“BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
When 1 Bleved in Santa Clans,
When | was just a little boy,
Not old enough to know,
That everything that people said
Was not exactly so
. They uzed to tell me lots of tales
That thrilled my very heart
And sad the day for little folks
When fairy tales depart,
When Mother Goose would pick her geese
The snow would surely fall
And pave the way for Santa's sleigh
To come and visit all
The little ones who had been good,
And did not frown nor pout,
And slam the door and cut up high
When Paand Ma were out
I'm just a little boy tonight
And seems to me | hear
Those mystic sounds of Christmas eve
That made me feel so qeeer
And creep so early off to bed
To dream, and dream, and dream
And wonder it I hadn't heard
The bells on Santa's team.
1 bl'eived there was a Santa Claus
And that's what made it sweet
To conjure up the things I'd like
In toys and meats to eat
I ean’t see that it did me harm,
In truth I'd mostest joy
When I b'lieved in Santa Claus
And was just u little boy.
—Anyway the fellow with the thin girl
doesn’s have as large a stocking to fill.
--The bogy man is out again. CHARLES
M. ScEWAB declares that the removal of
tariff on steel means lower wages for
American workingmen.
— Whatever else may be said of it the
test vote in the House on Tuesday wasn’t
calculated to prove very reassuring to
“Uncle Jor" CANNON,
—From the way thinge are going on io
Washington it is beginning to look as
though we shonld send for Count Vox
Bugrow for alittle while.
~The American farmer is producing
more wealth than all she other industries
in our land put together,yet he isn’t moving
Heaven and earth to keep Congress from
taking she tariff off any of his products.
~The two boys who found it so easy to
get into the lockap oon Tuesday afternoon
found it very much harder to get out and
probably that will be the lesson that will
keep them from getting into such a dilem-
ma again.
—That Camberland, Maryland, chair.
man who thinks he has won the famous
BRYAN mule wante it and bas wired Wiz.
LIAM to that effect. What he wants it for
is his own business, at least up until he
gets is. After that it will be the mule’s.
If Greater Pittsburg desires to pay
tribute to the unselfish and uplifting serv.
joe that Mayor GRORGE GUTHRIE has
rendered the parent city daring the past
three years, she will insist on his becoming
the official head of the new and greater
oity.
—They say its more blessed to give than
receive, Perhaps it is, but we want to say
right here we think we have earned about
enough blessing by giving the WaTcEMAN
away and we would like to receive a little
just now. Send in your dollars and make
our Christmas happy.
—Remember that the real friend will
appreciate far more something that he or
she knows yoa can afford to give thana
present that costs you more than your cir-
oumstances warrant. After all the genuine
Christmas idea is in the spirit of the gilt
and not in the value of it.
—The announcement of Secretary of the
Treasury CORTELYOU that the government
deficit for the fiscal year will exceed one
hundred and fourteen million dollars is
given aboat as much serious attention by
our thoughtiess rushing people as if it were
Joux D. ROCKERFELLER'S debt and not
their own,
~The three handred and sixty four old
majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels in
the regular service can understand why
ROOSEVELT ont out those strenuous rides
and marches for them. He wanted them
to get supple enough to duck opportunely
while he jumps acother of his favorites
over their heads into the rank of major
generals.
~The President may say what he pleases
about is, but his say so doesn’t make art
any more thau the plaster aud pasty in our
own State capitol makes mahogany. The
new gold coins are not pleasing to the eye
and so far as the art in them is concerned if
87. GUARDEN’S had not designed them the
President, bimsell, would probably bave
calléa ¢hem abominable and everybody
who disagreed with his opinion liars.
—Congressman NICK LONGWORTH, the
President’s son-in-law, was the caly Mem-
ber who voted against the bill imposing a
license fee of oue handred dollars on all
dealers in cigarettes and cigarette papers in
the District of Colombia. Cigarette smok-
ing is common in NICK'S house, as he is an
inveterate himeell, and lon: ago the story
was out that ALICE was not averse to soil.
ing her dainty fingers with nicotine.
~The Reel-foot lake incident is one like
ly to develop many new thoughts. While
every law abiding citizen will pray for the
prompts and proper punishment of “‘night
riders,” the simple, primitive class of men
they are will be revealed in their trial and
with the revelation will come a consoions-
ness that, after all, they are right in the
| osophy that leads them to think
a ile the fish in the lakes for hu-
manisy and not for a few sportsmen to buy
up and drive all others away. There will
be a world of sympathy for this thought
bat not a parsiole for men who do murder
88 a result of is.
i 8
A Philadeiphia Job for Philadel.
phin's Benefit,
Philadelphia has already served notice
on the tax-payers of the State that its Rep-
resentatives in the Legislature will make a
most strennons effort at the coming session
to seonre an appropriation of a ball mil-
lion of dollars to clean ont and make
pavigable the Delaware river. This of
course will be nothing new. That city bas
been clamoring for State aid for the same
purpose for many years.
Just why she people of the country, and
of the interior towns and cities of the State,
should be expected to join in a scheme to
tax themselves for the sole benefit of Phila-
delphia merchants, and the other business
interests of that city, is not stated. In fact
we bave never heard any reasons given for
such an appropriation, other than that it
was needed so aid Philadelphia's shipping
interests and enable its business men to
compete with those of New York, Balti.
more and other sea-board cities in the ex-
portation or importation of heavy freights
snd merchandise. To ns it wonld seem
just as reasonable for the business people
ol Lancaster, Harrisburg, Scranton, Pitts.
burg, or any other interior city or town,to
demand of the State an appropriation so
build railroads or open up bigh-ways to
bring business to them, as for Philadelphia
to ask that the State pay for deepening the
Delaware for its henefit.
Philadelphia people should remember
that bad their city governments been half-
wise,or half-way honest, the Delaware river
would not be in the condition it now is,
por would it cost hall she iabor or expense
to make it navigable that its present condi-
tion will require. Some years ago, when they
were removing Smith’s Islaod—a patch of
land that obstructed the way of the ferry-
boats between that city and Camden- in
place of dumping the dirt excavated into
the channel of she river a few squares be-
low, if they bad pat it where it would never
have interfered with the passage of vessels
there would at this time be that much lese
to dredge out. A little later when the ex-
cavation for the new dry dooks, down at
the navy yaid, was being done, had they pro
hibited excavations from being dump-
ed where they would be washed into the
river there would he that much less ob-
struction to vessels now to bother abous.
Bat these precautions were not taken.
Possibly because they would bave prevent.
ed the future johs that re-dredging would
make. Now the tax payers of the State
are asked to give, from the Treasury of the
State, money sufficient to remove from the
Delaware the obstructions shat Philadel-
phia, deliberately and with ita eyes open,
allowed to be dumped into it.
Some people may be gullible enough to
think that euch an appropriation woald be
right. The WATCHMAN can’t see it in
that light. While it would no doabt bea
great thing for Philadelphia were the
Delaware made navigable for vessels of all
sizes, we cannot auderstand how a citizen
in any other part of the State would he
benefitted in the least. It would not in.
crease the value of anything the country
ships to, or sells, in shat city. It would
not cheapen the price of a single article
that is purchased there, nor would is add
a farthing to the worth or price of any
property outside of its limits.
If shis is to benefit Philadelphia only,
why shonld not Philadelphia as New York
and other cities do, keep its own water-
way open, with such assistance as it can
get from the al government and sach
aid as its own citizens can well afford to
farnish ?
Where Some of the Deficit ts Created,
The postoffice officials, who have charge
of the financial end of that department, are
working overtime just now to discover
some way by which the rapidly and con-
stantly acoumulating deficit in the postal
service oan be checked. Possibly il they
would turn their eagle eyes to the abuses
of the general franking privileges enjoyed
by Senators and Members of Congress they
might find a few leaks, that if stopped,
would prevent a portion of the losses com-
plained of.
When the government attempts to carry
free the Shousands of tons of documents
and departmental reports, all the crazy
speeches delivered by Senators or Congress.
men, and in addition permit Republican
committees to staff lianked envelopes with
all kinds of political rot and nonsense as it
did during the recent campaign, and then
pay the railroads exorbitant prices for
transporting this trash, it is not to be won-
dered at that the deficiency increases and
that the shortage is hecoming frightful.
It is upon the weight basis that railroads
are paid for carrying the mails. A single
department report with its heavy wrapper,
will weigh as much as a thousand letters
paying two cents each. The report costs
just as much per pound to carry as does
the letter. It pays nothing.
tle use, and less interest to the public gen-
erally. The few libraries that treasure
them enough to give them shelf room, and
It is of lig. | Words,
themselves in the dry and generally unre-
liable details that most of them contain,
counld easily afford to pay the thirty-five or
forty cent charges that express companies
would demand for delivering them.
It is all rights that Senators and Congress-
men should have she right to frank their
letters and all the correspondence they are
obliged to maintain with sheir constituents,
but when it comes to baving free use of
the mails to send out any old shing they
can lay bands on, or to distribute broad-
cast and without limit the pointless, usé-
less, and often uotrathbful speeches they
impose upon the public, there ought to be
a halt called.
The sooner this is done the soover the
deficits now troubling the Department will
disappear.
Where Our Prosperity Came From.
Sarely Secretary of Agriculture WiLsoN
has made an inexcusable blander or an un-
accountable mistake in his report of farm
products for 1908. He gives them as ag-
gregating in valae $7,778,000,000 or $290,-
000,000 dollars worth more than was grown
in 1907, one of the finest crop years this
country was ever blessed with.
It Secretary WILSON'S report is correot
and the plain old farmers by their hard
work and economical habits, added seven
billion, seven hundred and seventy-eight
millions of dollars to the wealth of the
country in a single year what becomes of
the Republican hoast that to that party
belongs the glory for all the prosperity we
have or are enjoying? Is didn’t prepare
the gronnd, it didu’s sow the seed, is didn’t
farnish the sunshive, it didn’t bring the
rain nor did it harvest or market the crops
that added this immense amount of money
to that which our people bad sccumulated.
It simply came to the front and audacious-
ly and vociferously attempts to steal the
oredis for the work that the tariff-saxed,
over-burdened and over-worked farmers
bad done.
How little of glory is due the Republi.
can party for any prosperity there may be
in the conntry, can be better understood
when one remembers that while others
prod uced, that party distribated.
It made aud enforced the laws of the
country. Under these opportunities were
offered certain interests, and certain com-
hinations, to so manipulate and manage
the distribution of the wealth produced,
that millions go into the pockets of the
favored lew, while the many eke ont only
a scanty living and whole armies of men
are without either employment or bread.
With barnes crammed to the rafters; with
oribs and gravaries bursting with everything
that man can eat or wear, or use or need,
in plenty, what a commentary the condition
o! the hondreds of thousands of unem-
ployed and unfed laboring men now among
us is upon the policy and control of the
Republican party.
A party that can bring such misery and
want and distitation in the midst of she
plenty that the good Lord and the labor of
the farmer has blessed us with, should have
little to say about any prosperity other
than shat which the few millions it has
made enjoys.
Roosevelt Camgnt Again.
President ROOSEVELT has been adding
to the membership of the Auaniasclub
with a good deal of freedom and a vast
amount of recklessness, recently. The
editor of the New York World and the ed-
itor of the Indianapolis News are among his
latest list of liars because they have asked
for information as to what became of the
money which the government paid for the
Panama canal. The intimation that a
brother-in-law of the President and a
brother of the President-elect got chunks
of the loot bas made the President sensitive
on the subject and when it is brought to
his attention he loses his temper.
The matter of fact is that the report of
the connection of the President's brother.
in-law and the President-elect’s brother
with this most ocollossal of al! grafting
operations seemed pretty well established
and there is a good deal of reason to believe
that their connection wiih the operation
was the principal reason why the Pavama
route was chosen instead of the Nicarauga
route which bad been recommended by the
government engineers. ROOSEVELT may
bave received no share of the loos, but it
was divided among his favorites and like
PENNYPACKER in the capitol graft opera-
tions in this State, he was satisfied with
that.
In touching upon the sabject in a letter
made public she other President
RoosevELT falsified in various particulars.
He «aid that no pars of the purchase money
bad been paid to an American citizen.
There is abundance of sworn testimony to
prove thas all of it was paid to J. PIER-
POINT MoRrGAN & Co., who were acting for
‘a syndicate of which WiLniam NeLson
CROMWELL was the head and in which
. ln
President ROOSEVELT has again
written himself down as a malicious and
malignant liar as will be by
congressional investigation which is now
being demanded by the Democrats in Con-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL U
SELLErONIE, DA, DECEMBER 18. 1008,
The President has at last created an
issue with Congress which that body can-
not ignore or overlook. In his anoual
message be said: ‘‘Last year an amend-
ment was incorporated in the measure
providing for the secret service which pro-
vided that there should be no detail from
the secret service and no transfer shere-
from. It isnot too much to say thas this
amendment bas been of benefit only and
could be of benefit only so the criminal
classes. If deliberately introduced for the
purpose of diminishing the effectiveness of
war against crime it could not bave been
better devised to this end. In another
paragraph he added: “In its perfect form
the restriction operates only to the advan-
tage of the oriminal, of the wrongdoer.
The chief argument in favor of the provis-
ion was that the Congressmen did not
themselves wish to be investigated by se-
oret service men. * * * On my belie!
we should be given ample means to prose.
oute them, (the criminals) if found in the
legislative branch. Bat if this is not con-
sidered desirable a special exception conld
be made in she law prohibiting she use of
the secret service force in investigating
Members of Congress.’
These statements are susceptible of only
one interpretation. They involved a
blanket indictment of the whole member-
ship of Congress as criminals. They com-
prise a wholesale acousation of venality
against the entire membership. Nor is it
an accideotal arraigomens. There is no
“slip of the tounge’ element in it. Isis
deliberate, wanton, malicious. This evil.
minded man conceived the notion that as
it was his last annnal message he would
take advantage of the opportunity it afford-
ed to cast an aspersion on a body that dar-
ing at least two sessions had revealed the
temerity to oppose some of his schemes.
He knew it was malignant slander. He
realized that it was a criminal libel. But
in his malicions heart he had fostered the
cowardly impulse to get revenge and im-
agined that the murderous thrust would
escape unnoticed until after his term of
fies haa expired, and consequently tae
nitation bad rou, and like a moral rep-
robate he sneekingly struck the blow.
was even more detestable than his venomone
attack upon a woman as in the case of Mrs.
BELLAMY STORER. But it was not worse
than might be expected of a man who will
first enlist the confidence of a woman and
then betray her.
When he was discovered in his dastard
act he undertook to bully himself out of
the disgraceful situation. He sent for
Speaker CANNON aud threatened thas if
the contemplated action was pursued he
would expose some of the delinquencies of
Congressmen. Possibly there are some
vulnerable men in a body of so great a
number who can be intimidated into con-
doning such an offense against she
American Congress and American people.
It is even probable that there are some
Members of the House of Representatives
who can be bribed with presidential favors
and official patronage to bear this insult.
But we shall not believe for the present, at
least, that a majority of the Congressmen
are so destitute of self-respect and the
other elements of decenoy, that they will
permit this outrage against themselves and
the people they represent to go nnrebuked.
BELLAMY STORER permitted his wile to be
insulted. HARRIMAN and others allowed
themselves to be slandered. Bat iney rep-
resented only themselves and their pol-
troonery is their own affair. Bat the hon-
or of the American people is involved in
this case and they will insist on just pun-
ishment for an atrocious outrage.
More Official Figures.
Its only within she past week that suffi.
cient official returns of the recent presi-
dential election have heen filed to allow of
aoything like a correct approximation of
the total vote cast for the different candi-
dates. The New York Times has taken the
trouble to gather up the data and although
the official vote from a few of the States is
not yet accessible, those will not change or
vary totals as now given. The figures
shown are as follows :
Taft, B.cesrcorcssunmeinsnsssninsnandt; 50,088
De re oL500
ro every
When compared with former eleotions,
the Republicans show a gain of 457,765,
over that of 1900, and a gain of but 36,102,
over four years ago. The Democratic gain
is 92 587 over the election of 1900 and
1,372,729, over that of 1904. The Socialist
vote is 782 less than in 1894, and the Pro-
hibition vote 30,522 less than four years
ago.
He must be a very pessimistic Democrat
who can find any discouragement in these
figures.
~The annual! meeting of the Young
other | Meu’s Christian Association for the election
of direotors will be held as the Y. M. C. A.
building, this (Friday) evening at 7.30
o'clock. A meeting of the Board of Direo-
tore will also be held this evening to con
the fewer individuals who can interest
greas,
sider special business,
Is | P®
NO. 50.
Grafters Again Frustrated.
From the Altoona Times.
The hope that those who illegally profis-
ed through she construction of the state
pelled to expiate their
offenses bebind prison bars gains strength
by the decision of the Dauphin county
court, which denies motions fora new
srial made by the attorneys for Contractor
John H. Sanderson, former Auditor Gener-
al William B. Soyder, and former State
Treasurer William L. Mathues, and former
Superintendens of Pablic Grounds and
Boildings James M. Shumaker.
In truth, many persons have long since
Yespairad of anything coming ous of the
® prosecutions. The defendants are
influential and have powerfal supporters.
As long as they are allowed their liberty
there is little danger that they will divaige
the secrets thas are locked in their breasts.
There is a suspicion shat there is more in
shis great scandal than bas yet’appeared on
the surface, aod the only ohance that it
will ever be made known is shat some of the
tools and accomplices who are under indios-
ment will turn state's evidence t0 save
themselves.
Judge Kunkle rules that there is noth-
ing in the multitudinoas reasons presented
by the defendants to warrant the granting
of a new trial. The latter, however, have
declared their intention to carry their cases
to the appellate court, and there is no tell-
ing just how they'will be definitely deter-
mined. According to the law and she
evidence, is is to be hoped, not so much
TE fheiog de
gailty es y known to 5
for the chance that holds ous thas the real
scoundrels will be disclosed.
Tqe amount of money stolen at Harris-
burg wae entirely too great to go into a few
bands. The old Quay polioy of *‘addition,
division and silence’ is as greatly honored
by the conspirators as it ever was, and
thoee in the plot will not disgorge their
Suftie unless some unusual pressure is ap-
plied.
The imprisonment of the grafters wouid
have a moral effeos, without doubs ;
bat it might be productive of something
tangible in the way of revealing the arch-
conspirators, who have believed to have
been prominent state politicians.
Taft's Inauguration.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Mr. Roosevelt gave a startling exhibition
of monarohial tendencies whe 1 be decided
that Mr. Taft ehonld sucoeed to the Wash-
ington throue and then used the great
out his ediot. He therefore at Tamny
fied in the ions be is making to
¢ his successor in office. His diotatorial
approved by the people and his 1
inaogural program should be i ope a
the most ex-
pensive inauguration in the history of this
country. Immeuse detachments from the
army aod pavy are to form the great
rade. Gold epaulettes are to glitter as th
never gli before in the national -
tal. Ibis to be distinotly a military af-
fair—and nothing cheap and gaudy at that.
The sitaphioisy attending she inauguration
of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln is to
bave no place in the seremonies attending
0 Mauticn of Tels foto offiot. lb is to be
an on of pomp endor cal-
culated to meke the kings of Europe turn
green witb envy. The cost of is all is not
to be considered.
And why not ? Is nos the imperial Teddy
still as the helm ? Is not Taft the heir to
the throne and is not Taft quite as much an
imperial personage as monarchial Roose-
velt? Youn have voted for the imperial os-
tentation that Teddy has booked for his
heir. You may not like it, but that is
neither here nor there. you approve
imperial adventure at the polls you must
accept a greater show of it at the seat of
power. And you are going to get it in an
allopathic dese in Washington March 4
nexs.
Hail to the new king.
Without Excuse.
From the Springfield Republican.
It is difficult to find any excuse for the
president’s ugliness in insinuating that
congress’s dislike of baving the criminals
of its membership shadowed by secret
service men was the cause of limitations
apon the employment of the force
y the executive department. Any one
familiar with the question uoderstands
that congress’s motives were mach broader
and much more justifiable than the -
dent concedes. The previous use the
secret service had passed lawful bouuds by
far, and the corps was rapidly developing
a by-product of espionage, in the interests
of the executive, from which even the
legislativejdepartment was not wholly free.
The question of the dimensions of a federal
#py system should be seriously considered,
and if Mr. Roosevelt's remarks foroe fresh
attention to the matter his statement in
the message may be passed over as relative-
ly apimportant.
An Ancient Scourge.
From the Hartford Times.
The foot aod month disease, of which
we are just now hearing too much thas ie
disagreeable, has been a malady with a
history of not less than 2000 years, and in-
deed, is identified by some writers as the
auvcient ‘‘murrian.” Iu the Seventeeth
and teenth Centuries it prevailed ex-
hon os on i Ee, aud
ahout t u 4
was soon widely diffused. Two years later
it came to this country from Cauvada, bat
wasstamped out. Iie scientific name is
iy is , She 3¢ Seuss cattle,
t is not only con am
bat is transmissible so other domestic
animals. One attack does not preclude
Stbare, although it is not always a fatal
——A vaudeville and moving piotare
entertainment was given at she Soeniv
theatre last night under the auspices of the
Bellelonte Lodge of Elke for the benefit of
the worthy poor of the town. Over one
bundred dollars were realized.
Spawls from the Keystone.
~The tie preserving plant which the
Pennsylvania Railroad company is installing
at Mount Union is being equipped to treat
from 1,500 to 2,000 ties daily.
~Considerable quantities of asbestos have
been found near Oxford, Chester county,
and it is likely that next spring extensive
operations will be made for mining it.
—Citizens of Pbilipsburg are urging a
Greater Philipsburg by extending the bor-
ough lines so as to take in South Philipe-
burg, Point Lookout, Cold Stream, North
Philipsburg and Chester Hill.
—Last Friday a cow belonging to Abram
A. Guss, of Decatur township, Mifflin coun-
ty, broke the ordinary record by giving
birth to three calves. One of the calves died,
but the other two are alive and promising.
—8State Game Commissioner Kalbfus says
that be will urge the legislature to increase
the act to pay bounties on noxious animals
from $50,000 to $100.000 for 1909 and 1910.
He says the law has worked well in many
instances.
—Spurious nickles have made their ap-
pearance in nearby counties in large num-
bers. The coins are said to be a good coun-
terfeit, although somewhst lighter than the
genuine. They are cansing the moving pie-
ture men to be on the lookout.
—The Geiser Manufacturing company, of
Waynesboro, hes decided to go into the man-
ufacture on a large scale of gasolene traction
engines and will place this line of work in
its shops at Greencastle, which will require
an increase of workmen there.
—The Geiser Manufacturing company, of
Waynesboro, Franklia county, is at present
preparing for shipment to Mexico, five of its
large plough rigs, each including a thirty-
horse power traction engine to pull the
plough which has eight large shares.
—Mrs, Margaret Casselberry celebrated
her 1¢20d birthday anniversary on Sunday
at her home with her daughter, Mrs. Emma
M. Phipps, in Norristown, surrounded by
her ehildren, grandchildren, great-grand-
children and great great-grandchildren,
—An unknown donor has made provision
for from fifty to one hundred Christmas din-
ners for the poor of Williamsport. The din-
ners will include turkey aud ail the accesso~
ries and will be distributed in baskets on
the day before Christmas by City Missionary
T. P. 8. Wilson.
—Mrs. W. A Stone, wife of a prominent
banker and cosl operator of Uniontown,
Fayette county, bas been missing from her
home since Tuesday ; the same day Emery
Martin, a merchant of Hapwood, disappear-
ed leaving a wife. Stone offers $2,500 for the
capture of his wife.
~The McLaughlin Iron and Steel conipa-
ny of Pittsburg, has purchased the plant of
the Westmoreland Steel company, in South
Greensburg, which has been idle for two
years, and will at once erect two mills, one
for the manufacture of railroad spikes and
the other for the manufacture of a new pat
ented steel rail. Several hundred men will
be given employment.
—One of the pipes of the Standard oil pipe
line, which passes through Perry county, re.
cently burst at a point near Landisburg, and
it is estimated that about twelve hundred
barrels of oil flowed out before the oil could
be stopped. The oil was thrown up to a
Pa- | great height and it is said that an acre of
ground was saturated with it and will be
rendered unfit for agricultural purposes.
—A jury in the Cambria county court h as
awarded Joseph Brown $2,000 damages
against the Pennsylvi.nia Railroad for in-
jury done to his farm near Summerhill by a
change in the railroad line. Immediately
following this verdict there was taken up
the case in which Charles Crum, administra,
tor for Sylvester Crum, sues for $10.000 from
the railroad for damage to the Crum farm.
—A. L. Barnes, representing the Dibble
Spoke company of Penn Yan, N. Y., recent=
ly completed negotiations for the purchase of
a tract of land near Oval, covered with about
80,000 feet of hickory timber of the second
growth. The trees range in diameter from
eight to eighteen inches. They will be
sawed into lengths aud shipped to Penn Yan,
where the lumber will be used in making
spokes,
—Patrick Donahue, of Bedford, has uncov-
ered a vein of ore that is thirty-four inches
thick on his land in what is known as the
Narrows, east of Bedford. A tunnel was
driven into the base of Evitt's mountain
with the above result. The vein will be de-
veloped in order to see just how good it is
and if it turns out well mining operations
will be started. The ore is said to be 60 per
cent. pure.
—On Thursday night burglars entered the
residence of Rev. J. B. Brenneman, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church in Lock Ha-
ven, and thoroughly ransacked the lower
rooms, scattering about the contents of draw-
ers, but the only thing missing was some
small change, less than one dollar in amount.
The rear kitchen door was unlocked and it
is believed that they eutered by a kitchen
window that had not been locked and then
unlocked the door on the inside.
—Mrs. Rebecca Parker, of Jersey Shore,
celebrated her 90th hirthday anniversary on
Saturday in the enjoyment of good health
and with body and mind well preserved.
Mrs. Parker'is the widow of Professor A. T.
Parker, who was for a number of years prin-
cipal of the Jersey Shore schools, and was a
member of the constitutional convention in
1872. She is a great-granddaughter of John
Morton, one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. A number of relatives in
Beliefoute and Centre county were in at-
tendance.
~The State live stoek sanitary board this
week issued a warning to all farmers to be-
ware of men representing themselves to be
agents of the State and charging for exam-
ination of eattle under pretense of searching
for foot and mouth disease. They are also
warned that the State has sanctioned no re.
duction of price for calves because of the
presence of the disease. Both complaints
came from York county and in one instance
farmers were victimized by sharpers who in
buying calves stated that an official recom
mendation bad been issued that $1 be de-
ducted from prices because of prevalence of
the disease.