a TR BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. ——“1'11 call-out-the-army’’ CARSON is possibly in training for a gubernatorial nomination in Colorada. —At $250 a case small-pox comes high, but we baven’t heard many people -declaring ‘‘we must have it.”’ —Will February repeat her record of last year and the year before? If so reinforce the bottom of your thermometer. —Tomorrow the caucuses will be held. Every good Democrat should help make the ticket and then help elect it. —Strawberries at a dollar a box are not worrying the men who are working in the mines in Centre county at a dollar a day. ——The ‘“wild and wooly west'’ may be growing better but it couldn’ prove it by the kind of Senators it is sending to Wash- ington. —It you have a flea in your honnet we can give you a goad recip2 for killi ng it. Get on the wrong ticket for the election in February. : —It is appropriate that ‘‘big meetin’s’’ should be held in the cold weather for then both the saint and sioner needs warmin’ op the mos. —— After all, if it is trne that a method to make light out of rubbish has been dis- covered, there is hope of finding some use to which the Legislative Record can be put. ——Yes, it is great luck that is sticking to Mr. RoosEVELT. Even when his own party turnsin to lick him on his tariff-re- vision recommendations, it does it by CAN- NON-IZING him. ——And now the querry is, and will be- for the future, was it the Pennsylvania Legis] ature or that note for a half million dollars that made a United States Senator last Tuesday? % ~--~Thereis a Mr. and Mis. PIGG living in Missouri and what we would like to know is whether when the little Prcas grow up they will be any relation to the Hogg family of Texas. i - —— It that SMoOT invesfpation commit- tee only keeps son) little longer, it will convince the country thas about all the Mormons do is to break the law and vote the Republican ticket. —CASSIE CHADWICK is showing many signs of wishing to hold her position as the only lady on the carpet. She says it will take months to tell her story, but that is only because she isa woman. —Name only good men for “the local offices to be filled next month. And, - understand, ' the taxpayer often finds out that there is a vast difference between ‘a good man and ‘‘a good fellow.” —RossEAU, the dynamitér who tried to blow up the new statue of Frederick the Great in Washington, might be given a cabinet position at Harrisburg. He would, undo ubtedly, prove PENNY’s long felt want. ~~We presume that only the unfavorable season deterred Governor PEXNY from holding a reception in Wetzel’s swamp in honor of the presence in Harrishurg, on Taesday, of the Editorial Association of P enusylvania. =—— The Machine majority in the House at Harrisburg may be what they call it, ove rwhelming, hut from the trouble the managers seem to have had in finding one, the fellows fitted to be bell-wether must be disconragingly few. —Ground-hog day is only ten days off, but it doesn’t matter much if hie shadow does scare him back into his hole for six weeks more there still will be enough ground hog in the land to keep company with the buckwheat cakes at breakfast time. — The nomination of Mr. KISTLER for Mayor of Lock}Haven should result in his election. It is not often that men of his type can be persuaded to accept such an onerous and thankless task and of all the towns we know of that needs a good Mayor Lock Haven isone of the most notable. No, my boy, it is neither an alge-- braieal nor a question to be solved hy arith metic. ‘‘If one Judge constitutes the Su preme court, what is the use for the other 8ix?’’ is rather a problem in economics, that possibly our Granger friends might be able to elucidate for you. —There is a belief in the country districts that the smallpox is bad in Bellefonte and that is the probable reason that so few strangers have been seen in town recently. We can assure our readers that there is no danger, whatever, all the cases are proper- ly quarantined and most of the stores are disinfected every night as a precaution. —Since ANDREW CARNEGIE bas started to reimburse those who suffered financial loss through the failure of the Oberlin bank there are many who will believe that he really is CAssIE CHADWICK’S papa. However that may be it must be admitted that CASSIE was the wise ohild who knew who she would like to have had as ber papa, any way. ~Is bas been figured out that the num- ber of women who are doing men’s work has increased forty per cent within the last ton years. At this rate the next decade or so will see a race of men destined to knit, +hold afternoon tea parties and keep the prayer meetings going. Bat when the laster will'Have come to pass the millenni- um will bé bere and there will be no more work for aby one. ¢ WILSON | _VOL. 50 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 20, 1905. Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia. We recall with more than ordinary sat- isfaction the fact when District Attorney JOHN WEAVER, of Philadelphia, was se- lected by the machine for promotion to the office of Mayor of that city in conside:- ation of the violation of his oath of office in the trial and acquittal of SAMUEL SALTER for stuffing ballot boxes, that we were not deceived. Other bogus reformers heralded the event as a distinct triumph of honesty in office. Stupid or venal CLIN- TON ROGERS WOODRUFF, head of the so- called Municipal League, called his stupid or venal organization to the support of the n ew Moses of reform and some real work- ers for official improvement declared that they were satisfied that the machine had really changed its methods of official life. But this paper was not deceived. We de- clared then that the promotion was a re- ward for sinister service for the machine and that JoHN WEAVER would serve that atrocious organization as well as any of its slaves and better because he would be elected and they counldn’t. The experience since his election has completely vindicated our estimate of JOHN WEAVER. The machine has never had a more obedient follower and the city couldn’t possibly get a more corrupt exec- utive. There is not a crime that pre- v ailed during the notorious administration of the vulgar and beastly ASHBRIDGE that bas not heen fostered by the even more iniquit ous WEAVER. The very men who helped him to secure the acquittal of SALTER and some of those indicted with SALTER have since been appointed to places on the police force in order that they might the better serve the purveyors of vice and the promoters of crime. In all the history of civilization there is no record of a government as vile as that of the city of Philad elphia under the admin- istration of JOAN WEAVER. He has done that which no intelligent man believed to be possible. He has made the adminis- tration of ASHBRIDGE, redolent as it was with orime, positively respectable when compared with his. He has even made decent men wish that ASHBRIDGE was back in the office. ; i In the esteemed Philadelphia Public : Ledger of last Sunday there is a complete record of the iniguities of the municipal administration of JOHN WEAVER, Mayor of Philadelphia, and the methods he has pursued in promoting vice. It reads like a romance of the criminal life of the Middle ages. No man could have be- lieved that such things were possible at this period of Christian civilization and in this enlightened country. But there it isin minote and disgusting detail. A criminal elevated to office for meretricions purposes appalls even the vilest of his associates by the daring of his operations and yet through it all he is making the false pretense of reform and inviting the clergy and other decent citizens to support bim in his hypocrisy. There is no par-! allel to this record of infamy and in- iquity. We pray Heaven that there will never be another like it. It compels well meaning men to lose faith in humanity and believe that there is no justice on this earth. It forces just men to believe in total depravity. rt TEE. ——1In all that long list of Philadel- phians who ate themselves full and drank themselves faller at the Bellevue-Stratford on Saturday night last, in remembrance that that city has a Congressman named BINGHAM, we fail to find the name of thas distinguished Republican statesman, Hon- orable SAMUEL SALTER. Bat then it takes a dinner or a drunk to recall the fact to Philadelphia that it has a Congressman named BINGHAM, while Mr. SALTER’S ability in his line brings him into grateful remembrance every time its highly moral people need a ballot box stuffed or an election return tampered with. —— “Speaker CANNON’S efforts to de- crease public expenditure is not meeting any noticeable responsive approval from his party,’’ says an exchange. No, the way for Speaker CANNON to raise a shout in the Amen corner of his congregation is to declare for more post offices. That appears to be the blessing our Republican brethren are anxiously waiting to have showered down upon them. TE — ——— ~—— Well, after thinking it over serious- ly, we really ¢an’t understand why the Republican press, after wearing their Ma- chine collar for so many years, without chafing noder it, should kick now like sore necked steers when their Governor proposes furnishing them with a new one. Surely they are used to heing stall-tied by this time. ——1In being so ready to buck up another time against the Supreme court and all the greedy Judges there are in the State, in that matter of the judicial salary rake-off, Lawyer NEWLIN don’t seem to know when he has been licked a bit more than ‘‘Call- out the-army’’ CARSON does when he is making an ass of himself. Capitai Park Extension, We cannot refrain from commending Goy- ernor PENNYPACKER for recommending in his otherwise absurd message to the Legis- lature the appropriation of sufficient funds to enlarge the capital park at Harrisburg. Even on this obviously sensible proposition he is preposterous, however, for he recom- mends an enlargement of the grounds by the purchase of a tract of land finely huils up with expensive properties including the mansion in which he lives as Governor, on the west front of the splendid new build- ing. There is an ample lawn at that front of the building already, at least two ordi- nary city blocks wide and four in length. The removal of the valuable and expensive buildings on it would not add an atom, moreover, to the value of the State proper- ty or to the comfort of anybody except those in the building who might find pleas- ure during leisure in watching the river. But on the east side there is positively need of an extension of the public grounds. The east front of the capital ic flush with a street and on either side of the east en- trance there is a high terrace. The build- ings on that side are poor and the property of comparatively little value. By the pur- chase of that land to the railroad right of way every passenger on the trains passing through the capital city could have an ad- mirable view of the handsome and impos" ing structure and get such an impression of the beauty of the city and wealth and reson ices of the State as would cling in his mind for all ime. If there were no other reasons for the purchase of the property and the improvement of the public grounds than that it wonld be ample. The adver- tisement of the State would generously compénsate for the expense, though that ‘is only one of many reasons for the improve- ment. We believe that the improvement should be made and learn with satisfaction that most of our contemporaries are of the same opinion. But as we have previously ob- served, the operation should be made en- tirely and absolutely free from ‘‘graft’’ or “rake-off’”’ of any description. In other words, the Legislsture should exercise its right of eminent domain in acquiring the property and the ‘appraisers have no inter: est in the business whatever. That is t say, 00 man associated with the proceeding in condemnation should be a resident of Harrisburg, a real estate speculator of any section, or a relative of any property holder. The State of Pennsylvania don’t want to rob anybody, citizen or alien, who owns property within her borders, but neither does she want to be robbed. Therefore the acquisition of the property for the en- largement of the capital park as Harris- burg should te on the soundest business basis. Roosevelt Covets Power. President ROOSEVELT wants complete "control of the building of the Isthmian canal. The Fathers of the Republic wise- ly dete mined that the control of the purse of the nation should be left in Congress. No one of them, probably, doubted the integrity or patriotism of WASHINGTON: ADAMS, JEFFERSON, MADISON or MONROE, all presidential ‘‘material’’ at the time the plan was devised. They knew that those simple-minded patriots didn’t covet power and served the public not for their own aggrandizement, but for the public good. Nevertheless they placed in the hands of Con gress the authority to control the purse and define the duties and privileges of of- ficials. From that day until within a week no President has publicly expressed a desire to usurp that peculiar prerogative of Congress. The House of Representatives and the Sen- ate bave fixed the compensation, defined the duties and set the tenure of all officials, including the President. But ROOSEVELT isn’t satisfied with that. He wants to ca- vort around with a vast fand behind him and the right to employ whom he likes and for as Jong a time as he thinks proper, in connection with the construction and regu- lation of the Isthmian canal. Without an- thority of law he has appointed Fourth As- sistant Postmaster General BRISTOW postal agent in the ‘‘ca nal sphere,”’ fixed his com pensation at $20 a day and expeuses and defined his duties. : But that was a trifie.. He has also asked Congress to pass a law authorizing him to appoint the commissioners, engineers and other employes engaged in the construction of the big ditch, fix their compensation, regulate their tenure and define their dn- ties. This would give him vast power over the enterprise. It is estimated that the cost of the canal may run as high as $250, - 000,000 and the privilege of disbursing 80 vast a sum without restraint of any sort would involve a power which would be dangerous even if exercised by a sane and honest man. What ROOSEVELT might do under sach circumstances no man can con- jecture, bus it will be wise for Congress to refuse his request. * Knox in a Tainted Seat. When the Pittsburg Times’ story to the effect that the Senatorial commission to succeed Mr. QUAY was encumbered to the extent of half a million dollars representing notes given by Mr. QUAY to raise money to purchase the nomination of Governor PENNYPACKER was denied, we felt inclin- ed to let it pass. The story was rich in de- tail and admirably supported by corrobor- ative evidence. But it involved the politic- al integrity of so many distinguished men, that our impulse was to let it go. The Pittsburg Times is a Republican paper and the story implied some sort of a Republican actional dispute for which we cared noth- ing and had no inclination to probe. Bat later developments radically change the face of the affair. To make the matter clear it is well to re- view the details. It was alleged that dur- ing the sharp contest for the nomination of PENNYPACKER over ELKIN, QUAY horrow- ed from the late HENRY OLIVER, of Pitts- burg. balf a million dollars, the nomina- tion and election of OLIVER to the Senate to operate as payment of the note. Before the maturity of the paper, however, Mr. OLIVER died and his executors demanded payment of QUAY first and then his sure- ties, RICHARD R. QUAY, Bois PENROSE and ISRAEL DURHAM. PENROSE and DuUR- HAM were unable or unwilling to make good and they began a systematic auction of the Senatorship to any one who would pay the note. The first offer was to RIcH- ARD QUAY, who declined. Ex-Senator DoN CAMERON was next given a chauce and after a visit to QUAY on his death bed he dropped it. GEORGE OLIVER was the next man thought of and he didn’c care to invest. Finally, it was offered to JouN P. ELKIN. He thought well of the proposi- tion but couldn’t acoept it. At this stage of the game HENRY C. FRICK of the Steel Trast, JoBN D. ARCHBOLD, of the Stand- ard Oil company and A.J. CASSATT, of tbe Pennsylvania railroad were consulted. They offered to pay the note in considera- tion of the privilege of naming the Senator. They wanted to get PHILANDER C. KNoX out of the office of Attorney General and offered the Senatorship to him. He jump- d at the chance. (Alter the publication of the story, sever- of the gentlemen denied it in a perfunc- i tory sort of way though most people remem- bered the qualified promise of Quay to OLIVER, and the subsequent visit of CAM- ERON to QUAY, the gossip connecting RICHARD QUAY, GEORGE OLIVER and EL- KIN, and the ultimate selection of KNox by FRICKE, ARCHBOLD and CASSATT. But if the matter had ended there the story would probably have been discredited by the pub- lic. It didn’t end there,however. On Tues- day last, Senator GRIMM, of Bucks county, introduced a resolution reciting the scandal- ous facts and demanding an investigation. But the Republican majority of the Senate would take no chance of proving the charge. They voted the resolution down and defeated the inquiry. Pablic opinion naturally interprets this as an acknowledge- ment of the accuracy of the statement, and Senator KNOX occupies a seat in the Sen- ate which is tainted with fraud. Democratic Mettle Revealed. The meagre Democratic force in the Pensylvania Senate is already proving its mettle. On Monday evening Senator HERBST, of Berks Co., introduced a reso- lution declaring the appointment of Sena- tor KNOX to a vacancy in the United States Senate during a recess between sessions of the Legislature as a subversion of the con- stitution and a usurpation by the executive of a prerogative of the Legislature. The resolution deplored the usurpation and pro- tested against the violation of the constitu- tion. There were thirty-five Republican Sena- tors in their seats at the time the resolution was read, each one of whom had taken a solemn oath to ‘‘support, obey and defend’? the fandamental law. But Senator SPROUL, of Delaware county, moved to table the resolution, which was seconded by Senator Scorr, of Philadelphia, and every Republi- can voted for the motion. Not only thas, but they refused to allow the mover of the resolution to debate the question. He beg- ged permission to simply give the reasons which influenced him, but the Republicans tarned a deaf ear to his request. Greater cowards couldn’t have been shown. The forty Republican Senators ought not to have been afraid to debate a question of constitutional interpretation and Legislative prerogative with the ten Democrats on the floor. But the vote to table the resolution shows that they were afraid to put the matter to the test of dis- cussion, The tabling of the resolution was a temporary victory, but one which means ultimate defeat. Moreover, the atti- tude of the Democrats is encouraging, for it proves courage, intelligence and in- tegrity. ~——The Ridgway Democrat has become the property of the Elk County Democrat printing company, a corporation that prom- ses to make that heretofore good paper better than ever—a matter that will take active and intelligent work to accomplish. Free, Alas too Free. From the Columbus Press, ge ; : The United States congress is losing its ancient claim to honor and honesty. The highest legislative body in the United States, it long stood for integrity and up- rightness, but within the last few years several of the members have been sed of crimes that would speedily place nals of lesser influence behind $he bars. Bat these men, because they ocoupy high ‘places, seem to be exempt from the law as applied to the man whose hand is not on the lever of a political machine. The feeling that it would bea disgrace for a United States senator or representa- tive to be found guilty of crime is a most unnatural and illogical feeling. The dis- grace lies alone ir the fact that it is a dis- grace not to find a United States senator or representative guilty it he has committed a crime. It is guilt in high places that threatens the extermination of honesty everywhere. Senator Mitchell of Oregen is, even now, hastening home from Washington to de- fend himself against charges of complicity in the gigantic land frauds, engineered in his state, and which have kept the land office busy for the past several months. With him goes Congressman Hermann, also in a hurry to defend his character and keep himself out of jail. 7 . These two men may not be guilty, in- deed the fact that they are hastening to face the charges against them would look as if they were. not. The man who per- sistently avoids going to trial may gen- erally be counted a guilty man. Senators Deitrich and Burton and Rep- resentative Driggs, together with a federal judge from Florida, and high officials from the departments at Washington, make quite a colony of men in high places who are at present accused of some crime against the country. = It might not be going too far to claim that if the ghastly exposures inne the people will find that they have been sup- porting a government: which is gangrened to the core. 1 There can be no doubt that American public life is being eaten by the cancer of dishonesty. : When, a quarter of a century ago, the Tweed ring was exposed in New York, the indignation of the people from one end of the country to she other was aroused. But, do the people realize that the dis- honesty of the Tweed ring is no longer confined to New York, but has spread over the entire land, until public graft of one kind or another, stands ready to put its band into the public treasuries everywhere and the taxpayer has come to feel that the probabilities are strong that the Jarge pro- portion of every dollar he pays will never be expended for the public good? 5 Eikcaped: What an Awfal Condition We From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner. The St. Louis Globe Democrat, dounbt- less having a better knowledge of the in- telligence of its readers than anybody else could have, asserts that the recent order of a western railroad for one hundred new locomotives would not have been given if Parker had been elected. Western rail- roads, known in stock market quotations as ‘‘grangers,” depend largely upon the grain and cattle haul for their reve- nues. Acvording to the Globe-Democrat the wheat would refuse to head out, corn would refuse to silk, oats would lodge, alfalfa would rot, barley succumb to rust, rye refuse to ripen, steers refuse to fatten and hogs refuse to grow unless a republican were elected president. The Globe-Demo- crat’s readers may believe that sort of thing. As remarked in the beginning, doubtless the Globe-Democral has a better knowledge of the intelligence of its readers han the mere outsider conld possibly lave. Possibly a Promise is All They Deserve. From the Western Press. Notice has been served on the little men of the Legislature that there may he some- thing coming to them at the end of the ses- sion ‘‘if they go along with the boss” and make no attempt to do business on their own account. ; In the meantime they must be content with their railroad passes and the few other trifles that come to the men supposed to make the laws for the Commonwealth. Just what will be ““doing’’ in the way of coin of the realm at the end of the session will de- pend upon the willingness.of the members to do what they are told and the complete- ness of their subserviency to the self-consti- tuted dictator of legislation. Pennsylvania Trinmvirate. From the Binghamton Leader. It is now said, on good Republican au- thority, that she political destinies of Pennsylvania are in the bands of a mil- lionaire triumvirate—Cassatt, Archibold and Frick—and thas to this new political force the Hon. Philander C. Knox owes his membership in the United States Senate. The people of Pennsylvania seem to be about deuce high and glad of it. Yes, Brother but Yon Forget There Was a Bargain in the Smoot Case. From the Campaign (Ill.) Democrat. It took just one day for a republican con- gress to get rid of Congressman Roberts, a democratic Mormon. A republican senate has been investigating Senator Smoot, a re- publican Mormon, for over a year. In the meantime Smoot is a full-fledged senator while Roberts was not even permitted to he sworn in. i Educates Himself to be a Rascal it Would Seem. From the Baltimore Sun. i Mitchell of Oregon; Deitrich of Nebraska; Burton of Kansas; Smoot of Utah—what bas a man to do out West before he is sen- tenced to the United States Senate. ——Anyhow it can’t be much worse than the Machine muzzle they have been wear- ing these many years., This fact at least should be some consolation to our Republi- can newspaper friends. | does, eight fawns and twelve bears. Spawls from the Keysione. | —Mnrklesburg, Huntingdon county, is promised a boom this year with new lime- stone and sand quarries and new glass works. "~The $400,000 round house of the Balti- | more and Ohio railroad, at New Castle Junc- tion, was damaged by: fire to the exterdt of $40,000 at an early hour Sunday. —J. W. Parks, an Altoona poultryman, recently sold ten Plymouth rock chickens for the sum of ninety dollars. The birds go to T. M. Lewis, of Bronsgrove, Eugland. —The woolen mills of C. 8. Caswell & Co., at Bloomsburg, were partially destroyed by fire last Thursday morning. The first and second floors were entirely gutted. The loss is $60,000 ; insurance, $30,000. —Thompson Conser, who was killed in a railroad wreck at Shamokin Tuesday of last week, was a brother of Wm. Conser, ticket agent at Sandy Ridge, and Harry Conser, of Osceola. Both brothers attended the funeral, which took place Thursday. —On account of a disagreement among the '| stockholders a receiver has been appointed for.the Drake & Stratton construction com- pany, one of the largest concerns in the country. John Wainwright, of Philadel- phia, has heen appointed receiver. —The ecclesiastical court of inquiry called to consider the charges against Bishop Talbot, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese oi Central Pennsylvania, met in Reading, last Friday, and adjourned sine die,baving decided that it was uncanonically constituted. The affair should be allowed to drop out of sight now. « —The ganister stone quarry, a short dis tance west of Barree, operated by E. R. Baldrige & Co.. of Hollidaysburg, have larger orders this winter than they ever had dur- ing a winter. ‘They bave been running out thirty to thirty-five cars a week, but owing to the inclement weather are unable to fill the orders. ’ : i —James Smith, an aged resident of New- port, and employed as a lamp-lighter by the Pennsylvania railroad company, was run down and instantly killed by Pittsburg ac- commodation at Newport Thursday after- noon. He was in the act of lighting a switch lamp when the unfortunate accident oc- curred. He leaves a wife and family. —Game warden Hummelbaugh in his re- port to the State warden, states that in Clear- field county during tke past hunting season there were killed forty-one bucks, fifty-three This report does not include the Medix and Three run districts, where probably fifty more deer were killed. The number of hunters on the mountains at different times he places at 1,300. . —It was announced Friday at the general offices of the Pan Handle railroad that the company had placed an order for 4,000 steel cars with the Cambria steel company and Standard car company for delivery in Feb- rary and March, 1905. The order entails an expenditure of $4,500,000. There will be 1,500 all-steel, self-cleaning, hopper cars ; 1,500 drop-bottom cars and 1,000 straight gondola cars. —Charter applications have been filed in the State Department by eighteen water companies, with a capital of $5,000 each, for ‘the water rights along the Juniata river in the counties of Rlair,;. Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry. The incorporators of all these companies are Howard Watkins, Wm. H. Roth and George M. Bunting, of Phila- delphia, and it is believed such action was taken in the interest of the Pennsylvania railroad company. —The Taylor-Moore folding erate, the manufacture of which was discontinued in Huntingdon a few years ago, is to be re- vived, a new company having been formed by capitalists from Johnstown. The works will be located in part of the silk mill prop- erty, in West Huntingdon, and they will have abundant capital. The machinery is now being placed in position and by. the first of February or soon thereafter the manu- facture of crates will begin. g —The Pennsylvania railroad company have let the contract for the big terminal freight station at East Pittsburg to the Drake & Stratton company, and work will be started at once. It is expected that the foundations will be completed in six months. They will cost $375,000. The structure will be four stories high and 880 feet long. The . buildings will take 2000 tons of steel and the foundations 40,000 tons of concrete. —A bold robbery was committed in the central part of Altoona at noon last Friday. L. R. Gates, a farmer of Elizabeth Furnace, was enticed into an alley by two strangers on the pretense of being escorted to the home of his son who the men claimed had been injured in a freight wreck on the Pitts- burg division. ‘He was knocked down and relieved of $25. However, the robbers over- looked a wallet containing several hundred dollars and a gold watch. —A large representation of the Lutheran clergy of this State and Maryland atttended the obsequies at Gettysburg last Friday, of the late Rev. Dr. Edmund J. Wolf, president of the General Synod of the Lutheran church of America and professor in the Lutheran Seminary here since 1874. The services were held in Christ church, Rev. Dr. E. D. Wright, of Mechanieshurg, conducting the exercises, with addresses by Rev. Dr. J. A. Singmaster, chairman of the Seminary faculty, and Rev. Dr. William H. Dunbar, of Baltimore. The faculties and students of | the Seminary and College attended. . —''For each and every Guzen bugs cap- tured and delivered, dead or alive, by the inmates of this home to the superintend- ent’s office a bounty of 3 cents will be paid. Delivery must be made before 9 a. m. on the day of capture.” This message was posted Saturday morning in the Westmoreland county almshouse, at Greensburg, and is signed by Sup’t. Evans. The hundred in- mates spent a very busy and profitable Sat- urday night and Sunday, though they lost sleep. It was a bad Saturday night for the festive bedhug, as several scores of ‘‘scalps”’ were laid on the table that morning. The county home has been over-run with bugs that bite early, late and often, and there were not a few complaints from the inmates. Sup’t. Evans, instead of spending the county funds in buying powder, decided to offer a bounty on bug ‘‘scalps.”’ Success of his plan has exceeded expectations and the bounty will be continued, a
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