—Did you cago a fish ?
—Don’t ‘worry, perbaps you will bave
_ better luck next time. k
—Didn’t BET skip the people on Sat.
urday. Now for the skinning of BERT.
—There were more suckers ont on the
banks of the streams than trout in them.
~The primaries passed off pleasantly
enough in Centre county—that is, for the
fellows who won out.
—Philadelphia is getting very much
‘wrought up over the King’s business, but
what do yon suppose the King mustjthink
_of Philadelphia’s business.
—About one more week is all the time
- that will be given to those who have as yet
made no overtures about paying their
arrearages to this paper. Alter that—the
lawyers.
—After Wednesday's experience the
writer bas come to she conclusion that
* patohing escaped hatohery trout is about as
satisfactory to a true sportsman as shooting
. a rabbit in its ‘‘squat.”’
—There are two hundred and seventy-
five reasons given in the convioted grafters
application for a new trial. Quite a
formidable legal presentation, no doubt,
but there must surely be a million reasons
why they should not bave one.
~—Strange ! Lewis V. EMERY wasn't
considered to be a good enough Republican
to be elected Governor of Pennsylvania,
yet he is good enough to represent his
distriot at the Republican National con-
vention, where the party platform must be
bails.
—The New York delegation to the
Demooratio national convention will be
uninstructed, as it should be. New York
has no favorite son to boost and will be in
position to throw the weight of unprej-
udiced judgment into the contest to se-
oure a candidate who can be elected.
~The date for the adjournment of JOE
CANNON ef al has been postponed until
May 16sh. Six days longer: will be a mat-
ter of little consequence for following the
plan that JOE has adopted there is little
probability of more being done in the extra
six days and nothing added to nothing
makes nothing.
—Congressman RicHARD PEARSOR HOB-
SON will bave tooconjare up a better bogy
thao the Philippines if he wants to scare
the American people into building a large
oavy. To our way of shinking there would
be no great regret on any side were some
foreign power to steal that Asiatio sink
hole away from us.
" —Neither the question of local option
nor the re-election of PENROSE need figure
in the campaign for Legislature in Centre
county this fall. Local option has been
beaten and PENROSE assured of re-election
by the cities and larger counties of the
State so that the vote of the Member from
Centre will not be needed.
—A# the primaries in Centre county the
Republicans polled 2433 votes while only
2119 Demoorats stared ous. Thie result
simply confirms the early belief that the
country districts, which are largely Dewo-
oratic, would not turn out, while the
centres of population largely Republican,
would make a better showing.
~The New York woman whose house
was blown up by dynamite she had con-
oealed in her stocking has no explanation
to make as to why she had it there. We
bave heard of women carrying money and,
in some cases, cotton or sawdust in their
stockings but this is the first time that we
have ever beard that dynamite is a part of
their treasure.
—If you have not paid your arrearages to
thie paper or if you bave not written with
a view to making some settlement of them
we advise you to do so at once. The
publisher has been as considerate as possi-
ble with everyone who has made the effort.
He will be so with yoa, but the effort must
be made and made soon. You know the
time alwa 7s comes when patience ceases to
be a virtue.
—Col. JouHN A. DALEY was 286 votes
behind WoODRING the lowest man of the
two Republican Commissioners] nominated.
' WEAVER defeated PLETCHER for Register
by 82 votes. MUSSER bad 441 votes over
Howrey for Recorder and BROWN had
209 over Homes. For Treasurer MILLER
bad 215 over CARLIN and FINKThad 102
over COMLEY. TAYLOR defeated FOSTER
for the Legislature by 311 and MEYER bad
627 over RoBr FOSTER.
—Talking about bard luck AL DALE
certainly looked like the short end of the
wish-hone Wednesday morning when, alter
fishing in rain for hours, he finally gota
bite and pulled out to find two beautiful
trout dangling at the end of his line,
That is, it felt and looked as though they
were on his line until the boy on the other
side of the stream discovered that AL's
line bad become entangled with hie and
that he was she owner of the trous.
—Why shou'd it be necessary for Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT to announce that after his
term of office expires he expects to spend'a
year in travel a ? It is done, of
course, to help TAFT ; that is, with Roosg-
VELT away from the dofne the publio is
resumed to infer that TAFT would be left
to run the presidential office, bimself, should
he be nominated and elected. ' It seems
to us that this very announcement stamps
TAFT as an incompetent. With a aaa
enough to be President of these United
States there should be no question of his
being big enough to be his own boss,
The so-called *‘filibuster’ in the House
of Representatives in Washington bas
already resulted in the passage of an em-
ployers’ liability bill, which is something.
It was begun, as Democratic leader JOHN
SHARP WILLIAMS declared, for the pur
pose of forcing the consideration of that
and four or five other Democratic measures
recently espoused by the President. At
the ontset, however, Representative
PAYNE, of New York, the Republican floor
leader, protested that his party would not
be coerced. ‘The Republican majority,’’
he declared, ‘‘will consider what measures
it pleases, when it pleases,” and
then it proceeded to change the rules to
suit the exigencies and make good the
boast. Bus it has already been compelled
to yield.
We hope, therefore, that leader WiL-
LiAMs and his intrepid associates on the
Damocratio side of she House will continue
the “filibuster” until she full purpose for
which it was organized has been fulfilled.
It is important that a bill remitting the
tariff tax on wood pulp and white paper
be passed; that a bill for the modification
of the injunction laws in the interest of
labor be enacted and that one or wo other
measures inoluding the bill providing for
the publicity of campaign subscriptions be
considered. The experience with the em-
ployers’ liability bill indicates that these
things may be achieved, and they ehould
be. The majority of $he members favor
such legislation and the majority should
control the proceedings of the body.
As a matter of fact she action of the
minority is in no sense a filibuster. It is
a movement to advance rather than to
retard legislation, moreover, and to compel
the majority to allow legislation to pro-
ceed in an orderly way. A canvass of the
House shows that a considerable majority
favors the wood pulp bill, for example,
and a vote on that measure will result in
its passage. But CANNON, PAYNE and
DALZELL are opposed to the bill and by
special rules and other expedients are pre-
venting the vote, They imagineshat they
can fool the public in this way. They
have succeeded thas far and there are some
people sufficiently ore lulous to be deceived
still. Bat the majority have intelligence
enough to know better and will express it
before long.
An Absent Proposition,
The Washiogton correspondent of an
esteemed Philadelphia contemporary writes
shat ‘‘the Democrats generally are uot
favorable to the President's big naval pro-
gramme, but they may for tactical reasons
vote for four battleships in order to io-
crease the embarrassment of the House
leaders.” We can imagine nothing more
absurd than such a course. The embarrass-
ment of the House leaders is all right so
long as it is conducted on sane lines. Bat
to involve the country in an expense of
say twenty millions of dollars for such a
purpose would be worse than idiotic. It
would be downright criminality.
RicHARD PEArsoN HOBSON, a orank,
wants four battleships for she reason that
he imagines Japan is preparing for a war
with the United States. No man with
“‘enough brains to grease a gimles’’ can be
fooled with snob rubbish. Japan was com-
pelled to give up the war with Russia on
the eve of a most decided viotory because
her credit was exhaunsted and she ie finan-
cially no better off now than then. She
wants war with nobody at this time and
esproially pot with the United States.
Such an endounser would rob her of all the
military glary acquired during the wars
with China aud Russia and that is her
entire stook.
The United States are in no danger of a
war with anybody at this time and unless
they provoke war by oriminal jingoism
cannot possibly have such trouble within
a quarter of a century, by whioh time, un-
less lunatios get into control of the civiliza-
tion of the world, war will be a thing of
the past, Even the provision for two big
battleships in the pending naval appropria-
tion bill ig an inexcusable profligacy
against which the Democrats in Congress
ought to set their faces. The time for
bullying is pass and the sooner we take
another tack and return to reason the bet-
ter.
Let the Work Begin at Once.
The Democrats of Centre county have
polled as high as 4,500 votes at times when
the orgamzation was perfect and the vote
all gotten to the polis. At the recent pri-
maries less shan three thousand voters
attended the election or took an interest
in selecting candidates for she diferent
county offices, This fact should be a re-
minder to chdirman ZERBY of the neces
sity of getting his organization shaped up
and to k at once. We should win, this
full, wl ion victory in this coun-
ty, w woltld mean majorities ranging
from 500 to §,000 for every man on the
ticket. Bat i's going to take work to do,
#0 ; there is no use of shutting our eyes
this fact and the sooner we get down to' weary before he got half through is.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 17, 190
ra
honest and sincere effort the wore certain
we are of the victory. The chairman,
members of the committee, candidates and
Demooratio voters generally, should remem-
ber that the party canuvot afford a falling
off in the Demooratio vote in November
next, such as has been experienced during
the past three years—and the preliminary
work to arouse and interest oar people and
to insara a good resuls should be begun at
once. Don’t let ns connt on what the die
sensions and troubles among our opponents
may resals in, hut te prepared to have our
own vote, interested, active and every oue
of them determined to be at the polls.
Lubor Conditions in Philadelphia.
The 200,000 idle workmen in Philadel~
phia bave been offered employment by the
municipal authorities at a dollar a day and |
they are uncertain whether to accept it or
not. The conditions are vot enticing.
Only about one-fourth of them can be so-
commodated at a time and that would
limit the wages to two dollars a week
whioh is vot liberal compensation. It
would stave off starvation, if she money
were wisely used, of course, aud that is
something to consider. Bat the labor
leaders profess to be afraid shat she wage
rate will become the standard, if they ac-
cept it, and after industrial activity re-
turns, they reason, one dollar a day would
be inadequate wages.
“Iy’s time enough to oross 8 bridge when
you come to it,’”’ and it seems to us that
the labor leaders are borrowing trouble for
future use. Oae dollara day is certainly
an inadequate wage rate for a period of
industrial activity with prices of food
stuffs and raiment at present rates. But
there are no signs of industrial activity.
The present industrial paralysis is the re-
sult of Republican policies and there can
be no change ic policies before the expira-
tion of the term of she present adminstra-
tion. The term of the present administra-
sion runs until the 4th of March next year
0 that it will be nearly a year at best be
fore any material improvement oconrs.
Meantime. itis worth.mhile so stave off
starvation.
The 200,000 idle workmen in Philadel-
phia who are offered charity work sufficient
to stave off starvation are expected, of
course, to vote for the continuance of the
policies which have brought them to the
starvation rates of wages aod they will
probably do it. It is reasonably certain
that Mayor REYBURN would not care to
provide them employment at any rate of
wages unless they will agree to be *‘solid
for the machine’’ even at the risk of con-
tinuing the pauper wages for auother
presidential term. The solution of the
problem will therefore be watched with
interest and the chances are that the cou-
ditions will extend so other cities. The
laboring men appear to hold the key, how-
ever.
The Capitol Grafters.
There is a constantly growing impression
in the pablic mind to the effect that the
convioted capitol grafters will never be
sentenced. The other day a hundred
or more reasons were filed for new trials
and is is said that arguments on this point
will nos be began for a month or more. No
doubt these arguments when they do come
will be prolonged as much as possible avd
by the time the questions in dispute are
disposed of the people will have forgotten
the graft and the prisoners will be allowed to
disappear into, oblivion. There is a good
deal of foundation for this gossip.
We own to considerable surprise at the
conviction of the gralters. It was never
intended by the party manages that they
should be convicted. Pablic sentiment
forced that resalt,however, and it couldn’s
be checked in time. If the election of last
fall had come six montis sooner and with
the same result, the plan of procedure
would bave been changed. The election
ofl SHEATZ inspired the machine managers
with courage and courage is inventive.
Some scheme would have been discovered
to seoure immunity for the grafters if the
managers had had courage to think.
BURD CaAssSELL, whose trial is scheduled
for next month, is a member of Congress
but thoagh the session is over, he has
not qualified as yet. It is eaid that he is
afraid to take the oath of office because
some Democrats bave threatened to raise
the question of his competency and thus
prejudice his case. It may be assumed,
however, that the real deterrent influence
is the desire to have the incident forgotten.
Least said is soonest mended and those yet
to be tried as well as those already con-
victed may escape through oblivion which
is the only hope.
——The WATCHMAN is in receipt of the
Easter number of the New York Herald,
issue of Sanday, April 12ih, sent us by our
old-time friend, John D. Powers. Massive
is a word bardly expressive enough to de-
goribe the size of the paper which is com-
posed of 122 pages. In fact it is just so big
that an ordinary individual would grow
Penrose Endorsed at the Primaries,
The Republican primaries indicate the
renomination of Senator Bois PENROSE by
the practically unanimous vote of the can-
ous of his party. Here and there his op-
ponents nominated a candidate for Senator
or Assembly, but in every distrios in which
the lines were clearly drawn, as in Wash-
ington and Blair counties, the Senator's
friends trinmphbed, and his victory isso
overwhelming that the utter and absolate
collapse of his oppofiition may be safely
predicted. Half a dozen Legislators may
vote against him in the caucus but nota
man of those named as Republicans on
Saturday will vote against him for the
election or refrain from voting in order to
| prevent his election.
We can hardly say that this result of the
| Republican primaries is surprising, how-
‘ever disappointing it may have been.
There are abundant and overwhelming
reasons why Senator PENROSE should be
retired to private life. He is the head of
the most iniquitous political machine
whioh has ever looted a community. But
he is no worse than his associates in the
‘organization and his associates are the en-
tire body of the Republican party of the
Bate. ManLON ELINE, VIVIAN GABLE,
WiLLiaM TiLpEN and others rail agsinst
him at intervals hecanse they imagine that
he doesn’t give them a fair share of the
plunder. Bat there is no difference be-
$ween his political morals and theirs and
they are no better than he.
gource is axiomatic and the success of
Senator PENROSE in the party leadership
of the Republican party is asoribable to
the fact that bis morale and methods are
the morals aud wethods of the rank and
file of his party. It is absurd to say that
men of high minds and pure purposes will
select one of opposite characteristics to
represent them. If PENROSE were a man
of the highest type of citizenship he would
have been repudiated last Saturday by a
vote as emphatic as thas by which he was
orsed. The only way to correct the
the Republican party outof power and
give it a bath of adversity.
Crazy Talk from Hobson.
In his utterly absurd speech in support
of she President's proposition to authorize
four battleships this year, Representative
HossoNx, of Alabama, said the other day
that *‘if we would simply hold our present,
relative position, we will have to authorize
six great battleships this year and four
more each subsequent year until farther
developments.” In ten years that would
create an aggregate of forty-six battleships
at an expense for construction of $4,610,
000,000, in addition to what we now have.
In another part of the same speech Mr.
HoBsox admitted that we have only officers
aod men enough to man the ships already
in commission and those approaching com:
pletion.
The complement of men for a battleship
of the Dreadnaught type is estimated at
1,000. Therefore in addition to a oon-
struction expenditure of nearly five bil-
lions of dollars within the next ten years
Mr. HoBsoN would oreate a maintenance
account, in addition to thas of the present
amounting to she enormous total of about
$46,000,000 a year. That would entail an
addisional expenditure within the next ten
years of nearly ten billions of dollars, a
burden which would send eighty per cent.
of she people to the poor house within the
time limis, it there were poor houses for
them to go to. Could it be possible to
imagine anything more preposterous ?
Obviously HOBSON was sent to the wrong
place. Instead of ocoupying a seat in Con-
grees he ought to be filling a ward in some
insane hospital. Such rubbish misleads
the pablic and creates false impressions
not only of our necessities but as to our re-
sources. At present seventy per cent. of
the revenues of the government is dis-
bursed for the éxpenses of past wars and
the preparation for fature wars. HoBsoN
would increase the cost so that it would be
necessary to double the present revenues
and use the entire amount for such pur.
poses. Happily it is not likely that many
of his colleagues will agree with him. A
majority of the American Congressmen are
sane.
——— Last Thursday a small archin eat on
a stone near the Lewisbarg and Tyrone
railroad trestle fishing for suckers. Boyd
Nolan happened along and undertook to
teach him the true piscatorialist art, His
first attempt resulted in breaking a hook,
but the second was more fraitfal of results
as he pulled out's earp which measured
twenty inches and weighed fire pounds.
Both Boyd and the boy were quite proud
of their prize until they learned that carp
were ahout as deliciods:to'eat as a piece of
dry bark. ;
——The fifty-second annual session of
the West Susquehanna Cldsdis of the Re
formed church will be beid in Ss. Andféw’s
chureh, Coburn, May 6¢h to 10th, inclu-
sive.
That a stream oan be no purer than its,
jis to vote |
NO. 16.
Light Wanted.
From Colliers Weekly.
Every little while, as it strikes a memory
intent on other things, y emerges
trom the Naval Affaire Committee of the
House of Representatives with acry of
In 1903 the soream of Congressman
er wae more shrill than ¢hat of Con-
Brena Lilley now. It created more
, ‘The coborts of the whitewash gos
to work, and, in the end, retarued a report
which said that John Doe or Richard Roe
‘bad played a little joke on Lessler, and
Lessler had not seen the joke. The report
went on to add that Lessler was now fully
cognizant of the joke, and that he did not
wish to continue soreaming. So everybody
was asked to forget the testimony which
brought in the name of Lemuel Eli Quigg,
of Mr. Dobin, or Doblin, who swore that
what he swore to first was a sworn lie ;
and of “Doctor’’ Kerr, who was once
Health Commissioner of Chicago, and later
was interested as a member of the Third
House in pneumatic sabe tions.
Bus the light was soon shut off, and the
committee lapsed again into its onstomary
gloom. If the Plosent investigation is
thorough we shall hear new disclosures as
to the method of the Holland boat concern.
Somehody should tell of the activities of
their genial Mr. Frost, who was wont to
take out parties on she ‘‘President’s yacht
Sylph,”’ and to feed sandwiches and spark-
ling wine to the members of the House of
resentatives and the press. And will any
tell she tragio story of poor Baker, who in-
vented the first diving boas, snd who
trudged day after day about she lobbies of
this same committee room uutil an appro-
pristion bad been voted to build a trial
boat—an appropriation which, for some
mysterious reason, eliminated Baker and
tarned over his invention to the Holland
hoat concern ? Better no inguiry than
another flash of light followed by another
weilding of the whitewash brash ; bat let
there be no understanding about this—the
lack of a complete and exhaustive investi-
gation must justly leave with she public
a oynioal and nudiscriuingging thought
concerning not only the Hollaod company
but every Washington ent and
every member of the Naval Affairs Com-
mittee. Is there not among these a ma-
jority safficiently strong in conscious
honesty to make sure that the present in-
vestigation shall he real ?
Trath About the Filibuster.
From the Johnstown Democrat. Pox
While there is much talk cooness® Tp the
Demooratio filiboster, the real fact of the
matter is thas the systematic filibuster has
been conducted by the Republican majority
in the house of representatives and aided
by Speaker Cannon. They are talking now
of adjournivg ou the 20th of May ; and yet
not one committee has reported any legie-
lation of general importance. What the
Democrats in the house are trying to do
now, and what they are being denounced
by ignorant critics for doing, is to stop
trivial legislation by the majority and to
compel important legislation. John Sharp
Williams has offered to the Republican
majority the support of the Democratic
side of she house to put into olin th
presidents program for legislation, Re-
ceiving no response, he aed his aseociates
bave declared that unless important leg
done.
What is the answer ? Nos that the Re.
publicans under the leadership of § er
Cannon and the Messrs. Payne and 1"
will bring in any important measures, but
that by their control of the house they will
bring in a rale of order which will prevent
the Democrats from interfering with the
trivial business the Republicans are willing
to transact. That is a very insufficient
response, As Mr. Williams said : **Why,
if they do not wish delay, do they nos dis-
charge business ?
Want Tariff Revision Now.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The wore Vice President Fairbanks’
letter to the Indiana Republicans is studied
the clearer it becomes that the cooktail
statesman is fally persuaded in bis own
mind shat it the Republicans of the present
congress do not revise she tariff they will
not have a chance ' to revise it atall. For
the vice president blantly alludes to the
possibility that the Demoorats will control
the next congress and he manifestly be-
lieves that it is mach more than a possi-
bility. He must feel it as a moral certain-
ty or he would boldly bave made the same
assumption that Roosevelt and Taft aud all
the rest have made when they have prom-
ised revision by she next congress. If they
do not control the next congress they can-
not revise she tariff. That will be done by
its enemies, not by ite freinds. Hence
the anxiety of the vice president to have
sisting congress do the work. He believes
that if a revision were made before March
4th next the Demoorats would feel con-
strained by political considerations to let it
stand even though they should be in full
control except in the senate ; and so the
protection graft would be safe for another
two or three or four years. Itisa great
scheme and there is some likelihood thas it
will find wide favor among both stand-
pattere and revisionists. For once Fair-
banks bae set the pace. Now let ns see
whether Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Taft and Mr.
Cannon will fall in.
- Newspapers as Business Ventures.
From Life.
Considered as a manufacturing business,
newspaper making is enormously hazardous
and absurdly unremanerative. With other
manufacturing concerns, the rule is that if
they don't make profits they quit, but that
is not the rule with vewspapers. They
alwaye bave moral and political reasons for
clinging to lite long, long after there has
ceased to be any pecuniary warraut for it.
A newspaper in these days is about as
likely to declare a dividend as a ohuroh is.
Competition between papers is intense, the
price of neatly all of them is too low, the
| cost of white paper and manufacture too
high, and they give a great deal too much
for the one meager cent that most of thew
now sell for.
legis- | over the State Saturday evening did much
lation shall be effected nothing shall be In Schuylkill county many barns
—————————————
: of April 20thrat which the Hepburn
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Ground has been broken for a large open
sir theatre in Latrobe with a seating
capacity of about 1,700 persons. ;
—Philipsburg reports the finding of = fine
deposit of fire clay near that town which is
promised to surpass the Morgan Run deposit
in quality and quantity.
~The Central Pennsylvania Light and
Power Co., of Clearfield, on Wednesday filed
an increase of stock to $100,000 at the State
Department. The total increase was $70,000.
~The Huntingdon Grange Trust company
closed the first year of its organization on
Wednesday with over $100,000 on deposit.
The company hus, however, only been doing
business since January 20d.
—Announcement was made Monday that
several departments of the Cambria Steel
company will resume operation this week,
following a three months, suspension, afford -
ing employment to 1,500 men.
—The county commissioners of Lycoming
county will soon begin the erection of nine
bridges throughout the county. Nearly all
of them will be one-span structures across
smail streams in the country districts.
—Big fires are devastating miles of wood-
land on the mountains near Wilkesbarre and
are now threatening Oliver's powder mills,
at Laurel run, and the summer cottages of &
number of Wilkesbarreans on top of Wilkes~
barre mountain.
~The elders and trustees of the First Pres.
byterian church of Jeannette on Sunday
asked the congregation for $3,750 to pay for a
lot for a new church and in twenty minutes
$4,360 was subscribed. The plan ie to erect
a church next year to cost $30,000,
—Saxton furnace No. 2, of which Joseph
E. Thropp Jr., is general manager, has re-
sumed operations. The big furnace was
banked on January 23rd and at 11 o'clock on
Friday night the blast was again put on.
The Earlston furnace is still out of blast,
—In the craw of an old chicken which
Mrs. Robert Sprankle, of Hanover, York
county, was cleaning on Monday, she found
a silver dime worn quite smooth, no doubt
by tho part it had played for a long time with
a few pebbles in aiding the fowl to grind its
food.
—The gentlemen who own and operate the
Juniata Extract works at Mount Union are
about to begin the erection of an immense
modern tannery in connection with their ex*
tract works. It is intended to work 200
hides a day and will employ 100 to 125 men
when built.
—The Bilger brothers, at Arctic Springs,
will put in a portable mill this spring and
saw the balance of the timber standing on
the lands of the estate, embracing about 400,
000 feet. The lumber business is not a new
thing to the Bilger boys, who will be able to
cut, saw and market this timber to the very
best advantage.
—A mass meeting of all the labor unions of
Harrisborg is to be held in that city on the
smendments to the Sherman anti-trust law
will be discussed. Prominent labor leaders
will make addresses. It is said similar
meetings will be held in different parts of
the State on the same day. By
—Jacob R. Ritter, a well-known cabinet
maker, of Reading, who about a year ago
completed his coffin and exhibited it at the
Berke county fair, has now completed all ar-
rangements for his demise. He received his
shroud, a white one, Monday. It was made
by a friend of Mr. Ritter's, and is of white
@ | silk and of the best material,
—The heavy wind storm which passed
and small buildings were blown down. .'At
St. Clairsville a house in course of truc-
tion went to bits. In the vicinity of N .
town thousands of dollars worth of n g-..
was done, including the uoroofing
and churches.
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—@Gettysburg has been selected as the site
of the next division encampuent of the Na-
tional Gusrd by a committee of the fhigh of-
feers of the guard who spent a day at the
battlefield. The site will be on the scene of
the third day’s battle on the historie field,
the infantry occupying the same sitegas in
1904. The date will be selected later, but it
is certain that the encampmont will be held
the latter part of July.
—The miners who have recently been em~
ployed in the Scootac region and who dig
clay for the Lock Haven brick works, but
have lately been idle, resumed operation
Monday morning: and a full force went to
work. This, like several othersmines and
industries in that section that have within a
fortnight commenced operations, will give
employment to about all the ‘wen who have
temporarily been out of work.
—Itis now stated that the Lake Shore
will sctuully proceed this year with the con-
struction of the Franklin & Clearfiold road.
The line intended to effect a short cut be-
tween the Lake Shore and other New York
Central lines and the suthracite territory of
the Reading. Incase traffic arrangements
are made with other roads between] Brook-
ville and Clearfield, it will be only necessary
to build a line from Du Bois to Clearfield.
—The State armory board Mondaylevening
opened bids for construction of buildings in
Williamsport and Pine Grove. Benmett &
Wooduut, Williamsport, were low] bidderd on
the Williamsport building, which will be a
drill hall, at $25,675. Samuel Larrivee, of
Williamsport, was next at $26,704.26. Da-
vid Buffamoyer & Son, Lebanon, was low
bidder on Pine Grove, at $12,210. The imem-
bers took the bids uader consideration and
will make awards later.
—At the meeting of the ex-members of the
Fifth regiment of Spanish-American War
veterans, heid in the Altoona company’s
market house Monday night, the §different
committees reported that the affairs were
progressing favorably, The committee that
is looking for a hall where the meeting is to
be held during the reunion, reported Jthat it
had several in view and called upon the own.
ers Monday to see what arrangements could
be made. Replies are being received daily
from the different members of the regiment,
saying that they will be present at the re
wuion on April 27th,
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