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Ink Slings.
—My, wouldn't a little rain help.
—All roads appear to lead Senator Bur-
TON to prison.
~The poor Pennsy is having troubles of
its own these days.
—The Russian Douma is about all that
is being done in the dew Russian move-
ment for popular government.
— Pittsburg has had more Knights this
week than any other week of her existence,
aod most of the nightsjwere turned into
day.
—JIn New York when a fair passenger
alights from the train she is greeted by the
cabby with bansom, lady, while in Phila-
delphia it is P. and R. cab.
—By the way! What has become] of
Avrice and Nick? Has any one heard of
them lately ? Their’s looks like the old
case of the rocket and the stick.
—The town of Fairbanks, Alaska, has
been destroyed by fire. How strange 1 It
seems to us that the name, alone, ought to
have kept the place too cool to barn.
—As between the Prohibition and Dem-
ocratic parties making a State ticket, the
action of the former at Harrisburg yester-
. day seems to be a case of the tail wagging
the dog.
—One years’ work on the Panama canal
is to cost us twenty-six million dollars.
That isn’t so much, but then the estimates
don’t say how many years is}will be before
the ditch is dug.
—About the time we have another expo-
sition of any pretense some enterprising
manager will capture the Russian Douma,
in toto, and bave it on the Pike doing leg-
islative stunts at 25 ots. a throw.
— Judging from the number of men who
are going after the nomination there are
evidently some Republicans in Pernsylva-
pia who still cling to the idea that they
have a chance to elect the next Governor
of the State.
—Whatever of scandal, trickery or back-
tracking the rate-bill controversy attach-
es to men high up in our government it
must be said to the credit of the Senator
from South Carolina that he is absolutely
without taint.
—The value of printers ink is sworn to
in RicHARD PEARSON HoBsoN's certifica-
tion of the expenses he incurred in defeat.
ing BANKHEAD in the Sixth Missouri dis-
trict. Hespent $1723 for printed matter
and is landed him.
—Mr. BEEMAN, of chewing gum fame,
and a millionaire many times over, is try-
ing to have his pension increased to $12 |
per month, This is a hopeful sign. It
looks as though the slattern habit of chew-
ing gam is abating in the land.
—1It BERRY and CREASY accept the nom-
inations of the Prohibitionists for Gov-
ernor and Auditor General respectively
there will be little left for the Democratic
State convention to do in June, because we
will be practically compelled to endorse
them.
—All that the WATCHMAN bas said in
the past concerning a deal between the Re-
publican national committee and the Mor-
mon church of Utah seems to have con-
firmation in the announcement made in
Washington, on Tuesday, to the effect that
the President is opposed to having Mor-
mon REED SmM00T pat out of the United
States Senate. .
—*0ld Jim MAURER," unfit as he pro-
claimed himself to be before the Socialist
convention that named him for Governor
of Pennsylvania, was a grand example to
other sell seeking incompetents. Had
PENNYPACKER had the honesty to make
such a declaration four years ago Pennsyl-
vania would not have a blot on her escnt-
cheon that time will never wear off.
—Unlike JouN D. ROCKERFELLER or
his fellow plunderer RODGERS the Peon-
sylvania railroad officials are telling about
all they know. It is probable that the ex-
hibition of memory they are giving by their
testimony on the stand is ouly part ofa
great advertising scheme for the Penney.
Any system should be well run that is
manned by men of such active brains.
—A great many people said unkind
things about InA TARBELL and ToM Law-
soN when they started writing magazine
articles, but to those two persons, more
than to any other knowa agency, belongs
the public gratitude for having uncovered
the graft in the insurance, rail-road and
government circles that bas so astounded
the country during the past few months.
~The Hon. HARRY ALVAN HALL, of
Ridgway, is being talked of as a probable
successor to the late Hon. C. A. MAYER as
president judge of the Twenty-filth Penn-
sylvania district. Should he decide to ac-
cept a nomination the people of Clinton,
Elk and Cameron counties will be hurrah-
ing for two HaLw's, for in all probability
Hon. J. K. P. HALL will be a candidate
to succeed himself in the State Senate.
—San Francisco, like every other city
that has been in distress and bad to call
for public aid, is coming to the fore with
scandals already. Automobiles used the
first ten days after the disaster cost $157,-
599 and there were only one hundred and
twenty-nine of the machines in service. It
is deplorable that such things do occur for
the pablic belie! that they probably will
has a decidedly deterrent effect in contris
butions in times of such disasters.
VOL. 51
Candid But Not Too Easy.
Senators BAILEY and TILLMAN are can-
did men, we may easily believe, but that
they are not *‘easy marks,” we must infer
from recent incidents in Washington. They
bave been betrayed by the President, be-
yond question, but not without inflicting
some punishment on the other side. More
credulous statesmen might have gone head-
long into the obvious trap which the Pres-
ident bad set for them. But they held
back until ample provision bad been made
for their rescue in the event they got lost.
They had analyzed the clay oat of which
the President was moulded and found it
common, very common. It was a wise
precaution, therefore, as bas been abund-
antly proved.
When the President invited them to co-
operate in an enterprice in which he had
no legitimate concern, they carefally meas-
ured the probabilities and possibilities of
the alliance. The President has neither
legal nor moral right to participate in leg-
islation, they reasoned, and his ‘‘butting
in” is a dangerous precedent. But they
were anxious for the legislation which he
pretended to desire, and it is ungracious as
well as impolite to ‘‘look a gift horse in
the mouth,’ so they closed their eyes to
that substantial objection to co-operation.
But there was another, more important
though less grave. The President's word
is not to be depended upon so they fortified
themselves by insisting on such corrobora-
tive evidence as would support their asser-
tions in case of controversy as to the [aots.
The result has vindicated their wisdom.
With characteristic perversity, not to say
perfidy, the President has denied the alli-
ance and in the nature of things would
have carried the country with him in a
simple question of veracity between him
and them. But the corroborative evidence
comes to their support and the infirmity
which the President has revealed too fre-
quently in other cases is made as ‘‘mani-
fest as a mountain,” in the present in-
stance.
In other words, as a result of the wise
caution they revealed in the beginning the
falsehood has been fastened on the White
House under circumstances which preclude
relief from the obliging LOEB.
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Secretary Taft's Wise Purpose.
We can easily understand why Secretary
TAFT is determined to buy supplies lor the
Panama canal in foreign markets but it is
not so easy to reconcile his purpose in that
particular with bie silent acquiescence in
the robbery of the public throngh tariff
taxation. He wauted a couple of sea-
going, suction dredges for use on the work
and found that he could buy them in Scot-
land for a matter of $188,000 less than in
this country. As he doesn’t indalge in
graft and lays some claim to common hon-
esty, he concluded that it was his bounden
duty to buy in Scotland if left to himself,
and notified Congress of his purpose if that
body didn’s intervene, as he politely put
is.
The Secretary is not only wise but just
in his determination but he shouldn’s pat
all the blame for the difference in cost on
the American builders of suction dredges.
On the contrary, a considerable part of the
blame rests on the Steel Trust directly and
the Congress which permits that organiza.
tion to loot the public. The Scottish firm
will probably buy its steel for use in build-
ing the dredges from the same proteoted
concern that supplies the American drm
and as the Scotchman gets his for $10 a ton
less than the domestic consumer he is nat-
urally and logically able to underbid for
the work and as the government is exempt
from tariff taxes, the Secretary can buy
proportionately cheaper abroad.
But as indicated above we can’t quite
see why Secretary TAFT imagines that it is
wrong to saddle such an additional charge
on the government and right to put it on
the citizen. If any of us here should .hap-
pen to want a couple of suction, sea-going
dredges we would have no great choice in
the markets in which to purchase. Of
course the firm on the Clyde would offer
the same bargain which it bas offered the
government but we would be obliged to
pay tariff taxes to about the total of the
difference so that we might as well buy on
the Delaware or the James rivers as on the
Clyde. Therefore it seems to us that the
Secretary ought to have suggested that
what is bad for the government can’t be
very good for the people.
——Acting on the WATCHMAN'S sug-
gestion last week the Street committee put
men to work on Monday morning to re-
pair the High street bridge over Spring
creek. Toe old flooring and stringers were
torn away and the under iron work was all
repainted before the new flooring was put
down. The trusses will also be freshly
painted and when completed the bridge
will present quite a new-like appearance
while it will also be safe for traveling
over.
——A. L. Cole, of DuBois, bas regiater-
ed as a candidate for the Republican
nomination for Congress in this district.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Chandler Resents an Aspersion.
Former Senator CHANDLER, of New
Hampshire, declares that he will never
again represent President ROOSEVELT in
political or parliamentary negotiations.
He doesn’t enjoy grilling, it seems, and
the President undertook to put him
through that process in connection with
the negotiations with Democratic Senators
on the rate bill. In other words, the Pres-
ident induced CHANDLER to act as a go-
between in his effort to ges the help of the
Democratic Senators for the legislation
which be thought, at the time, be wanted,
aod after he discovered that he didn’t
want it, he violated the agreement and put
the blame on his ambassador.
Obviously the President didn’t kvow
CHANDLER when he attempted to use him
as a stalking-horse. He is willing enough
if approached in the right way and not
over particular as to methods. But be in-
sists on courteous treatment even when
performing the work of a mercenary and
Ro0SEVELT overlooked the sensitiveness of
his nature. For example, it is more than
probable that if the President had said to
him in advance of the event that he was in
an ugly hole and in order to extricate him-
self it might be necessary to intimate that
CHANDLER is a prevaricator, the New
Hampshire oracle would have been as
obliging as LOEB has proven himself on va-
rious occasions. Bat the President with-
out previous arrangement flatly accused
him of lying and he wouldn't stand for
such an aspersion.
It is intimated that Mr. CHANDLER is
likely to lose his job because of his coutu-
macy, but that daoger doesn’t appall him.
He is Spanish War Claims’ Commissioner,
the salary of which is liberal, and probably
he needs the money. But he is both capa-
ble and resourceful and the chances are
that he bas ‘‘counted the cost.” In any
event be has performed a good service in
exposing the President who bas been too
free with tricks of tbat kind on helpless
citizens, ay in the cases of HENRY F. WHIT-
KEY, of Boston, and JOHN F. WALLACE,
of New York, formerly obiel engineer of
the Panama canal, who suffered from in-
justice without redress.
Representatives Creasy and Garner.
Representative GARNER, of Schuylkill
county, declared to a group of his con-
stituents, the other day,that he bad literal-
ly “sold himself, body and soul,’ to the
atrocious QUAY machine during his service
of three terms in the Legislature, for the
purpose of securing certain legislation for
the benefit of the miners of his district.
He was cheated in the transactions, he
subsequently admitted, and now he asks
for a re-election in order that he may
“make good,"’ the collapse of the machine
baving given him hope for the future. We
hardly think that he has made out a good
case, In other words, it doesn’t look to us
ae if he has justified his failures in the past
or his expectations of the future.
One of. the greatest evils of present pub-
lic life is commercialism in legislation. It
used to be called ‘log rolling” and was
abhorrent to every moral sense even when
it involved no greater wrong than voting
for one man’s fairly meritorious measure
in exchange for his vote for yours. But
Mr. GARNER admits that he supported
every, or nearly every legislative iniquity
presented by the machine in consideration
of the promise, subsequetly betrayed, that
the machine would mark his good bills for
passage. It was a most infamous compact
and bis disappointment was a fit reward
for his moral delinquency. He has proved
his unfitness for the office and should retire
to perpetual oblivion.
Contrast his record as expressed by him-
self with that of Representative CREASY,
of Columbia county, and ponder the lesson
it presents. Mr. CREASY bad cherished
measures of legislation in the interest of
his constituents and he labored earnestly
and assiduously for their advancement.
Bat he never sacrificed a principle or be-
trayed an obligation of honor in order to
achieve a personal triumph or promote a
selfish end. He fought for what be con-
ceived to be right with a pertinacity and
courage which commanded respect and
when the inevitable collapse cf the ma-
chine came he found in view the success of
all his bills and a constituency not only
ready to return him to the seat but anxious
to promote him.
—'['hough Spring creek contains some
very big trout in its waters it does not
boast of such monsters as the thirty-seven
inch seven and a half pounder alleged to
have been caught near here in a story going
the rounds of the press of the State, The
biggeet we bave been able to measure up
to date was one just twenty-seven inches
long and its weight was not so heavy
either.
——A test well for oil and gas isto be
put down on the farm of F. L. Shope, three
miles north of Milesburg. An experienced
driller is or now the grounds getting things
in shape to begin work.
__ BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 25, 1906.
Tawney's Note of Warning.
Representative TAWKEY, of Minnesota,
who is chairman of the House Committee
on Appropriations, is considerably alarmed
on account of the enormous expenses of the
navy. “On account of the wars past and
the apprehension of ware that are impossi-
ble in the future,” be declared in a speech
on the floor the other day, ‘‘we are spend-
ing sixty-three and three-fourths of the an-
nual revenues of the country on the navy.”
Such expenditures, he added, are foolish
and wasteful and in the eud will bring dis-
aster. ‘‘Some necessary expenses are being
put over,” he continued, ‘but ench praec-
tices can not be continued forever. We
must either reduce expenses or increase
taxes.”
We believe in a substantial navy. That
is to say, we believe in a navy of sufficient
strength to meet the commercial require.
ments of the government and of the high-
est efficiency. But there is no necessity
for a navy for the purpose of boasting that
it is greater than that of another country.
Other countries may be in jeopardy of at-
tack at all times and because of the covet-
ousness of the people or the cupidity of
those in authority stand as a menace to the
public peace and consequently be under
the necessity of an extensive armament.
But that is no credit te them. A reputa-
tion for justice and tranqaility is the great-
est of all guarantees of peace and the high-
est evidence of virtue in the people.
The $10,000,000 battleship which Con-
gress has authorized is, therefore, an ex-
pensive and menacing vanity. It lus been
officially stated that we bave more ships
now than guns to arm and muie guns
than there are men to use. We have seen
statements from the highest naval authori-
ties, moreover, that a number of our ships
bave become antiquated, shough less than
twenty years old. That being true what
is the use in building such expensive toys
for the Presidents to play with and naval
officers to admire? It would be infinitely
better to spend less for such purposes and
more for usefal and helpful purposes, such
as signal stations and weather burean serv-
ice.
Obviously Unwise Counsel.
* We learn with more or less surprise that
some prominent Democrats and a few
newspapers of that political faith, are pro-
testing against fusion with the LINCOLN
Republicans and other elements in the po-
litical life of the Commonwealth which
came together last fall in support of Hon.
WittiayM H. BERRY. Let us nominate
a straight Democratic ticket, they say, and
maintain our political integrity. The Re-
publicans are divided, they add, and there
is a chanoe for a Democratic viotory with-
out compromises or alliances, and such a
result will entitle the party to the uundi.
vided spoils. Itis a selfish and eordid
view of the subject.
The aim of the Democratic party, as we
understand it, is not to harvest the spoils
of the office. It stands essentially for the
conservation of the interests of the people.
Promoting the highest standards of gov-
ernment is its mission, if it bave a mission
on earth. The duty of the party, there-
fore, is to set the standard and invite all
men to come to its support, after having
chosen fit men to carry its policies into ef-
fect. It doesn’t matter what affiliations
the citizens professed last year or the year
before so that they are in sympathy with the
policies aud in support of the candidates
now. The Democratic party is not a clam.
Those Demociats who insist on a straight
ticket this year are consciously or uncon-
scionsly moving in the interest of the Re-
publican machine. The most enthusiastic
of them is Senator Bois PENROSE. He tells
those who will listen to him that present
conditions are analagous to those of 1882
when Governor PATTISON was first elected
and that if the Democrats are courageous
the history of that campaign may repeat
itself to our infinite advantage. Bus he
knows better.- The corporations didn’t
meddle in politics then as they do now and
Frenzied Finance badn’t become a factor
in public affairs.
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~The Prohibition party at its State
convention in Harrisburg on Wednesday,
nominated WiLLiaM H. BERRY for Gov-
ernor and HOMER L. Castie for Lieuten-
ant Governor. WILLIAM T. CREASY was
nominated for Auditor General and ELISHA
A. CorAY for Secretary of Internal Affaire.
———What a lot of entertainment we will
have in the next two weeks. First, Mem-
orial day, then The Drummer Boy of
Shiloh, then the High school commence-
mens with the Democratic county convene
tion sandwiched between and to wind up
the dedication of the soldiers’ monument.
——Duping the past week fire has been
raging on Munoy mountain between this
place and Curtin’s gap as well as oo the
north side of the Bald Eagle valley in the
foothills of the Alleghenies. Considerable
young timber has been destroyed as well as
gome fences surrounding the woodland.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
From the Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
When Andrew Jackson was President a
political leader called at the White House
one day to urge the appointment of a cer-
tain candidate to an important official po-
sition. **Now, Mr. President,” be said,
‘“‘you simply must give this office to my
man. He is the only in the United
States who can properly discharge the du-
ties of it.”’
“Ia that #0?" remarked *‘Old Hickoty.”
“It it is, I'm afraid that I shall bave to
ask Congress to abolish the office. Your
friend might die, yon know, and then
there would be nobody to save the coan-
try.’
rhe story runs that that candidate did
20 grb the appointment, the office was not
abolished and the country otill survived.
The opinion which his indorser beid of him
is that of a good many men concerning
themselves. They fancy that they are in-
dispensable to the world, or at least to that
Itttle fragment of it in which they have
their abodes and pursue their avo-
cations. They choose to shut their eyes to
the fact that affairs went on before they
were born, and will continue after they
have passed away. So long as a moderate
vanity makes she; individu]
snethebio and ambitious, it is not to e-
cried. It is a valuable help in the concep-
tion and pushing of great enterprises, for
the man who believes in himself, ting
that he puts a correct estimate on his abil-
ities, is the one who is most likely to suc-
ceed in any moment when the supreme
qualities of planning and execution are re-
quired. But these are the very olass of
masters of undertakings who do not imag-
ine that when they go away will leave
places that cannot be filled. y know
themselves, and knowing themselves, they
koow, too, that others quite as capable will
come after them, and take up she work
that they are compelled to relinguish.
Important, if True.
From the Reading Telegram.
The of the Democratic Con-
grestional Committee, Charles A. Edwards,
in a Washington letter, makes an astonish-
ing explanation of the sudden switching
about of President Roosevelt on the rail-
rate bill.
t is nothing less than the charge that
John D. Arch and H. H. Rogers, of
the Standard Oil company, made a secret
visit to the White House at night, closeted
themselves with the President and told
him, at the last, that if he did not imme-
diately break with the Demoorats and ac-
cept the broad court review [feature for
w oh thes ou Snstor were then
con ey would ‘‘open on him
and tell the whole story to a nantty
concerning the campaign con tion to
the Republican campaign fund wade by
the Standard Oil company in the last cam-
paign, including that he knew when it was
given and why and how much it was be-
ore it ever reached the bands of Mr. Cor-
telyou, thus provise that Alton B. Parker
told the truth in the last campaign and
that Roosevelt's indignant denial was es-
sentially false.”
Able to Bear the Barden.
From the Brookville Democrat.
Some weeks ago President Roosevelt
made a speech in which he discussed some-
what the proposition that the people ought
to control the vast fortunes of the country
in such a way as to prevent those vast for-
tanes foom controlling them. The thought
is a proper one, and there ara two ways
looking toward that end that might be pur-
sued. One is by enacting a national inher-
itance tax law, providing for the taxing,
for government purposes, of every dece-
dent's estate, where it amounts to more
than $25,000, or $50,000, or $100,000. The
other is, to enact an income tax law, tax-
ing every income of over $2,000, and in-
creasing the tax as the income increases in
amount. This would put the burdens of
taxation on the proper shoulders.
Just a Little Bit Enjoyable.
From the N. Y, World.
“I don’t think we injye other people's
sufferin’, Hinnessy,’’ said Mr. Dooley. ‘It
isn’t achally injyement. But we feel bet.
ther fr it.”
This, we take it, represents substantial
ly the feeling of the conservative Republi-
cans in the United States Senate towards
Mr. Roosevelt's excited efforts to extricate
himself from the rate bill morass. They
may not achally injye bis sufferin’, but
they feel betther {'r is.
The Big Stick Comes High.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
The House of Representatives at Wash-
ington last week the Naval A
on bill wh carries $99, A
is is almost double the entire average
annual cost of administering the Govern-
ment before the Civil war, al at that
time the United States was only to
Great Britain as a naval power. But the
era of graft and greed, the natural conse.
quence of paternalism in government, had
not then begun.
All Things Equal.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
* James H. Maurer, of Reading, who was
nominated by the Socialist convention for
to be excused from serv-
He said :
and owe money. I cannot be
your nominee.” Nevertheless the nomina-
tion was forced upon him. Inasmuch as
the Socialist idea is that there should be
no individual onpenlipel anything, not
even of one’s labor, nominee comes
pretty close to the Socialist ideal.
Weaver in the Field.
From the Easton Sentinel.
The declination of Judge Stewart to be a
candidate for Governor seems to suit May-
or Weaver, of Philadelphia, who bas been
itching to run as a om candidate for
some time. The other day he was asked if
he would accept the Lincoln party nomina-
tion for Governor, to which inquiry he
answered by saying *‘If such a nomination
were tendered to me it would be too great
an honor to decline.”
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Cows are bringing good prices in Chester
county, a car load having recently sold at
Kennett Square at an average of $40 a head.
~The Survivors’ association of the Third
division, Ninth corps, Army of the Potomac,
held its annual reunion at Harrisburg yes-
terday.
—Charles Habberly, a well known business
man of Lleysville, a suburb of Latrobe, was
attacked by highwaymen, who took his
watch and over $50.
—Twelve girls dressed in white were the
bearers at the funeral of Mrs. Frank Epler,
of Mohnsville, Berks county, who was buried
in her cream satin bridal dress.
—The will of the Rev. Charles Wood, late
of York, gives his fine library for public use
and provides for the establishment of a day
nursery and children’s hospital.
—Colonel James E. Barnett, of Washing-
ton, ex-State Treasurer, is in a Philadelphia
hospital, where he has just undergone an
operation for a disease of the throat.
—A Pennsburg, Montgomery county,
fisherman, has just captured the four largest
catfish out of the Perkiomen this seazon.
They measured from 13 to 14 inches each,
—Lewistown has made a contract with a
water company for the rental of water for
fire hydrants at the rate of $6 a year for each
hydrant, superseding a contract made in
1852.
—No body can now be disinterred from
any cemetery in Penusylvania until after
October 15th. The law put a limit upon the
work for sanitary reasons. The season in
which bodies may be exhumed is Oct. 15th
to April 15th.
—The imprint of a hand from which two
fingers are missing is expected to aid in the
arrest of the murderer of Mrs. John Morri-
son, of Cumbola, Schuylkill county. The
imprint was left on the window of a saloon
near Cumbola.
—Fire destroyed the home of William
Yodis at Glen Lyon on Saturday night and
two little daughters, Anna aged 5, and Celia
aged 2, were burned to death. The children
were in bed and a lamp left burning in the
room is supposed to have exploded.
—Fire in a portable mill located about four
miles above Salladasburg Sunday afternoon
destroyed the mill, the property of William
Engel, formerly belonging to Messrs. John
and 0. W. Good, of Williamsport, besides a
quantity of piled lumber estimated at be-
tween 300,000 and 400,000 feet, the latter
owned by John Coleman, of Williamsport.
—Between 9 and 10 o'clock Saturday
night the plant of the Burley Heating com-
pany, situated along the Pennsylvania rail-
road just west of Tyrone, was totally destroy-
ed by fire of incendiary origin. A dwelling
house nearby was also consumed and a barn
narrowly escaped a similar fate. The amount
of loss and the insurance could not be learn«
ed.
—It is estimated that more than §500,repre-
senting the savings of fifteen Bohemian
quarrymen employed at the quarries of the
Derry Sand company, back of Derry, was
burned up Tuesday afternoon when the
boarding house in which they made their
homes, and in which they had placed their
money for safe keeping, was destroyed by
fire.
—Because of some business differences with
the board of trustees of the school, Andrew
Thomas Smith, principal of the State Nor-
mal school at Mansfield, has resigned, the
same to become effective at the close of this
term of school. There are 600 students in
the school. Dr. Smith has been principal
seven years. There is a salary of $2,500 a
year to the principalship.
—Patton is to have another Roman Cath.
olic church. The Slavish residents of the
town of that denomination have secured
possession of the old St. Mary's Catholic
church, which was used by that congrega-
tion prior to the erection of the present
handsome structure, and will saon have a
priest of their own who will minister to them
in the language of the fatherland.
—The Orbisonia artificial stone company
has been organized to manufacture building
and paving brick, sewer pipe, fence posts,
and other articles under the patent recently
issued to utilize furnace slag for such pur-
poses. Out of the slag it is proposed to manu-
facture brick, building blocks and other arti-
cles after the manner of concrete blocks, but
more of the nature of artificial stone.
—The Venango county Republican candie
dates are beginning to file their expense bills,
as required by the vew law. General John
A. Wiley, who was given Venango's endorse
ment for Congress, paid out $150, of which
sum the newspapers received £06.65. One
defeated candidate for District Attorney is
out $172.33 and another 3267.50. The last
named aspirant paid $121.50 for “workers.
—As a result of a peculiar accident Harry
Gilbert, aged 35 years, lies in a critical con-
dition at his home in Somerset. Gilbert was
standing on a limb of au apple tree he was
pruning Friday evening when be lost his
footing and was precipitated to the ground
below. In falling he alighted among some
lilac bushes and a branch of the shrub pass-
ed through his clothing and penetrated his
abdomen to the depth of eleven inches.
—The spring meeting of the Pennsylvania
State Board of Agriculture snd Farmers’ An-
nual Normal Institute will be held in the
Dimeling hotel auditorium and court house,
Clearfield, May 20th-31st. An interesting
program has been arranged and discussion of
important subjects will result in valuable
information being imparted to farmers as
well as others. A number of prominent
speakers will be present and take part in the
various sessions.
—When Jobn Devinney, au old farmer of
Buttermilk hollow, near Duquesne, decided
that he would end his life Thursday he took
a stout piece of rope, went to the stable,
placed his arm lovingly around the neck of
Old Bill, a horse he has owned for 16 years,
and bade him an affectionate farewell. Then
he went around behind the stall and knotted
the ropa about his neck. He turned to fasten
the other end around a rafter and had a soap
box ready to jump off. Old Bill turned as
he was th ng the around the rafter.
He scented trouble. th one Rood, gene
erous kick he landed his hoof on seat of
Devinney’s trousers with such force that the
old man was knocked through the weather.
boarding of the stable. He was badly hurt,
but will recover.