Besoin
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—We are for the French savant who
declares that early rising is dangerous to
the health.
—BRADSTREET's financial publication
says “living is getting cheaper.” Yes, the
soup houses are all open again.
—80o Newport is to be reformed socially.
Neither HARRY LEHR nor CARRIE NATION
are mentioned as organizers of the move-
ment.
— After al! it would bave been only fair
to have fined Actor HITCHCOCK a little to
get even for the great advertising he got
out of that suit in New York.
—PAUL MORTON now says no sensible
man will defend rebates. It is more per-
tinent to this particular gentleman to in-
quire as to what kind of men give or take
them.
—It the founder of this paper had Lad
just a part of the foresight that NOAH dis-
played experiences such as we bad Wed-
nesday night and yesterday morning would
not bave to be recorded.
—Ii the report that attorney SCARLET is
to retire from the prosecution of the capi-
tol gratters be trae there is little hope that
there will be any fina! decision in the case,
SCARLETS are few in Pennsylvania.
—How little the most of ns would be ef-
feoted if all the trade disturbances were
confined to such fights as are now going on
between the world’s two great diamond
mining corporations.
—With only $600,000 hail between ABE
REUF, of San Francisco, and liberty it
looks as though ABE ought to soon be fill-
ing bis lungs with good ozone by the grace
of those whose pocket books his rascality
filled.
—Di. PARKHURST might have bad bet-
ter results with his effort to oust Mayor
McCLeLLAN, of New York, had he wait-
ed nutil a few days before that gentlman’s
term expires. Mr. HEARST tried the
game once and failed.
"—The question that most every one is
asking himself just now is how the Pres.
byterians hope to build up their church
with that Brotherhood alone. To the prao-
tical lay mind a matrimonial agenoy would
bring better results,
—JIt is rumored shat President RoOSE-
veELT and his family are to go abroad in
1909 to spend at least six months. Now
if Tarr should be eleoted to the presidency
in the fall the question arisés as to bow he
would get along with the boss so far away.
—A public office is a powerful persnader
and that’s whas accounts for the action of
some of those distriots that are graduoaliy
dropping away from favorite sons and in-
structing for Tarr. How shout the per-
nicions acting of federal officers in things
politioal, Mr. President ?
—The fact that there were three thon.
sand petitions for offices filed with the
State Department in Harrishurg on Satur-
day might he and might not be a reflex of
the bard times. With nothing else to be
done the average man looks to political
office or the insnrance business as the
haodiest port in the storm.
—Soore one for State Treasurer BERRY.
A!l that he said about the rascals has been
proven trun hy the verdiot at Harrisharg
last week. The capitol grafters were all
found guilty. Now it will he ap to the
higher courts to prove whether they can he
as fair and anpartisan as thas Dauphin
county judge and jury were.
—QuAY’s prophetic remark that every
one connected with the capitol bailding
would go to the penitentiary is being re-
oalled now that they have been convicted.
Possibly the old man came to realize thas
virtue was not entirely dead in Penneylva-
nia when he was forced to plead the stat-
ute of limitations to escape the same fate
he predicted for others.
—DaAM Li is the name of the owner of a
laundry in St. Joseph, Mo. If there is any-
thing in a name he must’ be the daddy of
the biggest bunch of offspring the world
has ever heard of. We have lots of the
family right aronnd here. In fact, we
presume, that during the heat of a political
campaign, some of our dear Republican
friends have the temerity 0 put us in the
freandschafs.
—It possibly might have heen hetter
had the County Commissioners hegan their
S‘raform’’ business in some other depart.
mens of connty affairs than that which has
for ite parpose the furnishing of informa-
tion relative to what becomes of the public
moneys after the collector gets separated
from it. Limiting the cironlation of the
county statement is like buying a candle |
and burning it out under a bushel. You
have heard of the fellow who did that—
and he didn’t ges much credit for doing the
job either.
——Charley Heisler's robin story printed
in this paper dwindles into insignificance
alongside the wild goose story told the
writer by insurance agent J. 8. MoCargar.
He said that on Monday of last week he
was going west on the Bald Eagle Valley
railroad and just this side of Unionville the
attention of the passengers was attracted
by the large number of geese in a meadow
by the creek. Among others he took a
look and at once recognized them as wild
geese, and he decleared thas there were at
least five hundred of them, as they com plete-
ly covered fully a quarter of anjacre of
ground. Of course they were evidently
emigrating porth and this be considered a
sure harbinger of spring.
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OL. 55
President Wilson on President Roose- | verted by a man who even aspires to the |
greater distinotion, in order that mana- |
velt. {
Dr. Wooprow WILSON, the eminent |
and able president of Princeton University,
bas again revealed his complete mastery of
the problems of government in an address |
at a diover of the Commercial olub of Chi-
cago, on Saturday evening last. Denounc- |
ing what he properly charaoterized as ‘‘the
passion for regulative legislation and gov-
ernment by commission,” he aseailed the
policies of President ROOSEVELT with such |
foroe as to command popular acquiescence. '
It is not that President WILSON coincides |
with the absurd notions of Chancellor Day |
in the view that corporations have the legal |
right to perpetrate outrages on the public. |
On the contrary Dr. WILSON believes in
the wholesome regulation of corporate
power as well as in the restraint of preda-
tory wealth. ‘‘The acts of corporations
must be checked,’”” he declares, ‘‘not by
fatile and blundering attempts to dictate
to each corporation how its business shall
be conducted, but by bringing the officials
directly to book, who are responsible for
forbidden or questionable transactions.’
Six years ago, when the Supreme court
of the United States dissolved the Northern
Securities company, this newspaper pro-
tested that only the partial oure of a great
evil bad been achieved. The defendant
corporation was declared obnoxious to the
laws which prohibited restraints of trade,
and ordered to dissolve. But it was im-
mediately reorganized in another form and
under the guise of ‘community of inter-
est’ would probably be operating yet if
Mr. HitL and Mr. HARRIMAN bad not
quarrelled over the division of the spoils.
We suggested that the efficient remedy was
in the criminal prosecution and punish-
ment of those responsible for it. About
the same sime or soon after we held to the
same opinion with respect tothe rebating
of the Santa Fe railroad. Mr. PAUL Mog-
TON who bad been previously vioe presi.
dens of the railroad and was at the time in
the President's cahinet,confessed the orime,
bat instead of criminally prosecuting the
offender the government fined the stock-
holders «f the corporation who had noth-
ing to do with the offence.
Of conrse it never oconrred to President
ROOSEVELT to proceed along right lines to
the extirpation of ‘the evil, The evidence
whieh convicted the Standard Oil company
with the result that the stockholders have
heen fined something ver $20 000,000,
would have sent ROCKEFELLER and RoG-
ERS, who were responsible, to the peniten-
tiary. Occasionally when a National hauker
fike WarLsH, of Chicago, or Morse, of
New York, are completely ‘‘down and |
out,” RoosgvVELT blusteringly orders orim-
inal proceedings. But officers of corpora-
tions like the Standard Oil company, the
Armour Packing oompany and the big
railroads are immune from criminal prose.
ontion as long as they are powerful. As
President WILSON says this passion for
regulative legislation came upon us #0 sud-
denly as to he “‘more like an impulse of
impatience than like a deliberate purpose.”
It is the false pretense of an insincere man
who hoped to promote his own selfish ends
by that form of fastian. It is time the peo-
ple should come to a realization of the
facts.
The Submarine Boat Inguiry.
The preliminary proceedings in the in-
vestigation of the charges of corruption
against the Eleotric Boas company, baild-
ders of the Holiand submarine naval hoats,
completely justify the prediction of the
WATCHMAN, last week, that it iato be a
hogn« inquiry. Representative OLMSTED,
of Harrisburg, has been made the principal
inquisitor and his mental efforts were
clearly directed toward the embarrassment
of Mr. LinLy, the complainant, rather
than against the offending corporation. If
the announcement bad been pablicly made
that the porpose of the committee is to con-
ceal the facts instead of expose corruption,
the matter conld not have been plainer.
The chaiges are not that Congressmen
bave been bribed to vote appropriations to
the Electric Boat company, but that im-
proper methods bad been adopted by the
company to seonre the support of Con-
gressmen for such appropriations, It was
alleged that agents of the company had of-
fered to secure places on the naval com-
mistee for aspirants for thas distinction.
That this assertion is neither reckless nor
inaccurate is proved by the testimony of
Representative HonsoN, of Alabama, who
declared under oath shat soch an offer had
been made and rejected. Of course tbat
isn’t bribery, for the reason that Mr.
HOBSON refused to be bribed. But the
culpability of the company is quite as great
as if the plan had sooceeded.
The charge involves men too close to
the head of she party, however, to allow a
fall and thorough investigation to be made.
Speaker CANNON alone can guarantee par-
ticular committee assignments and Mr.
HopsoN affirms that i¢ was through the
Speaker the Boat company agent was
operating. In other words, the most power-
fu! office except the Presidency has been per-
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, Pa, MARCH 20
facturing corporations, already favored by
all sores of largesses, may loot the treasury
in supplying materials for the government.
It presents the party in a ead aspeot, but
in view of recent events Mr. OLMSTED
ought to know better than to be a clam.
Roosevelt Again Sharply Rebuked.
The disrepatable and unlawfal methods
by which President ROOSEVELT is trying
to force TAFT on his party‘as the candidate
for the snocosssion are constantly unfolding
themselves. Only the other day the Sen-
ase ‘‘he!d up’ she nomination of GRANT
Victor lor United States marshall of Ok-
lahoma for she reason that the office had
been bestowed upon him as a bribe for
changing his political fealty from FAIR-
BANKS to TAFT. It is a complete repeti-
tion of the Ohio case to which Senator FoR-
AKER objected a few weeks ago and which
brought out one of those remarkable
‘‘gpecial’’ messages that adorn the litera.
sure of billingsgate and disgrace the pnb-
lio documents of this country.
VICTOR, who was an ardent FAIRBANKS
boomer, aspired to the office of marsball
but the President refused to gratify his
ambition and appointed a relative of his
own, Mr. C. A. PORTER. Against this ee
lection public sentiment was so overwhelm-
ing that the nomination was withdrawn to
prevent a scandal. Then negotiations with
Victor were opened with the result that
he was nominated on Maroh 3rd and on
March 4th the delegates to the Chicago
convention for his Congress district were
instrooted for TAFT. Before she facts had
been ascertained the nomination bad been
favorably reported by the committee to
which it was referred. But subsequently,
the iniquity having leaked out, it was re
committed and at preseat stands a good
chance of being rejected.
The President has tie reputation of be-
ing a shrewd politician and he has shown
a facility for quiok changes and lofty tum-
hing which is little less than amazing.
Bot he ia unos doing either TAFT or his par-
ty any good by his open defiance of law
and utter disregard of decenoy in buying
votes for hia favorite candidate with the
patronage of the government, The people
have become callous to some forms of im
morality, political and personal. But they
will not much longer patiently snbhmit to
snch open infamy as ROOSEVELT practices.
A government organized by fraud cannot
endure and the deep-seated patriotism and
honesty of American citizenship will soon-
er or later revolt against such practices.
Conviction of the Capitol Grafiers.
The conviotion of the capitol grafters at
Harrisharg is none the less gratifying be-
cause it was somewhat noexpeoted. Of
their gals there has never been a doubt,
From the woment shat State Treasurer
BERRY made the acousation of graft during
the campaign of 1806, no thoughtful man
has been deceived by the denials of the
conspirators or their political associates.
D FEDERAL UNION.
John Dalzell's Bad Day.
The insincerity of the support of Senator
Kx~ox by the Pennsylvania Republican ma-
chine was 1evealed in a speech delivered
hy Congressman JOHN DALZELL at an
alomni banquet of Yale University, one
evening last week. Mr. DALZELL was un-
der the impression that the time within
whioli, candidates for Congress might regis-
ter expired on the 7th instant, and felt
{ree express his real opinions on the
ential question. He knows that
KnoR is strong with the people of hie
distrios, if not with the politicians, aod
that if the friends of the Senator got after
him, they would get him, politically and
officially speaking at the primarirs. Under
the impression that he was ‘‘ous of the
woods,’’ so to speak, he ‘‘opened up’’ on
the occasion referred to, and declared,
substantially, that the KNOX movement is
largerly a subterfuge and that Pennsylva-
nia is *‘solid’’ for TAFT.
After the event Mr. DALZELL discovered
that there were still a couple of days with-
in which to ‘‘dig up’’ opposition at the
primaries, and he bad wbat might be
oalled *‘a bad day.” The friends of KNOX
in Pittebarg were justly indignant of what
could he construed in no other light than a
oase of recreancy, and began looking about
for a likely candidate. DALZELL was
promptly advised of the new tarn of affairs
and started out on a campaign to ‘‘square
himself’ with Kxox. He oalled to see
thas gentleman and offered in explanation
that be was with TAFT at an alumni ban-
ques of which TAFT was an alumnus, and
shat he spoke in a Pickwickian sense in
order to contribute to the ‘‘gayety of na-
tions’’ rather than with the view of pro-
moting TAFT'S political aspirations. Under
the ciroumstances, he added, KNOX might
overlook his indiscretion aod intervene to
prevent an opposition candidate at the
primaries.
As no opposition candidate registered
within the limit of the law it may be as-
sumed that KNOX was easy on the ocoasion
for it is cermin thas if he had ‘‘tipped the
wink”’ there would not only bave been op-
position, but it would have been sacoess-
fal. As itis the inoideat is significant only
#0 far as it shows what the machine politi-
A of the State ‘would do to Knox,” if
y felt tree to follow their own inelina-
tions. The KNOX boom wasa spawn of
mechine necessity. The ‘‘gang’’ was
down and ous and projected KNOX into the
presidential race with the view of deceiv-
ing the public into the belief shat it had
improved in political morals. But when
the necessity for the false pretense passed
it was promptly abandoned and the polisi-
cal mercenaries like DALZELL instantly
turned to the candidate who is backed by
the political “loaves and fishes’ of the ad-
ministration.
A ———————
Roosevelt's Last Brain Storm.
President ROOSEVELT'S message to Con:
gress asking for legislation which will per-
mit snoh of the negro troops as were dis-
But confidence in the punishment of the of .
criminals was less generally p— discharged for ‘shooting up‘
The interests of she party were involved,
more or less. That is to say il the loot had
heen traced to its ultimate destination,
men ‘“‘higher up’’ would have been incunl-
pated. Bot in that event there would
probably have heen no convictions.
The surprise of the trial was she failure
to include Governor PENNYPACKER in the
indictment, and the eunlogistic sone in
whioh he was referred to by counsel on
both sides. A Harrisbargjdispatch to one
of our esteemed Philadelphia contempora-
ries of Sunday states that ‘some of those
who sat in the oase for seven weeks were
inclined to oriticise the prosecution beaause
it let PENNYPACKER down so easy,’’ and
is’s wmall wonder. He was the most guilty
of the lot. It was he who construed the
law to the Board of Pablic Grounds and
Buildings as the conspirators wanted it in-
serpreted. It was be who certified to the
integrity of the work and the honesty of
officials and contractors. By every consid-
eration of justice he ought to be among
those convicted.
Mr. JAMES SCARLETT, who conducted
the case for the Commonwealth, was alike
sincere and capable, however, during the
proceedings. Possibly he was influenced
to leniency toward PENNYPACKER by the
same considerations which moved him to
refrain from an effort to trace the plunder.
It might bave resulted in a more determin
ed fighs for the defendants and the escape
of all. Nobody knows the temper of his
mind though all admit shat he made a
masterful prosecution. There is plenty of
oause for conjecture, nevertheless. With
PENNYPACKER immune and those ‘‘high-
er up’ guaranteed safety, conviction was
better for the party than acquittal, and
Mr. SCARLETT was after conviction, nolens
volens.
~The rolling mill and tool works at
Howard resumed operations ou Tuesday
morning, after an idleness of several months.
The firm has enough orders booked to keep
the plant running for an indefinite time.
AAR
own of Brownsville, Texas, to be re-
inlisted, in the event that they prove their
inoogence, is easily the most remarkable
propositions of our brainstorm chief mag-
istrate. Primarily it is an admission that
innocent men were punished withoat trial
or opportunity of defense. Substantially
it constitutes a reversal of a principle of
jurisprudence which has existed sinoe the
beginning of civilized government.
A!l men are presumed innocent until
they are convicted. No matter what the
obarge or how bad the reputation of a
prisoner, the burden of the proof of his
guilt is upon the State. He can refuse to
plead and even quietly admit his culpabil-
ity, but unless the Commonwealth can
prove his guilt, he goes free. This is a
fundamental principle which has never
been denied or even questioned. Bat
ROOSEVELT sets it aside with the freedom
and nonchalancs which characterized his
abortive effort to ohange the form of apeli-
ing. Nothing is important to him except
his own caprices. There is sacredness in
no institution, according to his notion.
We don’t believe that the negro soldiers
discharged on account of the Brownsville
incident ought to be reenlisted, though we
do believe that their dismissal without
trial was an outrageous usurpation of au-
thority. Events have proved armed ne-
groes are a public menace and for that rea-
son noue of them ought to be enlisted in
the army and given the use of the imple:
ments of murder. But we insist that a
proposition to compel negroes or anybody
else to prove their innocence after they
have been punished is an outrage against
the public conscience and ao insalt to the
intelligence of the people of this country.
~The firm of Yeager & Davis, the big
shoe dealers, has been dissolved. Harry
Yeager is to continne the business alone.
In order to reduce she stock he is offering
some wonderful shoe bargains and if you
don’t get your share it will be your own
fault.
wr
1908.
The Same Old Story.
From the Danville Democrat.
How can platform promises or personal
pledges he expected to overcome the en-
trenched stand patters ? The more 30 as the
Republican platform will undonbtedly
again declare for the *‘principle of protec-
tion’? and under that declaration any Re-
publican congressman can if he wants to,
vote against the reduction of any schedule
or against a reform bill that reduces the
on now enjoyed by any trust, com-
ine or protected manufacturer that would
declare that the pr reduction of a
rate would leave their produotion open to
She competition from a like foreign pro-
uot.
For years the game has been played to
promise that when ‘‘the public interests
demand’’ there will be a revision of the
tariff schedules, but thas ‘“‘work cannot
salely be committed to any other hands
than those of the Republican party. To
intruss is so the Democratic party is to in-
vite disaster.” Such was the Republican
platform of 1904. But the Republican
leaders were not satisfied with that decla-
ration and as an evident afterthought they
added to the plauk the mendacions state-
ment : ‘‘A Demooratio tariff bas always
been followed by business adversity ; a Re-
publican tariff by business Jp
Who, therefore, can or will believe what
they a Both their Staseisents of adver-
sity eir prognost on provperiey
bas proven a false guide to their deluded
followers. :
As the Republican tariff bas fostered
trusts and allowed the combines to increase
prices and sell cheaper abroad than here ;
as it has fostered speculation and extrava-
gence whioh bas resulted in financial panic
and business depression, so that many
workingmen are huntiog jobs with empty
no aver wil poi
e pl poverty, will the
politicians admit the truth and reform a
law that produces such dire results ?
It is muoh to be feared they are wedded
to their idols, the protected interests, aud
their promises are a broken reed to lean on.
The Press on the Verdict.
From the Baltimore American,
All along there bas been a fear that, ow.
ing to the peouliar conditions in Pennayl-
vania, the grafters on trial at Harrisharg
would . There was no question
about their orime. The testimony was
conclusive. Frands to the npacaireied ex-
tent of flee millions of dollars were exposed.
Rascality of the ugliest and most shame-
loss kind was proven. Covspiracy was evi-
dent. And yes there was doubs until 9
o'clock last night, when the verdict was
flashed over the wires. . . . Pennsylva-
pans will bail the trinmph of jastice
with uorestfined gratifioation spd in
their feelings all honest wen of every State
will join and rejoice.
It has a national value because it will be
the last time a gang of planderers will an-
dertake the pillage of a Commonwealth on
80 gigautio a scale. It is, too, a fine justi.
fication of the jury system. The guilty
ones laughed when a wit called them the
Harrisbarglars, It will not veem so funny
when they look back over their work from
the inside of the penitentiary.
From the Evening Telegraph.
Itis true that this just verdict covers
hut an atomic part of this astoundiuy: foray
on the public moneys, hat is establishes a
precedent for the shirty-eixht remaining
oases in which the four defendants already
convicted of a conspiracy to cheat the State
are, generally speaking, to be joined to ten
others now under. indictmens. There is
therefore, the prospecs that this cabal of
contractors and former State officers, con-
summated to raid the State Treasury and
take from it, through padded bills fraudun-
lent certifications, a sum so enormons as to
the Commonwealth and amaze the
pasion, will suffer fine and imprisonment
and be made to disgorge the loot in which
they all must have been matually interest.
ed. The result is a viodication of justice.
It is evidence to the world that Pennayl-
vania is not so corraps aud contented thas
she is powerless to pursue and punieh ber
despoilers.
From the Evening Bulletin,
The machinery of justios shonld now be
set in motion promptly against the rest of
the indicted in order not only that thowe
who deserve conviction may be punished,
but thas all the oriminal facts which are
still concealed may, if possi’ i, he brought
to light. The first decisive step bas been
taken toward a vindication of law and pub-
lic honor, bas gratifying as the result is,
1s will be incomplete without such action
as will bring, in addition to penitentiary
punishment to each and all of the guilty
ones, a disgorgement of the stolen moneys
of the Commonwealth.
From the Inquirer.
These trials have taaght a great lesson,
It is that publio officials must accept office
as a pablio trust and shat they are expected
to saleguard the interests of the people as
they would their own private affairs.
Negleot in itself is a orime. Again, public
contractors are entitled to make a fair profit
only. The Treasury is not to be exploited
or made the object of a raid.
If this trinmph of justice does nothing
more than drive this lesson home a vast
good will have been accomplished. But
yesterday's verdiot is bas the beginning.
It fixes criminal responsibility. When the
criminal cases are disposed of will come
the civil suits for restoration of stolen
goods. Apparently, the people are going
to have their innings.
From the Ledger,
The accused have bad a fair trial. They
bave been vigorously and ably defend
by lawyers of high rank. The verdiot has
been reached fairly, and cannot be regarded
in any light except that of a great moral
victory.
Frora the Press,
Justice is well served by the verdict ren-
dered in Harrisburg last night—one of the
most wholesome and hopeful verdiots ever
rendered in this Commonwealth.
Ee — —
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Albert Batton, of Potter county, has sent
a letter to President Roosevelt asking for a
medal for having reared a family of twenty-
four children.
—Exceptionally well made counterfeit
five-cent pieces have been passed in Birds-
boro, Berks county,on merchants and others
the past week.
—W. B. Marsh, a prominent shoe dealer of
Lewisburg, while temporarily deranged, on
Thursday committed suicide by jumping
into the Susquehanna river,
—A reward of $200 for the arrest and con-
vietion of the murderer of Mike Migliozzi,
who was killed at Slate Run Saturday night,
has been offered by the county commission:
ers of Lycoming county.
—Last week Judge Shull and his associ
ates in the Juniata county license court re-
fused licenses to the proprietors of the Man.
sion house at East Waterford, and the Na-
tional house, at Miflintown.
~The state department of agriculture
advises great care in the selection of seed
corn this spring, as it is estimated that not
more than twenty per cent. of last year’s
crop in this state will germinate.
—Alfred Snyder,of Bethlehem, while taking
a nap on Friday, was seized with a coughing
spell, during which his false teeth lodged in
his throat. It was impossible to get them
out and they were forced into his stomach.
So far he suffers no inconvenience.
—T. W. Moore, of Curwensville, the vet-
eran surveyor and civil engineer, of Clear:
field connty, who has almost reached his 80th
birthday, still attends to business and says
he feels as hearty as ever he did and can run
a line as straight as he could in his younger
days.
—J. W. Musey, for a number of years a
successful contractor at Blue Ridge Summit,
Franklin county, was committed to jail in
Chambersburg to await a hearing on the
charge of stealing money and tickets from
the Western Maryland railroad station at
Blue Ridge Summit.
~Thousaunds of pounds of maple sugar and
thousands of gallons of maple syrup were
manufactured during the past week in Som-
erset county. The seasoa opened unusually
early, and it is stated that more maple pro-
ducts will likely be manufactured this year
than for several years past.
—John R. Hunter, of Mill Hall, and Thos.
Cook, of Blanchard, claim to be the cham-
pion rat killers of this section, having killed
thirty-four rats in fifteen minutes in the
barn on James Hunter's estate, a few days
ago. They were in a large box of rubbish
and as they emerged were clubbed to death,
only four escaping.
~The Patriotic Order Sons of America of
Huntingdon have purchased a lot of ground
75 by 100 feet in size on which they will
erect a modern opera bouse, with a seating
capacity of 1,200 with galleries. The opera
house will be on the first floor, and the
second floor will contsin rooms fitted up for
the accommodation of the lodge.
—A site for their Old Folks home has been
purchased by the German Baptists four miles
west of Mt. Holly, Cumberland county.
The place secured is the Ames Mausion
which is a fine large brick house elaborately
built aud convenient with modern appli-
(ances. Eighty-five acves of land huve been
also purchased from an adjoining farm.
—The quick eye and steady haud of the
engineer of a Reading railway coal train
gaved the train from being wrecked on
Saturday afternoon in Flat Rock tunnel,
West Manayunk, Philadeiphin, where three
heavy railroad ties had been piled across the
track. A similar attempt to cause a wreck
was made the day before by the same persou,
it is believed.
~Jucob Kauyle, of Uniontown, recently put
$150 in a small tin box for safe keeping and
hid the box ina coal bod. Later his wife
emptied the contents of the hod into the
stove. The bills were badly charred so they
could not be used but he took them toa
Uniontown bank on Wednesday and received
from the treasury department $150 in new
$5 silver certificates.
—A freight train on the Sinnamahoning
division of the Buffalo and Susquehanna
railrosd was on Saturday struck by an
avalanche near Aticks, Potter county caused
by the thaw. The engine and train were
forced off the track and tumbled some dis-
tance down the mountain side. The crew
escaped by jumping and ronning away when
they saw what was coming.
—The endowment fund for the Williams.
port Dickinson seminary has reached within
Jess than $150 of the handsome sum of $40,
000, due to the earnest work of the Rev. A.
8. Bowman, endowment secretary of the
Preachers’ Aid society. It was the original
intention to raise an endowment fund of
$50.000 and from present indications that
amount will be reached before many months.
—Application has been made for the in
corporation of the Gracey Confectionery
company, to be located in Huntingdon. The
incorporators are Jonn G. Gillam, Frank
Westbrook, D. R. Gracey, George W. Fisher
and H. M. Weaverling, the Iatter of Everett.
It will be capitalized at $5,000. C. C. Brew:
ster is the solicitor. The object of the for-
mation of the company will be for the whole-
saling of confectionery, crackers, cakes and
Cigars.
—A remarkable record is that of Mr. and
Mrs. Jonathan Neff, of Rossmoyne, South
Mahoning township, Indiana county. Mr.
Neff is 94 years of age aod his wife, Mary
Jane, is 90. Only recently they celebrated
their sixty-eighth wedding anniversary.
Mr. Neff has never been ill but has been
declining in health the past two years. Mrs.
Neff is very well preserved. Mr. Neff cast
his first vote for Henry Clay for president in
1836, and has missed but two elections dur-
ing the seventy-two years that he has been
a voter.
—Isaac Stage, G. N. Ellenberger, L.
Shapiro, E. 0. Hartshorn, J. McAllister and
W. E. Ellenberger, of the Broad Top Lumber
company, have just closed a deal whereby
they will dispose of their entire output of
lumber from their holdings in Huntingdon
and Bedford counties. The company has
about 2800 acres of timber land in the coun-
ties mentioned, and they will cut fully 15,~
000 feet of oak wood which will be taken by
the Pittsburg Lumber company as rapidly as
it can be turned out. The deal will give the
company about $300,000,