; _ Philadelphia. is wondefally anxioe ink Slugs. to seoure the trade that about forty years ago she was just as anxious to drive away. —1If the new Phoenix pumping station | works the present council will go down in| = it will likely go down. inf _ gal the Cl I —When the M.S. QUAY,” the Phila- delpbia harbor master’s new cutter was hed on Saturday ‘‘she wabbled when e water. It isn’t any wonder that she did, with such a name. © It took: ‘two prayers to get the Senate started off right in the filty-eighth Con- gress. The good Lord alone knows how many it will take to get the Senators fixed up’ right again after the session is over. —GORMAX i is starting in to shake up the dry bones in the Senate ina way that will probably arouse that body to a sense of some ( other duty than merely allowing itself to become a esting, place for sleepy ol; millionaires. TE L_As a grafter ‘the New York surgeon who has just grafted an ear from one man to ‘another and prophesies that soon legs andiarms will be grafted inthe same man- er isa “shine’” when compared with some . Philadelphia councilmen. there are hy on the other side ywhere Why is it that months after the price of edmmodities went ‘soaring skyward the producers of f such were given an increase ol Sage "wages, yet the very instant there isa + lof [depression ‘wages go down? At 8 ai. d d of Eithe game there | 3s never any sed ms SPE Gh ‘Englishman, rel ot the. day, is dead. gies fo minds’ his lite has ally and _psychologic- ished by mankind v ~ VOL. 48 A Strained Constraction. Under the advice of Secretary of War ‘Root the President has construed the frac- tion of a minute which intervened between the adjournment of the extra session of the United States Senate and the opening of the session as a ‘‘recess.’”” Webster's dictionary defines recess as an intermission in proceedings of a legislative body.” The reports of the proceedings of the Senate on Monday show that the body met at 11.30 o’clock and soon after went into executive session. A$ 11.50 the doors were reopened and with Senator PLATT of Connecticut in the chair a resolution thanking President pro tem FRYE for his fairness during the extra session was considered and adopted. Thereupon Mr. FRYE resumed the chair and declared that the hour fixed by law for the beginning of the regular session having arrived, the called session is‘‘ ad- journed without day.’”’ He immediate- ly called the regular session to order and prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr. PRET- TYMAN. There was no intermission in the pro- ceedings there so far as can be discovered. Yet upon the advice of Secretary of War RooT President ROOSEVELT has assumed that there was an intermission long enough for him to nominate Dr. WooD to the office of Major General in the army and 167 other persons to other positions in the civil and military service of the government. Accordingly he has made the nominations and reports are to the effect that the com- missions will be issued at once. In that event Dr. Woop will draw the salary of a Major General until whatever time the senate confirms or rejects his nomination or 1 failing to do either during the present ses- gion until the day of adjournment, wben another ‘‘recess’”’ appointment can be legally made. That will enable ROOSEVELT to juggle the affair until his term of office ‘| expires which, happily, will not be later than the fourth of March, 1905. But that , | will be long enough. The constitution authorizes the Presi- | dent to issue commissions in order to fill his vacancies in public offices which happen who would make worthy successors to Mr. PERRY HEATH there would be no objec- tion to their coming in. —JoHN D. ROCKEFELLER has given $10,- 000 to the Oil City Y. M. C. A., which, by the way, is the first donation of the sort he has ever made to Pennsylvania. It is to be hoped that President HARPER and the Chicago University will not get mad about this, but the public wont care much how mad they get if the price of oil isn’t push- ed up another notch as a result of it. 7—The Presidents’ message to Congress, being about ¢ix colamns long, will have to be omitted from this issue. Taking it for granted that all our readers will feel very sorry not to have an opportunity of read- ing it ' for themslves we do the next best thi ng by stating that it contains about five thousand good English words coupled to- gether in such a way ae to read beautifully’ bat mean little. — If the North American and other Phila- delphia, papers want to kill all the survivors of the typhoid epidemic in unfortunate. Batler with ennui all they need to do is con- tinue a few days longer those silly articles about ‘‘Dr.- FRENCH and the twenty-five nurses Philadelphiasent.”” There is no doubt of their doing a good work in Bat- ler; but then there is some doubt as to their doing it all. —The Governor PENNY denies-that he appointed SAMUEL GUSTINE THOMPSON, a Democrat, to serve out an unexpired term on the Sapreme court bench so that he can be nominated and elected to the bench next fall, ‘when his term as Governor is about over. He denies ‘‘the soft impeach- ment’’ of his intentions, but adds that if the ‘‘ party nominates me for the Supreme coart, I shall return to the bench.” —The Cincinnati girl who wedded a ‘Washington, Pa. man a few days ago and after the ceremony disclosed to him thas she was really an heiress and vot the poor girl he thooght her to be, is a jewel in more ways than one. The satisfaction he must have had in knowing his wife’s ability to keep a secret was enough pleas- ure for one day, without the half-million unexpected fortune and other little things that went with her. . —Prol. LANGLEY'S second airship took au ignominions tumble into the Potomac on Tuesday. The professor is reported as having been greatly chagrined because his flying machine wouldn't fly, bat then the Professor ought to have known better than to call it a flying machine. Had he called it a submarine boat or ait aquatic fowl the papers would have been fall of his success. All of ‘which goes to show that there is a great deal in a name after all. Li daring ‘the recesses between sessions of the In suotiier clause he is authoriz- \ with the’ advice and te,” appoint, other | gnment. But be ‘has no pissian “mén* nominated |} during a session of Congress until. after’ they bave been confirmed hy the Senate and doing so is a usarpation of power the most dangerous and destructive in its char- acter. Such a usurpation is the gravest crime agaicst the Republic and if Congress were animated by the spirit which bas made the American Congress great among the institutions of the world, he would be impeached before a week had elapsed. If this outrage is permitted to go unchalleng- ed it will establish a precedent which may lead to something worse. Philadelphia} Congressmen. The death of Co bgressman BURK, of Phila delphia, brings into public notice again the peculiar methods of selecting Representatives in Congress in that city.’ In fact it bas become the richest plum of the politicians'and as vice and crime have been used by what DAVE LANE calls ‘the: organization’’ for years as a political asset, it m ay be said that of late. death has be- come an agent in: the collection of funds. That is to say within a comparatively brief ‘period of time two of the new Congressmen have died and the two who probably paid the highesé prices for their seats. Their death makes the seats available for sale again. : The plano there i is to sell the seat to the highest bidder, regardless of his character. or fitness. When a vacancy occurs all the wealthy men in the district are invited to join in the competition or rather the hid- ding. Whoever sedures the prize holds it as long as hie lives uriléss he grows tired of the position, That being the case the price asked is high. Ts is estimated that as high as $75,000 has been paid ‘and the money is divided among the ‘“Ward Lead- ers’”’ in the district. Upon the death of Representative FOEBRDERER a few months ago the seat was offered to JoHN WANA- MAKER for $75,000 but he declined it. Representative MOON got it at a somewhat lower price. In the case of BURK Commissioner DUR- HAM has announced that DAVE MARTIN shall bave the disposal of the seat. There are a good many rich men in the district and he will probably get a large sum for the place. This will be MARTIN'S first prize since he left the organization with QUA Y’S brand of a dollar mark on his fore- head eight years ago. But it will make up for the long wait, for instead of going to balf a dozen as happened in the case of FOERDERER’S suczessor it will be in one lump. may take a notion to select their own Rep: resentative in Congress. It is the RAN - D ALL district. ~——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN. Still the people in that district | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. NO. 49. BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 11, 1908. Roosevelt’s Yellow Streak. President ROOSEVELT has again reveal- ed his willingness to temporize with crime when soch a sinister course will promete his political interests. That is to say the question of the dismissal of PERRY S. HEATH from the secretaryship of the Re- publican National committee having been brought up squarely before him, he has consented to permit him to remain in the office. The alternative was the open opposition of Senator MARK HANNA and he hadn’t the courage to encounter it: “There- fore he consents to a compromise with crooks rather than prejudice his chances of election. A man of finer fibre would have adopted the other course. One of genuine courage would have throttled the evil and conquered or sustained a manly defeat. Assistant Postmaster General BRISTOW’S report inculpated Mr. HEATH in various ways. . It not only disclosed the fact that he was directly concerned with the ‘‘rake- off”’ in the Department, but that be had association with the corrupt stock opera- tions which have so scandalized the postal service. In his memorandum the Presi- dent declared, emphatically, that every man connected with those iniguities must be promptly and fitly punished. But he has since consented not only to immunity from punishment for Mr. HEATH but to his retention in the office of secretary of the Republican National committee. The scurviest politician couldn’t possibly have shown the yellow streak more completely. Even lobbyist PAYNE couldn’t have done worse. President ROOSEVELT has simply writ- ten himself down an arrant humbug. Pro- fessing to abhor every form of fraud in public life he embraces aud coddles politic- al and official criminals for personal reason. We say criminals in this conneec- tion because in his memorandum the President declared they were guilty.. Yet he doesn’t spurn HEATH as an honorable man would. He consents to political as- sociation with him as if he were a man of high character and just reputation. After such an exhibition of lax morals. what more can be expected of ROOSEVELT than that he will consent-to any other form of crime to uaranbee his election. Having done that of coarse during his subsequent official life crime. Dr. Wood Renominated. The President has reappointed Dr. LEONARD Wo0D a Major General,notwith- standing the evidence of his unfitness and in spite of the injustice it involves. He might have saved the country from that humiliation. He is under obligations $o Dr. Woop, no doubt. - When he was a subordinate to Dr. WooD in the Rough Riders, he was given every opportunity to make himself conspicuous. In thus oblig- ing his subordinate Dr. WooD may have been influenced by one consideration or another. That is it may have been the result of an amiable disposition to indulge an errasio youngster or the fact that it was safer to remain in seclusion while within the range of Spanish rifles might have been the cause. In any event he has been amply paid for his part in the affair. But President ROOSEVELT has made up ihis mind to'squaré the accounts in another way. In other words ROOSEVELT has de- termined to overpay Dr. Woop by giving him an appointment far ahead of anything he deserves. There are people so peculiar- ly constituted that they are profiigately generous with other people’s money. If they employ a man for another they agree that they are commissioned to make a pur- chase for another they pay the most ex- be of this type. . Paying his personal debt to WooD in coin which belongs. to, the people he is liberal ‘beyond reason. After baving paid it ten times over by favors al- ready given he wants to make it a thon- sand fold by this last nomination. If there were no others than himself and Dr. Woop concerned in the affair there wouldn’t be much harm in this purpose of the President. Dr. Woop would have a position that be is unfit to fill, according to the evidence of numerous witnesses heard before the Senate committee, but in times of peace there isn’t much for a Major General to do and one man can do it as well as another. But in the case in point it is vastly different. In promoting Dr. WooD to the rank of Major General he elevates him over the heads:of more than a hundred veterans who have earned the favors of the government by actnal,hazard- ous and efficient service. That is an in- justice of the proportions of a crime and the Senate shonld not only reject the nomi- | nation but rebuke the President. , —— There: are. some very timely and helpful hints. ou Christmas buying and Christmas entertainments on other pages of this edition. If you an interested you will appreciate reading them, Chat ‘ Fhe will bethe slave of his companione in| to pay exorbitant wages. In the event ‘travagant prices. . ROOSEVELT ‘appears to The President's Message. President ROOSEVELT’S annual message to Congress is a unique public document. As the New York 7imes states, ‘‘the time will come when just-minded men will wish that that part of President ROOSEVELT’S message in which he explains and defends his course upon the Isthmus of Panama might be expunged from the national records.”” Our metropolitan contemporary might have added that from start to finish the message is a travesty on statecraft. It reveals the operations of a mind qualified to write posters for a circus but absolutely destitute of the qualities which measures and masters questions of moment. No in- telligent American will read the message without blushing in shame. The obvious purpose of the President was to puff his administration with the view of promoting his chances for election to sncceed himself. To quote again from our New York contemporary, ‘‘the vision of President ROOSEVELT is so clouded and his reasoning so disturbed by the fires of his ambition,”” that he actually makes himself ridiculous. He opens with the "declaration that ‘the country is to be con- gratulated on the amount of substantial achievement which has marked the past year, and then preceeds to exploit ‘the or- ganization of the new Department of Com- merce and Industry as the sum and sub- stance of benevolent achievement. Noth- ing more absurd bas ever been asserted. But the follies of the message might be over-looked if it were not for the vices which it expresses. For example he under- takes to justify his Panama policy by recit- ing a lot of iniquities which have occurred on the Isthmus daring the pass half a cen- tury. There have been a number of riotous demonstrations, he asserts and nobody denies his allegation. But these demonstra- tions have been of the people of Panama against their rightful government and any foreign interference ought to have been in behalf of the government and in the inter- est of order. Hitherto interferences have been in that direction but in the present instance the President of the United States has taken the opposite course and in- terfered in behalf of rebellion. It isshame- ful but true. . is % ———— The _Postofiice Frauds, ¥ When the question of ‘of’ referring the ¢ tes- timony taken by Assistant, Postmaster Gen- eral BRISTOW in relation to fiauds in the postal service to Senator PENROSE'S com- mittee came up in ‘the Senate on Tuesday, Senator GORMAN protested. ‘Fraud and corruption has been admitted;’he de- clared, ‘“and the country is not satisfied with the investigation.” ‘He added that ‘‘those who had been accused had said that others higher up were as guilty as they,”’ and under those circumstances Mr. GORMAN thought that there ought to be a real inves- tigation. In this view the public is likely to concur. No more absuid proposition was ever made than that to refer charges of fraud to Senator PENROSE. When he was a candi- date for mayor of Philadelphia, a few years ago, the public conscience literally revolted and the clergy protested that his life was so atrociously immoral that his election to the office would be an outrage. He has been for years the intimate friend and close associate of all the ballot box stoffers and political criminals in that city of vice and the reference of any charge of fiaud to his committee would be equivalent to a decla- ration of endorsement of is. Senator GORMAN knows the purpose of the motion to refer that testimony to the PENROSE committee. He understands that the object is not to secare an investi- gation but to prevent such a thing. If the evidence were so referred within a week a pe ‘every inculpated rascal wonld be spirited away a3 SALTER was ‘concealed until ar- .rangements could be made for their acquit- tal by a miscarriage of justice. Senator GORMAN was right in his protest against such a miscarriage of justice. It is to be hoped that be will persist in the course he has taken until an investigation is foroed, which will uncover ail the guilty rascals. ——While the butchering was going on ‘at the home of Jacob Royer, near Colyer, recently a rifle that had been used ic knocking the hogs down and then stood aside, was picked up by one of the party. The family cow was passing’ the house at the time and, throwing the gun to his shoulder and drawing a bead on poor old sookey, the joking warksman exclaimed : “Were that cow a deer, what a delightful shot.” Then the gun—juss like every old gun thas isn’t supposed to be loaded—went off and she good family cow fell dead in her sracks. ~ ——In Lycoming county a judge recently sentenced a boy to six years and six months in the penitentiary for stealing satchels at the railroad station. In this county they don’t get that much for killing people. — Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Our Congressmen. Assignments to Places on the Standing Committees. Representative Evans, of Nineteenth District, Gets a Place on Two Additional Committees. WASHINGTON, December 5.—In the committee assignments announced to-day Pennsylvania fares fully as well as she did in the last Congress. She has secured two more chairmanships, that of Representative Sibley to be chairman of the committee on manufactures, and that of Representative Wright to be chairman of the expenditures in the agricultural department. Pennsyl- vania now has five chairmanships, as fol- lows: : Mahon, of war claims; Olmsted, of elections No. 2; Sibley, of manufactures; Wanger, of expenditures in the postoffice department, and Wright, of expenditures in the agricultural department. Pennsylvania retains her influential position on the more important committees of the House by having Representative Dalzell as member of the committee on rules, and the committee on ways .and meats; Bingham as a member of the com- mittee on appropriations; Acheson, on rivers and harbors; Adams, : on foreign affairs and immigration; Butler, on naval affairs; Olmsted, on insular affairs and elections number 2; McCreary, on banking and currency; Palmer, on judiciary; Wanger, on interstate and foreign com- merce; Sibley, on manufactures, and Mor- rell, on District of Columbia. : The rearrangement of the committees: to: accommodate a large number of new mem- bers in this House necessitated changes in the assignments of some of the Pennsyl: | vania members. Mr. Adams gave up his place on the military committee Mr. Bingham declined a reappointment on the postoffice and post roads committee. Both of these gentlemen have their full share of work and responsibility on other commit.’ tees to which they have been: appointed. Mr. Bates has heen put on elections No.l, instead of the committee on expenditures in public buildings. It bad been hoped. that the speaker could see his way clear to appointing Mr. Bates on the committee of public: buildings ‘and grounds, ‘but the situation would not permit of the assign: ment.’ Representative Cassell, who had rather insignificant committee assignments last | Congress, has been appointed to the com- mittee ‘on aceounts, census and elections No. 3. Representative’ Evans retains his place on the two committees he was at- tached to last Congress, the revision of the laws and private land claims, and in addi- tion has been assigned to the committee on immigration and naturalization. Of the new Republican members Mr. McCreary, of Philadelphia, has received probably the best appointments, having been assigned to the committee on banking avd cnrrency. Pennsylvania bas bad 2 Tepiusentative on this.committee for man Representative Boston. or neaster, its chairman for two or three terms. The four Democrats from Pennsylvania were at the mercy of the new Demobrasic leader, Mr. Williams, of . Mississippi, . who recommended minority appointments,. and they cannot boast of any very fine assign- ments. Mr. Dickerman got a place on the committee of patents, Mr. Howell on mines and mining, Shull on railways and canals, and Kline, who comes from _the rock-ribbed Thirteenth district, drew a booby prize in being assigned to ventila- tion and acoustics. The following is the list of Pennsylvania members and their assignments. Acheson, rivers and harbors, expendi- tures in the navy department; Adams, immigration and naturalization, foreign affairs, expenditures in the state depart- ment; Bates, coinage, weights and meas- ures,. elections No. 1; Bingham, appropri- ations; Brown, coinage, weights and meas- ures, pensions; Butler, claime, naval af-| fairs; Cassell, accounts, census, elections No. 3; Cooper, railways and canals, levees, and improvements of the Mississippi river, irrigation of arid lands; Dalzell, ways and means, rules; Deemer, railways and canals, | invalid pensions; Dickerman, patents; Dreseér, coinage, weights and measures, patents; Evans, revision of the laws, pri- vate land claims , immigration and natarali- zation; Howell, mines and mining, levees and improvements of the Mississippi river; Kline, ventilation and acoustics; Lafean, election of President, vice President and Representatives in Congress, expenditures in the navy department; McCreary, bank- ing aod currency; Mahon, war claims; Moon, revision of the laws, edncasion, Morrell, District of Columbia, expendi- tures in the treasury department; Olmsted; election No. 2, insnlar affairs; Palmer, ju- diciary, Pacific railroads; Patterson, mines and mining, expenditures in the interior department, pensions; Porter, alcoholic liquor traffic, industrial arts and exposi- tions, expenditures in the department of justice; Shiras, public lands; Shull, rail- ways and canals; Sibley, postoffice and post: roads, wanufactures: Smith; reform in civil service, militia; Wanger, interstate and foreign commerce, expenditures. in the postoffice department; Wright, agricnl- ture, expenditures in the department of agriculture. Is a Bird Herself. Mrs. William Robbin,of Louisville, Ky., Wednesday was married to David Buzzard. It is her fourth matrimonial venture.. She was a Miss Martin, daughter of one of the best known Bourbon county families. She first married Robert Crow. He died and she married John Sparrow six months afterward. She and Mr. Sparrow did not agree, and a divorce followed. Mrs. Spar- row became Mm. William Robbin, but again a divorce was found advisable. After a year of lonely life, Mrs. Robbin has become Mrs. David Buzzard. She bas two Crows, one Sparrow, one Robbin and a Buzzard at her home. She says she pre- fers ‘‘birds’’ for husbands. The Century’s Five Great Men Senator Daniel, of Virginia, said in a recent speech of Baltimore that the pive- teenth century produced only five soldiers who could be called great : Napoleon, Well- ibgson; Von Moltke, Grant and Robert E. ee. ‘typhoid fever. ley railroad station. RE ls ‘ Spawls from the Reyuivan. —Graduates of the Petersburg, Huntingdon county High school have set on foot a move- ment to organize an Alumni association. —Huntingdon county is the first county in the State to begin the construction of road building under the Sproul road law. A sec- tion of 2800 feet is being built in that county as an experiment, —A boy by the name of Noll jumped off the eastbound fiyer on the Bald Eagle Valley railroad, as they were passing Vail, about 12:40 Saturday and was seriously injured. The train at the time was running 40 miles an hour. —The First Presbyterian church of Lewis- town has extended a unanimous call to Rey. William L. Mudge, pastor of the Pheonix- ville Presbyterian church, to succeed Rev. William Harrison Decker, who accepted a call from Homestead. —The excitement over the big strike of gas at Hyner continues. During the past week thousands visited the wells. The Renovo borough council will be asked within a few days for permission to lay the pipes and the gas will be taken there. —Sam Pawich, an Austrian aged 18 years, was stabbed at his boarding house on Branch ‘street, Johnstown, Saturday night and died at the Memorial hospital Monday morning. There was a quarrel among his countrymen and during it he was stabbed. —Three new cases of small pox have de- veloped in Johnstown since Saturday and there has been one death—Michael Egan, aged 22 years. He was a native of Gallitzin and is survived by his wife, who was Miss Stella Passmore, of Clearfield. His parents are also living. —During the christening exercises at a Slav home near Grass:Flat, Clearfield county,Sun- day. afternoon, George Hudok, of Pleasant Hill, shot and instantly killed a young man of the same nationality by the name of Thos. Korencick. The entire party had been drinking heavily and after the murder Hu- dok disappeared. —The DuBois Courier says George Slimmer, a -young ‘man living at Slimmier’s school house, - located between Big Run and Trout- » ville, returned home from Anita last Thurs day suffering from what was supposed to be The doctors have row diagnosed the case as small pox. Slimmer , was employed in a hotel at Anita. ~The thirty second annual convention of the Pennsylvania state grange convened in Wilkesbarre on Tuesday. Headquarters were opened at the armory. Besides the 1,000 delegates to the convention 500 more guests were present as well as many prominent Grangers from other States including the mas- ters of the New York and New Jersey state Granges. —One day last week while Miss Pearl Ep- sen, of Nippenose valley, was going about her 1abors she fainted and fell directly on top of the red hot coal stove. Immediately she re- turned to consciousness, and upon examina- tion it was found that the hair was burned off one side of her head and her one arm ter- ribly burned from the hand to the shoulder. —A Pottsville, Pa., employment agent be- lieves that he has solved the servant prob- lem. He has entered into negotiations with several immigration societies in the south to late. bring 25,000 negro girls to the north. . These a8 4 girls,’ it is said, will be used not only as do- mestics, but also as operatives in factories. New Orleans is to be the central point of shipment. —Fire Sunday night destroyed the club- house of the Mohawk club, a three story frame structure, together with its contents, at Jeannette. The place was unoccupied . when the fire broke out. The firemen found an overturned stove, which is supposed to. have originated the fire. The club lost all its paraphérnalia and the uniforms of the foot ‘ ball team. The loss is placed at $1,500. —Rev. Henry Evans, a muscular DuBois" parson, who got his' dander up.and knotked two small men out in short order and was ar-' rested for assault and battery, waived a trial and pleaded guilty at the Clearfield county court on Monday. Judge Gordon after giv- ing the parson some very pointed advice on what a cultured, educated gentleman and: minister should do, sentenced Rev. Evans to pay a fine of $25 in each case and cost of prose - cation. —A. Williamson, a well known lumberman. of Bellwood, has purchased from heirs of John Rohn estate over 1,000 acres of excel- lent timber land, lying along the West Branch railroad in the vicinity of Karthaus. ‘The tract contains over three million feet of lomber. The consideration was $7,000. John Rohn is the man who mysteriously disap- peared about four years ago, and no trace of him was ever found, it being the general sup- position that he was murdered and his body hidden. —Saturday afternoon a stranger was talk- ing to another man at Mill Hall depot when the train pnlled out from the Bald Eagle Val- Noticing it the stranger, made an attempt to get on, but in doing so he lost his hold and was thrown under the mov- ing train about half of his body being on eith- er side of the rail. By supreme presence of mind he threw himself quickly around out of danger. It was a close call and caused the spectators to hold their breath for a moment. —An order has been issued from National Guard headquarters announcing another change in officers’ uniforms to conform with those of officers’ of the regular army. The orders require the change from light blue to white stripes on trousers for infantry officers after February 1st, 1904. The return to white stripes makes the uniforms the same as they were before the order adopting light blue stripes was issued some time ago. Some of the infantry officers had not yet changed from white to light blue and will not be re- quired to make any change by the new edict. —Humphrey Chilcote, aged 85 years, left his home in Hares Valley, about October 25, to visit friends at Three Springs. After spending a few days there went to Shirleys- burg, where he tarried about a week at the almshouse, leaving that institution without informing anyone as to where he was going. He has not been seen or heard from since, not having returned to his home, it is feared he might have taken ill and died while crossing the mountain. Any person knowing any- thing as to where Mr. Chilcote is will confer a favor by notifying Isaac Dell, at Latta Grove, Pa - te
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