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BP. GRAY MEEK.
tax Slings.
~My, bat the Gazette thinks Dr. SwaAL-
—Strikes in Russia are fass getting into
~-A dividend on common steel was so
uncomuion as fo make it extraordinary.
—Boss SWALLOW is only second to boss
PENROSE because he doesn’t have so muck
—This Mr. SULLIVAN, of Illinois, is no
relation of the famous JOHN L., yet he is
showing signs of being something of a
—The Bellefonte council has awakened
from its peaceful slumbers and, judging
from Monday night's reparte, we can look
for some more fan soon.
—The number of burned barns in Cen-
tre county recently ought to make that
much maligned gentleman, the lightning
rod agent, a ~ery welcome visitor.
—The roller skating fad is coming
around again, but the booze skaters seem
to be always in style. There is no fad
about Mr. John Baleycorn's business.
—The Chicago man who is predicting
the end of the world within a mouth bad
better skidoo for the cemetery at once if
he expects to avoid the rush oo the last
day.
—A woman delegate stampeded the Re-
publican state convention in Idabo. It is
not stated whether she saw a mouse or
whether some one of the men delegates
proposed.
~The people who are fortunate enough
not to live in the earth-quake zones feel
the siesmic effects nevertheless. The iu-
surance companies are transmitting them
in increased rates.
—The administration should have sent
FAIRBANKS, not Roor, on the visit to
Chile. The fitness of the men shonld have
been more segipusly considered because of
the two the Vice President is certainly the
chillier.
—Broken hearted and broken in health
because of the death of his lovely wife Lord
CURZON is soon to visit the scenes of her
girlhood in America. Here isa man troe
Americans have real sympathy for, because
it was the woman, pot her money, that be
cared for.
—BRYAN'S observations in Egypt have
revealed to him that ‘‘the donkey, poor
patient creature, baso’t changed in four
thousand years.” So be it, but how about
the ass ? From our point of view there are
more than four thousand ways of being an
ass in one year.
The judge who wat" on she uvotorious
© HaRtIE oase hus gone off for his summer
vacation and says he will not band down
his decision before fall. Fall would be the
proper time to band the frosty mitt to such
a sear and yellow litigant as AUGUSTUS
HARTJE appears to be.
—Now the Rev. Dr. SWALLOW, the ex-
purgated edition of the modern reformer,
hae taken up the Standard oil company’s
fight. He thinks it would be better for
Pennsylvania to remain in the grip of the
octopus than to bave Mr. EMERY as our
Governor. Has SWALLOW been greased ?
—Mr. HoMER L. CASTLE did great work
for the cause of reform last year, but he
has failed at the critical moment. With a
fight of far greater moment to the public
on hand he has gone over to the enemy.
By accepting a Probibition nomination for
Governor he is making strength for PEN.
ROSE 8 machine candidate.
—President ROOSEVELT has the big stick
alter the women who wear aigrettes in
their bats. He is out to save the blue
heron. It is patent that that English tailor
didn’t recommend aigrettes for our soldier
caps else the President would have been
protecting the dickie bird and turning all
the guns at his command on the poor
heron,
—Mr. A. A. STEVENS, of Tyrone, may
be a very successful lime producer and a
very earnest Probibitionist, but he evident-
ly isn’t much concerned about the welfare
of Pennsylvania. His vote as a member of
the Prchibition nominating committee re-
veals that. It is strange what manner of
men try to stand on the ‘‘holier than thou”
platlorm, which is the only excuse the
Probibitionists bad for not endorsing
EMERY or leaving their ticket without a
candidate for Governor.
—~We publish the following from the
DuBois Morning Journal for the special
edification of the Hon. Jorx G. Love and
HENRY C. QUIGLEY Esq, as they are the
accessories before and after the fact : “The
conferees of Clearfield should teach Centre
county a lesson in the Senatorial deadlock,
and ander no circumstances should they
allow the Centre county conferees to carry
off the prize. Centre county delegates did
dirt in the Congressional convention and
they should be shown no quarter in the
Senatorial fight. !
—TPoset at rest all the rumors a
concerning the presidency of The Pennsyl-
vania State College let ue assure you that
it has been offered to no one as yet. At
the meeting of the trustees last Friday the
position of Dean of the School of Agricul.
ture and director of the experiment station
was tendered to Dep. U. 8. Sec. of agrioul-
ture HAYES, but he bas not accepted yet.
Gen. BEAVER was elected president protem
of the institution and it is not at all likely
that there will be any baste in the choice
of a successor for the late Dr. GEORGE W.
ATHERTON. .
YOL.51
Most Significant Incident.
The moss significant incident of the cam-
paign thus far is the announcement of
Hon. ELisHA A. CoRAY, nominee of the
Prohibition party for Secretary of In-
ternal Affairs, that he will support LEWIS
EMERY, Jr., for Governor. Mr. CORAY is
not only a gentleman of the highest char-
acter, bot he is a practical man of the
keenest intelligence. In the Legislature
of 1899, his prescience and courage more
than any other agency prevented the be-
tragal of the *‘insurgents’’ by the election |
of C. L. Magee to the office of Senator in
Congress. A conspiracy had been formed
to encompass that result. Mercenaries who
pretended fidelity to the cause of reform
bad accepted retainers from the Pittsburg
Senator and had positively fixed the time
for the consummation of the corrupt deal.
Mr. CORAY indignantly refused to join in
such a prostitution of the insurgent organi-
zation and the disreputable conspiracy
collapsed.
We refer to this merely to show the
manner of the man CoRAY. Absolutely
incorruptible he is gifted with discerning
powers rarely equaled and when certain
elements in the Prohibition party revealed
signs of a purpose to betray the cause of
civic righteousness under the pretense of
devotion to the cause of Prohibition, he
vaturally discovered and denounced it,
inferentially, by announcing his purpose
to use all his justly extensive influence and
eloquence in behalf of the candidate of the
better element of our citizenship and
against the machine which bas 80 notori-
ously prevented the functions of govern-
ment in this great Commonwealth. He
can neither be deceived nor bribed into
the service of that machine, and believing
that the refusal of the Prohibitionists to
endorse EMERY is indirectly helping the
machine, he makes his protest.
It is said that Mr. CORAY may even go
20 far as to decline the nomination of the
Prohibitionists for the office of Secretary of
Internal Affairs in the event that Dr.
SwaLLow and Mr. CASTLE succeed ‘in
misleading the Probibitionists into such
assistance of the machine. This statement
lacks consistency, Mr. CorAy is a Pro-
hibitionist of the most confirmed type.
He beliewss in teetotalism as a moral
agent and advocates as well as practices it,
Because of bis interest in Prohibition he
was willing to take upon himself the bur-
der of making a campaign, hopeless of
success, as the candidate of that party and
no other for the office for which be was
nominated. But be is not willing to lend
himself to the atrocions Republican ma-
chine as the Prohibition party has done by
refusing to endorse LEWIS EMERY Jr., for
the office of Governor.
Payment of School Fands.
The public is informed through Harris.
burg dispatches that State Treasurer BERRY
expects to complete the payment of the
school appropriation this month. In fact
all except 250 of the 2,600 school districts
have already been paid and these have
been delayed because of the failure of the
local authorities to make the; proper re-
quisition. Mr. BERRY is trying to get the
work completed at the earliest poseible
moment. The school term begins about
the firet of September and be would like
to bave the treasury of every distriot re-
plenisk:ed before the school is opened. It
is as important to bave money in the
treasury as it is to bave coal in the bin and
being a friend of the schools Mr. BERRY
is anxious to start them out well.
Heretofore the payments of the school
appropriation have not been begun until
after the elections. The $5,500,000 which
is appropriated to schools comprised a val-
uable political asset during the six months
between May and November. Two per
cent. interest . on that sum amounts to
$55,000 for six months and that would buy
110,000 frandnlent tax receipts, just about
the number annually purchased in Phila-
delphia. It was an easy matter to manip-
ulate the school fund soas to make it
available for that use. Thus instead of a
beneficence to the public the school ap-
propriagion was made to serve as an agency
for debauching the elections. The most
sacred things were prostituted to the base
uses of an atrocious political machine.
Charity and education were alike abused.
Treasurer BERRY hopes that the prompt
payment of this year will be reckoned asa
precedent for bis successors in office. We
hope he is right and il the machine is not
restored to power we confidently believe
that such iniguities as using school fands
to promote electoral frauds will never dis-
grace the State again. Bat if on the oon-
trary the expectations of the machine that
EpwARDS, Stuart will be elected Gov-
ernor is fulfilled all the deviltry of the past
will be renewed. Philadelphia will again
become the hot-bed of vice and crime and
the price of protection for these evils will
flow into the pockets of the conspirators
while the educational and charity appro-
priations will be used as formerly for de-
| political morals of the State.
bauehing = elections and corrupting the
Syawls from the Keystone.
—The races of the Cambria County Agri-
cultural society will take place at Carroll
town, on September 4, 5, 6 and 7.
—Jesse Brilhart, of Lock Haven, saw a
ground hog swimming in the river at that
city the other day and captured it.
—There will be no Labor Day parade at
DuBois this year, at least so the committee
appointed to consider the matter bas decided.
—Iudiana is to have a new industry in the
near future in the shape of new carriage
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Mr. Young and the Machine
The RoBeERT K. YOUNG incident of the
Republican campaign ie increasing in
public interest. At first something in the
nature of a comedy, it is rapidly develop-
ing the characteristics of tragedy. There
bas heen no bloodshed but the bitterness
which leads up to the vendetta is plainly
perceptible. Mr. Youn is vo longer
spoken of in conciliatory terme, he is re-
ferred to in centemptuous phrase and as
the esteemed Philadelphia Press observes,
‘‘the situation has reached a critical stage.”
The machine bas nnshested its rapier, so
to speak, and quoting again from our es.
teemed Philadelphia contemporary, ‘‘every
organization man in the State who can be
induced to do so will knife YOUNG at the
polls in the eventof bis remaining on the
ticket.”
This leads us to infer that the machine
managers no longer want Mr. YOUNG to
remain on the ticket. He bas disappointed
them. Somebody appears to hav: deceived
then: into the belief that his nomination
would completely confuse the reform
clement of the party. It was confidently
expected that all the reformers would
stampede toward the Republican party be
cause Mr. YOUNG was on the ticket. The
expectation wae disappointed, of course.
The average reformer has reasonable intel
ligence, and Mr. YOUNG'S record as a re:
former is not so enticing to men who are
earnestly for reform. His prompt acoept-
ance of the machine bounty in the shape
a lnorative sinecure was too recent to have
been forgotten. The disapointment arous-
ed feelings of resentment which under the
aggravating influence of the notification
meeting episode obanged into hatred.
The result is a natural inclination to
force Mr. YOUNG off the ticket and his
petulence promoted the purpose. He de-
clared that be will not accept the nomipa-
tion unless chairman ANDREWS is dis-
missed from his office. The machine
answer to that is a declaration of the lead-
ers that ANDREWS will retire from the
chairmanship of the State committee
whether YOUNG remains on the ticket or
pot.!” There can be no mistaking the
meaning of that remark taken in connee-
tion with the further statement of the
same gentlemau that ‘‘every stalwart iu
the State has lost interest in him and be
would please us most by getting off the
ticket.” In the face of such expressions
there must be a vacancy or there will he
“a killing.”” The future is a matter of
conjecture and we leave to those who are
interested the work of solving the prob-
lem.
Andrews Will Continue as Chalrman.
" After all the talk of the improvement in
political morale and methods of the Re-
publican machine it appears that chairman
ANDREWS is not to be removed. Good
results or bad he is to be retained at the
head of tha organization. No matter who
happens to be Governor after the New
Year, therefore, Senator PENROSE will
control the party machinery and select the
delegates to the next national convention.
The election this year is of comparatively
little consequence to the Senator. The
next Legislature will have no voice in the
election of his successor. But the organi-
zation is of importance to him. II he
should relinquish it now he would have
no chance of taking it up again next
year.
Senator PENROSE'S Secretary, Mr. AN-
DREWS, bas not been chosen chairman be-
cause of his ability, or experience or even
his familiarity with the politics of the
State. That was the reason given for his
selection a year ago and it has been offered
for his clandestine election this year. He
served a dozen years as secretary of the
committee and was QUAY’s confidante, it
has been said. But bis conduct of the
campaign proves that he has neither polit
ical sagacity nor understanding of political
conditions in Pennsylvania. He con
fidently believed up until the close of the
polls on last election day that he bad the
campaign well in band and that his candi-
date would have 100,000 majority.
Senator PENROSE doesn’t want an able
man at the head of the organization. What
he wants is a fellow who is completely
dependent upon and entirely servile to
him. Sinister methods will be necessary
to maintain his ascendency in the organiza-
tion and an able man couldn’t be depend-
ed.upon for such services. But he is safe
with his own secretary. ANDREWS will
not betray him because if he did he
would lose his job and the more disreput-
able the service required for him the more
willingly it will be performed. That is
why ANDREWS was elected chairman and
for that reason he will be retained in the
place if every candidate on the ticket
should decline by way of protest. But
they won't decline.
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—-—A new retaining wall has been built
alotig the Bush house and grounds next
Spring creek ‘which i quite an improve.
ment on the old tumble down ‘one. Knisely
and Rhoads bad the contract for the work.
~ BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 10, 1906.
An American Dreyfus Case.
There is a marked similarity between
the case of Captain DREYFUS of the
French army and Major RATHBONE of the
American postal service but there is little
hope of a similar ending. DREYFUS got
justice after years of endeavor and vast
expenditure. RATHBONE has been striv.
ing for five years for an opportunity to | Pe
prove bis integrity but there is hardly a
chance of success. DREYFUS had to con-
tend with race prejudices deep seated and
of long standing and the reputation, if not
the personal liberty, of prominent men of
distinguished families would bave been
endangered by bis vindication. RATHBONE
bas the enmity of a favorite of the Pres-
ident who might suffer in public estima-
tion if the facts were known and that cir-
cumstance bas been potential.
It will be remembered that five years
ago EsTEs G. RATHBONE was convicted in
the courts in Cuba of frauds in the Aweri-
can postal service there. He was a protege
of the late MARK HANNA who exhausted
every available expedient tosave him. On
the death of President MCKINLEY Mr.
HANNA'S pull lost its force, however, and
be was unable to prevent the conviction
of his friend, though he protested that
RATHBONE was innocent. There was a
stronger force behind the prosecution, a
more patent power on the other side of
the fight. It was Major General LEONARD
‘Woop, of the Rough Riders, then Military
Governor of Cuba, and the pet of the
President. For some reason, as yet un-
explained, he had set his head upon the
conviction of Major RATHBONE.
Ever since the friends of RATHBONE
have been trying to get the case reopened,
just as the friends of Captain DREYFUS
labored to get a fair case. It bas been al-
leged that his trial was palpably unfair,
that perjored testimony influenced the
court and that General Woop had written
to the Judge sitting at the trial demand-
ing a verdict of guilty. He was offered
apardon but refused a new trial and the
mysterious influence which was able to
produce witnesses who would ewear to
anything at the trial was still at work
against him. For five years this struggle
has been going on. Recently Senator
Tix, of Ohio, the snccessor of Senator
HANNA, has taken the matter up and there
is a hope of a congressional investigation.
Why should we condemn the injustice of
France?
Pay uno Attention to Swallow.
The Rev. Dr. SWALLOW is a vindictive
enemy and pot always a just op
ponent. For some reason he has set out
to prevent the election of Lewis EMERY
Jr., to the office of Governor of Pennsyl-
vania. It is the best service he could per-
form for the machine. He doesn’t
promote the cause of Prohibition and he
does sacrifice the vastly greater interests of
civic righteonsness. Bat he probably has
his own reasons for his conduct. They
are not revealed in his published state
ments, it may be safely said. Probably
they wonidn’t look well in print. He was
instrumental in defeating GEORGE A.
JENKS for Governor eight years ago. No,
body knows how he reconciled his con.
science to that iniquity. :
Dr. SwaLLow is an adroit politician.
For years he bas been studying the meth- EB
ods of politicial warfare and} intrigue. He
is ambitious for distinction in civil life
and was disappointed because he couldn't
‘‘work”’ the Democratic organization this
year. Except for him the Prohibitionists
would bave nominated a ticket that both
the LINcoLN party and Democrats might
bave endorsed. In preventing the nomi-
nation of such a ticket Dr. SWALLOW im-
agined that be was ountwitting and over.
reaching some capable practical politicians
and the satisfaction with that result was
bis recompense. His present - purpose is to
wreck the enterprise that he couldu’t con-
trol. He wants to role or ruin.
We wonld advise people to pay little at-
tention to what Dr. SWALLOW says in the
campaign. He will employ any instra-
ment and avail himself of any agency to
compass his purpose. He would defeat
EMERY if be were certain that the white
slave traffic in Philadelphia would be re.
sumed in consequence. If the result made |
certain a satarnalia of drunkenness Dr.
SwarLrow would work ous his purpose be-
cause his vanity is stronger than his sense
of right. There is no use in disputing
with such a man. The safe and wise|
course is to let him alone. He will talk
himeell out of the reckoning without any
interference from the outside. He may as
well be forgotten.
~The second meeting of the Republi~
can senatorial conference for this district
was held in Philipsburg on Wednesday
and, like the first meeting, adjourned
without making any nomination aftera
number of ballots were taken. The next
meeting will be held on Angust 31st when
the conferees will be released from their
instructions and will vote as they see fit.
‘bas genuine competition he ‘‘gets on top’
works. The company is capitalized at $25.-
000.
—~Lewistown is enjoying a building boom
at the present time. Thirty-four new houses
sve in course of erection, and more are to
follow.
—Because it is paying some of its teachers
less than $35 a month Bingham township,
Potter county, forfeited its appropriation
from the State,
—Mrs. Mary Harvey, of Mackeyville,
Clinton county, died at ber home in that
Pass | place, on Wednesday, of apoplexy. She was
84 years of age.
~Joseph Suver, of Johnstown, died at his
home, Thursday evening, aged 47 years. He
was one of the heaviest men in the State,
weighing 445 pounds.
—C. 8. Hixton, bookkeeper in the Union
Trust company, of Pittsburg, who confessed
the embezzlement of $125,000, implicated C.
B. Wray, a teller, and search is being made
for Wray.
' —A corporation known as the Pennsylva.
pia, Beech Creek and Eastern Coal company
has formed with a capital of $8,000,000 to
control the output of forty-four mines at the
eastern end of the bituminous fields.
—Charles Bell, a negro aged 56 years, was
discovered in a vacant house in Rock Run, a
mile north of Coatesville, in a critical condi.
tion with rheumatism, where he had been
for fifteen days without food or water.
—Jeriey Shore has every reason to feel in
a good humor. For the past four months no
cases of contagious or infectious diseases have
been reported to its board of health. During
July there were five deaths and fifteen
births.
—John Herron, of Pittsburg, has sent to
Ivan McKenrick, of Ebensburg, a handsome
gold watch and chain, as a reward for his aid
in saving the life of Mr. Herron’s son, who
was almost drowned in Laks Rowena one
day last week.
—Honesdale boasts the tallest elm in the
country, measuring as it does 119} feet from
the ground with the trunk at the earth's
surface twenty-four feet in circumference
and four feet higher seventeen feet in girth.
It is the monarch of all known trees of its
kind.
—The city of McKeesport does not depend
entirely upon the State for protection against
impure, diluted or poisonous milk. It has
an inspector of its own and when dealers are
found handing out an inferior article they
are taken before the mayor and fined. The
latest violater of the law contributed $15 to
the city treasury.
—Lancaster county turned out the State's
oldest harvest hand this year. He is 87 years
old and worked in the field with almost as
much euergy as much younger men. Moses
Hartz, is his name, brother of Elias Hartz, of
Reading, the famous ‘goosebone’ prophet.
He comes of a long-lived family, having a
sister who is 90 years old.
~The Grange National bank at Patton
was formally opened August Sth, making
the second grange national bank in the
State. Joseph Schwab, father of the steel
magnate, is president of the bank. Charles
M. Schwab was there at the opening and
made a large deposit. The opening of the
bank was marked by the celebration of the
local granges.
—Three residents of Kittanning have been
engaged for the last month searching for
hidden treasure. Recently they came into
possession of a letter written in 1845 in
which the declaration was made by the
writer—long since dead—that a pot of gold
had been hidden in a certain lot in the bor-
ough of Kittanning. They are diligently
searching, but up to the present time their
efforts have not been crowned with success.
—To be chased by a big racer blacksnake
through briars and underbrush for overa
half mile, was the terrifying experience of
Mrs. Callie Elder, and Mary and Kate Ba-
ker, of near Livermore, who were picking
blackberries on Tunnel Hill. Shortly after
reaching the berry patch, they saw the
snake coiled among the branches of a scrub
oak and apparently sleeping. One of the
girls hurled a stone into the bush when "the
reptile immediately dropped to the ground
and pursued them, never stopping until the
railroad was reached. The snake was fully
eight feet long.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker celebrated
her 100th birthday anniversary Thursday, at
ber home, four miles from DuBois, Two
hundred neighbors and friends were present.
Mrs. Shoemaker is remarkably strong for a
person 100 years old. She lives with her son,
aged 67 years, on a farm, and does all her
own housework. Last week she walked a
mile to visit a friend. She has not been sick
in years. Tharsday in response to addresses
of congratulation she spoke for ten minutes,
telling of many incidents of her home when
the country round about was =a wilderness.
Mrs. Shoemaker does not use spectacles, can
hear as well as ever, has most of her teeth
and has none of the infirmities usual with
those who have lived a century.
—A remarkable old man is William Fouse,
of Drab, Blair county, He is 81 years old
and never wore stockings until three years
ago. He has never in his life worn under.
clothing, gloves or mittens, never used to-
bacco in any form, and was never sick an
hour until his 80th year, when he bad a
slight attack of grippe from which he soon
recovered. Last fall he ploughed forty acres,
The August Weather by Hev Hicks.
Rev. Irl R. Hicks makes the following
forecast of the weather for August:
rain belts and other sections in A
during this period, or from about
23rd. Violent summer storms need not
surprise any reader at this time, and in the
northwestern of country
resonable care pen Jus exercised against
violent bail storms.
A reactionary storm period is central on
the 25th, 26th and 27th. The last storm
period for the month, 25th to 28th, will
enlminate in higher tempezature, low
barometer, cloudiness and more or less
storms and rain over the country in gener-
al. A t promises to come to an end
with fair and oooler weather
eastwardly over the country. the
whole, we fear that the month 1 bring
excess of warmth, and that the rainfall, if
diffased as it would bave to be available
to the general needs, will be bartful be-
low the average. Most gladly would we see
this forecast fail,and ins an abundance
of timely and fructifying rains; but the
remainder of this season, and the seasons
of 1907, is the time for a eral Jupiter
drouth, minimum of rainfall, and unless
the blending of the Saturn with
that of Jupiter works a « change
from the natural order, a drouth of greater
or Jess severity if te encountered gi
ng the crops e present Season an
running through the section of 1907.
State vs, National Issues.
From the Boston Transcript (Rep.) i
Pennsylvania isnot in a mood t. latex
to speeches to Federal issues. If
the le of that State believed the ques-
tion of ‘standing by Roosevelt’ were the
issue belore them this year they would in-
dorse the President by a tremendous ma-
jorey, but they “‘bave other fish to fry.”
nquestionably they believe, as do the
voters of many other States, that the Presi.
dent and his policies will take care of them-
selves. In the meantime they have some
affairs at home that need attention. The
one issue in the State is : ‘Shall the Qoay-
Penrose machine be broken ?”’ The fact
that the President finds it necessary to an-
nounce that he will go there during the
campaign to make two addresses, indicates
that be realizes how keenly the voters of
the State are interested in the local situ.
ation. Possibly some of the speakers sent
out by the Republican co! onal cam-
paign committee may go into the State and
try to arouse interest in the ‘‘stand on the
record” policy, but unless all fall
th -y will not move those voters who have
oe up their minds to see only the one
issue—the Penrose machine.
How He Got There.
From the Lincoln Nebraska Commoner.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: ‘‘Mr.
Carnegie is in a triangular perplexity as to
who will be on top when the United States
ngland and Canada absorb each other
Where was it that Mr. e got on top?’
“Where was it?’ Well, he ‘got on
top’’ whenever the Republican pony had
the opportanity of making tariff laws.
Recently be ‘got on top” when bide
were received for 7,328 tone of armor plate.
The Midvale company, an independent
concern, submitted a bid $35 lower than
that offered by the trust. The navy de-
partment gave the Midvale company the
contract for 3,664 tons at the price and
then gave to the Carnegie company a con-
tract for the same number of tons at the
price bid by the Midvale com , ale
though the Carnegie company bad ed
$35 of reaching the Midvale's price.
So it seems that even though Carnegie
wheueves the powet 10 pul bi there rests
with the Republican party.
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A) amaged Reputation.
From the Louisville-Courier Jourual.
“What will the Republican party do?"
noth Unole Joe Cannon after the recent
ore Hill conference. ‘What can she
do but stand on her reputation?’ Her
Teputation indeed ! Let us hope that the
old girl will not only stand on it, but that
her skirts will be long enough to hide it,
A Warning for Muck-Rakers.
From the Washington Post.
The President ba
two in Pen
political, the muck-
pare to be kicked again.
decided that bis
vania shall be non-
may as well pre-
~The farmers are now baving as much
troable trying to barvest their oats crop as
they bad getting the wheat ogop in after it
was cat, owing to the, almost daily bard
rains. A big storm on Monday, another
not so big on Tuesday and a hard down-
pour of rain for five or more hoars on Wed-
nesday is not the best cf weather for drying
oats. And oats when once soaked with
rain are not very easily dried again.
—Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
whatever. Along with the above work he
did the other fall work, such as raising po-
tatoes, hauling out manure and cutting off
corn. He rarely stops for rain and says that
a good ducking does’ him more good than
anything else. Summer and winter, regard.
less of snow or rain, he bathes his feet in
eighteen inches of water in a spring a short
distance from His house, three times a week.
His home is one of the best farms in Mor
rison's Cove. lk