BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
© —(Grand Duke BORIS seems to have the
Sultan of Sulu “‘skinned a mile’’ when it
comes to the “ladies.”
— With strikes and threatened strikes all
over the country we are at a loss to under-
stand who is responsible for it all.
—The New York Herald is for PARKER
and the Herald has built up a great reputa-
tion for being on the winning side.
—If laziness is a disease and if itis a
germ disease, we know of lots of fellows
who will not submit to vaccination against
it.
—It is a question whether even St.
Petersburg will be on the wap when Gen.
KUROPATKIN and his men finally fall back
on if.
—Bolivia and Siam being the only
Powers on earth withont a national debt it
behoov es some other Power to involve them
in a war.
—The detection of so much adulterated
milk in the land is no evidence that the
cows have broken the seventh command-
ment, is it?
—All this talk about DAVIS being too
old is tommy-rot. Why a man of ninety
won a foot-race in Lycoming county a few
days ago.
—The retirement of JOAN M. GARMAN
from Luzerne county politics eliminates
one of the most bumptious characters who
has figured in that section for years.
—FLINN’S announcement that he is to
return to politics comes so soon after BIGE-
Low’s death that it is a tacit admission
that THOMAS S., held a strong hand in the
Pittsburg game.
—ROOSEVELT must have been surpris-
ed (?) on Wednesday when that very dis-
tinguished body of gentlemen told him he
had been nominated for the Presidency of
the United States.
—BRYAN’S announcement that he will
speak during the campaign, only in Mis-
souri, discloses either a great love for JOE
FoLK or else the Pike has some attraction
for the orator of the Platte.
—THOMAS TAGGART, of Indiana, is the
new national chairman of the Democracy.
TAGGART has been a winner in many
things ; let us hope that he will be one in
this his greatest undertaking.
— The discovery of a process for making
an unbrakable dish will be hailed with de-
light by ‘the women who see the edges of
their china becoming more ragged each
time it emerges from the dish pau.
—If the scarcity of house-maids con-
tinues to increase during the next ten years
at the rate of the past ten that familiar old
disease know as house-maid’s knee will
live only in the records of science.
—The practical use of the search-light is
known to be 700 yards and that is proba-
bly the reason some of the rascals are in
for building that high wall around the
capitol buildings at Harrisburg.
—In Berlin the police arrest managers
who have ‘‘dummy’’ musicians in their
bands and orchestras. The jails in this
country would not be large enough to hold
all the culprits were such an act enforced
here.
—It would bave been a great pity if Lt.
Col. BEITLER had been unable to get to
Camp QUAY, at Gettysburg, during the
week. So many of the papers would have
been short such a beautifal object for illus-
tration.
—Mr. PAUL MORTON, the new Secretary
of the Navy, has already promulgated
ideas that make HoBsoN's dream of a
navy for the United States look likea
Gloucester fishing fleet. That’ll he all
right, Mr. MORTON, but you can’t heat
our RicHMOND kissing.
~~ —Twenty-five thousand cotton mill
operatives out on a strike at Fall River,
Mass., and the great meat packing houses
of the west all tied up because of dissatis-
faction among their employees is cutting
out the work very fast for the Republican
national campaign committee.
—The annonnoement that A. A. STEVENS
Esq., of Tyrone, bas heen substituted for
Lee M. GRUMBINE, of Lebanon, on the
Prohibition ticket for justice of the Su-
preme court,need not necessarily encourage
anyone to make a pull for the management
of the American Lime and Stone Co’s.
operations.
—The Hon. HENRY G. DAVIS is setting
a pace at eighty that few men of forty
would dare undertake. Not content with
the excitement of a campaign for Vice
President he has decided to get married
right in the midst of it. Here’s hoping
that the Nation gives HENRY the wedding
present that such courage deserves.
—The Johnstown Democrat has register-
ed quite an emphatic kick because the
women of that city appropriate the three
rear seats on the open cars, when tbe said
three rear seats are the only ones on which
men are permitted to sit and smoke, while
riding. Of cource men have their rights.
So do women. We wonder what the
Democrat would say if some of these wom-
en were to establish their claim to the seats
in question by puffing away at ‘‘a cigar, a
toby or a pipe.”” Surely it would not
question their right to do even that, if they
want to.
_— en RI RAWAL . Norio.
VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 29, 1904.
Is Roosevelt Honest.
It has been the custom of the Democratic
press and people to refer to President
ROOSEVELT as a model of personal integrity
and honor. However widely men of our
political faith differed from him with re-
spect to principles and deprecated his poli-
cies, they invariably commended his per-
sonal probity. That was largely because
in his earlier life and less important
stations he was the outspoken foe of all
forms, of corruption and the earnest enemy
of official venality.
But is he that now?
In his present position of power and op-
portunity to enforce the principles of in-
tegrity he has certainly shown an indif-
ference and we seriously doanht the honesty
of a man who tolerates dishonesty.
Take for example the frands in the Post-
office Department. The BRISTOW report
showed the most shameless state of venality
and the investigation made hy lawyers
BoNAPART and CONRAD special counsel em-
ployed by the President himself, urged a
more comprehensive and searching in-
vestigation. Yet when the investigation
was proposed the President, in the greatest
agitation, begged Senators and Represen-
tatives to vote against the proposition and
even openly bribed them by offering gov-
ernment patronage and other official favors
in consideration of opposition to tbe pro-
posed investigation. Does that look like
honesty? Is it customary for honest men
to pursue such a course?
Last year every movement of the Presi-
dent was attended by the most ostentatious
display of luxury. The special train in
which he made his trip to the Yellowstone
park with 1ts provisions and equipment
cost the Pennsylvania railroad $50,000 and
his trips to Oyster Bay and other points
were proportionately expensive. It has
been asserted that the railroads reimbursed
themselves for those expenses by ‘‘padding’
their bills for carrying mails and that
ROOSEVELT knew that an investigation
would disclose the iniquity to public view.
If that be true can be be regarded asa
man of personal integrity? We should
say not and add that his opposition to
investigation confirms the rumor.
——W. H. DENLINGER, of Patton, a
former resident of Philipsburg, is mention-
ed as a possible candidate for Assembly in
Cambria county. While we know nsthing
of Mr. DENLINGER’S inclination in the
matter we do know that no better man
could be found for a seat in the legislative
halls of the State. y
——————
Cortelyon’s Appeal for Funds.
Chairman CORTELYOU of the Republican
national committee has made his first in-
cursion into the ranks of the tariff barons
for campaign boodle. That is he visited
Philadelphia the other day where he met
Myr. PERKINS, of the firm of J. P. MORGAN
& Co., of New York (the financial head of
all the great trusts in the country,) and
THOMAS DOLAN, president of the United
Gas Improvement company of Philadel-
phia. He appointed Mr. DoLAN fat-fryer-
in-chief and probably told Mr. PERKINS
what would be expected of Mr. MORGAN'S
partners in the steel trust and other preda-
tory husiness enterprises which he has
created. Mr. DOLAN subsequently de-
clined to accept the appointment, but as-
sured the chairman that he will provide a
suitable man for the service.
This incident makes reasonably clear the
kind of campaign which Mr. CORTELYOU
proposes to conduct in the interest of the
bogus *‘trust-buster.”” He will not hother
with men engaged in legitimate business
enterpriges. Such men are not anxious to
have ROOSEVELT elected President, for they
have no confidence either in his ability or
patriotism and reason that he is likely to
run off on some ahsurd tangent which will
result in a war or panic at any moment.
His habit of meddling in foreign affairs and
his obvious desire for conquest may lead to
serious complications and business is un-
certain so long as such dangers are immi-
nent. Therefore he appeals to the ‘‘plung-
ers’’ in finance and the gamblers in busi-
ness.
The United Gas and Improvement com-
pany is probably the most atrocious band
of predatory operators in the United States.
DoLAN, of Philadelphia, is president and
ADDICKS, of Delaware,one of the directors.
They own the gas works in most of the
large cities of the country and the electric
lighting plants in many. They make bad
gas by patent processes and charge enor-
mously for it. For example, in Kansas
City a few years ago they were charging
fifty cents a 1000 feet and in Harrisburg
$1.70. In other words their policy is to
take all they can get, particularly from the
helpless and the head of such a concern is
essentially fit for financing the Republican
presidential campaign.
——Clearfielders are starting an agita-
tion for Senator A. E. PATTON for Gover-
nor. Certain it is that he would make a
great improvement on the nonentity now
occupying the gubernatorial chair.
Forcing Negro Equality.
President ROOSEVELT'S purpose of fore-
ing the recognition of the social equality
of the negro is reaffirmed in his speech ac-
cepting the nomination. In fact to make
it more offensive he couples the assertion
with the statement that there isno dis-
tinction between rich and poor citizens
ander the law. That is an established
and incontrovertible fact. But the racial
difference is clear and a man who en-
sourages the inferior race to claim equality
is an enemy, not only of his country, but
of his kind. He is deliberately inviting
race conflicts and bloodshed.
Of President ROOSEVELT’S recoguition
of the social equality of the negro with
himself, as an individual, we have no
complaint. During his lifein the West
he degraded himself to the level of the
prairie outlaws. That is a matter for
every man to determine for himself and
in the choice he is usually guided by his
patare. THEODORE ROOSEVELT the in-
dividual, therefore, hasa right to invite
any negro to his table or to his bed. But
as President of the Republic it is entirely
different. In that capacity he is represent-
ing the people and whatever he does is
for them and in their name. That being
true, in entertaining a negro in the White
House he is forcing negro social equality
on the people, which is a erime.
Besides such recognition of the best of
the negro element encourages the worst to
first expect and then demand social recog-
nition. Since the visit of BOOKER WASH-
INGTON at the White House by the Presi-
dent outrages by negroes on helpless and
unprotected white women have multiplied.
His speech in which that policy is reassert-
ed will give a new impulse to their danger-
ous passions and criminal pretensions.
But ROOSEVELT imagines that it will pro-
mote his political estate. He hopes to fan
the ambition of the negroes to the point of
asserting a claim to control in the South
and when he has done that he will have |
precipitated race wars not only in that
seotion but in the North and West.
As Bad as 1ts Model.
That the late Senator M, S. QUAY was
no worse than his party is proved hy the
fact that his memory is still a sabject of
ostentatious adulation in the public life of
Pennsylvania. Even now the citizen
soldiery, that branch of the State service
of which the people have been justly
proud, is made to appear to be participants
in this adulation by occupying a camp at
Gettysburg called after the deceased
politician. There wasno possible excuse
for this artion. QUAY was never much of
a soldier and even in his capacity as han-
ger on to the military service he wasn’t at
Gettysburg. Bat it is Camp Colonel
QUAY just the same.
QUAY'’S public life was a long continued
defiance of public morals and just prinei-
ples. He made the public service of the
State an agency for his personal aggran-
dizement and pecuniary profit. He used
the public funds whenever he bad access to
them as if they were a part of his personal
fortune. He disregarded the restraints of
the law and made open boast of his ini-
quities. Yet the Republican party,
thr ough its leaders and officials, is hold-
ing his record up as a model for the youth
of the Commonwealth to emulate. A
preacher who would refer to Judas as the
exemplar of the virtues of the Apostles
would be no more an anomaly.
No decent citizen would think of poing-
ing to a conspicuous courtezan as a model
for the women of the State to follow. No
man of good impulses would invite his
wife, or mother, or sister to imitate the
movements of a brothel keeper. And yet
among men QUAY was no better and his
example is quite as demoralizing. Why
then is his record held before the eyes of
the State as that of a man whose memory
is to be revered? Itisa shame that such
things are permitted, an outrage against
the moral sense of the people. So long as
it continues, moreover, the party will be
as had as its model.
A Plain Duty of the State.
As a result of the arrest of some persons
in the lower end of Penns valley for illegal
fishing the property of Dr. F. P. BARKER,
at Ingleby, has been seriously damaged.
He and his two sons were witnesses for the
State and since that time their property has
been subjected to considerable depreda-
tion.
While we do not care to enter into a
discussion of the merits of this particular
case we do deem it the duty of the State to
exert every effort in ferreting out who
the miscreant has been. Commissioner
MEEHAN, of the State Department of
Fisheries, owes it to Dr. BARKER to give
him every protection and, more than this,
he owes it to the dignity of law and order
fo Punish those who would thus mock
at it.
Whatever else he may accomplish in his
work here is a case cut out for him and if
he proves a derelict in bringing the guilty
parties to prosecution he will have no
claim on the public for support in his
future efforts to prevent violation of the
game and fish laws.
Will History Repeat Itself.
The cotton mill operatives at Fall River,
Massachusetts, are on strike against a pro-
posed reduction of wages. The butchers
in all the meat packing centres are on
strike for a similar reason. The coal min-
ers in the Alabama region are on strike be-
cause of an order cutting their wages and
in New York nearly all building operations
are at a standstill for the reason that me-
chanics refuse to accept reduced wages,
Yet the DINGLEY tariff law is in fall opera-
tion and the Republican party in absolute
control of every Department of the govern-
ment. How can such things be? The
DINGLEY gariff and the Republican party
ought to keep industrial conditions pros-
perous.
In 1892, when the MCKINLEY tariff law
was in force similar conditions prevailed.
A series of labor troubles which began at
the Bethlehem works in February of that
year against a reduction in wages run their
course throughout the country until the
culmination in the Homestead riot and
slaughter which occurred in July. The
result of that industrial paralysis was the
defeat of the Republican candidate for
President and the election of GROVER
CLEVELAND. Subsequently the MCKIN-
LEY tariff law was repealed and under the
impulse of free raw materials manufactur-
ing interests were revived by the opening
up of foreign markets and a foreign demand
for our manufactured products.
The industrial malady had grown too
bad to be cured suddenly but the proper
remedy had been employed and the resulb
would have been achieved if the policy had
not been changed by the election of Mc-
KINLEY in 1896 and the almost immediate
enactment of the DINGLEY law. It has
been falsely claimed that the restoration of
high tariff schedules had a beneficent infla-
ence on the manufacturing life of the coun-
try. Buf as a matter of fact the contrary
is true and if it bad not been for the boun-
tiful harvests of 1896-7 and the breaking
out of the Spanish war in 1898 that iniquit-
ous measure would have paralyzed industry
instead of stimulating it. Will history re-
peat itself ?
..-~——The Millheim Journal is to the front
with ‘the first real good campaign story—
in plain English this particular word
‘‘story’’ is usmally pronounced lie. It
says that one day last week George B.
STOVER’S Plymorth-rock rooster walked
right into their office and began crowing
for PARKER.
An Auspicious Beginning.
The Democratic National committee or-
ganized on Tuesday by the election of
THOMAS TAGGART, of Indianapolis, to the
chairmanship by unanimons vote. Theté
was a strong sentiment in the committee
in favor of the election of Senator GORMAN
to the leadership but for reasons of his
owt that gentleman declined the honor.
Then the committee with complete una-
nimity turned to Mr. TAGGART. We shar-
ed the hope that Senator GORMAN would
undertake the work. His large experi-
ence in politics, his splendid ability and
wide acquaintanceship would have been
of inestimable value to the party. But
TAGGART is a splendid man and with
youth and enthusiasm to support him he is
likely to prove a superior chairman.
The committee was as enthusiastic as it
was harmonious: Every State was repre-
sented at the meeting and every member
of the body was confident. A more aus-
picions campaign opening was never wit-
nessed. A more promising outlook has
never been presented to either or any party.
With an ideal candidate, a sagacious and
earnest leadership and a harmonious party,
the Democracy moves forward this year to
certain and assured vietory. Not only
New York but New Jersey, Connecticut,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois are eer-
tain to choose Democratic electors while
West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware
are as safe for the party as Texas or Ten-
nessee. It will be a great year for Democ-
racy.
Chairman TAGGART will enter upon his
labors at once. He is not of the type of
men that dally with duty. He acts prompt-
ly and vigorously and moves effectively.
The candidates will be notified of their
nomination in their respective homes on
the 10th and 17th of August and as soon
as possible thereafter the first great meet-
ing will be held at Chicago, where in all
probability Judge PARKER and Mr. WiL-
LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN will speak from
the same platform to the same audience.
What a splendid influence such an incident
will have on the public mind? It will
electrify the country from Main to Cali-
fornia and make the victory of the Democ-
racy as certain as it will be gra tifying.
—*'"A Voter’ who writes to the
Howard Hustler that a ‘‘ring’”’ in Belle-
fonte has been undertaking to dictate the
nominations of the Republican party for
years, appears to be one of the few Repub-
licans who has the situation sized up just
right.
NO. 29.
The Democratic Moses Found.
From the New York Herald. (Ind.)
Judge Parker’s telegram declaring him-
self for sound money has made such an im-
pression that he may save the Democratic
party in epite of itself. The comments
elicited from all quarters show that Judge
Parker’s action has won the confidence of
the people, and that sort of confidence
President Roosevelt has not inspired.
His imperialism and his dictatorial ways,
together with his revival of the race issue
in the South and other Roukh Rider fads,
bave awakened among the people a dis-
trust of Mr. Roosevelt and the Republican
party quite as great as the distrust which
Bryanism, sixteen-to-one-ism; Populism
and other freakish isms had. excited with
respect to the Democrats. \
Mr. Roosevelt has the support of his
intimate friends and his political proteges,
but conservative people eye him with dis-
trust. They acknowledge that he is irre-
proachable as an individual—tbat he isa
staunch patriot, a good husband, a loyal
friend. But they doubt his capacity for
seif-control, distrust his judgment and
question his conception of presidential
duties. :
Like the German Emperor, he wishes to
meddle in every detail of the public service
to control every Department, to rule every
official, to be both law and lawmaker and
the executive, to be the source of power
and to apply it. :
Between Mr. Roosevelt’s views of the
President’s dutiesand the American people
on that subject there is very wide differ-
ence. He evidently Jhinks the. President
of the United States “is a sort of dictator,
while the people rightly regard him merely
as their Chief Magistrate, as the executive
head of the administration. This domi-
neering conception of his official duties
has excited widespread resentment among
Republicans and has led him to make mis-
takes that would have prevented his nomi-
nation if the Republican party bad had any
other available candidate. re
What the Democrats needed was a mas- |
ter. They have found one in Judge
Parker, and he may yet lead them out of
the wilderness. SH
Missour! and Pennsylvania.
From the Boston Herald.
Folk’s nomination is an event to fill the
hearts of good citizens all over the country
with courage and hope. No greater victory
of righteous patriotism over the leagued
cohorts of corruption, bribery and decep-
tion has been achieved anywhere in the
United States. It is ag if some able,
chivalrous young champion of truth, like
Herbers Welsh, or the lamented Henry
Armitt Brown, for example, had ~suadess-
fully appealed to the besotted, rotten Res
publican party of Pennsylvania to con-
demn and repudiate its sordid leadership
and take a stand for purity in the public
service. Probably Republican Pennsyl-
vania is more degraded than Democratic
Missouri, although the difference cannot he
great. But there is not in the former State
a sign of rising moral force within the party
promising to rescue it from thraldom to its
inveterate vices. Now and then there is a
feeble spasm of the bound and burdened
soul of the people, about as energetic as
the galvanic quiver of a dead frog’s legs;
but it amounts to nothing, and soon ceases.
The reaction from the strain of an irresolute,
nnintelligent wich to be good, if it could
be accomplished without hurting the party,
and especially without forfeiting a dollar
of the spoils of protection, leaves the party
in a worse condition than before.
To Quiz Candidates.
@rangers’ Comniittee Prepares List of Questions.
The committee of the State Grange in
charge of the campaign work held a meet-
ing at Harrisburg, Wednesday. The ob-
ject of the meeting was to prepare lists of
questions to candidates, copies of which
will be sent to subordinate committees in
each Grange who in turn will send them to
the candidates. The questions to be asked
candidates for Congress are:
Will you, if elected, assist in passing
legislation which will enable American
citizens to buy American products as cheap
at home as taey are sold for abroad ? ;
Will you use your influence tosecure the
establishments of postal savings banks ?
Will yon favor the establishment of a
parcels post ?
To candidates for Senatorial and Assem-
bly nominations the following questions
will be put :
Will you, if elected, favor legislation
giving to trolley companies the right to
carry freight in Pennsylvania ?
Will you favor a tax of at least one mill
on all personal and corporate property for
road purposes, this money to be applied
locally in proportion to the road mileage
to reduce road taxes?
Will you favor legislation for a constitu-
tional amendment giving the people the
right to initiate and veto legislation ? :
Will you favor a law whereby all license
taxes, personal property taxes and the tax
on county and municipal loans shall re-
main in the counties and municipalities ?
Japanese Occupy New Chwang.
TIEN TSIN, CHINA, July 29.—Lloyd’s
agent at New Chwang wires that fifty
Japanese cavalrymen have entered New
Chwang. The French flag is flying from
all the Russian buildings. The town is
quiet. 3 :
It is reported here that the Japanese
lost 380 men in killed and wounded in
the fighting which has taken place out-
side of New Chwang during the last two
days. The Russian losses during the
engagement are not known. A small de:
tachment of Japanese scouts entered New
Chwang last nights. About 200 troops ar-
rived this morning and more are expected
this evening. = Crowds of Russian refugees
were this morning awaiting trains at
Inkow close to New Chwang, to take them
away.
The Chinese flag is flying over the
custom house at New Chwang. It is re-
ported that the Japanese took the Russian
position at Tatchekiao last night at the
point of the bayonet.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Lomire, the man now in jail at Clear-
field charged with the killing of Harry M.
Shoff, declares that he will neither hang
nor go to the penitentiary. He will starve
himself to death before suffering either pun-
ishment, so he says.
—Samuel J. Packer, president of the First
National bank at Sunbury, was found dead
in his room Saturday morning, having ex-
pired of heart failure while in the act of
dressing for the day. Mr. Packer, who was
in his 74th year, was the last member of the
original Packer family.
—An Italian was shot in the leg Friday
evening at Gillentown, a station on the
Beech Creek railroad, and Saturday morning
he was taken to the Lock Haven hospital.
The shooting was accidental. A 22 calibre
ball entered the man’s leg above the knee.
Physicians at the hospital probed for the
ball but were unable to remove it.
—Hon. James Kerr, of Clearfield, visited
Judge Alton B. ‘Parker, the Democratic
presidential candidate, at his home in Eso-
pus, on the Hudson, the other evening, on
invitation of the Judge. Mr. Kerr was met
at the little station by the Parker carriage
and spent several very pleasant hours with
the Democratic standard bearer, returning
to New York by a late train.
—George A. Brett, an engineer on the New
York Central railroad, who is known as one
of the oldest and most reliab.e in that re-
sponsible position, was selected to run the
first train over the new Curwensville and
Bower division, and engineer Alex Bell,
knowing the river as well as old rivermen,
was chosen to pilot the official special and
pay car over the same line the day follow-
ing.
—@G. B. Markle & Co., Hazelton, have pro-
mulgated a rule that hereafter all miners
and other employees who miss work after
pay days will be obliged to face general
superintendent Smith before they are per-
mitted to retarn to their places. If it is
found that their absence was due to excessive
indulgence in drink, they will be compelled
to go before the priest or minister and take
a pledge of total abstinence.
—The new addition to the Altoona hos-
pital is rapidly nearing completion and will
be ready for occupancy in a short time
though the regular opening day will be set
for some time in September, when it has been
entirely fitted up and furnished. The new
wing is three stories high and will give the
institution almost double the room for the
care of the sick and injured for which it has
been greatly handicapped for the past conple
of years.
—Three hundred and forty-three cherry
pits have been removed from the stomach of
the 18 month-old child of Obadiah Michael,
of Summer Hill, Columbia county, by Dr.
Reagan, and the girl is recovering. This is
one of the most remarkable cases on record.
The parents believe the child found a basket
of cherries and ate them before she was dis-
covered. The cherry pits fill a good-sized
olive bottle. Two operations were perform-
ed, 200 pits being removed the first time and
143 the second.
—TFour bears stopped an excursion train on
the Cammal and Black: Forest railway the
other day. The Galeton Dispatch says that
near Wilcox summit a large bear was seen
standing on the trestle while three more
‘bears were under the trestle digging around
some of the supports, making it unsafe for
the train to cross. All efforts of the train
crew and 150 picnickers to dislodge the big
critters with stones and clubs were unavail.
ing until several long poles were secured, on
the ends of which oil-soaked waste was fast-
ened and then fired. A charge was then
made on the animals which soon retreated.
— The State game commission has decided
to issue no more permits for the killing of
birds for scientific purposes and to recom-
mend legislation covering the issuing of
licenses so as to prevent indiscriminate
slaughter, The board will also recommend
legislation making the ownéis of dogs chas-
ing game responsible in a suit; fixing a close
season for the killing of black birds and
doves; to protect the propagation of quails;
to permit a violator of the game law to pay
his fine to the game wader When canght in suis.
the act, and forbidding the shooting o
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with weapons that discharge more ¥ a Bp :
-=Dr, M. L. Emrick, a well known Pratt
tioner of Clearfield, was committed to jail So .
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Thursday evening, on the charge of robbery.
The news of the arrest created quite a sensa-
tion. Some time ago Dr. Emerick was treat-
ing William Paterson Esq., for some nervous
complaint and while under the influence of
a drug, Patterson alleged Dr. Emrick took a
sum of money from his pocket. Mr. Pater-
son revived in time to detect the theft and
agreed not to prosecute the affair providing
Dr. Emrick returned the money. After
waiting a sufficient length of time and re-
ceiving no satisfaction from the doctor, Mr.
Paterson caused his arrest.
—According to an Altoona correspondent,
Jacob Shilling, of Clover Creek, Blair coun-
ty, has closed another contract with the
Smithsonian ipstitution at Washington to
furnish it with 100 rattle snakes. Shilling
bas been engaged in capturing rattle snakes
on contract for a number of years. Every
year he supplies the Smithsonian institution
with new specimens. All the snakes are
caught with a forked hickory stick, the
poisonous fangs always being removed by
Shilling before he ships the snakes, to guard
against mishap at the other end of the line.
It is estimated that Le derives an income of
$2,000 a year from snake catching.
—During a thunder storm last week, the
barn on the farm of John Strunk, at McAlev-
ey’s Fort, was blown down flat to the
groundjwith his horses, calves and pigs all
under it and by a miracle nothing was kill-
ed. One horse was considerably injured as
he was under two tons of hay, besides the
other debris of the crushed barn; the other
horses were all pinioned down to the ground
lying on their sides and it took the united
efforts of about fifty men to free them all,
but as they got them freed they jumped up
and began to eat. This disaster was follow-
ed by lightning striking the house, a part of
the current passing down through the house
to the cellar doing considerable damage :
another part of the current traversed along
the comb of the roof to the end of the house
and then to the bell which Mrs. Strunk was
ringing, stunning her.
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