Demorra iain enema ———— BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Winter is evidently getting ready to linger in the lap of spring. . —The Rev. Auz1 C. Dixon, of Chicago, says President ROOSEVELT is another Prophet Isatan. Why dido’s he make him Erisam IV and call him to command in Zion oity. —Gradually the list of gentlemen who |" are willing to serve their country by fill- ing the county offices is growing. It is likely that by March 21st, the last day for filing papers, there will be a fine field to pick from. —In Alabama and South Carolina the laws prohibit the carrying of pistols less than twenty-four inches long. It is evi- dent that when a mao is held up down there some one must have pulled a real gun on him. —1I¢ is nice that Mr. C. F. BARCLAY bas announced his desire to represent this die- triot again in the lower house of Congress, otherwise few people would know that we have anybody representing us at Wasbiog- ton at this time. —Look Haven, Renovo and Jersey Shore are planning to bave Bellefonte join them in a baseball league for next season. All that we need to ges in is some gentleman who hasn't found oat yet how easy it is for baseball to separate one from bis coin. —The resals of going to a party at which there were thirteen guests was a blockade of thirteen hours in a snow-bound train on Saturday night and Sunday, for a few Bellefonte gentlemen. Of course they are pot superstitions but shey just coanldn’t help thinking of it a little. —Three handred and thirty persons bav- ing on deposit over $700,000 in the defunct Kniokerbooker Trust Co., in New York oity, cannot be found. How much bap- pier they are in ignorance of the crash than if they could be found. Why hunt them up to tell such bad news ? —Euglish investigations have proven that the death rate in communities baving soft water is 19.2 while in those using bard water it is only 16 5. All the more reason so be thankful for our own heauntifol spring, with water so hard that it will soarcely make lather enough for a decent bath. —1It is evidently proving very difficult for the prosecutors in the capitol grafs trial to settle the matter of whether it was lin- ear or cubic feet that they measured by. Anybody ought to know that it was both. Who ever heard of such hogs not getting both feet in the trough when they bad the chance. —Mr. BRYAN'S versatility was never better shown than daring hie recent visit to Philadelphia. As a politician, as a statesman and as a lay preacher he appear- ed pre-eminent. Whatever else may be said of him it cannot be denid that he has a head full of brains, a lot of good red blood and a christian character. —It might be well for our Presbyterian elders, who are concerned to know why there are over two thousand pulpits in the country for which they cannot find preach- ers, to understand that she price of chick- ens has kept so steadily skyward that the dominies are not getting it every place they call for dinner nowadays. —It seems strange that the man who had been earning from two to three dollars a day, every day he would work for years prior so November first, should already be on the brink of starvation. It is true, however, and though experience is a sorry teacher, few of the laboring classes ever think there is a tomorrow to be provided for or of the proverbial ‘‘rainy day.” —Mayor MCCLELLAN, of New York, did the right thing in vetoing the ordinance passed by the board of aldermen of that oity, prohibiting women from emoking in public cafes. As a matter of common sense women have just as much right to smoke as men, but the habit is so peculiar- ly nubecoming to a gentle woman that we can imagine none of them doing it public: ly or in private. —Mr. THAW is in Matteawan for an in- definite stay. Matteawan is the place of confinement for the criminal insane of New York State. As to whether THAW is in- save or not remains for the future to re- veal, hut certain it i# that bad most any other person done half the things he did before the murder of STANFORD WHITE they would not have had their liberty long enough to commit such an act. —The horrible tragedy in Portugal is only ao expression of the acuter form of the mania that has seized the minds of the American masses, Unless there is greater oivio righteousness in this coontry we can- not but expect the time when blood shed will be resorted to as the only remedy for the ill of the common people. Then, woe betide the Republic and those who are try- ing to run it as a corporation monarchy. ~The vast army of the unemployed in the country today indicates an economic condition that could easily be improved upon. At times when private and corpor- ate industries are going through a period of depression would is not be entirely prop- er to make all the municipal, state and federal improvements possible. This would furnish employment for thousands when there is nothing else to do and they could all be turned back into other fields of labor the moment a demand for their services arose. The sensation of the season, it may safe- ly be said, was the special message of the President sent to Congress on Friday last. Such a barangue bas never even been dreamed of before. In it the President has literally exhausted the vocabulary of vita- peration. He hurled epithets at every man who doesn’t agree with him and denounc- ed every institution that is not of his own creating. He scolds Congress like a mad woman in a fish markes, traduces private citizens like an outlaw and denounces everybody and everything from the courts down or up. Yet there is much truth in what the President bas said. The abuse of the pow- er of injunction by servile judges should be checked, interstate commerce should be held under reasonable regulation by Coo- gress, the swindling of the public by spec- nlators in worthless stocks should be stop- ped, predatory wealth should be restrained from exploiting the public and the flagrant dishonesty of a few men should be punish- ed to the fall limit of the law. Bat Mr. RoosEVELT should remember that these re. sults cannot be achieved by scolding Con- gress in special messages. Besides the spirit of the message is not to be commended. It ia like a wail of dis- appointed ambition. Aeoribing the panic to ROOSEVELT absolutely destroyed his hopes of a re-election and Le resents that which seems to him a personal outrage. If he had done this in a different manner no fanlt could be found with him. Bat his method is petulant and peevish, He at- tacks from behind an entrenchment that ie impregnable. No man can answer the President of the United States for the great office shields him. Moreover President RGOSEVELT is as mach to blame as any one for the abuses of which be complains. If the election had pot been bought for his party in 1806 there would he no ‘‘malefactors of great wealth’ to prey upon the public now. If MARK HANNA had not promised aud procured for she ‘‘powerfal wrongdoers’” whose tainted money corrupted the electorate in 1900, the special privileges which made them predatory, we would vot have the evils of which ROOSEVELT complains now. If his party bad not, with his help, main- tained a tariff system thas robs the masses to enrich the olasses, there would now be no sach cancer on the body politic as that against which be inveighs. In any evens ROOSEVELT'S screed to Con- gress would have been in bad taste. Under existing circumstances it is not a paper to be proud of. The Demoorats in the House of Representatives were justified m ap- planding it because it expressed some wholesome truths and for the reason that it confused aod humiliated the Republi- cans. Bat it was not inspired by a lofty impulse or expressed in becoming terms. It was designed either to help TaA¥r for the nomination agaivst a fitter man or to revive the third term corpse which already smells throughout the country. Neither purpose is patriotic. Mr. Berry's Mistaken (dea. — State Treasurer BERRY was a trifle too lenient, in his great speech on Saturday night, to that element in the Repablican party which has “simply failed jto observe how far their party has drifted from the traditions of LiNcony. ‘‘In this class of Repablicans,” he added, ‘‘is the; hope of Pennsylvania.” If that be true Pennsyl- vania is ‘‘leaning on a broken reed.” Measured by his own standard of right- eousuess the representatives of that contin. gent bave failed. Measured by any stand- aid of righs there is practically no differ- enoe between one faction of the Republican party aod another. The reformers and the gangsters are equally selfish and there is no material difference in their methods. In the same speech [rom which we bave quoted Mr. BErmrY stated that he had “tried to induce the Legislature to author- ize the treacurer to receive bids, subject to rigid provisions as to security, eto., and deposit the money at the nommercial rate of interes established by competition, but she Legislature was Republican, and though it was then in the throes of a spasm of reform, 1t was dominated by that cass of mind that does not see injustice in a legal process by whiob an individual is enabled to take the property of bis neighbors with- oat rendering a just equivalent, partionlar- ly if she individaal is a liberal contributor to the party campaigo fund.” Mr. BERRY couldn’t bave brought the subject to a fair- er test, Awong the Senators in she Legislature who pas-ed upon thatquession was VIVIAN FRANK GABLE. He was elected by a fu- sion of the Demosrats and the so called re- form Republicans of his distriot, the Dem- oorats being vastly in the majority. But veither McNrcHon, nor KEYSER, vor BROWN, nor any other machine Repabli- can on the floor was more zealons in the fight againss Mr. BERRY'S obviously just proposition than Mr. GABLE. He was for reform when reform promised to gratify his inordinate ambition for office and vos- BELLEFO inated from she memory of the | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. NTE, PA., FEBRUARY 7, 1908. ed for Mr. BERRY because it helped bim- | sell. But when the issue was drawn be- tween genuine reform and political plan- der, be joined the gavgsters and helped them hold on to the spoils. The Berry Testimonial. The testimonial to Hon. WiLniam H. BERRY, State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, on Saturday evening, was worthy of the man and the occasion. Near- ly four handred citizens of Pennsylvania and adjacent States assembled to express their esteem and admiration for a man who had performed not only for bis State aod country, but to the great cause of public morality, a substantial service, When the charges he had made against a corrupt ring were investigated he wae refused, for parti- san reasons, the recognition to which he was entitled. Because of this injustice the banquet in his honor was given and for that reason, moreover, its splendid sucoess is a subject of popular felicitation. When Mr. BERRY was elected State Treasurer by the people of Pennsylvania, the fi<cal affairs of the Commonwealth were in the hands of a gang of pirates who were looting the public mercilessly. Immedi- ately after the election the work of cover- ing up the crimes was begun. If nothing else had resulted that would, nevertheless, have been worth while. Most of us be- lieved at the time that that was all and sufficient. But Mr. BERRY discovered that vast frauds had been perpetrated in the construction of the capitol. He couldn’ tell the extent or the exact nature of the frands. But he knew that the people had been deceived as to the cost of the building and character of the materials, and de- mauded an investigation. The result of the inquiry was the over- whelming support of his acousations. Is was found that everything he said was true and that the whole truth had not been told. Yes she partisan commission withheld from him the jost measure of praise which was due. In she report of that body his name was not even mentioned. The petty minds which managed the inquiry imagin- ed that his part of the work could be elim- that contemptible expedient. The event of last Saturday evening has proved the folly of such silly proceedings. Nearly four hundred just men assembled todo him honor and nearly as many more were turned away because there wasn’t room for them. That Capitol Steal. The graft trials at Harrishusg have not progressed far enough to afford even a good basis for conjecture as to the ultimate re- salt, at this writing. It has been shown beyond question, that contractor SANDER: SON vastly overcharged the State in every- thing that he supplied, and that the others accused of association with him in the con- spiracy were marvelously indifferent to the interests of the public. The links of the chain have been formed and revealed as units. But thus far they have not been joined together. Fraud bas been proved against SANDERSON, in other words, and criminal ocareles«ne«s against SHUMAKER, MATHUES and SNYDER. Bat proof of the conspiracy is only implied. As lawyer SCARLETT said the other day, “conspiracy isa shadowy thing.”’ Tue operations of these men looted the treasury bat is may be difficalt to show that they were working in collusion. Is will proba bly be impossible to do this by positive testimony. But to quote again fiom At- torney SCARLETT, ‘‘when a dice player throws five sixes all the time it is ohvions that the dice are loaded.” Those men were throwing sixes right along aod there is no escape from the inference. The extraordinary rush for the payment of bills between the time of Mr. BERRY'S election and his induction into office is she connecting link which establishes the con- spiracy. It cold have bad no other par- pose than to complete the conspiracy. That there was conspiracy is already established in the minds of all impartial men and if the prosecution is earnest a ver- dios of guilty is inevitable. We have never believed that the prosecution was cigani- zed tooconvios, however. notwithstanding the earnestness of Mr. SCARLETT. Isis too grave a matter for some of those who were concerned in the transaotions but are not revealed in the indictments. It would he unfair to prejudge the master, however. The court has been fair, shus far, and may be just to she end DButthe State was rohhed, however the trial conolades, and the aurherities have heen more concerned to suppress than supply evidence. ~The commissioners of Centre county paid ous during the month of January $339 for bounties ovo noalps The total in- oladed 144 weasels, 82 foxes, 39 minke and 13 wild cat scalps, from which it can be seen that there are still a few wild animale in this section. ~The ground hog has certainly dem:on- strated she fuot shat he is not a nature- faker, In a speech before the Ohio society of New York, the other night, Senator FORA- KER declared shat thére are to-day ‘‘ap- proximately 320,000 freight cars avd 8,000 locomotives standing idle, representing an investment of more than $400,000,000, and that there are more than 30,000 anemploy- ed train men, discharged #iain crews of the idle equipment.’”’ That is a sad state of affairs, ‘a serious situation,” as the dis- tingnished Senator observed, ‘‘Yet,”” he added significantly, ‘‘we should know the cause if we would find a remedy." If there were a Democratic administration in Wash- ington, he would have no srouble in dis. covering the canse. The implied threat against the tariff would be ample to satis- fy FORAKER. Strangely enough, however, ander exist- ing conditions he is unable to find the canse and ascribes it toa wrong source. There has heen overtraling, overexpansion of credit, overcapitalization of new organiza- sions, high prices of labor, of stocks and of materials, he says. But the sinister effect of muck-raking has been the dominating cause of she trouble. By muck-raking he means the efforts of President ROOSEVELT to bring the *‘malefactors of great wealth” into obedience to the laws. Nodoubt the excesses in trading, in capitalization, in expansion of credits and high prices have bad something to do with the matter. Bot enforcing the law equally against all men never has and never will work barm. We can point out to Senator FORAKER the exact causes of the wretched industrial and commeroial condition to which he re- fers. It is the excessive and unequal tax burdens which bave been put upon the people by his party during the pass dozen Iho. The DINGLEY tariff bill has rob- the productive energy of the country to the extent of a thousand million dollars a year to create millionaires like the THAWS and the HARRIMANS and ROCKEFELLERS, who squander it in vice or other forms of selfishuess. That is the evil which both ForAKER and ROOSEVELT refuse to see though it is #0 plain that ‘‘he who runs nay read.” The remedy is equally plain. ¢ tre cause and the cure follows. Roosevelt and the Monopolies. In his speech at the banguet of the Ohio society in New York, the other night, Mr. ARCHBOLD, who is the real head of the Standard O1l monopoly, expressed his cor- dial agreement with President ROOSEVELT, that a federal license is what is needed te cure the trust evil. Jnst before the New York insurance scandals were exposed, a couple of years ago, the predatory pluto- orats of those organizations were in accord with Mr. ROOSEVELT'S notion that fed- eral control of the insurance business was the real remedy. These facts singularly prove that Presi- dent ROOSEVELT is a bogus reformer. In other words, while addressing the galleries he is alwaye, and invariably, playing in favor of the monopolies. The railroads protested against his schemes of federal regulation until the state governments be- gan regulating on their own acconot, and then the railroad hastened to get under the protection of the federal wing. Itia muoh easier to manage than the States. The United States Senate 18 already pack- ed in she interests of predatory wealth. The Pennsylvania railroad managers bad many a ‘‘bad gnarser of an hour" between the date of the passage of the two cent fare bill and the decision of the Supreme court of the State that it was unconstitutional. All this ‘mental angaisk’’ would bave been avoided if ROOSEVELT'S policy of fed- eral control had been in effect, for Congress will never pass a drastio rate bill and so long as the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion is made up of decayed politicians, as ROOSEVELT constitutes is, there is nothing to fear from that source. Captain Delaney as a Witness, Factory Inspector DELANEY was a wit- pess for the Commonwealth in the graft trials at Harrishaurg, the other day, bat his memory was absolutely incapable of rendering any service. He could remem. ber nothing that was relevant to the in- gairy. This is the best evidence in the world that the Republican machine doesn’t want to aid the prosecution or give any evidence against the conspirators. When HayMproN L. CARSON, PENNY- PACKER'S hogus Attorney General, was making a fake inquiry into the graft charges for the henefis of the grafters, Dg- LANEY was “big' with information. He volantarily declared that he had invented the ‘‘per fo0s"’ and the ‘‘per pound’’ sys- tem and knew all about it. He swore with the freedom of a trooper in Flanders that SANDERSON, HUSTON and other con- apirators were as innocent as doves, so far as the measurements were concerned. Js was important then, from the ma- ohine view point, to show that the accused conspirators had not invented those meth- oils to loot the treasury and DELANEY was equal to the ocoasion. He was surprisiug- | was no artistic dreamer. ly garralous and fluent. But the other day when the Commonwealth wanted in- formation along the same lines, he was as domb asan oyster. In other words his memory accommodates itself to the exigen- cies of the machine. A Campaign Document. From the Pittsburg Post. Aroused, ostensibly, by the overthrow of she employers’ liability law in the supreme court, the President has sent an 11,000 word special message to Congress. The communication ruas the gamut from eco- nomics to ethics, and while the subject master bas not much in is of novelty, ex- cept a little plainer speaking than usual, the occasion of its deliverance and the pres- ent condition of the country make it wor- thy of a general and close reading, fcr the President, in the guise of a state paper, bas put forth what muss be regarded as a cam- paign docament. He is for a fight to a fin- ish with *‘predatory wealth” now, as this citation shows : ‘‘The gravely significant attitude toward the law snd its adminis- tration recently adopted by certain heads of great corporations renders it desirable that there should be additional legis- lation as regards certain of the relations be- tween labor and capital, and between the great corporations and the public.” Reading farther, we find that it is the Standard Oil company more particularly than any other that the President is alter. Bat with an uster disregard of strategy, he puts those who may agree with him as to existing evils, but who disagree as to meth- ods of remedying them, into the same cate- gory with those opposed to his policies fiom selfish motives. Nothing is more evident than that this Congress will do nothing in this matter. It has done nothing at all with the 30,000- word message Mr. Roosevelt discharged at it in the regular way less than 60 days ago. He cannot have bad any hope that this latest outgiving will stir it to any action, benoce its purpose must be ulterior. And can his party, without coming into the con- demuation of heing reactionary, avoid in- corporating his inflammatory Federalism into its platform? And, finally, how are the people who have berated and voted against the Democratic party for its posi- tion against injunctions going to take this very much more radical pronouncement in the matter? With Mr. Roosevelt, there is to be no more soft speaking, no cry of Peace, Peace, where as he sees it there is none, nor the prospect of any. He has cast the die irre- vocably. He would force the issue at once and regardless. He stakes his. larity against the expedient-loving onan, of his party. It isa direct appeal to the Caesar of public sentiment. Huston and Pennypacker. From the North American. Huston believes today that a thousand yeas hence that building will be a voice- ieas, hut ceaseless, chant in praise of its architect, keeping his fame [resh through- ont the ages. If ever Huston understood that he was chanciog peril he felt secure in the support of Penrose, McNichol, Durbam and the organization. And back and beyond them he had what he regarded as another insur ance policy—the acquiescence and active aid of Gov. Pennypacker. The belief of the North American is that every man connected with this prosecu- tion, from Governor Stuart down, has been honest and earnest. We believe that no wnvestigation of misdeeds and process of punishment ever have heen carried on with greater integrity of purpose. Bat just as firmly do we believe that a grievous error was made when Governor Pennypacker was nos included in the list of defendants. To argue that Pennypacker is less calpa- ble than Huston, assuming that neither accepted money or gifts, leads 80 a concla- sion which we consider utterly unjustifi- able. Unless Gov. Pennypacker is the most impossible of all recorded dunces, he knew that the state was being robbed, and he sanctioned that robbery by bis silence. This governor bad been a judge. He He had sat upon the bench for many years, and before him civil and criminal suits, involving con- tracts, specifications, bids and all of commercial law, bad been tried and ad- judicated understandingly. The theory shat this man ip ge upon those Har rishurg contracts supplies and be ig- norant that the state was being bled by the men with whom he was in daily ocon- tact is beyond belief. No man can plead for Pennypacker the extenuation that can be offered for Huston. Pennypacker was not swept away from right thinking by any love for art. He was blinded by no devotion to an ideal. It is fartherst from our intent to censure these otors. Bat we predict thas if ever Hustoo and the members of the board of public gronnds and buildings tell the whole story of Gov. Pennypacker’s con- nection with this job, the people of this state will helieva that the investigators were far more lenient, in at least one case, than even-handed justice demanded. Creasy's Pluck. From the Northumberiand Democrat. The pluck of that staonch Democratio representative, W. T. Creasy, is to be commended and admired. After rendering valuable service to his constituents and the State for a number of years in the Legis- lature he had concluded to retire. He bad always been an object of hatred to the Re- publican gangsters who fattened on the spoils of the State. The Philadelphia ma- chine had arranged to defeat him this year itis could be done. This coming to the knowledge of Mr. Creasy he has reconsid- ered his intention to withdraw his candi- daoy thie year and he will ran. As be is certain of election, the te are to he thanked for their intention to defeat him, which will have tne effect of retaining so Bove avd useful a member in she Legis atare. ———————————————— ~The man who thought there wonld be no ice has changed bis mind. Spawls frem the Keystone. —Wild cats are said to be unusually plenti- ful in Clinton county this winter. —On Saturday six large coal companies in the anthracite region paid to their employees $350,000 for wages. —The Clearfield tannery, which has of late been running on partial time, started up in fall blast on Monday. —Seversl barns were wrecked and many buildings were unroofed and fences blown down by a terrific gale which raged in Schuylkill county on Sunday. —The Juniata Oak Extract Works, of Mt. Union, Huntingdon county, recently ship- ped two car loads of their products to Aus- tralia, where it will be used in the produec- tion of fancy leather. —8ix furnaces of the Phoenix Iron com-— pauy at Phoenixville, which were closed a week for repairs, were started again on Sat- urday morning and several hundred men resumed their employment. ~Twenty-two offices are to be filled next fall in Schuylkill county, and already there are over fifty candidates announced for the spring primary, with prospects that there will be over two hundred candidates. —Over one hundred names of heads of families have been secured to the petition praying for the establishment of a rural free delivery route from Newton Hamilton down the east side of the river through Ryde into Bratton township, and back by way of Sugar valley. —A report from Confluence, Somerset county, states that Mrs. Mary Walker, of that place, has a marvelous hen that lays two eges a day. The fowl rests on her laurels for twenty-four hours after each per- formance and only produces eggs every other day. —The old and well known M. E. Barn- dollar estate, doing business in Everett, Bed - ford county, vnder the name of Barndollar’s Department store, will on the 17th of Feb- ruary, pass into the hands of a new business concern to be known as ‘Everett Supply company, limited.” —Poter 8. Krick, a Lancaster butcher, found an open face gold watch in the stom. ach of a steer that he slaughtered on Tues- day. It was a western fed steer that be had bought at the Union stock yards. Some time ago he found a wooden croquet bail in the stomach of a steer. —William H. Logan, of York, has been awarded a jury verdict of $500 for damages against the Pennsylvania Telephone com- pany for the mutilation of fruit trees on his property in Carroll township, in stringing telephone wires, and now he has instituted another suit for damages to 200 locust trees along a beautiful driveway. —Miss Cora Phleger, of Oriole, near Wil- liamsport, met a peculiar accident in her father’s barn. Stepping on the roller of a wagon tongue, she was thrown from the mow. In the fall her foot caughtin some loose boards and she hung head downward until her father, who was attracted by her cries, released her. Her condition is dan- gerous, —Pheanes Thomas, tax collector in Cleve- land township, Columbia county, has one leg off and the other is paralyzed so that he is | obliged to get around on his bands and knees, yet he is one of the best tax collectors in the county. Last week he settled up his duplicates at the commissioners offices and in the taxes amounting to $1,066, he asked exonerations for only $8. ~The black bear that has been causing some hunters much concern in the 'Scootac region met his Waterloo on Thursday last when John Williams, an expert shot laid him low. This particular bear was a can- ning fellow and gave many hunters who were after him a merry chase, eluding all until Mr. Williams got a shot at him. It was of medium weight, but had an exceptionally fine coat of fur. —On Friday morning while Mrs. T. C. Saylor, of Lock Haven, was preparing break fast, the kitchen range exploded with a ter- rific noite and fragments of iron flew in every direction. Fortunately no one was in the kitchen at the time. At first it was thought the explosion was caused by the water tank being frozen but this was found to be incorrect and it is believed that there was a dynamite cartridge in the coal. —Au application for a charter from the State Department for an intended corpora- tion to be known as the *‘Watsontown Brick and Clay Products company’’ has been made by John B. Myers, of Lock Haven, who is solicitor of the same. Those persons whose names appear on the application are H. PF Algert, W. A. Nicely, E. H. Hilliard, of that section; Charles E. Ball, John B. Myers, of Lock Haven, and Samuel G. Davis, of Mill Hall. —A love romance was brought to a happy climax, when J. A. Herrold,of Independence, Snyder county, was wedded on the spot with. out prearrangement at a banquet at Middle- burg, to Miss Minnie C. Erb, daughter of Rev. J. C. Erb, of Port Trevorton: While seated at the banquet board the would-be groom proposed to his sweetheart and she as promptly accepted. Prothonotary Shindel, being also a guest, was secured and the knot tied in the presence of all seated at the ban- quet table. ~The pastor of the Rouzerville cireuit, Franklin county, of the Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. W. B. Keeley, serves his con- gregations afoot and covers greator distances thus in his pastoral duties than any other minister in the county. There are six ap- pointmsents on the circuit, and the distance from one end of the circuit to the other is about twenty-five miles, thus making a trip of itty miles for the pastor in performing his usual duties. All the traveling necessary he does on foot. —A new bridge over the West Branch of the Susquehanna river at Lewisburg, de - layed so long by litigation and dispute, isat length nearing completion, and the last span was swung the latter part of last week. The people of Lewisburg, weary of paying toll, are overjoyed that their hopes are seon to be realized and a big demonstration is being planned when the new structure is opened to the public. The bridge when completed, will be one of the finest iu the State, costing $125.000. It will be finished in about two months.
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