Sr er —— A ——" Demure atc: 8Y P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Three cent car fares in Cleveland are being celebrated by small civil warfare. —A little fair weather is needed now else the corn crop will be short again in the fall. —The McKean county Republicans might just as well undertake to influence the man in the moon as instruct EMERY for KNOX at this late date. —80 far as TAFT is concerned it is now apparently up to the ratification of his nomination, some months after which messages of condolence will be the order. —Congress has postponed adjournment again. What for? It bas done notbing and will do nothing that the people want done so why worry longer about it. Ad- journ and get out. —Statistios prove that people who eat the heartiest breakfasts live the longest. Thia is for you wives who think a dish of force and a cup of coffee is plenty for the morning meal of the old man. —The venerable Senator PLATT may have been the ‘‘easy boss’ of the Repub- lican destinies in New York but recent developments indicate that there is a wom- an who wasn’t so easy bossed. But women were ever thus, —Unable to weather the storm longer the Allegheny national bank of Pittsburg has been forced to close its doors. In the light of what is already known concerning cashier MONTGOMERY'S peculations it isa wonder that there were any doors left to olose. —The Pittshurg Chamber of Commerce has decided that Pittshurg shall hereafter be spelled with a final h. Just why the h bas been added no one seems to know, as it certainly adds nothing, unless it is to be carried along merely because it is the first letter in the word that some parts of Pitta. burg look most like. —The new water ordinance for Belle- fonte horongh shifts the responsibility of the water rent from the consumer to the property owner, which leaves a nice ques- tion of law as to whether such a rent can be collected from any other source than the consumer, unless by special agreement of the parties concerned. —The prevalence of the soup house is always a forerunner of strikes, riots and other labor onthreaks. They are begin- ning to disturb the country and must run their course before those elected to ad- minister the laws of she land are brought to realize that this is not a government of the many for the benefit of the few. —The death of millionaire MARSH, of New York city, is another fioger-board pointing to caution with pets. A bull dog of which he had been very fond was torn by another dog and while he was binding up ite wounds the injured animal licked his band. The dog later developed rabies and was killed and, now six weeks later, Mr. MaRsH is dead ; having died in most violent and distressing agonies. —We hear considerable agitation among the fishermen over the injustice of the six inoh limit law. While it is certainly true that a trout six inohes long when caught will measure a quarter toa half inch less after it has been in the basket an hour or go it seems hard to reconcile this shrinkage of the small ones with the almost invariable increase in the length of the large ones. Who ever heard of a fellow telling that the ten inch trout he caught was lees than twelve or fourteen ? —The efforts of a coterie of would-be leaders to disrupt the Demooratio organiza. tion in Pennsylvania met with signal fail- ure in Harrisburg on Tuesday, justas it always will as long as the motive is so purely personal and selfish. The injection of Mr. BRYAN into the fight was neither fair to the distinguished Nebraskan nor helpful to the canse of the sore-heads since it did not take the delegates long tc see through the veil that was too thin to dis- guise the old crowd that bas been ‘‘knock- ing'’ #0 many years. —The Pennsylvania delegation goes to the national convention uninstruoted, as it should do. Pennsylvania can not give an electoral vote to a Democratic presidential nominee hence should not attempt to swing her large delegation to the support of any candidate until the really pivotal States have expressed an opinion as to who would stand the hest chance of carrying them. Whas the Demooracy needs is the candidate who would be strongest in Illi- pois, Indisua, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut. ~The action of the grand jury this week in putting the costs of some of the cases igoored on the justices sending them up looks like getting down to business. There bas been a remarkable aod expensive growth of petty cases to occupy the atten. tion of the courts and inorease the burdens of the taxpayers and it seems that the only way they can be stopped is by just such action as the Centre county grand jury took " this week. We know nothing of the merits of these particular cases, but as a general proposition the practice cannot help re- oi. good. The justice’s office is designed to take she place of a petty ocourt instead of being merely a stepping stone into the higher tribunal and the sooner justices grasp this idea the better it will be for all concerned. VOL. 5 Foraker and Roosevelt Senator FORAKER bas given up his fight for the restoration of the colored soldiers who were dismissed by President ROOSE- vELT, without honor and without trial, at Brownsville, Texas, a douple of years ago. These colored soldiers bad been greatly outraged. A orime bad been perpetrated by somebody. Ten or a dozen armed ruf- fians had *‘shot up the town’ and killed a man or two. The erime was attributed to the many soldiers stationed in she bar- racks there, but there never was any proof of the fact. Nevertheless the President, without trial or other judicial process punished a hundred or more of these col- ored soldiers. They protested their inno- cence and demanded a trial. The people of the community demanded the surrender of the men for acivil trial. ROOSEVELT denied both requests and punished the colored soldiers without trial, after the fashion of a military autoorat. Senator FORAKER had the presidential aspirations and some [feeling against RooseveLT. He imagined that he could promote bis own ambitions and incidental- ly ‘“‘slug” the President by becoming champion of the outraged negro soldiers. The negroes of the South oan, if they like, control the election of delegates to the Re- publican National convention in a dozen States. The negroes of the North have the balance of power, at the general election, in balf a dozen pivotal States. If they had entered into the scheme of Senator FORA- KER with any degree of earnestness, there: fore, the nomination of any candidate to whom they were opposed, by the Republi- can convention, and the election of such a candidate by the people, would have been impossible. Understanding this FORAKER undertook to use the megroes to punish ROOSEVELT and serve himself. But the pegroes refused to respond. ROOSEVELT bas them cinched. Having ascertained the facts FORAKER has abandoned the contention. He could bave damaged ReosevELT, materially, no doubt, by making tbe election of TAFT practically impossible, but that would have injured the party without benefitting FORAKER and ‘‘what’s the uvse,”” he prob- ably reasoned. He was willing to help them, but they weve not. Therefore there was nothing in it for him and the ‘‘niggers can go to h—ades,’’ so far as he is con- cerned. He believes in justice if a fair share of it comes his way. He favors a fair deal when he isat one end of the transaction. But like ROOSEVELT he is first for bimsel! and afterward for the party. If he can conserve hoth of these interests without prejudice well and good. Otherwise, following an illustrious preo- edent within his party, he throws oon- science to the dogs. It's a dirty fight, but interesting. Humiliating Fact Revealed. The session of Congress which is just drawing to a close has clearly established one important fact. After six months of opportunity it has been shown that the Re- publican party is absolutely and irretriev- ably incapable of properly administering the governments. In this statement we are not arraiguivg the PENROSE machine of Pennsylvavia. Thas combination of graft and greed has its fanits and they are stu- pendous. But the Republican party, as a pational force, is equally delinquent. It bas utterly failed to correct a single fault in the policies or present a single remedy for the evils which has plunged the country into a distressing and destructive panic in the face of the elements of prosperity. When Congress met oo the 3rd of Decem- ber the country was assured that a remedi- al currency bill would be enacted before she Christmas holiday recess. Senator AL- DRICE ostentationsly visited the White House and the announcement was made that the President and the party had agreed upon the terms of a bill. But months passed before the first steps toward the fulfillment of the pledge were taken and probably no steps would bave been taken yet if the Demoorats bad not forced matters by introducing bills on their own account. Then the Republican bills were made up of parte of the several minority bills so that there is no injustice in the statement that the legislation proposed by the majority was simply patchwork. If the Republican party were capable of governing the country no such conditions would exist to-day. It is probably true, ae has been alleged, shat the big bankers in the financial centres do not want legisla. tion on the currency. The brief periods of currency {famine give them an opportunity to exact usury from suffering business too good to be relinquished voluntarily. Bat it is the duty of Congress to legislate for the benefit of the people rather than for the advantage of the usurere and their failure to do so marks them as incapable of per. forming the functions they bave undertak- en. The bill which bas been passed is worse than no bill, It is simply a make. shift to fool the people. ——Subsoribe for the WATCAMAN. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE: | Tue ‘Governors’ Conference,” held in | Washington, last week, under the anspices of President ROOSEVELT, may or way not bave achieved its purpose. The obvious intention was to demonstrate how ahso- lutely useless state governments are and how perfectly servile state Governors may become. The success of the first part of the proposition is uncertain. We are un- able to see wherein the proceedings show that the obliteration of state lines would, in the least measure, conserve the public welfare. It would vastly exalt the office | of President and greatly augment the activi- ties of the central government. Bat it wounldn’s perceptibly add to the security of the life or property of the citizen or diminish his obligations. Nothing of that kind was developed. But it did prove beyond peradven- tare of a doubt that men of the highest reputation for intelligence and courage may be brought into the most complete sub- gervience to an ambitions mind with bypuotic power. ROOSEVELT beld the Governors of the country in complete ocon- trol. Under the announcement of a ocon- ference of Governors he beld a convention of two days’ length in which the Governors bad no more power than a Sunday school teacher would bave at a prize fight. Be. fore the Governors assembled ROOSEVELT announced the program with respect to speaking. On their aswembling be an- nounced the organization and assigned to each man his part. ROOSEVELT spoke first, last and in the middle, and gracious- ly allowed Mr. CARNEGIE, Mr. J. J. HILL, who happens to be an antagonist of HaAR- RIMAN and one or two others who are in the habit of eulogizing bim all the time, to ocoupy the stage during the intervals, Taking it all in all, the ‘Conference of Governors’ was a monumental humbug. Near the olose Governor GLEN, of North Carolina, ventured an assertion of the dignity of his office and Governor FOLK, of Missouri, faintly supported the te- merity. But ROOSEVELT soon fastened them with his hypnotic stare and they apolo- gized for the discordant note. Yet the conference was not without good influ. ences. Itshowed that Governors, like the rest of us, are moulded of the commonest olay and vuluntarily or otherwise, yield servile obedience to a master mind invested with greater authority than their own. That knowledge may not he of much use to us but it will help to a more accurate estimate of Governors. Taft's Teip to the Isthmus, Secretary TAPT bas returned from the Isthmus and announces that he was *‘very much pleased with his trip.”’ That is one of the Secretary’s long suite. He is alwaye making trips at public expense and he is invariably greatly pleased. He oounld bardly be otherwise. He travels in im- perial style and at no expense to himsell. Even his tips to the Pullman car porters can be charged up to the Department and there is nothing niggardly about the equipment of a warship. Besides these trequent trips make TAFT's official life ap- pear like a perennial holiday and he ap- pears to be a man capable of absorbing a vast amount of leisure. Secretary TAFT was delighted, moreover, with a lot of things which he saw during his trip to the Jsthmus. The work of excavating is going forward famously, he says, and the digging of the ditch may be completed in four years. ‘‘Health and sanitary conditions were never better," he adds. This is most encouraging. It is true that those things bave never been good on the Isthmus and there have been times when it was worth a man’s life to inhale a full breath of the miasmatic atmos- phere. Bat inasmuch as our government bas spent twenty or thirty millions of dol- lars in improvements of sanitary conditions it is gratilying to learn thas ‘‘health and sanitary conditions were never bester.”’ Strangely enough, however, the Seore- tary is silent on the most interesting aspect of his trip. Aeked about the boundary dis- pute between Colombia and Panama the Secretary declared that ‘‘be had not talked it over with the President or bad the op- portunity so see Secretary Roor.” Itisa pity that he is thus obliged to withhold important information. It 18 safe to pre- diot, however, that his mission was suocess- ful on that point. His business was to prevent an immediate demand for indem- nisy for fomensing revolution. It would be dangerous to have that question raised before the election and probably TAFT has obtained the delay. —Centre countians who were granted original pensions or increases recently are as follows: Lewis Chase, Philipsburg, $12; Jacob Emerick, Millbeim, $50 ; Mar- | shall Lewis, Kylertown, $24 ; Frederick Shultz, Philipsbarg, $15; Willard Crispin, Clarence, $12; Mrs. Josephine Craig, Julian, $12; Thomas MoCafferty, Bellefonte, $24 ; Mrs. Polly George, Aaronsburg, anjaccrued pension of $4 per month from October 4th, 1902, to April 19th, 1908, since which time PA., MAY 22, 1908. The Republican Candidate. All the delegates to the Republican National convention have been elected and though estimates of the result with respect to candidates differ widely, it is a safe con- jecture that our prediction of several months ago that Secretary of War TAFT will he nominated on the first ballot will be fulfilled. The party might have chosen a better candidate. In fact it may be said that the rank and file of the party wanted to make gnother selection. But the cor- rupting inflaences of the present adminis- tration were so overwhelming and the coersive force of the big stick was so potent, that no other candidate had even the ghost of a chance. ROOSEVELT simply compelled the result, We would not be understood as con- demning Judge TAFT as a bad candidate. That is to say, we have no reason $0 ap- prehend tbat be is afflicted with the tem- peramental infirmities which have made ROOSEVELT a menace to public tranquility aud industrial prosperity during the past two or three years. He is certainly not afflicted with brain storm or the greater evil of inveracity which bas made inter- conrse with the White House a sort of bazardous enterprise lately. Bat he is | sufficiently unsafe to make ROOSEVELT prefer him to others and inspire in the minds of wiser men a dread of his elec- tion. In other words TAFT is tolerated only because it was thought that the con- vention might go further and fare worse. It 1s a case of HoBSON’S ohoice, TAFT or RoosevELT,and TAFT is taken as the lesser evil. The Repablican party had a splendid op- portunity to measure up to the high stand- ard of ite best traditions. It might have nominated Senator KN0X,of Pennsylvania, or Governor HuaHEs, of New York, and with soch a candidate commanded the respect, if not the support, of every con- soientious and patriotic citizen of the coun- try. Either of those eminent gentlemen would bave measured up to the require ments of the office and would bave restored the government to the lines which were laid by the founders. But ROOSEVELT doesn’t want such a restoration now or at any time and #0 long as he bas power to manipniate patronage and bribe results be will continue his policies at any cost. A Trifle Inconsistent. The presence of a lot of clergymen and others who were attending the Pennsylva- nia Arbitration and Peace Conference made the pulpits of Philadelphia veritable tem- ples of fraternity last Sunday. Many emi- nent clergymen from varions sections of the country spoke in one church or another and wherever these distinguished visitors opened their mouths the theme was peace. “We seek,” said one of them, ‘‘to make applicable to natione the spirit of the in. junction, ‘peace on earth ; good will to men.””’ Another ridiculed Captain Hos- SON'S abiurd notion that battleships make for peace and still another had the nerve to laud righteousness above the patriotism which puts country above justice. These were beautiful sentiments but there was a discordant pote running through all the addresses. It was the landation of ROOSEVELT. What is there in him for men of peace to admire. Ina description written by himself and pub lished over his own signature, of the battle of San Juan Hill, the President tells of meeting a Spanish soldier who unarmed, wae .trying to escape with his life. Bat the ROOSEVELT hlood was in the RoosEe- vELT heart and ROOSEVELT shot him dead. Senator TILLMAN, former Senator CHAND- LER, Mrs. BELLAMY STORER and others have convicted him of falsilying to the in- jury of others and it is widely known that his greatest delight is the opportunity to kill. One of the most eloquent of the speakers referred disparagingly to the QUAY monu- mens and suggested that a monument to TwEED, of New York, would be quite as appropriate. But why isn’t it as appropriate for politicians to erect a monument to QUAY or TWEED as it is for delegates in a peace conference to construct verbal monu- ments to ROOSEVELT? Aren’s all the pro- fessions of admiration for the principles of peace lost upon the thoughtful mind when accompanied by absurdly fulsome eunlogies of a man who has bent his energies and perverted his powers to a purpose to make this peaceful Republic a nation of warriors ? It seems to us that our ecclesiastical friends are a trifle inconsistent. —— Notwithstanding the fact that Belle- fonte has two motion picture shows every evening when a regular moving pioture ex- hibition comes to town it always draws a good audience; and no doubt this will be the case next Monday evening when Lyman H. Howe, the pioneer in moving pictures, will give his mammoth attraction at Gar- man’s opera house. The program to be presented includes all new pictures and all of them of unusual interest and consider able educational merit. Regular prices it has been $12. will prevail and it is an exhibition you will not want to miss. NO. 21. Industrial Economies. From the Philadelphia Record. A conference of Governors, with speeches by eminent men, is a spectacular perform- ance especially dear to a man like ore Roosevelt. But industrial forces are not controlled by speeches and White House conclaves. The ‘‘House of Governors'’ has adjourned very confident that our national resources ought to be conserved and very much at sea about the means of effecting it. Some twenty years ago it was discovered that the coal dust, or fine coal bus little larger than dust, which was a mere waste accumulating in piles of almost mountain size around the mines, was capable of being burned under boilers. This fine coal is now a regular article of merchandise, and if has added greatly to the earnings of the anthracite companies. Here is one item of waste that has been stopped. No fact is more striking in recent soientil- io development than the extent to which waste su bave been utilized. - It is an old slanghter house joke that everything about the pig was used except his squeal. Bat the utilization of cotton seed is recent. It is not many years since a listle seed wae fed to castle, a listle of it was used as fer- tilizer and much the greater of it was simply waste. Then it was found that an oil could be ex from it. When this was first pushed as an article of food there was a tremendous outery about the adulter- ation of swine’s grease with this vegetable oil. Laws were demanded to protect the community from cottonseed oil. People have got over their scare at a new food prodnct, and cottonseed oil is now brazenly advertized as the superior of lard. After the oil is ex the meal is a partio- ularly valuable food for cattle. A waste product has become an important article of commerce. The scientists and the manufacturers eearching for the despised dollars area little slow about eliminating waste, but they are pretty sure. There is not much bape of reducing waste unless it be profit able to do 80. Gas engines and the making of producer gas from waste fuel at the mines suggest one line of coming economy. This sort of progress makes less display than a ‘““Houee of Governors’ assembled in the house of the President, but it is acoom- plishing something all the time. New York View of Penna. Shane, The New York World, The $499.000 shortage of Cashier William Montgomery, of the Allegheny National Bank of Pittsburg is one more tragedy to add to the long roll of death and dishonor on which figure the names of public flicials and bankers involved in Quay’s wmanipula- tion of the Pennsylvania state treasury. The Allegheny National Bank was #he Quay bank in the western end of the state just as the people’s Bank of Philadelphia whose cashier, John 8S. Hopkins, com- mitted suicide was the Qoay bank in eas- tern Pennsylvania. Following Hopkins’ death came disclosures resulting in the ar- rest of Quay, his son Richard and State Treasurer Haywood, on the charge of con- spiring with Hopkins to use the People’s Bank funds for speculation in stocks by Quay. Quay escaped by pleading the statute of limitations. State Treasurer Haywood is said to bave died of grief ove: his disgrace. One of the features of the ings in the Quay case was the re- usal of Cashier Montgomery, of the Alle- gheny National Bank, to produce books be- ore the grand jury, which would show other stock operations of Quay with fande from state depositories. Of other officials connected with the state treasury during the days of Quay’s fatal domination, Cashier J. Blake Walters commisted suicide. State Treasurer Wil- liam Livsey fled in disgrace and State Treasurers Amos C. Noyes and William B. Hart died under the strain of official dis- bonor. After Quay’s death followed the suicide of T. Lee Clark, cashier of the wrecked Euterprise Bank, whioh bad ob- served the practice of making political loans in return for official favors from the state treasury. Several of the bank's clerks were sent to jail. And now, to crown all, the le of Pennsylvania, in recognition Quay's eminent services as lifelong political cor- raptionist, are about to place an imposing statue of the man at the approach to the new state capitol at Harrisburg, which is itself one of the greatest mounments to gralt in this conntry. Shut Up the Legislative Shop. From the New York Sun. ; It seems highly proper that the Sixtieth Congress should close up its eminently un- important affairs and scatter. Anything peeded for the honor and safety of the country, as he sees it at least, will be done by President Roosevelt in any event. Any- thing elee needed for the same purpose, as they see it, he will forbid. The members are simply making spectacles of themselves by remaining in Washington. The sooner they follow the Governors and disappear the better. It wiil be an inglorious re- treat, some may say. Perhaps. Bat real- ly, can anything be more humiliating than the present plight ? Afraid tt» Shew the Goods. From the Pittsburg Post. The strenuous opposition by the men in- dioted for conspiracy in furnishing the new State capitol to having any of the furniture exhibited tothe jury is evidence in itsell of something wrong in the matter. If es on conn y got its money's worth in his opinion, his colleagues who helped the contractors to get extrava- t sums vagh to have no objections to etting the public see and examine what was received in return. ——Harvey Stine has hought a home at State College and will make that hie place of residence in the future. S— Agents of cold storage companies are buying up eggs in Berks county at 18 cents per dozen. Spawls from the Keystone. —Westmoreland county is now operating its own electric plant for lighting the court house and jail. It was put in operation on Wednesday evening and is working very satisfactorily. —A finely equipped plant for the manu~- facture of fine fire brick, having a capacity for making 70,000 bricks every twenty-four bours, is nearing completion at Clymer, Indiana county. ~The Osceola Silica and Fire Brick works, after a long period of idleness, were started up on Wednesday morning, giving employ- ment to quite a number of men andj boys. This is good news for the peuple of Osceola. ~The members of the Benevolent Protec tive Order of Elks, of Indiana, have taken possession of their new home, a fine three storied brick-cased stracture with Hummels+ town brownstone trimmings. The jdate set for the dedication is Thursday, May 28th. —June 18th will be the twentieth §anni- versary of the big blaze that made a new town out of DuBois,and the firemen}will cel. ebrate the event in good style. A big parade and basket picaic, with baseball and other athletic sports, will be features of jthe cele~ bration. —Jeremiah F. Werner, ofliMohnsville, Berks county, bas entered suit against Rev. W. H. Stetler for $10,000 damages for slander, because the minister several months ago, while preaching the funeral sermon of Werner's wife, charged that he had neglect ed and crueliy treated her, —No clue has been learned that would lead to the discovery ofthe whereabouts of Frances M. Bloom, the defaulting book. keeper of the Trust Company bank, at Sun- bury. Noonecan be found whojlhas any knowledge of him since he left his home two weeks ago Wednesday. —After giving a stranger a meal and per- mitting him to sleep in her barn, last Friday night, Mrs. Page, the aged postmistress at Bensalem, Bucks county, was brutally at- tacked and knocked down by the fel- low whom she had befriended. Mr. Page's arrival caused the fellow to flee. —F. D. Beyer, one of Tyrone's most prom- inent citizens, died Wednesday ofjlast week at his home in that place, aged about 77 years. He was the senior member of the planing mili firm of F. D. Beyer & Co., was an active Methodist and Prohibitionist and a man of sterling qualities. He is survived by three daughters and three sons. —Ground was broken Monday for the big armory building to be erected on Pine street on the lot adjoining the St. Charles hotel, Williamsport. The contract priea for the drill hall is $24,000. The administration building will be erected later, fronting on Pine street, when an additional appropria- tion is made by the Legislature. ~—*“Hungry Sam’ Miller, of Strawberry Ridge, Montour county, famous as a cham- pion gormandizer, has balked at an offer of $100 per week to eat three dozen raw eges every night for fifty-two weeks. While in Berwick on Saturday he ate eighteen eggs, shell and all, and drank three quarts of milk, then went home for dinner. ~The lumbering industry in Bennett's Branch valley is showing an increased ac- tivity. Jobbers have signed contracts to cut 40,000,000 feet on the Medix and Laurel runs. Josiah Howard, of Cameron county, has bought 30,000,000 feet, which he will cat during the present season. No change, how ever, has been made on the DuBois tract, on Hicks run, where only 15,000,000 feet of lumber will be cut, instead of the usual 50, 000,000. —Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wilson, of Allport, Clearfield county, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary last Thursday and about one hundred guests, including their children and grandchildren, assembled to enjoy a happy reunion. Among the number was their honored son, Congressman W. B, Wilson, and his family, from Blossburg, Tioga county. A big dinner was served ina large tent on the lawn. Mr. and Mrs. Wil- son are Scotch people and were married in Scotland. —One of the columns from the old state house at Harrisburg will figure for all time in a memorial at Jersey Shore, being now sa soldiers’ and sailors’ monument, erected with money subscribed by the citizens and community, the school children having taken an active part. It will be dedicated on May 30, and Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart will be the orator of the day. The shaft was secured for this purpose by Cap- tain P. D. Bricker, former chief clerk to the auditor general. —By the burning of a house at Castanea, Clinton county, last Thursday night, three persons lost their lives and four more were more or less seriously burned or injured in jumping. The dead are Pasquale Bonado, an Italian who was employed as a section band on New York Central railroad; Angelo Lorenzo, aged about 6 years, and Rosie Lorenzo, aged 2 years. It is thought the fire started from the explosion of a coal oil lamp left burning on the sitting room table. The house was completely destroyed, with all its contents. —J. H. Bierly, of Sabinsville, but. former- ly of Clinton county, is preparing to make a fight for $350,000 worth of property in Du- Bois, Pa., as discovery of an old deed, he says, will dispossess the present occupants of the property. Twenty-one years ago Bierly and his wife were residents of DuBois and well-to-do. Because of his impaired phys- jeal condition his wife transacted all the business. In the memorable fire of 20 years ago, when DuBois was almost wiped off the map, the Bierlys lost all their buildings, a fortune of $300,000 be- ing swept away. Almost heart-broken they left DuBois and went to Austin, where a short time afterward they gave up their holdings in DuBois as security for a $35,000 loan. Bierly was under the impression that it was a sale. Sixteen years ago Mrs. Bierly, who always had charge of the papers, died suddenly. The other day, Bierly, in rum- maging about an old trunk, chanced to find a secret compartment. In it wat the deed to all the DuBois property and a paper showing that the $35,000 indebtedness was but a loan. The property is now estimated to be worth $350,000. Among the properties is one of the largest hotels of the town. Mr. Bierly has placed the mstter in the hands of counsel.
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