B8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—
~—March in! Is it the lion or the lamb?
—Soon there will be no one left to build
the canal but TEDDY.
—The coming of St. Patrick’s day re-
minds us that our green peck tie must be
dusted off.
—New York city is the terminal of
twenty-five railroads, but it will hardly be
the terminal of Mr, THAW.
~The proposed bill limiting the speed of
passenger trains to forty miles an hour
won't be applicable to the flyer on the
Bellefonte Central.
—The troubles the railroad companies
are baving sound sweet to ears of the old
newspaper man as he digs up another twen-
ty for a mileage book.
—Governor STUART might have at least
retained our friend CHAMBERS on his staf!
until be bad an opportunity to wear out
that handsome uniform.
—A little boom has been launched for
Senator KNoX for President. It is not an-
nounced whether he will run on a “big
stick’’ or Mormon platform,
—Ol course there is unwritten law. It
isthe kind used by lawyers who have no
libraries. They bave it all in their heads
—at least they think they do.
——Probably those Philadelphia veter-
ans gave General FRED GRANT new liquor
during his recent visit there. Anyway
something made him ‘“‘talk like a tea-
kettle.”
—And it is altogether likely that if there
were avy fighting to be done as a result of
that San Francisco school squabble Gen.
FRED GRANT would be in the revolving
chair warrior class. :
~Local option will not serve the pur-
pose of our temperance friends. The only
thing that can successfully put an end to
the liquor traffic is to stop its manufacture
or sale in this country.
—Hereafter it will be a misdemeanor to
drink whiskey out of a bottle while ‘riding
on any railroad train in Texas. Whiskey
don’t improve in glass. It will be all the
better when drawn from the bung of a
pocket keg.
—Pittsburg and Chicago papers have
gotten into a squabble over which city can
produce the prettiest girl. It is eae to say
that the Pittsburg end of the controversy
will not now lay olaim to EVELYN as ite
ideal type.
——We don’t expect much from the
present Legislature now that the people of
Philadelphia have declared for the ma-
chine. The machine doesn’t need much
encouragement and there was a good deal
in the election,
—Watch the hoy who has ambition
enough to keep his face and hands clean,
his hair slicked up and his shoes blacked.
If he doesn’t develop into a rascal he will
be a snccessful man. You will find noth-
ing lazy in that kind of a boy.
—A few years avo we thought the limit
of extravagance had been run when Con-
gress appropriated one billion dollars.
When the present Congress adjonrns next
week it will bave spent double that sum.
Surely it takes mouey to make Uncle
SAM'S mare go.
—II district attorney JEROME had only
asked EVELYN what she meant when she
called theson of her boarding school mis-
tress ‘‘a pie faced mut,’ we might have
bad a new nom-de-plume for the fellows
who are gullible enough to think that
Love isn’t still boss in Centre county.
— Farmer CREASY is going after trusts
in Pennsylvania with avengeance. His
new bill is so comprehensive iv its prohibi-
tions against the restriction of trade that
we fear that it might even be made ap-
plicable to men and women who get mar-
ried on the principle that two can live
cheaper than one.
—The Pennsylvania has threatened to
stop hauling ministers at balf fare if the
two cent a mile bill is passed by the Legis.
latare. It was a wise (?) guy who thought
of that scare, now wasn’t it? As if the
average Pennsylvania Legislator wonld
worry about how much the poor preachers
have to pay for a ride.
—What’s the use of those Russian Gen.
erals making such a fuss over finding ont
which one proved the biggest coward in the
recent Japanese unpleasantness. The world
long ago realized that they are all big
enongh to make the question as to which
one was the higgest a matter of no interest
whatever.
—Next week the new council will or-
gavize. In all probability the organization
will be about the same as it has been during
the past year, and few, if any, changes will
be made. The old body struck a fairly
harmonious working gait and no one seems
aoxions to disturb it for fear of getting
something worse.
~The proposed bill to raise the State's
annual appropriation to public schools to
six million dollars a year is a good, one as is
also the provision fixing teacher's salaries
at a minimom of from two hundred and
forty to six handied dollars per year, ao-
cording to their worthiness. There can be
no good in increased appropriations to the
schools if it does not mean more cheerful
school rooms and better qualified teachers,
School taxes are not high now and it would
be a miscarriage of benevolence if an in-
creased gratuity were to resnlt only in a de-
crease of local taxation.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
Editor Harter Lands the
Postoffice.
On Wednesday the President sent to the
Senate for confirmation the name of T. H.
HARTER for postmaster at Bellefonte,
As no one of the friends of the other as-
pirants had an inkling that final action
bad been taken in the matter you can
readily imagine the surprise that was oc-
casioned when the announcement was read
for the first time in the morning papers
yesterday.
We covgratulate Judge Love. Hes
the man who made it and he bas made
good his assertions all along that the re-
sult won.d be just as announced. Senator
PENROSE owed it to Judge Loveand PEN-
ROSE turned the trick with the President
for neither Congressman DRESSER nor Con-
gressman-elect BARCLAY had made a ree-
ommendation. In fact the latter was so
completely left in the dark about what was
transpiring that he bad planued to come to
Bellefonte soon to look into the situation
personally before making a recommenda-
tion,
There can be no doubt of trickery or
treachery somewhere for even the Republi-
can county chairman, who had endorsed
Mr. 8. ¥. WiLLiaAMs, knew nothing of the
announcement until his attention was
called to it in the papers. In the face of
these facts it cannot but be regarded asa
sigoal personal triumph for Judge Love;
brongist about principally because of his
unflinching devotion to Pexrose. All
through the State campaign last fall Judge
LOVE was busy writing editorials defend-
ing the machine. These articles were turn-
ed over to Mr. HaAnrTer and he, in turn,
sent them to Republican state headquar-
ters where they were distributed in type
already set up to the country press of the
State. Of course Mr. HARTER received
credit for this work when it is well known
by his own party friends here that he is
the poorest politician and the poorest polit-
ical writer who ever tried to edit a party
organ in Centre connty. He is intelligent
enough in other directions, however, and
will make a very capable postmaster. As
to the popularity of the appointment we
doubt if Mr. HARTER could be elected to
the most trivial office in hiv home ward,
though it is overwhelmingly Republican.
From a political standpoint the WaTcH-
MAN is perfectly satisfied for if old line Re-
publicans like SAMMY WILLIAMS, who is
an old soldier as well, and HARD P. HAR-
RIS, a representative of the founders of
Bellefonte and workers i the party’ ever
since it sprang into existence, are to be
turned down for a comparative newcomer
who is already well off financially, it can-
not but prove to be water on the Demo-
cratic mill.
It is safe tosay that the next Represen-
tative in the Legislature from Centre coun-
ty, whether he be Democrat or Republican,
will not vote for PENROSE for United States
Senator.
Bellefonte
Roosevelt's Cah
The principal fault of President Roosk-
VELT's speeches lies in the cant he ex-
presses. For example, in his address to the
Harvard Union on Saturday last he de-
clared that it is a duty of citizeuship to
‘‘see that this nation treats all other na-
tions, great and small, with respect and if
need be with generosity, and at the same
time show herself able to protect herself hy
her own might from any wroug at the hands
of any outside power.” In view of Mr.
ROOSEVELT'S practices such declarations
are nothing short of absurdity. He has
never shown the slightest respect for weak
nations nor hesitated to treat them with
the greatest measure of injustice.
Take the case of Panama to illuastiate the
point. That weak and probably not too
hovest government refused to give to the
government of the United States the prop-
erty and privileges on the Panama canal
zone which were desired and President
ROOSEVELT proceeded at once to organize a
revolution and supported it with the war-
ships and marines of the navy. If Fraoce,
Germany, Great Britain or even Spain bad
adopted a similar course at the beginning
of the Civil war the result of that prolong-
ed and costly stroggle would have been
disruption of the American Republic. Be-
sides there would have been less cause for
complaint against such an action then than
when the Panama incident occurred for the
reason that international law had not then
so fally developed. :
It is no exaggeration to say that the
greatest ational crime of recent years was
that rape of the government of Columbia in
order that RooseveLT's ambition to pros
mote the Isthmian canal might be promot-
ed. In view of that event, therefore, Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT has no right to indulge in
such moral homilies. When a barglar
pauses in his work to repeat the Lord's
prayer we are apt to think that he is a
bypocrite as well as a criminal and we can
8ee no reason why ROOSEVELT'S conduct
should be measured by a standard other
than that which is used in estimating the
behavior of others. Cant is cant, and a
mighty contemptible vice, no matter who
utters it.
|
Gen, Fred, Grants View. | design. The manner of its completion is
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 1, 1907.
NO. 9.
Will Need Watching.
Major General FRED GRANT who ap- | an ineflacable stain upon the honor of the | From the Pittsburg Post.
i Com ?
pears to have got on pretty well, consider monwealth but that doesn’s detract
from the beauty of the edifice. Such a
ing his achievements, is very much put out
because President ROOSEVELT called the | "211ding should bave an appropriate setting
Mayor of San Francisco into conference on | **3 the enlargement of the park is essen-
what has come to be known as the Japan-
ese incident. Major General FRED isof
the opinion that the presidential office was
debased, more or less, by the conference |
and believes, moreover, that the President
ought to have sent a division of soldiers
aud a squadron of war ships to San Francis-
eo and compelled the local authorities to
instant obedience. Thas is what Major
General FRED imagines his distinguished
father would have done, at leas, which
shows that he hasn't acquired knowledge
in proportion to his increasing years.
Some of the rest of us are more or less
dissatisfied with the incident to which Maj
or General FRED refers bat for a differe nt
reason. That is to say, we think that the
local regulations of the school affairs in San
Francisco is nove of the President’s busi-
ness and that instead of obeying bis order
to confer Mayor ScHMITZ, of the Golden
Gate city, ought to have told him to ‘‘go
chase himself,’ as the street gamins usn-
ally put it. So far as sending troops to
that city to compel acquiescense in an order
from Washington, it would be difficult to
imagine any thing more absurd. If Presi-
dent GRANT bad undertaken such a thing
‘‘hetween the 4th of March, 1869, and the
4th of March, 1877,” he wonld have been
impeached and ended his life in disgrace.
General GRANT was a soldier, moreover,
and a patriot, and while holding a commis-
sion in the army would not have made
such a criticism or cast such an aspersion
on his commander-in-chief. When he had
advanced to that exalted station himself he
wouldn't have tolerated snch insolence on
the part of a subordinate. Major General
FRED, who ‘‘has never met a squadron on
the field”’ except in make-believe war, so
far as we are able to recall, has a crude
notion concerning his own obligations as
ao officer in the army and a loose idea of
our system of government. But as he is not
likely to advance much further in she
military establishment and is still less like.
ly to become a favorite in civil life is
probably doesn’t matter mach what be
thinks,
Create no New Offices.
The Legislature ought to defeat every
bill introduced during the present session
which creates new offices. One of the most
objectionable of these is the bill introduced
by Senator Fox. of Dauphin county, pro-
viding for seventy-five new caretakers for
the new capitol. It is probably true that
the new building will require a great
amount of care. Itis a vast structure and
composed of rich and costly materiale. Bat
there are a great number of caretakers
there already and if they are even reason-
ably industrious and vigorous, they will be
amply able to take good care of both
ground and buildings.
Half the aim of some Senators and Repre-
sentatives in the Legislatare is to provide
places for political favorites or dependents.
They will create any number of new offices
if some of the benefits acerne to themselves,
and in fact it may be said that most of the
additional courts are created to provide
places for party workers. Bills are now
pending for two new courts in Pittsburg.
There is no necessity for them so far as
litigation is concerned. The existing conrts
can take care of all the business now ex-
isting or likely to be created for some years,
Bat the Legislators pervert their power thus
to political uses.
The creation of useless offices is one of
the greatest evils of power. It is a form
of legalizing robbery. The obvious duty
of a government is to conserve the inter-
ests of the people. Economy in public ex-
penditures is the most effective means of
promoting the interests of the people. Pab-
lio officials are trustees of public funds and
there is no material difference between
stealing and wasting the public fands.
Needless offices cause a waste of the money
which is drawn from the people in the
shape of taxes. To prevent such waste
every Legislator should set his face againse
multiplying offices.
Re ———E—
Enlargement of Capitol Park.
The introduction of a bill appropriating
something like a million aud a-half dollars
to be used for the purchase of ground to
extend the capitol park at Harrisburg raises
a question of the gravest character. Two
years ago the proposition to appropriate
upward of two million dollars failed only
for the reason that the maohine managers
imagined that they had other uses for the
money. Then nearly everybody favored
the enterprise and THE WATCHMAN was
among its most earnest friends. Bus events
hava happened since which raise a doubt as
to the wisdom of any legislation involving
appropriations of that sort,
There can be no question of she desir-
ability of an enlargement of the capitol
park. The new capitol building ie mag nif.
icent alike in proportions and architectural
| tial to that result. But legislation author-
| izing snch an enlargement of the park
| makes possible a repetition of the gralt
| operations which converted the capitol con-
| struction into a criminal conspiracy.
“We wouldn’t mind the million and
{a-hall dollars which the ground for the
| capitol park enlargement would cost,”
| remarked a Senator the other day, “‘but
the expense of furnishing it gives us pause.”
There is the rub, as HAMLET remarked.
Bowe of those who participated in the
capitol construction graft are still asso-
ciated with the official life of *“The Hill,”
and would no doubt be ready to take ad-
vantage of avy opportunity to loot. Bus
there is hope in the fact that PENNYPACKER
is no longer in the Board of Pablic Grounds
and Buildings. Governor STUART would
bardly play into the hands of the criminals
as PENNYPACKER did.
New Primary Election Law.
Representative Lypick, of Allegheny
City, has introduced a primary election law
which is understood to have the favor of
the PENROSE machine. It was submitted
to Speaker MoCLAIN in advance of presen-
tation and received his approval and bad
the endorsement of PENROSE before is
reached the state capitol at all. It is safe
to say, therefore, that it has been ‘‘chalk.
ed’ for passage. Otherwise it would never
bave got past PENROSE. Consulting the
Speaker may be regarded as simply an of-
ficial courtesy. It is a part of the red-tape
formula which exists without reason where-
ever public affairs are transacted.
We bave not had opportunity to analyze
the LYDICK bill as yet bus it is a safe con-
jeotare that it can’t he any worse than the
bogus reform measure which was enacted
at the special session a year ago. Some of
our esteemed contemporaries professed to
be highly delighted with thas inadequate
measare and Governor FENN YPACKER still
believes that it had merit. But no man
with reasonable intelligence was fooled.
Tu% purpoce of that measure was to pro-
mote fraud in a way that would deceive the
people and that result was achieved.
PENNYPACKER never would have consented
to bonest ballot reform legislation. He
owed too much to the other side of the prop-
osition,
Immediately after the adjournment of
the special session about the middle of
February last year we took occasion to say
in these columns that nove of the reform
less than four of the bills approved by the
the question of constitutionality. Yet the
work of that session has heen praised by
down to the capitol park policemen and the
praise. The LYDICK primary election bill,
however, is a reminder that the legislation
of that session was inadequate if not abso.
lately worthless,
Standard Will be Disappointed.
The Standard Oil company will hardly
get the worth of its money if the Legisla-
other day. Daring the recent campaign
that criminal conspiracy was exceedingly
million dollars, some reports put the sum
at exaotly eight hundred thonsand dol-
lars, to the Republican campaign fund. It
was influenced to this generosity partly
through fear of the fasion candidates and
partly in consideration of promises of fa-
tare favors. It now looks as if the promises
are to be broken.
ard Oil company in this State is the system
ed.
legislation would work reform and that
Governor would survive a judicial test of
every careless observer from the President
metropolitan papers have led the chorus of
ture persists in the course indicated the
liberal, according to current report. It
contributed considerably more than half a
One of the greatest troubles of the Stand-
of oil inspection as at present administer-
A few years ago this was the least of
Pennsylvania's Legislature resumed its
sessions this week, and it is to be hoped
that ite members will seriously address
themselves to the important questions be-
fore them. Many other State Legislatures
which began thier sessions at the same time
as our own, haye transacted much business
and some are preparing to adjourn. The
West Virginia Legislature has finished its
regular session and begun an extra one.
Pennsylvania's lawmakers bave spent near-
ly balf their pi at home avd have as yet
not passed a single bil mportance
through both Fir
Now that the Philadelphia election is
over, we will doubtless have a real wdica-
tion of what may be expected from the
Legislature in the way of reform legisia-
tion, in accord with the pledges made the
people. Tuc success of the machine lead-
ers in that election and in the State elec-
tion last fall may have an important effect
upon the action of our State lawmakers,
Those who detest real reform in whatever
guise will probably be emboldened to fight
against the enactment of any effective
legislation upon subjects referred to in the
Republican platform. Whether their ef-
forts will be snccessful, however, remains to
be seen. The result will depend much
upon the attitude assumed by Governor
Stuart and by the new boss of she Legisla-
tare, Senator MoNichol. The machine
leaders are most anxious to regain control
of the State treasury, and this fact may in-
duce them to at least apparently keep some
of their reform pledges for effect at the com-
ing State election.
The agents of the railroads will no donbt
be most active at Harrisburg from now on.
They have announced their intention of
fighting the two-cents-a-mile law, and the
triumph of the machine in Philadelphia
will now encourage them to go the limit in
doing so. No doubt all proposed reform
railroad legislation will also be fought.
The Standard Oil Company has some legis-
lation which is is very desirous of putting
through. Its agents will no doubt be in
the lobby. The machine is plauniog to
create many commissions and new State
offices. The situation is an ominous one
for the people, and they will do well to
keep close watch on the proceedings of
of their legislators from now nntil the end
of the session, and to carefully examine
every bill before it becomes a law. Otber-
wise they are likely to find when the ses-
sion is ended that it bas been largely bar-
ren of the solemnly promised results in the
line of real reform legislation.
What Do They Cost.
From the Savanah News,
The people wonld very moi, . to
know what the Philippines have cost this
country and what the annual expense of
holding on to them is. For some reason or
other the administration senators don’t
want this information published. Senator
Clay of Georgia introduced a resolution the
other day calling for it, and Senator Lodge
at once objected, saying that the informa-
tion was in the published reports, and was
accessible to anybody who cared to hunt it
up. When the resolution was passed he
bad it referred to the committee of which
be is chairman. Will he ever furnish the
information to the senate? If he does it
will be because Senator Clay insisted upon
having it.
And why shouldn’t the people know
what it is costing us to teach the Filipinos
how to govern themselves? It is well
known that she islands, since we have had
possession of them, have cost us handreds
of millions of dollars and thousands of
lives. And there is no doubt that they are
going to cost us other hundreds of millions
of dollars if we retain possession of them.
It they have been of any particular benefit
so us the fact has escaped general observa-
tion.
That the administration senators want to
keep the truth from the people is pretty
good evidence that it would create a seuti-
ment in favor of getting rid of the islands
at the earliest practical moment. And
there is a probability thas they will involve
usina war that will costa vast sam of
money and many valuable lives. Senator
Clay should notonly insist upon having
the information he has called for, but he
should make such use of it when he gets it
that the le will have no trouble in un-
derstanding clearly if any benefit has ac-
crued to us from the possession of the is-
lands or whether or not any is likely to
acorue to us,
From the Easton Argus.
18 will please the impecunions fellows
who are only millionaires to learn that
Jobn D. Rockelellar isnot a monopolist
billionaire after all. Some time since it
was laid that Mr. Rockefellar’s family had
cat oysters from their menu becanse Shey
felt they were too poor to indulge in
its causes of worry. In Philadelphia
where most of the oil distributed in this
State is inspected, the inspector was PETER
LANE, brother of the notorious party boss
who instructed officials of the oity that
they must staff ballot boxes in order to
bold their jobs. Mr. LANE quietly arrang-
ed with the company to pay him a lamp
sum considerably in excess of what the
fees would amount to and guaranteed that
there would be no inspection. It worked
admirably antil the political revolution of
1905 landed LANE ‘‘outside of the breast
costly luxury. The reason for she family’s
reported economy was made plain the
other day by Fredrick T. Gates, the busi-
ness representative of the Standard Oil man,
when he declared shere had been many mis-
statements as to Mr. Rookefellar’s wealth.
‘‘Instead of the $1,000,000 000 with
which Senator Hoar credited Mr. Rockefel-
lar a few years ago,’ said Mr. Gates *‘his
wealth does not exceed $250,000,000 to
$300,000,000, and bis annual income in-
stead of reaching $100,000,000 cannot, even
in his most pros
as 11 owns a majority of the Standard Oil stock.
works.” The facts are that Mr. Rockerfeller's hold-
Soon after the assembling of the Legisla- | ings of Standard Oil stock are about twenty
tore Representavive MCCORD of Chester | Per : ;
county introduced a bill to abolish oil in. hope now that Mr. Rockeferller is not
spectious altogether. That would have | ® billionaire that he will nos be held up as
heen an excellent arrangement for the | ® public enemy. We always did feel t hat
Standard aud would have enabled it to re- jhe Fas 4 ioe Sad, ge gr
ts succeed
ki io be oa. Paring have attempted and failed. y
be na au, Fo 3
wou ve on the
t sach a measure on the a ed
——General GRANT bas gone to Wash-
or it would have developed into ir iy gto Jota) agiss poi sunt Tediudgi
Legislastre rare to the Vrs I parallel to the ‘‘appeal PETER drunk to
the bill will be defeated, PETER sober.”
— a —————————————
Spawis from the Keystone.
—The report of the auditors of Cambria
county shows that the county has $108,000 in
the treasury and no debts beyond a few cut-
standing orders.
—Prominent citizens of Honesdale have
organized the Wayne county Hospital associ-
ation, for the purpose of erecting a hospital
ata cost of $25000. The nearest hospital
now is at Scranton.
—The Phoenix block, Altoona, in which
was located the Lyric theatre, the home of
Keith vaudeville, was destroyed by fire early
Sunday morning. The less will be about
$100,000; insurance, $60,000,
—Hiram Williams, a negro, wet with a
horrible death at the Solid Steel Casting
works, at Chester, on Wednesday of last
week. He was dragged into the grinding
machine and crushed to death.
~The trustees of Franklin and Marshall
college at Lancaster, have just closed a con-
tract for the erection of a new academy
building, which is to be ready for occupancy
on September 1. The building is to cost
£90,000.
" —President Roosevelt is to bs asked to at-
tend the commencement exercises of the Car-
lisle Indian school this year. They will be
held in April and there will also be
invited members of congress and of the state
legislature.
~The Beech Creek Coal and Coke couipa-
ny, having large interests in Winburne and
other sections, have just purchased 1,265
acres of coal land in Grant and Green town-
ships, Indiana county, at a consideration of
$72,703.48, an1 will soon begin to develop
the property. :
—William F. Hennessey, of Lock Haven,
was out hunting one day last week when he
was the victim of an accident which resuited
in his death. He was hunting for foxes and
in crossing a stream slipped and fell. His
gun exploded and a portion of his head and
face was blown off.
—On Friday evening last Rev. John Dick-
son, died at his home in Chambersburg, aged
87 years. He was prominent in the United
Brethren church and held many important
offices. In 1869 he was elected one of the
bishops of the church and continued to hold
this office until 1893.
—The tax assessors’ returns to the county
commissioners show that the assessment for
Lancaster county is $39,135.423, an increase
over last year of $2,992505. No less than
$21,000,000 is out on interest, a million more
than last year. The increased assessment
gives the county $11,000 more in taxes,
—James Weller, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Lehigh county, is dead at his home
in Allentown, aged 90 years. Ho was proba-
bly the last survivor of the delegates to the
William Henry Harrison ratification conven-
tion held at Baltimore in 1840. He was not-
ed for his remarkable mathematical ability.
~—Fire was discovered in the general store
of Guy Boone, at Loganton, on Saturday
evening at about 11 o'clock, the origin of
which is not known at the present time.
The building was not much damaged, but
until the fire was gotten under control the
stock was damaged by fire and smoke to the
amount of about $3,500.
—Morris F. Wallace, of Mt. Joy, Cleat field
county, who will be 80 years old next Au.
gust, has been for 60 years a continuous sub-
scriber to the Clearfield Republican. and
makes the boast that he never cast a vote in
his life for a Republican, even for a county
or township office. Mr. Wallace certa nly
can claim the title of a “dyed in the wool
Democrat.”
—Michael Ceronic, aged 23 years, of Leb-
anon, had his right arm caught in a coal
breaking machine in the yards of the Ameri.
can Steel and Iron works at Lebanon, early
on Saturday morning. The arm was crushed
and torn out of the socket at the shoulder
and as no one was near him at the time he
slowly bled to death in the severe cold. His
body was found about an hour later.
—Arneda Benedict. daughter of a farmer
residing near Ulysses, Lycoming county,
was the innocent cause of her sister's death
last Thursday. The two were doing chores
at the barn and were engaged in bedding the
horses when Arneda, who was using the
pitchfork, accidentally ran the tine of the
fork into her sister's eye. The tine pene-
trated her brain and she died ina few min-
utes.
=A few nights ago a quantity of meat was
stolen from the premises of Ellis Cupp, in.
Warriorsmark valley, aud the problem of lo-
cating the meat and its taker was put up to
Constable W. M. Snyder, of iTyrone. The
officer solved it so well that when he armed
himself with a search warrant and investi.
gated the belongings of Daniel Ebersole, in
Tyrone, he found the meat. Constable Soy.
der arrested Ebersole and took him before
"Squire David Fank, at Warriorsmark, on
Saturday, when the justice bound him in
$500 bail for appearance at ihe Huntingdon
county court.
—With the mercury standinglat zero and a
fierce wind blowing, Andy Monar, an alien
miner of Windber, accomplished a feat that
is probably without parallel. Andy's hoard-
ing boss bet Andy that the latter could not
walk to Windber postoffice and return bare.
footed. Andy, accompanied by his friend
Mike Ellis, who carried the former's shoes,
made the trip, the distance round trip being
three miles. On his return Andy pocketed
$10, the wager offered. The next day the
foreigner returned to work in the mines
none the worse for whut he had done. Mo-
nar is about 40 years old, married and has an
unusually robust constitution.
~Sheriff Con Allen, of Clearfield county,
he | has bad an odd experience and has called
upon the law to unravel the mystery. He
was a resident of Houtzd «le when elected to
office. When be entered upon the duties of
the latter position be moved to Clearfield.
At the present election he went back to
Houtzdale, he was refused that privilege,
the allegation being that he had lost his
right to vote by reason of removal. He of-
fered to qualify that Houtzdale was the only |
place of residence he claimed. A majority
of the board was obdurate and he was pre
vented from depositing his ballot. Since
then he has brought suit against the beard
and the case will come up at the May term
f court.