BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The Kxo0x boom failed to boom even
a little bis.
—The Republican ticket will probably
be Tarr and CUMMINS.
—The price of steel has been reduced,
but reduction of prices doesn’t create 8
demand.
—The Republican national couvention
pominated TAFT on the first ballot yester-
day afternoon.
—The ROOSEVELT rooters tried their
best to stampede the Chicago convention
for the President on Wednesday.
—The Republican national convention is
emitting harmonies that sound very much
as if ROOSEVELT were at the key-board.
—The fact that a bet cannot be legally
laid on a horse race in New York does not
prove thas the racing will be any better.
—Poor FAIRBANKS ! Was it the ocook-
tail or saving that drowning girl in Yellow-
stone lake that killed him ? It wae neither.
Is was the ice.
—A new election law in Oregon pro-
hibits a candidate from asking a friend to
vote for bim. What if BERT TAYLOR were
running for office in Oregon ?
—The man who has just found out that
there is ‘‘nothing in is,”’ after being a
criminal for forty years, evidently wasn't
in on the capitol job at Harrisburg.
—There isn’t much new timber in the
Republican national platform. It is about
the same old worm eaten thing that has
had the dry-rot for the past sixteen years.
— When the promise of a bumper crop of
teed stuff presents itself the price of bee!
sakes another jump upward. Strange how
utterly ous of harmony economic condi-
tions seem to be.
—The injection of an anti-injunction
plank in the Republican national platform
looks like another effort on the part of the
enemy to ran away with some more good
Democratic thunder.
—1In New Zealand everybody ie required
by law to take a weekly ball holiday. We
presume that in New Zealand there area
few, at least who are never in any danger
of making an infraction of the law.
—State has a pew president. May the
SPARKS that are flying at the head of the
great institution pow prove the bright
spots pointing the way onward and up-
wand to greater fielde of usefulness.
—Our friends at Chicago didn’t have so
much $0 say this time about sound money
and the fall dinner pail. The sound of
money isn’t so loud in the land these days
as the rattle of the empty dinner pail.
—The small boy now divides his time
between the green apple tree and the old
swimming hole and with all the cramps
and goose-flesh that follow in the wake of
his daily wanderings who wouldn't like to
be a small boy again.
—The increase in salaries of our mail
carriers 18 a matter of much gratification to
all whom they serve. A more diligent,
patient, bard working set of men cannot
be found in the federal employ and they
earn every cent they get, and more.
—During WILLIAM'S reign in Eogland
bachelors and widowers were taxed one
shilling a year. There is no such an in-
centive to get married in this country, but
we notice a great many of our bachelors
and widowers getting very busy these
days.
—The effort of the Boston Waiter's
anion to have a law passed probibiting the
employment of women to serve drinks at
any restaurant or cafe is a movement that
should meet with snccess. The farther
women can be kept from that traffic the
better for humanity.
~The West ward gentleman who was
wandering home the other morning at a
rather early hour and ran up against that
already famous stone fence post at the
corner of High and Potter streets is soarce-
ly to be blamed for thinking be had lost
his way and had wound up in the Union
cemetery.
The fear of the revelations of the law
bas evidently influenced someone to dis
gorge. Is was announced yesterday that
the Allegheny National bank of Pittsburg
will now pay one hundred cents on the
dollar. Funds bave been mysteriously re-
appearing in the wrecked institation just
as mysteriously as they disappeared.
—The duty of every good citizen now is
to hegin to consider the merits and qualifica-
tions of the vari nominees for county
office. Now is the time to arrive at a
reasovable conclusion, before the heat of a
presidential campaign warps the judgment
and prejudices the consideration you should
exercise in this all important matter.
Make up your mind what to do and stick
to it.
—It nations that pay the highest wages
produce the cheapest goods, and statistics
prove that the statement is a fact, then
why do we bave a tariff at all. Of what
benefit oan it be to anyone but the trusts.
We pay the highest wages and produce oar
goods cheaper than any people on the earth
80 why the necessity of protecting any-
thing. By a fair and open competition we
could win every time and, perchance, such
an open door might make other foreign
doors open to our manufactures. Afterall,
the whole tariff system is wrong. It
should be one of reciprocity shroughout.
VOL. 53
Lincoln Steflins and Roosevelt.
Mr. LixcoLs Srerrixs isin Chicago,
‘igs citizen interested in the general
problems of government and of common,
social living,” according to hie statement.
He imagined that that city, at the time the
Republican National convention was in
session there, would be an eligible view-
point for such observations. But he bas
been disappointed in the result. Writing
three days before the convention opened,
he said : “The work of the convention is
practically done. The delegates elected by
the Republican electors are not yet here.
They will not begin to arrive for a day or
two ; they don’t meet till Taoesday ;'
and when they do sit down together, they i
may not deliberate at all. Most of what
they will do ha« been decided upon or it
will have been by that time, in private,
not here in Chicago, bus in Washington,
D.C.”
Mr. STeFFINs sigoificantly adds, ‘‘shat
is bad.” But he subsequently gualifies bis
criticism. Because THEODORE ROOSEVELT
is “doing the deciding,” be is partially
reconciled. If it were anybody elee it
would be intolerable. Thus his sycophanoy
is revealed. Nobody knows better than
be of the piratical instincts of she Presi-
dent. For example be was commissioned
to write «un article for one of the Jane
magazines. Like most of the magazine
“pot-boilers,”” STEFFINS submitted his
manunscript to the President before he
saroed it over to the publishers. Is con-
tained a striking paragraph which caught
RoosevELT's fanoy. It described ‘‘ove of
our successful millionaires’ in graphic
phrases. ‘‘He bas money, yes, bat what
has the money cost him ?'’ STEFFINs asked.
“Cruel lines in his strong face ; soft spots
in his once mighty body. His wife is as
sad (or as bad) as he ; the boy is a fool and
the girl isa foreign princess,” We quote
from memory but with sufficient acouracy
to serve the purpose.
The magazine for whish the screed was
written was scheduled [for appearance
about the 20th of May. A few days before
that ROOSEVELT sent a special message to
Congress in which the striking sentence of
Mr. STEFFINS' article appeared almost in
his exact language. The President had
plagerized _ only his idea but his
phraseology pilloried him in the
eqnivocal position of baviog committed the
offence himself because the message came
under public scrutiny first. What better
evidence of a dishonest heart and dishonor-
able mind conceived. And yet STEFFINS,
like a our licking the hand that smote him,
declares that is “‘a big gain,’’ that ROOSE-
VELT is directing the political iniquity at
Chicago. When MARK HANNA did the
same thing it was atrocious in the opinion
of STEFFINS. Then it was ‘‘a husiness like
machine,” and something odious.
But there is nothing to execrate in it
now. It has been converted into ‘‘an en-
give for the enforcement of his popular
policies,” to be tolerated if not commended.
Bat that is not the only conversion the
incident reveals. It shows that STEFFINS
bas been converted from a virile foe of
political iniquity into an apologetic
sycophant kowtowing at the feet of power.
Probably the charact-r of his employment
makes such perversion necessary. Mayhe
the pages of she magazines are closed to all
except those who worship at the dirty
shrine of ROOSEVELT. But one would have
thought that a man who could aseail vice
entrenched behind millions in gold wouid
have been able to stand out against such
poltrooneiy. STEFFINS is his own aconser,
however, and upon the testimony which
he himself offers he stand+ eanvioted.
Frank Hitcheoek's Reward.
Last week we predioted that FRANK
HITCHCOCK would be promoted for the snc-
cessful brutality with which be controlled
the committee on contested seats of the Re-
publican national committee. Since then
it has heen announced that President RoosE-
vELT and Secretary TAFT favor him for the
office of chairman of the national commit.
tee. In other words, because it is believed
shat he will “rough house” the oimpaign,
ROOSEVELT has ordered that HITCHCOCK be
made manager. The ruffianly spirit which
controls the President is to be extended so
as $0 cover the entire country and the ocor-
porations will be put under tribute or out
of husiness.
This is easily the limit of political iniqui-
ty. Four years ago CORTELYOU, who had
acquired corporation secrets through bis of-
ficial relation to them, was made chairman
because his information enabled him to
blackmail them and RoosevELT himself so-
licited corruption funde through ‘‘Dear
HARRIMAN. Bat those operations were
conducted in a polite way, comparatively
speaking. They were what might be termed
“gentlemanly burgling,’” rather than the
rough form. Bat shat system no longer
serves the purpose of the political pirates.
The bludgeon in the hands of a bully is
necessary and ROOSEVELT welcomes the
new conditions.
Possibly Hrrorcock will be able to con-
trol the election by the rough processes he
ean ——————
adopted in creating a Tarr majority in the
national convention. ‘If the leaders of bis
party are sufficiently servile to submis is
a fair presumption thas she rank and file
will be equally docile. Bata government
thos created will nos endure. A servile oit-
izenship bas nou made and never will con-
stitute a self-governing State. The silly
claim that ROOSEVELT means well will not
ezouse such excesses forever. He doesn’s
mean well any more than CESAR or Na-
POLEON meant well. He means empire as
they meant it and the opportunity to him
will be seized as it was by them.
Pennsylvania Republicans.
Severs! hundred citizens of Pennsyl-
vania bave been parading the streets of
Chicago, with bands and banners, dariog
the past week, in the interest of the presi-
dential candidacy of PHILANDER C. KNOX.
They bave gone to vast expense to make
such a demonstration as would challenge
the respect, if not the admiration, of the
country, for their candidate. And the gen-
$leman deserves the distinction they bave
bestowed upon him. Compared with the
average Republican politician of Pennsyl-
vanis, his superiority stands acknowledged.
is judged by the company he keeps and
KNOX bas not ouly kept the company of
the gangsters, but has freely obeyed the
orders of the machine leaders.
The Pennsylvanians who have been
marching the streets of Chicago in the in-
terest of KNOX have had their labor for
pensee in a dead loss. The ROOSEVELT
juggernaut has overtaken and ran them
down, notwithstanding their servility to
him. Like other politicians the President
understands that there is no necessity for
conciliating the parsy in this State. Peon-
sylvania is ‘joined to its idols,” and
TAFT, or CANNON, or a yellow dog would
be equally certain of she elactoral vote of
the State if either of them or it, were nomi-
pated for President. For that reason so
respectable a candidate as Sevator Krox
is ruthlessly turned down by the ROOSE-
VELT machine, for a favorite of the Presi-
dent without half KNoX's merits.
If the Republican machine were brought
to the knowledwe that there is sufficient
independence and manhood in Peunsyl-
vania to resent a wanton insult, the resalt
of the Chicago convention would be dif-
ferent. In that event the merits of their
claims would be considered, at least, and
their candidates for favor treated decently.
There would then be no autocrat in Wash-
ington capable of controlling the action of
the highest court of she party for the pur-
pose of establishing a dynasty or continuing
‘my policies.” Unbappily, however,
things are as they are aud the friends of
Senator KNox will be obliged to accept
their disappointment with whatever grace
they can summon. All that remaive for
them is to lick the hand that swiped them.
The Fallure of a Party.
The strenuous efforts to deceive the pub-
lic into the belief that industrial and com-
mercial activity has been restored is only
partially successful. There are abundant
reasons why it should be true. The soil
bas yielded most bountitully. ‘Bumper’
crops have lollowed each other in regular
succession for a dozen years. Last year the
aggregate value of the farm products of the
country reached the enormous total of over
$7,000,000,000 and the promise of this
year is of more prodigious amount. No
people in the history of the worid bave en-
joyed euch gifts of nature. Industry and
shrift have never before, since the begin-
ning of time, been so generously reward-
ed
Bat industrial and commercial prosperity
has not been restored and the false reports
to that effect are not deceiving the people.
In every industrial centre in the country
vast armies of idle men are suffering from
want or appealing to public benevolence
for relief. The ahundance which has been
prodaced has been absorbed in specula-
tive enterprises or seized by predatory
monopolies for questionable uses. This
evil is the result, moreover, of misgovern-
ment. Vicious legislation enacted at she
behest and in the interest of Wall street
not only made it possible but inevitable.
Is encouraged the speculation and the
speculation did the rest. Effect followed
the cause.
Congress assembled when the panic wae
in ite incipient stages. The plain duty
of the majority of that body was to enact
remedial legislation. At she outset the
obligation was publicly acknowledged and
the promise specifically made. Bat the
conspirators of Wall street intervened.
They were not willing to relinquish their
grip upon the throats of industry and com-
merce and betrayed the pledge that bad
been made. In the closing hours of the
session a palpably inadequate measure was
enacted in spite of the opposition of every
friend of the people. But it was nos re-
medial aud the offer of such a make-shift
was an insult to the intelligence of the
people.
But such distinotions are invidious. A man pre
their pains, however, and their bill of ex- ey
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
EFONIE, Pa:
NE 19, 1908.
and recounted, in the HEARST contest of
the election of GEORGE B. McCLELLAK to
thé office of mayor of that city with the re-
sult that 288 votes had been thrown out,
Iatgely for technical reasons. The New
York balios, like shat of Pennsylvania, is a
complicated affair, bat the system there, un-
like ours, permite of mo assistance in the
booth except to those physically incapable
of marking their own ballots. It is fair to
presume, therefore, that instead of being a
{randulent election shat which resulted in
the viotory of McCLELLAN over HEARST,
was an exoepsiovally fair ome. In this
State the proportion of irregular, and cone
uently invalid ballots, would be great
is contest, which bas been dragging
slow length along for three years, has
the people of New York vast sums of
id and the contestee more shan he
hs to have been com pelled to pay in de-
tense of bis title to the office. It is the
frais, however, of a political mania which
bas bad possession of the minds of she peo-
It was expressed in the
posterouns of CoXE a few years
and is being continued in the surpris-
ple for some years.
ing popularity of President ROOSEVELT. It
whe revealed in the candidacy of DEss for
President four years ago aod in the recent
pomination of Tox Wassox, of Georgia,
for the same greas office this year. It is a
mischievous mania which portends great
ils to the Republic unless checked by an
overwhelming popular condemnation.
HEamsT is a political adventurer who
having inherited a vast fortune and ao:
quired a large sesortment of absurd ambi-
tions, has been trying to buy his way into
pablio office of some kind. Sinoe his defeas
for mayor he bas succeeded in buying the
nomination for Governor of New York from
the leaders of the TAMMANY society, with
the result that there is a Republican Gov-
ernor in that State now while all she other
elective officers are Democrats. Io the con-
test for mayor he squandered nearly a han:
dred thousand dollars in an attempt to de-
bauch the voters and his campaiga for Gov-
ernor cost him double that amoaut. Wher-
ever he has operated he bas left a tail of
corruption to mark his sinuoas and sinister
way, and made political office a purchasable
commodity. Like all others of bis kind he
ought to be execrated by public opinion
and it is to be hoped that the result of his
contest of mayor MoCELLAN'S seat will
have that result.
The Comnspirators Acquitted.
As seemed to us likely a week ago, the
second trial of she capitol graft conspira-
tors resulted in their acquittal on Sator-
day morning last. The evidence of their
culpability was strong. The overcharges
were made plain, the mismeasurements
olearly proved. But the court held that so
far as the State officials were concerned,
there was no conspiracy for the reason that
is was their deputies who acted, and the
jury, not unreasonably, concluded that if
the architect and contractor didn’t conspire
with the officials, they didn’t conspire
with anybody. It was a palpable miscar-
riage of justice but precisely what was to
be expected. There are several years of
“good stealing’’ in Pennsylvania yet.
There are other graft cases to try hut
they may as well be abandoned. The
conviction of the first group, early in the
year, was a mistake, the result of what
mighs be called a moral hysteria. The ma-
chine was scared into a etate of panic. The
hosses imagined that a wave of oivic right.
eousness was sweeping over the Common-
wealth. But before the second trial began
this illusion was dispelled. The result of
the election last fall, when she people
literally canonized orime, inspired the
confidence which was expressed in the
acquittal of CASSELL and his associate con-
spiratore last week. There wiil be no
farther signs of timidity. The machine
will resume business ‘‘at the old stand.”
The frauds perpetrated by these preda-
tory politicians cost the people of Penn-
sylvania something like ten millions of
dollars. They were expensive and demor-
alizing bat they were the logic of events.
The QUAY precepts were fulfilled in those
iniquities and the QUAY monument ie a fis
memorial of their achievement. SANDER:
s0N and his associates in the first rial have
not been punished yet and probably never
will be. They are no more guilty than
Cassgry and HusToN and their turpitude
is less than that of PENNYPACKER. In
view of these facts there ought to bea
judicial review of their trial and their
srinmphant acquittal be celebrated by the
unoveiling of the $20,000 statue of Senator
Quay.
——Children’s day services were held in
the Methodist, Presbyterian, Reformed
and United Brethren churches and at each
place exceedingly interesting programs
were given. The decorations were quite
elaborate and appropriate. In addition to
the Children’s day services Flag Day was
also celebrated in most of the oburohes.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The state capitol acquittals are received
by guy great with a degree
calmpess which may not mean indiffer-
ence, but hardly suggests a fis degree of
on.
price.
In the same breath we find it reasserted,
with a variety of phrase and but
a unanimity w argues a well estab-
lished impression shat the assertion is the
voice of the people forcing itself to be
heard through the prem; that the Pennayl-
vania state capitol building is a monument
to one of the moat scandalous of oconspi-
racies to defrand a le.
From a legal point of view, there may be
po paradox about this, bat it is as plain as
a pike-staff that the vailing popular
or pitiful feebleness.
There will be plenty to say that this
miscarriage of justice would not have
bappeved if the elections bad gone dif-
ferently last November.
Wilf there be as many to remember this
when Shey are once more called upon to
exercise duties of citizenship as sacred as
any official duty ?
LT ———————_
A New Kentucky Condition.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Politicians are wondering what may he
the possible political effect of the pardou
by Gov. Willson of Caleb Powers How-
ard, who were twice convicted of complicity
in the murder of Gov. Goebel. There is
no doubs that Goebel was murdered, there
has been no question that the shot was
fired from the office of Powers, who was at
that time secretary of state. It is equally
admitted shat the whole power of the state
administration at that time was exerted to
shield the murderer whoever he might bave
been, and that the then governor has ever
since been a fugitive from justice protected
hy successive Republican governors of
Indiana. It appears that with the accession
of a Republican administration in Ken-
tucky nobody is to be punished. Among
Republican politicians outside of Kentucky
there is a general apprehension that tue ac-
tion of Gov. Wilson will have a decided
effect in throwing the state back into Demo-
oratio control. *‘It means,” said one New
England Republican, “that the Republican
party in Kentucky is willing to recognize
assassination as a legitimate political expe-
dient. I notice also thai in his message of
pardon the governor made no reference fo
the pardon granted by Gov. Taylor dated
in advance of the crime and in possession
of Powers when be was arrested.”
Desperate Conditions.
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
In the army the pull is wightier than
the sword by ail odds. Itis no wonder
that conditions in the military service, as
described by obairman Hall, of the house
military committee, are ‘‘desperate.’’
Mr. Hull's son was made a major and
soou afterwards liententant-colovel in
violation of the rule of promotion by sen-
jority and merit. The son-in-law of Seoator
Warten, chairman of the senate military
committee, was promoted from the rank of
captain to that of brigadier-general av one
bound, in violation of she same rule.
General Wood, for being a obum of the
president, was raised from the rank of
colonel to that of major-general. Political
pil and personal favoritism bave filled the
igher ranks of the army with incom-
petents ; and this has disgusted the trained
officers who have been kept down by that
vicious policy.
Isis now p to conciliate those
professional military men by raising their
pay ; or in other words, by bribery. But
the panic hronght on by the extravacance
aud vicious tariff an financial legislation of
the Republicans is likely to make the brib-
scheme impossible, and many young
oor will abandon the army for civil life.
The private soldiers are already deserting
by scores.
That Tariff Plank.
From the Pittsburg Post.
You can not note all the joints in thas
tariff plank in one day and certainly not in
one column. Instead of justifying a tariff
because revenue is needed, profit is brazen-
ly stated as the incentive. Supply aod de-
mand and other venerable laws of trade
shall not operate, but a tariff supplant
them to e profit. The maximam
and minimum scheme is to work ‘‘auto-
matically.” The big stick is to be sos-
pended in full sight of fureijfo pations and
their friendship, the germ of commerce, he
thus ER The **
¢ high stand.
ard of living’’ must be maintained. Bee!
the protected trust way up the standar
like a weight on astrength tester at
county fair, stuck. Tobacco aud
singled out as exceptions to freedom
trade with the Philippives. And yet there
ie a plank about trust busting.
——Notwithstanding the dull times
which bave prevailed for some time the
Katthaus fire brick company bas been in
continuous operation and been able to dis-
pose of their entire output. This company
bas just opened several new beds of super-
jor olay and are now better equipped than
ever to make the best briok possible. They
bave also opened several new coal mines
whioh it is estimated will yield from eigt-
teen $0 twenty million tons of coal. This
will also be mined and put on the market.
1
~The tag method for securing contribu-
tions for the city hospital, was practiced in
Williamsport last Wednesday, snd the total
amount secured from those who were tagged
was about $1,400.
~The Pennsylvania Funeral Directors’ as-
sociation which held its annual convention
at Uniontown last week, increased its mem-
bership 150 during the year and its members
vow number nearly 1,000.
—8. Simeox, general manager for the New
York and Pennsylvania Paper Wood Co., has
ten thousand cords of paper wood cut and
ready to be conveyed to the cars for ship~
ment on bis laud a few miles east of Philips-
burg.
—Arraugements have been completed
whereby the Tidewater Pipe Line company
will ask for bids for the construction of a
550-mile line of pipe which will extend from
Bradford to Robinson, Ill. Between} $2,000,~
000 and $3,000,000 will be speut.
—Among the articles auctioned off by the
Adams Express company at Altoona last Sat.
urday waé a suit case which sold for thirty~
five cents. When the purchaser opened it he
found a full set of burglsr's tools and in the
bottom wrapped in a piece of dirty paper $125
in cash.
—Charley, a young son of James White, of
Philipsburg, is at the Cottage hospital with »
fractured skull and is in a very serious con-
dition, the result of having been hit with a
baseball bat which accidentally slipped out
of the hands of James Nixon during sn exhi-
bition game on Friday afternoon.
—Last Wednesday evening Joseph Wiser
of Knox township, Clearfield county, killed
a grey eagle on the farm of David Patterson.
The bird measured seven feet from tip to tip
and weighed nine pounds. It had been kill-
ing and carrying off a lot of chickens and
lambs from the farners in that vicinity.
—William H. Hauck has instituted an ac-
tion in trespass at Bloomsburg, against the
Pennsylvania railroad for $10,000 damages.
The action is one for fire damages, it being
alleged by the plaintiff that34s5 acres of tim=
ber land were burned over by a fire started
by coals from defendant's enginelon April
4th, 1908.
—~DuBois is getting a new industry, &
plant for the manufacture of cement blocks
for building purposes aud paving and also
for all kinds of cement ornamentsjfor build =
ings, cemeteries, lawns, artificial stone
troughs, posts, ste. A baildinglfor the plant
55 hy 100 feet, two stories high, is in course
of erection.
—The costs in the capitol contract trial
wil be borne by the commonwealth, not by
James T. Walters, the prosecutor, and the
bail of all defendants in the capitol cases will
be respited until next fall when additional
eases will be called for trial. The metallic
cases which served as exhibits were removed
from the court house to the capitol.
—The Logan Iron and Steel company at
Burnham, Mifflin county, resumed at their
plant on Monday afternoon to run on full
time, giving employment to several hundred
‘men who have been idle for the past three
months. The Logan company’s return to
activity will be a boon to Lewistown and
surrounding community which have been
held tight in the grasp of the general finan.
cial depression.
—The authorities around Huntingdon, but
not particularly in the borough, have been
receiving information from reliable sources
that some automobilists around that section
of the State are using false numbers on their
machines and thegmatter is being investigat-
ed by the proper authorities. The penalty
for violation of this act deprives the offender
of the use of his machine for a period of six
months and he is also subject to a fine.
—The State Dairy and Food division
states that its receipts from eleo licenses so
far have amounted to $32,209.27, the nomber
issued being 287, of which 269 are retail. A
gratifying announcement in connection with
this statement is that 290 samples of butter
examined and 231 were found pure, 80 of 83
food samples found pure, 27 of 35 vinegar
samples found pure, und xl of 13 milk sam-
ples. This indicates compliance with the
law.
—On Thursday evening just one wminnte
hefore he was to quit work for the day,
Martin Lukich, un employee of the Booth
and Flvun company at the Blue Rock quar
ries, near Latrobe, tripped on a piece of
stone ut the top of the quarry and fell over
the edge, his body flving through thirty feat
of space und landing in a heap on the jagged
rocks below, cousiug his instant death, De-
ceased has 8 wife aud children iu the old
country.
—Alex. Wallace, the veteran hunter and
herder from Hublet's camp, was viciously
attacked by a wild cat on Saturday afternoon
about three o'clock, at the mouth of Stove
run, Clearfield county, while fishing for
trout. The cat made a leap for his face, but
he dodged to one side and was only struck
on one arm by the furious beast. As it was
the animal tore out the left sleeve of his red
flannel shirt and scratched long gashes in bis
shoulder and arm.
—Seveaal boys of Lock Haven while
spending the day in the woods near Ferney
on Thursday came upon a rattlesnake coiled
beside a log. They were instantly imbued
with a desire to capture it alive and become
snake charmers. With a forked stick they
proceeded cautiously and just as Donald
Yealey went to catch it so a string could be
placed about its neck the reptile sank its
poisonous fangs into the left thumb. His
condition is quite critical, his hand and arm
being greatly swollen and the flesh is much
discolored.
—When the people of Lewistown arose
Thursday morning they found that the trees
surrounding the public square bad all been
chopped down. Although diligent inquiry
has been made, the identity of the tree chop:
per remains a mystery, the axe wielder hav.
ing carefully covered the trail. Asa result,
neighbor is looking suspiciously at neighbor,
and nearly everyone there is busy framing
up an alibi. Two years ago, when the sol-
diers and sailors monument was placed in
the park, the city authorities planted trees
around the shaft their action was severely
criticised at the time, as it was asserted that
the trees would hide the monument from
view. It is believed that one of the old ob-
Jectors, and there were many of them, dia
the chopping.