BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Cotton took a very sudden tumble on
Tuesday ard a lot of speculators tumbled
with it. :
—The Russian note will soon go to pro-
test if it isn’t taken care of better than
it is by the Czar.
—Going to war is almost as easily done
as said but paying the bills is an. entirely
-different matter.
—Col. SKINNER may have seen King
MENELIK, of Abyssina, but thas isn’t go-
ing to reduce the price of eggs.
—The ground-hog certainly saw his
shadow on Tuesday unless he was frozen
‘go far in his hole that he couldn’t get out.
—And this is the season of the year that
our merchants are buying straw bats. and
summer underwear. Thank the Lord, we
don’t have to wear them now.
—The death of WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
removes the man to whom, above all oth-
‘ers, the United States is indebted for the
reorganization and promoting of the new
navy.
—1I¢ is little wonder that the question as
.to ‘‘what is a Democrat’ has gotten into
‘the courts in Philadelphia. The jury should
bring in a verdict of ‘‘the higher, the few-
er.”’
—It’s a wise child that knows its own
father, but judging from speeches at the
opening of Parliament in London on Tues-
day Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN seems to
be right well acquainted with his.
—KATE SOFFEL is up against it ahout
as hard as she was when trying to escape
with the notorious BIDDLE boys. The
courts have restrained her from showing
her brazen face in Washington county.
—Williamsport is the home of some one
who is bad enoungh;to rob the contribution
boxes for the hospital in that city and it is
safe to say that Williamsport is heartily
ashamed of being the domicile of such ‘a
‘measly wretch.
. —The retirement. of JOHN D. ROCKE-
FELLER from the directorate of the United
Sta tes Steel Co. is not likely to have any
effect on the amonnt of oil that is neces-
sary to keep the waters of the Steel trust
from getting too greatly troubled.
~ —State Treasurer FRANK HARRIS has
appeared in a new role. Now he assumes
to be a regular ‘watch dog of the
treasury’’ and says he wont pay the in-
creased salaries allowed judges by the last
Legislature until the constitusionality of
the law is tested in court.
—The poor man at York, who is dying
of blood poison caused by getting washing
soda into fresh cut in his hand while help-
ing his wife wash, will be held up as a fatal
example by many a lazy fellow who sits
% behind the stove smoking while his poor
wife makes a slave of herself.
—Marriage appears to be somewhat of a
failure in Dauphin county, judging from
the thirty-eight petitions in divorce that
were presented when court convened in
Harrisburg on Monday. Can it be that the
wise men of the State have had anything
to do with the wholesale tearing up of the
marital relations of the families about the
capital ?
—1It bas leaked out about Washington
that a bill appropriating three-quarters of a
million dollars for the purchase of a certain
plot of ground is the beginning of a move-
ment for a new ‘‘White House.”’ The pres-
ent one is said to be ‘‘too mean, cramped
and dingy?’ for President ROOSEVELT. As
sound business people a great many Awer-
jcans will look on it as being far cheaper to
get another President than to spend so
_mpeh money.
a
ed
—The President is in a hole. There isa
surplus of $280,000,0001n the United States
Treasury, most of which vast sum is lying
in National banks of the country drawing
no interest. The bills incurred by the
Panama canal proposition will soon be pay-
able. The banks say they can’t give up
the money without causing a panic and the
ad ministration is afraid to negotiate bonds
to pay it when there is such a surplus in
the Treasury. And there you are. What
is to be done about it?
—1If Supreme court justice BROWN, of
Lancaster, actually thinks that PENNY-
PACK ER’ sdeal is a veritable case of a‘‘borg-
lar trying to break into the Supreme court
with a jimmy?’ he could do much to pre-
vent the burglary. BROWN is a leading
QUAY man in Lancaster county and if be
‘were to speak up strong against PENNY:
PACKER’S notorious attempt to push him-
sell into a seat on tbe Supreme bench be
wonld find so much . sentiment crystaliz-
ing around his opposition that the sage of
WETZEL'S swamp would have to get back
to the tall grass of Chester county after he
is through in Harrisburg. ;
— Another imperialistic and expensive
precedent has been established at Washing-
ton by our apparently thoughtless Presi-
dent. In order to gratify the vanity of his
personal friends, retiring Seoretary of War
Root and arriving Governor TAFT, he. or-
dered out troops of cavalry as escorts for
them through the streets of Washington.
As a result of this unusual order every for-
eign Ambassador arriving and departing
from Washington will henceforth demand
a similar honor and it will nos be long un-
til the streets of our national capital will
present the warlike and imperialistio
aspect of the home of an Emperor ora Czar.
Such things sieze hold upon a country by
small steps and we fear this one has heen
extraordinarily large.
“VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 5, 1904.
Foraker Sharply Snubbed.
Senator FORAKER has introduced an
amendment to the SHERMAN anti-trust
law which if adopted would completely de-
stroy the merits of that measure. Senator
FORAKER is the President’s campaign man-
ager and it is commonly believed that his
purpose in introduving the amendment was
to reconcile Wall street to ROOSEVELT.
But the scheme failed of its purpose. Asa
matter of fact, it operated very mach like
a boomerang. That is to say it created such
an emphatic protest around ROOSEVELT'S
ears that, according to some newspapers
friendly to him, he was obliged to send for
the Attorney General and get him to issue
a statement denying all relationship to or
even sympathy with the measare.
As a matter of fact, we are inclined to
believe that the statement of Attorney Gen-
eral KNOX with respect to the matter is
truthful. No doubt FORAKER believed
that the introduction of such a measure
would benefit the President, for he is su-
perserviceable and not too sane. But he
has entirely misinterpreted the conditions.
He probably thought the movement would
please the truss magnates and induce them
to liberality in campaign. contributions.
But RoosEVELT and KNOX know better.
They understand that it is not ROOSE-
VELT'S antipathy to trusts that has tnrned
capital against him. Itis in part his un-
reliability and inconsistency in everything
and in part bis habit of ‘‘holding up’’ rail-
roads after the fashion of a highway-
man.
It now remains to he seen how FORAKER
will take the humiliation which the Attor-
ney General’s statement puts upon him.
He was probably taken into the President’s
confidence less on account of his capability
than because of bis enmity to HANNA.
ROOSEVELT hates HANNA'S friends and
likes his enemies without regard to merit
or demerit. But even FORAKER’S hatred
of HANNA will hardly influence bim to
quietly submit to the open repudiation of
the President and the chances are that
hereafter; instead of one of the Ohio Sena-
tors being opposed to him they will now
make common cause of an antagenism. In
that event, it may be predicted that the
Ohio delegation will lead the fight for a
new candidate. i.
© Take Care ot the Fish.
Fish commissioner MEEIAN is of the
opinion that salmon may be propogated
in the Delaware river as successfully as in
the California streams and he has already
taken steps to experiment in the matter.
He also intends to stock all the streams
ic the State with fish for the purpose of
increasing the supply of food fish. This is
creditable both to Mr. MEEHAN’S intelli-
genceand his industry. A generous sup-
ply of food fish in the streams is one of the
greatest attractions to a community and
every section of this State may he made
thas attractive.
But stocking the streams won’t of itself
achieve the result. The fry muss be taken
care of after they are planted and when
they have grown to the proportions of food
fish they must be taken care of by the
enforcement of adequate laws. We are
not sure that the present laws are adequate
laws, but they ought to be enforced
anyway and in that way whatever de-
linquencies there are will be revealed
and may be corrected by subsequent legis-
lation. It is certain that we will never
have an abundance of fish until the laws
regulating the taking of fish are enforced.
There has been a great improvement in
this respect since the organization of the
Department of Fisheries and the appoint-
ment of Mr. MEEHAN. He has proved
himself an admirable official. But much
as he has achieved there is still much to
do and we hope that daring the approach-
ing season he will exert every effort to
protect the fish in so far as the law pro-
vides a means. In that way not only the
Delaware but the Susquehanna and all the
other riversand streams. might be made
homes for California salmon.
Of the other varieties of fish which were
formerly abundant in varioms sections of
Pennsylvania equnal care should be iaken.
The mountain streams of this section once
offered inducements to genuine sportsmen
superior to those of any other sections of
the country by the presence of abundance
of hrook trons. The capable and energetic
commissioner should direct his astention to
the planting of those streams with trout
fry and the preservation of them until
they mature. This can be accomplished
with comparatively little expense and
should not be neglected.
——In another column of this issue will
be found the announcement of WILLIAM
GROH RUNKLE Esq., who aspires to the
nomination of the Democratic county con-
vention - for ' District Attorney. It is an
honorable ambition for any young praocti-
tioner and Mr. RUNKLE has had experience
sufficient to qualify him for the duties of
the office; besides his devotion to the Dem-
ocratic party merits the most kindly oon.
sideration of his claim.
Fennypucker’s Infamous Deal.
The later developments with respect to
Governor PENNYPACKER'S intrigue to force
himself on the Supreme court bench pres-
ents that atrccious conspiracy ina most
sinister light. It is almost impossible to
imagine a moral turpitude, outside of the
most depraved element of the human fawi-
ly, equal to such iniquity. This old man,
immersed in his own forbidding egotism,
engages in the corrupt commerce of disrep-
utable politics with an abandon that is
amazing. He not only sells his own office
as part payment for another less honorable
but more lucrative position but he offers to
bargain away, for a corrupt consideration,
the official patronage of his successor in his
present place. .
According to a well authenticated state-
ment published in a recent issue of the
Philadelphia ‘‘Press’’ Governor PENNY-
PACKER tendered to Hon. LYMAN D. GIL-
BERT, of Harrisburg, the appointment to the
vacancy on the Supreme bench of the State
created by the death of Chief Justice
McCoLLUM in consideration of a pledge
that he would not he a candidate for the
nomination to succeed himself, and to
make the proposition more alluring the
Governor agreed to have Mr. GILBERT ap-
pointed Attorney General, by ‘‘OLEO”
BROWN, which office he added
$20,000 a year.”” Mr. GILBERT heing an
honorable man declined to enter iuto the
agreement and the Governor nominated
a Democrat for the vacancy.
Since the elevation of MATTHEW STAN-
LEY QUAY to the leadership of the Repub-
lican party we have had many disreputable
deals and demoralizing conspiracies in the
official life of Pennsylvania. The funds of
the State have been used by high officials
in violation of the constitution and the
laws, and the culprit, QUAY himself, hav-
ing escaped the penalty of the misdemeanor
by pleading the statutes of limitation.
Offices have been bought and sold in : the
open and legislative bribery has become as
common as other forms of iniquity and
dishonor. But we doubt if the history of
the State presents a case in which moral
turpitude was so clearly expressed as in
this infamous deal of the Governor.
Slanderer.
A Base
At a dinner in honor of Senator PEN-
ROSE, in Philadelphia, one evening last
week, Governor PENNYPACKER was the
principal speaker after the guest of the
evening. PENROSE spoke at considerable
length and enlogized the political cendi-
tions in Pennsylvania. Other States, he
said, envy this hecause it gives a larger Re-
pub.ican majority than any other. Phila-
delphia, he continued, gave the Republican
State ticket a majority of 145,000 last fall,
more than the majority given by any other
State which held an election last year, ex-
cept Ohio. Allegheny county, he added,
gave 70,000 majority, which was also more
than any State gave other than Obio,
Following this brazen laudation of frand
Governor PENNYPACKER spoke of -Penn-
sylvania and in a series of tiresome and
‘inane platitudes enlogized QUAY and PEN-
ROSE. But the significant feature of his
absurd speech was his fling at Mr. CHAS.
EMORY SMITH. ‘“‘Pennsylvania,’’ be said,
‘‘is not governed by adventurers from other
States and countries who come among us.’
This was clearly in the resentment of the
exposure of the dishonorable traffic in pnb-
lic office in which he has been engaged
since the increase in the salary of justices
of the Supreme court made that office at-
tractive to his covetous nature and strange-
ly developed cupidity.
In 1880 Mr. CHARLES EMORY SMH,
gentleman and scholar, came from Albany,
New York, where he had been the capable
editor of an important and influential
newspaper, to Philadelphia, where he be-
came editor of the Philadelphia Press.
Since that he has been a leader in every de-
serving and philanthropic work. He has
served his conntry as Ambassador to Rus-
gia and won distinction by his courtesy and
capability. He served five years as Post-
master General with exceptional ability
and fidelity, and he has been ‘conspicuous
and efficient in educational and other good
works in the State. To call such a man an
adventurer is a slander which deserves the
sharpest rebuke that the people of the State
can administer.
——1It will be only a short time now un-
til the University Extension lectures will
be begun and if you have not already sub-
scribed to the course you should make it a
point to do so. The opportunity presented
to Bellefonte in secaring Mr. E. L. 8.
Horsburgh, the eminent English lecturer,
is exceptional and it would be too bad to
miss any of the advantages to be secured
through his visit to Bellefonte.
——Up to this time about sixty persons
have accepted the invitation to be present
at the bangues of the Centre county assooi-
ation of Philadelphia, at Dooner’s hotel, in
that city, on Tuesday evening, February
9th. It should be borne in mind that any
Centre countians who happen to be in
Philadelphia that night will be made wel-
come.
“is worth |
The Investigation Stopped.
The Republicans of the Senate have
finally succeeded, it appeais, in suppress-
ing the proposed further investigation
into the Post Office Department frauds.
In his report to the President made about
the opening of the extra session of Con-
gress Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
BRISTOW declared that a more searching
ingmity might be necessary for the reason
hab a Senator, some Representatives in
Congress and others. were inculpated.
The distinguished lawyers Messrs. BoNA-
PARTE and{CONARD appointed to examine
the evidence gathered by BRISTOW said
that a congressional investigation is essen-
o the vindication of justice. Yet
e has heen no farther investigation
and the incident is closed. *
Why have the Republicans of the Senate,
espécially such close friends of the Presi-
dent as Senator LODGE, of Massachusetts,
prevented a more searching investigation
of the frauds in question? We can under-
stand why Senator;BURTON,of Kansas, was
opposed to a reopening of the subject. He
was incalpated in the frands and hoped to
escape the just penalty of his crimes. But
Senator LODGE could hardly bave been
inflaenced by the sense of self-preservation.
It is hardly possible that Senator SPOON-
ER, of Wisconsin, and Senator ALLISON, of
Iowa, are culpable and afraid of exposure.
They are above suspicion. They have
bribes. :
The fact is, however, that they under-
stand that most of the high Republican
officials are concerned in the frauds. If is
already known that the trace of corruption
was followed into the private office of the
Postmaster General and his private Seore-
tary was tainted. It is believed that if the
inquiry were pursued it would lead even
closer to the President and other high
officials and to save them Senator LODGE,
Senator SPOONER aud Senator ALLISON
have stultified themselves by becoming
‘‘fences’’ for official thieves in the Post-
office Department. If this is’ not true les
them permit the investigation to proceed.
If there is no'danger they won’t be hurt.
Secretary Root‘s Retirement.
The retirement of Secretary of War Root
is a. subject for popular congratulation.
Daring five years he has administered the
office hestowed on him at the demand of
the trusts in violation of the law and in
contempt of the constitution. Without
military experience he was appointed be-
because it was felt that in the event of
necessity he would promptly turn the guns
of the army on the people of the country
and direct that every soldier shoot to kill,
That is the kind of men the trust mage
nates want in such positions. HANNA al-
ways gave them what they wanted while
MCKINLEY was in office and ROOSEVELT
bas obliged them since.
Daring that brief period of five years
Secretary RooT has done more to revolu-
tionize the army than all his predecessors
since the beginning of the government,
Previous to his administration an Ameri-
can soldier preserved the prerogatives of an
Awerican citizen. He was taught to obey
orders on duty, of course, and he always
met that obligation. But off duty he
could vote, speak, read and think like any
otber citizen. But Root altered all that.
During his administration even so distin-
‘guished a soldier as General MILES was re-
buked for expressing an opinion on a sub-
ject unconnected with the army. Suncha
thing would not bave been tolerated before
his time,
It was through the Sa of Roor,
moreover, that that favoritism which has
culminated in the promotion of Dr.
LEONARD Wo00oD to the rank of Major
General over the heads of more than 200
deserving veterans, was introduced and de-
veloped. That is one of the consequences
of Europeanizing the army. Favorites are
needed about the headquarters under that
system. Loyalty to the cliief ratber than
to the country, is what is required and if
RooT had continued in office a few yeas
longer it is uncertain what the army would
bave done in an emergency. Hig retirement
is, therefore, a matter of public felicitation.
———Millheim is agitating the canning
factory business and already two meetings
have been held in that place looking to the
erection of a cannery. Last Tuesday
M. J. Briggs, a representative of W. Penn
Davis, of Philadelphia, met a few people
of that community in the hardware store
in Millheim to talk over the proposition.
To build a plant with a capacity of 300,000
‘caus a’ year he said would take $15,000.
On Wednesday about seventy-five farmers
and others met in the town hall to'discuss
it and after spending the afternoon in talk-
ing over plans they appointed J. W. Kar-
stetter, of Coburn; A. J. Gephart, of Mill-
beim and Clymer Stover, of Aaronsburg,
a committee to visit and invéstigate some
canning factories and report their findings
to those interested in the project.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
we ERTS
never soiled their hands by the touch of
‘undue
‘ment
‘or two ago.
er. The matter was referred to the county |
NO. 5.
What are we to do Anyway?
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
Sir Roger de Goverley’s declaration that
there was something te be said on both
sides of a certain question has been com-
monly cited as a sarcasm directed against
those fickle and indecisive persons who are
‘“‘on the fence.” But there is scarcely a
problem out of Enclid which has not two
sides. A regular and systematic life is
supposed to be the means of attaining
happiness, wealth and health. Here is
Dr. O. T. Osborne, of the Yale Medical
school, who tells us, however, that reg-
ularity—or, rather, the strain’ of attaining
regularity— is fatal to the heart, nerves
and hapiness in this’ life. The effort to
meet engagements, to be on time, to do
the given work with in its allotted hour, |
to breakfast within a certain time, to reach
the office.‘on the dot,’’ to accomplish the
work which has been planned, results in
‘‘nervous disturbances of the heart muscle,
hastening a degeneration of the circulatory
system that comes normally only late
in life.”
There are two chief dangers or wearing
effects in ‘‘systems’’ which threaten the
man of promptitude and dispatch. The
effort to reach certain efficiency is "hears
weakening. The sprinter in the 100-yard
race is ‘‘set’’ just before the word is given.
This tensity of muscle and attention is a
very exhausting process, and if repeated
often enough will wear the runner out
before the race. This is the kind of ordeal |,
the worker goes through when he is always
trying to be on time and to do things
within a given time. There is another
element entering into the wear and tear
of the system. The trolley wheel, for
instance, though it rests never so lightly
on the feed wire, will show a rut in time,
and the man who follows a certain releni-
less routine will have weakness of heart or
brain or nerves if he keeps in the rut.
The thing seems to be reasoned out very
plausibly, but what are we to do about it?
We cannot imagine, unless it be: to advise
the systematic people to be on. time with-
out trying too hard, or to urge them to
break the routine often cnough to escape
the ruts. ~The old human race is trying to
become efficient for a million years, more
or less, and has just attained to something
like efficiency. It is only a short time since
railroad trains have been running ¢2 time;
‘amoung the backward races the only person
who is on time is the tax collector; in Mex-
ico and in Spain and in all the Spanish-
American countries it is always ‘‘mannpa’’
—tomorrow—but never today, and now,and
in America, where husiness is actually done
with dispatch, system and comfort, we have
it constantly dinned in our ears tbat the
race cannot stand is.
Perhaps the great problem. is bo:
rupt the system frequently; to.
rontine; to stop for a while trying to
time when i appears. to hea 4
Ie Of efior i: A
any rate, that is the only feasible s remed
becanse he who should counsel Americans
to become listless and tardy and careless
would be regarded by the business world
as a public enemy.
A Chance for an Explanation, at Least.
From the Pittsburg Post.
By cutting out of the urgent deficiency
bill the item carrying their double mileage
the members of the House have with sing-
ular unanimity repudiated the President’s
constructive recess theory. They bave de-
clared that there was not even a psycholog-
ical hiatus between the expiration of the
administration’s useless special session, and
the assembling of the regular ssssion at
noon, December 7. It goes without saying
that if legislation based upon the Presi-
dent’s convenient but preposterous assum p-
tion that there was an actual lapse of time
between 11:60 a. m.and 12 meridian on the
same day had been enacted the courts
would have declared such enactment void.
But in this imaginary infinitesimal time
President Roosevelt claims that he had the
constitutional power and the physical abil-
ity to sign various commissions to office
which invest them with the privileges and
immuuities of recess appointments. The
officials so appointed are now performing
their duties and drawing compensation
therefor. Senator Tillman has introduced
a resolution calling upon the appointing
power to inform the Senate of the number
and character of these appointments, and
also upon what warrant they were’ made.
Senator Lodge and other cuckoo Senators
have tried to convince the country that
‘there was a recess, and that therefore Mr.
Roosevelt was cléarly within his constitu-
‘tional rightswhen he made the: appointment.
But the country is not convinced. The
Tillman resolution affords the administra-
tion Senators a better opportunity to prove
this intangible proposition than was afford-
ed by the mere academic question at first
involved.
Shonld the information sought by the
South Carolinian 'e freely and fully given
the Senate can say whether or not presi-
dential favorites are to be foisted upon the
army and other departments of the Govern-
‘in this absurd manner after the
Senate either has failed or refused to
confirm their original appointments. This
is the question of importance now involved,
“and it is one upon which the Senate ought
to make a clear and dignified assertion of
its prerogative.
Babe's Body Found! Along Railroad.
The Mother Says It Accidentally Fell From the Car
. Window.
along the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg
railroad tracks, near Carwensville, a day
It was found by a track walk-
authorities, and the mother of the child
has been found at Grampian. ' She conless-
ed to having left the child fall from the
train while coming to Clearfield from Du-
bois. but that she was so badly frightened
that she was afraid to report the matter to
the authorities. Physicians declare that
the child was nndoubtedly alive when it
fell from the train. The mother is being
eld. j w. 3
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
inter- :
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The State Department has granted a
charter to the Lock Haven Knitting. com-
pany, which is capitalized at $15,000.
—The-: school board of Jersey Shoré has
decided to erect a new building that wir be
used for High school purposes. )
—A shirt factory at DuBois, cmployivg 40
girls,was destroyed by fire last Saturday and
it is uncertain whether it will be rebuilt or
not.
—Geo. W. Friday, Huntingdon’s famous
drummer, and who is claimed to be one of
the best in the county, expects to play at
the World’s Fair.
—Howard Waple, 25-years-old, was ground
to death under a New York Central train
near Kermoor last Friday night. A wife
survives him. He was the third man of one
crew to meet death within a few weeks.
—Three horses on the stage route between
Clearfield and Karthaus died the past week,
two of the animals from sickness and a third
from having its leg broken. The loss comes
pretty heavy on the stage and mail route
driver.
—Williamsport possesses one of the 12
prettiest babies in the United States and Mr.
and Mrs. Clinton B. Coleman, of West Fourth
street, are the proud parents. The award
has been made by the Ladies’. Home Journal.
There were 1,800 contestants.
.—About 100 boxes of glass were broken
last week at the Fitzpatrick factory of Falls
Creek, by the floors sinking enough to pull
loose the stalls or petitions at the top against
which the glass rest and stall and glass came
down with a crash. It took several days to
clean up the broken glass, ete.
—Jeremiah G. Farwell, of Detroit, aged
36 years, and a son of one of the most promi-
nent capitalists of Detroit, died in a hos-
pital Saturday from a bullet wound through
his stomach, fired, it is: supposed, with
suicidal intent. He was found dying at ' the
Woodward avenue car haniiy with a revolver
‘beside him.
—Robert Igos’ bull went mad Friday at
his farm near Bellwood, and bit seven peo-
ple. They are Robert Shields, of Bellwood ;
‘Mary Hoffman and her playmate, ‘Carl
Piunkard, and William Davis, near Fostoria,
and Edward Shay and Charles Smith, at
Fostoria, where the people tried to kill it
but failed, allowing it to escape.
—As a last effort to get what is due him as
caterer for the members of the Legislature
during their trip to the unveiling of the
Grant monument at New York in 1897,
| James Russ, of the Commonwealth hotel,
Harrisburg, has sent a letter to members of
that body who participated in the affair, re-
questing each to send him $15 to compensate
him.
| '—Mrs. Fannie Allen, of Williamsport, is
at the hospital suffering from burns on her
shoulders and neck. When filling a lamp in
the cellar of her home Saturday her dress
caught fire, She ran into the yard and fell
upon the snow, which was thrown over her
by a neighbor, Mrs. Frank Henninger, The
flames were thus extinguished i befdre She % was
ally buried;
plow voted stents ef Wilaimpor “awe-
inspiring sight in the eyes of some citizens of
the Lumber city. It was an inmate of the
city contagious disease ‘hospital who had
escaped the vigilance of his nurse. He was
eventually recaptured.
—Rural mail carriers are strictly prohibited
from carrying verbal messages. If a farmer
should ask them to tell neighbor Jones to
come his way, as he wanted to see him, the
carrier couldn’t lawfully deliver the message.
The proper method would be for the farmer
to write a letter or postal card to neighbor
Jones and the carrier will deliver it. The rea-
son is that the government wants all the reve-
nues possible from the postal service; and
desires those who are benefited by it to vay
the same.
—On Saturday morning about 50 sdlock an
overheated stovepipe caused a fire in the
dwelling of Oscar Barefoot, of Foustwell,
i county, by which the building, ‘a
rather frail one, was destroyed. In the con-
fusion of the moment the 6-months’ old fam-
ily baby, which was sleeping in its cradle qn
the second floor, was temporarily forgotten,
but the father happened to think of it and
yushed up the flaming stairway, bringing
the child out unharmed, although he sus-
tained some slight burns upon his returu.
—Robert Ross and a man named ‘‘Shine”
are employed at the Blair Furnace brick-
yard, east of Altoona. For some time’ they
have been rivals for the affection of a wom-
an residing at that place, Ross was the
lady’s choice and “‘Shine’’ took the matter
seriously. As Ross was leaving his camp at
about one o’clock Satur day morning to visit
another, he was told to halt by *‘ ‘Shine’
and, if he moved another step, he would
blow his head off. He turned to go back and
“Shine” fired several shots, one making a
slight wound in the right leg and another
whizzing past his ear. ;
— Mrs. John Biddle, wife of a Huston
township, Clearfield county farmer, entered
a chicken coop Wednesday morning to feed
the poultry. The wind slammed the door
shut hard enough to set the dead latch; mak-
ing her a prisoner. The thermometer stood
‘at ten degrees below zero, and it was several
hours before # neighbor, passing along the
road, saw a handkerchief waving from a
small window of the hen house and investi-
gated. Mrs. Biddle was. found almost
unconscious from the intense cold. Her feet
and hands were: frozen and she is in aserious
"|'condition.
The dead body of an infant was found |
i —While hunting in the woods.near Fallen
Timber, Cambria county, last week, Martin
Rickert and his brother George suddenly
came upon a large she bear and three cubs. .
Although considerably startled the hunters
still had presence of mind enough to let fly,
and after six shots succeeded in killing the
bear and capturing the cubs. The dead bear
weighed 300 pounds. One of the cubs which
was presented by its captors to Clyde Me-
Manamy, of Van Ormer, has been adopted
by the mother of a litter of pups, and is get-
ting along famously, neither the foster moth-
er nor the little bruin being apparenly
2g re of the deception.
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