BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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FI ink Slings. :
’ Clinton county law moves a little like
the Russians.
* —And next Monday will be the first day
of spring.
—The robins and bluebirds must have
got back to the pines on Monday.
—By this time the ground-hog has proba-
bly made up his mind never to do it again.
—At this rate the ‘‘robin snow’’ and the
“onion snow’’ may be looked for along
about July 4th.
oat will take more noise than the unex-
pected CANNON boom in the House ‘last
week to scare TEDDY.
—There are many reasons why men
don’t succeed, but the principal one is be-
cause s0 few of them try.
..—Japan has ordered the war correspon-
dent from the scene of action in Manchuria.
Look out for a deluge of war news now.
" —And Pittsburg complained because
she had to drink muddy water, as if Pitts-
burg bad never imbibed anything worse
than thas.
—1If the Susquetauna could only be in-
dnced to pour a few of its’ floods into the
Yalu the Japs would soon get back to the
rice dikes.
—Won’s GROVER CLEVELAND feel bad
when he learns that JOEN M. GARMAN
wouldn’t vote for him, even if he were
nominated.
—1t is strange that none of the accident
insurance companies indemnify against loss
of head and yet more men lose their heads
than anything else.
—The Hon. PRILANDER C. KNOX thinks
he is not equal to an attack on the Stand-
ard oil company. Since when did a Pitts-
bu rger ever acknowledge a want of nerve?
—With General MILES as the Prohibi-
tion cdudidate for President there are lots
of fellows who would get onto the ‘'‘water
wagon,” who have never been there be-
fore.
— That the Supreme court of the United
States isn’t unanimously certain as to what
Jaw is is seen in the vote of five to four
against the great trust, ‘The Northern
Secuities Co.”
—~Col. WiLL1AM F. Copy, the great In-
dian scout apd wild west show manager,
has met his Waterloo at last. He has ap-
plied for a divorce, saging that his wife is
too much for him.
—When Dr. WARREN started down to the
ri ver at Harrisburg one day last week to
view the ice gorge Gov. PENNY facetionsly
remarked ‘Are you going to geta piece
of it to analyze, Doctor ?”’
~—When General -CRONJIK, the. indomit-
able old Boer leader, turns up as the star
performer in a Boer fighting play at the St.
Louis exposition, there will likely not be
many of our English cousins occupying the
front seats at the show.
—While Mr. HEARST is not regarded as
a very serious candidate for the Presidency
who can say that he is not a man made up
largely of the very same zharacteristics and
temperments that control the present oceu-
pant of the White House.
—The Sultan of Sulu, whom uncle SAM
put on his pension roll a few years ago,has
goue on the warpath and his pension has
been cut off. What a restless old =cal-a-
wag he must be not to be satisfied with his
hundred wives and good American money
every month.
— After December 31st next Panama will
copy our currency, so ’tis said. How flat-
tering is Panama. By the way it would
be interesting to know how much currency
Panama has that is worth anything, in ad-
dition to what we propose paying for canal
concessions.
—Tue number of suicides and homicides
during 1903 increased over one thousand
over those in 1901. While we would not
like to refate the assertion that we have so
often heard from the pulpit ‘‘that the
world is giowing better’ here is evidence
that a great many people appear to be anx-
ious to get out of it.
—The Reading lad who stuck the figures
22 in his hat and 21 in bis shoes and then
swore to the election board that he was
between 21 and 22 thought it was a very
smart trick. But suppose he had been
given a good cuff in the neck and a
kick in the uether end with a frozen
boot, what would he have sworn he was
between then ?
—When judge LOVE gets through ex-
plaining to the public how a man who has
been a resident of the county only
twenty-seven days can be entitled to li-
cense, as against applicants who have been
life-long citizens and taxpayers he will be
a sadder but we hope wiser man. WASH-
BURN may be a vote getter in Rash town-
ship, but he will prove a vote loser in ev-
ery other one of the fifty-six precincts in
the county.
—That the man who handles the pick
has better judgment than the man he sends
to the convention to represent him is seen
in the overwhelming majority the miners
of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Mary-
land, West Virginia, Towa, eastern Ken-
tacky and western and central Pennsylva-
nia gave against a strike proposition on
Tuesday. The delegates at she Indianap-
olis convention last week refused to accept
a wage cut proposed hy the operators and
when the action was passed np to the two
hundred thousand miners they. refused to
ratify.
VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFON TE, PA., MARCH 18, 1904.
Excitement in Congress.
Last week was one of extraordinary in-
terest and excitement in Congress. In fact
there were a couple of days of frenzy on the
floor of the House of Representatives dar-
ing which Republicans were furious at the
administration and an excited Member pro-
posed speaker CANNON as a candidate for
President against ROOSEVELT. The occa-
sion of this episode was the publication of
the BRISTOW report including Senators and
Representatives in Congress in the postal
frauds. The report was presented on Tues-
day, but only provoked - ridicule. But on
Wednesday when the accused statesmen
began hearing from home the amusement
was changed to indignation. The states-
men discovered that their constituents took
the state ments seriousiy and that incensed
them against the administration.
The first outbreak occurred on Wedunes-
day when the resentment took the form of
a revolt against the leaders. Representa-
tive OVERSTREET, chairman of the commit-
tee on Postoffices and Postroads. bad con-
ceived an admirable plan to dispose of the
matter quietly. That is to say, he was to
make a motion to indefinitely postpone the
report and all questions associated with it.
But his motion provoked a perfect deluge
of opposition. One Republican Member
charged that matters that should have gone
into the report were excluded and intimat-
ed that it was for the purpose of shielding
friends of the President. Another denoune-
ed the ‘‘editor’’ of the report and when he
was informed that it was probably the
President be added that in any event who-
ever edited the report is ‘‘a liar and a
aconndrel.”’
On Thursday Members of the House as-
sembled in a state of rage. If business had
been transacted that day it is safe to say
that the Republican organization would
bave been rent asuuder. But happily for
that party the first announcement after the
call of order was the death of a Member.
Under a 1ule of many years there was no
business in order that day on that account
and ao adjournment was taken. That gave
the party ‘‘whips’’ time and the President
got down into the lobby and begged the
outraged Members to * ‘forges their injuries”
and take care of the party. It is said that
he even promised Ag djfimiss BRISTOW from
office if the indignant Members would con-
sent to OVERSTREET’ S notion. Inthe even-
ing the days labor looked fruitless. Indig-
nation was as furious a8 ever. On Friday,
however. the Members yielded and consent-
ed to a compromise. :
Friday was another field day. The Dem-
ocrats still demanded an investigation and
the outraged Republicans, though pledged
to silent acquiescence in the scheme of the
President to protect official scoundrels,
broke the restraints. WILLIAM ALDEN
SMITH declared that every executive de-
partment of the government is corrupt. It
was during this speech that he named
speaker CANNON for President and the
House responded in a burst of enthusiasm
snch as has rarely heen seen. Bat in the
end they all came down to the President’s
terms. Declaring the department corrupt
they voted against an investigation. The
purchasing power of public patronage was
irresistible to them and they yielded their
manhood to the briber of the White House.
The presidential lobbyist was too persua-
sive for them.
An 1luteresting Situation.
We shall watch with curious interest the
progress of the investigation of the charges
against certain Republican Senators and
Representatives in Congress contained in
the BRISTOW report. There can be no
doubt that that report was ‘‘edited’’ by the
President. It is equally certain that the
object of the repert was to intimidate cer-
tain Republican statesmen into acquiesc-
ence in the plans of the President to
shield any
might be involved in the Postoffice Depart-
ment frands. The present indications are,
moreover, that the Republicans for whom
the trap was set have been caught.
At least it is safe to say that there will
be no investigation of the Department.
More than a dozen Republican Representa:
tives in Congress ‘declared last week that
the Department is rotten. One courageous
Representative declared that the purpose of
the BRISTOW report was to suppress evi-
dence of iniquity. But in the end all of
them voted to limit the iniguity to the re-
lationship of Congressmen to the frauds.
The association of others makes no differ-
ence. They are to be taken care of hecause
exposure might injure the party and make
votes against the President. For that pur-
pore a felony has heen compounded.
As things stand at present, however,
about one hundred and seventy KRepresen.
tatives stand accnsed of violating the law
in the interest of graft. They must an.
swer to their constituents for that grave
charge. But with the exception of the few
stool pigeons no one of the real grafters
will be aspersed. MACHEN and BEAVERS
will go to the penitentiary and the aconsed
Congressmen will make whatever excuse
they can, but the President avd his friends
stand vindicated. And the Republican
Congressmen are responsible for the condi-
tion. They have brought npon themselves
the odiam.
of his intimate friends who
Pennypacker to be Jastice.
It has been finally settled, we are assured
by the daily papers, that Governor PENNY-
PACKER is to be nominated for Justice of
the Supreme court by the Republican State
convention, which meets in Harrisburg on
April 6th. The Governor visited QUAY in
Philadelphia the other day and the matter
was fixed finally, the story goes. QUAY
told Cousin SAM that there is danger in the
enterprise, no doubt. He pointed out that
every respectable and self-respecting law-
yer in the State would he against the base
intrigue and that even machine politicians
of the better sort would hold their noses
while voting for him. Bat he probably
added that with the increased facilities for
frandulent voting the conspiracy could be
carried to success,anyway, and the vain old
imbecile who thinks QUAY can do no
wrong smilingly and cheerfully accepted
the conditions.
It may be added that QUAY is more
anxious than PENNYPACKER to consum-
mate this iniquitious conspiracy. Things
have been going bad with the old man for
some time. The slump in the value of
stocks and the inactivity in speculative
operations have so reduced his resources
that he has recently been compelled to
offer one of his Lancaster farms for sale.
For this reason he needs a legislative ses-
sion rich in loot and to make that certain
he desires to have ‘‘Oleo Bill’”’ BROWN in
the office of Governor. Under such circam-
stances the pirates will hesitate at no in-
famy. ~All sorts of snakes and pinch bills
and grafts will be pressed and it won’t be
necessary to be even particular as to their
passsage if the clerks will be obliging and
there is no doubt on that score. Under
favorable conditions QUAY ought to be good
for a couple of millions out of the next
session of the Legislature.
But the people will have to pay the
piper. Pinch bills and snake grabs and
special privileges cost money, for the cor-
porations that are pinched charge back
upon the users of their service and the
graft must come out of those who can’t
help themselves. Putting PENNYPACKER
on the Supreme bench is a menace both to
the integrity and the capability of the
court, moreover, for he is either grossly
ignorant of the law or utterly indifferent
to moral obligations. It is the enstom to
say that
centricities and if they came less frequent-
ly and under other conditions that idea
might be accepted. But the frequency of
them and the fact that they are always in
one direction lead to the conviction that
they are the result of design and a vicious
nature, rather than of accident.
Smoot Inquiry
Adjourned.
The SMoOT inquiry in Washington has
been adjourned for a couple of weeks, the last
testimony having been heard on Saturday
last. The necessity was of summoning a new
lot of witnesses who might have been sent
for in ample time to answer the call when
wanted. It is pot likely that an officer of
the Senate will go to Utah to summon the
witnesses. At least there is no necessity
for that as any United States marshal or
state official is competent to serve summons
es for the Senate official. The chances are,
moreover, that a letter to any witness
wante d would have met with a prompg re-
sponse. The Mormons are not aveise to
testifying.
“In view of these facts it may be assumed
t hat there was some other reason for ad-
journing the inquiry for a while. As a
matter of fact the investigation bad taken
a curious course during the last couple of
days and maybe tbe adjournment was to
head off that line of questioning. For ex-
ample, on Thursday one witness testified
that the church always insisted on the elec-
tion of Republican polygamists to office
and on Democratic members of the sect
keeping quiet. Another testified that
when an Apostle who insisted on “‘preach-
ing Democracy’’ became a candidate for
United States Senator he was disciplined
by the church and another testified that be-
fore elections the president of the church
invariably issned a manifesto stating to the
faithful ‘that it is the will of the Lord that
you vote the Republican ticket this time.”
- It wouldn’t require a big jump to carry
the inquiry from that live to a discussion
of the influences which made the polyga-
mist organization anxious for the success of
the Republican party. For example, it is
alleged on responsible and well authenti-
cated authority, that there is an agreement
between the Republican national commit-
tee and the Mormon church under which
they are hound to be mutually helpful to
each other. That is to say, the Mormon
church agreed to elect the Republican
electoral ticket and the Republican com-
mittee agreed to give the Mormon church a
seat in the United States Senate and other
favors. Probably the adjournment was
taken to avert that jump.
—As hetween ROOSEVELT and HEARST
it would merely be a matter of a toss up,
so near alike are they.
his blunders are harmless ex
The
not the Name, Should
Disease,
: be Fought.
The question as to whether small-pox
really is prevalent in and about Howard ie
becoming much mooted. And before it is
finally settled there will likely be much
bad feeling engendered beiween the peoplé
of differing opinions in that community.
‘While the WATCHMAN has no desire or
indlination to get mixed up in a con-
troversy that seems as ridiculous as it is
ill-advised we connot refrain from calling
public attention to the one salient, incon-
travertible feature of the case.
There is an infectious disease prevalent !
No one denies the presence of an infec:
tions, contagious disease. So what difference
does it make whether it is small-pox,
“anamolons’’ small-pox, Cuban itch or
something else. It is prevalent and should
be stamped out. The sooner the. people
take such a sensible view of it the sooner
this end will be accomplished:
Taking issue with the doctors who have
bee called in thie cases wont stop the
spread of the disease. Encouraging people
to. violate the quarantine regulations isn’t
the ointment that is going to soothe their
skin back to its normal healthfulness. If
business i is being affected in Howard it is
just sach folly that is accomplishing it.
No matter how much more the wise men
of that community may know than the
balf-dozen or more physicians who have
passed on the disease the outside world
will take the judgment of the physicians.
Because of the fact that there is an infec-
tious disease present. No matter what it
is no one wants to walk right into it.
In this connection we want also to call
attention to the foolishness of the idea that
prevails among some people to the effect
that it is a disgrace to be quarantined. No
reasonable mind could conceive any ground
for such a conclusion. Take the Howard
case, for an example. Nobody there is
responsible for the first appearance of the
disease. They are all the unfortunate vic-
tims of some one who came into their midst
affected with it, when he or she should
have been quarantined at home. It is no
reflection on the personal habits of the
people of Howard if they have the disease,
but it is a reflection on their general intel-
ligence and conception of moral duty if
th#¥ permit others to get it because thére
is some dispute as to what it really is.
Within the past few days a number of
cases have broken out in the ‘‘Big Hol-
low.” all of which can be traced right back
to Howard and are the best evidence in the
world that it is the duty of everyone to see
to it that a strict quarantine is maintained
in every affected quarter.
Rockefeller for Roosevelt.
The friends of the President announce
with obvious satisfaction that the Stand-
ard oil company favors Mr. ROOSEVELT for
President. This is interpreted, naturally,
that the Wall street opposition has been
placated. ROCKEFELLER is altogether the
most important figure in that element of
the life of the country at this time. Once
Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN was the con-
trolling element there. But the practical
failure of the steamship trnst and the utter
collapse of the shipbuilding trust have so
bumped MORGAN that he realizes the pro-
priety of laying low fora time. Under the
circumstances ROCKEFELLER has taken his
place.
But there is nothing now in the state-
ment that ROCKEFELLER is for ROOSEVELT.
As a matter Ot fact, he was never for any-
body else. It is true that while Senator
HANNA was alive it wasn’s safe for even
the Standard oil magnate to be candid on
the subject. They were all afraid of HAN-
NA and he was against ROOSEVELT. But
HANNA was hardly cold in his coffin until
the Standard oil company opened negotia-
tions with ROOSEVELT. Mr. JAMES STILL-
MAN, president of Mr. ROCKEFELLER'S
bank, was a guest at the White House be-
fore HANNA'S body was laid in its final
resting place. The parpose of his visit was
to ‘‘fix’’ ROOSEVELT and he achieved the
purpose.
It would hardly be safe to say that Wall
street is for ROOSEVELT simply because
ROCKEFELLER has ‘‘come over.”” The
chances are that the more conservative
capitalists in that centre of finance are still
dubious of TEDDY. But the Standard oil
company will contribute liberally to the
campaign fund and ROCKEFELLER will
serve as vice-president [of every meeting
held in New York during the campaign.
‘That will help to a considerable extent, but
not enongh to control the business vote of
the conntry. ROCKEFELLER has made
terms for the Standard oil company, but he
hasn’t satisfied the hetter element in the
business life of the country.
——A cake of ice is said to bave been
seen floating down the river at Harrisburg
that measured twenty-five feet long and
was five feet thick, The fellow who first
gave this bit of news (?) publicity probably
didn’t think to inquire who measured the
ice.
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NO. 11.
“The Mountain bas labored and brought
forth a Mounse.”” In other words, after
more than a year of boasting that the ad-
ministration will crush trusts, or at least
so regulate them as to make them barm-
less, the Supreme court has decided, in re-
lation to the Northern Securities company |
just what it decided i in 1896 with respect
to the Trans-Missouri affair. That is, it
has decided that it is illegal for a trust.to
organize in a way that would make it pos-
sible ito restrain trade between ' the States.
The Northern Securities company was 50
organized and the effect of the decision will
dissolve it.
Bat the decision doesn’t sustain the pre:
tense of the President that be is a trust
buster. On the contrary it shows that not
a step had been taken in advance on. the
trust question. since President ‘CLEVE-
LAND’s Attorney-General in 1896 @iseolved
the pool, which had been formed to regu-
late rather ‘than restrain trade. In fact in
that case the result was reached in half the
time consumed in reaching this decicion
and the premises were less clearly defined.
The organization of the Northern Securi’
ties company was so palpably a violation
of the law that there was little chance $0
go wrong. Bat in the Trans- Missouri case
there were no such tangible evidences of
culpability.
The effect of the decision is the dissolu-
tion of the Northern Securities company if
it stops with present achievement. But if
the President is really a trust-buster it will
not stop there. In other words, the decis-
ion shows that similar proceedings against
the Steel trust, the Standard oil trust and
the Beef trust will bring about the same
result in each and unless the President is
a false pretender he will lose ‘no time in
setting the legal machinery in inmotion.
The Northern Securities company was do-
ing comparatively little harm, but the oth-
ers are exceedingly inimical to public in-
terests.
A Peril to the Democracy.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
No one need lie awake o’ nights in fear
of the election to the office of President of
the United States of Hon. William R.
Hearst, but if those Democrats. who ' were
but a jittle' while ago hoping—expecting,
even—that their party was to emerge in
1904 from the slough of defeat into Which
it was thrown eight years ago by the malign
forces of Bryanism, and in which it has
since flonndered, are seriously considering
the Bryan-Hearst movement, they will no
doubt recognize that ic presents many and
great possibilities of dauger.
On Thursday last the Democrats of
Rhode Island, assembled in convention at
Providence, elected six Hearst delegates to
the St. Louis convention. On Saturday
these six delegates—two delegates in op-
position being absent—met and declared
themselves ‘‘uanequivocally in favor of the
nomination of’’ Hearst, and adopted a reso-
lution that ‘‘mnit rule shall govern the
delegation from Rhode Island,” and thas
‘‘the entire vote of such delegation shall be
given’’ Hearst. Thus has Hearst received
the solid delegation of the first State to
bold a state convention. Further than
thas, in Ohio he got the first district dele-
gates elected in the United States, and,
apart from both these accessions, he has
captured other scattering delegates to St.
Louis. The indications are that Hearst
will bave more than a third of the dele-
gates to the National convention; and, un-
less the two-thirds rule be abandoned by
it, he and Bryan can make a good deal of
trouble in that hody,and shatter for anoth-
er four years all hope of Democratic so-
lidarity and power.
It is incredible that Hearst can be nomi-
nated for the Presidency, munch less elec-
ted ; but as the catspaw of Bryan and the
other malcontents and wreckers in the
party, he is a person to be reckoned with.
Preposterous as his aspirations are, they
constitute a very serious peril to the
Demacraoy.
Gen, Miles Would be Prestdent.
Announces Himself as Candidate Subject to Pro-
hibition Party Rules.
OIL CiTY, Pa.,March 14.—David O. Me-
Calmont, of Oil City, chairman of the Ve-
nango county Prohibition committee, is in
receipt of a latter from General Nelson A.
Miles, in which the General announces
himself, indirectly. as a candidate for the
Presidency, subject to the rules of the Pro-
hibition party.
Some time ago McCalmont wrote to Gen-
eral Miles announcing that he would be a
delegate to the Prohibition national don-
vention,and asked if he conld not have the
pieasure of supporting him for the nomina-
tion. |
The full text of the letter received in re-
ply Mr. McCalmont refuses to make pub:
lo, as he claime it is a private communica-
tion. He states that it has not been seen
by auyone but himself. Ata banquet held
in Franklin on Tuesday evening of last
week, attended by a few men active in the
Prohibition party in Franklin, Mr. MeCal:
mont proposed General Miles as a candi-
date aod read an extract from the lesser, in
which General Miles is Tneted, as say-
ing :
“It remains with my friends 0 say what
Services I shall render further to my coun-
tr
Yr. MoCalmont refuses to quote any far-
ther for publication aud claims that the
original quotation was given out simply as
a matter of private information to a few
friends. He has written for General Miles’
permission to publish the full text of the
letter.
——Suabscribe for the WATCHMAN.
—The Huntingdon and Clearfield Tele-
phone company are making prepatatiofis to
extend their lines to DuBois. i
—Andrew Carnegie promises to give $1500
toward the purchase of an organ for the
Stroudsburg Methodist Episcopal church.
—John Betts, aged 71 years, a well-known’
citizen of Jersey Shore, dropped dead on
Sunday. He was at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs, D. M. Boswell, when he complain-
ed of not feeling well and a moment later:
fell dead.
—Postmaster Giddings, of Windber, bas
offered to contribute $500 to the Young
‘Men's Christian association of that town,
provided its other friends will give a similar
sum. The money is wanted for equipment
purposes.
~ —The annual order for locomotives and
coaches to be buiit by the Pennsylvania rail-
road company, at the shops in Altoona, is
announced. It provides for the construction
of 146 engines. The order for new coaches
160. These will be made of various kinds.
. —The Rev. Dr. William Dayton Roberts,
of Williamsport, at the close of his sermon
in the First Presbyterian church on Sunday
morning, anounced to his people his accept-
ance of the call recently received from the
Temple Presbyterian church of Philadel-
phia.
.—The Fifth regiment band will be in-
spected at Clearfield on. the afternoon of
March 18th. The entire band of thirty
members will be there for the inspection and
will give a concert in the opera house. that
evening. Major Jefferies, inspector of the
Second brigade, N. G. P., will do the in-
specting.
| —Three brothers named Smith, residing at
Everett, have died during the last month of
smallpox and several cases of the disease are
now in'the town. One of these is the young
wife of Hoface Smith, the marriage having
been celebrated while he lay upon his death
bed. : It is said she hasa very severe attack
of the disease.
* —The Home of the Friendless, Williams-
port, came very nearly being destroyed by
fire at an early hour Saturday morning. One
of the inmates struck a match, the lighted
head of which flew off and ignited a curtain.
She quickly gave the alarm and the fire was
put out, although the room and the contents
were badly scorched.
—The Clearfield Republican says that con -
tractor Reuben H. Thompson has begun tear-
ing down the Methodist church. Men are at
work demolishing the high tower and before
another week will commence to take down
the walls. During the building of the new
church services will be held in the opera
house each Sunday.
; —An overhead foot bridge will be erected
by. the railroad company in the west end of.
the yard at Renovo, above the depot, says
the News. The foundation has already been
completed. This isan improvement which
has been under consideration for some time
by the company and one which will be of
great benefit to the people of the North side:
—In court at Hollidaysburg Monday Wm.
Hall, a venerable looking prisoner pleaded
guilty to the larceny of an overcoat from the
hotel Myron, in Tyrone. The defendant
had no excuse to offer except: that he was
drunk and that he was 65 years of age and
- was never before charged with any crime:
He was sentenced to serve 60 gags] in jail and
pay $5 fine and costs.
—Because he was disappointed in love,
Walter Hyde, a young farm hand,who work-
ed on the J. M. Mosteller farm north of
Williamsport, shot himself through the
heart Friday afternoon with a shotgun. He
had placed the muzzle against his body and
pulled the trigger with his foot by the aid of
a loop of binder twine. Mrs. Mosteller
found the body in the barn.
;—John Reynolds, who resides at Grays-
ville, has a faithful lot of chickens, that care
as little for under zero weather asa mule
does for a man with a club. His flock num-
bers forty hens, and-in a single day not long
ago when the thermometer registered eight
degrees below zero they laid thirty-four
eggs. During the month of February Mr.
Reynolds received $17 from the sale of eggs.
—Eight years ago Miss Paulina Blum, of
Braddock, was supposed to have died and
arrangements were being made for the fu-
neral when the accidental scratching of the
body with a pin caused the blood to flow and
it was found that Miss Blum was still living
after lying in a comatose condition for near- °
ly two days. The beginning of this week it
was believed that death had come in reality
and according to Miss Blum’s urgent request
the body is being kept a namber of days be-
tore interment. Mrs. Gilbert Greenberg, of
Huntingdon, is a sister of Miss Blum.
—A very enterprising moving picture
showman succeeded the other day in throw-
ing the pretty city of Hazleton into a turmoil
by arranging for the sounding of a fire alarm
which called out three divisions of the fire
department in order to form a scene for a -
moving picture which is to be reproduced
there.” The alarm was a general one, and a
report spread that the business section of the
city was being destroyed by fire. People
hurried from all directions to the scene of
the supposed fire, all of which contributed to
the effectiveness of the picture.
—Fourteen prominent Pittsburg and Phila-
delphia politicians on Thursday plead guilty
before justice of the peace Barclay, of Clear-
field, to the charge of running deer with
dogs on the border line between Blair and
Clearfield counties, and were each fined $100
and costs. The Commonwealth was repre-
sented by Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the
State Game Commission. The game commis-
sion profits to the extent of one-haif of the
fines, $700, and a healthful lesson is taught
not only the culprits who were punished;
but notice is served on all hunters that the
law must be observed. >
—As an out-come of Saturday’s Democratic
primaries in the precincts of the Eighth
ward, Altoona, common councilman Wm. C.
Myton, James P. Bartley, W. B. Saylor, Fred
Gleichert, William White, William Oeffinger
and Carl Heinzman were arrested Monday
on information made before Alderman G. A.
DoByne by Ed. Kabello charging them with
conspiracy to stuff ballot boxes and cheat
and defraud George Wichum and George
Meek out of the nomination for select coun-
cil, and also to cheat and defraud P. E. Coll
otit of the nomination for common council.
All the defendants entered bail for hearing.