Deworraiicyatcn,
8Y PRP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—Japan and Russia. They re off!
—Japan made the first swat count.
--*Jo Jo,” the dog faced boy is dead,
but private TOM still lives.
—Now wasn’t that just awful,
things private ToM said about ns?
—The back bone of winter seems to be
very flexible, but it will not break.
—There were just two crashes of ‘‘the
good old summer time’’——thunder—
Suday morning.
—Saturday will be St Valentine's day
and there is no telling what little Dan
Cupid will be up to.
-—The ice crop isn’t sympathizing any
with the Delaware peach buds that are
said to be badly frozen.
—It is an easy matter to reform. The
rub comes in in convincing the needy that
they are proper subjects for reformation.
them
—No man ought to attempt an autobi-
ography until he has run for some local of-
fice and found out who and what he really
is.
—China and Korea can scarcely be said
to be in a position of standing off jand
watching the fun between Russia fand
Japan,
—There are so many reasons why it is
nicer to be rich than poor that it is really
a surprise that so many of us persist in
remaining poor.
—After Japan had sunk three of her war
ships and captured several others the Rus-
sians woke up and declared that ‘‘a state
of war exists.”
—The decision that plates dressed frogs
legs on the duty list as poultry has more
basis than some people are proue to give it
credit with. Don’t frogs lay eggs?
—Among the applicants for license in
this county this spring there are said to be
several who were turned down by Judge
SMITH, in Clearfield recently.
—Mauny a man who thinks he has every-
thing at his command wakes up to the re-
alization that the world is too full of would
be commanders to make such a thing pos
sible.
—If what the Gozette says is true the
Democratic nominee for treasurer of Belle-
fonte is a bold, bad, buccaneer and he ought
to be slapped on the wrist, real hard
twice.
—So far as incidents happening about
Port Arthur lately are concerned the Rus-
sian bear must realize that there is a bull
market in her battleships—they are all go-
ing up.
—Hunting lions in Africa will no longer
be the height of dangerous sport sinee two
New York firemen put two of the mighty
monarchs of the forest to flight with a
stream of water.
© —If there had been more foreign wars
and less geography when the present gener-
ation went to school there would be less
trouble today locating where the Japs and
Russians are really fighting.
—In the Russzian-Japan war the Ameri-
can mind will halt between the long
friendship existing between our govern-
ment and Russia and admiration for the
plucky little Japs who have ‘‘tquared off’’
for such a much larger foe.
—Of course everyone understands that
such terrible fires as caused a loss of over
one hundred million dollars /in Baltimore
during the fore part of the week should
not be possible, but the real question is
how to make them impossible.
—Governor PENNYPACKER has ‘‘shinned
up the tree’ in the face of the out-break of
righteous indignation over the unearthing
of his scheme to get onto the Supreme
bench. He is likely to stay up there until
‘‘cousin MATT’' tells him he can come
down.
—The Massachusetts Legislature is going
to pass av act that will make the quart
bottle hold a quart. It will be a good act
in some respects, but those who are most
interested in the exact volume of contents
in a quart bottle are the ones who would
fare the best if it held even less than ib
does.
— MARK HANNA, as a prominent public
character, is the object of many a oruel
and vieious fling from his political oppo-
nents, but as a citizen and a man stricken
with fever his political foes join with his
closest associates in the earnest hope that
his life may be spared.
—The Czar of all the Russias is the dis-
tinguished potentate who first agitated The
Hague peace tribunal. A piece of Man-
charia and China seems to have made him
forget all about his first peace pursuit, hut
we’ll bet the jolt Japan gave him on Tues-
day sent his mind wandering back towards
The Hague. .
—The North American says Mayor
WEAVER, of that city, caught a ton of fish
in one day in Florida. How many suckers
do you suppose he caught on a certain elec-
tion day that the gang elected him mayor
of Philadelphia? That is, how many do yon
suppose thonght he was going to prove a
right honest official?
—The proposed abandonment of circus
parades will be a canse of real regret to
the many who enjoy every feature and
exciting incident of ‘circus day in town.”
But it will bring the keeness disappoint-
ment to the fellow who is in the habit of
showing his little folks the parade and
making them believe they have seen the
whole show.
C
VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 12, 1904.
Philadelphia and the South.
Those esteemed Philadelphia contempor-
aries which are madly inveighing against
the Pennsylvania Railroad because of some
fancied fault which impairs the trade re-
lations between that city and the South
have poorly diagnosed the cause of their
commercial malady. There was a time
when Philadelphia was the supply station
for the entire South. Before the Civil war
no southern merchant ever thought of any
other market in which either to sell the
products of the plantation or bay the mate-
rials for consumption in that vast section
of wealth, sunshine and generosity. Every
train which came from the South was bur-
dened with men and women in esearch of
business or pleasure and Philadelphia was
the destination in either event. In fact
there was hetween the metropolis of Penn-
sylvania and the South a bond of iriendship
which was expressed in social and business
relations alike, close and kindly.
This condition has changed, unquestion-
ably, but not on account of any ‘‘cut-off’’
regulations of the Pennsylvania Railroad
or discrimination of any description against
that city by that company. On the con-
trary, the interests of Philadelphia have
been served by the Pennsylvania Railroad
with singuiar fidelity and zeal. The cause
which has influenced the South to seek
other markets for commercial operations is
vastly deeper and broader than that ofa
railroad schedule and more significant
than a time-table. Differences have arisen
between Philadelphia and the South but not
on account of the location of the railroad
stations of the city. It requires something
more important to move a thoughtful and
earnest people and the people of the South
are that. The differences which have
arisen between them aud the city of Phila-
delphia are upon principles that are
fandamental.
Before the war of the rebellion the South
came to Philadelphia with confidence of
a tried and trusted friendship. The people
of that section came to that natural gate-
way to the northern manufacturing region
in a spirit of brotherhood certain to find
sympathy in their troubles and secure
justice in their transactions. They found
the social life attractive and satisfactory.
But since that fratricidal conflict they have
forind ‘no such Wobpitality. At the close of
hostilities, whch the South turned its atten.
tion to business and directed its energies to
the work of recuperation sue offered to re-
new her relations with Philadelphia only
to meet repulse. During that memorable
period of national angdish when the South,
“in sackcloth and ashes,” was sincerely
paying penance for her error, every Phila-
delpbia Representative in Congress, with
the exception of the late Mr. RANDALL,
voted on every occasion to heap further
burdens on her bent back and add to the
just penalty of rebellion mountains of in-
justice and iniquity.
The saving sense of justice in the Repre-
sentatives of other cities and sections res-
cued the people of the South ultimately
from the misery avhich the Philadelphia
Representatives inn Congress would have
heaped on them and their own courage
and fortitude was rapiply working out re-
cuperation when the walignity of the Re-
publican party against them took another
form. In the morbid brain of some devil-
ish irreconcilables the ‘Force Bill’’ was con-
ceived and every Representative for Phila-
delphia in Congress except Mr. RANDALL
supported it with the earnestness of zealots.
Still the South came to Philadelphia to
trade. Still the memory of the kindly
relations of a previous period influenced
them, the sturdy championship of justice
in their behalf by Mr. RANDALL stimulat-
ed a weakening friendship and they came
as before until finally Mr. RANDALL died
and thereafter there was no man of all the
number which represented Philadelphia to
raise his voice against any iniquity direct-
ed toward the South.
"Since the death of Mr. RANDALL, except
for a short time while Mr. MCALEER was
permitted to represent the 3rd district of
that city, the unanimous vote of its Repre-
sentatives in Congress has been cast for
every vicious means intended to wrong or
rob the South, even to the voting out of
Congress of every Representative from that
section against whose election a rapscallion
could be found to make a contest.
And this work of wrong to the South by
its Congressmen has been endorsed and
re-endorsed by the public rentiment of
Philadelphia. And those who have done
this thing wonder why the South passes by
their doors to do its trading.
New York appears to have had .a differ-
ent conception of its duty toward that
section. Without condoning the. crime of
rebellion,
with wrong, without in the least measure
modifying a just reprehension of what had
ocourred, the hroad mind of thas great city
was moved to a proper appreciation of con-
ditions and her Representatives in Congress
spoke with the tongue of eloquence in be-
half of the principles of justice. = Boston
followed in the same amiable course
“and her Representatives in Congress spoke
without indicating sympathy:
for mercy as well as justice. Baltimore,
rapidly developing commercial character,
adopted the same line and it is small won-
der that under the circumstances the nar-
row bigotry of Philadelphia should ulti-
mately tarn the friendly feelings of the
South into a sentiment of hostility which
finds expression in transferring business
relations to other cities. Business opera-
tions are not based on sentiment, as a rule,
but sentiment has something to do with
business.
Besides, the people of the South are not
blind to conditions as they exist in Phila-
delphia or oblivious of incidents of the
past. They know as well as we under-
stand that the business interests of Phila-
delphia have been prostituted to the base
purposes of debauching elections in order
that hogus Republican majorities may be
oreated in Congress tostifle the voice of the
South in the councils of the Nation. The
people of the South are aware that the
leading business men and most respectable
citizens of Philadelphia have knowingly
contributed funds to purchase votes and
provoke race prejudices in the South.
They have learned how 80,000 frandulent
votes are polled in Philadelphia annually
in order that a unanimous delegation op-
posed to the interests and even the tran-
quility of the South may be returned to
Congress at each election. With the
knowledge of these things to guide them
it would be strange, indeed, if}3thelfSouth
were not moved to resentment.
No, the schedule of the Pennsylvania
railroad is not responsible for the trans-
ferrence of the trade of the South from
Philadelphia to other commercial centres.
If any influence on earth could hold the
people of the South to their old friendship
for Philadelphia it is the Pennsylvauia
railroad. The splendid equipment and
magnificent management of that great cor-
poration challenges the admiration of the
whole world and its intimate association
with the Philadelphia of the time when if
was the mecca of the South would natural-
ly appeal to the peopie of that section,
There is no discrimination against Phila-
delphia in the movement of trains, more=-
over, which could work injury to Philadel-
phia. No railroad train from the South
gets as close to the businessjcentre of] New
York as the West Philadelphia] station is
to the trading section of Philadelphia. The
railroad facilities of Boston are no better
and those of Baltimore are not as good.
Then what is the complaint about ?
Philadelphia, ‘‘corrupt and contenced,’’
wants the patronage of a people which she
has outraged most villainonsly and some
not too discriminating newspapers condemn
the Pennsylvania railroad because the
cupidity of certain citizens is disappointed.
Philadelphia, which hasn’t enough civic
pride to enforce the law against self-con-
fessed ballot box stuffers, covets business
which it has driven away,and rails against
the ouly institution which gives it char-
acter, for the reason that its passion is not
fed. But it doesn’t deceive the public by
its maudlin complaints. It may fool a com-
munity which is manifestly unfit for self-
government because it can’t restrain the
criminal impulses of its own governing
agents. But the intelligent people of
Pennsylvania are not hood- winked by such
subterfuges as are expressed in the absurd
attack npon the Pennsylvania railroad in
the Philadelphia papers.
Roosevelt's Passion for Tinsel,
If it were not fraught with such grave
danger there could be nothing more amus-
ing shan the powp with which the Presi-
dent always endeavors to surround him-
self. Like the savages'in fastnesses as yes
unexplored or untouched by the wand of
civilization, be takes to gaudy decorations
and highly colored uniforms. At his re-
ceptions he loves to see the trappings and
tinsel which are essential to European
courts and under his direesion and influ-
ence all the simplicity whieh cliaracterized
the elegance ‘of our early national life is
disappearing. This was sbrikingly re-
vealed the other night on the occasion of
the usual, reception to the Juodges of the
Supreme court.
Of all the receptions at the White House
during the years since they were first in-
troducad, the simplest but. most dignified
has been that to the Judges of the Supreme
court. The guests of honor, themselves
distinguished men, invariably have worn
the conventional co:tume of an American
gentleman, siuce the ruffles and knee
breeches have gone out of fashion, the
black broadcloth swallow-tail. Knowing
that the Diplomatists, ont of compliment
to the President’s bonored guests, have
adopted the same dress. But this yearn
sending ont invitations for that function,
to the Diplomatists, the President’s -social
secretary, a new office by the way, put in
a tip that it would please the President if
they would ‘come 1n their gandy « court
uniforms.
Of course, as President BAER of the
Reading railroad once said, a request from
the President is equivalent to a command
and the Diplomatists come to the reception
in question radiant in gold lace and gaudy
trimmings and to show his appreciation of
their obedience the President directed that
they be put ahead of the guests of honor
in the line of procession to the receiving
chamber. It was a beastly breach of
etiquette and a gross insult to the jurists,
but what did ROOSEVELT care so long as
his show was made attractive by the bright
uniforms? Like an Indian on the frootier
he gratifies his passion for decoration at
the expense of decency, as well as decorum.
Absurdities of Confused Senators.
There was an interesting debate in the
United States Senate the other day in
which Senators TILLMAN, of South Caro-
lina, LODGE, of Massachusetts, and PLATT,
of Connecticut, participated. It related to
the appointment of WILLIAM D. CRUM,
negro, to the office of collector of the port
of Charleston, South Caroliua, and is re-
ported on pages 1696, 1697, 1698 and 1699
of the Congressional Record. Senator TILL-
MAN read the reply of the Secretary of the
Treasury to a resolution previously intro-
duaced by himself, in which it was stated
that Mr. CRUM had heen appointed to the
office he holds on March 20th, 1903, and
was again appointed on December 7th,
1903, and that be is de facto collector, but
is receiving no pay. Mr. TILLMAN charac-
terized the statement as remarkable, where-
upon this colloquy occurred :
Mr. TILLMAN said he wanted to ask the
Senator from Massacl.usetts ‘‘whether or not
such a case has ever heen known? I bave
been examining pretty closely, but so far I
have been unable to discover a precedent for
a nomination and appointment the same min-
ute to any office subject to the approval and
confirmation of the Senate. Can the Senator
recall one ?
We have then this state of facts, Mr. Presi:
dent : Daring the recess of Congress, when
we were not here, the President nominated
and issued temporary commissions to 167
army officers and one collector of the port of
Charleston, and he notified us when Congress
met in extra session on the 9th of November
of his action. The Senate had these nomina-
tions under consideration, but it did not con-
firm any one of them.
Then, when the two sessions merged, the
President pro tempore rose from his seat at
12 on December 7th and said—I quote the
words from memory—‘‘The time having ar-
rived for the assembling of the regular ses
sion of the fifty-eighth Congress, I therefore
declare the extra session adjourned sine die.”
Then he struck his mallet on his desk and
said ‘the Senate will come to order,” and the
rolliiwas called. I want to ask anybody,
anywhere, if there can be, under such con-
ditions, a recess.
Mr. LopgE. ‘‘Will the Senator allow me
ask him a question ?”’
Mr. TiLLMAN. “With pleasure.”
Mr. LopGgE. ‘'‘Mr. president, the President
of the Senate, on the 7th of December, when
he declared the extra session of the Senate
adjourned without delay, left the'chair and
returned with the chaplain. Then we had
prayer—the regular opening of the session.
Mr. TiuiMAN. The President pro tem-
pore did not go 3 feet from his seat.
Mr. LopGge. He left his chair, went down
og the floor and cawe back with the chap-
ain.
Mr. TinLmAN. All right; I do not want
to quibble and I am not splitting hairs here.
I am endeavoring to get somebody to stand
up here in the light of common sense and
declare that there was a recess of the Senate
in the view of the constitution during that
proceeding.
Mr. Pratt, of Connecticut. Well, Mr.
President, if there was no recess, then is it
not true that the recess appointments which
had been therefore made, ran over into the
so-called regular session.
Mr. TiLLMAN. Why, Mr. President, the
Senator from Connecticut is too good a law-
yer to ask me a question like that. The
Senator from Connecticut must understand
that our record shows that there was the end
of a session. We are not discussing the
question of a recess. Do not mix the words
as the Secretary of War lias endeavored to
doin his special pleading.”
We have gone to the pains to reproduce
all this stuff from the Congressional Record
in order to show to what beggarly expe.
dients Republican Senators are driven in
order to sustain the absurdities of the cow-
boy in the White House. Grammar school
boys in a debating society would hardly
resort to such pettyfogging as Senators
.LoDGR and PLATT indulged on that oces-
sion aud both are scholarly and able men.
But they don’t even agree with each other.
It will be noticed that I.ODGE accepts the
President's silly notion of a ‘‘constructive
recess,’ while’ PLATT has adopted the sug-
gestion of Senator ALLISON that it be put
upon the basis of a merger of the two session
and therefore the nominations made during
the real recess hold until there is an actual
adjournment. including probably a trip
home. Unfortunately for that theory, how-
ever. the constitution says “‘until the end
of the session’? and not until there is a re-
cess and the end of the session was pro-
claimed in the declaration of the President
pro tempore that ‘‘the time having arrived
for the assembling of the regular session of
the fifty-eighth Congress, I therefore de-
clare the extra session adjourned sine die.”
It ROOSEVELT keeps on he will have ev-
ery Republican Senator in an insane
asylum.
-—The Hon. J. W. KEPLER; of Pine.
Grove Mills, was in town on Tuesday night
and while here announced his candidacy
for re-election to the Legislature. His
record during the last session will have
hear the closess scrutiny and his energies
for the Pennsylvania Staté College, the
Philipshurg and Bellefonte hospitals are.
enough in themselves to establish a #ood
olaim for his re-election.
NO. 6.
Two Significant Statements.
Auditor General HARDENBERGH’S an-
nual report, a general summary of which
has been published in the daily papers, is
significant on account of two statements.
The first is that at no time during the year’
covered in the report has the State Treasur-
er’s monthly statement shown a balance in
the treasury of less than $8,000,000 in the
general fund and that for ten months the
balance has not been less than $10,000,000.
The other is that the ‘‘burdens of taxation,
80 far as can be consistently done, have
been taken from the farmer, the laborer
and the workingman, and the great major-
ity of the revenue of the State is collected
from tax on corporations and personal
property.”’
Of the first proposition little need be
said for its iniquity is obvious. The right
of government to protect the individual in
person and property. That being true ev-
ery dollar taken from the people in excess
of the amount necessary for the mainte-
nance of government and the discharge of
its obligations is robbery. According to the
government of Pennsylvania has taken
from the people $10,000,000 more, during
the present year,than it had a right to take
and coneequently, instead of protecting the
required, it has robbed them to the vast
amount expressed.
With respect to the other proposition
the Auditor General is simply absurd as
every intelligent school boy in the Com-
monwealth could point out to. him. It is
true that most of the taxes are levied on
corporations but the corporation managers
charge them back to the users of the
corporations and the farmers and met-
chants pay through increased charges for
‘carrying and the ““laborers and workmen’’
through decreases in wages, When in the
pioneer period of the country farmers and
workingmen were obliged to be content
with such rudimentary education as is ex-
pressed in the ‘‘three Rs”’ they could be
fooled with such rubbish as the Auditor
General uses. But the improvement of the
public schools has broadened their infor-
mation and they know better now.
The War Jam the East, allio
The war in the far E East has begun and
until one or the other of two very stubborn
antagonists yields to reason the work of
destruction will proceed with great vigor
and success and it may be predicted that
within a year the world will be af least a
billion dollars poorer. What powers other
than those at present involved will par-
ticipate in the operations it is impossible to
even conjecture.
said that Japan relies on Great Britain to
help her out and it is about equally certain
that in the event of such interposition
France and probably Germany will take a
hand ou the other side. The out-look,
therefore is for a conflict of vast propor-
tions and immense destructiveness,
Singularly enough this fearful conflict
has been begun without even the shadow
of reason.
tered upon an enterprise which is certain
to entail vast losses in support of a claim
which is not only unjust but absurd. In
other words having stolen from the Chinese
Empire the province of Manchuria the gov-
ernment of the Czar now proposes to seize
the Kingdom of Korea for the reason that
in possession of an enemy it would be a
dangerous strategic point. On the other
hand Japan proposes to occupy or at least
control Korea for the same reason and thus
the persons and property of a people are
made a subject of traffic or quarrel between
swo Empires, neither of which has a shadow
of a claim.
All this is outrageous of course but it. is
in line with the tendencies of the times.
When men were more conscientious and
rulers more just che small nation was as se-
cure in its rights and property as the more
powerful. For example, a dozen years ago
this country, built upon the rock of con-
seience and maintained within the lines of
justice, would no more have thought of
menacing the weakest Republic in the
South American group than it would of
sending a fleet of air ships to invade the
moon. But now our war Lord, booted and
spurred, conspires with adventurers to loot
a Republic which we are under treaty obli-
gations to protect and refuses to obey the
command of Congress for the evidence of
his turpitude.
Favorite Sons Are Not Always Favor-
ites.
From the Philadelphia Record.
At a dinner at the Manhattan club in
New York Judge Parker was hailed trium-
phantly as the next President of the Unit-
ed States, but Tammany has not yet com-
mitted itself and is giving strong indica-’
tions of looking in other directions. Some
of the Tammany men talk openly and un-
rebuked of other candidates. New York
will leatn from Mr. Murphy who her favor:
ite son is—her favorite Democratic son is.
She may never know who her favorite Re-
publican son is; Mr. Root admits that he is
not Theodore Roosevels, and yes the State
delegation to Chicago may support him for
want of sore one else.
‘| was probated Saturday.
It may confidently be |
That is to say Russia has en- |.
-| The sudden rise in the river,
‘caused by the giving away of the ice jam at
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Northampton county has 20,050 school
children between the ages of 6 and 16 years.
—Editor Watts, of the Clearfield Monitor
sails from New. York, March 6th, on a two
month’s visit to the Holy land.
—Mis. Fred H. Leederman, of Williams-
port, whose husband died last week of small-
pox, has developed the disease, and is con-
fined to a room in her home on Spruce street,
that city.
—The 51st annual conclave of the Penn-
sylvania Knights Templar will be held in
York, May 23rd, 24th and 25th. On this oc-
casion it is expected that fully half of the 76
commanderies of the state will be there, with
about 2,500 members.
—About two hundred and fifty persons
visited the Mifflin county jail on visitors
day. Itisthe duty of the sheriff to search
all visitors, and in doing so three gallons of
. whiskey, besides knives and revolvers, were
found in the pockets of the visitors.
—Because he had been charged by his wife
with cruelty to her and their children,
Harry Trout, of Pottstown, is now accused
of having poured five buckets of cold water
from the roof down the stovepipe, caus-
ing devastation to the Trout kitchen.
—The local subscribers of the United Tele-
phone and Telegraph company at Selins-
grove, are up in arms against the company
for reducing the 20-mile limit agreed upon.
If the company insists upon its present re-
strictions all the Selinsgrove ‘phones will go
out.
—George Bell, of Williamsport, formerly
United States marine, has offered his services
to the Japanese government in the war be
tween that country and Russia. Mr. Bell
bas spent many months’ in Japan and China
‘inthe service of the United States and is
- well acquainted with those countries.
report of the Auditor General, therefore, the |
—Godfrey Hinkal, aged 65 years, made an
unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide at
-the home of his niece, Mrs. Louise Marks,
‘in Collumsville,Nippenose valley,at 9 o'clock
‘Saturday morning. He cut his throat with
people in their property, as its obligations a razor,making a bad wound, but Dr. Welker
arrived in time to save his life.
—One school in Wayne township, Mifflin
county, has been closed for three weeks be-
cause the stove is out of repair and danger-
ous to the building. Strangely enough, the
Newton Hamilton Watchman is disposed to
make a fuss and wants to know what sort of
school directors Wayne township has.
—John K. Courter, whose home is in Clin-
ton county, says he has solved the secret of
tempering copper. He has a sample plate
which he has sharpened to an edge that will
cut wood. He says that he also has a knife
blade of copper with which he can shave. He
also has a hatchet and several chisels.
—A call has been issued for the surviving
members of the famous 148th regiment to
attend a reunion, rather a business meeting,
at Bellefonte, Feb. 24th and 25th. The
principal reason for assembling is to make
the final arrangement for the publication of
the story of the regiment which has been in
preparation for over a year.
—The will of A. F. Boynton, of Clearfield,
It provides that
the sum of $1000 shall be paid yearly to his
aged parents and that the residue of his for-
tune, estimated at $300,000, goes to the
Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal
church as trustee, the revenues therefrom to
be paid his widow during her life. She is
appointed the executrix of the will. The
bequest is one of the largest ever left for
religious purposes in the state.
*—Rev. A. B. Hooven, a well-known mem-
ber of the Central Pennsylvania conference
of the M. E. church, died at his home in Du-
Bois on Sunday night, after an illness of .a
few days. He was 71 years old and had
been iu the traveling ministry, a member of
the Central Pennsylvania conference, since
1869. For the last four years he had been
superannuated. He was a truly good man
and his works do fellow him. He is sur-
vived by his wife and three children.
—Dr. J. M. Dumm, of Mackeyville, has an
orchard of 3000 peach trees and after the
recent cold snap he was of the opinion that
the buds had been greatly damaged as they
cannot withstand a temperature lower than
from 15 to 20 degrees helow zero. This week
he removed a number of branches from dif-
ferent trees in his orchard and carefully ex-
amined over 100 buds, all of which were
frozen, this confirming his fears. Hence it
is the opinion of Dr. Dumm that the peach
crop not only of this section, but all through
Pennsylvania will be a total failure.
—The wreck of the Cleveland and Cin-
cinnati express a mile west of Bellwood
about 5 o'clock Friday morbing, asit was
speeding westward, might have been much
more serious than it was. A wheel of the
tender to the engine bursted and all of the
cars of the train were derailed and dragged
and jolted over the ties for a couple hundred
feet. The train consisted of four Pullman
sleepers, two coaches and one baggage: car.
The passengers all received a severe shaking
up, but only one was hurt. Mrs. Charlotte
Jago, of Perth Amboy, N. J., was thrown to
one side of her berth and in some way sus-
tained a fracture of the right thumb, The
injury was dressed by a doctor on the train,
‘and when a new train was made up the lady
with the other passengers proceeded on her
way West. All the cars were more or less
damaged, and had to be shopped for repairs.
—Daniel G. Shemery, an employee of the
Williamsport nail works on the south side,
had a narrow escape from drowning Monday
afternoon while he was thawing out the end
of a discharge steam pipe which is enclosed
in a wooden box on the bank of the river.
which was
Jersey Shore a short time previous, caused
the box in which Mr. Shemery was standing
to be engulfed by the rushing water so
quickly that he failed to immediately realize
his perilous position. ' A few moments later
he was obliged to dive out of the box
through the opening at the bottom and swim
to the surface in muskrat fashion in order to
save his life. The box is about three feet
square and six feet high. The top is cover-
ed with heavy planks. The only opening is
a small aperture at the bottom for the pur-
ose of allowing the steam to escape.