BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Next week the Democratic state ocon-
vention.
—The circus season is here, but where is
the circus.
—More of the capitol grafters are on
tris! in Harrisburg. More power to the
arm of justice.
—Three Governors and JEFF DAVIS
geem to be really more persecution than
Arkansas deserves.
—Anyhow the sweet girl graduate won’t
get a chance to wear a Merry Widow when
the commencement exercises are pulled
off.
— Why make all this fuss over EMERY'S
non-intention to vote for KNox. Penn-
sylvania’s ‘‘favorite son’’ got the distance
flag long ago.
—In four years a pair of rabbits are said
$0 be able to produce progeny to the extent
of one and one-half million, i. e. ofjcourse,
providing their health keeps up.
—Mr. BRYAN’ little visit to the White
House will give him an opportunity to see
whether he will need to buy any new
carpets should he be called upon to move.
—Will someone kindly tell us where the
incessant winds that blow over this county
come from. They are so recent that we
feel almost like a suburb of greater Chioa-
go.
—The Senate has unanimously voted to
restore *‘In God We Trust’ to the coins
of our government. May the motto ocon-
tinue to be in our spirit what it signifies in
words.
—The presidential campaign is ap-
proaching and the soup houses increasing.
Before long you may expect to hear that
their prevalence is doe to the fear of elect-
ing BRYAN.
—Congress is to end on May 25th. After
that the presidential campaign will keep
business in a turmoil until November be-
fore which time it is scarcely reasonable to
look for any settled improvement.
—The old furniture in the state capitol
was sold at anotion on Wednesday netting
$1500. It has been replaced by the SAN-
DERSON products that are probably not as
good, though costing millions more.
# 1 —There is still hope for one institution
of learning. They made a greater fuss at
State College Wednesday over the arrival
of the new president than they did over
last fall’ football victory over Cornell.
—The WATCHMAN offers the suggestion
to the QUAY statue commission that the
only really suitable place to locate the
statue of ‘‘the old man’ is just beside that
secret door in the Allegheny National
bank.
—A new law in the city of Berlin pro-
hibits making any kind of a loud noise in
the city after eleven o'clock at night.
Snoring and the sonata of the Tom cat are
not included among the loud noises ta-
booed.
—TItaly’s imports from this country are
$67,000,000 a year, but that ia only {a part
of it. Add to it the vast sums sent back
monthly by her sons employed jin this
country and the small balance of trade in
our favor will be made a debit many simes
over. :
—Two of Utah's alternate delegates to
the Republican national convention are
women. The biggest ‘Merry Widows’
they may dike themselves out in won’t
eolipse big Bil TAFT however. His
rotundity surpasses even the most exagger-
ated diameter of the modish head gear.
—The proposition to place a barr on
marriages of persons known to be inflicted
with incurable diseases that might be n-
herited hy their progeny has good features;
the least of which is not the great saving
it would be in the annual amount of money
spent on hospitals for incurables and state
aid to the same classes.
—CARNEGIE wanta tc build big peace
halls and ROOSEVELT was to build big
pavies in order to keep peace. It is a
question whether either one is right. The
Hague didn’s preclude the Spanish-Awmeri
can war, the Japan-Rassian war, nor has
s'henevolent assimilation’’ with the bayo-
net put down the Filipinos.
—QCashier MONTGOMERY, of the Alle-
gheny National hank, who is charged with
embezzling $1,250,000 of ite funds can com-
mand money enough to pay back, but all
the friends who rally about him, all the re-
sources he can command and all the techni.
calities that shrewd lawyers may take ad-
vantage of will never be able so restore his
lost character.
—The stand that the Hon. Lewis
EMERY Jr. has taken regarding his prob.
able action as a delegate to the Republican
National convention is causing no little
concern among the friends of Senator KNOX
in this State. Just why they should expect
EMERY to vote for anyooe else than TAFT
is a mystery since the Bradford fighter left
nodonbt as to what he would do in bis
letter sent to every voter in the district
before he was nominated.
—The first real good snake story comes
from Altoona near which place lives a
young lady school teacher with an imagi-
pation so vivid that on seeing a snake ly-
ing aoross the Pennsylvania railroad sracke
she thought it the trunk of a fallen tree
and ran hal? a mile to the nearest signal
tower to have all trains stopped for fear of
derailment. A snake, like a mouse, bas a
singular ~fect on the optic nerves of the
average woman, bus here i a case that is
really notable.
a a — LU
“VOL. 53
The President's “Letters.”
In language so mild as to make it appear
a love-tap the esteemed Philadelphia Record
censures President ROOSEVELT for writing
letters threatening to disobey laws of Con-
gress if passed over his veto. “Laws can-
pot impair the constitutional prerogatives
of the President,” it declares, ‘‘and when
the legislative branch of the government
invades the domain of the executive it is
the plain duty of the President to defend
the authority of his office.”
The prerogatives of the President and the
powers of Congress are enumerated in the
constitution with equal clearness. The
President is commander-in-chief of the
army and navy and of the militia when
called into the actual service of the United
States; he may require the opinion of the
principal officers of the executive depart-
ment upon any subject relating to his
duties and he has power to grant reprieves
and pardons for offences against the United
States except in cases of impeachment. The
quotation is not literal, but is acourate.
The President has power, ‘‘by and with
she advice and consent of the Senate,” to
make treaties, appoint ambassadors, minis-
ters and consuls, judges of the courts and
all other officers of the United States
“whose appointments are not herein other-
wise provided for.” He has power to fill
vacancies which may happen during the
recess of the Senate. On the other hand,
he is required, from time to time, ‘so give
the Congress information as to the state of
the Union and recommend to their consid-
eration such measures as he shall judge
necessary and expedient.” There are a
few other things which he may do and
finally be “SHALL TAKE CARE THAT
THE LAWS BE FAITHFULLY EXE-
CUTED.”
Congress, under the same authority,
among other things of vast import, has
power ‘‘to raise and support armies,” ‘‘to
make rules for the government and regula.
sion of the land and naval forces.”
The letters to which our Philadelphia
contemporary alindes were written to three
Senators in Congress and contained the
threat that if Congress passes an act, in
pursaance of its constitutional authority to
“make rales for the government and regu-
lation of the land aud naval forces,’’ he
will refuse to obey it. That would nnt
only be a flat violation of his oath of office
to “‘preserve, protect and defend the oov-
stitution,” but it would be a dangerous ne-
glect of duty and a wanton insalt to Con-
gress which if nos resented will mark
every Senator as a poltroon.
There has been no attempt to “‘impair
the constitutional prerogatives of the Presi-
dent.” Asa matter of fact, there hasn't
been a decent effort to support the dignity
of Congress against the palpable purposes
of President ROOSEVELT to usurp its pow-
ers. Possibly shia fact is attributable in
some measure to the conspiracy of a lot of
subsidized newspapers masquerading as ex-
ponents of Democracy to perpetuate Roosg-
VELTISM which is in every respeot the an-
tithesis of Democracy.
Sr ————
Tatt's Isthmian Visit,
Secretary TAFT'S visit to Panama at this
critical stage of his campaign has been
somewhat of a surprize to both his friends
and his foes and has been variously ioter-
preted. It is a sign of confidence, his
friends freely assert, and itis with the
view of establiehing an alibi, those who
are less inclined to him allege. There ie
going to be sone ‘‘lanuy’’ business in con-
peotion with the convention, a good many
hoth friends and foes imagine, and it would
be a great advantage for the candidate to
be able to say, after itis over that he
was out of the country at the time and had
neither participation in nor knowledge of
anything that was in any respect irregalar.
As a matter of fact, however, neither of
the conjectures is accarate. Seoretary
TAPT'S visit to Panama at this time ie for
the purpose of averting an ugly scandal, if
possible, aud if that cannot be achieved,
with the intent of postpouing it until alter
the nomination and election. The govern-
ment of Colombia is threatening to begin
proceedings for the recovery of damages for
our part in the Panama revolution which
would probably lead to the complete ex-
posare of that iniquity besides a judgment
against our government for ten or twenty
million dollars and such au incident on the
eve of a presidential election would be
most disastrous to the admimstration
candidate.
Is is tolerably well known that the Pana-
ma revolution was a conspiracy hatched
at the White House in Washington and
shat it was made successful by the force of
gunboats and marines sent there by Presi-
dent Roosevenr. That was the highest
crime conceivable under international law
and sooner or later the government of the
United States will be compelled to pay
the penalty of the piracy. Bat ROOSEVELT
of reckoning to vome
too soon. He prefer that the claim
should be withheld until after the sncoes-
or to his administration has been chosen
and TArr's sudden call to the Isthmus, at
a time when he was badly needed at home
is on that account.
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA, MAY 15.
Mr. Burke's Prerogative.
The Quay Monument.
We sincerely hope that Reprowcutetive | The QUAY monument commission is
BURKE, puntative manager of the KNox | looking for a place to put the QUAY movu-
boom, will persevere in his announced por- | ment, which, according to the news dis-
pose 10 contest the seat in the Republican | patohes and probably official information
National convention to which Lewis |is completed and ready for setting up,
EMERY Jr., of McKean county, was elect Bat the commission has some trouble, ow-
ed at the recent primaries, on the ground ing to the act of Assembly and partly to
tbat Mr. EMERY is a Democrat. As a mat- | the perversity of the public mind, in find-
ter of fact, Mr. EMERY is not a Democrat, ing a snitable place. The Act provides
though four years ago he was the Demo- | that it shall be set in the capitol grounds
cratic nominee for Congress in his district and the commission thioks if thus exposed
and two years ago he was nominated by it will be mutilated if not destroyed, and
the Democratic State convention as the | therefore it ought to be put in the corridor
candidate of that party for Governor. Bat of the capitol, where it could be watched.
the little matter of being wrong ought to | Under these perplexing conditions the
bave no deterrent influence on Mr. BURKE, | 'honument remains in the factory or to be
as it has none on his party, and Mr. Emery | 6X8, the stadio.
is culpable in that he bas announced bis The late Lord BYROX in a poetic ecstacy
independence of the machine in the matter deolared that every moment produced a
of bis chotce of a candidate for President. | Dero, or words to that effect. Borrowing
Under the primary election law Mr. the thought we may add that every prob-
EMERY was elected delegate and that lem produces a solution and while the
would entitle him to a seat, regardless of QUAY monument commission was cudgel-
past political affiliations, ‘‘race, color or ing its brains over the question of diepos-
previous condition of servitude.” As the ing of the QUAY monument, an unexpect-
occupant of the seat he has a right to vote ed event in Pittsburg presents the answer.
as he pleases for candidates and upon other The robbery of the Allegheny Nationa!
questions. Bat Mr. BURKE has an equally bank, of that city, of which QUAY’ friend,
well grounded right to object and to con- “BiLLy’ MONTGOMERY, was cashier, re-
teat, and if he desires to ‘add to the gay- vealed the existence of a secret and un-
ety of nations,” in that way we hope bis guarded back door, and we can think of no
liberties in that direction shall not be car- better use for the QUAY monuwent than to
tailed. He knows as well as another the plaoe it where it may serve as a sentinel for
enormity of the crime of being a Demoorat that seoret orifice in the back fence of
in a community in which the opposite po- *‘Monte’s” citadel.
litical faith predominates, because he bas In any event, there is mo room for the
tried it, and it Mr. EMERY is not willing QUAY monument either in the capitol cor-
to take his word on the subject he ought to ridor or in the park surrounding the build-
be compelled to pay the penalty. Nobody ing. The law creating the commission and
ought to get fresh, authorizing the monument was the frenzy
Probably if Mr. EMERY had been a Dem. | of & machine nightmare which was regret-
ocrat, or even if he had heen less boastful ted daring the subsequent lucid intervals
of his inflexible Republicanism, two years of the Legislature and the commission
ago, he would eccupy a different position ought to take the signs of protest as [an or-
in the life of the Commonwealth to-day and | der to abandon the project altogether. It
the party for which Mr. BURKE speaks is not that QUAY was any worse than his
with such confidence and arrogance would | Party for a stream is never more polluted
pot be so well off. As the Demooratic can. | than its fountain. Bat QUAY was the em-
didase for Governor Mr. EMERY availed bodiment of official corruption and the
himself of every opportunity to declare his moral sense of the people of the State
Republicanism with the result that a han- should not be outraged by canonizing
dred thousand Demoorats or more refused crime. The QUAY monument should never
to v4 for him and his opponent, the nom- | Dé Pus up at all.
inee ¢#®he party to which he was so fondly | ~
attached, was elected by less than half that
majority. Bat that shouldn't restrain Mr.
BURKE in his impulse to make trouble. It
is a God given prerogative.
The Only Remedy.
Second Trial of Grafiers,
The second trial of the capitol graft con-
spirators at Harrishurg is now in progress
tained. That is to say, the same judge
will preside and the same lawyers contend
over the same questions. Presumably in-
terest in the present proceedings will oen-
tre about the new defendants, architect
HusToN sud contractor CASSELL, aod in
all probability the sympathies of their as-
sociates will be divided. So far as HUSTON
in concerned the others would be glad to
see him convicted. But they feel different-
ly toward CAssELL. Iu his oase the co-
hesive force of plunder draws them togeth-
er in a common cause.
The evidence of guilt is much stronger
in the present trial than in the one which
preceded it, but the certainty of conviction
ia less, i" the public mind. This curious fact
is attributable to the popular belief that
since the last trial the machine has ‘pulled
itself together,” so to speak, and will make
a stronger fight and more effective defense.
“Conscience makes cowards of us all,” is
proverbial, but consciousness of guilt isn’t
balf as demoralizing to the criminal as the
knowledge that be bas been found out. It
takes time to recover from that depressing
condition as well as favorable influences
aud both bave been working overtime in
the interest of the oouspirators since the
last grafs trial.
Baus after all, we are inclined to think
that it makes little difference whether the
conspirators are convicted or not. It is
nearly foar months since the conviction of
the first hunch and yes so far as peroepti-
ble indications go they are no nearer pun-
ishment than the moment the verdict was
announced. In other words, it looks as if
these graft trials are mere comedies to fool
the people into an absurd notion that the
Republican machine has been reformed
and is entitled to a new lease of public
confidence. The present trial may change
things in this respect materially, for it
may be necessary to invoke desperate
means to save CASSELL. But at this
moment the signs for the gang are auspi-
cious.
According to information from Washiog-
ton the Republican majority has deter-
mined upon a makeshift carreney bill with
which to fool the public until after the
election. Daring the five and a-half months
which has intervened since the opening of
the session nothing has been done to pro-
mote the restoration of prosperity. Taking
the tariff off raw materials would have
started the mills and factories all over the
country. The removal of the tariff tax on
lamber would bave set building operations
in motion. These improvements would
have stimulated transportation interests and
restored commercial activity. Bat the Re-
publican majority preferred industrial par-
alysis to altering tariff schedules.
The present panio is the first in the his-
tory of the cvaniry to follow an uninter-
rupted season of agricultural and indus.
trial prosperity. Other indnstrial slumps
have been easily traceable to erop lailares or
commercial disorders. But this ove came
just as the greatest crop in the history of
the country had neen safely garnered.
Without sign or premonition of any kind
the banks announced a scarcity of currency
and industrial plants and transportation
agencies ceased to move. Probably money
was scarce, but Congress conld bave reme-
died that within a month from its aseem-
bling if it bad desired. Bat it failed until
millions had been lost to the country and
now offers only a temporary remedy.
If the people are fooled by this lame ex-
pedient they deserve to suffer. No man is
80 stupid as to believe that men who re-
fased to act when an emergency was pres:
ens will acs after is is past. In other &orda,
is is plain that a party which deliberately
refused available relief in a moment of dis-
tress will give it when there is no necessity
upon them. It is contrary to human pa-
ture. The Republican machine ie under
agreement with the trusts to make no
change in economic policies and if they can
carry the impending election without can-
oelling that agreement they will not cancel
it afterward. In view of shis palpable fact
the ouly thing for the people to do is to
vote for a change in the control of Congress.
A Democratic majority in Congress will
guarantee a oure for the present industrial
and commercial ills.
~The wall and flagstone pavemant
along Spring creek on south Water street,
which was washed away for a distance of
thirty feet at the falls, has now been
tally repaired, the job having been complet-
ed last Saturday afternoon. It is mow in
better condition than ever and it will take
a pretty big flood to wash it out in the
same way again.
~The weather this week bas been very
much more like spring and favorable for
the farmers than it has been for several
weeks; and of course they are all taking
advantage of it to ges their corn ground
ready for planting.
—We this week again call attention
to the advertisement in ancther columu of
a Scotob-oollie dog lost, strayed or stolen.
The dog is one especially prized by the
nwaer because it was a gift from a close
personal friend and its return is very much
desired. The finder will be suitably re-
warded by giving information at this office.
1908 ee
in an environment very much the same as
that in which the first conviction was ob-
Still Thinking it Over.
From the Altoona Times.
Another chapte
show.
be unfolded b,
which public notice ought to be called.
good fellow.”
Being a *‘good
be a cashier of a
confidant of politi
talked about and consulted
to use it.
such a
to sacrifice their manhood for it.
the same for those who follow it.
“Billy’’ Montgomery never had
Where Honor 1s Due.
From the Faston Argus.
the office.
done. The, Republicans of the
Berry.
corners of the state and nation,
odds.
which left all reference
recent state convention oan only redound
bappenings of the past two years ia the
office of etate treasurer.
conviction of Sanderson, Mathues, Shu-
maker and Snyder.
ittle of the lid lifting cannot change.
Explaining Dividends,
From the Pittsburg Dispatch,
modification of the Sherman anti-trust law.
It is true United States Steel and S:andard
sumers. Baus all of that has no bearing in
statutory
restraint of trade.
None of these things can enter into the
argument for putting into the haads of a
power
bureau or commission the arbitra
to say where or not any combination is in
restraint of trade—to permit one combina.
tion to thrive and put another out of
business. This power is not
parallel to that given the Inter-State Com-
merce Commision to say whether a given
rate is reasonable or to prescribe a reason-
able rate in lien of one that bas been ocon-
demned as unreasonable. The determiva-
tion of the oharacter of a combination
seems to us to be much more a judical
function and to be of such importance as to
demand the most careful consideration of
the courts.
Publicity of corporate affairs is proper.
Te ato
com ng ty to the extent
the aathority of ned Bat it is quite
another matter to confer upon someone the
wer to in this information without
ull open ng.
—————C————
——Rural mail carriers in Centre coun-
ty will be interested in knowing that there
is a bill before Congress providing for the
inorease of their salaries to a mazimum of
twelve hundred dollars per year.
r has been added in the
continued story of political trails of the
Republican state machine, and, while the
defalcation appears to bave been only the
insignificant sum of $469,000.00, there is
every indication that it is larger and more
replete with scandal than the first reports
The details of this latest exposure will
the story in the news
columns, but there is one significant de-
tail which bas already been given and to
Cashier “Billy” Montgomery, the old
time friend and ally of Quay, was what is
larly known asa ‘‘good fellow.” His
ite was one of sunshine and good feeling ;
the smile of contentment was ever present
with “Billy” and his friends who were
pumbered by the thousands, for ‘‘he wasa
fellow’’ has its compen-
sations and it likewise bas its bardships,
especially if the ‘‘good fellow’ happens to
litical bank and the
who need the bank’s
money. The political ‘“‘good fellow” is
; his asset of
friendliness is a good one for the politicians
to use in their business and they never fail
It is, perhaps, unfortunate tbat
“‘good fellow” as Montgomery
should be caught in the Penrose trap, but
the penalty of his kind of genialty is that
the denounement chooses neither a suitable
time nor favorable conditions to exact the
payment for the debt which machine poli-
tios demands of those who are eo loolish as
Playing the *‘good fellow’ for the rotten
Penrose machine has its attractions, but
the result bas been the same in every case
which has been uncovered, and we have
every reason to believe that it will ever ke
an
enemy who wished him such an unenviable
end and the lesson of his failure to keep
untarnished his best asset, his character,
ought to sink deep into the minds of all
who aspire to political *‘good fellowship.”
The term of State Treasurer Berry ended
Monday of last week with the taking of
the oath by his successor, John O. Sheatz,
Republican. During the two brief years
that Mr. Berry filled the office much his
tory has been made in this state. The
name of Berry will long be associated with
is reforms will endure fur a
long time, unless all signs fail. With him
as he retires to private life, he takes the
esteem of a majority of the citizens of the
state and the consciousuess of a task All
state
promised much to secure the eleotion of
John O. Sheatz, the present incumbent.
His pathway has heen made clear. He
need but steer to the course laid down by
The voters believed his promises.
Will the promises be fulfilled ? Berry kept
his. In his campaign for election he
romised to lift the lid. And he lifted it.
hat was found underneath is now known
of all men. The etench reached the farthest
The most
ntic conspiracy of graft and bare faced
robbery came to the light of day through
the sincerity and honesty of purpose of this
man ; a man who dared to do what he
thought was right in the face of frightful
Berry served the people and it is
from the people that he will receive his
fall share of praise. So puny a slight as
that given by the Republican organization
to the state
treasurer's office ont of its platform as the
to the oredit of Mr. Berry and heap odinm
on those who intended the slap at the
To Mr. Berry he.
longs the chief credit for nnearthing the
capitol graft cases and bringing about the
This is the situation
as the people see it. The efforts of the
liticians whose interest it is to make
Professor Jenks, of Cornell University,
was quite illuminating in his explanation
of the ability of the Stecl Corporation to
pay dividends, but was not equally con-
vincing in his argnment for the proposed
Oil enjoy many advantages in manufacture
from their ownership of raw resources,
means of production, private lines of
transportation from prodacing fields to
factories, and again from factories to oon-
favor of total or partial revocation of the
ibition of combinations in
Sm —
——
spawis from the Keystone.
~The machinery for the silk mill at
Patton is being installed and the plant will
be running in about ten days.
—Cavadobta chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolation, of Titusville, is mak-
ing an effort to raise $100,000 for the erection
of a monument to commemorate the dis-
covery of petroleum by Colonel Edwin
Drake.
—About 30,000,000 feet of logs reached the
Susquebsnna boom at Williamsport this sea~
son, and they are all in now except several
hundred thousand feet belonging to 8. N.
Williams. The logs are being rafted out to
the mills as fast as needed.
—While driving along the track of the
Northern Cambria street railway company
in Spangler, Cambris county, on Tuesday
evening, John Swank, an aged farmer of
Susquehanna township, was hit by a street
car coming from Barnesboro and was in-
stantly killed.
~The Pittsburg Fulminite company re-
cently purchased the Collins farm, a tract of
eighty acres of land in Addison township,
near Salt Springs, Somerset county. A large
powder factory will be erected on this prop-
erty during the summer and a large force of
workmen will be employed.
—Residents of Plumville, Indiana county,
are highly elated over the prospects of an oil
boom around their town. A Pitisburg com-
pany, under a Philadelphia management, has
started operations by leasing a number of
farms in the vicinity and drillinga well,
which is now 2,000 feet deep.
—Mrs. James M. Weaver, of New Wash-
ington, made snd marketed over 5000 pounds
of choice butter between May 1st, 1907, and
May 1st, 1908. She has one customer in
Clearfield who has used over two tons of her
batter since moving to Clearfiled and he says
that in all that amount there was not one
ounce of poor butter.
—The American tobacco company is among
the prominent buyers of Clinton county
tobacco this year, as their purchases in that
section will aggregate between 180,000 to
200,000 pounds. The tobacco is being ship~
ped from Lock Haven, Jersey Shore and
Avis and is the largest shipment ever made
by one company from that vicinity.
—A jury of farmers returned a verdict last
week for $4,666 against T. M. Nelson in
favor of Miss Marie Kauffman, of Chambers-
burg. Nelson, who is president of the Cham-
bersburg Trust company, Nelson Construoc-
tion company and the local hosiery plant,
struck Miss Kauffman last May while run-
ning his automobile, permanently injuring
her.
—The Berwind-White coal mining com-
pany last week donated the sum of $1,000 to
the local Young Men's Christian association
at Windber, to be used in paying off the in-
debtedness on the furnishings and equip—
ment of the building and other improvements
that have been made. A further donation
of $300 was made by the Alpha Construction
company.
~The New York & Pennsylvania company
has again received the contract for manu.
facturing and furnishing for the United
States government all the revenue paper
required for the next year. This contract is
an important one and all this paper is made
in the Lock Haven mill, which means work
for quite a number of extra men and women
employees.
—Francis Bloom, bookkeeper for the Sun.
bury Trust and Safe Deposit company, is
short and is a fugitive from justice. He
skipped on Wednesday last and an examina-
tion of the books disclosed a defaleation of
about $6,000. Bloom was a trusted employee
and left a wife and family. The peculations
extend back over a considerable period. The
bank is secured against loss by the bounds of a
sceurity company.
—At Mackeyville last Tuesday afternoon a
bevy of small boys were playing “Indian”
with wooden bows and arrows. Amoug the
pumber were Ernest Shearer aged about 13
years and Clair Walizer aged about 8 years,
Accidentally of course young Shearer sprung
his bow and drove the wooden arrow straight
into the right eye of little Clair Walizer.
The arrow completely penetrated the eye-
ball destroying the sight, with the result
that the child was taken to the Lock Haven
hospital where the eye was removed.
—David M. Wolf, former general book.
keeper of the First National bank of Ty-
rone, Pa.. who is alleged to have embezzled
$12,000 six years ago, and to have made false
entries in the books, appeared before Judge
Young in Pittsburg last week and said he
was ready to answer trial under the indict-
ment. His plea was refused by Judge Young,
who was United States attorney for the dis.
trict at the time, and was instrumental in
having the indictment returned against
Wolf. The case will be tried before Judge
R. W. Archbold, of Scranton, who will sit
for the occasion.
—Clark Chuse, son of postmaster John M.
Chase, of Clearfield, who had been missing
since Thursday, April 30th, when he left
home to fish in one of the mountain streams,
was found dead along Lick creek, about five
miles from Clearfield Friday. The young
man had evidently been caught slong the
stream in the heavy storm of Thursday
evening and started for home. When he
resched the place where he was found he
was exhausted and dragged himself into a
thicket and there died. His lunch was intact,
showing that he had died the first night out.
Searchers had been out daily since Sunday.
Chase was 28 years and married.
—A giant tree of the Pennsylvania forests
was harvested recently in Cameron conuty—
Warrant No. 4060—by the Central Pennsyl-
vania Lumber company that was certainly
something remarkable. This great tree was
white pine and will make as fine lumber as
was ever cut in the Keystone state. It pro-
duced the following number and length of
logs : 12 sixteen foot logs, 2 fourteen foot
logs, 8 twelve foot logs, 3 ten foot logs, and 6
eight foot logs, and the whole bunch scaled
the magnificent total of 10,800 feet board
measure. The first log measured
sixty inches, or five feet in diameter
at the small end, and plank cut from
loge like that are worth in clear white pine
immense sums of money. Such pine as this
is worth at least $75 a thousand feet, and
this great tree will likely bring the company
in round numbers about a thousand dollars,