Bemorraic alpen,
BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
~The man behind the rasping snow
shovel proves a veritable alarm clock these
mornings.
—It will take a magoifyiog glass to find
the horns on a many a deer that has been
shot this season.
~—If this country bad bad a Chancellor
von BUELOU it would probably not bave
had a pavio last year.
—Lord NorTHCLIFF finds American foot-
ball slow. We hadn’t heard of his witness
ing any of the Bucknell games.
~The Standard Oil's buying southern
newspapers makes it look as if Jou~x D.
were jealons of Miss Demooracy’s even
holding onto the Solid South.
~-"We are much obliged for the Philadel-
phia information that we are not to know
who can be speaker of the next House un-
til Mr. IsRARL DURHAM gets home to tell
us.
— While looking around for some digni-
fied apd profitable occupation to suggest
for our ex-Presidents we have thought that
an occasional one might make a very use-
ful demonstrator for the Victor talking ma-
chine.
—Let it be known right now that the
Democratic national committee does not
have enough money te pay its corrent bills
with. We want it known, so tbat four
years hence there need be no rehashing of
$300,000 left over fund stories.
—Mr. SIMMONS, the erstwhile president
of the ‘‘Prosperity Association,” bas ad-
journed that body sine die and announces
to the world shat prosperity is once more
upon us and that he did it. What a nice
man Mr, SIMMONS is, but he will bave to
band us some better dope than this before
we are convinced that he ought not to be
right on his job this very minate.
—All indications point to the promised
revision of the tariff as being a revision up-
wards, instead of downwards. The Repub-
licans will hold that is is a revision, all the
same, and, as they were not specific in
their pre-election promise, a revision up-
wards makes good just as well as a revis-
joo downwards would do. This is the rea-
son they made such a fuss about having the
revision made by she friends of the tariff,
—A lady passenger on a Black Diamond
express train on Monday picked np a dia-
mond that another lady bad dropped. The
finder promptly put the jewel inside her
stooking and refused to give it up when
her action wae detected. There were plen-
ty of brave men aboard the train, but they
were too modest. Is remained for a vil
lage policeman at a station where the train
“stopped vo smother his blushes aud dig for
the gem. Which he did.
—Local political gossip bas it that an el-
fort will be made by some of the leaders to
annul the appointment of CLEMENT DALE
as Commissioner's attorney. In the fires
place, if it were avy one else than Mr.
DALE uo such stories wonld ever bave been
started. They all feel thas they can rub
is in on him as much as they please and he
will swallow the dose and go along, as he
always has been doing. But whether the
plum is snatohed from him or not it seems
to us that Commissioners ZIMMERMAN and
WOODRING are not the kind of men to per-
mis others to make their appointments vor,
having made them, to be [rightened into
changing them.
—An opinion handed down by Judge
MULOWNERY, in a Washington police cours,
on Tuesday, will be sweet music to the
ears of many women in the land. The
learned Judge announced that a wife has a
right to extract money from her husband’s
pockets while he sleeps. Now, go ahead,
you poor, self sacrificing, ever toiling, nev-
er complaining wife. If your contempti-
ble husband occasionally doles out a dollar
to you with an air that makes you feel that
you are a beggar, gofor his pockets when
he is asleep. The law is on yourside and
even if it were pot it is time for you to let
him understand that a woman has need for
a little money once in a while and is just
as capable of waking good use of it as the
average man.
—We don’t know how it strikes you,
bat the fever of concern about the way the
country people live that has seized the
President and the metropolitan dailies
looks to us like a malady that could very
promptly and properly be relieved by an
alopathic dose of mind-your-own-husiness,
The average farmer is a grown hoy who
started to work for six or eight dollars a
month, and board and washing, with five
months of indifferent schooling a year
thrown iu. He owns a farm, stock and
equipments today. Has a comfortable home
and is about the most independent individ.
ual to be found. He has resources for bis
every need and his crops and cattle kesp
on growing whether ROOSEVELT and the
“undesirable citizens’ couspire to bring on
pauios or not. He has what be has by dint
of his own brains and energy and when a
lawn-teonis President aud a lot of city
newspaper writers, who probably think a
cow is a tin can with horns aud a tail, an-
dertake to tell hin how he should live it
looks to as as if is is time lor the farmer to
dispose of these meddlers as he used todo
with stray balls. If Roosgverr and bis
friends want to do someshing for the farm-
er why den’s they make it possible for him
to buy a MCCORMICK or a DEERING or any
other make of American binder as cheap as
the farmers of South America or Australia
oan buy them.
TCI
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yor.
Too Late New.
Word comes by way of the Philadelphia
papers of Monday last, that ‘A movement
to encompass the defeas of Boigs PENROSE
to the United States Senate from Penneyl-
vania has been started in the Twenty-
fourth congressional distriet, embracing
Washington, Lawrence and Beaver ooun-
ties and which promises to attract state-
wide attention before the end of the
week.”
Surely the ‘‘queer ones’’ are not all dead
yes. Less than three weeks ago the people
of the State voiced their sentiments, by
their votes, on this matter and if the re-
tarne are correct less than one-fourth of
the membership of the Senate and House
were chosen to oppose the re-election of
Mr. PENROSE. Little as we think of that
gentleman's ability as a etatesman ; much
as we despise his policies, his methods and
his political associates ; great as bas been
the disgrace that his kind and his promo-
tion has brought upon the State, there is
no denying the fact that he has succeeded
in secoring an endorsement not only by bis
own party but by a large majority of the
people of the Commonwealth at the polls.
If the late election means anything at all
it means that the voters of Pennsylvania
are not only satisfied with the kind of times
they are now experiencing as well as with
the kind of politics that Mr. PENROSE prac-
tices and the kind of representation he bas
given, but that they are in favor of a con-
tinuation of these and of him and bis mao-
agement,
Of the 173 members of the next House of
Representatives who were elected on No-
vember third, by the Republican voters,
there will not be one dozen who will re-
fuse to go into a canons and, by doing so,
bind themselves to abide by its action. Of
the number who go in, there is not a single
one so idiotic or politically green, who does
not know that Mr. PENROSE will control
that body by over a two-thirds vote. Con-
sequently, not knowing what the outcome
will be, he is willing to endorse whatever
uotion is taken and, although elected ‘on
oppose the return of PENROSE to the Unit-
ed States Senate, stand ready to make his
re election unanimous, when the caucus of
Mr. Pexgrose's friends deciare him its
choice.
What hope is there of defeating Mr.
PENROSE under these circumstances, or
why should he be defeated? No matter
how impotent he is as a representative of
this great Commonwealth in the United
States Senate ; no matter how greatly he
has disgraced the State by his actions and
methods ; no matter what his moral life
may be, or no matter how much the few of
us may desire to see hetter and greater
men in the positions of honor and trust,
the people of Pennsylvania, through the
party in power, have spoken for a continu-
ation of PENROSE and PENROSEism and
they should have it.
Had the voters felt otherwise they would
bave elected Democrats to the House and
Seuvate, whom they were certain would,
under no circumstance, assiet in the retarn
of Mr. PENROSE, or they would bave chos-
en Republicans with manliness enough
about them to refuse to enter a caucus and
be bound by its action, knowing that it
was absolutely and servilely in the bands
of those who represented him and his in-
terests,
If, as Pennsylvaviaus,
dire why balk at is now ?
we have eaten
Whe Got the Swag?
Mr. ROOSEVELT may not embrace the
opportunity but there is a wide field open
for him to continue his letter writing to
the public, now that he has succeeded in
fixing his own choice of a successor upon
the people.
The first matter he might interestingly
write about could be av account of who gos,
or what became of the forty millions of
dollars that was paid by the government,
to some one, early in his administration
for what was denominated the old Panama
canal.
Cruel tongaes alleged that » brother of
the gentleman who has just been elected
President and will assname the duties of
his high office on the fourth of March next,
received a goodly share of it, and that a
brother-in-law of the outgoing administra-
tion pocketed a wad of is, the size of, which
would make an ordinary speculators eyes
bulge ont. It is true that the WATCHMAN
bas no farther knowledge of the transaction
than the fact of the payment of the amount
stated and the stories that are in circulation
as to who the beneficiaries were. In the
interest of a wider knowledge by the peo-
pie of the real facts in tais case it suguests
it as a subject upou which our now notori-
ous presidential letter writer conld use his
pen if not with profit, at least with some
pleasure to an anxinne pnhlie,
bee]
—Next week will end the football sea-
son—and, after that, it will be the books
for the average college boy ; that is it bas-
ket-ball, traternity house parties, dances
aod correspendence with his seminary girl
! doesn’t require quite all of his time.
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 20, 1908.
A Guess at the Tarif Revision that
ts Coming.
Whatever else people may expect from
the TAFT administration they are not going
to get much in the way of lower tariff taxes
or a decrease in the exorbitant prices
charged for trust mavufactared articles.
This much is made certain already although
but s little over two weeks distant from
the election.
Prior to the decision of the voters, that
continued the administration of
mental affairs in the haods of the Republi-
cans, there was no end to the promises that
a reduction of the tariff would be the first
job the dew administration would ander-
take. Every newspaper advocating the
claims of that party and every speech made
in its defence promised this. It was the
solemn pledge made by the candidate bim-
self on every occasion when be could find
sufficient people to address. It was the
assurance given by Mr. ROOSEVELT in Jes-
ters and in interviews and in every way
and upon every occasion that the public
could be impressed with the certainty of a
revision, those speaking for the party that
succeeded guaranteed that it would be
done.
There are some who may think it too early
to even make a guess at what will proba-
bly be the result of all the promises made
in this line, but if what bas been dove so
far is to be taken as indicating what is to
come it can be written down as a certanity
that there will be no reduction of the tariff.
There may be a ‘‘revision’’ because there
are great interests demanding greater pro-
tection, the great manufacturers who were
heavy contributors to the corruption funds
of that party e!ammoring for higher rates on
importations that compete with their pro
duction which may be able to force ‘‘revi-
gion,’ but it will be a revision upwards. It
will be a ‘‘revision” by those who have
long profited by the imposition of tariff
taxes and he who imagines tbat there is
going to be a change that will in any way
imperil or decrease their profits is an ‘easy
one,” to say the least.
The hearings thas have been going on for
over a week point very plainly to what is
to be done. The trouble that ia taken to
secure a statement from those who are now
profiting by the tariff duties ; the effort of
tke Republican press to place before the
public every story—whether true or false—
that would lead the people to believe that
to certain interests ; the open and imper-
fous demand for an iocorease of duties in
special lines by those whose names are on
the campaign sabsoription list of that party;
the parading of the increasing deficit in the
treasury, the anoual shortage in the postal
department, and the alleged great need of
more money for governmental purposes can
have but one purpose and that one to fiod
an excuse for increasing, iu place of decreas.
ing, the tariff taxes.
Don’t be fooled. Don’t build on being
bettered by the ‘‘revision’” of the tariff
promised you by the Republican party.
Wait antil thas ‘‘revision’” is made and if
it ie not more in the interest of the great
trusts and the same classes that have al-
ways been favored by it than it iz in yours
and the great masses of people, then tell us
that you voted wisely by voting to have
the ‘‘friends of protection’ revise the tariff.
The Depths of Servility.
Nothing better illustrates the subservien-
oy of the Republican masses and those whom
they choose to represent their party, to the
dictates of a bossa than oonditions, such as
are set forth in the following : It ie a local
item that we fiad in the Philadelphia Press,
and reads thuswise :— ‘Politicians yester-
terday expressed the belief that no definite
decision in regard #0 the Speakemship of the
House in the next Legislature will be
reached until State Senator-elect ISRAEL
W. DURHAM returns from the Virginia Hot
Springs.”
Mr. DURHAM, it will be remembered, is
not a member of the Hoase, is entitled to
neither voice nor vote in the selection of
its presiding officer, and yet Philadelphia
ringsters coolly give out, for the benefit of
country Members, that no decision will be
made in the matter of the speakership until
hos DURHAM retarns and tells them who
they shall favor. Was ever ‘‘impudence”
greater? Was ever sycophanoy more ab-
ject or servility more disgraceful ?
Possibly the Representatives-elect who
| were chosen by constituencies outside of
ring-ruled and boss-ridden Philadelphia
may be satisfied to wait aotil Mr. DURHAM
decides who they shail choose to preside
over them during the coming session and
possibly they may not. In either event
the mere suggestion, by ‘‘Philadelphia pol-
iticians,”’ that shis matter be held in abey-
ance during the absence of their ‘‘boss,”
is the shameless acknowledgement of the
lack of manhood and independence thas
characterizes the ordinary Philadelphian,
who is known as a politician.
~The biggest men on the last day of
November will be those who bave a deer
to their credit.
a reduction of the tariff would work injury
D FEDERAL UNION.
A Republican Quandary.
The speakership of the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives is a real problem
to the mavagers of the machine. If Rep-
resentative HABGOOD, of McKean county,
had been re-elected their course would bave
been plain. HaBeoop was sofficiently
fight for him. Daring the last session be
prevented the exposure of a daugerous
scandal in relation to the pablio printing.
At any time and under all ciroumstances
he was ready and willing to take all sorte
of hazards to help the machive, Bnt be
was defeated at the polls and is therefore
not eligible to the speakership. Among
those who were more fortunate on election
day there are two or three who might ful-
machine fairly well but pot one worth
making a fight for.
Speaker MCCLAIN wants to be re-elected.
Two years ago he served the machine fairly
well. In essential matters he was always
with the gang but not always willingly so.
fle went along at times grudgiogly and
obeyed orders complaiviogly. Oo unim-
portant matters he even asserted his inde-
pend ence at intervals. But he has acquired
considerable popularity and to defeat him
means a stubborn fight. The machine op-
position to him is bardly strong enough for
that under the circumstances. In other
words with no candidate for the office that
the machine cares for partioularly, and no
very strong reason for opposing McCLAIN
there is just a chance that he may pull
through notwithstanding the fact thas no-
nobody really wants him to succeed.
Neither side reposes much confidence in
him.
As a matter of fact the Republican ma-
chine hasn’s much legislation it cares
about for the coming session. It would be
entirely willing to limit legislative action
to the senatorial election and the paseage
of she appropriation bills. Of coarse it will
be impossible to prevent the consideration
of some measures. If MCCLAIN is elected
speaker it will be the result of an uoder-
standing that he will abdicate the tunction
of naming the committees to former speak-
er WALTON and the committees will regu-
late the calendar. "If MCCLAIN refuses to
avd the man who is chosen for that place
will do willingly what is wanted. It may
be a difficult work at times but it will be
performed. Senator PENROSE wauts to
make his private pledges good.
No Mystery at All
Mr. BRYAN declares in his newspaper,
The Commoner, that the causes of his de-
feat are mysterious, He believes that the
splendid platform adopted by the Denver
convention ought to have commanded suffi-
oient support of the American electorate to
have carried our party to assured victory.
Unquestionably that is trae. The work-
ingmen of the country ought to bave been
practically a unit for the Denver ticket.
The victirus of the tariff robbery, and they
constitute a vast majority of the people,
ought to have been equally earnest and
quite as unavimous for the Democratio
ticket, Bat the result disappointed these
expectations.
There is no mystery about the matter,
however. The Democrats carried Ohio for
the principles expressed in the Denver
platform iu the election of JUDSON HAR-
MAN for Governor, They expressed their
confidence in and fidelity to those prinei-
ples in Minnesota through the elestion of
JorNsoN to the office of Governor. They
carried Indiana for Democratic principles
in the election of their candidate for
Governor and a majority of the General
ples were stronger than the candidate in
every State in the Union except one. Asa
matter of fact it was the Democratic candi-
date and vot Democratic principles that
was defeated.
Mr. BRYAN ought not to bave been
oominated as the candidate of the party
this year. He most have known that the
people are not willing to pus him io the
presidential office aud in consenting to, if
not actanlly directing the undemocratic
treatment of the rightfully ohosen dele-
gates to the Denver convention from Penn-
sylvania, he revealed an unfitness for she
office which probably i=fluenced the votes
of thousands against him. In view of
these things there is no mystery about the
result of the election. It simply expressed
the determination of the people to take no
chances with Mr. BRYAN in the offive of
President.
——The Bellefonte Academy football
team lengthened its string of victories last
Saturday when it defeated the Philipsburg
High school eleven by the score of 11 to 0.
Tomorrow the Philipsburgers will come to
Bellefonte and play the Academy at Ath-
letio park. This will be she last opportun-
ity Bollefonters will have to witness a
game of foothal! this season 22d everybody
should take advantage of is. The game
will be a good one and well worth seeing.
It will be called at 2.15 o'clock sharp.
fill the duties of the speaker and serve the | we
to that he will not be elected apeaker | |.
Assembly. They proved that the princi. | PAE
NO. 46.
The Enemy's Tribute.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Even from J. Pierpont ‘s Har-
per's Weekly, once ‘‘a journal of eiviliza-
sion,” now a special pleader for privilege,
is extorted a word of praise for Mr. Bryan.
It declares that ‘‘such a man is entitled to
servile and sufficiently useful to make a adds
He made a wonderful canvass, All sole alone,
without the aid of a single counselior whose ad-
vice was ‘worth a surrounded
and pestered by a
ad in feeling for him honest
and wishing him well all the day of his
Mr. Bryan is not seeking sympathy.
seeks rather to solve ‘‘the mystery of 1908."
It is not explained by the malevolence of
the plutooratio press nor yes by the cor-
ruption of the weak aod the coercion of
helpless. His defeat was less a viotory for
the Republican party than a trinmph of
some secre force that the American public
has not yet sensed. And we feel certain
that Mr. Bryan will waste no time in weep-
ing over the past. His eye is fixed oo the
future and we helieve that as the years go
by his er for good will increase.
Mr. an accepted the fortunes of war
when he took the leadership of his party
and marched at the head of She plain mil-
lions who believe in Equal. against the
serried ranks of privilege. understood
all she risks; he misjudged none of the
possibilities; and he knew that only one
side could win the battle.
There is not one word of complaint in
the message be has since sent to the coun-
try. It betrays no sign of weakness. His
buoyancy is #8 strong as ever before, his
ocurage as striking and his faith as un-
shaken. There is nothing of the weakling
in this soldier of the comwon good.
Mr. Bryan bas gone down in defeat. Bat
the cause to which he has consecrated his
noble life and his high gifts lives on and
must live on until Wrong is on the scaffold
and Trath is on the throne. The powers
of darkness cannot forever prevail. Ormuzd
still fights with Abriman and some day the
Prince of Light will come into bis own.
The Wicked Way of Taxation,
From the Mt. Vernon (N. Y.) Argus.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—For shooting a rabbit near Emaus, Berks
county, without license, Lion Batzigals, a
foreigner, was on Thursday fined a total of
$60. .
—There is an epidemic of measles in
Chambersburg, and since its appearance
there have been six deaths of children from
the disease.
~The contract for the erection of the
Panther Creek hospital at Tamaqua has been
awarded to J. Andrew Breslin, of Summit
Hill, for $30,009.
—Miss Mora Hollinger has been awarded
a verdict of $4,000 against the York Railways
company for injuries sustained in jumping
from a car to avoid an impending collision,
—The December term of Cambria county
court will be featured by the trial of five
men charged with murder. Three of these
trials promise to be sensational and will be
hard fought.
—Mrs. Sarah Bowers, who died recently
in Reading, bequeathed $5,000 to different
Catholic charitable institutions, but as the
will was made only twenty-three days be-
fore her death the bequests are invalid.
—William H. Grim, of Hamburg, Berks
skates, county, who has raised four crops of alfalfa
8° | the past season, has placed thirty-two steers
in bis barn which he expects to fstten with
this crop— a new experiment for that see-
tion.
—A fire broke out in the Cameron col~
liery, near Shamokin, on Friday, causing
over 1,400 men and boys to quit work and it
continued raging so fiercely all day Satar-
day and Saturday night that the fire fighters
could not get near enough to discover the
extent of the conflagration.
—(. Y. Rhoads, of Amityville, Berks coun~
ty, sold a stranger $50 worth of chickens and
he was tendered » check for $100. Rhoads
gave him the change aud afterwards discov.
ered that the check was worthless, but
by telegraphing to the express company he
recovered hie chickens and is out only the
$50 change paid out.
~The Lehigh Valley Coal company has
started the construction of an immense
reservoir near its Blackwood colliery
Schuylkill county, so as to be prepared to
meet future drouths. A tunnel 1,000 feet
long is being dug through the Sharp and
Second mountsins to reach the water of
Black creek.
—Ellis Dixon, a well known resident of
Belsena Mills, Clearfield couuty, was found
dead along the road leading from Madera to
Belsena Mills. The exact cause of his death
is not known, and while there was some talk
of foul play there is not theslightest grounds
for such a story. Deceased was 60 years of
age and leaves a number of grown children
to mourn their loss.
—The Rev. A. C. Lathrop, pastor of the
Baptist chureh in Clearfield, bas resigned
his charge to accept a call to the Mount
Union charge. The Rev. Mr. Lathrop also
recently had a call from the Baptist congre-
gation at Everett, Bedford county. but did
Let a man buy alot and i :
building a home, let men empl
make houses more abe 8
wealth and psperity of the com
and our system of imposing taxes
that they shall pay a penalty in on
to the value of the improvements they have
made. Let men, however, esp their lots
vacant and allow them to become covered
with weeds, and let them refuse employ-
ment to labor to improve those lots, then
we grant to these men low taxation and
place a premiom on stagnation. The
laborer turns the deserts into a garden, and
we increase his taxes for doing so ; the land
speoulator turns the garden intoa desert
and we diminish bis taxes. The better a
man does for his city the worse his city
does for him. Oar eystem of taxation places
a premium on barrenness and a penalty on
beauty. We have here in Moont Vernon
many acres of so-called farm lands and
thousands of vacant lots that escape just
taxation and lie dormant as far as wsefol-
pese is concerned, while they increase in
value because of the improvements made
about them by those who must pay a
penalty for their public spirit and progress-
iveness. We are uot preaching a single
land tax ; but we are urging thas so called
farm lands aud vacant lots be compelled to
hear a fair proportion of taxation, and that
it be made less profitable to keep them un-
imoroved to the detriment of the neighbor-
hood. Here is a subject for our city fathers
that is worth while considering
Bt Tn, Brute!
From the Macon (Ga.,) Telegraph.
The words of the assassinated Caesar to
his trusted friend Brutus come to mind on
reading the latest batch of Hearst's stolen
letters showing the Manufacturer's Record
and the Southern Farm M to have
been in the pav of the Standard Oil Com-
, These Baltimore publications, which
weré supposed to be so interested in the de-
veiopmeni of Souibera indusirial interests,
seem to have been still more interested in
doing the will of the all powerful Oil King.
Oue’s first impulse is to exclaim ‘‘Et tu
Brute I" and the next is to wonder how
many of those Assistant Republican news-
papers, conspiouous in the South during
the recent campaign, were likewise subsi
diged hy the great Trusts that are io league
with the hosses of the Republican party to
keep the Dingley tariff in force and other-
wise influence legislation 20 that the peo-
ple may be robbed. Truly the power of
the Ootopus is incalonlable, and his tenta-
cles reach everywhere ! :
SA
An Outside Estimate,
From the Mexican Herald.
Bryan in defeat is greater than his
mockers. He displays magoaunimity, the
noblest of qualities ; be is calm and ac-
cepts the verdiot of the huge electorate,
aod declares his purpose to give his serv.
ices to the Republic asa Jove citizen.
There's something of the old Roman io the
man. He is not ‘‘el santo de nuestra de-
vooion,’’ but we like his manliness and his
display of a quality essential to free citizen-
chip in a Republic. His State should send
him to the United States Senate, for surely
the leader of a party whioh numbers
millions of voters is entitled to sit among
the lawmakers of the nation.
The Same Old Thing.
From the Indianapolis News,
It looks more and widwe, as the
hearings
proceed, as it She prospisciite SF sevisien
not accept it. The chauge to Mt. Union
fore the industrial slump began, for the pi
pose of developing the coal under the St.
Xavier's and Isaac George farms, in U
township, Westmoreland county, but which
was never put into operation, was started on
Monday when 100 ovens were fired. This
gave employment to 125 men at the ovens,
in addition to the force that is required at
the mines.
—H. G. Philips, editor of the Montours~
ville Republic, who a few days ago was made
defendant in a libel suit ivstituted by Post-
master Byron A. Weaver, struck back on
Friday and caused the arrest of Mr. Weaver
on a charge of assauit and battery and also
brought action for damages in the sum of ten
thousand dollars for injuries inflicted upon
him by Weaver. The assault occurred on
June 6, 1907, in a Montoursville trolley car,
and caused quite a sensation at the time.
—Willism A. Walter last week finished
drilling a 200-foot deep ten inch well for the
Rockwood Water company, Somerset county.
The new well isa “hummer,” the water
gushing out of the bole when the casing was
placed in position, and the indications are
that it will furnish sufficient water for the
community supplied by the company for
many years to come. The well is located
high up the mountain quite near the Rock~
wood reservoir, about four miles from the
town,
—1It is greatly feared that Mr. Elmer Trog*
ler, of Mercersburg, Franlkin county, whose
husband died so horrible a death last
Tuesday from hpdrophobia from a dog bite,
may have become infected with the dread
malady from him and that her suckling babe
may also be inoculated with the disease.
Mrs. Trogler has hac a number of very vio-
lent convulsions which can only be attribut-
ed to this cause. It is likely that she and
the baby will be taken to the Pasteur insti
tute in Baltimore for treatment.
—Boyd Cummings Packer, one of Lock
Haven's best known and foremost citizens,
died suddenly of heart trouble Saturday
evening while spending the evening at the
residenco of & neighbor, Moore Fredericks,
cashier of the First National bank of Lock
Haven. Deceased was born and reared in
Williamsport and was a son of former Goy-
ernor William F. Packer. He had been a
resident of Lock Haven for a number of
years and was connected with the Lock
Haven Terra Cotta and Fire Brick company,
Heo was 66 years of age and is survived by
his wife, one son and two daughters. Mrs.
John A. Woodward, of Howard, is a sister
of the deceased.
~The report of Steward Lang, of the
Huntingdon reformatory for October, shows
the following products raised on Cypress
island for the maintenance of the inmates :
Four hundred and fifty pounds of barley, 18
bushels of beets, 30 bushels of carrots, 263
dozen ears of corn, 3.650 pounds of cabbage,
220 pounds of onions, 70 bushels of potatoes,
6,800 pounds of pumpkins, 31 bashels of to-
50 pounds of turnips and 3 bushels of
Stock dressed : Twenty seven
head of cattle, 14,763 pounds; 4 calves, 347
Dotinda; 35 sheep and bs, 140 pounds {
h 868 pounds. Tallow red in
slaughter house, 221 pounds ; lard rendered
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