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"Bellefonte, Pa., March 6, 1908.
Pormer Governor, a Republican,
Elected Amid Wild Excitement,
FOUR DEMOCRATS BOLTED
Amid scenes of wildest excitement
tn the Kentucky legislature, former
Governor William O'Connell Bradley,
Republican, was elected United States
senator to succeed James B. Ms
Creary. Bradley's term of six years
will begin on March 4, 1909. He re-
ceived sixty-four votes, four of which
were cast by Democrats opposed to
former Governor Beckham, leading
Democratic candidate for senator,
who was indorsed for the office at the
gtate primaries. Senators H. 8S. Mec:
Nutt. Albert Charlton, and Represent-
ative Chris Mueller, of Louisville, and
Representative E. W. Lillard, of Boyle
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Big Mine Cave-in Near Wilkes-Barre. |
A mammoth mine cave-in, eighty
feet deep. and disturbing a surface
area of about a third of an acre, oc- |
curred near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The |
cave-in runs along a coal branch!
of the Jersey Central railroad,
whose tracks were undermined and
destroyed for a distance of fifty yards.
The Blackman colliery workings of |
the Lehigh Valley Coal company |
nearby were inundated with a sudden |
rush of rock, clay and sand, causing |
the miners and other employes to flee |
for their safety. The properties in the |
vicinity of the cave-in, including sev- |
eral dozen miners’ houses, are in great
danger.
ANIMAL TAILS.
The Functions of Those of Cats, Lions
and Jaguars.
A cat pever actually wags its tail
Why should it when it can pur? But
nevertheless it seems to serve the same
purpose in permitting a temporary ex-
penditure of excess nervous energy
when the animal is under great strain.
For instance, when carefully stalking
a bird or a man, as in the case of a
kitten or a lion, the tip of the tail is
pever still for a moment—ever curling
and uncurling. We may compare this
to the nervous tapping of the foot or
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PAPER WATERMARKS.
Method by Which the Devices Are
Imprinted on the Sheets.
The discovery of the watermark was
the result of an accident—probably a
thousand years ago. Parchment was
then made of vegetable pulp. which
wus poured in a liquid state into a
sieve; the water dripped out from be-
| lov. and the thin layer of pulp that
i remained was pressed and dried. When
(dry it was found to bear upon it the
| marks of the fiber that composed the
| bottom of the sieve.
| These fibers seem to have been
| twisted reeds, and the mark they left
{ on the parchment took the form of
“The cave is about 175 feetelong and | fingers in a man. When un angry Hou ci ines running across and across
about half as wide. Those who wit. | is roaring his loudest, his tall will fre- | 450.,,,11y. |n those days the water-
nessed the disappearance of the sur-| quently lash from side to side, giving ,... wax regarded as a blemish since
face state that the firs} indication was | rise among the ancients to the belief | ,,. ;).. \.x thick and coarse and the
a settling of a few feet, after which | that be scourged his body with a hook | 4... |, ression made on the paper
the surface
same manner the contents of a huge
funnel would. There was a subdued
roar, and all that remained was a
deep hole, which attracted hundreds the top of a board fence. we perceive
of sightseers. The people living near- | another important function of the tall,
est the cave-in are preparing to aban- | that of an aid in balancing. As a tight
don their homes for fear a further |
spreading may occur So far none di
county, were the Democrats who voted o houses have been damaged.
for Bradley.
The completion of the first roll eall
in joint session showed: Bradley 64;
Beckham, 60; Blackburn, 1; James, 1.
Before the speaker could announce
the result, the Democrats obtained a
recapitulation and attempted to break
the quorum by leaving the hall; but
they soon came back, accompanied
by Beckham, who authorized the with-
drawal of his name and released the
Democrats from the primary nomina-
tion pledge to him in hope that some
other Democrat could be elected {if
the four bolting Democrats could be
persuaded to change their votes.
These four men were surrounded by
party friends and urged to withdraw
their support from Bradley and re-
elect Senator James McCreary or any
Democrat they might name, but the
four men declared that the proposal
came too late. The Democratic lead-
ers even promised a caucus to select
a candidate, to which the name of
Beckham would not be presented, but
the bolters ended the recapitulation
by steadfastly refusing all offers.
Representative Lillard was the only
one of the four Democrats to explain
his vote for Bradley. He said he
thought the time had come to “throw
off party shackies and to break up
the machine,” and, although he did
support the Democratic ticket for
forty years, he believed his vote for
Bradley “was the best Democratic
vote he ever cast.”
Three Arrested For Patent Fraud.
Three arrests in Washington have
brought to light a scandal in the
patent office which has been under in
vestigation since early in February, |
and which revolves around an inven
tion valued at more than $5,000,000,
The parties arrested are Ned W. Bar-
ton, third assistant examiner of the
patent office; Henry W. Everding, a
patent attorney of Philadelphia, and
John A. Heany, an inventor of York,
Pa. They had been indicted by the
United States grand jury for conspir-
acy to defraud the government and for
destroying public records. Bail was
fixed at $10,000,
The indictment charges that the
three men, “with an intent to steal
and destroy,” carried away from the
patent office certain letters, specifica
tions and amendments relating to pac
ents and unlawfully and wilfully de
gtroyed them. The investigation was
made upon information that as a re-
sult of a conspiracy John A. Heany
Pad been given a patent on an inven
tion for manufacturing filaments and
electrodes for electric incandescent
lamps.
The facts disclosed by the investi
gation were of such a character that
they were presented to the grand jury,
It is alleged that through connivance
with Ned W. Barton, Heany and
Everding outrivaled more than twenty
of the largest electrical concerns in
the country. all striving to get the
same patent. All of these concerns
had filed applications for a patent, but
from time to time Barton, it is charg
ed, would see the specifications and
employ whatever he desired for per
fecting Heany's invention. To be suc-
cessful In this plan it was necessary
to destroy certain records and file
substitutes therefor.
Bride Gives Away $800,000.
Mrs. Annie M. Weightman Walker,
worth $40,000,000, one of the wealth-
fest women in America, was married
to Frederick Courtland Penfield, diplo-
mat, clubman and yachtsman, in St.
Patrick's cathedral in New York.
Shortly after the wedding Mrs.
‘Walker's attorney in Philadelphia an-
nounced on behalf of the bride the
following gifts to relatives and Insti
tutions:
A deed of trust under which $600,
000 are set aside for the benefit of
her nephew and five nieces, and $200,
000 for the benefit of four great
nephews and nieces, in equal por
tions.
$50,000 to the College of Physicians
in this city, as a memorial to her
father, the late William Weightman,
$40,000 to the Franklin Institute, in
this city, to carry out a contract me-
morial gift made as a memorial to her
father.
$50,000 to the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania as a memorial to her
first husband, Robert J. C. Walker.
$20,000 to the Society to Protect
Children from Cruelty in Philadelphia,
$20,000 to the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
$5000 to the Professor George Allen
Memorial in the University of Penn-
gylvania and a similar amount to the
library fund of the Perkiomen Semi
nay of Pennsylvania.
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Received Bomb By Mail.
That City Solicitor N. R. Turner,
of Easton, Pa, was not blown
to pleces is no fault of some
enemy now living in Italy. The attor-
ney received a package in the mails,
and when he opened it he found it to
contained a stick of dynamite, to one
end of which was attached an explo-
sive cap. Fortunately the cap burned
a little in transit, destroying its power
to explode the dynamite when the
package was opened, as had been
planned by the sender.
Turner was formerly assistant to
the district attorney, and it is sup-
posed that the dynamite was sent to
him by one of the number of Italians
he prosecuted and who have since
been released from jeil and gone
home to Italy.
A Rich Gold Find In West Virginia.
The eastern end of Hancock county,
W. Va.. near Arroya, if in a state of
excitement over an alleged rich gold
find. The Sawmill Run Oil company
is drilling an oil well on the Miss Vir-
ginia Brown farm at Arroya, and when
from a depth of 200 feet the bailer
was brought up it was found to con-
tain a solid substance, in which the
glint of gold was seen. The substance
proved to be gold ore, and the small
quantity brought up by the bailer was
declared to be worth $7.50, or at the!
rate of $7000 per ton.
Offers by capitalists, most of them
Pittsburgers. to lease adjoining terri:
tory, have heen turned down by the
owners of the land, who will form
their own company and mine for gold.
Insane Man Bit Off His Own Tongue.
Going suddenly insane while twenty
miles at sea off Atlantic City,
N. J. in a codfishing schooner, Ed-
ward Anderson, one of the sailors, be- |
came vicious, and in his desperation
bit off his own thumb. He also at-
tempted to throw other members of
the crew overboard. Anderson was
overpowered and tied with ropes to
the floor in the cabin. With superhu-
man strength he got one arm free and
bit off his thumb. His shrieks of pain
terrified the other sailors. When the
schooner was docked Anderson was
taken in charge by the police officials
and placed in a padded cell.
Beat Child to Death.
Charged with beating a five-year-
old child to death and then setting
fire to their home to burn the body
and conceal the crime, “Doc” Watts
and his wife, both negroes. were ar-
rested and placed under a close guard
to prevent lynching threatened by res-
{dents of Gladden, near Pittsburg, Pa.
Neighbors, attracted to the house by
smoke soon after Watts and his wife
left, broke open the door and found
the child under a table, the indications
being that a bonfire had been started
around her body.
Killed Three Children and Herself.
Mrs. J. C. Spires, the wife of a
farmer near Baltimore, O., killed three
of her children, fatally wounded a
fourth and then committed suicide.
One of the children was drowned in a
well and the others were shot and
their throats cut. Mrs. Spires took
ecarbolic acid, shot herself and cut her
throat. The surviving child, which
may die, is Alva, five vears old. The
dead children are: Catherine, three
years old; Luella, six years old, and
Jesse, aged one year.
Girl Poisoned By Indelible Pencil.
Miss Mamie Shales, a clerk in a
laundry at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is in a
critical condition as a result of
having been poisoned by putting an
indelible pencil to her tongue while
doing her office work. There is little
hope for her recovery. The girl used
the indelible pencil to mark articles
sent into the laundry, and time and
time again placed it between her lips
without suspecting the danger.
Mother's Mistake Killed Baby.
Mrs. William Sloat, residing in Har-
risburg, Pa., gave her infant a por-
tion of a morphine tablet in mistake
for another medicine and caused its
death. The child had ben {ill and its
medicine was placed close to that in-
tended for another member of the fam-
fly. who is also ll. The mother is pros-
trated by the accident.
Shot to Death While He Slept.
Fred. Dolph, of Clinton, Ia., was shot
to death while he slept. His head was
blown off with a shotgun, placed
against his cheek. Mrs. Dolph is un-
der arrest.
vanished much in the | oF thorn which grew from the end of |
the tail.
When a jaguar walks along a slen-
der bough or a house cat perambulates
rope performer sways his pole, so the
feline shifts its tail to preserve the
center of gravity.
The tail of a sheep seems to be of
little use to its owner, although in the
breed which is found in Asia Minor
and on the tablelands of Tartary, this
organ functions as a storehouse of fat
and sometimes reaches a weight of
fifty pounds. When viewed from be-
hind, the animal seems all tail, and
when this appendage reaches its full
size it Is either fastened between two
sticks which drag on the ground or it
is suspended on two small wheels.—C.
William Beebe in Outing Magazine.
BUSHRANGERS.
The Most Notad of the Later Day Out-
laws In Australia.
Bushrangers were originally run-
away convicts who took to the “bush,”
as Australinns call the backwoods,
and became holdup men. About the
year 1830 the bushrangers became so
numerous that they fought regular en-
gugements with posses and soldiers
sent out to capture them, and this
form of crime continued sporadically
until within recent years. The most
famous of later rangers were the Kel-
ly brothers. After many daring crimes
and hairbreadth escapes the Kellys
actually held up the entire village of
Jerilderie, N. 8. W., which had a pop-
ulation of 200. Ned Kelly looted the
bank of $10,000, while his three pals
held the men of the village cooped up
Although there was a |
in their homes.
special bushranging act in force at the
time authorizing the detention of per-
sons supposed to be in communication i
with the outlaws, the Kellys were not
heard of again for nearly a year, when
they “stuck up” the small town of
Glenrowan, in Victoria. Here they
were brought to bay, and three of the
desperadoes were shot dead In a house
| they had barricaded, while the leader,
Ned Kelly, was brought to the ground
with a bullet through the legs. He
was hanged in 1880. All four of«the |
men were in the habit of wearing an
armor made of plowshares and weigh-
ing almost a bundred pounds.—New
York American.
An Outrageous Slandering.
The public may not know the good
story, which has been a joy for many
a long day among musicians, which
tells how a celebrated conductor, ad-
mired and beloved by every one who
knows him, accused his wife in broken
English of conduct the reverse of ad-
mirable, to put it mildly. He was re-
fusing an invitation to an afternoon
party for her on the plea of her dell-
cate health, but he evidently got a lit-
tle mixed during his explanations, for
he made the following astounding
statement, which was news indeed to
the world in general: “My wife lies in
the afternoon. If she does not lie,
then she swindles!”
N. B.—“Schwindeln” is the equiva-
lent in German for “feeling giddy.”—
Cornhill Magazine.
Thoughtful.
There Is an elderly business man of
Cleveland of whom friends tell a story
amusingly illustrating his excessively
methodical manner of conducting both
his business and his domestic affairs.
The Clevelander married a young wo-
man living in a town not far away. On
the evening of the ceremony the pro-
spective bridegroom, being detained by
an unexpected and important matter
of business, missed the train he had in-
tended to take in order that he might
reach the abode of his bride at 7
o'clock, the hour set for the wedding.
True to his instincts, the careful Cleve:
lander immediately repaired to the tele-
graph office, from which to dispatch a
message to the lady. It read: “Don't
marry till | come. Howard."—Har-
per’'s Weekly.
Acting Like a Man.
The curtain had just gone down on
the second act, leaving the heroine in
the villain’s clutches. Up in the balco-
ny a sentimental woman burst into
tears.
“Don’t cry, dear,” said her husband.
“Remember, it's only a play. Act like
a man!”
“Very well, John” said the Ilady,
smiling through her tears. “You'll ex-
cuse me for a moment, won't you? I
must run out and send a telegram.” —
Bohemian.
The Trouble With Carr.
“1 rather like your friend,” Mrs.
Page sald graciously after Carr had
gone home. “He is good looking and |
agreeable, but you can't call him a
brilliant conversationalist. The Law-
ton girls talked all round him.”
“Unfortunately.” replied Mr. Page,
“Carr cannot talk on a subject unless
tke knows something about it.”
proved a drawback in writing The
i quill of the scribe found many a yawn.
ing gap to cross on the surface of the
manuascript—“switchback scripture” it
has been termed. But when wire was
substituted for fiber in the sieve the
lines of the waterwark grew thinner
and less couspicuous.
The possibilities of the usefulness of
| the watermark became apparent by
degrees. It was first found to be of
service in preventing the forgery of
| books and manuscripts. Many a bogus
| copy of a rure work has been detected
because ihe counterfeiter failed to take
into account the watermarks of the
! original. The watermark of many a
precious manuscript in the world's
| museums is alike its glory and its safe-
| guard. And in the sphere of bank
| notes and paper mouey everywhere
the watermark is most useful in pro-
tecting the notes from imitation.
The term “watermark” is_in reality
a misnomer since the mark Is actually
produced by wire. Wire Is fashioned
into the desired pattern, figure or let-
tering. This is inserted beneath the
sheet in the last stages of its manu-
facture and while the paper is still
capable of receiving the Impression
| and the wire device stamps itself into
the sheet. Ordinary note paper held
| up to the light reveals hundreds of
| parallel lines running up and down,
betraying the fact that the paper was
| made on a wire foundation. To this
| the paper owes its smoothness and its
| even texture,
In the manufacture of postage
stamps the watermark Is of immense
advantage as a safeguard. The wires
that produce the marks are kept strict-
‘ly under lock and key. They are
| brought out only when wanted, and an
inspector keeps an eye on them till
their task is done, when they are at
once locked up again. — London An-
| BWers.
Symbolism of College Gowns.
It has been said that few people, In-
cluding many university men them-
selves, have any definite idea of the
meaning of the gowns worn by collegi-
ate students.
In America university gowns exhibit
| much variety. there being a great dif-
| ference in the various institutions, but
| all over the country—in fact, all over
the English speaking world—certain
| distinctions hald.
The ordinary bachelor's gown, the
first the student owes, is of unadorned
black with pointed sleeves and is or-
dinarily made of serge or other sim-
| ple black fabric.” The master's gown
| is like the student's, inasmuch as it is
| plain black, but the sleeves are cut dif-
| ferently, being long pendants shaped
not unlike fish tails and hanging from
the elbows nearly to the bottom of the
gown. The master's gown may be
made of silk, as may also the bache-
lor's gown if it is worn by a man of
long academic standing who has hap-
pened to receive no higher degree, but
the ordinary university man has no
desire to clad himself in silk.
Most doctors’ gowns, especially In
England and Scotland, have hoods that
give them certain distinctions and dif-
ferentiate by differences of color the
doctorates.—Harper's Weekly.
A Disciple of Emerson.
He stood in the driving, sloshing
rain on a corner contemplating the
curb.
“Don't you know enough to go in
when it rains?’ asked an acquaint-
ance hurrying by to shelter.
“l am a disciple of Emerson,” he re-
plied.
His acquaintance stopped in aston-
{shment while his umbrella turned in-
side out. What the”— he began.
“You see that curbstone,” the first
man continued, “where it has been
worn smooth by the throngs? You
never saw it when It was washed
shiny clean before. Isn't it the most
beautiful gray-green and polished like
a slab? Emerson sald you could find
beauty in the rainwater channels in
a pile of ashes if you looked for it.
I'm finding it in the sidewalk.”
The other man's comment was
smothered in a fresh gust of wind and
the wreck of his umbrella.—New York
Sun.
Insurance and Assurance.
They were talking, the little group
of agents, about the words insurance
and assurance, some claiming that the
first and some that the second was the
better word to use.
But with a scornful laugh a Boston
agent in gold rimmed spectacles sald:
“You are all very ignorant. Insur-
ance is no better and no worse than
assurance. Each has a special signifi-
cance, and each is equally good in its
place. The place for assurance is
where precaution is taken against a
certainty—against, that is, death. Life
assurance, we should say if we spoke
with perfect correctness. The place for
insiirance is where precaution is taken
against an uncertainty, such as fire,
shipwreck, burglary. Fire insurance,
marine insurance, we should say.”—
Exchange.
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Bellefonte Shoe Emporium.
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Warm Shoes
for cold feet. We have them
in all kinds.
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Good Warm Slippers.
Felt Sole Slippers make a
present that will be
appreciated.
We have anything in the
Shoe line that you may need.
PRICES RIGHT.
Come and see.
Yeager & Davis
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Lvon & Co.
Lyon & Co.
Lyon &. Company.
EARLY
SPRING -- OPENING
Everything New in Dress Goods, all the
Bnew shades for Spring and Summer,
in Silk, Wool and Wash Materials.
Everything new in Cloths, Voiles and
Herringbone weaves in black and all the
new colors. New Ginghams in plain and
mercerized, checks and plaid, all new
colors, from 12 1-2 to 35 cents per yard.
LINENS.
Linens in white, blue, pink and natural
colors. Silk Pongees in all New Shades.
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SHIRT WAISTS.
The finest assortment in short and long
sleeves, open front or back, handsomely
trimmed in lace and embroidery or both,
from 95 cents up. Finest Embroideries
and Laces in matched widths with sheer
fine white goods to match.
Wait for our opening in Lace Curtains,
Heavy Draperies and the newest in figur-
ed Mattings. See our fine line of Ingrain
Carpets. New Linoleum in handsome
patterns, prices always the lowest.
LYON & COMPANY,
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12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa.