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Democrat Wald,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Another bard fiéeze Tnesday morning
very likely frosted the budding hopes of
the apple trees.
—CARUSO is making a great hit in Lon-
don. He hasn't struck his monkey-house
gait yet over there.
——Mr. BRYAN will have bard work to
satisfy himself that the friendship of JonN
TEMPLE GRAVES is genuine.
—If this weather continues much longer
prospective strawberry festivals will be
chased back to the oyster soup stand.
—Congressman DALZELL is of the opin-
ion RoosEVELT is baurting TAFT. The big
Secretary basn’t started to squeal yet.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer asks the
question: “What is a Democrat?’ Ans :
What DAVE HILL was when be said he
was.
—Geveral KUROKI having visited Bos-
ton the question naturally arises as to
whether they served him with baked beans
or puffed rice.
—Eliza furnace has been trying to be-
come the Mt. Pelee of Pittsburg again.
Her latest eruption on Tuesday cost the
lives of five men.
—The President's tour of inspection
down the Mississippi was more likely de-
signed as a earch for votes than as an op-
portunity to get wise on the Father of
Waters.
—1It seems to be generally conceded now
that JAKE From didn’t kill DALE. The
detectives are about ‘‘at MCGARVEY'S
Point" unless they are confronted by a
human cock-robin.
—The latest reports are to the effect that
Kxox has CANNON, TAFT and FAIRBANKS
all akinned in the presidential race. How
he skinned FAIRBANKS is a mystery. He
is so tight and cold.
—ROOSEVELT Lemonade is the new
Boardwalk drink at Atlantic City. Itisa
glass of lemonade with a stick in it. If it
is ‘‘a big stick’’ the terrors of ‘‘dry Son-
days”’ at the shore will all be driven off.
—The New York base ball umpire has
an unbappy lot. When it requires police-
men with drawn pistols to get them off the
grounds unharmed it is time the great na-
tional game be made less attractive for riot-
ous rowdies.
———Mayor ScuMITZ, of San Francisco,
might call on bis friend President Roosk-
VELT to help him out of his present trou-
bles. ScHMITZ tried to help the President
a few months ago and one bad turn de-
serves another. :
—1f the man in the upper part of town
who is never permitted to buy a suit of
clothes or a neck tie just to please himself
were to make his wile wear the clothes she
brow-beats him into buying for a few days
he might have an end of his troubles.
—The Hon. ToADY RYNDER interviewed
himself in Wednesday's Daily News and
shot up a few more sky scraping castles in
the air. After while no one will have to
be paying taxes and the State will provide
for us all is the way be pipes it out for the
future.
—President MCCREA, of the Pennsylva-
nia railroad, has returned from Eunrope to
make the observation that there is entirely
too much law making in this country.
His observation is general, of course, but
hie thoughts were undoubtedly concentrat-
ed on Pennsylvania.
—Senator KNOX may be the embodiment
of the President’s policies as the esteemed
Philadelphia Press declares, but the Presi-
dent appears to have had a different noticn
when the railroad rate bill was pending in
Congress. KNOX was conspicnons among
those whom the President anathematized
as railroad lawyers,
~The wine makers in Southern France
made a demonstration on Sunday because
there is an over production of wine in their
country. What it was meant for no ove
seems to know and we venture that if the
one hundred and eighty thousand persons
who turned out for the demonstration get
busy themselves for a few days there will
be an end of their trouble.
—*Abey’’ HUMMEL, the convicted New
York lawyer, is finding out that the ‘‘pen’’
on Blackwell's Island isn’t nearly the at.
tractive place he thought it was —judged
by the nefarions.methodshe used to send
people there when he was practicing law.
The first day of prison life put ‘‘Abey”’
out. Strange, too, when so many New
Yorkers ‘‘leared only death and ABE HuMm-
MEL.”
~—'*A people without children would
face a hopeless fature,”’ declared President
ROOSEVELT in one of his latest addresses.
The quarter sessions records this week ex-
ploded his theory in the minds of those
who, baviog owned the children, have to
spend the next ninety days of their future
in jail. Ib this case it's the fellow with
the kid whose immediate fatore is most
hopeless.
— Investigation having revealed the fact
that the average chaffeur commands higher
pay than the average college professor there
is only one conclusion to draw. That is,
the well established theory that the aver-
age college professor don’t care a continen-
tal darn for the money. He goes on with
bis ologies and his eerings whether the
sparker or his carbureter are working at
all, and though he likes to have a little
gasolene in his tank once in a while his
muffler is never working.
VOL. 52
Mr. Greaves’ Absurd Siatetement.
Mr. Journ TEMPLE GRAVES, of Georgia,
takes nearly four colnmus in last Sunday's
New York World to tell the public why he
favors the nomination of RoosevELT for
President by the Democratic party. He
might have made the watter much clearer
inafew words. If he had simply said
that he is a crazy tool yearning for notori-
ety at any cost, everybody would have un-
derstood. Instead of that he employs a
vast forest of verbiage to confuse the pub-
lic and impose on the credulouns.
The substance of Mr. GRAVES long |
drawn out explanation is that he is oppos-
ed to predatory wealth and favors RoOSE-
VELT, notwithstanding the traditions of
the country sgainst a third term and of his
party against paternalism, because of the
successfal fight which ROOSEVELT has
made against that evil. As a matter of
fact, the only thing which ROOSEVELT has
done against predatory wealth thus far is
the calling of Mr. E. H. HARRIMAN a liar
and he didn’t do that until after HARRI-
MAN had refused to make another contribu-
tion of other people’s money to ROOSE-
VELT'S party.
Up antil the present time ROOSEVELT'S
bombastic bullying of the corporations has
had no more effect on their affairs than the
bite of a house fly would have on the epi-
dermis of an elephant. He bas talked
much about restraining the trusts and
when trust magnates bave not responded
as quickly and liberally to the call for cam-
paign corruption funds as he thought they
might, he bas threatened things which
would have been inimical, and did impair
the value of stocks. But he has not ina
single instance interferred with the opera-
tions of trusts while be bas called off in-
vestigations which wight have led to inter-
ference.
Mr. GRAVES wants ROOSEVELT for Presi-
dent because neither of them is now or
ever was a Democrat and GRAVES imag-
ines that by taking such an absurd posi-
tion RooseveLT will give him some of the
patronage which he has always used to pay
personal debts. GRAVES is probably one
of those mercenary Soantherners whose itch-
ing palms make them forget the political
principles of their fathers and what he
thinks or says about Democratic policies is
of no consequence.
~The quarrel between PENROSE and
ELKIN will be a pretty fight if it develops
to the proportions now indicated by sigus.
Besides it holds out the hope of the retire-
ment of ELKIN from the Bench and PEN-
ROSE from the Senate and that will bea
gain to the public life of the country.
Speaker MeClain's Gruvest Fault,
There is abundant cause for criticising
Speaker McCrLAIN for his actions during
the closing hours of the recent session of
the Legislature, but thus far we bave seen
no oriticism based on the right reason. It
has been said that a Speaker bas no right
to express his revenges by discriminating
against pending measares of legislation and
that Speaker McCrLAIN did that to the
prejudice of bills in which the PENROSE
machine had more or less vital interest.
We undertake no defence and make no
apology for the Speaker on that score. But
it could be said in extenuation of his of-
feuse, if the charge is true, that he was
only following the example of the machine
in that matter.
The real cause of complaint against
Speaker McCLAIN is that he had legisla-
tion against which the PENROSE machine
might discriminate. The Speaker has vast
power over the work of the body over
which he presides. ‘‘The request of the
King is a command which no man may
disobey,” is a French proverb, and she
Speaker holds the relation to the body over
which he presides that the king holds to
his subjects. A member who opposes the
Speaker's projects writes defeat across the
face of all his own plans of legislation. It
is not only natural but essentially human
that an injured man will strive for revenge
and if Speaker MCCLAIN got the better of
the PENROSE banditti in the game of re-
prisals we see nosound reason for objection.
But we can see all sorts of reasons for
objection to the Speaker baving bills in the
body and requesting members to support
them, not because of merit, but for the
reason that they were ‘‘the Speaker's
bills.”” That is a form of coercion that is
especially reprebensible and brutal and,
according to current gossip, Speaker Mc.
CLAIN, amiable as he is and fair as he was
during the recent session, in other re-
spects, worked to the limit. Every mem-
ber of the body understandsfthat he must
depend on the favor of the Speaker for
every opportunity to advance his legisla.
tive interests and promote his parlinmen-
tary aspirations. For that reason the
Speaker ought to bave no ‘“‘irons in the
fire.”
~——Even it COREY does lose his job he
will probably have enough money to hold
the affections of his new wife for a couple
ST
ATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEYONTL. FA MAY 2. 100s
Bonrne of Oregon.
|
Thank heaven for BOURNE, of Oregon.
babbling for a third term.
new lay to that masic.
soarcelul, woreover.
it by its right name aod frighten the timid
worshippers of tradition. But BOURNE
calls it ‘‘a second elective term’ of the
office.
That BOURNE ‘‘knows his onion’ is
amply proved also. Other friends of the
President are protesting that he is nota
candidate for re-election and would not
under any circumstances nccept a re-nomi-
nation. But BOURNE goes on with his
propaganda like a never failing stream and
visits the White House every day to get
inspiration and possibly other kinds of en-
couragement. His persistence in refusing
to accept the President’s word would be te-
sented hy most men, probably. It inno
respect impairs his standing with the Presi-
dent, however. That receptive gentleman
treats him with increasing affection every
day that be gives a new variety to his plea
for favor for ROOSEVELT.
If there were any doubts of the desire of
the President for another term this inci-
dent dissipates them. BOURNE couldn't
hold confidential relations with the White
House and insist on a third term for the
President if the idea were not agreeable to
the man most concerned in it. Nobody
would advocate a third term and make
daily visits to the White House if the prop-
osition were distasteful, for in the nature
of things the President would insist on the
cessation of the talk. But each day con-
| tributes to the already overwhelming evi-
dence that BOURKE is the most cherished
visitor at the White House and that iw-
plies that what BOURNE does is satisfac
tory.
——Monday brought us another spell of
cool weather, in fact, quite cold, and by
Tuesday morning the thermometer was
down to within eighs degrees ol the freez-
ing mark, and below the frost line. Bat
fortnuately a high wind was blowing all of
Monday night, which prevented frost, and
thas nothing was frozen. Bat it was per-
haps the coldest weather we bave bad on a
twenty-first of May in years.
Fit Reward for Credulous Fools.
The obvionsly systematic movement to
make Senator KNOX the Pennsylvania can-
didate for President is the expected reward
of the PENROSE machine to the friends of
President ROOSEVELT who supported the
ticket last fall. Without such report the
machine ticket in Pennsylvania would have
had wo more chance of election than the
Republican ticket in Georgia. Nobody
understoed this fact better than the man-
agers of the PENROSE machine. For that
reason they called upon the friends of the
President to rally to their support ‘‘in the
interest of ROOSEVELT." They pretended
great anxiety for ROOSEVELT.
Nobody except the most credulons was
deceived by this false pretense ol fidelity
to RooseVELT. Every intelligent observer
in the Commonwealth understood that the
election of the machine ticket assured, those
who were professing friendship for the
President would have let him ‘‘go hang.”
It is not that the corporations are afraid of
ROOSEVELT that their lobbyists like PEN-
ROSE are opposed to him. They know thas
whenever it is necessary they can call him
off as they did when KNOX, then Attorney
General, got ‘‘too close in’ on his inquiry
into the coal trust. As one of the lata
Presidents of the Pennsylvania railroad
said of Quay, however, ROOSEVELT is too
expensive.
It the machine ticket had been defeated
in Pennsylvania last fall there would have
been no KNOX presidential boom to worry
the strenuous TEDDY now. The Republi-
oan organization of the State would now be
in the hands of TEDDY'S friends and a con-
siderable number of the other fellows wonld
be fogitives from justice. But RooOsSE-
VELY'S gunileless supporters in Pennsylvania
preferred to take the advice of ROOSEVELT'S
enemies with the resalt that the most cher-
ished ambition of ROOSEVELT'S whole life,
that of securing his own nomination fora
third term or a successor chosen by himeelf,
will be defeated.
~The Bellefonte fish hatchery, at
Pleasant Gap, is proving a very enticing
spot and every Sunday is visited by from
one to two hundred people. Last Sunday
the crowd of visitors was exceptionally
large and among the number was a party
of eleven young people from Zion and vicin-
ity who took luncheon with them and
spent the evening there.
~——JONATHAN, of Oregon, is probably
of years.
that bourne from which no traveler returns,
The Governor's Predicament.
The publie will watch with corious in-
BOURNE, according to Webster, is a bab- | terest the treatment of the appropriation
bling brook, and the Senator for Oregon | bills by Governor STUART. The aggregate
acts the part. Ever since he reached Wash. | of the appropriations is considerably in ex-
ington with hie senatorial credentials in | cess of the probable revenues for the next
his inside pocket he has heen bubbling two vears. This is the grave fault of the
over with enthusiasm for ROOSEVELT and | Legislature which should have made the
Nothing else appropriations less or the revenues more.
will satisfy him and every day he pipes a | There were plenty of opportunities in eith-
BOURNE is re- er direction.
He has invented a | the easier method of putting the matter np
new phrase in which to express his hopes. to the Governor and compelling him to
Less adroit advocates of the third term call | make the best of a bad case. How be will
But the Legislatnre adopted
| wolve the problem is the subject of con-
jecture. There is a right way and a wrong
one and the wrong way is the easier.
For example,it will be valid for the Gov-
ernor to veto any appropriation bill or any
item in any appropriation bill ‘“‘embracing
distinct items.” That is an appropriation
for a hospital containing an amount for
maintenance and a separate item for im-
provements or construction may he vetoed
11 either item.and approved in the other.
Governor STONE made the innovation of
ontting each item to reduce the total and
‘‘electioneered,’’ the Supreme conrt to sus-
tain him. Governor PENNYPACKER fol
lowed the example. Bat one of these of-
ficials is indifferent to moral obligations
and the other is incapable of discerning
them so that it can hardly be said that the
action of either formed a precedent.
What Governor STUART does, however,
will mean something both for the present
aod the future. If be outs the appropria-
tious in the legal way some deserving in-
stitations will saffer almost irreparable in-
jury. Oo the other band if he cuts them
after the fashion of his immediate pred-
ecessors he wili prove himself as uucon-
soionable as STONE or as great an imbecile
as PENNYPACKER. He is figuratively ‘‘be-
tween the devil and the deep sea,’’ and the
Legislature deserves the severest condemna-
tion for putting him into such a predioa-
ment. He has taken an oath to ‘‘support,
okey and defend’’ the constitution which
denies him the power of legislation, and
cutting appropriations other than in the
constitutional way would be legislating.
— -In writing to renew her subscription
for another year Margaret Potter Kent, of
Brooklyn, says: ‘‘We do not feel we can
do without the DEMOCRATIC WATCHMAN
in our home.”” We trust the time will
never come when she will have to do
without it and it will ever be our aim to
make the paper the ideal weekly news let-
ter from old Centre to those who have gone
to other parts to make their home.
Punish the Grafters,
The grafters offer to make restitution of
some of the loot, according to well anthen-
ticated rumors carrent in Harrisburg, if
they are guaranteed immunity from crimi-
nal prosecution. They have come to real.
ize that exposure is inevitable and punish-
ment merely a question of the pleasure of
the authorities. The evidence of conspira-
oy and fraud is overwhelming and il pre-
senled in court there is no escape from the
consequences. For that reason they are
willing to compromise on the best terms
attainable. Probably every dollar acquir-
ed by those against whom the testimony
rans would he given up rather than take
the chances of a penitentiary sentence.
If the authorities would enter into such
au agreement the State might gain three or
four millions of dollars out of a total of six
or eight millions that were stolen. Bat
the moral effect of the exposure would be
lost. The affair would then have no de-
terrent influence on gralters of the fatare.
They would reason justly that there is lit-
tle risk in robbing Pennsylvania for the
felony could be compounded by making
restitution in part. The State needs mon-
ey and unless the charity appropriations
are cut immensely, it is likely to become
insolvent. But it is a question whether
the compromise wouldn’t be worse than
bankruptoy ! There are greater evils than
the ability to pay.
Besides it is not necessary to compromise
in order to secure restitution. If the evi-
dence against the conspirators is sufficient
to convict in the criminal court it will he
ample to recover in the civil tribunal.
That being true the wise course would be
to send the grafters to the penitentiary first
through the processes of the criminal courts
and compel restitution subsequently by
civil litigation. That will serve the doun-
ble purpose of enriching the treasury and
admonishing publio officials of the fature
against such predatory operations. Ful-
filling only a part of this wholesome result
would be a miscarriage of justice which
can hardly be patiently contemplated,
~The two chinamen who operated the
laundry in this place left Bellefonte on
Tuesday, intending to locate either in Wil-
liamsport or Emporium. They gave as
their reason for leaving town that they had
trusted their patrons and now could not
collect the money due them, hence con-
cluded to go somewhere else and start in
on a cash system.
wo GARIRY a
NO. 21.
The Duty on Steel Ralls
| From the Philadelphia Record.
Siguoificant hints are thrown out that a
movement is on foot among the railroad
corporations to urge upon the next con-
gress repeal or anbstantial reduction of the
exorbitant duties on steel rails. By thus
inviting competition the Steel Trust woald
be compelled to deliver rails of better qual-
ity at reasonable prices, which would con-
sideraply reduce the expenses of the great
carrying companies. But the Steel Trust
rejoices in the special favor of the Roose-
velt administration and of the ‘‘stand pat”
majority in congress. The great monopoly
is protected by a duty of $7.84 « ton on
rails, although a former president of the
corporation has testified that it could lay
down rails at a profit of $15 a ton in Liv-
erpool, Hamburg or Antwerp. The same
kind of rails, or better, are sold by Eu-
fopens manufacturers at this time for §21
a ton.
Even il it were true that the great rail-
road corporations and the trust are so close-
ly allied as to makead eement between
them improbable, is it not high time that
the people themselves should move for the
repeal of the high duties on steel rails? Is
not theirs the first interest in the quality
of rails for the greater safety of travel and
for the greater safety of travel and for
cheapening trans tion of freight?
Why, then should they hesitate to demand
of their representatives a removal of this tar-
iff while accidents are increasing from de-
fective rails, and while the corporations are
unable to renew their roadbeds because of
the protective duties on their materials?
When the Roosevelt ad minstration is re-
solved that the railroad corporations shall
give the public a ‘square deal,, equity de-
mands that the administration and the ma-
jority in congress shall no longer impose
tariff obstructions upon the right of these
companies to obtain the best materials in
the best market and on the best terms.
Inttiative and Referendam.
From the Connellsville Courier.
The initiative and referendum would un-
doubtedly be useful on occasions if it made
it possible to permit the voters to express
their will with binding effect on wobbly
members of the lawmaking body ; if, for
example, it had been invoked to ascertain
the will of the people concerning the bill
requiring the publication of the laws the
answer would bave heen so emphatic that
the levity-loving members of the legisla-
tare would not bave dared to treat asa
joke the demand for their enlightenment
as to the rales ol couduos they must oh-
serve under penalty of loss of property or
of liberty.
Under the ipitiative and referendnm,
platform pledges could be submitted to the
people for ratification, and once so declar-
ed to be the wishes of the people they would
not likely be treated lightly. Platform
pledges are what political leaders judge to
be the popular sentiments of their partio-
ular party, but it does not follow that they
accurately represent those sentiments,
though for all practical purposes it may be
assomed. The use of the initiative and ref-
erendum in such cases would be more par-
ticularly for emphasis than for ascertain-
ment, but it would efable each legislator
accurately to gauge the sentiments of his
coustituents, not only as to platform
pledges but also as to all other proposi-
tions, and for that reason alone it should
be welcome by him and them.
Bug's Great Work.
From the Williamsport Sun,
Thank goodness, some good is coming
out of Texas. There is a bug war on there,
and the agricultural department says it is
a great thing. The green bug, or spring
grain aphis, which has done so much dam-
age to wheat and other small grains in Tex-
as, Oklahoma and in a few of the southern
counties of Kansas, already is virtually ex-
terminated by its natural parasite, a very
minute black fly. If the favorable weath-
er continues through the present week the
bog will have been absolutely exterminat-
The bureau of entomology of the agri-
cultural department has aided the work by
sending hundreds of thousands of the par-
asites from Oklahoma and Texas into Kan-
sas.
Bat Kansas bas a bag-killer of its own.
Professor J. Hunter, of the entomological
department of the state university, at Law-
rence, bas for the last month been collect-
ing and sending free to the farmers of the
southwest parasite bees to kill the green
bugs that bave been destroying wheat, and
it bas been demonstrated that the parasite
bees of Kansas are jost as effective in their
assault upon the green wheat bug as the
Texan black fly. :
P. 8.—It might also be added that the
bugs’ great work has given the farmers
dollar wheat and raised the price of flour
sixty cents a barrel on the poor laborer.
Willie or Ben, Which?
From the Clearfield Republican.
In the contest for county chairman of
the g. 0. p. between Willie Swoope and
Bugaboo Chase both aspirants are as
Jat seadive softly but without a big stick.
h is telling the people he simply wants
the job for purposes of stepping higher and
it beaten will be out again next year for
anything going. Shoald Bugaboo fail he
will probably go on the lecture platform
and tell of the ‘‘spooka’ the ‘‘holydays’’
the ‘‘saints’’ and other *‘horrible things’
he imagines he saw and scared at while in
Italy at Uncle Sam’s expense. If Willie
goes down in defeat he may go after the
sition of State President of the Old Wom-
en's Amalgamated Clubs.
~The sporting editor of the Altoona
Tribune ought to keep closer tab on the
victories of the various college base ball
teams this year. In figuring out the lead-
ing team in inter-collegiate ball be forgot
to consider State College, whereas it is
doubtful if another team in the country
hae done as good. State has lost but two
games out of nineteen played and has ecor-
ed 131 runs to 47 scored against her.
Spawls froth the Keystone.
—alonroe county has joined Pike county
for the distinctive honor of not having a
prisoner in the county jail.
—Sixty thousand salmon from the state
hatchery at Erie have just been placed in
Peun’s creek, near Selinsgrove.
—Harry 8. Schoeller, aged 20 years, a
“steeple jack’ while painting the stack of
the Keystone furnace in Reading, last Fri.
day, fell 100 feet to the ground and was in-
stantly killed.
—The commissioners of Indiana county
have purchased & farm of 180 acres, situated
near the county seat, on which they propose
to erect a county home for the indigent poor.
The land sold at $100 an acre.
—Walter C. Madera and C. O. Foust, of
Pottsville, in a three days’ fishing trip
through the wilds of Schuylkill county,
caught over 400 fine specimens of trout, meas-
uring from eleven to eighteen inches in
length.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Lehman, of Mount Joy,
Lancaster county, who is in her 103 year and
enjoys excellent health, on Wednesday visit:
ed a life long friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Bru.
baker, aged 99 years, also of Mount Joy, who
is ill at present.
~—A movement is on foot having for its
object the immediate extension of the trolley
line from Huntingdon to Reedsville, Mifllin
county. This projected line would pass
throught Kishacoquillas valley, one of the
richest sections of that part of the state.
—Ralph Cowder, while at work in a clay
mina near Bigler, Clearfield county, last Fri.
day morning, was instantly killed by a fall
of clay which struck him on the back of the
head and crushed his life out. He was about
35 years of age and leaves a widow and sev-
eral children.
—Robert K. Taylor, a druggist of Ship-
pensburg, was on Wednesday convicted of
carrying concealed deadly weapons, stealing
a horse, killing a horse and arson, in the
Cumberland county court. Taylor has al-
ready served fourteen years in prison for
various offenses.
—As a result of a heavy fall ten days ago,
when she tried to keep her child from run.
ning toward the railroad track, Mrs. John
Garrison, wife of Station Master Garrison, of
the Pine street Reading station, Williams-
port, died at her home Saturday morning.
The accident caused internal injuries.
—A lot of dynamite, enough to demolish
a big building, was found by some boys se:
creted near the Lehigh Valley railroad water
tank, not far from Hazleton, on Thursday.
It is believed it was stolen from some mine
and placed there with the view of demolish-
ing either the Lehigh Valley or the Penn
sylvania pay train. :
—Robert H. Grier, an ingenious young
man of Oriole near Rauchtown, bas installed
an olectrical plant in his house that is en-
tirely satisfactory and cheap. He reaches up
from his chair and presses a button, in a flash
the house is illuminated as brilliantly as a
theatre. When he retires he turns a button
and he is instantly in darkness.
—A circular letter has been issued from
the adjutant general's office, at Harrisburg,
to Grand Army posts containing the infor.
mation that transportation will be issued at
the expense of the commonwealth, to sur-
viving honorably discharged soldiers of the
Forty-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania Veter
an Volunteer Infantry, to attend the dedica-
tion of a monument at Petersburg, Virginia,
June 20.
—Repeated reports have been received
that in German valley (rom one end to the
other, dogs have been chasing deer and that
in one instance, a fawn was killed by its
pursuers. In another instance when an on-
looker saw a dog in close pursait of a deer
and he drove the dog away, the deer was so
nearly exhausted that it at once lay down
to rest. These two cases are but timilar to
many others.
—At the point of a revolver Samuel Wall-
worth, mine superintendent at Eriton, near
Clearfield, was compelled to get out of bed at
3 o'clock Saturday morning,arouse his entire
family, and then accompany a negro burglar
to the library, where the family was lined
up and forced to watch the father open the
safe and hand its contents to the boldest
crimival ever known to have visited that
part of the state. The man ‘secured only
£1.50 for his daring and trouble.
—Mrs. Edward DeWalt, of Hughesville,
Lycoming county, is lying at her home in «
a serious condition the result of a peculiar
accident which occurred last evening, while
she was assisting her husband in building a
fence around their yard. Mr. DeWalt was
using aa ax with which to drive a post and
as the axe descended itbroke,the blade strik-
ing Mrs. DeWalt on the head. Two deep
gasbes were inflicted, While the wounds
are of a serious nature it is not believed they
will prove fatal.
—William Niswenter, an independent
coal operator, announces that he has made a
discovery of cecal ona tractof land in the
McAuley mountains, near Bloomsburg,
which will yield from 600 to S800 tons of coal
daily for 30 years. The veins run almost
straight along the meuntain, which will
make it possible to mine the coal by means
of slopes. Mr. Niswenter has been negotiat-
ing for over two years with the owners of
the property for a lease, which be finally se-
cured last week.
~—Frank Smith, who is cutting the timber
purchased by him on the John McDowell
farm in Graham township, Clearfield county,
last week felled to the ground a giant pine
tree which measured 7 feet 4 inches across
the stump and was 102 feet in length. Sev:
eral other great pines on this tract, measur:
ing from 100 to 110 feet in length, but not
having such a diameter, stand in the vicini-
ty of this late lamented giant of the forest.
This is probably the last bunch of real big
PO- | nine trees left in Clearfield county.
~—A few days ago a cow belonging to Wil-
liam D. Kriner, of Wellsboro, gave birth to
a calf with two completed heads, two tails,
seven legs and eight hoofs. The freak was
was dead. The freak of nature was given to
Mrs. Patterson, who sent it to a taxidermist
at Niagara Falls to be mounted. One day
last week she received an offer of $400 for
the curiosity from a manager of a museum at
Niagara Falls. Arrangements have since
been made to place the freak on exhibition
and Mrs. Patterson will share in the re-
ceipts.