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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—BRYAN and KERX.
—Have you gotten on the band wagon
yet. BrRyYaN and KERN are going to be
elected.
—With Oregon, Ohio, Illinois, Towa and
Wisconsin BRYAN and KERN will bave
States to spare.
—Mr. HEARST'S decision not to support
the tickes will give general satisfaction to
the Democracy.
—Ouar compliments to chairman DiMB-
LING and our promise to support him in
his every move for the good of Democracy.
~The Philipsburg Daily Journal made
its appearance on Tuesday in a new dress
and the improved appearance in the paper
was very noticeable.
—Army officers have reported against
the use of autos in war, probably because
the fat colonels don’s find patohing punocst-
ures to their liking. .
~The ‘‘steam roller’’ can work at Har-
rishurg just as well as it can at Denver
and really turn about is only fair play so
Mr. KERR has no kick coming.
—We will need J. C. MEYER in the
next Legislature. We doa’t often get a
chance to bave such capable men represent
us and this one should not be lost.
~It has been discovered that germs lurk
in cracked diehes. How horrible ! Because
we will have to get along with cracked
dishes as long as the servant girl problem
remains so perplexing.
~Huckleberries are down to five cents
the quart, but the Republican campaign
committee evidently hasn't heard of itas
yet as none of their literature claims credit
for making them so cheap.
—A peculiar disease promises to rid Cook
township, Westmoreland county, of rats.
They are all turning white and then die.
A bit of the virus to innoculate the rate
around here would be a God-send.
—The Olympic games in London are at-
tracting the interest of the world’s ath-
letes, but none of the others seem fast
enough to keep that young ‘Sheppard from
the Stoites’’ from running away wish near-
ly all of the speed events.
—It Mr. KERR had been as loud in his
protestations of wanting to avoid a fight at
Denver as be was at Harrisburg there
might not now be the turmoil in the Dem-
octacy of Pennsylvania that there is, but
then Mr. KERR knows that be is a bigger
man abroad than be is at home.
~Mr. GoMPERS’ call to organized labor
to support BRYAN will probably be heeded
by some, but not all union men. Unlfor-
tanately for the welfare of labor many of
them hold partisan prejudice above person-
al interests and keep hanging onto the Re.
publican party even though they get a
lemon every time they ask for any helpful
legislation.
—Even the traveling salesmen have been
brought into line to help along the fake
prosperity propaganda. They have been
inetrooted to talk ‘‘business is getting bet-
ter,” on trains, in hotele and to the mer-
chante they visit with the hope of creating
optimistio sentiment until the election is
over. Surely this seems like the despair of
a dying cause, but it is put out on the
principle that ‘‘every little bit helps.’
—If “imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery’’ then Mr. candidate TAFT is cer-
tainly doing his best for Mr. BRYAN, for
no matter what BRYAN says he is for
TAFT comes out the next day and says he's
forit too. At this rate it will not be long
until the fat TAFT will be doing the old
time stunt of riding two animals at one
time for he seems to be trying his best to
get one toot off the Republican elephant
and plant it on the back of the Demoorat-
ic donkey.
—GOMPERS was agreat wan ae long as
he was chasing a Republicav Will-o-the.
Wisp, bat now that he bas discovered thas
through Democracy labor bas its only hope
of improving its condition the partisan
Republican press are saying that he is no
good anyhow and will likely be forved out
of his position as head of the American
Federation of Labor. Of course he will if
they can accomplish the result, but it labor
is wise it will heed Mr. GOMPER'S advice
and try the experiments, at least once.
—MELVILLE E. INGALLS, railway mag-
nate and business man of national repata-
tion, says that eo far as the condition of the
country is concerned there would be very
listle difference if either BRYAN or Tarr
is elected, ‘‘except if BRYAN is elected
there will be a b—1 of a time on Wall
street for a mouth then all will become
normal.” Well wouldn’s it be a good
thing to give Wall street a h—I of a time
for about a month. Wall street gives the
rest of the country the same dose just when
it likea.
~The death of Bishop HeNry C. Por.
TER removes the most conspicuous figars
in the Episcopal church. He was an emi-
nent lahorer in the field of the Master,
though exception has been taken to many
of his theories as to the best plans for fighs-
ing wickedness ; especially the experiment
of running » saloon witk the sanction and
supervision of men of the oloth. The at-
tempt wae a wide variation from popular
ideals as to the association of the ohurch
withthe rum traffic and ite failure proved
the prediction that the worl is not ready
for ) radioalism in religion.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Judge Clayton on Recsevelt
Judge CLAYTON may bave said and done
things as permanent president of the Den-
ver convention that were open to orit-
icism, but we can see no cause of quarrel
with bim on account of what he said abont
President Roosevertr. He has been cen-
sured, more or less severely, in this con-
nection, by Republican newspapers both of
the open and disguised variety, and some
of them say that his speech contained
personal abuse. After a careful reading of
the address we are constrained to say that
we can find nothing to justify such an
estimate. The distinguished Alabaman
made no personal allusion to Mr. Roose-
VELT. His references were to his public
life and official records and were in no
respect harsh or unjust.
Judge CLAYTON said that President
ROOSEVELT had violated the constitution
in various ways and on sundry occasions
by usurpiog powers which belonged to
other branches of the government and that
be bad violated the statutes as well as the
organic law of the land. There was noth-
ing personal or vitaperative in that and
the accuracy of it can hardly be questioned.
He has even gone so far as 80 hector Con-
gress aud threaten she bench with the
view of coercing those co-ordinate branches
of the government into adopting his
heresies. Moreover he has usurped powers
of the States and of the people in violation
of the constitution and to the prejudice of
the principles upon which the Republic is
based.
Judge CLAYTON might easily have said
things about President RooseEvELT, and
without departing from she truth, which
would bave sounded barsh and might have
seemed personal. For example, he could
bave charged our Chief Magistrate with
deliberate and malicious falsification and
proved the proposition by his own testi-
mony io the form of his'letters to ‘‘Dear
HARRIMAN" and Archbishop Ireland. And
that there are abundant reasons to believe
that be prevented a congressional investiga.
tion of she Postoffice Department for the
reason that it might bave revealed the fact
that he bad been paying personal obliga.
tions to the carrying corporations by giving
mail contracts at exorbitant rates.
Io fact there’afe many grodnds upon
which ROOSEVELT might and onght to be
assailed. Acquiescence in bis unlawful
acts is apt to convert them into daogerous
precedents. Senator BACON, of Georgia, in
a speech delivered duriog the recent session
in Congress, declared that his usurpation
of power has ‘‘been going on so opeuly, so
unblushingly and so boastingly that we
have come almost to disregared it.”’ Sena-
tor FORAKER, of Ohio, also accused the
President of usurpation and Senator
Bailey, of Texas, added that ‘‘he bas
done more to change the character of this
goveroment than all his predecessors com:
bined,” having ‘‘frequently exhibited a
supreme indifference to the constitution of
bie country and pursued what hae seemed
to mea deliberate plan to impair the
rights of the States and to concentrate all
power in the federal government.”
Senator RAYNER, of Maryland, disons-
sing one of the ‘executive outrages per-
petrated by RoogEVELT said ‘‘the President
is exercising a,great many functions—
executive, legislative and judicial, lawful
avd unlawful, cénstitational and unconsti-
tational,”’ and Representative COOKE, of
Colorado, in an letter to the President
of the date of January 12, 1908, declared
that ‘‘the unprecedented and diotatorial
encroachment of the executive against the
legislative and judicial departments of the
government is almost a daily threat tc the
peace and prosperity of the Republic.”
Thus supported-in his just oriticiem of
RoosevELr J CLAYTON may well
treat with complacency such criticism of
his speech.
bo ed
Most Gratifying Intelligence.
The friends of WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN must bave heard with more than
ordinary feelings of pleasure that WiL-
LIAM RANDOLPH HEARST has decided to
oppose his election. As the late General
WHEELER said of Cleveland, ‘‘we love him
for the enemies he has made.” The op-
position of Hearst, absolutely harmless,
indicates merits. That gentlaman has de-
generated into a mischiel-making nuisance
and his support of any candidate of any
party for any office, implies corrupt
commerce as the result of which he expeots
to acquire notoriety if not profit.
There was a time, and not long ago,
when HEARST'S enmity meant the loss of
votes. By specious demagogy he had
brought a good many people to the belief
that he is honest and earnest if not wise.
Bat of late years he has revealed such an
absence of moral balance that association
with him implies venality. One year he
traded with the worst element of the Tan.
MANY organization $o defeat civio right.
eousness in the of New York and the
next year he oe & corrupt dea! with the
atrocious blican machine of New
York city to debauch the government of
that manicipality. He is ready and alert
for any form of ‘‘treason, strategem and
spoils.”
Is is true that the discovery of HEARST'S
opposition to BRYAN was the resultof a
criminal proceeding. Somebody forged
the name of SAMUEL GOMPERS $0 a cable-
gram asking him for an expression of opin-
fon. Bat this is to be a campaign, on the
Republican side, of crime and conspiracy,
and compared with some of the things
which will be developed, this forgery is a
trifle. Meantime it resulted in conveying
to the friends of Mr. BRYAN throughout’
the country, most gratifying intelligence.
Wirniax R. HEARST is allied with the op-
position.
Taft Tratling Along.
Judge TAFT seems to have adopted the
“‘tratling’’ polioy for the campaign. The
Democratic convention having declared in
favor of publicity in the master ofjocam-
paign subscriptions and disbureements and
Mr. BRYAN baviog most cordially endors-
ed that plank of the platform, TAPr came
tardily forward with a statement shat
sounded suspiciously like Mr. PrLarr's
‘‘me too.” Later on she Demooratic na-
tional committee, at the suggestion of Mr.
‘BRYAN, announced shat no campaign sub-
scriptions would be accepted from oorpora-
tions and Judge TAFT again, reluctantly
or otherwise, followed with a statement
that his party will not acoept corpora-
tion subscriptions either.
Bot Judge TAFT's statement on this
subject is discounted and discredited by
actions “which speak louder than words.”
When the Republican candidate and com-
mittee selected GEORGE R. SHELDON for
the office of treasurer of she committee
both the character of the Campaign and the
source of the campaign funds were reveal-
ed. SHELDON is a Wall Street broker of
the “frenzied financier” type. His great-
est achievement was participation in the
organization of the shipbuilding trust and
he subsequently saved himself from a term
of service in the penitentiary by making
restitution to the swindled stockholders of
that concern. This event is so recent as to
be fresh in the memory of all observant
people.
The truth of the matter. ia. shat the Re-
publican campaigo Committee has nowbere
to look for funds except to the trusts and
‘‘maleiactors of great wealth.” No others
will be benefitted hy the success of the
ticket and every one of them is ready and
anxious to contribute in large sums to the
cause. Judge TAFT, who hadn’t backbone
enough to protest againet the violation of
the constitution which he had eworn to
support, may pretend that he wants no fa-
vors from the trusts but SHELDON and
HITCHCOCK who are conducting the cam-
paigon bave different ideas on the subject.
They will not only acoept corporation sab-
scriptions but if they are not freely offered
will want to know why. :
Misrepresenting Mr. Gompers.
Of course those who criticise Mr. Sam-
UEL GOMPERS, president of the American
Federation of Labor, because of his aun-
nouncement of a purpose to support the
Democratic candidates for President and
Vice President, purposely misrepresent
bim. Judge TAFT himself states that no
labor leader can sway the vote of the body
of wage earners, thus giving relevancy, in
so far as he can, tc the more demagogio
assertion of his adherents that GoMPERS is
trying to boss the labor element of the
electorate. Others have added that Mr.
GOMPERS imagines that he carries the
labor vote in his vest pocket, the object
being to create prejudice against Gom-
PERS,
Ae a matter of fact GOMPERS never al-
leged directly or inferentially that he con-
trolled the labor vote or even exercised
any considerable influence over it. What
be did say is that in his opinion she inser.
ests of the industrial element of the coun-
try would be best conserved by the election
of BRYAN and KERN,’ for that reason he
intended to support the Democratic candi-
dates aud be hoped his assovistes in the
great work of seryio the , interests of
labor would pursue ; the same oourse.
There was nothing. in- the natare of boss
ing about that. It was, simply the exer.
cise of a right which i¢ inherent in every
citizen of the Republie. a3
SAMUEL GOMPERS has proyed his fidelity
to the interests of labor and needs no. de-
fence for anything that he bas done in con.
nection with the impending campaign or
in relation to any other political action.
His administration of the important office
which be fills so ably has béen both wise
and conservative and has resulted in the
Rreatest advantage to his associates. In the
advice he gives them now he ig alike wise
and timely and we prediot shat is will be
adopted by a vast proportion of . she labor
men of the country. ~ He recommends that
they make ohoioe between a tried friend
and a proven enemy. ' ’
~The date of - the ' Grange picnic at
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 24, 1908.
Farmers and the Campaign,
The appeal which Mr. BRYAN makes to
the farmers of the coantry ought to meet
with a prompt and favorable response. He
asks them to contribute ous of their abun-
dance to the fund to defray the expenses of
the impending politica! campaign. He
might bave asked the corporations so per-
form that service with absolute certainty
of compliance. It may safely be said that
the predatory trusts would gladly compro-
mise the Demooratic candidate by geover-
ously contributing to his campaign fund.
Mr. HAVEMEYER, late president of the
sugar truss, testified before a congression-
al ibvestigating committee, that is was the
babit of shat concern to contribute to both
parties, so that each would be under obli-
gations to it. Mr. BRYAN proposes to al-
low none of the trusts to hold such a claim
upon his official actions.
Io appealing to the farmers, therefore,
Mr. BRYAN reveals bis faith in that body
of the electorate as well as his purpose to
deal fairly with the people. No man is in-
ble to favors bestowed and if the neo-
y funds for the campaign came from
corporations there would be an implied ob-
ligation to serve them. Mr. BRYAN has
openly declared that he does not want and
will not receive contributions from corpora-
tions. It is not to be inferred that honest-
ly conducted corporations will be treated
unfairly on that account. Bat it clearly
implies that no corporations will be indulg-
ed iu unlawfol and predatory operations in
the event of his election. In the competi.
tion hetween the natural and artificial per-
son the living being created in the image
of God will bave an equal chance.
Sach an appeal may be safely made to
the farmers of the country. As Mr. Bry.
AN states in his address on the subject,
they enjoy no special privileges and ask no
unjust favors. But they are vitally inter-
ested in the result of the election. "They
are enjoying the heritage of civil and re.
ligious liberty from the fathers of the Re-
public and they desire to transmit it to
their own posterity. During recent years
they have seen these blessings slipping
away from them and realize that is is time
to call a bals. They understand that men
must pay something for what they get and
that where a number share equally in ad-
vantages they mast bear the burdens alike.
No farmer asks another to pay for repairs
or improvements on bis place. Each does
that for bimself and io the improvement of
his political estate he should be quite as
willing to contribate.
The Republican Chairmam.
As we predicted previous to the Repub-
lilean national convention, former Assist.
ant Postmaster General FRANK HiTcm-
COCK hes been appointed chairman of the
national committee of that party. It
wasn't expedient to name him immediate.
Iy after the convention. His bold work
with the ‘‘steam roller’’ was too coarse for
that. The public conscience was outraged
by his performance in Chicago. After hav-
ing made ap a fraudalent list of delegates
he went into the committee on credentials
and forced ite acceptance and those injared
were resentful and indigoant. But we
felt certain HITCHCOCK would be chosen
in the end. He is the sort of man that ie
needed. He will rough house the cam:
paign il necessary.
HITCHCOCK was not a friend of Tarr in
she beginning of the preliminary campaign.
He pretended to be for ROOSEVELT but
wae really for CORTELYOU and he carried
his conspiracy so far that ROOSEVELT was
compelled, by considerations of decency,
to publicly rebuke him and pus CorTEL-
YOU out of the running. Then HITtcHOOCK
placated ROOSEVELT and held his job by
coming out for TAFT and because of his
skill at manipulation was made manager
of the campaign for the nomination. In
that capacity be wrought eo well that he
was promised the more important office of
chairman of the national committee. The
brutality of bis méthods almost turned the
tide againet bim but it was finally decided
safer to take him than incur his en-
mity. ;
HITCHCOCK is a man without principles.
Like the Hesians in the Revolutionary
war heis a, mercenary whose services are
‘in the market to be acquired by the high-
¢ést bidder. ' His selection to manage the
Republican campaign means an orgie of
corruption. He will levy tribute on the
trusts and use the funds obtained, in vio-
lation of law, for the prostitution of the
| electorate. Without pride of opinion or
| bope of reputation, he will take any
chances that: promise snccess. Such men
the dispair of good citizenship and the
elter of orininals. They pervert power
and debaush public lite. No man who
affilintes with them ought to be trusted
and if there were no other reasons for ope
posing TAFT these are sufficient.
——Farmers who were longing for rain
for their oats, carn and potatoes very likely
got enough of it on Tuesday evening ; if is
Centre Hall this year will be September
12¢h to the 18th.
rained as bard everywhere else as ‘it did in
Bellefonte.
NO. 29.
The Party to Restore Prosperity.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer,
Mr. Kern strikes the most telling key.
note of the coming campaign in his com-
ment upon the assurance of fair treatment
aod all possible encouragement for every
bonest enterprise under a Demooratic
administration of the government.
Of course, reasonable men should need
no such assurance, knowing that such a
polioy is a pars of Democratic doctrine,
sod is gy by every consideration of
party interess, but shere are always some
who will see in every bold insistence upon
essential reforms, and mn every demand
for the restraint of she too arrogant powers
of wealth and monopoly, a dangerous ten-
dency to radical or revolutionary policy ;
and, on the other band, there are some
who fear that the party not in power will
hesitate to fulfill its promises at the risk
of business disturbance if it should become
the party in power ; and these last need to
be assured shat there is no risk of business
disturbance in any Democratic policy, but
on the contrary, every assurance of the
vigorous stimulation of business.
Only the vast and defiant monopolies,
the stock jobbers, who manipulate rail:
road combinations, master and mismanage
insurance Sotpanies, and otherwise prey
0,
upon the pab! have anything to fear
from Democratio policy.
For the rest of the business world the
polioy of our party, declared in its platform
and promised by the sincerity ability
of its leaders, such as $0 assure the
Wignulatan to i and individ,
ual enterp e prompt recovery
that Rrusperity which bas been lost under
ublican ent, despite the favors
of Providence boantital
This stimulation is to be t through
the restoration of confidence that there wil!
be an end of the eternal shaking of the big
oo lf ero aEh prompt ebdiustament
tariff upon only ¢ ple,
that of revenue, with such incidental pro-
tection as may be fairly offered, but no
protection for monopolies which sell their
products cheaper abroad than at home.
The hard experience of the business
world in the last year and a half has fully
demonstrated that something must be dove
along different lines from those followed cr
Bold, bat not radios] Desacoraile. paver
reaffirming the old principles of Democratic
government, with such new application
and development as the times demand, and
such economies ae the conditions urge, is
the promise held out to the voter.
State's Coal Supply.
From the Altoons Times.
M. R. Campbell, ‘of. the United Sites
geological survey, estimates the amount of
coal originally in the anthracite fields of
Pennsylvania at 21,000,000,000 short tons
and that in the bitaminous fields at 112,-
574,000,000 short tons. It is said that by
the methods of mining anthracite coal in
former years for every ton of coal mined
and marketed one and a half toos were
either wasted or left in the ground as pil-
lars for the proteciion of the workings, so
that the actual yield of the beds was only
about 40 per cent. of the contents. This
Pertentaes of waste bas now been material.
y reduced, but the exhaustion to the olose
of 1907 bas probably amounted to about
double the production. or 4 000,000,000
short tons. is would leave still in the
ground approximately 17,000, 000 tons,
which would be capable of yielding, at
the rate of one ton of coal lost for each ton
mined, 8,500,000,000 tous or Approximate
ly 100 times the quantity anthracite
produced in 1907.
It we estimate for the bhitmminone pro
daotion one ton of coal lost for every two
tons mined, the exhaustion to the close of
1907 has heen 2,760,000,000 sons which
would leave still in the ground in Pennsyl-
vavia a little less than 110,000,000,000
short tons of bituminous coal. The annual
production and consumption of coal will
no doubt continue to increase, but at the
rate of production reached in 1907 the
available supply in Pennsylvania would
last about 490 years.
Among the incomputable elements of
the problems of the fature of coal mini
are the extent of the possible utilization
nataral forces for power prodmetion and
storage—euch as wind, waves and water-
falls, and the sun’s rays—and the cos of
these as compared with that of coal. It is
evident, however, that even if there shall
be a greatly increased rate of production
and consumption the Pennsy:vania coal
mining industry will form a promineni
factor in the country’s mineral production
for many years.
Keen Anticipation.
From the Houston Post.
is Ree Pa ori:
. r-swept morning,
when the ns and all his radians
angels are with us in Heavenly Honston—
the City of Antheme—it is a sweetly
solemn thought that, alter wandering in
the wilderness for years, the serene and
saintly may now ap
collectorships, sebaceons consul
tnd other glorions fraite await the coming
on.
Enthusiasm in Wall Street.
From the New York World.
If there are soy malelactors of great
wealth who are diseatisfied with the new
Roosevelt principles we have to hear
ot how. TAI) divest fa te a unit
sharing Mr. Roosevelt's en over
a platform that smothers so many of Mr.
Rooeevelt’s professed policies.
~——Edward Stewart, the well known
conductor of the shifting crew in the rail-
road yard at Osceola Mills, was ran down
by another train while at work on Monday
morning and so badly injured that be died
in the Philipsburg hospital at one o'clock
that alterncon. He was forty-five years
old and is survived by his wife but no
children. ~~" ;
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spawis from the Keystone,
Lewistown, Penna..has entered into contract’
relations with the State Grange to supply to
the Grauge its products, consisting of horse
aud cattle conditioners, poultry foods, har-
ness oils, ete. }
—By a deal closed last week Asbury W.
Lee becomes sole owner of the 1d elec,
tric light snd gas companies. to a
bundred thousand dollars are involved in
the deal. It is said that Mr, Lee intends to
develop the trolley business in the vicinity
of the county seat.
—Warning was given by the Johnstown
board of health on Wednesday to boil all
water for drinking purposes. This follows
an uvsatisfactory analysis by Philadelphia
chemists of samples of Jhonstown water sent
on last week. While the city is in no imme-
diate danger, the warning is given as a
precaution.
—A Pittsburg capitalist has just bought a
large tract of land adjoining the holdings of
the Watsontown Brick and Tile company at
Watsontown, many acres of which’ are the
same kind of shale which the former are
now using, and will in a few weeks com-
mence the erection of a plant for the manu-
facture of paving and building brick.
—The planing mill about being establish-
ed at Philipsburg by Lot W. Jones, is almost
completed and operations have already been
begun giving employment to ten men. The
balance of bis machinery is expected to be
there and in position this week, when proba.
bly twenty-five hands will be given employ-
ment, in addition to some outside helpers.
~—George Steiner, at one time a resident
of Beeeh Creek and later in the employ of
8. M. Bickford & Sons, of Lock Haven, was
killed by a boiler explosion in Jones &
Greene's mill at Dighton, Mich., on the 14th
inst. Mr. Steiner went from Lock Haven
to Big Rapids, Mich., where he served as
marshal, street commissioner and night
watchman.
~Ground was broken Tuesday worning
for the brick addition to be erected to the
New York Central round.house at Avis,
Clinton county, thirty men and three teams
being employed at present. This number
will be increased shortly to seventy-five men
and eight teams, and when the operations
are ready for the bricklayers fully 100 men
will be employed.
—The Markelville, Juniata county, Re-
formed congregation on Sunday presented
Rev. J. Thos. Fox, their pastor, with a very
handsome patch quilt snd pillow. The two
represent a value—each patch representing a
contribution—of about $100. The gitt is
highly appreciated by Rev. Mr. Fox, and is
a fine token of appreciation of his work
among these excellent people.
Fire, believed to have been of an in-
cendiary origin, totally destroyed the main
building of the Elk Tanning company at
Everett about midnight Thursday. The
blaze started in the hair house and com.
municated to the steam tanning department
und the bide storage house. The plant em-
ploys between 125 and 150 men. The loss
on the buildings, machinery and stock is
estimated at $350,000.
~The naw electric pumps st the plant of
the Huntingdon Water company, are now
hurd at work. They were started in opera-
tion for the first on Sunday night and are
proving more thao satisfactory. With the
newly installed machinery, Huntingdon bas
now what few cities of the state can boast of,
® duplicate water protection, as the local
company has now both steam and the elec-
trict pumping apparatus.
~During the late money scare a Polish
coke worker at Alice, Westmoreland county,
drew some $700 out of a Mt. Pleasant bank,
wrapped the roll of bills up in rags and placed
the bundle for safe keeping in a heating
stove upstairs. His wife piled flor sweep-
ings in on top and all went well until one
day last week when one of the boarders,after
lighting his pipe, threw the still burning
match into the stove. The contents went n Pp
in smoke almost equal to powder.
—Last Thursday, Miss Marie Hopkins, a
16-year-old daughter of William Hopkins,
of Wilmerding, who had her home with her
grandparents Mr. and Mrs, George Keller,
in Lock Haven, attended the picnic of the
First Lutheran Sunday school. In the after.
noon she disappeared mysterionsly and Wm.
Mayes, a resident of Lock Haven, disappear-
ed at the same time. lothing has been
heard of them since their d rance and
the presumption is that they have eloped to
some distant place to marry.
=D. Jefferson Chatham, an esteemed
resident of Lock Haven, aged 71 years, was
found dead on Tuesday afternoon on his
farm, up Sugar Run. Mr. Chatham had left
home, as was his custom, about '6 o'clock in
the morning to work on the farm, carrying
his luuch with bim, and he appeared to be
in his usual health. When found he was
lying on the ground near a spring,indicating
that he was on the way to get a drink. The
beat and heart trouble, it is: believed. caused
his death. Three sons and two daughters
sarvive him,
—Joseph E. Thropp, owner of the Everett
and Saxton furnaces, mined 11,900 tons of
bituminous coal in Hustingdon county in
June. It was taken from the operations at
Gordon slope and Melrose, both in Carbon
township, of which Robert H. Kay, of Sax-
ton, is superintendent. The other coal mines
of the county are running on about pne-
Isbips | third time, except those of the Rock Hill
Coal and Iron company, at Robertsdale and
Woodvale, which are running very steadily.
This company has just shipped 10,000 tons of
cont to France,
~On Thursday afternoon while workmen
were engaged hauling hay on the farm of
Henry F. Shank, in the Maul district,
Franklin county, & nest of bumble bees near
the entrance to the field proved very annoy-
ing as the bees would fly out and sting the
horses every time they passed. . So the men
determined to exterminate the bees. They
put a big bunch of loose hay on top of the
bees’ nest and set fire to it. The flames kill-
12-acre tract. In a moment the dry grass
was blazing merrily and then the flames,
fanned by a breeze, assumed greater pro-
ons and swept along in fury, until the
‘entire .crop was consumed together
about 200 panels of fence.
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