
was absent and because of his failure to do
his duty on that occasion every newspaper
in Pennsylvania which fails to condemn
him, as utterly unfit for the office to which
he aspires and absolutely unworthy of
public confidence, stultifies itself. A
negative support is quite as bad as a cor-
dial endorsement. Condemnation is the
only course.
The Fearfal Cost.
o Last Saturday the United States trans-
port Kilpatrick steamed intoport at New |
York with 302 coffins in her hold contain- |
ing the bodies of that many American sol-
diers who had died or been killed in the
Philippines. The war in the Philippines
has been officially over for more than three
years and during all that time cargoes. of
dead soldiers have been. coming .in the
same way for distribution among the com-
munities which have given from their
young manhood victims for death in the
Asiatic tropics. This last cargo attracted
unusual attention because the number of
corpses was greater than usual.
It is a little more than five years since
Admiral DEWEY’S ship fired on and cap-
tured Manila, the capital and metropolis
of the Philippines and since that date 250,-
000 brave young Americans have gone
there to fight for the subjugation of a few
million semi-savages who are contending
for the right of self government. Of those
who have come home and those who still
remain it may be said that 200,000 have
survived. But 50,000 at least have gone to
their graves there and in this country, many
having been brought home for burial, but
the harvest of death continues, and it may
be said, in increasing abundance.
How long is this to continue ? Is there
to be no end to it ? The experience of all
time proves that there is but one way to
subdue a people who have imbibed aspira-
sions for liberty and that is to extinguish
them. Are the people of the United
States ready to proceed witha policy which
involves such a result ? The founders of
the Republic declared that all men are
born equal and among the inalienable
rights of man are those of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. Are their sons
of this day willing to put the lie on their
lips by waging a war of conquest on a
people who crave the boon of self-govern-
ment, the right of life, liberty and the pui-
suit of happiness ? And at such a cost as
is expressed in the cargo of corpses which
arrived last Saturday. i :
——The idea advanced by Gen. BEAVER
at the annual reunion of the Centre county
Veteran’s Association, at Pine Grove Mills,
on Saturday, that possibly it would serve
a broader, nobler and more living purpose
if the money that is being raised for a
monument to the soldiers and sailors of
Centre connty were expended in avother
way than in cold marble and bronze, is
quite in line with the suggestion of Rev.
GEO I. BROWN and the WATCHMAN, made
several months ago. The General struck
the true note of the ideal memorial when
he said it should be something more than
an object of beauty tolook upon. It
should be a public benefaction, as well.
The idea was not presented to the associa-
tion as a formal proposition, but merely
hinted at for the old soldiers to consider.
Let us hope that when they have thought
deeply of it a hospital or a. public library
and soldiers retreat may appear to them as
a more fitting memorial than a monument,
however imposing. =
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 18, 1908.
Payne Declined to Testify.
The Postmaster General bas refused ; 0
testify at the hearing of GEORGE W. BEAV-
ERS, former chief of the salary and allow-
ance division of the Postoffice Department,
who is charged with defrauding the gov-
ernment in collusion with others in the
purchase of supplies for the Department,
and he is supported in his refusal by a de-
cision of Acting Attorney General Hoy,
who declares that the subpoena was void.
Maybe it was under a strict technical con-
struction. But in the nature of things
Postmaster General PAYNE would = better
have obeyed it, notwithstanding. If he is
in no way inculpated in the frauds of the
Postoffice Department no harm could bave
come of his appearance and testimony in
the case. His refusal to appear justifies the
suspicion that be is inculpated.
General PAYNE was subpoened to appear
aud testify at the instance of the defendant
in the case. The subpoena was also for
hooks, papers and records in the case. That
would indicate that BEAVERS knows some-
thing that he hasn’tas yet revealed and
that there is a story that hasn’t been told
in the records of the Department. Prob-
ably it was because of this that BEAVERS
took his arrest so philosophically. It is
even possible that it was on account of it
that when an of~er from the United States
court in Brooklyn presented a warrant for
him in New York, BEAVERS gave him the
laugh and peremptorily refused to obey the
order of arrest. The knowledge that he
has somebody higher up in the toils makes
an accused person very independent.
Under the decision of the Acting Attor-
ney General, however, the hearing in the
BEAVERS case will have to be conducted
and completed without the presence of the
Postmaster General. The accused may be
deprived of important testimony which
would have been of infinite value to him
by the failure of the Postmaster General to
appear and testify. In other words his
counsel might have been able to force the
Postmaster General to admit that some one
other than BEAVERS got the benefit of the
rake-off in the purchase of supplies and
that would have tended to exculpate Mr.
BEAVERS from blame. But heneedn’s dis-
pair in any event. At the trial he can
force the Postmaster General to testify.
A Pioturesque Situation. -
© The public will watch with deep interest
the developments in ‘the Delaware post of-
fice controversy. At present there appears
to be no escape from a break in the cabinet,
but as Post-master General PAYNE and
President ROOSEVELT are both resourceful
fellows nobody can tell what may. be the
outcome.
ed that PAYNE would consent to a self-im-
molation for the good of the party and his
chief. But quite as clearly PAYNE has re-
fused to take upon himself such a humilia-
tion and has thrown back in the teeth of
the President a full share of the responsi-.
bility. One or the other must take the
back track or else they must separate, offi-"
cially.
~ This has all grown out of the dismissal of
Miss ToDD, postmistress at Greenwood,
Delaware. That lady, who had been an ef-
ficient public servant, was dismissed be-
cause, as the Postmaster General put it, she
was ‘‘personally and politically obnoxious
to Senator ALLEE.”’ If the public had
kept still that would have been the end of
the matter, bus the people kicked up a dis-
turbance which led the Postmaster General
to supplement his original statement by
another to the effect that the Delaware Sen-
ators had entered into a written agreement
that each should bave undisputed control
of the patronage in certain areas. This pe-
culiarly offensive form of spoils politics ex-
cited popular indignation througiout the
country to appease which the President de-
manded of the Postmaster General an ex-
planation. Instead of taking the blame up-
on his own shoulders with becoming hu-
mility, PAYNE replied, reiterating hisstate-
ment about the agreement, and adding that
‘‘it was made with the knowledge and con-
sent of the President.”
This was clearly putting the responsibil-
ity for a disreputable bargain upon the
President and convicting him of political
perfidy, personal dishonor and general dis-
honesty. If the President submits to such
imputations he acknowledges the acousa’
tion and if he denies, PAYNE will have no
course open to him except that of resigning.
In either evens there is plenty of fun in store
for the political public. If PAYNE resigns
he will be obliged to vindicate himself by
proving his charges. If he doesn’t resign
and remains in official relations with the
President both will be condemned by uni-
versal consent as poltroons whoare held to:
gether by the force of public plunder. It
is a picturesque situation to say the least.
~—A very hard rain storm passed over
this section yesterday morning. Rain
began falling about four o'clock and con-
tinued until nine. At times pouring in
torrents. While no damage was done it
served to keep the crowd away from the
Granger's picnic on the usually big day.
a uD DS
Obviously the President expeoi- |
NO. 87.
¢THE MAN I KNEW I KILLED.
Being the Bloody Reminiscence of Valorous Hart, of
Mosquito Creek. : :
From “The New Yorker.”
Valorous Hart of Mosquito Creek,
Was the next old soldier asked to speak,
He did good work in"61
Both in charge and “on the run’
And we settled back to hear him tell
His reasons for thinking ‘“War is Hell.”
* * * * * ko
“Dear comrades of Bell-Harman Post and ladies
' of the Corps, 3
I thank you for the.invite and I’m proud to take
the floor. | © J i! x
I was thinking,
saijeat here of the battles that
I’ve fought,’ = ‘we i
Of the sufi’rin and the slaughter, and the sudden,
awful thought : i
Came across me that I'd taken very likely scores
of lives— Lain
Taken fathers from ‘their children, taken hus-
«i: ‘bands from their wives. ; :
Whi ngron the heat of battle I was pumping
+ 71 reeling lead, :
Not knowing, no, nor caring, where the bullet
' found its bed. : Farid
‘Now people they will ask us if ‘we really, truly
orld ;
‘know,
Fora fact that while a-fightin’ we have éver Kill.
eda foe. ; .
But it’s rare you find a-soldiér who
the heat of strife, .
That the bullet he had fired was fhe one to take:
a life.
Now, to-night," I'm going to tell you, though I
hate to, boys, I swan, BED
That I know I done my murder; that I know I've
killed my man, * do nant
* aw * * * *
T'was when we got our rapping at the fight of
Hatcher’srun; : :
I was running hard as any; yes, I threw away my.
gun
And the rest of my equipment, and proceeded,
friends, to steer, :
Just as fast as legs would help me for protection
at the rear, 3/3
I was quite a nervy printer—'bout as swift as you
' will find, 3
But I couldn’t shake that Johnny who came slam-
min’ on behind;
For he had the Georgy saddle and was sort of raz-
or edged,
And if nothing special busted, I was spoke for, so
I jedged. 4
He was hanging to his rifle, but he didn’t try to
shoot, :
He seen he had me solid, but I gave the blame
galoot
A standard mile or sech like, and had druv him
‘in the list.’
When I stepped upon a stubble, fell, and gave my
leg a twist.
And the stumble sort of stunned me so I laid there
quite a spell, :
Expectin’ that he'd grab me; just a-harkin’ for
his yell.
‘| But things stayed calm and quiet, so I peeked;
"he laid there sprawled :
*Bout a dozen yards behind me, and he, logked 80
queer I crawled SE * ta
Slowly back to reconnoitre; got where I could see:
his head,
Saw his face was black’s a stove pipe, apoplexy;
he was dead. i a
* * * * * *
And Istood and wept above him, stirred, dear
comrades, to the peth a
With the awful, awful pity for that man 1'd run
to death!
And my conscience always pricked me, and my
heart with grief is filled, vin;
For there ain’t no question, comrades, that’s a
man I know I killed.” -
A Wise Course.
From the Williamsport Sun.
In refusing to incorporate national is-
sues in its platform the Pennsylvania
Democracy acted wisely and sensibly. The
presidential election will not occur until
next year and the issues of that contest
have not yet been clearly defined. Some
of the old issues have been buried and will
not ke resurrected. The campaign this
year will be fought on state questions by
the Democrats—issues that appeal to the
people of the State—and next year’s fight
may well be left until then. There is no
evasion of the real issues of the state
campaign by the Democrats. When the
proper time comes they will give expres-
sion to their views on national issues.
Miles and Root.
From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner. Si
Elihn Root served as Secretary of War
for several years and upon tendering his
resignation received a letter from the Pres-
ident in which the latter said : ‘‘The
American people wish you well and appre-
ciate in full the debs due to you for all
that you have done for them in their be-
half.” General Nelson A. Miles served the
American people for forty years and was
permitted to retire from the public service
with a decidedly formal order issued by
one of General Miles’ discredited smbordi-
nates. And yet Mr. Roosevelt has fre-
quently told us that the services of the
soldier are entitled to the ‘‘highest con-
sideration. :
Don’t Look So Easy.
From the Greensburg Democrat. :
The widespread and deep interest already
being evinced by Republican journals in
the Democratic candidate for President,
next year, indicates pretty olearly that
they do not anticipate a lifeless campaign:
or a ‘“‘walk-over’’ for Roosevelt.
——1It the second resolution adopted by
the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
of Centre county, at their recent conven-
tion here, really voices the sentiments of
their hearts we can look for the women to
take a decided stand against the press muz-
zler and those who helped pass it. They
say ‘‘the newspaper constitutes the forum
before which ALL public question are dis-
cussed’? and if they are honest in the con-
viotion that that is the function of the
newspaper they canuot but deprecate such
an attempt to bridle the press as Governor
PENNYPACKER and his boot lickers in the
recent Legislature made.
has seen, in’
Spawls from the Keystone.
~At the coriclusion of the commencement
exercises of the Lock Haven hospital train-
ing school for nurses Tuesday evening, Miss
Sprivger, the. graduate, was. wedded to Dr.
“W. J. Shoemaker,
—8. T. Moore, of Milroy, and William M
Grove Esq., of Centre Hill, surveyed the
Huyett lands in the Seven mountains last
week. This tract had been pnrchased by
the State some months ago.
—While operating a clothes wringer Thurs-
day, Mrs. J. A. Simcox, of Jersey Shore,
threw her left elbow out of joint, causing her
much pain. It was the first time she had
used the wringer in four years.
—The corner stone of the new M. E. church
at Blair Furnace was laid Sunday. The
speakers were Revs. E. E. Harter, J. K.
Lloyd and G. M. Klepfer. of Altoona. When
completed the edifice will cost about $4,000.
_.—The Catholic church at Spangler has
raised $1,914 as the result of an offer by
.| Andrew Carnegie in which the canny Scot
agreed to donate half the cost of a fine pipe
organ if the church would secure the bal-
ance. i : :
—The Luther League of the State of
‘| Pennsylvania will meet in annual session in
the city of Reading, October 20th-21st, 1903.
The convention will be held under the
auspices of the Central Luther League of
Reading and vicinity.
—The big saw mill of the Lackawanna
Lumber company at Cross Fork, which was
destroyed by fire some months ago, has been
‘almost wholly rebuilt. Part of it is now
running and the remainder will soon be
| ready for operation.
» —The borough of South Williamsport has
lately assumed some of the hustling and
bustling : of her elder sister on the north
bankiof the Susquehanna river and has se-
cured a new industry in the shape of a brass
works by raising $10.000.
—Samuel Coulter, 84 years old, has begun
a suit for divorce from his wife, Eliza Coul-
‘ter, 78 years old, in Lawrence county, for al-
leged neglect. The court directed Coulter
to pay an attorney to defend the wife, who
| is an invalid ‘and without funds,
—Charles 8. Harman, of Clinton township,
Lycoming county, a shoemaker of the old
school, a first-class blacksmith and a man
who is handy with almost any kind of a tool.
77 years of age, and laboring every day, is
just now working out a pair of ladies’ seam-
less shoes, which if he is entirely successful,
may bring about a revolution in the manu.
facture of fine foot wear.
—The Huntingdon and Clearfield Tele-
phone Co. has authorized the construction of
a line from Clearfield, which will take in
Mahaffey, Glen Campbell, Arcadia, Barnes-
boro, Hastings, Spangler. and Carrolltown.
It is also expected that the company will
yive service to Pittsburg and possibly Phila-
delphia via Johnstown by January 1st. These
new constructions will be an advantage the
Philipsburg patrons of this company will
greatly appreciate. ,
—The team of horses recently left at the
livery stable of Boney Gardner at Philips-
burg by an individual who disappeared and
has never been heard of since, belonged. to
A. M. Masters, a well-known = Johnstown
liveryman, who ‘went to that town, gave
sufficient proof that they were his horses,
and after settling all expense in connection
with their keeping, drove them back to his
‘home. The team had been hired by some
one whose name Mr. Masters could not give,
but he would like to know the whereabouts
of the culprit so that he could turn the tables
and work the lever the other way a little
while.
—While the family ot John Irwin, of Fair-
field Center, Lycoming county, were sitting
at the supper table on Thursday evening,
the 7-year-old boy was shot in the hand by a
bullet. He was hurried to Montoursville,
where Dr. VanHorn was obliged to amputate
his index and second fingers. The injury is
very serious, but the boy will in all proba
bility completely recover. The mystery of
the bullet’s flight is still practically unsolv-
ed. It crashed through the window in the
dining room while the family were eating
supper, splintering the pane of glass and
striking the little boy on the hand.
—Punxsutawney was visited by the most
destructive fire in fifteen years . Tuesday
morning, the loss being conservatively esti-
mated at $75,000. The fire broke out at
about 4:30 o’clock in the Hamilton building,
in the business part of north Findley street.
Six large buildings were destroyed and ten
more were badly damaged, rendering twenty
families homelcss. Three little children be-
longing to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Pantall, who
resided in the Hamilton building, were res-
cued by dropping them from the second
story into a blanket. Only one building
would have been destroyed, probably, had
the water pressure been sufficient to force a
stream three stories high.
—A wave of prosperity has struck Altoona
as far as the shops are concerned as a number
of departments have been ordered to work
overtime, until the company has caught up
with the rush work. The men will be asked
to work thirteen hours a day, for four days
a week to meet the demand. The men in
several departmentsin the Juniata car and
machine shops, numbering more . than a
thousand men, will be benefitted by the
wave of prosperity. In most of the depart-
ments the men will work thirteen hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
The tank shop worked thirteen hours Mon-
day for the first time in months. The freight
shop is working overtime on several orders
while at the Juniata shops day and night
turns are working in several departments.
—The Clinton county jail at Lock Haven
this week broke all records, for youthful
prisoners. The sheriff of Clinton county had
the keeping of an extremely diminutive
charge, who has been in the world just five
weeks. Connected with the child is an un-
usual story. It seems that the mother of the
babe, whose husband was not living with
her, died in the Lock Haven hospital when
the child was only five weeks old. A broth-
er of the dead woman took the little one to
McElhattan. While the McElhattan rela-
tives attended the funeral of the mother the
child was secured by the father, who
went with a constable to. McElhattan. Then
he returned to Lock Haven, intending to
leave after closing up his affairs. While he
lingered the brother of the dead woman got
out a writ of habeas corpusin order to get
possession of the child, and it is pendinga
settlement of the case that the sheriff has
charge of the baby.