No wonder, as the G :
employment to more men than any man of
his means in the county.” ‘Bas he doesn’t,
—It the factories of the land are not now
on full time with a Republican administra-
tion in power can any reasonable man be
made believe that there is reason for
thinking they can be put on fall time by
the election of TAFT,
~The fellows who howled dissatisfac-
tion so loud when Bellefonte’s present
postmaster was appointed now have the
first chance to make their acts square with
their words, but will they bave the courage
to do it? We fear not.
~ It is reported that PENROSE has order.
ed all postmasters and would-be postmas.
ters in the county to get busy for BAR.
OLAY and TAYLOR. He needs BARCLAY
in Washington for he does as he pleases
with the incapable Congressman. He
needs TAYLOR in Harrisburg because TAY-
oR will vote for him for the United States
Senate.
—The big county debt is paid. Next
year the taxes will be reduced. Give DUN-
LAP and WEAVER the oredit. When they
took hold they found that MILLER and
BAILEY bad ran the county in debs to the
extent of $40,000.00 or more. It has all
been paid off now and once more the coun-
ty is on good footing. DUNLAP and WEA-
VER pus it there, Re-elect them so it can
be kept there.
—Potatoes are a dollar a bushel, batter
thirty-five cents a pound, eggs twenty-
eight cents a dozen, but all of this doesn’t
worry the average workingman. He
doesn’t have work or money to buy any-
how. Surely his lot is a miserable one
and he won't help it any by voting to keep
in power the same party that bas taken
away his employment and at the same
time put she price of necessaries beyond
his reach.
~—Soratoh a TAYLOR man and you find a
man who is also for HURLEY and BrRowN,
The deal is on and TAYLOR—HURLEY
BROWN is the combination the boys are to
work for. TUTEN and FINK are regarded
a8 having no strength and they are to be
left to take care of themselves, while all of
the houdle and promises are to be spent to
elect TAYLOR first, BROWN second and
HURLEY third, After that the gang cares
for nothing.
—Realizing that DUNLAP and WEAVER
are sure to be elected ZIMMERMAN and
WoonRING'S friends are working for their
particular favorites. In ove part of the
county we know a lot of Republicans who
are going to vote for ZIMMERMAN alone
and the eame is true of WOODRING in
another part. Itisa oase of the survival
of the fittest and whichever one of those
two who can get the most of his friends
to out the other fellow off his tickets will
be elected.
~The viotory of Joux D, MILLLER for
county Treasurer is already assured. On
all sides people have accepted
that he ie a winner and why 2§*°
is a good, olean candidate, who has made a
bard canvas, being fair af all times, and
everywhere he has gote the voters have’
been pleased with him. Being a farmer he
appeals especially to the’ - though
the business man recognizes in him traits
that appeal to him also. MILLER'S eleos
tion will be no mistake. '
—BRYAN'S reply to the proprietor of the
SHARPLESS cream separator manufactory
was so olever as to give itself a place among
the permanent jokes of the country. uy
SHARPLESS is quoted as having said in the’
event of BRYAX’S election he would bave | BERT
to close bis large plant at West Chester.
Upon hearing the statement Mr. BRYAN
remarked shat he had heard of most every
other calamity thas is to befall the country
when be is elected, busi that he hadn't
thought tbat the misfortune would be so
great as to make the cows go dry.
~The time has come when the people of
Centre county must decide whether BERT
TAYLOR aud a few of his hosses are to run
this county or whether they are to run it
themselves. There can be no other motive
than an ulterior one that prompts TAYLOR
to try to go to Harrisburg, because he is
not fitted for the place and nothing in his
life dudjetet sha thie work of a 1
3 ng must be tos
+
could shen night be same:
a second reason, but
" | readers know
e Legislature. Last week it
d the following brilliantly con-
osived, admirably presented, ridiculous ar-
ray of reasons. In speaking of TAYLOR it
said :
“A man who has hewn his own way through
life.”
“A man * * * who has given employment to
more men in Centre county than any other man
of his means.”
“A man who does things instead of saying
| them.”
*A man who is with the Republican state or-
ganization.”
#A man who is a Republican and who does not
oun false colors by pretending to be what
not.”
“A man, who with all his faults, is better than
his opponent.”
As any other time thao in the heat of a
political campaign we honestly believe that
tho editor of the Gazette would laugh, him-
self, at such silly buncombe. What bas
the fact that he has ‘‘hewn his own way
through life’’ got to do with his fitness for
the Legislature. Thousands of people in
Centre connty have done that who wouldn't
think of baving the nerve to aspire to an
office they are unfitted for. And, as for
Mr. MEYER, the people of Bellefonte are
not too old so remember that be came here
and supported ‘himself by teaching school
while he read law and prepared himself to
attain the high position at our bar that be
has reached.
nt TAYLOR giving em-
mea in Centre county
his means. That
TAYLOR is not
health. He em-
he bas work for
ske a peroentage
in Belle-
obarity’s
else would,
all the same.
vented any
x
he
could get oufof the coal and ice business
tomorrow and there wonld be just as mach
of both nmed in Bellefonte as ever,
consequently as many men employed to
handle it. As for his state contracts on the
high-ways ; “they are exactly the same.
TAYLOR d 't get the roads for the conu-
ty. He merely underbids someone else to
get the hoilding of them and any other con-
tractor w employ the men on the
ground the work ie usually of too
short durafion to warrant transporting
them from a distance and putting up
shanties for them. .
The 's third plank in the TAYLOR
platform is certainly a gem. The idea of
BERT being ‘a mau who does things in-
eal of saying them,”” when everyone
th whoiknows BERT at all, that even
is. unsurpassed vocabulary of profanity
8 often beep taxed to the utmost when
he bas been blowing about doing things
hat be never could do.
Why it is a joke.
‘Around here BERT isa niok-name that is
given to people who get to swearing too
much. #
We are a know that BERT is ‘‘with
the Repabl state organization,” as the
Gazette sets forth in his fourth plank, be-
cause this is surely the first time anyone
has ever d me to know where he
is. Of course his being with the state or-
ganization ns that he ia pledged to vote
for PENROsERor United State's Senator and
consequently the has thus answered
the very question we asked last week on
this point, because the voters of Centre
county, Republicans as well as Demoorats,
are not for PENROSE. Si BERT is for
the machine and the Gazette makes so hold
edge it, we arg.no longer-in
y BERT wants to go to Har-
Te
nk in the platform sounds as
head of the Gazette is a cavta-
oream. ‘‘A'mao who is a
It is to laugh! Why
is the daddy of political
in politics in Bellefonte and
nded both partiés. Republi-
oan, forsooth f It was only about two years
ago that a real Republican in the editor of
the Gazette's awn ward and one of the few
machine Republicans we know of who isn’t
in politics for what there is in it challenged
this same BERr TAYLOR when be went to
wote at the | Republioan ‘primaries. He
challenged him because be knew that BERT
is nothing in particular and anything “that
is necessary when he has some personal
motive to “ :
As for the last plank in the platform it is
unworthy the Gazette and its editor. Mr.
HARTER knows this and he knows his
fro ; en-| The facts in be ase are unchanged. Mr.
who' thas bo platform, no | TAYLOR is n qualified forthe duties
qualifications a a ineliatig of an avud nor a Sh Portott_ to
to vote against PENROSE a e | that | represen an tuenoy e legisla.
Siuaderes The State th The aapmroliE £ five halls of 4 State.
» »
i
An idle but Foolish Threat,
P. M. SHARPLEss, of West Chester, is
trying to frighten the employees of a fac-
tory whioh he owns or manages into voting
for TAFT by threatening to close down for
an extended period in the event that Mr.
BRYAN is elected President. Mr. SHARP:
LESS manufactures ‘‘separators,”’ a device
for separating cream and milk. For some
months there bas heen little demand for
the product of his factory, owing, proba-
bly, to the present Republican panic, and
be has a large stock on hand. Unlessa
demand develops he will probably have to
shat down no matter who is elected Presi-
dent and the demand having fallen off dar-
ing a Republican administration it is less
likely to revive in the event of the election
of TAFT than if BRYAN is sucoessfal.
But the importance of the statement of
Mr. SHARPLESS lies in his obvious purpose
to control by force or fraud the votes of his
employees. The law forbids the coercion of
employees into vosing for any candidate or
party and the violation of the law by Mr.
SHARPLESS marks him asa criminal. If
he bad changed the form of his declaration
he would probably have been hauled before
a jastice of the peace at once. If he had
said that in the event of the election of Mr.
BRYAN he would discharge his employees
the letter of the law would have been vio-
lated. Declaring that the factory will be
closed is only a violation of the spirit of the
law. Bas the moral "guilt is the same in
either case. The bulldozing is obvious and
the blackguard stands revealed.
Of course Mr. SHARPLESS will not close
his factory in the event of Mr. Bry-
AN'S election if there is any money to be
made by keeping it open. Faotories are
not created or conducted as inetruments
for polisical operations, There are con-
temptible cars in control of factories who
will try to use the power their position af-
fords to krow-beat and frighten men into
obedience to unjust demands, bat they
never carry out their threats. As¢ a matter
of fact it rarely happens that such men
bave power to either open or close
factories. Men who kuow more but are
less assertive generally interveve to pre-
vent the sacrifice of property and th
chances are about ten to ove that if SHARP-
LEsS would undertake 80 db the foolish
thing be threatens he would lose bis job.
Off His Trolley.
An old time friend of the WATCHMAN,
who is a Democrat of the kind who never
oute his ticket, says that his objection to
third term candidates is =o strong that he
fears be will have to scratch the name of
Mr. JouN W. BECK, the Democratic candi-
date for Auditor at the coming election.
Evidently our good Demooratic friend
has gotten Mr. JoHN W. BECK, the pres-
ent Democratic nomioee,and Mr. Jorn H,
BECK, the out-going Democratic Auditor
mixed. Mr. Joan H. BECK, of Walker
township, who has efficiently and satisfao-
torily filled that office for the last two
terms, is not a candidate for re-election.
The Mr. JoHN W. BECK, isa resident
of Marion township and a young man of
promise, usefulness, excellent attainments,
and one of the coming men of the county.
He bas never before been nominated for any
office, and is now a candidate for she first
time. He is particularly well qualified for
the duties of the office, and our sorupalcus
friend need have no hesitanoy in casting
his vote for him because of the objeotion
he imagined be bad found to doing so.
——Captain CHARLES FAIRPLAY BAR-
CLAY is trying to oatch the voters of this
congressional distriot by distsibuting gra-
tuitonsly a book entitled ‘“The Life of
TAFT ;” it being a biographical sketoli'of
the Republican candidate for President. It
is a cheap form of eleotioneering and one
that will not capture a single vote as every-
‘body of any intelligence is so well acquaint
led with TAFT'S public career that he
‘would not even take a look inside the book.
| Now if BARCLAY wants to give the voters
of this district something real inte-esting
toread why don’s he doleout a ‘Lite. of
PENROSE,”’ telling how be rales his party
with an iron hand and turns down eld
‘soldi dictate postofti )
Soldiers to dictate postoffice appointments
80 that his own power and that of the.
publican maching ‘may be strengthened.
"That would be Te ing, indeed |
——Having just reodvérad from an iil-
ness of month's duration, emaciated and
weak as he is GEORGE WEAVER is
trying his best to ges over the county to
see the voters. He ia a candidate for Reg-
ister of the county and would Tike ver
‘much to; have the office because havin
sheen very poor from birth be met witha
misshap that cost him an arm consequently
there have been very. few opportunities at
which he could work: He has been a
school teacher ‘aud a 'very good one, so that
he is amply qualified for ‘the’ position ‘of
Register. . His opponent, Mr. TUTEN, ita
very agreeable young man, bat he has two
strong arms and $wo big newspaper enter-
prises of ‘his own and it would ' seem that
you should“ do all you can’ to help Mr.
WEAVER this time. © : “h
8 AND FEDERAL UNION.
E, PA., OCTOBER 16, 1908.
BRYAN'S AT THE BAT.
BY W. T. SPEER.
The federalistic spirit shows
Quite early in the game
Prince Nick, well, he turned on the light
From Georgia up to Maine.
And while the Prince was at the bat
He struck a falling star
And then a sickly silence fell
Upon the patrons of the Czar.
So upon his stricken henchmen
Grim melancholy sat
For in their gloom they saw Bill Bryan
Advancing to the bat.
And from ten million workmen
Arose such mighty yells
Thay thundered through the mountains
And echoed through the dells.
They rumbled in the valleys
And "cross the western plain
The Commoner js at the bat
We'll surely win the game,
8o the outlook is brilliant
For Democrats today
The solid South has already scored,
Other States are on the way.
Then ten million eyes will watch him
A cleaning out the dirt
From the days of Taft and Roosevelt
Back to the bloody-shirt,
A Faithful Labor Leader.
Mr. SAMUEL GOMPERS president of the
American Federation of Labor, never
served the cause in whioh he is enlisted to
better purpose than he is doing now
by urging his associates to support WIL.
LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN for President.
Mr. GoMPERS has been at the head of that
organization for many years and he has
labored faithfully and assiduously to pro-
mote the interests of workingmen. Bat he
bas accomplished less than he deserved for
the reason that there are recreanss in every
work who are watching opportunities to
betray their cause in consideration of some
personal preferment or political favor.
Fellows like Powderly are always ready to
sell out to any interests that can pay the
price.
Mr. GoMPERS could have had any office
he desired any time within seven years if
he had intimated a willingness to sacrifice
labor interests. JOHN MITCHELL, recently
esident of the United Mine Workers,
Id bave gone into the cabinet of the
President if he bad shown an inclivation
to use his inflne.ce with workingmen in
the interest of the Republican party. Bas
those two labor leaders have proved them-
selves superior to the traffic in polisios and
it was never more clearly proved than it
bas been during the present campaign.
SAMUEL GoMPERS bas refused to be bribed,
cajoled or coerced into the supports of a
party that bas always been inimical to the
interests of labor.
When the Chicago convention that nomi-
nated Judge TAFT was in session Mr,
GOMPERS urged she adoption of an expres-
sion which would bold ous the hope of]
justice to workingmen but he was flatly
refused. He went to the Denver conven-
tion that nominated Mr. BRYAN and pre-
sented the same request with the result
that to quote his own language he ‘‘gos all
he asked for.”” Under such cironmstances
how could he support the candidates of the
party that spurned his just request and
oppose those of the party whioh complied
with his demand. No labor leader would
ever be trusted again under such circum-
stances and a labor man, whether leader or
follower, bas eomething the matter with
him if he doesn’s think with Mr. GoMp-
ERS on thas point.
~The WATCHMAN bas nota word to
say against Congressman CHARLES F.
BARCLAY personally. The utter failure
he has made as a Representative in Con-
gress from this district is reason enough
why he should not be returned and W.
HARRISON WALKER elected as his suo-
cessor. During the two years Mr. BAg-
CLAY has been in Congress he never made
a speeoh of any kind, so far as known; and
his voice was never loud enough in the
aotion® of any committee to be heard out-
side the walls of the committee room. In
fact be was so inconspicuous ip every way
that hundreds of the voters in this distriot
even forgot who she Representative was.
Even in the matter of the appointment of
postmasters he failed to assert himself but
allowed Borges PENROSE to name the man
he wanted. Therefore, will the voters of
this district again submit to be represented
at Washington by such an nonentity ? We
have every assurance to believe that shey
will not. Eleot W. HARRISON ‘WALKER
and you will hive a’Representative in Con.
gress who will personally look after your
interests and who will not permit of any
dictation ‘from PENROSE or any other man.
~—Tlie voters of Centre county know
that FRED SMITH is a good mau; a plain,
unassuming, hard working farmer, with
brains and grit enough to make an excel-
lent Bheriff. Koowing this they will feel
no hesifanoy, in voting for him. ba
Ee 4
~—PHED SMITH is a Granger. It re
mains to “be seen whether the Grangers
want one of their Own men for, ‘Stierift.
_NO. 41.
President as Fand Collector.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The president caases it to be announced
that he will nos take the stump for Tals,
for the reason that it is not neosssary. It
would have Beau xasts Th that
t's cause would not it;
for the general opinion we believe to be
that it needs all she help it can get, and
the president is very much interested in
getting it for him. He is sakinga very
active part in supervising the Republican
campaign, aud ie now reputed to be intent
upon promoting the financial end of is.
The presidential influence of his direction
is very great, and we may rely upon its
being used vigorously in this campaign, as
it i. in the last, who
e current is setting so y toward
Bryan that all the people see itand we
may be sure that the president does. He
through the persuasion that has been
brought to him that this would do his can-
didate far more harm than good. He does
all that he can do for him in showing his
followers that he earnestly desires his elec-
tion. There is no doubt that they are all
persuaded of this, and that all who can be
influenced by his opinion will vote for Tals.
And there are, without doubt, very many.
There are a vast number of people who
believe that he is a great and wise maa,
and that his counsel is good to follow.
There are peopie who do not know, doabt-
less, a8 much as they think they do, or
they would not have so exalted an opinion
of Roosevelt's political integrity and wis-
dom. He would not be likely to increase
his power over them by personally going
about among them proclaiming his opinion,
There is no reason to guestion the fact
that the Republican candidate will have
the corporation influence thas the Republi-
can party has all along commanded. It
will bave is because of the force of habit,
it for no other reason. It will have it,
also, because the men who have given it
heretofore and found their reward in it,
will give it agaio for the same reason. This
is the effective assistance which she presi-
dent can give and which we are aswsuared
that he will give under the necessity which
requires it. These interests will nos feel
safe in deserting their old alliances, having
nowhere else to go. They will certainly
respond to the demand upon them for
their support, howevér coy they will pre.
tend to be ; and it may be that the need
for his attention to this part of the Repub-
lican campaign work has much to do with
the president's conclusion to stay in
Washington.
From the Jolinstown Democrat,
* Because the farmers pay no direct taxes
for the support of the federal government
they fancy they go antaxed except for state
and local purposes. But they are robbed
at every turn in the purchase of their cloth-
ing, their implements, their lumber, their
fuel, their medicives, their insurance, their
transportation, their fencing and their
living so far as they do vot them-
selves dig it out of the ground, without
recourse and without equity or meray.
They are victims of an iniquitous system.
They are blindfolded by partisanship and
imagine themselves free agents.
On account of the tariff, for every dollar
of value in a pair of shoes he pays $1.25.
For every dollar of value in a pair of
trousers he pays $1.60 and in addition he
pays 3 cents for each pound ; eo for a two-
pound pair of tronsers worth $2 he pays
$3.85. For a shirt worth 75 cents
he must pay $1.25. The Dingley tariff
duty on his hat is 44 cents a pound and 60
per cent ; so if his bat weighs a quarter of
a pound and is worth $I, he must pay
$1.75 tor is.
When the farmer and his wife and ohil-
dren dress to go to town, or to church,
they are covered with taxes as Job was
covered with boils. But Job knew what
hurt him.
Errors of the Financial Monkey.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Deluded by lying comment that former
Secretary Shaw, the financial monkey of
the nation, bad made a speech on the
tariff in Boston that would become immor-
tal as a classic, it was read. Its first para-
graph is a falsehood, woven about a weaver
from the whole cloth. His denominating
Eoglaud a free-trade country is a falsity
betraying his not unknown ignorance.
When he asserted that an Italian silk
weaver gets but 28 cents a day for what
“*at the same standard of efficiency and the
same amount of work is paid $1.50" in the
United States he was as ancouth a pre.
varicator as when hearing Pisteharl's lead-
ing citizens on the great bunco of a post-
office site and its someday warehouse
structure. What folderol it is to resurrect
Shaw, whom all parties thought bad beat a
merited retreat into some burrow of con-
cealment.
The Business Bribe.
From the Chicago Public.
The promise of plutooratio manufacturers
to raise the wages of their employes, if
Taft carries the eléction, is both oriminal
and mean. It is as clearly a bribe as was
ever a two-dollar bill as the polls. It is
besides as certainly a frand as was ever a
three card monte game at a county fair. If
manufacturers can be sure of raising wages
alter election they can raise wages now. If
they cannot raise wages now, they cannot
be certain of raising them after election.
What they are at is trying to influence hard
working and rly paid voters to vote
against labor ie by offering them
bribes that are never to be paid.
Walker for Congress,
From the Clearfield Republican.
. W, Harrison Walker, Democratic candi-
date for Congress was in Clearfield the first
of this week ' meeting and greeting the
voters. Mr. Walker is very confident of
success, having the warmest kind of assur.
andes'from leading Republicans all over the
district. The are solid for him
——Subeoribe for she WATCHMAN.
in’ all four: obunties and the Republicans
are‘greatly divided on Barolay.
will
WH be wise oe soli savin ba Pa Citizens have disregarded the quarantine
Taxing the Farmers. y aw
Keystone.
—Sinee the first of January :
erine licenses have been issued by the
and food division at Harrisburg, bringing in
a tots! revenue of $32.88851. :
—The enrollment of students at the In
diana State Normal school is now 700, the
largest in the history of the institution. Last
spring the enrollment was 664, which num-
ber had never been reached before.
—Percy G. Leidigh, a prominent druggist
of Harrisburg, was on Monday sentenced to
pay a fine of $100 and costs and undergo five
months’ imprisonment for selling cocaine to
a negro who peddled it about to others.
—The ninth annual meeting of the Penn-
sylvania Congress of Mothers will be held in
Oil City November 5th, 6th and 7th. An in.
teresting program has been arranged and
prominent speakers will address the meet~
ings.
—A. W. Cowder, a farmer of Shion, Clear.
field county, this year raised 248 bushels of
buckwheat on 6} acres ef land, almost forty
bushels to the acre. Clearfield is a great
county for buckwheat, but we doubt if Mr.
Cowder’s record can be beaten.
—John Q. Packard, fireman at the Steums
pile brick works, in Williamsport, was made
happy on Thursday evening by the news
that he had been bequeathed $10,000 by his
uncle, John Quackenboos Packard, who died
recently in California leaving a large estate.
=On Saturday there were sixty houses
quarantined in Chambersburg, because of
measles, which are of a very malignant type.
regulations and the police have been ordered
to arrest any children from quarantined
houses who may be found on the streets.
—A suit to recover $2,700 from the Vinton
Lumber company, has been brought by Jacob
McDowell, of Blacklick township, Cambria
county, who avers that property of his to
that amount was destroyed by fire in May,
1903, because the Vinton company had failed
to equip its locomotives with proper spark
arresters,
—Merchant Samuel Schiegel andlJoseph
Long, of East Salem, took from a fish basket
in the Juniata river, near Thompsontown,
Juniata county, in forty-eight hours last
week, over 2,000 eels. The largest one
weighed four pounds and ten ounces and
they had many more that weighed more
than two pounds,
~—Henry Horning, of Sunbury, while on
his way to a furniture store on Tuesdy night,
to pay for some furniture that he had
bought, was attacked by two men, badly
beaten and robbed of $214, the savings of
many months, Horning is to be married in
a few days and was fitting up his home to
go to housekeeping at once.
—Thousands of small fish, because of the
low water in the reservoirs of the Pottsville
Water company, have been sucked into the
mains at that place. They get into the serv-
ice pipes, and plumbers are kept busy re-
moving them from spigots, which they
blocked to such an extent as to cut off the
water from many residences. It is now fear.
ed the fish will die and pollute the water in
the mains.
—With the exercise of the most rigid econe
omy, Altoona’s water supply will last hardly
twenty days. Never in the history of Al-
toona have its people been so close to actual
want of the precious fluid as they are at the
present time. Warnings have been issued
by officials of the water department, and un.
less they are scrupulously heeded the evil
day will be hastened. Satarday night's rain
was a little help.
—The State automobile tags for 1909 will
be white with black letters. Each year the
color of the tags is changed iu: order that no
cars may be operated under licenses that
have expired. The new tags will {be ready
by December 15, and the applications for li-
censes will be filed in the order received, So
far this year 24.000 automobile licenses have
been issued and the number next year will
undoubtedly be still greater.
—David Hendricks, & workman at the Ea.
gle brick works, near Mill Hall, Clinton
county, was digging under an immense bed
of clay on Saturday morning when the bank
caved in upon him, covering him complete-
ly. Other workmen hastily set to work to
uncover him but when he was reached he
was in an unconscious condition and died in
a short time. Deceased was aged 65 years
and is survived by his wife, four sons and
two daughters,
—Lust Thursday while thel}Munson local
was pushing some empty cars up the track
at Winburne, Clearfield county, Conductor
C. W. Wagner, of Clearfield, who was riding
on the brake beam of the car, was surprised
to see a little child walking ahead of the
train and making no effort to get off the
track. He tried to signal the engineer, who
did not get the signal. Mr. Wagner braced
himself with one hand and with the other
caught the little fellow by the coat collar
Just as the car was about to knock him down
and run over him, and thus saved him from
being crushed under the cars,
—Samuel Gardner, one of Philipsburg’s
very best citizens, who has for some time
been employed by Lawrence Miller, south of
town, helping with the farm work, ete., was
driving the latter's team of horses down a
hill Monday morning when the horses start.
ed to run and threw Mr. Gardner on a stone
hesp, causing injuries of a most} seriops
character. Practically the whole left side of
his face was torn off. The upper jaw bone
was fractured and had to be removed, his
nose was also fractured and his left eye bad~
ly injured. He was removed to the Cottage
hospital, where his injuries received atten-
tion, \
—Five Altoona aldermen have died during
the year, the most recent being B. B. Irvin.
who dropped dead Saturday night. Only
last week Governor Stuart appointed I, B.
Eaby to an aldermanic vacancy. Alderman
Irvin was a unique character in that section,
He was born without hands or feet. In spite
of this handicap, at the age of 33, he had at-
tained prominence in many ways. He be-
came an expert penman, although he held
the pen with two stubs of arms. The day
before his death he returned from a success-
ful hunting trip, his skill with a gun being
remarkable. Alderman Irvin had been the
Democratic candidate for county treasurer.
He was nominated for city treasurer before
he was old enough to hold office. He was
elected alderman twice without opposition.
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