BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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ink Slings. :
— We didn’t think PHIL FOSTER would
‘ do it, bus he did.
—~After Mudken and Harbin the Rus-
sians will still have St. Petersburg to fall
back on.
—With Senator PATTON gone poor
Uncle SorLY will have to foot all the
bills in this district himself.
—And to think, it was in Philadelphia
and not in Louisiana or Mississippi, that
they tried to lynch a negro on Wednesdey
— With ten million dollars campaign
funds the Republican national organization
“should be able to keep up its record for
corrupting elections.
"Tt was Gov. HASTINGS’ money that
“went far towards electing PHIL FOSTER
Treasurer of the county, but it is a safe bet
to make that it won’t be any of the money
of the late Governor’s real friends that will
help FosTER in his efforts to elect LOVE.
—President-candidate ROOSEVELT’S let-
ter of acceptanaze, which will not be
made public before Monday, is to occupy
-an entire page in the newspapers. Long
enough, to be sure, but long enough is
just what the people tbink about RoOOSE-
'vELT and the Presidency.
—TIt isn’t the result of the Vermont elec-
tions that should interest the Republicans
‘so much. What they need be concerned
about will be the returns from New York,
‘New Jersey, Rhode Island, West Virginia
and Indiana. Vermont never was expeot-
ed to do anything else than give a Repub-
lican majority.
—The effect of the results in Vermont
on the national outcome will be about as
potent as the returns from Burnside town-
ship at a spring election. Vermont, like
"Pennsylvania, is hopelessly Republican
and making a hurrah when that party
carries the State is another case of jubilat-
“ing because the Dutch have captured Hol-
. land.
—Among the young attorneys at the
Centre county bar none have a better
reputation for careful, safe judgment than
“Wy. GROH RUNKLE, the Democratio
nominee for District Attorney. The large
practice he already enjoys is guarantee of
his fitness for the office he aspires to fill.
‘Because he bas been trusted by so many
priv ate clients is the best of reasons for
his being trusted as the public attorney.
| —Point out to us a soldier with a more
‘hono rable record, a man of greater indus-
try and integrity than JoHN NoLy. and we
“will admit that there: is one in Centre
county more entitled to your vote than
‘our senior candidate for Assembly. He
“holds a hig oe in the estimation of his
Re
neighbors and friends and has always made | Teast
his living by the sweat of his brow at the
honorable trade of a mason, He has reach-
ed that mature age when he would make
a most useful Legislator and shoald be
elected. :
—How ead it is that after a man is dead
and gone his friends shonld so soon forget
him. Two years ago the late Gov. HAST-
INGS had but one ambition in the cam-
paign in Centre county and that was to
elect PHIL FOSTER Treasurer. PHIL had
been one of the Governor’s pet aids in all
of his fights against Judge Love. To day |
we are confronted with the spectacle of
LOVE selecting this same man to conduct
his fight for re-election to the bench and,
most surprising of all, is Mr. FOSTERS ac-
cepsance of the task.
— Little has been #aid, up to this time,
in the press of the county on the judicial
git uation. This is not an indication, how-
ever, that the public is not mindful of the
importance of the approaching campaign.
There is a quiet, deep seated feeling that a
change is necessary to the proper conserva-
tion of the dignity of the bench and when
the proper time comes the change will be
made. Judge LovE has played the politic-
al game too long and too desperately to
‘undertake, at this late hour, to convince
people thas he has not tried to use his posi-
tion as a means’ of building up a machine
“with himself at the head.
—ARTHUR B. KIMPORT has commenced
‘his active canvass for the office of Prothono-
tary. There are many who believe that
Mr. KIMPORT has practically no opposi-
tion, but he is not taking any chances and
is after every vote he can get. It is be-
coming more and more apparent that
LAMB was only put on the Republican
ticket asa trading post for Judge LOVE,
but any attempts in that direction are des-
tined to failure because the people of Cen-
tre connty want a good Judge as badly as
they do a creditable Prothonotary and for
_that reason they will vote for both ORVIS
and KIMPORT.
—1It is an irrefutable fact that to Mr.
K EPLER’S popularity among the Members
at Harrisburg during the last session of the
Legislature, was due much of the success
that the Philipsburg and Bellefonte hos-
pital and The Pennsylvania State College
‘appropriation bills met with. The euc-
cess of the application for the Bellefonte
hospital was due almost solely to his ef-
forts in its behalf. This latter statement
would have been substantiated by the iate
Col. W. F. REEDER, had he lived, for Col.
ReEEDER was in Harrisburg working for
the bill at the time and came home con-
‘vinoed that its passage was a triumph for
the young Member from Centre.
VOL. 49
The Treasury Deficit.
The first two months of the present fis-
oal year have expired and the treasury
deficit is about $25,000,000. Secretary
SHAW, in anticipation of something of a
slump, estimated in advance of the opening
of the fiscal year that there would be a
deficit which might possibly aggregate as
much as $15,000,000 for the entire twelve
months. But during the first month the
difference between the receipts and dis-
bursements cof the treasury amounted to
$17,000,000 on the wrong side, notwithe
standing Mr. GEORGE J. GouLD had favor-
ed the administration by prepaying an
obligation of the Pacific railroad to the
amount of about $3,000,000. That almost
record breaking rate of deficit was alarm-
ing enough, but when it was almost
maintained during the month of July the
country has every reason to be apprehen-
sive.
The ratio of receipts and expenditures
of the government is more important than
the difference between the income and the
outgo of an individual, for the reason, that
a treasury report in the wiong direction
excites popular alarm and leads to other
evil consequences. For example, it was
the treasury deficit in 1892 which caused
the drain on the treasury surplus, the most
mischievous feature of the panic of 1893.
The present treasury deficit is more than
likely to lead to the same consequences.
Speculative financiers will see opportuni-
ties for profit in manipulating the treasury
balances and gold reserve, and the endless
obain method of depleting the treasury is
likely to follow. The record of the past is
a sufficient premonition of the consequence
in the future of such a condition.
When at the close of the first month of
the fiscal year the enormous deficiency was
revealed the fact was cited that it is cus-
tomary to make large payments during
the month of July. It might have been
added that this year the Secretary of the
Treasury juggled the figures for June in
order to make a good showing for the close
of the previous fiscal ‘year and the bad
record for the opening month of the new
year was thus made inevitable. But neith-
er the big payments of July nor the bold-
ing over accounts in June will account for
the vast deficit in August. Heretofore,
August-bas been among the best revenue
producing months and it may be said the
exper onth of the year. Bat
‘this year the’ receipts have fallen short of
she expenditures on an average of nearly
half a million dollars a day and the total
for the month shows almost as great a de-
ficiency as that of July.
A
‘Labor Day Facts.
Labor day was earnestly and enthusias-
tically celebrated throughout the country
on Monday: In all the principal cities
and in most of ‘the commaunities'of consid-
erable population, meetings were held,
speeches made and parades indulged in.
The trend of the oratory was in eulogy of
the merits of labor organizations. It was
shown that, wherever such organizations
have been brought to a high standard of
perfeotion, the oc ditions of the laboring
element are improved. We may easily be-
lieve this for it is supported by our own
observation. But labor organizations will
not achieve everything in the interest of
labor unless they are directed along differ-
ent lines. = ;
At the Labor day festival in Pitteburg,
ARD of the miner's federation of Cripple
Creek, Colorado. That section has just
emerged from a labor dispute of extraor-
dinary bitterness. Presumably Mr. LEON-
ARD has studied the subject thoroughly
and is amply capable of discussing it in-
telligently. According to his views, as ex-
pressed in his speech of yesterday, the
dominant party is largely responsible, if
not for the existing labor conditions, at
least for much of the distress of labor. We
Presidents might have interfered to prevent
the subversion of the constitution of Color-
ado. But we do agree that the Republi
state administration in Colorado was
sponsible for the evils ‘imposed on
striking miblers and that the action of
‘Republican, state administration in
case in point reflected the sentiments of
Republican leaders everywhere.
So long as the labor element ces
against oppression and votes for the refen-
tion in power of the party respousiblg for
the oppression, they will make little prog-
ress toward emancipation. If the hbor
leaders of the country would serve the
labor interests successfully, they would
coansel fewer strikes but more independ-
ence in politics. The gravest danger to
labor is the discrimination againsj the
poor in the tax system of the countr{. So
long as labor is taxed into poverty & will
have neither the strength nor the firility
to resist oppression. The present @x sys-
tem is directed to the purpose ol cjntinu-
ing this industrial slavery and the emedy
is in voting out of power the Refnblican
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party which is responsible for it.
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the prineipal orator was Mr. W. H. LEoX-
do not agree to his proposition, that the |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 9, 1904.
Mr. Dresser’'s Record.
What reason has SoLoMON R. DRESSER
given for asking the people of this Congress
district to re-elect him. Two years ago it
was said that he had contributed materi-
ally to the wealth of the Commonwealth.
He had invented, his friends claimed,
some. devices for storing oil, gas, and other
things, products of the soil. If that be
true he bas been sufficiently rewarded for
bis ingenuity and enterprise. Under the
protection of the patent laws he has grown
immensely rich. That is all the compen-
sation the average man asks for his labor,
mental or physical. But Mr. DRESSER
asked an additional reward. He wanted
polisi cal honors to supplement his. gener-
ous pecuniary gains. So he beeame a can-
didate for Congress two years ago and with
no other claim upon public favor or even
upon public patience he was chosen to the
office.
Now what has he done since? He bas
occupied the seat during the long session of
the term for which he was elected. It is
during that session that Congressmen must
achieve. The short session is a perfunc-
tory affair. It begivs in December and
ends on the 4th of March. Daring thas in-
terval the necessary appropriation bills are
considered and passed but no other legisla-
tion receives attention. Therefore, Mr.
DRESSER can do nothing for the people of
this Congress distriot during the remain-
der of his present term. He must rest on
the record as it has been made up. And
what is the resuls ? Can any friend of his,
personal or political, point to a single thing
that he has accomplished that will redonnd
to the advantage of the people? If he has
done any such thing it has entirely escaped
our observation though we have serutiniz-
ed the record with considerable care.
To be candid we must admit that we did
not expect much from Mr. DRESSER in the
way of legislative achievement. There is
probably no man in the district less fis for
the office he ocoupies than himself. He
has neither been trained in statecralt nor
informed of the wants of the people. Uh-
der such circumstances little could have
been expected of an initiatory character.
But we had a right to expeot a vigilant and
intelligent effort to serve the constituents
of this district in the ordinary affairs of
the position, . He could as least have been
courteons enough to consult the people of
Centre and the other counties of the dif’
trict in which he is necessarily unfamiliar
as to what they wanted and what might
be good for them in the way of departmen-
tal service as well as legislation. But he
never did anything of the sort. Yet he
comes back and asks for a renewal
of his commission and a re-payment of the
reward for inventing a gas tank.
Bad News from Panama.
Mr. JoEN BARRETT, American Minis-
ter to the bogus Republic of Panama, has
issued a cautionary bulletin. That is to
say in a published notice he admonishes
Amercian citizens against coming there
in search of employment in connection
‘with the building of the Isthmian canal.
The climate is deadly, he says and the
reward of labor meager all things consid-
ered. We have no doubt of the acouracy
of Mr.BARRETT'S estimate. Those who
have been observing things during the
past dozen years have known all along
just what he says. The operations on the
canal under the French contractors have
resulted in a greater loss of life than that
ofany modern war. There was no use
therefore, for Mr. BARRETT’s admonitbry
‘hulletin. E
| It would be interesting to learn how-
ever, in view of Mr. BARRETT’S statement,
what this government bas paid the gov-
ernment of Panama $10,000,000, and the
/French Canal Corporation $40,000,000 for.
Unquestionably the construction of a ship
canal across the Istbmus will be of vast
advantage to the commercial world. But
| nations will share equally with ourselves
all these henefits. Therefore there is no
reason in that fact for the payment of the
money. We were led to believe, however,
that the work of building the canal would
afford employment for great numbers of
our citizens and that their wages would
be compensation for the outlay. But Mr.
BARRETT knocks that cheerful notion in
the head by one blast from his bugle
which proclaims that the only reward for
labor on the canal is certain death.
As a matter of fact, this is about the
sun total of all the enterprises of recent
Republican administration. Our Asiatic
investments have proved dead failures.
It may be said that every dollar's worth
of commerce with the Philippines costs ns
$1,000 in good money, which is to say the
least, a ruinous specalation. The cost of
our trading operations with the Sandwich
Islands is almost equally ruinous. And
now, Minister BARRETT comes along’ with
the information that our expectations in
Panama are even farther from realization
than those of either of our other insular
enterprises. It would be a good idea for
our people to change their business agent
at Washington. : i ;
Another New Court.
There appears to be no doubt that it is a
settled purpose of the Republican machine
of this State to create a new court in the
city of Philadelphia. Four years ago, not-
withstanding the earnest protest of every
judge in commission in that city, the
Legislature, at the dictation of ISRAEL W.
DURHAM crested a new court known as
the 5th court of Philadelphia. The legal
conditions of the city required no such in-
stitution. The judges testified that they
were amply able to dispose of all litigation.
The litigants bad made no complaint of de-
lay. In fact, there was no just reason for
the existence of another court. There was,
however, a substantial and potent polit-
ical reason. A few good places were wans-
ed for political favorites who had served
the machine and the new court was created
to meet these obligations. '
| ‘When the agencies of justice are pervert:
ed into the base service of a political ma-
chine, it is time for the people to become
alarmed. So long as the courte are pare as
well as free and independent, there is a
certain. remedy for the average political
iniquity. But when the courts become a
part of the machine ; when they are created
to reward evi! political service and there-
fore become a part of the machine, there
is no place to which the citizen may appeal
for redress from the wrongs of the machine.
A political court will simply legalize,
by the false interpretation of the law and
the base subversion of the facts, the crimes
of the political machine. This has been
proven in the past through decisions made
by courts in obedience to orders from the
political bosses in various cases.
- The proposed new court is to be created
as a reward for services expected from
JoHN WEAVER, Mayor of Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia machine needs his ap-
proval to certain measures contemplated
and propose to purchase them by the orea-
tion of a new cours and the pledge that he
will be appointed to occupy the bench.
This is the most atrocious use to which
political power can be put. It involves
evary possible phase of official delinquency.
It works a perversion of the court and a
robbery of the treasury as well as the brib-
ery of an’ individual because the salary of.
‘the office. and the expenses of the court
paid out of the funds of the people
erly appropriated. To avert this
reat evil Democrats should be elected to
the Legislature from every county in
Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia delega-
sion will be solid for the new cours.
Sa
Mr. Carnegie’s Munificence to Encour=
age Scientific Investigation.
The philanthrophy of Mr. CARNEGIE is
chiefly familiar to us throogh the many
library buildings and pipe organs that bave
been erected. It is now to besome familiar
to us through a ten million dollar fund
that he has given to encourage and make
possible research work on a scale never be-
fore possible in the United States. A great
impetus to biological sciences has come
through this fund, in the establishment
this summer at Cold = Spring Harbor,
Long Island, of a marine station for the
study of experimental evolution. Labora-
tories are being built and the work in in-
vestigation will be continued uninterrupt-
edly through the year. Fa :
The process of evolution in nature is
constantly going on but in what directions
and how fast is not known, for little work
sufficiently definite to give accurate results
has been dove. Since 1859, when CHARLES
DARWIN and A. R.. WALLACE simultane-
ously formulated the theory of evolution,
no other subject of study has been so con-
stantly discussed, so generally misunder-
stood or had so enormous an influence upon
the thought of the age. It is now univers:
ally accepted as a fact by scientists and its
validity doubted and. discussed by only
those who have a tendency to cherish old
ideas or ‘are ignorant of it and confound
evolution and DARWINism. It is surpris-
ing how many well educated people do
this, In a recent sermon Dr. NATHAN
SHAEFFER declared evolution to be the
oruelest theory that could everhave been
conceived when he undoubtedly meant
DARWINism. To quote an authority on
this subject, ‘Evolution is simply a theory
as to the method by which species have
been introduced into the world entirely
independent of any idea as to the causes
which have brought about their intro-
duction. DARWINism is evolution ; bat
i is more than this ; it is at the same time
DARWIN’S attempt at an explanation of
the causes of evolution or the law of Natur-
al Selection. Neither natural theology nor
revelation finds any difficulty in accepting
the theory of evolution ; it does not claim
to explain oreation ; ‘it only proves con-
sinuity. i
——J. A. B. Miller, Esq., will keep th
offices of the late Col. Wilbur F. Reeder
and will continue the practice of the de-
ceased. He has also beén engaged by Mrs.
Reeder to take care of the interests of the
estate of her late husband.
{ Confusing these criminal trusts with legi-
‘issuing it stands in with the sheriff.
‘ous.
‘their duty.
sacrificing bis previonsly formed opinions
NO. 35.
Why the Bread Line is Long in Front
of the Bakery.
From the N. Y. American. vy
The line that forms nightly in front of
Fleischmann’s bakery is longer this sum-
mer than inany other time during the
fourteen years’ attendance there of Captain
Henry, who passes out bread to those who
seek relief from this splendid charity.
The men gathering there are not broken-
down under press of years. They are
not men whom succession of failures has
made dereliots. : :
They are mostly young, strong, healthy
and eager to work.
They are ready to quit. the line when
they get a place. = 7"
‘They have not‘abandoned hope, but are
keen to earn a living. :
Three years ago the golden era of Ameri-
can speculation began. The old rules of,
commerce and trade were abandoned and
the new school of high finance opened its
doors. Its cardinal doctrine was that
fortunes could be made from nothing. =
The development of this dootrine was
the trust. ‘The best trust. was that through
which its promoters were enable to unload
the greatest ‘amount of stock on the
public The first grand coup, under the
fastoring generalship of Mr. Morgan, Was
80 colossed that it ‘dazzled the public.
From actual value of about five hundred
million dollars the iron properties of Car-
negie and others were solidified and oapi-
talized at a billion and a half dollars..
The scheme was so successful that even:
the promoters felt that when. the time,
came for paying the billion and a half.
Steel Trust could be combined into a
greater trust, and thus they could . con-,
utinue unloading on the publie. =
The game was just like that of printing
and “‘shoving’’ counterfeit money with
Sanger of going to jail eliminated. -
Then the public saw it was robbed.
er
timate enterprise, many became frightened
and withdrew from all lines of commerce.
The managers of the trusts, unable
longer to sell worthless stocks, sought to
recoup on the consumer and the predncer.
Men were turned adrift. Competition
had been destroyed, and there was no
place for the discharged workmen to go.
National prosperity rests greatly on
confidence. Confidence demands common
honesty. The trust promgcters gave to
the world the biggest exhibition of thiev-
ery that ever‘oursed a nation. They were
caught, exposed, but not punished.
Then fear seized ‘the investor. The
honest ‘man with ‘money distrusts every
investment offered, no master how legiti-
mate. He thinks every piece of stock
offered ‘is counterfeit and that the man
This destruction of public: confidence in-
commercial integrity has been the greatest
ourse that the stock ‘thelts formation have
"bis shia destruction ‘of ‘publis. ‘oul
dence, that has destroyed oan -
lyzed individual effort and made bre:
beggars of tens of thousands of honest
workingmen. 2 5 Ye
It is one of the reasons why the bread
line grows in front of the bake shop.
And for this we can thank trust.
For the trusts we must thank the Re-
publican party. ¢
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Porto Rico and the Philippines.
From the New York World.
Porto Pico is in our hemisphere and near
our coast; the Philippines are 6,000 miles
away.
Porto Rico has a heavy trade with us; the
Philippines only a few cents of commerce
upon every dollar they cost us.
Porto Rico welcomed our armies with
waving banners and scattered flowers. The
Filipinos, at first welcomed as allies, were
afterward treated and treated us as ene-
mies.
We have killed no Porto Ricans. We have
killed in five years more Filipinos "than
Spain did in, fifty.
Porto Rico had no aspirations for freedom
and no provisional government formed to
manage the country if permitted. The
Philippines bad.
For these reasons, and because the island
is so much less populous, Porto Rico’s fu-
ture is not a pressing question in our poli-
tics, as is that of the Philippines.
Yet it would be better, far better, thas
Porto Rico also should be independent,
under our protection. Better for her if thus
she could attain the prosperity and stabil-
ity that are Cuba’s already. Better for us,
since we should escape adding to our elec-
torate over 300,000 colored persons, and 82
per cent. of illiterates. The alternative
proposition that we should hold Porto Rico
indefinitely as a ‘‘colony’’ under the flag,
but outside the Constitution, taxed but un-
represented, is unrepublican and preposter-
Unfortunately We ave Past that Time.
From the Milton Record.
It looks like hoping against hope for the
Democrats fo carry the State Legislature,
but conditions are quite as favorable this
year as they were either in 1874 or 1892,
when they had a majority of the lower
Houses on joint ballot. Conditions do not
count for much in this boss ridden state, if
the people are not aroused to a sense of
If the machine candidates are
chosen this fall it will not be because they
ought to be but besause the people are less
honest than they used to be, and are more
subservient to the political yoke. There
was a time in the history of this grand old
Commonwealth when political leaders
would have been swept from power for
even hinting at measures that are now
brazenly enacted with the ‘‘public be
damned” air that characterizes the po-
litical grafters that hover about the State
capitol. ;
Sized Up.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal. :
“I have never met a man,’ Seoretary
Taft went all the wav to Vermont to say,
“who was so willing so sacrifice a Jrevions.
ly formed opinion as the present President
of the United States.’’ Especially if by
he thinks he can help himself to another
Spawis from the Keystone.
. —In boring for water at a new colliery,
owned by Scranton capitalists,near Herndon,
an 18-foot coal vein was discovered. ~
—A hen belonging to Frank Smith of
Allentown, laid an egg 71 by 8% inches and
containing perfect egg and shell.
—At the funeral of Mrs. Mary Cauley in
Allentown there were present ten sisters,
brothers and near relatives whose combined
ages were 781.
—There are 200 cases on the criminal court
calendar for trial at Lancaster during the
present month. And Lancaster is the ban-
ner Republian county of the State.
—Over one thousand dollars have been
paid out this year in Bedford county on
claims for damages done to sheep by dogs
and damages done to stock by mad dogs.
—The Johnstown passenger railway com-
pany has given Mrs. James Benner,of Johns-
town, $500 to compensate her for injuries
received in an accident, when a car left the
track.
—Mrs. Mary Melander, of Port Griffith,
Luzerne county, tried to walk undera low.
hanging trolley wire, but her hat pin caught
in the wire and she received an electric
shock that rendered her unconscious for five
hours.
—Last week the Berwind-White coal min-
ing company retired H. L. Snyder on full
pay to the rest of his days for faithful serv-
ice as their book-keeper and paymaster ai
West Moshannon, covering a period of 32
years. ;
—The Republic Iron and Steel company
at Sharon, Mercer county, shut down its
mills in that district on Sunday for'an in-
definite period, affecting several thousand
men. The shut down came as a surprise to
‘the workmen. a
—The eighteenth annual reunion of the
famous ‘‘Bucktail” regiment convened in
Lock Haven, Friday ; 296 survivors were
present. At a business meeting John Norris,
of Curwensville,where the next meeting will
be held, was elected president.
~—While Harry Vought was cutting elder-
berry bushes near Shamokin a wasp settled
on his neck. He raised his hand, containing
a knife, to brush away the wasp, when the
‘weapon sank into his neck, almost severing
| the jugular vein. He will likely die.
—A young and pretty Italian girl is the
leader of a gang of fifteen men who have
been terrorizing Westchester county for two
weeks and who were arraigned in court re-
cently in connection with a series of 200
robberies perpetrated in that vicinity.
‘—The store of Simon Cohen in Windber
was broken into and robbed early Saturday
morning, the thieves getting away with con-
siderable booty, including twenty-five suits
of clothes and a few dollars in change. The
marauders cut through the panel of a rear
door.
—Miss Nellie Rooney, of Shenandoah, who
was admitted to the Pottsville hospital sgf-
fering from the excessive heat, hasa heart
gtroke which is puzzling the surgeons. It
registers 198 strokes per minute and causes
the patient apparently little inconvenience. -
The doctors say that she will live.
—At Shippersville, Pa., Sept. 5th, George
Kaber one of the oldest and wealthiest citi-
‘zens of Clarion county shot and killed his
aged wife and “himself for some unaccount-
able reason. Kaber is 83 years old, his wife
84 and they were «married more than half a
century and have lived ‘together most
happily. } :
1~Before the first of April, 1905, work will
have been commenced on a new town which
is to be the center of new Somerset county
coal operations. The town will be located a
mile or so from Danville and will be a
veritable hive of industry when the large
operations of a new coal company have been
commenced. A great foror is in sight for
this section of Somerset county.
—Out in Pike township, Clearfield county,
Thomas Jefferson Bloom,a prosperous farmer,
owns a ten-acre meadow that has produced a
crop of timothy hay each successive .season
for ninety-eight years. The field was cleared
and seeded by his grandfather, William
Bloom, 1806, and has never been plowed, but
is given a top dressing every two years.
Twenty loads were garnered off the land this
summer. : i
.—Progress can be reported in regard to
the silk mill project for Huntingdon as
$3500 of the $5000 to be raised has already
been subscribed. No one person has made a
large subscription the highest amount thus
far being $250. It is believed that in a very
short time the required sum will be promised
and then the work of preparation of the
buildings at the radiator svorks will be com-
menced immediately.
—8t. Marys, Elk county, boasts of having
as residents the oldest couple in the state,
and possibly in the United States. Their
names are Martin and Barbara Wickett.
They were born in Bohemia and came to the
state 54 years ago. For many years they
have lived at St. Marys and have been mar-
ried nearly three-quarters of a century. The
husband is 94 years of age and the wife 92.
They are both bright and hopeful, enjoying
good health and are likely to live fora num-
ber of years yet.
. .—A vicious elephant with a visiting circus
at Williamsport by its remarkable intel-
ligence saved a little girl recently. The
child, whose name was rot learned frighten-
ed at a monkey and dashing backwards, fell
under one of the elephant’s feet just as the
foot was descending. The animal hasa rec-
ord of having injured a number of men, and
the keepers expected to see the child killed.
Instead the elephant held the foot up,picked
the child up with its trunk and swung her
into the arms of a keeper.
—Loving tributes to the memory of ex-
Governor Robert E. Pattison were contained
in addresses delivered Monday morning at
the Methodist preachers meeting held in
Wesley Hall, Philadelphia. It was intended
to hold a memorial service shortly after his
death but the absence of many of the minis-
ters on their vacations necessitated a post-
ponement. Bishop Thomas B. Neely was
the principal speaker. He extolled the life
and character of Governor Pattison and
spoke of him as a man, a public officer and as
a churchman. He referred to his record as
t City Controller and as Governor and said his
administration of.those offices deserved only
the highest praise and that he believed a few
more years of life would have seen him Presi-
term as President of the United States.
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