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BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Reformed and Methodist, alike,
Can get spiritually sick
And back-slide to the very teeth
Of the hooks of the old Nick
And still have hopes of bein saved
And cured eternally
For Scumipr and Sreix can do the job
They're Doctors, now, you see.
—The way the South likes TAPT is about
the way Pennsylvania likes Bryan. Both
are cases of bluster without votes.
—Of course the Directoire gown is only
affected by the girls who don’t bave to rely
on sawdust to fill op their stockings or
pads to shape their hips.
—In Abyssinia there can be no such
thing as a man stretching his feet under his
own mahogany hecause the wife always
owns the house and everything in it.
—Now Secretary CORTELYOU would like
to play tail to the TAFT kite ; a very dan-
gerous position ; especially if there should
pot be enough wind to keep the kite in the
air.
—The Mayor of Philadelphia is in the
position of defending the accusation that
he is a drunkard. Think of is, the Mayor
of Philadelphia! What a great city bas
come to.
—This is the season of the year when
the colleges are turning out large numbers
of graduates but it is op to themselves to
see that they have been turned out true
wen and women,
—Liviog expenses in New York bave in-
creased eleven per cent. in one year, but
Mayor MecCLELLAND probably doesn’t
notice it. He is not living. Heis merely
in a state of suspense.
—Inasmuch as Mr. HoBsoN has merci-
fully postponed our war with Japan until
1909 we presume he will have bad time to
get his osculatory organs in training by
that date to be sent over to kiss and make
up.
—It now appears that JiM MeNicHOL,
of Philadelphia, has been talking too much
to suit his lawyers. Leave the “‘I’’ out of
talking and you will have the thing he has
been doing too much of to please the peo-
ple.
—Manayuuk has a real fool-killer. While
out boating a man started to rocking the
boat in which BEsSIE ROSTUM was seated
whereupon she promptly picked up an oar
and knocked him overboard. She did her
part, but be did not drown.
—The QUAY statue continues to be a
white elephant on the bands of the com-
mission. The Board of Public Grounds
and Buildings met on Taesday and again
laid the request to bave it placed in the
rotunda of the capitol oun the table.
—Mr. ROOSEVELT is to hold his conven-
tion in Chicago next week. His policies
are to be endorsed, his platform adopted
and his stool-pigeon put at the head of the
ticket. Thus the fake trust buster reveals
his real grip on the Republican organiza-
tion just at a time when be was supposed
to be down and out.
—The death of GEORGE F. PAYNE, head
of the contracting firm that built the palace
of graft, makes the third man connected
with that scandal to pass to a world free
of the cares of this life. Can it be possible
that another chain of deaths is to follow
the great capitol robbery such as marked
the notorious treasury scandal of Quay’s
some years ago.
—The action of the national association
of railroad ticket sellers at Atlantic City
on Tuesday was one that the public will
heartily approve of. It is certain that a
“‘grouchy’’ ticket seller can do more to
prejudice public sentiment agaiust the
corporation that he is working for than the
rates of the corporation. A traveler nsuoal-
ly seeks information only when he needs
it, and that with more or less hesitancy.
When his inquiries are met at the ticket
window with a short, crusty answer that
really tells him to get away, rather than:
helps him, he cannot but nurse a feeling of
resentment agaiust the corporation that
retains such an official.
—The seating of LEWIS EMERY Jr., as a
delegate from Pennsylvania in the Repub.
lican pational convention, was pot an un-
expected outcome of the contest made upon
bis right to represent this district. The
unfortunate feature of the episede was that
Col. ReyNoLDs should bave lent himself
to the attack on EMERY, which was a
malicious action on the part of a few of his
persunal enemies. But the Colonel never
was a politician and probably has no desire
to become one, though this incident should
prove an admovition to him that io any
future ambitions that it is always well to
ponder well over advice thas is volunteered
by would-be political leaders.
—The panic of 1837 forced the establish-
ment of a federal treasury. The panic of
1857 eliminated wild cas banks. The
pavic of 1873 resulted in the green-back
redemption bill. The panic of 1893 stop-
ped the farther purchase of silver and put
the country on a sound (?) money basis
abscluiely ; that is, it left gold supreme as
the standard of value and marked the end
(?) of turther financial flurries. The panic
of 1907,though judged from what financiers
bad told us before bad no right to appear,
has resulted in the passage of the ALDRICH
VREELAND currency bill, as dangerous in
its possibilities as either silver, green-backs
or state hanks. Cab it be thas, after all, the
turning point has been reached and we are
about to retrace all the steps we have taken
since 1837?
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“VOL. 53
The Republican Platform.
Concerning
that is to be adopted at Chicago next week
few unimportant details yet to be arranged
but they will be left to the committee on
resolutions. Every thing of importance
kitchen cabinet though they are neither
members of the committee nor delegates in
the convention. This recalis an incident
the Republican party in this State. A
He banded them a list of the nominees
with one exception, an unimportant place
that he bad forgotten. His attention was
called to the oversight aud he remarked
date for that office.”
This is the condition of servitnde to
duced. One wan and be more a Populist
| cient.
protests were silenced.
there is no independence among them.
Self respecting citizens would have asserted
their manhood and united ona candidate
who was free. Bat there are no self-respect.
| ing citizens among the leaders. The cobes-
ive force of public partronage binds them
al! in a state of serfdom to ROOSEVELT.
A party so conducted is unfit to direct
| the destinies of a fiee people. Men so
fettered are incapable of self government.
It has been said that the Democratic party
is governed by one man and it is true that
a private citizen without patronage or
official power exercises vast influence
among the Democratic masses, Bat he
has acquired bis power by the force of his
own merit. He bas not purchased his
influence over the Demociatic voters by
the misuse of official patronage. What in-
fluence Mr. BRy AN has among the Demo-
crats of the country is the result of his
splendid ability, bis magoificent integ-
rity and bis unselfish efforts in the inter-
ests of the people.
|
{of just appreciation. Yieldiog servile
obedience to a briber indicates an absence
of mavhood.
| Rottenness in Philadelphia,
There is nothing uew in the develop-
ments of fraud in Philadelphia. Senator
MeNICHOL acknowledges that the jary was
“fixed” in the SALTER case and that JOHN
WEAVER, thea district attorney and
subsequently compensated by promotion
to the office of mayor, was cognizant of
and coutributary to the conspiracy. But
every intelligent observer of events knew
that at the time. For that reason we
repeatedly admonished the public against
placing faith in the reform professions of
WEAVER. He had proven himself
a corruptionist and a man with sucha
record can’t represent genuiue reform any
more thau a leopard can change its spots,
But the developments of the last couple
of weeks in relation to the frands in Phila-
delphia are important, nevertheless. They
indicate that the machine has so accurately
measared the civic immorality of the peo-
ple of Philadelphia that its leaders no
longer think it neceséary to conceal its
iniquities. MeNicHOL feels confident no
exposures will tarn the people of that city
against an organization which pays them
divided with reasonable liberality it may
continne the ploudering operations and
the chief boodler is therefore willing to let
the whole world know. That is the as-
surance of the confident criminal.
We are inclined to share in the opinion
of Mr. MeNicHoL. In 1906 the people of
Philadelphia knew that in voting to restore
the Republican party to power they were
voting for the resumption of the looting
operations. Yet by enormous majority
they declared in favor of the restoration,
and subsequently, in the election of Mayor
REYBURN, testified to their satisfaction
with the result. Sach exposures as those
of the last few days add nothing to the
enormity of the crimes that have been per-
petrated but they prove that the commun-
ity is morally rotten and serve as a warn-
ing to the outside world. It is inconceiv-
able that such a people can be trusted in
anything.
~——Rev. J. M. Runkle, an old Centre
countain, has resigned as pastor of St.
John’s Reformed churob, of Williamsport,
$0 accept the pastorate of the Church of the
Incarnation at Newport, Pa. Rev. Run-
kle had the refusal of three separate calls,
one from a congregation near his old home
in Pennsvalley, one from the Mapleavenue
Reformed church in St. Louis, Mo., and
the one from Newport, which he accepted.
the Repablican plaslorm
we bave the information that there are a!
of the late Senator QUAY'S management of |
State convention wason and the leaders |
were in conference in the Senator's room. |
“Oh h—1, let the couvention select a candi. |
for their support. So long as the loot i= |
A Most Mendacious Frand.
The Philadelphia North American avd
other conscienceless Republican organs are
making a strenuous and mendacions effort
to re-elect Congressman LAFEAN, of the
| York Adams district. For example, a short
time ago the Washivgton correspondent of
count of Representative LAFEAN'S success-
| tul fight against the proposition, embodied
in a pending bill, to purchase a tract of
worthless land on Rock Creek, near
| Washington, for park purposes. The propo-
sition was a grab in which some influential
Washington capitalists were concerned,
and so palpable a frand that everybody
outside of the group was outraged. Bot
LAFEAN had nothing to do with the defeat
of it.
The measure was defeated in the House
on Tuesday, May 26, and the discassion is
‘spread in the Congressional Record begin-
| vote on page 7,356. It was called up by
than a Republican completely dominates Mr. TAWNEY and supported by the gentle | succession himself,
the orgavization. Having selected the man and Messrs. GARDNER, of Michigan, | nomination there can be no question. That
candidate tbere were some murmurs of and OLcUTT, of New York. It was opposed | he intended to seize itis equally certain.
disapproval and be declared ‘‘yon will | by Mr. SHERLEY, of Keutucky, Mr. BART- Bat the distress attending the panic forced
accept him or take m2.’’ That was suffi- | HOLDT, of Missouri, Mr. ANDRUS, of New | a change of his plans and bis anoounce-
Nobody wanted TAFT but the al- | York, Mr. FITZGERALD, of New York, and | ment was made during the first half of the
| ternative was more forbidding and the | others. But LAFEAN, of Pennsylvania, | recent session of Congress to prevent the
Independent men | took no part in the discussion, bad nothing | complete disintegration of the party. Since
would have resented the insult and de- | to do with the disposition of the time and | shatall his energies as well as the full
| clated that they would accept neither but | in no manuer or form participated in the | measure of his resources have been thrown
| matter. He voted against the bill, as a
| majority of those present did, and that
was all.
| The walignaot aod mendacious North
American wants to re-elect LAFEAN and its
| Washington correspondent deliberately
| fabricated this absurd story of his activity
| in a just and soccessful fight against a fat
| job. But unfortunately for its purpose the
, proceedings of Congress are accurately ex-
pressed in the Congressional Record and all
| that is necessary to detect a fraud of the
| kind it undertook in behalf of iw York
| favorite is to keep an eye oa the Record.
| Since the adjournment of Congress we have
| found time to look this matter up and in-
vite the scrutiny of any donbting mind of
the pages to which we bave referred. The
| mendacious North American would better
| disenss questions on which there are uo
' records.
The Second Trial of Gerafters,
To withbold adwira- |
tion from such a mar would show a lack |
The testimony in the second of the
| capital graft trials in Harrisburg was com-
pleted before the adjournment of cours on
| Saturday last and the résult of the trial
| may be reached before this paper is re-
ceived by its readers. We predicted at the
| beginning of this second event that whilethe
| evidence against the accused was stronger
| than that brought ont the probabilities of
| cunviction were not so strong. This con.
jecture has been falfilled. The reasons
‘upon which that opinion was based were
| in the hetter understanding by the defend-
| ants of the plans of the prosecution and the
| fact that the trial was farther removed
| from the commision of the crimes.
| In this second trial of the grafters the
| crafty counsel of the defendants relied al-
most entirely on the change in public
' sentiment whieh has occurred since the
| previous trial. There were only four
; mouths between the ending of one and the
| beginning of the other but within that
| brief period the coutrol of the State Treas-
wry had heen restored to the machine and
the people had heen brought to an under-
standing that graft is no longer under the
ban. The newspapers paid little or no
| attention to the second trial and the ses-
| sions of the court attracted no more than
| the usual interest. Some how or other the
| impression was created that nobody cared
; anything about the result of the trial.
| Nothing could be more discouraging
| than this condition of public opinion. It
| may safely be said that popular indifference
| $0 corruption is the most prolific source of
| venality. So loog as men are not shocked
at crime but are outraged at the careless-
| ness which reveals it, there can be no
actual improvement in political morals.
That is why the capitol grafters who were
exempt from the first trial bad an advan-
tage over those who were included in that
ordeal. The political machine has since
been operating on public opinion and has
perverted it. Of all those concerved in the
graft operations, with the single exception
of PENNYPACKER, CASSELL was the
boldest. Yet at this time the chances of
hie acquittal are more than even.
-——R. Dean Rynder, son of of T.P.
Rynder, of Mileshurg, a student in the law
school obthe National University at Wash-
ington, D. C., was last week awarded the
MeArthar gold medal for the most satisfac
tory senior class examination. The medal
was pinned on the young law student by
United States treasurer Treat. Mr. Ryn-
der’s high standing in his class is remark-
able because of the faot that he was not
able to devote all his time to his studies,
he being private secretary to Judge Clapp,
of the interstate commerce commission;
and pursued his studies in connection with
his other duties.
STATE RIGHTS AN.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 12, 1908.
D FEDERAL UNION.
| The Republican Presidential Candidate.
The allies have given up the fight against
| TAFT, we are informed by the newspaper
| correspondents in Chicago who are watch-
| ing the progress of the preliminaries at
| close range. By that is means that the
| fnends of FairBaNks, HveHes, KNoXx,
was attended to by the President aud the | the North American wrote a glowing ac- | CANNON and others “who also ran,” bare
| finally come to the conclusion that there is
| no hope for them. In others words those
| gentlemen and their alleged supporters
| have at last learned that she bribery and
! buldozing of the RoosEVELT administration
bave achieved the purpose for which they
| were intended. The office holders in the
| North aud the negroes of the Sonth have
| acquired control of the nominating ma-
| chivery aud they will name the candidate
| chosen by ROOSEVELT next week.
As a matter of fact there has pever been
| the shadow of a doubt of this result since
| the moment, three or four months ago,
which the Republican party has been re- ning with page 7.325 and ending with the | that ROOSEVELT made bis reluctant decla-
| ration that he was not a candidate for the
That be coveted the
into the campaign for TAFT with the result
that his nomination became inevitable al-
most immediately.
For some reason a pretense that there
were other candidates bad still been main-
tained op notil last Satarday when it wae
announced that ‘‘the allies have given up
the fight against Tarr.” That is only
figuratively true, however. There has
heen no fight against TAFT to give up.
Some innocent sonls may bave hoped that
TAFT would die, get caught in the perpe-
tration of some atrocions crime or be re-
moved from the campaign for the nomina-
tion in some other way and thus give some
other fellow a chance. Bat there was no
fight for the nomination and there never
will be a fighs for a presidential or other
Republican nomination as long as the
party is controlled by patronage brokers
as it is now.
Roosevelt's Idea of a “Square Deal.”
The President was delighted with the
work of the committee on contested seats
of the Republican National committee,
the public has heen assured by the press
correspondents in Washington. The com-
mittee had been packed in the interest of
TAFT, Mr. HITCHCOCK, of Massachusetts,
with the proxy of the member for New
Mexico, being manager ol the machine,
and it moved ‘‘rough-shod’’ over the oppo-
sition, The other TAFT managers were
disposed to be moderate and expressed an
inclination to give tbe opposition a chance.
But HITCHCOCK, who resigned the office of
First Assistant Postmaster General to be-
come the TAFT manager was inexorable.
Finally he appealed to ROOSEVELT and
was sustained.
This is THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S idea of
“‘a square deal.”’ It is the same interpre-
tation which a pirate would pat on the
same phrase. It is the burglar’s notion of
the equities of a midnight robbery. ‘We
have the power,’”’ those crimivals would
say, and might makes right.” That ie
precisely the view ROOSEVELT took of con-
ditions in Chicago. After the committee
ou credentials bad heen packed by bribery,
of which he had full and accurate unde:-
standing, no evidence was considered.
Which is our rascal? Was the only question
taken into consideration and that deter-
mined the biudgeon was applied to the
other. Justice or decency bad no place in
the equation. It was a case of rule or ruin.
Aod this ie chaoteristis of ROOSEVELT.
The impulse which influenced bim to
shoot an unarmed and resreating Spaniard
at San Juan Hill, and kill him in cold
blood was uvatural. The Spaniard was
on the other side and that was sufficient.
HITCHCOCK, a political mercenary and
political ruffian, bad seized control of the
committee and proceeded to murder the
rights of all others and ROOSEVELT sus-
tained him in the outlawry. Jt created a
ruost disgraceful condition. Is practically
paralyzed Senator CRANE and others who
though partisans, believed in something
like fair play. But it enited ROOSEVELT
and it is safe to predict that HITCHCOCK
will be promoted for his brutality.
~The sheatorium has inaugurated a
change, which will be appreciated by its
patrons, and now gives you iwo night's
pictures every evening, while the price re-
mains the same, 5 cents. Tonight's pro-
gram will include an especially fine pio-
tare, ‘‘Lonis XIV,” hand colored, and a
comic picture. Mise Hendrickson will
sing. Tomorrow (Saturday) evening four
comio pictures will be shown. Christy
Smith's orchestra will play all the hits and
Henry Brown will sing. Remember youn
see two night’s pictures every nighs, all
for 5 cents.
__No.2i
Summer Styles In Scrmons.
From the Pittsburg Times.
There isa well known anecdote of a
clergyman who, remarking to a parisbioner
that there is a sermon in every biade of
grass, received the reply : ‘Yes, and grass
is cat very short at this season of the year.”’
An equally pointed hint which the Rev.
William Powick, pastor of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church of Stroudsburg,
received from his congregation, was made
the subject of remarks from the pulpit last
Sanday. Mr. Powick declared that he
saw no reason why the sammer fashions in
sermons should he cut shorter than the
winter ones. While he made no threats,
he intimated that since there is now no
time limit on Methodist pastorates, he
would not submit to a time limit on ser-
mous either. To the members who asked
for ‘‘sermonettes’’ he remarked : ‘‘Sermon-
ettes make preacherettes and preacherettes
make Christianestes."’
Despite the sympathetic intimations
which numerous pastors receive from their
congregations, about this time every year,
to she effect shat they are working too bard
and should not give such good measure
from the pulpit, there is no indication that
the movement for shorter sermons in the
summer is making progress. Every con-
scientions clergyman insists on exhaust.
ing his subject, if not his hearers, before
he has finished, and knows that the process
of trimming a sermon to the dimensions of
a sermonetse is apt to spoil the entire dis-
course. The “man of the hour,’’ or of the
hour and a hall, is vot so popular with
modern churchgoers as the man who takes
a stopwatch with bim into the pulpit and
glides gracefully from text to peroration in
25 minutes. The shorter the sermon tbe
larger the salary, is a rule which obtains |
in some churches, but has not been gener-
ally adopted. Bat why should sermons be
shorter in summer than winter? The
adversary of souls is as active in the heated
season as in the depth of winter, and this
is no time to be economical of ammunition,
While the length of some sermons may he
disproportionate to their breadth and depth
they are exceptions.
that those who stay awake will imbibe too
much doctrine, and the somnolent may |
comfort themselves with the thought :
‘The longer the sermon the longer the
snooze. ’’
Eye-Upencr for Majority-Makers.
From the Altoona Times,
The disclosures that have come out of
the breach between members of the Phila-
delphia machine will open the eyes of
speak-easy owners, keepers of baginos,
gambling house proprietors, crooks, nnd
plug uglies generally. Having reposed
confidence in the men to whom they render
valuable service on election day, great
must bave been their chagrin to learn that
one of the big bosses in the political gang
bad agreed to sell them out to punish a
political enemy.
The strife in the ranke of the orgaviza-
tion developed from a charge made hv
Leader McNichol that he bad paid $10,000 |
to Max Kauffman, private secretary of
Mayor Reyburn, with the understanding
that it was to be paid to Clarence O. Gib-
boney, secretary of the Law and Order
society, to defray the expeases of raids on
the illegal resorts which ahound in Phila-
delphia under the protection of the politi.
cal gang of which McNichol aud 1+" Dur.
ham are acknowledged leaders. The
blacklegs, white slave traffickers and illega!
liguor dealers will not be disposed to re-
gard this violation of faith kindly, if the
charges that have persistently been made,
and never successfully denied, that they
pay large tribute for the privilege of riding
ronghshod over the statues are cogreot.
McNichol's statement is a double-edger.
The next time the gang starts in to round
up the scam and riff-raff of Philadelphia,
it may find it a muoh more difficult matter
than heretofore, since they now know that
the men whom they regarded as their good
friends bad no companction in unleashing
the dogs of the law when it suited their
purposes to make a mock display of
righteousness.
If McNichol really paid over the money,
as he states, and Gibhoney did not receive
it, as he likewise asseverates, we have the
proof that she people of Philadelphia’s nn-
derworld still have a stannch friend at
headquarters. This may help to restore
their faith in buman patare and he of great
assistance to the gang in rounding np the
majority-makers when their indispensable
services are in demand.
Machine-Made,
From the Lancaster Intelligencer,
Controlling the national committee by a
large majority, the administration is seat-
ing in the Republicau vatioual convention
only Tate delegates from the Southern con-
stituenoy, where the delegates are habito-
ally made to order, since there is no popu-
lar vote to which Yuspecs need to be paid.
Ever since the days of Hanoa the Republi-
can presidential candidate has been chosen
in a convention controlled by the Southern
vote, made to the order of those securing
ite control. Hanna blazed the way in the
business, and secured the early fruits.
Oar excellent president, who is always
viruous and always ready to deem himself
the instrament of the Almighty, and as
such compelled to have things go the way
he directs, hy the most available means to
the end, has naturally felt no doubt that
the vote of the Southern delegates in the
Republican national convention was his to
command, and should go to his annointed.
So it was assured to Taft with a rush. The
other candidates have been stood out in
the cold ; and the Republican nominarion
is already made.
It is certainly to be deduced from this
situation that the Republican ticket is not
to be favored with an enthusiastio follow-
ing. Tickets so made do not inherit en-
thusiasm. Machine made, they must be
machine elected, and machine running is
sure in these days to be as halting as auto-
mobile racing in Northern wilds,
~The State—W. U. P. ball game will
be the attraction at State College tomor-
row afternoon.
There is no danger |
Spawlis from the Keystone.
—G. W. Harringer, of Penfield, Clearfield
county, has owned 1,300 horses and met with
bis first loss recently when one he was tak-
| iug to swap dropped dead in the road.
—Droves of rats are greatly troubling the
people of Great Bend, Susquehanna coanty,
killing all the chickens and devouring
everything they can get. They have come
from a large tanuery which was closed re-
cently, leaving them no refuse to feast upon.
—John Forcey, a farmer residing near
Woodland fire brick works, Clearfied county,
committed suicide on Friday morning by
hanging himself. Deceased had been sub-
ject to fits of melancholy occasionally. He
was 45 years of age and is survived by his
wife.
~The county commissioners of) Clinton
county last Thursday awarded a contract for
a reinforced concrete arch bridge, 56 feet
long, across Fishing creek near Mackeyville,
to the Ferror-Concrete company of Harris.
burg, for $3, 245. This will be the first con-
crete bridge in that county.
—On Sunday evening two tons of powder
and $1,200 worth of fireworks mysteriously
exploded at the fireworks plant of Jacob
Conti, in New Castle, shaking the town as if
there had been an earthquake, wrecking two
houses, shattering hundreds of windows
and abruptly stopping the church services.
—The corner stone of the old Presbyterian
church at Philipsburg, laid in August, 1573,
was removed on Friday afternoon and the
contents found to be almost entirely destroy-
ed by water. The records, newspapers of
the time and specimens of the silver cur-
rency bad been inclosed in it, but the silver
alone was unhurt.
—The Corona Coal and Coke Co., of
Madera, having just recently, through its
general superietendent, H. B. Swope, ab-
sorbed the White Oak Coal Co's. three opera*
tions, also located near Madera, started these
mines on full time the early part of the
week. This will give the Corona au annual
output of about 750,000 tons.
—The largest application ever made for
construction of a road under the State Good
Roads law was filed at the state highway de ~
partment from Coleraine township, Bedford
couuty, Wednesday. It calls for ten miles
and will be an extension of a road] alread y
built. Bedford county recently sent} in ap
plications for the building of eight roads, all
being received on one day.
—An attempt wasjmade on {Tuesday night
to blow up the Fairview dairy building near
Houtzdale, Clearfield county, occupied at
the time by two men aud a boy. A piece of
| dynamite concealed in a tin can, fused and
| lighted was hurled through the callar wio-
dow, the glass, very fortunately, cut the
fuse in such a way as to render, it useless
and the jar of the dynamite falling did not
seem to be sufficient to cause it to explode.
—On last Tuesday evening a butcher
named Fleming, of Lovejoy, Indiana county,
who had ben out making collections, was at-
tacked by two men as he was passing
through a covered bridge. They knocked
bim down, stuffed mud iato his mouth to
prevent him from making an outery, kicked
him in the side, breaking several ribs, rob-
bed him of $260 in cash and escaped without
leaving any ciue to lead to their identifica-
tion. Mr. Fleming was pretty badly used
up.
~The other night, for the fourth time
within a year, the post office at Ramey,
Clearfield county, was forcibly entered by
thieves who blew open the safe
| aud carried off $150 worth of postage
stamps. There was no money in the safe.
There were indications that they had made
arrangements to haul the safe away on a
wagon, but for some remson they changed
their program and blew off’ the safe door in
the building. There is no clue to the rob-
bers.
—Newton Hamilton camp meeting grounds
are being put in shape for tue summer. The
patrons will find that « number of important
improvements have been made. A number
of new cottages are heing erected, which,
when completed, will bring the number of
available summer cottages up to about 200,
In addition to the new buildings all the
structures which have beeu already erected
are being gone over aud will be in first class
shape by the time the grounds are thrown
open to the public in July.
—While Edista Loughner was paring po-
tatoes n few days ago at the home of her
grandfather, Jured Loughuner, at Bradens-
ville, Westmoreland county, she found a
potato in which was imbedded a small bottle
containing a two cent postage stamp and a
note dated Sand Lake, Kent county, Mich.,
April 16, 1903, which said: “To the lady
finding this uote please answer and tell we
the price of potatoes in yonr community.
Yours truly, George W. Stearns.” Mr,
Stearns’ curiosity will he gratified,
— With only a pick handle with which to
defend himself, Elmer Welshons, 40 years
old. of Latrobe. engineer at the Penusylvania
pumping plant about x mile east of Lutrobe,
fought for his life Saturday morning against
the murderous assanit of three Italians
armed with stilettos, who managed riotwith-
standing the defense of Welshons to inflict
three gashes over his heart and a long cut on
his left leg. Eatly in the morning Welshons
had caught the men stealing coal from the
bins at the pumping plant and had driven
them away, which provoked the murderous
attack.
~The Goodyear Lumber company bas
begun a march upon the last large tract of
timber in Clearfield county and is establish~
ing nine camps of 75 men each on its 20,000
acre tract on Medix run. It is estimat.
ed that there is 90,000,000 feet of hemlock
and 20,000,000 feet of hard wood oun it, The
combined force of woodsmen engaged on the
job will be about 700 and these will average
a wage of $2.50 per day and “found.” Al-
ready there are applicants for every job.
The Goodyears have contracted with the
jobbers to cut 29,000,000 feet this year and
50,000,000 next year. This is the hemlock
and pine, and the hard wood has been sold
to a New Eungland paper manufacturing
company. This tract has been owned by the
(Goodyears for the past fifteen years but they
were cperating in Potter county and the
Clearfield field was left untouched. If the
present prices are maintained it is estimated
that the profit on this tract will reach $1,.
000,000.
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