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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—Those who care not long to sit will
soon be starting off to flit.
—1I6 was to be expected thas the Storey
Cotton concern would have trouble pulling
wool over the public eye.
—Our friend SAM DIEHL could find some
consolation in reading what Dr. OSLER, of
Baltimore, has to say about the usefulness
of wen.
. —The thrifty house-wife is already cast-
ing interesting glances at that little patch
in the garden that she usually devotes to
onions.
" —We fail to observe that any of the divi-
sions of the grand inangural parade on Sat-
urday are to be commanded by COLONEL
chambers.
—Will some one please explain to that
good Presbyterian brother that the newest
business venture listed for Bellefonte is
not a stock farm.
—““The prayers of the righteous avail
much’? ——baut then JOHN WEAVER, May-
or of Philadelphia, was not abroad when
the quotation referred to was wii.
—The announcement that the B. & O. is
to spend thirteen million dollars on new
rolling stock soggests a reference to the
way the other stock of that road has been
rolling upward of late.
—Senator HALE is of the opinion that
the United States is the second naval pow-
er in the world. President ROOSEVELT is
not satisfied with such opinions, however,
because be wants to make it the first.
—Now they say the Panama canal should
be built at sea level. Of course the in-
crease in cost is a matter of secondary con-
sideration with the projectors. What the
public wants most is a canal built on ‘‘the-
dead level.”
—Philipsburg has been regarded as de-
cidedly fast since the trolieys started run-
ning over there, but we object to such
swiftness as encourages the esteemed Ledger
to turn the almanac upside down and hail
March 1st as *‘she first day of spring.”’
—The machine has decided thas the pro-
posed $2,600,000 improvement of capitol
park at Harrisburg must wait for two years.
The machine probably has other grafts for
the surplus in the treasury that appear
easier than a park extension commission.
—So Mr. QUIGLEY is to be made chair-
man of the Republican _county committee,
and the ticket is to be KLINE for Sheriff;
MILLER and BAILEY for Commissioners;
C. P. Long, for Treasurer; CYRUS HALL,
for Recorder, and EARL TUTEN, for Regis-
ter. ,
Where can KUROPATKIN retreat $0
now ? Forawhile he had St. Petersburg to
fall back upon; but the rioters there are
making it as unpleasant as the Japs are in
front of him. Surely there is no haven for
him now unless it is by balloon or a hole
in the ground.
—I¢t scarcely seems credible thata wom-
an who had beea as philanthropic as MRS
STANFORD should meet death as she did in
Honolulu on Tuesday. The minds of
mortals are unfathomable, but how anyone
could have become so diseased as to imag-
ine that the removal of a woman whose
millions were constantly employed in hu-
manitariau efforts would be for good is be-
vond human ken.
—The movement to have the bars in
Washington kept open on Sunday for the
accommodation of the inauguration crowds
is likely to bring the emphatic condemna-
tion it deserves. Sunday is not the time
for Bacchapalian revelry and especially is
it so following such an occasion as the in-
duction of a President into office. Rather
have the crowds attend cburch and pray
for the life and usefulness of the new exee-
utive as well as for divine blessing upon
the future of the nation.
—The statement of the Secretary of the
Treasury showing a deficit of $25,405,533
for the first eight months of the present
fiscal year of the government shows whith-
er we are ‘drifsing in the mad sea of ‘ex-
travagance. The receipts were only $3,-
000,000 less than those of the preceding
eight months while the expenditures were
$30,000,000 more. Armies and navies are
grand things, but there is a very grave dan-
ger:of their becoming too grand for us to
sapport.
—The defeated Republican: candidate for
city treasurer of Altoona has announced
his intention of contesting the election of
his successful Democratic opponent. While
Mr. TussEy doubtless imagines that the
proper course to pursue for balm for his in-
jared feelings he will dad that the people
of that city will lend little encouragement
to it. Contests have never been popular,
and they have invariably been fruitless.
There is no doubt that the gentleman elect-
ed will make a satisfactory officer so why
involve the city in an expense and annoy-
ance that is unwarranted.
—The bill introduced in the Legislature
by Speaker PLUMMER looking to an organ-
ized fight against tuberoulosis should meet
with the approval of all. The remarkable
work that is already being done along this
line by Dr. Frick, at White Haven, en-
courages the belief that it is only in the
first stages of its fruitfulness. It will be
surprising to many to know that within
the last decade tuberculosis has decreased
thirty per cent, and scientists believe that
within the next quarter of a century it will
be stamped out entirely. Such a result
can be accomplished only by organized ef-
fort and the plan to have the State lead the
work isan excellent one.
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VOL. 50
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Senator Hale Arraigned the President.
Senator HALE, of Maine, conld hardly
have been influenced by a kindly [eeling
toward the administration when he made
his speech in sopport of the naval appro-
priation bill last Saturday. Senator GOR-
MAN, of Maryland, bad been asking Senator
HALE, who is chairman of the Senate eom-
mittee on Naval Affairs several pertinent
questions, who finally said: “I think per-
haps the Senator from Maryland does not
realize that the marine corps is the essen-
tial part of the navy that is called into use
in times of peace. The principal object of
a big navy in times of peace is to bully
small and weak powers.” Sanbsequently
Senator HALE, a good Republican, by the
way, declared, that ‘‘England has for more
than a century adopted shat policy, and
has threatened, humiliated and browbeat-
en small ‘powers, and ber navy is the ino-
stromentality used. Wherever a naval of-
ficer desires to follow the track—and many
of tbem do—of England, to follow the same
course, the navy is necessarily in that poli-
oy involved in the employment of the ma-
rine corps. If there is anything that is done
in this direction, if a revolution breaks out
in a sister Republic, and our government
desires to watch the progress of that revo-
lution—perhaps a little before it commences
—the navy is the instrument by which tbe
government acts, and the marine corps is
the instrumens in the navy that does the
business.
Senator BAILEY, of Texas, suggested that
such operations were ‘‘a pretty bad busi-
ness for us to engage in,’’ but that didn’t
appease HALE. “If the government is to
take possession of the revenues of a sister
Republic, ’’he declared, ‘‘and we enter upon
a policy of receiving their revenues and dis-
tr1ibating them, the instrament is the navy
and the men who do it are the marine
corps. Sometime ago,’”’ he continued, nos-
withstanding an effort to interrupt him,
“I think an incompetent and half crazy
consul in a Syrian town got up a trouble
nimself and didn’t half get his deserts, but
he appealed at once to the country, claim-
ing that the honor of the flag bad been as-
sailed and the integrity of the governmont
menaced, and a warship was at once sent to
that town. After the geography had been
looked up it was found that this was the
beaten and bullied by every European pow-
er; and the marine corps, if any thing had
been done there, is the body which would
have acted.’’ This is not a quotation from
any Democratic newspaper. It is not an
extract from any speech made by any
Democratic stump orator during the recent
presidential campaign. I% is from an argu-
ment by Senator HALE, of Maine, a Re-
publican Senator in Congress in support of
a proposition to vastly increase the appro-
priation for the marine corps, or to be
more exact, to increase the force of the
marine corps to 9,000 men.
Was ever there made in Congress a more
shamefal confession ? Senator HALE is a
leading Republican statesman but he con-
fesses all that has been charged against the
administration with respect to the usurpa-
sion of power and imperialism. Inferen-
tially he justifies all this paper has said
with respect to the collusion of ROOSEVELT
and the adventurers on the Island of Pana-
ma in regard to the revolation which result-
ed in the treaty for the construction of the
Panama caval. Directly he arraioned the
President for the usurpation of power in
seizing ports of entry and assuming to ad-
minister the fiscal affairs of San Domingo
absurd invasion of Beirut because a drunk-
en consul had made a donkey of himself.
But these are trifling affairs compared with
the fact that he specifically accuses the
President of usurping power, violating the
constitution and in every respect proving
himself unworthy of the office he holds.
It Senator HALE had had the courage to
assert himself before the election as he did
in the Senate on Saturday, we would have
had ‘little niore trouble with ROOSEVELT
for in that event tomorrow at high noon
he would have gone into perpetual retire-
ment.
——When a man is virtually standing
on the brink of his grave ities naturally
conceded that his thoughts would be along
the liue of preparation for the hereafter,
unless he be so hardened to all manner of
decenoy and righteousness as to be, if such
a thing is possible, beyond the pale of re-
pentance ; and of this kind IRA GREEN,
the man convicted with Wai. DILLEN for
the murder of turn-key JERRY CONDO,
would seem to be from the fact that when
the Salvation Army wens to the jail, last
Sanday, to hold their regular afternoon
meeting he remarked to a bystander :
“There they come to get us ready for
butcherin’ day.”
——Howard is all stirred up over the
discovery of a large vein of gannister rock
on the mountain south of that place. The
people down there don’t seem to know the
fact that gannister rock can be found in
plenty all along the Bald Eagle mountain.
-
town of small power which bad been brow-.
and with equal certainty he rebukes the.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAR. 3, 1905.
Getting Ready to Milk,
The SPEYER Brothers of London are get-
ting ready to makea vast amount of money
on the hitherto worthless bonds of San
Domingo. Those bonds bought at a sacri-
fice which represented only a small frac-
tion of their face value have long been
considered absolutely worthless. But since
President ROOSEVELT has usurped the au-
thority to gnarantee their payment, they
have become ‘gilt-edged,’’and the SPEYER
Brothers are advertising in the London
Spectator and other journals of that city to
bring them in for ‘mutual co-operation,”
which is another term for depositing them
for collection.
The bonded debt of Santo Domingo is
about $32,000,000 and the revenues of the
Republic a little more than $600,000 a
year, so that it is an absolute impossibility
to even pay the interest on the honds. But
with a guarantee of payment made by the
United States government they become
worth their face value and accrued interest
and the people of the United States rather
than those of Santo Dominge will bave
to pay. In addition to that all other bank-
rupt Latin- American Republics are certain
to be so pressed by their creditors that, the
precedent having been set, the people of
this country will be obliged to pay the
debts of all, amounting in the aggregate to
more than a billion dollars.
This is only a part of the price which the
government of the United States is likely
to have to pay in order to give President
ROOSEVELT the legal authority to act as an
international policeman and swing the big
stick from the deck of a battleship in the
Caribbean sea. The other expenses are in-
volved in the building of warships at
the rate of $100,000,000 a year and the in-
crease of the naval force of the country to
the extent of not less than $10,000,000 an-
noally. It is a costly luxary which attends
the ambition of ROOSEVELT to cut as big a
figare in the affairs of the world as Emper-
or WILLIAM, of Germany, or King Ep-
WARD, of Great Britain.
Mistaken Efforts of Plety.
We can conceive of nothing more absurd
than the preachers of Philadelphia praying,
separately or collectively, for Mayor WEA-
VER, of that city. The declared purpose of
the congregation of clergymen was to
arouse Mayor WEAVER'S conscience. As a
matter of fact he has no conscience and
never had. He is literally and essentially
an opportunist. With a desire to promote
his own interests he adopted the Sunday
school plan of making friendships and bus-
iness. It was a wise idea for it fooled
the Sunday school folk and when the ma-
chine wanted a ‘‘whited sepulchre” to
serve its purpose it found WEAVER and
nominated him for District Attorney. No-
body knew anything against him and he
won.
After serving the machine by procuring
the acquittal of SAM SALTER through the
perjury of his own soul, he was nominated
for Mayor and for the reason that he hadn’t
been found out he was again elected, the
ballot box stuffers having gotten in their
work. Then he clearly identified himself
with the machine and took the criminals
engaged in the white slave trade under his
protection. What ASHBRIDGE had in the
interest of this atrocious form of erime paled
into insignificance as compared with his
work. ASHBRIDGE made no pretenses of
decency but WEAVER, still teaching his
Bible-class on Sanday, became the most ac-
tive agent of the criminals during the rest
of the week. ;
The preachers may ag well give him up.
‘He is owned body and soul by the ma-
chine. His ambition to’ be Judge in Phil-
adelphia has more influence on’ his mind
than his desire. for safety in the future life.
Therefore the Philadelpbia clergy may as
well turn their attention to influencing the
Legislature to enact a personal registration
bill. Such a measure will put the machine
out of politics and that result achieved
Mayor WEAVER may again tarn his atten-
tion to decency. He will help those who
serve his ambition bus will not promote
any interest which makes for genuine good.
He is a hypocrite and a fraud. Leave him
to the wretched company with which he
associated himself.
Another Bad Road Law.
The new road law introduced into the
Senate on Taesday last by Senator SPROUL,
of Delaware county, may be simply cbar-
acterized as an aggravation of the evils con-
tained in the act of two years ago. In
view of the experiences with that legisla-
tive curiosity, it may be said that the act
of 1903 was simply a test of endurance of
the public and having proved not the ex-
treme limit, the Senator for Delaware con,
cluded it would be safe to give the screw
another turn. In the bill introduced on
Tuesday the other turn has been given, and
the last semblance of local self-government
will be taken from the people if it is en-
acted into law, which we sincerely hope
will not happen.
The new bill carries an appropriation of
$6,356,532.49 whioh is not too much it is
would work the resalt which its author
promises. That is to say, the people of
Pennsylvania might freely consent to the
expenditure of that amount of money if it
would secure first-class highways in all
parts of the State. But asa matter. of fact
a very large proportion: of the mouey
will not ba'‘expended in road building. On
the contrary it will be disbursed in the pay-
ment of salaries, in most cases. excessive,
to favorites who will be appointed to the
soft jobs provided for under the law. There
are many better ways of reducing the
Treasury surplus than that, though the
surplus is a grave menace. hip rd
There is no necessity for a State Depart-
ment of Highways. We believe in good
roads aud favor such an appropriation of
funds of the State as will guarantee their
coustruction. But the Republican machine
is not proceeding along right lines to secure
them. That is, there is great danger to the
public in taking from the people the con-
trol of such essentially local matters as the
building of the roads and keeping them in
repair. Money appropriated by the State
for such purposes ought to be given to local
authorities under conditions which would
hold them to strict responsibility for dis-
bursements, as well as to account for failure
to keep the roads in proper condition.
Right Sort of Libérty.
The country will most cordially approve
the position assumed by the Democrats in
Congress in. favor of fostering the arts of
peace in preference to coddling the ele-
ments of war. In other words the policy
contributing liberally ont of abundance for
the work of geological survey, the needed
improvement of Rivers and Harbors and
the construction of suitable and substantial
public buildings rather tban making profli-
gate appropriations for military and naval
equipment will be endorsed by the rational
people of this country in the end if not on
the spur of the moments. The ‘‘sober, sec-
ond thought’’ will bring that result.
In order to support his insane and un-
American ambition to dominate the South
American Republics the President has
set his head on an appropriation of $100,-
300,000 for the improvement and mainte-
nance of the navy and in order tc make such
profligacy possibie his friends propose to
cripple all the civic enterprises which in
thé past have reflected so much honor’ and
credit on the government.. For example,
the appropriation for geological survey
was cut to a beggarly pittance, the building
operations threatened with no resourses at
all and the River and Harbor bill limited
to a minimum. JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS,
Democratic floor leader, protested against
this policy.cn Monday and succeeded in
baving $50,000 added to the geological sur-
vey appropriation. baibt
The place to exercise economy is in the
expenditures of the ariny and navy. This
country needs no expensive military or na-
val establishments to protect her honor or
defend her territory. So long as she pursues
the path of justice no foreign country will
assail her in any way. No man quarrels
with the source of his livelihood and no
nation will pick fights with the land that
feeds it. Therefore we don’t need a big
navy unless we propose to run amuck
against right and reason.
The money that is to he fooliehly spent
in building needless battleships would bet
ter be disbursed in improving our civic in-
stitutions. :
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The Ignoring of the Fifth Regiment.
Both officers and enlisted men, of the Fifth,
regiment, N. G. P., feel: very keenly the
fact’ that the organization will‘ not be of-
ficially represented at the inauguration to-
morrow and there is considerable wonder-
ing as :to just ' what - official it
‘was who so completely ignored the Fifth,
which has always ranked among the first in
looks and efficiency of any. regiment in the
Guard. Aside from that, whenever there
bas been any trouble in the State the Fifth
regiment has been called out oftener than
any other, and always responded with un-
usual promptness. That it was so complete-
ly set aside for other organizations in the
Guard cannot be explained away on the
plea of an oversight on the pari of the head
officers or whoever was responsible for the
choosing of commands selected to go to
Washington. If choice was made by Adju-
tant General THOMAS J. STEWART or hy
Major General CHARLES MILLER then he,
or both of them, is deserving of criticism
and owe the officers and enlisted men of
the Fifth an explanation and apology.
But if the choice of the commands selected
to attend the inauguration was dictated by
Governer PENN YPACKER the ignoring of the
Fifth can be excused because of the gross
ignorance of the Governor of all that is
justly due to one of the best regiments in
the National Guard.
~--~And now the fear is becoming gen-
to do nothing, may overwork itself.
——3ubsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
eral that the Legislature, in its great effort |
NO. 9.
Battin’ in to the Constitution.
From the New York World.
President Roosevelt has paid a tardy re-
specs to the constitution of the United
States by reducing his San Domingo policy
to terms of a formal treaty and submitting
it to the senate. {
This is the third of the senate’s immedi-
ate and salutary victories over the person:
al government.of Mr. Roosevelt. The first
came: when; in the face of an open exevn-
tive attempt at coercion, it exercised its.con-
stitutional right to amend the arbitration
treaties. - The second came when the jodi-
ciary committee decided that appointments
made on the theory of a constructed resess
were illegal. The third bas come in the
submission of this treaty to a senate which
the president had determined to ignore in
carrying out his imperialistic Dominican
policy. : )
It is no exaggeration to eay . that the im-
portance of these three victories isout
of all proportion to the questions involved,
inportant as those questions may be. It is
evident at last thas Mr. Roosevels is not to
be left unopposed to'carry ous hie theories
of personal government withont restraint.
In view of his past performances; it is not
easy to overestimate the credit that the
senate deserves for its sturdy insistence on
the observance of ‘the constitutional meth-
ods of procedure. :
For three years now Mr. Roosevelt has
pursnéd a policy of cumulative usurpation
of powers. to
He invented the constructive recess for
Shebluent of his friend, Gen. Leonard
He issued Pension Order No. 78 for the
benefit of the presidential campaign.
He prastically dismembered the republic
of Columbia to complete his Isthmian canal
policy and paid Panama $10,000,000 by di-
verting an appropriation made to carry ont
the terms of the treaty of Columbia.
He closed the Indianola postoffice in
defiance of a law because a postmistress had
been intimidated into resigning.
He jammed the Cuban treaty down the
throat of a relactant congress in order to
round out his Cuban policy. :
- He tore out the Monroe doctrine and in-
vented a preposterous doctrine of his own
to satisfy his notion of what the relations
between the United States and other Amer-
ican republics should be. :
He undertook to administer the finances
of San Domingo for an indefinite term ‘of
years and guarantee the Republic's debt of
$32,000,000 on the authority of a mere ex-
ecutive agreement without consulting the
senate.
- He took possession of ¢ertain Dominican
custom houses by virtue of an arbitration
award of disputed constitutionality.
He attempted to coerce the senate into
ratifying the arbitration treaties by the
publication of the Callom correspondence.
He has persistently interfered in impor-
tant matters of legislation. ' Bills were
drawn by the attorney general, approved
by the president and carried to congress to
be passed as executive measures. ‘A sub-
servient house has surrendered completely
to the president’s patronage and power. It
is no longer a deliberative body. In the
senate alone do free speech, free thought
and free action prevail. If congress in its
entirety were not to be reduced to the
status of a mere machine for recording the
will of the executive, it was time the sen-
ate asserted its constitutional prerogatives.
Some Suggestions to Dictionary Makers
From the Baltimore Herald.
These are submitted as recent additions
to the language:
Beckwith, noun. A dupe; a gullable
person ; one who may be easily hood winked.
Chad wick, verb, To outrageously bun-
coe; to flagrantly victimize. To chadwick
a person is to obtain property or credit on
the flimsiest secarity.
Chad wicked, adjective. Buncoed, exten-
sively hoodwinked, Also, cleaned out,
thoroughly multched. Used colloquially,
“I’ve been chadwicked,”” that is drained
to the last farthing. ~~ s
Colorado, verb, To constantly disturb;
to create endless. confusion; to keep in a
turmoil, = Used colloquially in a profane
sense, ‘‘We had a colorado of a time.”
Pennypacker, noun. A vain, arrogant
fellow. Ap important person who pretends
to autocratic powers. A laughingstock. A
male seold. lhe
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Inefficiency Illustrated.
From .the New York Evening Post. - Hg
Qar Spanish ‘Claims ‘Commission’ bids’
fair to rival the almost incredible ‘story of
the: French oclaime, on the score both of de-
lay and: injustice. : Up to date it bas made
awards “in ‘but thiee claims, amounting ‘to
$13,000. - Meanwhile the Commission itself’
has cost the Government ‘since its creation’
in March, 1903, only about $516,000, in
salaries and expenses. This is a pretty sad
record. of . inefficiency. At this . rate
it will take the Commission some 500 years:
to pass upon all claims before it. In any
case, the claimants and many, of their heirs
will bave died before they see the color of
their money. Yet we went to war. with
Spain partly on account of these just claims
of our citizens, and in the Treaty of Paris
solemnly undertook to liquidate them.
How Direct Taxation Would Benefit Us.
From the New York Herald.
If more of our taxes were direot, and if
‘a large proportion of our total income
were raised as it is in the United Kingdom,
far more interest would be taken in Uncle
Sam's books.—Boston Herald.
Quite true. A great deal of interest,
nevertheles, is excited by the prospect of a
deficit of more than sixty millions for the
fiscal year—three times as large,
timate of Secretary Shaw. We's
compelled in time to adopt the syst
other civilized vations kn a
al budget to replace the present go as you
please method of appropriations by com:
mittees. : ih
One Way to Do’
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From thie N. Y. American.
New, York, police stations proba y
{roma desire to have something .equare or.
upright connected with the police depart.
ment. : :
‘The_ proposition to place Rianas in the
bly arises.
Spawls from the Keystone,
'—Twenty-seven per cent. of the population
of Clearfield county are members of Sunday
schools.” ~ ' nA
—The St. Luke's Catholic church of Jersey
Shore realized $2,497 at a fair recently held
in that place. =. :
—The Attorney General has decided that
Pennsylvania judges are not entitled to mile-
age within their own districts.
—The new electric light plant at Mt. Union
is to be completed in ninety days. The town
will have twenty-five 2000 candle power arc
lights at $48 per year. '
—Thbe New York Central freight station at
Jersey Shore was broken into, Friday night,
the safe dynamited and abouteight dollars
in money secured by the robbers.
—Hon. Geo. A. Allen, of Erie, United
States District Attorney for Western Penn-
sylvania under President Grover Cleveland,
died Sunday evening, aged 66 years.
—Bitten by a mad dog 10 days ago, a horse
belonging to Burr Robinson, of Coudersport,
became rabid, tore its stall to pieces, attack-
ed itsowner and bit two other horses before
it was killed. . .
—A Williamsport woman brings suit for
damages for alleged breach of promise against
a resident of that place, who, she says, re-
cently Kissed her good-bye, left town and
married a girl of Syracuse. 1
. —W. A. Leonard, aged 80, who died at his
home: in Huntingdon, was for fifty years
employed on the Middle division of the
Pennsylvania railroad, nearly all of that
time as a locomotive engineer.
—James F. Gates, of Nittany, who fell
from a Pennsylvania freight train ‘at Nesbit,
Wednesday of last week, and sustained such
a crushed right arm that amputation was
necessary, died at 6 o’clock Thursday. even-
ing at the Williamsport hospital. He was
aged 32 years. :
- —The Commonwealth has confessed jundg-
ment for $4000 in the suit of James Russ, a
Harrisburg caterer, to recover his claim of
$5011.60 for wine, beer, whiskey, cigars and
other ‘‘supplies’’ furnished the Legislature of
1897 on a junket to New York to attend the
dedication of Grant’s tomb.
—For the past two weeks a strange species
of birds have been observed in the Hazleton
region. They resemble the English sparrow
but are more plump and large, while their
breasts and beneath their wings are white
colored. The kind of birds was never seen
before in this section. They are very beaun-
tiful.
—Williamsburg has a building company
‘that does not seem to waste time in talk.
Contracts Lave been made for the erec-
tion of 30 buildings, work on fifteen of
which is to be commenced at once. A stock
company is also being organized ‘in the town
for the purpose of erecting a modern hotel
building. $ '
—Elias Hartz, the veteran Reading goose -
bone weather prophet, is happily claiming
that his predictions made from the breast-
bone obtained from a goose hatched last
spring have come true in every particular.
He said that there would be lots of snow and
ice, and that the winter would be long and
severe.
—After being near death’s door with am
attack of tetanus or lock-jaw, the result of
runoping a small splinter of wood in his left
hand, William Tracy, of Altoona, is rapidly
recovering. and unless unforeseen circum-
stances occur, will soon be a well man. It
is one of the rare cases of recovery from this
terrible disease.
—The New York & Penna Paper company
has just closed another important timber
deal by which it has come into possession of
a tract of 2,000 acres of hard wood land, in-
cluding six miles of railroad, purchased of
E. M Campbell and situated at Birch Hollow
near Johnsonburg. The timber will be used
by the Clarion and Highland acid mill.
—Last Thursday evening while engaged
at cleaning one of the large machines in the
silk mill at Altoona, Frederick Wittman, 15
years old, bad his left arm caught under a
belt and was instantly @ whirled into the
wheel shaft. The arm was torn completely
out of the socket at the shoulder, thus saving’
the boy’s life, as his body fell to the floor in-
stead of being drawn into the machine.
—A pair of southern blood hounds bave
been presented to Sherifi' Port’ by George'D.
Gragier, ot Huntingdon Furnace, and "they
are now established in quarters in the jail
| yard at Huntingdon. They are of the same
breed as those used at Portage last_summer,
‘when an effort was made to capture the mem-
‘bers of the gang who robbed 'paymaster
|| Patrick Campbell and killed his driver Mr.
i Hay. dade zs yhinols 28 Seid i :
‘~A local company has been organized at
Westover, Clearfield county, to drill for oil.
It is a chartered organization: and is known
asthe Westover:Oil'& Gas company. It is
made up of local capitalists and they are!
sanguine of good results as judicated by the
‘amount of money invested. W. F.. Mosser,
‘the tanner, is the president; Dr. M. C. Park,
vice president ; Isaac Straw, secretary ;
Norman: Caldwell, treasurer. They have
leased 4,500 acres of land in that territory
‘and the drill will start'in a very short time.
—One of the great features at the recent
Y.M. C. A, State convention at Johnstown
was the banquet tendered the delegates by
the Ladies’ auxiliary. Over 700 men were
| seated at the same time and a spirit of rare
good fellowship and enthusiasm pervaded
the gathering. Detween the courses the
representatives of several college and eity
associations gave rousing yells and these had
no sooner subsided before one of the delegates
| started a popular gospel song, which was
soon caught up by the others until more
than 700 voices were lifted in trinmphant
praise. ;
—The official call for the sixteenth annual
convention of the miners of District No. 2,
United Mine Workers of America, to be held
| in Altoona’ commencing’ March 14th, at 10
a. m.; has just been issued by President
k Gifday and 'Secretary-Treasurer
bert from the headquarters at,
eld. There are about 20,000 organized
this field and as the basis of represen-
tation is'0p vote for every ! fifty members or
‘majority #faction thereof there willbe about
400 ¥ in the convention, which will be
one of the most important ever held in this
district.
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