_ By P. GRAY MEEK.
. Ee
“oh ink Slings. .
— What would yon rather be than a
Bellefonte councilman ?
—The most gladsome thing the world
knows is the cheapest. Sunshine.
—When a man bumps up against good
fortune he never hasany sore spots to heal.
— Bellefonte has bad two of the usual
series of three fires. Watch for the third.
—Russia had better be sure that she can
handle the Japs before taking on any more
adversaries.
—Seoretary LOEB is looked upon by a
great many people just now as very much
of a LOEB ster.
—Mis. MAYBRICK is free at lass. The
Delaware peach crop story will have to go
it.alone in the future.
—Gen. KUROPATKIN’'S efforts to break
the Japanese center will likely result in
tke breaking of his own neck.
—The strike of the Chicago heet packers
is over. Now watch the trust startin to
skin t he public for loss of business during
its duration.
—There is every evidence to prove that
the FOLKS consider themselves very
much better than a great many of the peo-
ple in Missouri.
—If reports be true that lock-jaw can be
successfully treated now there will be
another obstacle removed from the way of
the Fourth of July fool.
—Read what BRYAN says about the
Democratic platform in this issue and re-
solve, with him, that it is the wise thing
to go along with the party.
—It must be admitted that Mr. PARKER
has the Republicans scared to a stand-still
withont saying a word. What will they
do when he opens his campaign.
—How many people make the mistake
of thinking that there is plenty of time to
begin being good, after they have grown
too old to get any more fun out of being
bad ?
—Men who can’t support PARKER be-
cause of their love for BRYAN onght to
absorb a little of BRYAN’S love for Democ-
racy and then they would find no trouble
in doing it.
—It is reported that there is a gentleman
in Philipsburg who owns some of every-
thing in that town but the new brewery
and he looks as if he owned all of it. Itis
your guess.
—The King of Belginm wears no crown
because he bas no crown to wear. In the
world to come there will be lots of fellows
in the King's predicament, because they
have failed to earn one.
—That Vladivostok tleet of the Russian
navy is out again cutting up capers among
Japanese merchantmen. The matter of
its getting out isn’t one of as great mo-
mens as that of its getting back.
—This is the year that JOAN NOLL will
make good and just because he was so sat-
isfactory in the last session we will have
to send the Hon. J. W. KEPLER along
t 0 the Legislature also.
—The fact that Senator W. A. CLARK
was able to keep his marriage secret for a
period of three years was altogether due to
the fact that he married a woman very un-
like most of her sex.
—Our Republican campaign friends are
having a bard time these days keeping the
dinner pail full, not to mention the num-
ber of men who have no opportunity of
carrying a dinner pail at all.
—Governor HERRICK, of Ohio, said
‘“‘husiness is ahead of politics in the minds
of the American people.” To he more
specific he meant in the minds of those
outside of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
—After looking the Igorrotes over at Sb.
Louis the average American will come
home fully convinced that in paying two
dollais a head for them we lost about a
dollar and ninety-eight cents on each one.
—It Joe FoLK, of Missouri, is really
hunting trouble president FRANCIS, of the
exposition, might give him a job figuring
out how that great show is going to make
ends meet on the basis of present attend-
ance.
-— What has become of that great Re-
publican club that Col. REEDER was or-
ganizing several weeks ago? His efforts to
try to submerge the original and reliable
R GOSEVELT club of the West ward receiv-
ed a dampener from many sources that be-
lieve that the young men who organized
and maintained a club years before he
thought of it should not he treated as if
they were political foot-balls.
—About the first bit of real good sense
we have noted Senator FAIRBANKS, the
Republican nominee for Vice President,
display for a long time is his determination
not to resign his seat in the upper branch
of Congress until the outcome of the elec-
tion is decided. The Senator is wise in
hangivg onto the five years in the sena-
torial chair that he bas coming, for that
might be all he will have left after the fray.
—From all quarters of Centre county
come reports of general satisfaction over the
work of the St. Lonis convention. Many
Republicans will join with us this year in
the fight for a ‘‘safe and sane’ President
and the outlook is more hopeful than it
has been in years. We will need every
vote, however, and now is the time to spur
your neglectful neighbor into an enthuosi-
asm that will take him eagerly to the polls
in November.
‘measure contribute to indpstrial
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. :
_VOL 49
The Facts Proved.
The reply which has always been ready
on the tongue of a Republican orator or at
the point of the pen of a Republican editor
to the citation of the historic fact that
strikes have come more frequently and
labor troubles are more numerons under
the operation of a high protective tariff
than under any other conditions, is that
strikes and troubles are for increases of
wages and not against reductions. The
human memory is proverbially short and
the Republican orators and editors take
advantage of that fact to shus impose on
public credulity. They freely assert that
wages and a greater share of the prosperity
of the country when as a matter of fact
every industrial disturbance of that year,
including that which resulted in the
slaughter at Homestead, was against a re-
duction of wages.
The Republican orators and editors will
not undertake to say that the strikes, lock-
outs and other labor disturbances now in
progress are in consequence of labor de-
mands for increases of wages, though there
lias been no time in the history of the
country that the discrepancy between the
rate of wages and the cost of living was so
great. The butoher’s strike the other day
in Chicago, Kansas City and other centres
of the meas packing industry was induced
‘by a notice of reduction of wages already
vastly inadeqnate and the same is true of
every other strike which has oconrred
within the last year. Expenses of living
have gone up constantly and wages of
labor down until the workingmen of the
country were approaching a condition of
want even while employed. Yet the high
tariff rates of the DINGLEY law are in full
operation.
The trath is that tariff taxes never add
to the rate of wages or in the slightest
pros-
perity. They don’t even produce revenue
for the government... They simply add to
the profits of the trust magnates and other
beneficiaries of a vicious system and re-
‘duce workingmen to the condition of serfs
by exacting feom their earnings more than
a just share and thus keeping them in a
state of poverty aud helplessness. The
McKINLEY tariff law brought on the panic
of 1893 in that way. When the industrial
paralysis which was inevitable set in their
resources were ‘exhausted by excessive
taxation and they were unable to main-
tain themselves during the period of indus-
trial lethargy. If they had heen taxed
only sufficiently to maintain the govern-
ment, economically administered, during
the few years preceding the savings banks
would bave been available for them in the
moments of distress. .
An Auspicious Opening.
No party ever entered more auspiciously
upon an important campaign than the Dem-
ocrats are entering upon the impending
presidential contest. Ever since the St.
Louis convention begun its deliberations
our friends, the enemy,have been assiduous
ly lahoring to diffuse the false impression
that leading Democrats are cultivating
antipathies = against each other. They
tried very hard to make the public believe
that Senator GORMAN, of Maryland, is di-
satisfied with the result of the convention
and that WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN had
gone home after that event nursing re-
sentments bigger than twenty story busi-
ness blocks. In fact they have insisted
that nearly all the leading Democrats are
dissatisfied.
As a matter of fact no party has ever
been more harmonious and no party lead-
ers could possibly be more in accord or
earnest in purpose. Mr. BRYAN’S ample
answer to their false pretense of sympathy
for his failure to defeat Judge PARKER
that he intends to support that gentleman
with his customary energy and masterful
ability for four substantial reasons, each
of which constitutes an unanswerable in-
dictment against the Republican party:
Senator GORMAN’S reply is quite as effec-
tive a2 answer.. He has publicly thanked
the Maryland delegates in the convention
for contributing their votes to the nomi-
nation of Judge PARKER and thus gnaran-
teeing the certain success of the party at
the polls. What more convincing answer
could he made?
The Democracy of the country is to be
congratulated on so auspicious an opening
of the campaign and the hopefulness of the
trinmph which is in sight. We have
reason to believe that the eloquent voice
of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN will be heard
in every doubtful State in the Union in
behalf of the immortal principles of Dem.
ocracy and in support of the excellent ticket
nominated at St. Louis two weeks ago and
it is practically certain that Senator
GORMAN will be closely associated with the
management of the campaign. Senator
Hit, of New York, Colonel GUFFRY, of
Pennsylvania, THOMAS TAGGART, of Indi-
ana WILLIAM F. ViLas, of Wisconsin, and
theable and earnest leaders of the party
in every section of the country will pull
together for victory and will achieve it,
all she strikes in 1892 were for higher |
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 22, 1904.
Loeb as a Hero.
Others may play more stirring and con-
spicuous parts in the Republican presiden-
tial canvass but if we may judge by the
‘signe no ‘individual is destined to be of
more actual importance in holding the vot-
ers in line than the humble LoEB. LOEB
is down on the hooks as seoretary to the
President hut his real title is Official
Blunderer. It is his duty to shoulder the
responsibility for and assume the odium of
every blunder made by the President and
his official family tbat in any way promises
to stir up animosity against Republican
‘rule and Republican candidates.
For a time after LOEB assumed his pres-
ent job, which, by the way, was back in
the days before chairman CORTELYOU bad
entered the Cabinet, he was quite a busy
man. Of late, however, he has been en-
joying more or less of a sinecure and no
doubt gained in weight and personal ap-
pearance as a consequence, But the acei-
-dent of the turning down of the represen-
tatives of the anthracite miners was a sig-
nal that the strenuous life has been renew-
ed and that it is time for the Official Blun-
-derer to be ready to do business at any
time of the day or night.
As Mr. DooLEY would say it’s a bard
job LoEB bas and the pay is quite small.
There can’t be much joy in the life of a
ous and tell the reporters that he, and he
alone, is responsible for the actions or
words of some impetuous or heedless ass
who bas succeeded in stirring up the ire of
an influential element of the people.
that is not the worst of it by any means.
The reporters understand and they sympa-
thize but the public is different and the
Official Blunderer is generally taken for
what he claims to be, a man devoid of
manners and brains. Surely the man who
for the sake of his party will play such a
‘humiliating role, deserves to be considered
a hero.
Is it More Graft They are After?
According to dispatches recently sent
out from Harrisburg an effort is already
being made, or soon is to he made, to
have a chemical laboratory attached to the
department of agriculture at that place,
the object being to make the analyses of
commercial fertilizers’ and concentrated.
food stuffs at Harrishurg instead of State
College, where the Pennsylvania State
College agricultural experiment station
has been doing that work for the past six-
teen years.
There can be but one plausible reason
given for such a change and it is so char-
acteristic of Pennsylvania political man-
agement that few persons will be surprised
at it: The Department of Agriculture
needs more places for its h enchmen to fill,
more opportunties for graft.
No one would think of saying that as
good work in these lines conld be done at
Harrisburg, where the capabilities of the
men doing it would be measured entirely
by their devotion to the particular gentle-
man who happens to be Secretary of Agri-
culture, as is being done at the experiment
station at State College, where experienced
chemists, men who are giving] their life
work to science, are in charge. And it
seems $0 us the height of folly to even con-
sider the matter, for should the change he
made the magnificently equipped labora-
tories at the experiment station will have
to be manned and operated just the same,
while the State will be put to the expense
of manning a second one in Harrisburg, so
that more places can be made for the boys.
As to the satisfactory results of such a
change to those having need of chemical
analyses it is patent to everyone that the
same oredibility would not be given the
report from a political laboratory in
Harrisburg that would be given the one
from State College, where the work is done
by men who do not hold their places be-
cause of political usefulness and is superin-
tended by those who are authority all
over the world in the particular scientific
branches they profess.
The States that Will Elect the Next
President.
It takes just 239 electoral votes to elect
tte next President of the United States ;
and here is the list of States that will do
that job for ALTON B. PARKER.
NOVARA... nisin air ists nti ats 3
Total
In addition to the above all of which are
almost absolutely certain to be Democratic
in November, there are indications that the
following States will cast their electoral
votes in the same way :
Illinois 27
Indiana 15
Minnesota, 11
Nebraska. iB
NeW JOrsey.......icrnseerisrssissimusrsiesnsserssrsinssnsninss 13
Total Doubtful
man part of whose daily routine is to walk
But
ATRDRATART, . cc foive diciite citi dic osbasshideesiibash ss sivevadedd 11
Arkansas....... 9
‘Connecticut.. 7
Delaware 8;
Florida.......... 5
Georgia..... 13
Kentucky. 13
Louisiana.. Sg
in +10
Missouri... 18
New York. 39
North Carol 12
South Carolina. 9
Tennessee........... 12
Texas........ 18
Virginia... 12
Maryland.. 8
West Virg 7
Wisconsin 13
Colorado Tivo
Idaho.. 3
Lawlessness Can be Prevented.
We learn from a Harrishurg contempor-
‘ary that the contractor who bas heen
awarded the contracy'of building a $500.
000 wall around the capital park in that
city deolares that the wall will be built,
‘regardless of the protests of the people.
The contract has been let, he adds, and the
"work will be performed whether the peo-
ple like it or vot. The late HAMLET must
have had something like this in mind when
‘he spoke of the insolence of office. The
statement is probably a piece of unwar-
ranted braggadocia and isn’t meant to be
taken seriously. But just the same the
officials at Harrisburg are getting into the
habit of making too free with the consti-
tution and the laws and getting too care-
less of the people’s money.
The constitution of Pennsylvania speoif-
ically forbids the payment of any money
out of the treasury ‘‘except upon appro-
priations made by law, and on warrant
drawn by the proper officer in pursuance |
thereof.”” The appropriation made during
the session of the Legislature for the main-
tenance, care and improvement of the capi.
tal park, legally known as ‘the Publio
Buildings and Grounds, is $30,000. It will
be clearly impossible to build a wall at
a cosh of half a million dollars with an ap-
“propriation of $30,000, and it is just as
certainly a violation of the constitution
which every member of the Board of Pub-
lic Buildings and Grounds has sworn to
‘“‘support, obey and defend,’’ to pay money
ont of the treasury that has not been ap-
propriated by the Legislature and ‘‘on war-
rant drawn by the proper officer in pursu-
ance’’ of that appropriation.
Neither is it possible to disguise such a
misappropriation of the funds of the State
by paying through the Board of Public
Buildings and Grounds the expense of the
wall around the capital park out of the
funds regularly appropriated for the con-
struction of the capital building. The act
authorizing the construction of the capital
anilding designates that the money appro-
priated in it is ‘‘for the removal of the two
buildings now occupied by the Secretary of
Internal Affairs and other departments of
the state government and the Secretary of
Agriculture and other departments of the |
state government, and for the construction |
and completion of the State Capital build-
ing.” There is no authority contained in
that act of Assembly to build a wall around
capitol park at a cost of half a million dol-
lars or any other sum.
Moreover the act in question creates a
commission to ‘construct, build and com-
plete’’ the State Capital building, employ
architects and de all other work such as
letting contracts for the construction and
completing the building and paying all
monies in connection with the operation.
It the park wall is to be a part of the build-
ing or the erection of it a feature of the
completion of it, the contract for the wall
must he let and paid for out of the money
appropriated for the building and by the
gentlemen who compose that commis-
sion. Any other arrangement is a viola-
tion of law and may be prevented by an
appeal to the courts for an injunction.
Therefore the capital park job can be
prevented if the people have courage and
are so inclined.
Not Treachery Bnt Duty.
Republican party managers are already
preparing for the fall which will be inevit-
able as the result of the vote at the presi
dential election next November. ‘The
only thing that Mr. ROOSEVELT has to fear
in his fight to continue in the White
House,” remarked one of these panic
stricken gentlemen the other day, ‘‘is
treachery among his friends.’’ In other
words every citizen of the country, hith-
erto a Republican who votes for the only
‘sane and safe’’ candidate for President
this year will be acoused of treachery and
denounced as a traitor to his party. Bus
that lame and impotent expedient won’t
- work the desired result if the signs are ac-
curate,
Hundreds of thousands of Republicans
will not vote for ROOSEVELT for President
because they are fearful of the result of his
election on the business and political inter-
ests of the country. * Even as au accidental
President who reached the office through
the agency of a national calamity he has
gone far beyond the limits of constitutional
authority in the exercise of usurped power
and there is a just and reasonable fear that
entering upon the duties under a commis-
gion issued by the suffrages of the people
he wouid go to such excesses as might easi-
ly wreck the Republic. It will not be
treachery to Republicanism or treason to
the country to vote against ROOSEVELT
under such circumstances.
Vast numbers of honest people of this
country remember how during the last ses-
sion of Congress ROOSEVELT debased the
office he holds by descending into the
lobby to prevent the investigation of cor-
ruption in the departments which was so
obvions that it smelled to high heaven.
Other hosts of people remember that he
made corporations pay for his luxurious
junkets and that it is suspected that with
his consent they reimbursed themselves by
charging excessively for carrying mails. Is
will hardly be treacherous or treasonable
for Republicans who understand these facts
to vote against ROOSEVELT and there are
thousands who understand. To vote
against such a candidate is a patriotic
duty.
‘social war.
NO 28.
Roosevelt and Labor Uplons.
From the New York Sun. 5
Is is reported shat she postponed inter-
view between Mr. Roosevelt and the
Pennsylvania labor leaders specially rep-
resenting the Colorado. union miners will
take place early next week.
Two of the gentiemen who went to Oys-
jeet of the Colorado distar
turned away on Tuesday last by Secretary
Loeb, under a strict ootistrudtion of the
summer retirement. They departed breath-
ing vengeance at the polls in November.
Since then it has been explained thas Mr.
Roosevelt knew naught of Labor’s prox-
imity on Tuesday ; the private secretary
was wholly responsible for its peremptory.
dismisal. Now labor is called back and is
to have a hearing. : J *
Is there any doubt about the character |
of the reply Mr. Roosevelt will make to the:
delegates if they go to Oyster Bay to pro--
‘test against the use of armed force for the:
suppression of mob violence ?
Having heard them, he will take from
bound volume of the Forum for the year
1895, and he will read to them with appro-
priate emphasis, and perbaps with auxili-
ary gesticulation, these pertinent remarks
from an article on
Ideals,”’ written for that; magazine by the
.man and the citizen Theodore Roosevelt
shortly after the memorable suppression of
the Chicago labor riot by Presid
land : : 1 .
‘“The worst foes of America are the foes
to that orderly liberty without which our
Republic must speedily perish. The reck-
less labor agitator who arouses the mob to
riot and bloodshed is in she lass analysis
the most dangerous of the workingman’s
enemies. This man is a real peril ; so is
his sympathizer, the legislator who, to |
catch votes, denounces the judiciary and
the military because they pus down mobs.
“The demagogue, in all his forms; is as
‘characteristic an evil of a free society as
the courtier is of a despotism ; and the at--
titude of many of our public men at the
time of the great strike last July was such
as to call down on their heads the condem-
nation of every American who wishes well
to his country. .
‘‘Had it not been for the admirable ac-
tion of the federal government, Chicago
would have seen a repetition of what oc-
curred during the Paris Commune, while
Illinois would have been torn bya fierce
It was a most fortunate thing
that the action at Washington was go quick
and so emphatic. The President and At-
torney-Ge Olney acted with equal
wisdom and’ courage, and the danger was
averted. *
“The completeness of the vietory of the
Federal authorities, representing the ¢ use
of law and order, has been perbaps one rea-
son why it was so soon forgotten. Gov-
| ernor Altgeld, though pre-eminent, did not |
stand alone in his anenviable prominence.
Governor Waite, of Colorado, stood with
him. Most of the Populist Governors of
‘the Western States and the Republican
Governor of Colorado and the Democratic
Governor of North Dakota shared the
shame with him ; and it makes no differ-
ence whether in catering to riotous mobs
they paid heed to their own timidity and
weakness or to that spirit of blatant dema-
gogism which, more than any other, jeop-
ardizes the existence of free institutions.
‘“Every true American, every man who
thinks and who, if the occasion come, is
ready to act, may do well to ponder upon
the evil wrought by the lawlessness of the
disorderly classes when once they are able
to elect their own chiefs to power. If the
Government generally got into the hands
of such men as Altgeld and the other Gov-
ernors like him referred to, the Republic
would go to pieces in a year; and it would |
be right that it should go to pieces, for the
election of snch men shows that the people
electing them are unfit to be entrusted
with self-government.’’
Soch were the unambiguous words of
Mr. Roosevelt on the general subject of the
preservation of order against violence like
that in Illinois in 1894, and in Colorado
ten years later. Is it not like y that he
will reply to the intercessors for the Colo-
rado striking miners by reading to them
these very werds of his own from the For-
wm of February, 1895? And even if the
delegates conclude not to go again to Oys-
ter Bay, they may read his sentiments just
the same.
Republican Figures that Should En.
courage the Democracy.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Charles Emory Smith starts out in a
prominently displayed ‘‘leader’”” in the
Philadelphia Press to prove that the Demo-
cratic National ticket has no chance of elec-
tion this fall with the result that he prac-
tically shows tbat it has a very good chance
indeed. He gives a list of the Democratic
States, including the solid South and Ken-
tucky and Missouri, with a total of 151
votes. Then he follows with a list of eight
doubtful States, Colorado, Idaho, Mary-
land, Montana, New York, Nevada, West
Virginia and Wisconsin, with a total of 81
votes. Finally he gives a third list of Re-
publican States, which includes all the
States not above mentioned, and which
have a total of 244 votes, or five more than
the 239 necessary to elect.
In the list of sure Republican States,
however, he includes Delaware, Indiana,
New Jersey and Connecticut, with a total
of 37 electoral votes. Subtracting these
from the Republican list leaves only 207
votes. While adding them and the votes
of the States admitted by Mr. Smith to be
donbtful to the Democratic column we
have 269 votes, or 30 more than would be
necessary to elect Parker and Davis. In-
asmuch as such a prominent and rabid Re-
publican as Mr. Smith can figure out a
sure margin of only five votes for the Re-
publican National ticket, and can achieve
that only by claiming as surely Republican
States which are known by everyone to be
doubtful, there is every reason why the
Democrats should start in upon the . pres.
ent campaign with confidende and enthu-
its place upon one of his library shelves a.
“True | American
ent Cleve-.
i
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Eber T. Leitsinger, a Montoursville
printer, who has worked in that city, died
in the Williamsport hospital Monday after-
noon, having broken his back in falling from:
a trestle. ol
—Trains commenced running on the Car-
wensville & Bower railroad on Monday
morning, coming into the Clearfield yard
over the B. RB. & P. tracks from a point be-
low Curwensville.
—With an iron rod broken from his bed,
David Thomas awaiting trial on a charge of
robbery pried his way out of jail at Lewis-
burg, opening a corridor door, and escaped
. Thursday morning. .
—The Lycoming county fair grounds were
knocked down at sheriff's sale Saturday for
$5,000. When the purchaser learned that
' the mortgages on the same footed up $8,400,
he threw up the purchase. The property
will be sold over again.
—Two cases of lock-jaw have been success-
fully treated at the Altoona hospital within
ter Bay to converse with him on the snb- ‘a very few months. The last one was taken
NCES = were
to the institution about two weeks ago with
‘his jaws as rigid as they could be made by
‘death, but they are now working all right.
new rules governing all approach to the |’
person of the Chief Executive during his|-
—Miss Anna Snyder, of Shamokin, became
separated from a party of friends on the
‘mountains, Tuesday, and lost her way.
Searching parties found her eight miles in
‘the woods from there on Wednesday almost
‘dead from exhaustion. She passed the night
in a desperate scramble over hills and val-
leys to reach there and finally collapsed.
—A resident of Dowingtown,Chester coun-
ty, has been sent to jail for refusing to pay
‘school taxes. It issaid this isthe first in-
‘stance of imprisoning a man in Chester coun-
ty for non-payment of taxes, and that the
‘object is ‘to constrain others who are delin-
‘quent to pay to avoid imprisonment. Itisa
‘test case and will* be'taken to court by the
‘imprisoned man. The tax involved amounts
to only $1.05, to which is added $3 costs.
: —Dr. Warren, the pure food commissioner,
has given notice that no more violators of
the pure food laws will be permitted to settle
by the payment of a fine. This policy has
been taken in consequence of the bad faith
.with which certain parties have acted. After
having secured their release by paying a
fine, they continue to violate the laws the
same as before,evidently supposing that they
would not be molested again for at least some
‘time.
~—William Johnson, a young Swede, aged
19 years, whose home was at Peale, was
‘drowned in Pine. creek, about one-half a
mile above the Beech Creek railroad bridge,
not far from Jersey Shore, on Sunday. He
‘had come to Jersey Shore to draw his pay
and in the morning, went up the creek to
‘bathe. It was thought Johnson was seized
with cramp. His companions attempted tO
save him, nearly losing their own lives. The
body was found in ten feet of water.
—Dr. Warren, the pure food commissioner,
has given notice that no more violators of
the pure food laws will be permitted to set:
tle by payment of a fine. This policy has
been taken in consequence of the bad faith
‘with which certain parties have acted. Af-
ter having secured their release by paying a
fine, they continue to violate the laws the
same as before, evidently supposing that
they would not be molested again for at least
some time. :
—Tra Micheltree, who is employed on the
Bald Eagle mountain, getting out wood,
was bitten in the ankle by a large rattle
snake the other day, and for a time serious -
consequences were feared, but the swelling is
going down and he is now out of danger. He
stepped from a fallen tree on thé snake
which he failed tosee and the reptile in-
stantly sank its venomous fangs into his leg,
which swelled to large proportions before he
secured medical treatment.
—Last Saturday afternoon Mrs. Amelia
Bartholomew, of Mill Hall, went into her
chicken coop for the purpose of putting some
eggs under a black hen, which had been set-
ting for a day or two. She carefully placed
a couple of eggs under what she supposed
was the hen, when she saw the head ofa
snakp slowly raised up and turned toward
he#. Ske ran from the coop and called to
Frank Emerick, a near neighbor, who came
and killed the reptile, which proved to be
an immense blacksnake a little over six feet
long.
—The canker worm has been making dep-
redations on the oak, chestnut and maple
trees on Bald Eagle mountain, Huntingdon
county, and the leaves on the trees on three
square miles of the mountain have been
practically destroyed. State economic
zoologist Surface returned from the moun-
tain where he went to investigate the
ravages of the worm and take steps to pre- .
vent the spread of the pest to the State re-
serve on Tussey mountain. He says the:
worms have gone into the ground and will
appear next year as winged insects. The
department of zoology will endeavor to kill:
he pest in the ground so as to prevent its .
appearance next year.
—An employe of the New York Central
railroad at Oak Grove, whose name could
not be learned, was held up by a highway-
man in the yards at that place Sunday morn-.
ingat1 o'clock who demanded his ‘‘coin’
at the point of a revolver. Saturday was
pay day and the young man had his month's
earnings in his pocket. While pretending
to reach for his money he pulled his gun but
the highwayman saw what he was up to and
fired at him, the ball going through his arm.
The shot was returned and it is believed the
robber was hit in the leg. He managed to
escape in the darkness without accomplish-
ng his purpose, although a posse of railroad
men searched for him diligently.
—Charles Peters, employed at the steel
plant, near Clearfield. suddenly and very
mysteriously disappeared about ten days ago.
The mystery attached to his disappearance
was cleared away Tuesday by the discovery
of his body near the mouth of Montgomery
creek where it empties into the Susquehanna
river. The body was found by rural mail
carrier Fullerton, who notified the authori-
ties of his gruesome find. Since the finding
of his body it i8 now remembered that he
had been in ill health the week before his
disappearance, and in his despondency, had
on several occasions talked of putting him-
self out of the way. His parents live at
York, to which place his body was shipped
"for burial.