8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
ink Slings.
—The trout fishing season closed on
Tuesday and pow the thoughts of many a
good liar will be diverted to other chan-
nels.
—Lots of people will be able to give
Mrs. RussELL SAGE advice about how to
spend her millions, who couldu’t bave told
old “Uncle RusseLy'’ how to make a sin-
gle cent.
—The London tailors don’t like the cat
of BRYAX'S clothes, which probably won't
worry BRYAN nearly as much as is will
some of the sartorial authorities of Lincoln,
Nebraska.
—There being eighty-two thousand au-
tomobiles in use in the United States it is
beginning to look as if the day of the good
old carriage horse is drawing to 8 close and
then—what of the poor sparrows ?
—1In view of the frequent drownings
along the sea-shore lately the life savers
should be taught to sing that old nursery
rhyme about banging your clothes on a
hickory limb and don’t go near the water.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. bas
decided to issue one-thousand mile tickets
at twenty dollars each, good for any person
to ride on, and reduce the passenger tariff
to two and one-hall cents per mile. The
power of the press.
—Each Republican in the United States
is e xpeoted to contribute one dollar to the
pational campaign fund for this fall. Pres-
ident ROOSEVELT has already sent his and
gotten a notice in the papers. Now for
Col. NED CHAMBERS, G. WASHINGTON
REES, ef al.
—A stotteriog bandit entered a Chester
store on Tuesday and at the point of a
loaded revolver gave the command :
**H-b-hold up y-y-your h-h-bands!"” Aec-
cording to reports the frightened store-
keeper never stuttered a bit in getting his
digits in the air.
—All you need todo is to look at the
base ball reports in the Mondaylipapers if
you want to discover which way the old
fashioned American Sunday is drifting.
The Lord have mercy on our land when
Sunday ceases to be any more to it than it
is to Mexico, France or Spain.
The one is afraid and the other dasu’s.
That is the reason the Republican Senator-
ial conferees for Centre and Clearfield
counties made no choice at Philipsburg,
last Thursday. As to which is which we
refer you to Mr. HENRY CUTE QUIGLEY,
the Centre conntian, and the Hon. JOE AL-
EXANDER, of Clearfield.
—The complaint from the managers that
there is a shortage of chorus girls in New
York might be due to the fact that STAN.
roRD WHITE is dead and HARRY THAW
is in prinon. Then, again, it might be be-
cause there really does come a time when
ancient ladies can’t trip around, desporting
their spindle shanks as if they were ells.
—Monday's Philadelphia Press editorial
ly said about sll the nice things it could
say about fusion candidate EMERY. In
fact it said everything except that the
Press will support him. Come out neigh-
bor. Stand where your conscience tells
you you ought to stand. Your course last
fall made more friende for the Press than a
rotten and busted machine can ever hope
to drag away from it.
—The Johnstown Democrat wonders how
many things wou'!d bappen if some party
were to nominate the following ticket in
1908 :
- For President, JOHN D. ROCKERFELLER.
For Vice President, J. PIERPOXT MoOR-
GAN.
About the most that could happen would
be that their campaign managers would
be living on ‘‘easy street.’’
—Mrs. WiLL1AM ELLis COREY has been
divor:ed from her busband. How thank-
fal she should be that she ia no longer tied
to a man who could act as he bas done.
She must have been an altogether lovely
woman, else his own parents and sister
would not have taken the stand to swear
that he was unfit for his own son to associ-
ate with. And, to think, be is president
of the United States Steel company, the
largest industrial corporation in the world.
—It is an interesting fact that of all the
losses incurred by Pennsylvania companies
in the San Francisco disaster only two,
the American and the National Union were
caught for amounts in excess of their en-
tire surplus. While both of these compa-
pies will see the surplus they have been
working for years to build up entirely wiped
out, nearly all of the others will see theirs
reduced to a mere skeleton. It is a fact
worthy of note that the gigantic losses sul-
fered have wrecked only two companies
aod that unless another such disaster oc-
curs within a year, all of them will be on
very firm footing again.
~—France has officially expressed her re-
gret at the carelessness of the French gan-
ner who, while practising with a machine
gun aboard a French cruiser in the barbor
at Chefoo, China, shot and killed Lieut.
CLARENCE ENGLAND, of the United States
cruiser Chattanooga, which was lying some
distance away. Thie will be so satisfactory
and consoling to the dead officer's friends
and relatives. If you have ever played
tennis with a girl and after she has knook-
ed the ball into a garden several lots away
aud you have had to climb over two or
three picket fences to get it and then heard
her complacently sing out : ‘‘Beg pardon!”
you have an idea of how much satisfaction
there is in this Frenoh expression of regret.
VOL. 51
Roosevelt Repudiates the Machine.
President RoosevELT has openly ex-
pressed his opposition to the atrocious
Pennsylvania machine. The managers of
the “criminal conspiracy masquerading as
the Republican pacty,’’ expected to con-
jure with the name of ROOSEVELT. The
vast vote polled for him two years ago in.
dicated an extraordinary popularity which
it was hoped could be coined into political
carrency. In pursuance of this purpose
Senator PENROSE, with characteristic au-
dacity, obtrunded himself intoa conference
at Oyster Bay, and subsequently permitted
his clacquers to circulate false reports of
the President’s interest in the Pennsylva-
pia contest. He will make several speech-
es, they said, in the interest of the party.
They even went so far ae to indicate where
the speeches would be delivered, naming
Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Harrisburg and
York. Asa matter of fact, the President
bad frankly informed PENROSE that he has
po sympathy with, and would take no
part in the campaign of Pennsylvania.
He felt, however, that the rumors of his
purpose to help the Pennsylvania machine
cast an aspersion on his character. His
chief official adviser had revealed to him
the base character and sinister purposes of
that organization and in defence of his own
reputation he caused his secretary to issue
a bulletin of denial. The President will
make no political speeches in Pennsylva-
this year, Mr. LoEB said in substance. He
will deliver an address at the dedication
of the capitol building at Harrisburg in
October and speak briefly at the York
county fair on the same day, be added, but
peither of them will be political in tone or
tenor. They will express wo words of
comfort for PENROSE. They will contain
no sympathy for his decoy ticket or lost
cause. The President will simply ignore
the organization entirely while his associa-
tion in York with Mr. HENRY C. Nines,
chairman of the LINCOLN party State com-
mittee, will emphasize his friendliness for
EMERY.
A party organization is in sad shape
when it is thus openly and ostentatiously
condemned by the official head of the par-
ty for which it falsely pretends to stand.
But the PENROSE machine deserves such
an emphatic reprimand. It is the sum and
substance of political iniquity and infamy.
For years it has preyed on the people of
the State. The welfare of the public was
no part of its purpose at any time. The
looting of the treasury and the enrichment
of its leaders was its paramount considera-
tion. Gralt was its god and greed ite pas-
sion. Every publicservice was smirched
with crime until finally the public con-
science wasaroused and revolt followed.
In this convulsion every self-respecting cit-
izen of the Commonwealth joined and fi-
pally the President, the official head of
the party, bas publicly declared his abhor-
rence of the machine and its methods. The
organization is potrid. It stinks in the
postrils of men. It can’t endure much
longer.
A Politieal Anomaly.
We are watching with increased inter-
est the developmentol the plans of the
Republican campaign. Some time agoit
was semi-officially announced that unless
Chairman ANDREWS wae summarily re-
moved from bis office, Mr. RoBErT K.
YOUNG, nowinee of the party for Auditor
General, would not accept the nomination.
Interpreting that declaration literally we
assumed that within a reasonable time
from the announcement either Mr. AN-
DREWS would resign or Mr. YoUNG de-
cline. Neither of these things bas bap-
pened yet. Mr. YOUNG can’t possibly
change his purpose. It would involve
stultification. Mr. ANDREWS can’t re-
sign. That would imply a confession of
unfitness.
In this anomalous position we were sur-
prised to see the other day that Mr. AN-
DREWS bad been at the headquarters of
the committee and was preparing for the
work of the campaign. This opens up a
field for all sorts of conjecture. It might
indicate that Mr. YOUNG bad secretly ac-
cepted the nominasion or it justifies the
inference that the machine is indifferent to
Mr. YOUNG'S actions. If the former con-
jecture is the solution of the problem Mr.
Youxa is trifling with the public. If the
latter expresses the existing condition the
managers are taking chances of ruinoas re-
seutment. In either event all concerned
in the affair are ‘‘between the devil and
the deep sea.”
Public interest in the matter is multi.
plied, moreover, because opinions differed
widely as to the reasons which influenced
Mr. YOUNG to the course he adopted with
respect to the notification meeting. Some
thought it was a genuine expression of ab-
horrence the methods of the wa-
chine. construed itas a bid, with
the consent of the machine, to the
EE Forni,
su ©
po. bad. Sa Fons -
truth must come out. Either Mr. Youxa
must decline or acknowledge the bluff or
else Mr. ANDREWS must esign. They
me. It's
can’t fool all the le all the
impossible. pp
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
- BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 3, 1906.
The Only Safe Course.
Io his admirable letter of acceptance,
Lewis EMERY Jr., eays: ‘‘This State
was the pioneer in the anti-discrimination
movement. It was my privilege, more
than a quarter of a century ago, to assist
in wringing from the powers at Harris
burg an aoti-discrimination law. The
fight was long, bard and bitter. The peo-
ple of the oil regions were being reduced
to poverty and their property was being
confiscated by a conspiracy between the
Standard oil company, the Pennsylvania
railroad company and the bosses. The act
was not all that could be desired. The
striking out of the imprisonment clause
destroyed its effect and the relations exist-
ing between the political machine and the
corporations nullified the law in a great
degree.”
In that statement of an event of the past
there is a startling admonition for the fa-
tare. The Interstate Commerce law, Mr.
EMERY observes, was modified in the same
way and it may be predicted that the Ie.
publican machine never will enact a re-
form measure that isn’t similarly weaken-
ed. Every provision of the reform legisla-
tion enacted during the recent special ses-
sion is practically nullified by gnalifice-
tions whioh will either invalidate the pro-
posed reforms or create a loophole for es-
cape from its provisions. Less than a third
will stand the test of judicial interpreta-
tion and the third which might be declar-
ed constitutional is weakened in some oth-
er way. The purpose of the machine was
pot to enact reform legislation bat to fool
she people by a false pretense.
You can’t paint the spots out ofa leop-
ard and it is equally impossible to legislate
honest impulses into the heart of a corrupt
politician. A QUAY, DurHAM, or Mo-
NICHOL may pretend to bave changed in
nature, but it is a false pretense. The mo-
ment the opportunity presents iisell he
will resume his former habits of life with
his appetite for spoils sharpened by the
period of abstention. The remedy for
such things is not to depend upon false
promises of reform of the rascals but a com-
plete cleaning out of them.
The event of last fall was only a begin-
ning. The election of the entire fusion
tioket and a Legislature aggressively in
sympathy with the reform movement is
the only sale course. We believe, more-
over, that the people understand and will
act accordingly.
Emery's Letter of Acceptance.
The letter of acceptance of LEwis Ex.
ERY Jr., is characteristic of the plain,
blunt, manly man who is the anthor of it.
Itis addressed to the obairman of the
Demooratic State convention and that of
the LINCOLN party convention. In the
outset the modesty of the man is revealed.
Though he has organized some of the most
masterly campaigos in the history of the
indostrial life of the country against the
most powerful enemy that has ever been
encountered by any force, the Standard
Oil company, he declares that he wouldn’t
have aspired to the office of Governor be-
canse he doesn’s feel that he is equal to
the exacting duties of so important an of-
fice. The people of Pennsylvania think
differently.
In fact throughout the letter there are
evidences of the highest standard of fitness,
It shows not only a just conception of the
duties of the office but a complete under-
standing of the ways and means ofl per:
forming them. It indicates that he is not
unmindful of the responsibilities of the of-
fice or unappreociative of the importance of
meeting them. He proves that there is
urgent need for the correction of grave
evils in the body politic and declares in
tone and language that carry conviction
that he will apply the remedies. It re-
quires courage as well as capacity to un-
dertake this great work but after reading
Mr. EMERY'S letter no intelligent man
will doubt that be means to tackle the
task.
Mr. EMERY is candid in his letter of ac-
ceptance as he is earnest in everything he
engages in. He knows precisely what is
before him and will meet every obligation.
He didn’t seek the nomination but will
work for the election, not because of am-
bition for public service but for the reason
that his duty to the public and his inclina-
tion to conserve the interests of the peo-
ple will urge him to the work. He is a
splendid leader and if the people will sup-
port him as they ought he will not only be
elected by an overwhelming majority but
be will inaugurate and prosecute such re-
forms as will restore Pennsylvania to its
high estate as ‘‘a government of the peo-
ple, for the people and by the people.”
~—Talkicg about high class campaigns,
the New Hampshire bustings next fall will
be so full of literature that we imugine
half of Boston will try to be colonized as
voters in the Green Mountain State.
WinstroN CHURCHHILL, the novelist, isa
candidate for Governor, and RICHARD
HarpING DAVIS is going to stump for
him ; that is if the hetels of New Hamp-
shire are fastidious enough for DICK.
NO 380.
The Purpose of Speaker Cannon.
The announcement that Speaker Cax-
NOX will spend a week in this State dur.
ing the impending campaign, ‘‘stumping’’
for the Republican party, is a matter of in-
terest to Mr. SAMUEL GOMPERS, president
of the American Federation of Labor, and
should cause all the members of that and
every other labor organization to sit up
and take notice. It is announced that Mr.
CANNON is on the black-list of the labor
organizations. It is known that he has
not only opposed all labor legislation but
that through the vast power of his office
as speaker of the House, he has even pre-
vented the consideration of such legisla-
tion. He is the paid lobbyist of the trusts
on the floor and was instrumental in emas-
onlating the meat inspection bill to the ex-
tent that it is practically worthless.
Speaker CANNON is not coming to Penn:
sylvania to electioneer for the machine
state ticket. He doesn’t care a farthing
about the machine state ticket. It is not
that he is repulsed by the political immor-
ality of the machine. He has no objection
to the looting and other predatory opera-
tions of the party managers. On the ocon-
trary, he would like them better if they
were worse. Bat he is one of that sordid,
selfish sort who have thoughts for nobody
but themselves and in coming to Pennsyl-
vania he is coming to work for Republican
candidates for Congress in order to secure
their support for his re-election to the of-
fice of speaker, to the end that he may
ontinue his services for the trusts and
acuinet the interests of the people, and ee-
Tuesday and local piscatorinlists are now
trying to figure out whether it was a good
one or not. Though the opening day,
April 15th, was not the most suspicions
the catob was a good one but throughout
the entire season big catches were the ex-
ception rather than the rule. This was es.
pecially the case on the streams close to
Bellefonte. Fishing creek was the mecca
for the majority of anglers and all those
who went there and had the necessary
amount of patience were invariably re-
warded with a good catch. The trout
were also quite plentiful in most of the
mountain streams but they were not fish.
ed as hard this season by Bellefonte fisher-
men as they have been in former years.
Taken all in all, there is no reason to be-
lieve that trout are getting any scarcer,
even if they are not becoming more plenti-
fal.
How Treasury Methods Have Been
Improved.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It was the of the gang
control of dd Treasury to tea lo
peated Shes eats of thé. sated! Sen
dis-
tricts. The school m nag kept in the
; the
p: vially the workingmen. mon schools shall be in part laid upon the
{un his “Programme for the Campaign,” | broad shoulders of the State. To delay
president GOMPERS, of the American Fed- disbarsement of the school a ons,
when the money lies unused
ury, is a fraud upon the taxpayers out of
whose pockets the money bas been orig-
inally obtained, ard a partial obstruction
emtion of Labor, declares that labor has
heen fruitlessly appealing to Congress for
just legislation for years. That is true
apd it is absolutely certain thatso long as oR hom patpos ot the law in
JosgrH C. CANNON continues to ocoupy | The improved 4 of the Treas-
the chair of the House of Representatives, | ury a ol now ha» has been
their appeals for just legislation will be |W om the bands of the political pi-
fruitless. He is paid by tke trusts for de- | Faieh who have heretofore farmed out the
feating such legislation. It is equally cer- | their own fortunes, st
tain, moreover, that as long as the Repub- men} jor
licans have a majority in the House CAN- | 00Dir0
NON will be speaker. Obviously, there. | mentin the hands at
fore, it is the duty of workingmen to vote
againgt Republican candidates for Con-
gress in this State, and CANNOXN'S coming
makes is plain.
fasion
eoted in November. ‘a
majority be also secured in the mext Leg-
islatute, 50 matter Whether it be of one
political party or another, the most benefi-
cent consequences will have been assured.
At present all the indications point to such
a favorable result.
EE ——
A Humbug Appeal
From the Johnstown Democrat.
oh Ee Tp Sue:
e Repu onal cam
committee, has issued a circular requesting
every Republican in the United States to
subscribe $1 to aid in carrying on the
work of his committee.
This appeal for $1 subscriptions is a part
of the game. It is put forth ptimatil for
the purpose of hoodwinking the publ
to the belief that Republican committees
can no longer look to favored Solportions
and combinations for financial aid.
The appeal is a humbug. During the
last month of the recent session of Con-
gress a senate bill prohibiting national
banks and Other Sorpe po
money contributions for cam urpos-
es was lying on the speaker's phir hg the
House of tatives. Speaker Can-
pon and Chairman Sherman, who spent
last Monday with the President at Oyster
Bay, ering plans for capturing the
next House, were the head conspirators in
smothering the Senate bill and in keeping
the door open for campaign contributions
from all tariff fattened trusts, and the cor-
oats combines enjoying or seeking legis-
tive favors.
~ Furthermore, it was Chairman Sherman
himself, as a member of the House com-
mittee on interstate commerce, who, a few
days before the end of the session, intro
duced a bill to compel all railroads doing
an interstate business to put on sale mile-
tiokets at the rate of two cents a mile
hut the United States. Why did
he introduce it if not for the purpose of
using it as a big stick for obtaining cam-
contributions to be dispersed or oth-
utilized by his cam committee?
The $1 subscription device is too gauzy
to conceal the real money part of the Re-
publican campaign.
Simply Doing Their Duty.
From the Springfield Republican.
Tu attempting to defeat certain ess.
men for on, the leaders of the
American Federation of Labor are so com-
Dletely within the commonly aco
tioal rights of all citizens tt
itics are wa J
Mr. Rockerfeller Laughed.
Mr. Joax D. ROCKERFELLER is jhome,
and, according to the newspapers he
laughed, on his arrival, when told thata
warrant for his arrest bad been issued by
an Ohio court. He had probably heard of
the warrant before he left France and had
plenty of time and leisure on ship] board
to think ont a plan of action in the event
that it was served upon him. Bat we
can’t imagine why he should laugh abont
it. A warrant of arrestis no joke. Toa
sensitive and righs-feeling man, it is an as-
persion, even though it bas been issued
without canse. It implies a doubt of the
integrity of the person against whom it is
directed.
Probably Mr. ROCKERFELLER laughed
at the warrant for his arre.t because of his
confidence of immunity against arrest. A
man worth a billion or two is apt to imag-
ine that he is beyond the reach of courts
and feel an indifference to, if not a con-
tempt for warrants of arrest. But if Mr.
ROCEERFELLER laughed because of that
notion in his head, he basn’t been watch-
ing the progress of events in this country
with hie cunstomary intelligence. The
courts have been doing things, other tri-
bunals have been acting and the people
bave been thinking in a way that may
make eveugliiionsires set up and take no-
tice.
The warrant in question was issued be-
cause an investigation had shown that Mr.
ROCKERFELLER, through his agents, bad
been violating the law. Possibly Mr.
ROCKERFELLER will be able to prove that
he is free from responsibility in the mat-
ter, but it is up to him to do so through
the regular processes of the law. He can’t
laugh it off any more than an ordinary
criminal can dispose of accusations against
him. At least we hope it is as impossible
in one case as it would be in the other,
and if it isn’ now it will be before long if
there is no reaction in the public mind
i
with respect to public and private morals. | 3
~The Republican senatorial conter-
ence met at Philipsburg last Thursday
but adjourned without making any nomi-
pation. Henry C. Quigley Esq., of .this
place, and Joseph W. Alexander, of Clear-
field, were the two candidates before the
conference and, although a number of bal-
lote were taken, the conferees from each
coubty stood solidly for their candidate,
and the conference finally adjourned to
meet again in Philipsharg on Thursday,
August 9th.
—There is considerable wonderment
just now as to when those name plates for
the soldier's monument will be completed
and put in place.
organ Whether
the Feasons Spey Ofer in support ul teks
campaign e en are
obnoxious to them are ent is another
question entirely. The voters of the re-
speotive districts will determine the mat
ter at the polls.
————
Knows Where His Is
From the Cleveland Press.
“Where is your gold ?"’ asked a New
York paper. Don’t know where yours is,
gainer, but most of us carry ours in our
———————————————.
——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
BER
~The trout fishing senson closed § on
—Harry Williams was killed by light:
— ’s school tax duplicate amounts
to £43,853,16 this year, an increase of over
$6,000 because of a raise in the tax of from
6to7 mills. :
~The Bedford county Agricultural society
announces that it bas determined to conduct
a poultry show in connection with its an-
nual exhibit, beginning next October.
—Jobnstown wants the government to
erect a federal building there, but none of
its citizens are willing to sell. property for
that purpose for the sum the government
offers. .
~Grasshoppers have appeared in such
large quantities in the upper part of Lehigh
county that the farmers in order to save their
oats crop are compelled to harvest it before
it is fully ripe.
—The Keystone Coal and Coke company
have sold their operations near Ginter to the
Coxe Coal and Coke company, of Philadel-
phis. William Shadrack has been retained
by the new company as general manager.
~The Bittings lumber camp, twenty-four
miles from Lock Haven, was struck by
lightning Saturday afternoon and Mrs,
Nellie Parsons, employed as a cook, was a
victim of the bolt. He: life is despaired of.
. =The twenty-first annual picnic and en-
campment of the grangers of Bedford county
will be held at Osterburg on Tuesday, Au.
gust 21, and continue four days. Wednes-
day will be Secret Society day and Thurs:
day Grangers’ day.
—Qrant Lewis, who through an attack of
typhoid fever eleven years ago forgot he had
a wife and family living at Shamokin, re:
turned to his home Saturday and made ar.
rangements to take his family to Chicago,
where he now resides.
—A Scranton dispatch says that John D.
Lambert, of Keyser valley, shot Michael
Rupp, 15 years old, while Rupp was picking
apples in one of his trees. Lambert was ar
rested and the boy, who has fifteen buckshot
in his body, was taken to a hospital.
~Lewistown has the National Guard
fever, according to a telegram sent out from
there, which says that sixty-four men have
signed the muster roll for a new company to
take the place of company H, Fifth regi-
ment, of Johnstown, recently mustered out
of service,
—Two weeks ago Miss Fannie Miller, a
telephone operator in the Williamsport ex-
change, was shocked by lightning and was
afterward taken seriously ill. On Tuesday
night she was operated on at the hospital in
that city for the removal of an abscess from
the brain which was caused by the shock.
—A conspiracy having for its object the
counterfeiting of the stamps of s trading
stamp company in Philadelphia has been
unearthed, as a result several men have been
arrested. Officers of the company estimate
that over 2,000,000 counterfeit stamps are in
circulation and that more than £50,000 is
involved.
—Mrs. Thomas Manion, of Pottsville,
‘widow of a Reading railway conductor who
was killed in a wreck, has been awarded the
fall amount of her claim, $1,000, against the
Penvsylvnnia Casualty company, of Scrap.
ton. The company refused to pay the mon
ey because the first and only premium was
not paid by the insured himself.
—On Saturday evening, July 14, the steam
mill of Wilson & Maclay, located at Reeds-
ville, Mifflin county, was destroyed by fire,
together with 3,000 bushels of wheat, 200
barrels of flour, a quantity of corn and other
grain. The cause of the fire was a stroke
of lightning. The loss is estimatad at $20,
000, partly covered by insurance.
—A horse owned by Grant Ogden, of Hill-
side, a suburb of Clearfield, took fright and
ran away last Thursday afternoon. The
animal was going a good clip when it ran
against a post and broke one of its legs. A
in. young son of Ogden was in the wagon at the
time and he was thrown out and bis left
leg was broken. The horse was shot.
—The council of the borough of South
Fork is considering very seriously the mat-
ter of erecting s municipal building at a
cost of $7,000. According to the plans the
first story would be devoted to the fire com-
pany, while the office of the burgess and the
council chamber would be on the second.
There would be a hose tower and in this a
clock.
—State Economic Zoologist Surface is
preparing to send to each county in the
State for the use of its schools a collection of
snakes found in Pennsylvania with a chart
showing the food for the various serpents
the ramifications of the snake family and
the geographical distribution of the various
species. The snakes will be used for educa.
tional purposes so that the teachers and pu*
pils may be able to recognize the varieties
from there appearance whether they are
poisonous or not. :
—A. A. Miller, of Lock Haven, Saturday
came from Queen's Run, Colebrook township
with a can of hail stones gathered two hours
previous, some of which measured an inch
and a half in dia meter. At Renovo they fell
still larger and one weighed on an apothe-
cary’s scales is said to have approximated
half a pound. The storm was
destructive in Bald Eagle, Woodward and
Dunnstable townships, and caused a loss of
thousands of dollars to farmers. Tobacco,
just ready for topping, was riddled, as many
as twenty-one perforations being counted in
one leaf. Corn was laid waste, pears and
apples stripped from trees.
—A fierce encounter between a ball and a
horse on the farm of Abe McHenry, in Ben-
ton township, Clinton county, on Wednes'
day of last week resulted in the death of the
horse, which was ripped so badly that it
had to be shot. The two had been turned
loose in adjoining barn yards snd in some
manner a communicating gate became un-
fastened and the horse proceeded over to the
bull's enclosure. This raised the ire of the
bull and he immediately charged the horse.
The fight which followed was a terrific one.
The bull was a deborned one, but he never-
theless proved too much for his antagonist,
for backing him into a corner he butted him
so repeatedly that the under part of the
horse's body was ripped open. Farm hands
coming upon the scene drove the bull away
¢ Ara whiny but it was too late to save
with pitchforke, but ft was te