evens cn:
—The ground hog seems to have a case
of intermistens fever.
—The Hon. T. R. tells the farmers to be
careful to water their stock, bus the same
rule does nos apply to corporations.
—An epidemio of sore eyes is prevalent
in some parts of the country. Caused, of
course, by strains in looking for that bus-
iness boom.
—Governor STUART is going to try to
stop lobbying in the legislative balls as
Harrisburg. A splendid idea, but will he
be able todo is.
~The President doesa’t mince words in
talking about the Senators so the Senators
can scarcely feel called upon to do otler-
wise in talking abous him.
—The King and Queen of England are
on a visit to the Emperor and Empress of
Germany. The kow-towing and salaming
in Berlin will probably be beyond the
imagination of we people who bave con-
signed one President to the Anavias club
and bail the other as *'Big BILL.”
~The people inthe neighborhood of
Heola Paik olaim so have eeen the
Jersey flying devil in that section a few
days ago, and we are willing to grant them
all the distinction they can get out of the
winged Satanios visit, as there is enough of
the old time Niok around Bellefonte to
keep is hos enough for us.
~Thank Heaven, girls, for Mr. AILMAN,
of Juniata county ; as solely through his
oratorical efforts on Wednesday the bill ro
inoresse the marriage license fee from fifty
cents to two dollars was defeated. Mr.
AILMAN'S most effective argument was
that he was married once himsell and that
filty cents was all the license was worth.
—The captain of the Georgia has been
relieved of command of his boat and ie on
the road home to face a possible dismissal
from the service for being drunk on duty.
Too bad, just when he was on the last leg
of that wonderful cruise around the world.
Bat probably it was beoause it was the last
leg that he los his balance the more easily.
—Philadelpbia’s good citizens gag at
Salome this week while next week they
will vote all the roosters, who make the
corruption in that city, right back into
office. They would stand for a Sam
SALTER stealing the head of WiLniam
PENN, but when it comes to SALOME —
It is too awfal for such a goody-goody(?)
place to sanction.
~It would seem that Senator KNOX ie
ineligible for the office of Seoretary of
State. That is, if the constitution is not
to be violated. Of course if he were to be
President ROCSEVELY'S Seoretary the little
matter of a fractured constitution would
Bot be serions. We await with interest
Mr. TAFT'S view of the situation. [t may
throw an interesting side light on the way
his administration may be expected to re-
gard the basis upon which our government
stands.
~The illness of the veteran actor DEN-
MAN THOMPSON at his home at West
Swanzey, New Hampshire, has filled his
friends with fear lest it prove the last of
the quaint original character in *‘The Old
Homestead.” Mr. THOMPSON bas made
an enviable name for himself on the stage
and little was is thought by those who
koew him as a bar keeper in the old Penn-
sylvania house in Bellefonte years ago, thas
some time he would become the most
noted actor in his particular line on the
American stage.
—It will doubtless be a matter of much
surprise to the tax payers of Bellefonte to
know that if all she tax duplicates were
paid in fail to this date the horough
woanld not have more than ten thousand
dollars in hand. The impression is almost
general that sums ranging from twenty to
thirty thousand dollars are dae from the
collector but such is not the foase. In fact
Mr. JOHNSTON has settled his 1903 04 and
05 duplicates in nll. The 1906 avd 07
duplicates could be settled in full to-day if
is were not for legal complications invols-
ing the only two properties against which
the taxes for those years have not been
settled. So the only obligations outstand-
ing that the tax collector really has are for
the 1908 taxes and as they are all paid over
down to abous seventy-five hundred dol-
lars is speaks very well for the tax collect-
or, as well as the tax payers.
—One of the best laws that we have seen
proposed for passage by our Legislatare in
years is the oue introduced last week af-
feoting Judges on the common pleas and
orphan’s court benches throughout the
State. It is should be enacted into law no
Judge would be able to draw his pay
unless the warrant be accompanied with a
sworn statement to the effect that no oases
remain unsettled on his docket for a longer
period than sixty days prior to the dase of
the warrant. If any cases remain unsettled
for a longer period than that no pay can be
drawn unless a certificate signed by the at-
torneys and litigants on both sides of the
case, stating thas the delay has been sano-
tioned by them, accompanies the warrant.
Sach an act ought to be passed, because it
often happens that the delays of cases in
court work greater hardships shan the ends
of justice compensate for. Judges and law-
yers frequently seem indifferent to she ne-
cessities of litigants and uee their own
sweet time in the trial of cases. Such a law
a8 the one proposed would put an end to
dilatory tactios everywhere and would be
hailed with delight by laymen.
It is wot 40 be wondered at shat those
who give attention to such matters, are
feeling more convinced every day that an
early retarn to the oppressive war time
taxes, when every thing we used, from a
box of matohes to a bed-room sais, was or-
namented with a government sax-stamp,
will be a necessity, unless a general change
in methods, in administration and in the
purposes of she Federal government is
made very quickly.
A steady outlay of over two and one-
balf million of dollars each day of the year,
—($1,008,000,000 anuually)—is a matter
thas should cause those who are taxed to
raise this amount to sit up and take notice.
And then when it is koown shat of this
enormous sum, seventy per cent., or almost
three-fourths of the entire amount, is going
to pay for what war has dooe or is going to
do, and to still further enlarge the navy
aod increase the army thus fastening this
vast expenditure upon us for all time, avd
making excuses and reasons for still in-
oreasiog it, the necessity for some protest
from the people is the more imperative and
necessary.
And even with this two and a ball mil-
lion per day of our outlay, the govern.
meut expenditures for 1908 exceeded ite
income over §$143,000,000, and for 1909 the
estimated shortage is placed at $15,000,
000 per month or a total deficit for the year
of $180,000,000.
Is is for those who must make up this
enormous sum-—and every man, woman
and child in the country, who wears
clothes, eats foud or buys any of the neces-
sities of lite, pays his proportion of is in
the tariff taxes thas are charged up against
everything he must bave—shat should
awaken to the enormity of the wrong that
is being done them through the extrava-
gance and profligacy of those in power.
Itis bus few who know thas *‘a single
broadside from the 12-inch guns of the
new 26,000-ton battleships which Congress
is expected to authorize will cost some $20,-
000. Each time a single gun is fired is will
send forth a shot weighing 850 pounds, and
costing $310. Each shot requires 250
pounds of powerful powder, which
oosts $200, making $510 in all. Bas even
this is not she total expense of firing one of
these big guns. Each of them costs $65,-
000, and when one hundred shots have
been fired through oue of them is is about
ready for permauent retirement. This
means $650 per shot to be charged to de-
preciation. Therefore, without counting
the labor required for firing one of these
gans, the total cost of firing it reaches the
tremendous total of $1,160 per shot.”
Would you believe it? And yet these
are the official figures showing woy
the expense of the navy has grown to such
an enormous amount. Aod with these fig-
ures staring the administration in the face,
and with a deficiency of $15,000,000 a
month being charged up to the tax acconus
of the people, a fleet of sixteen vessels, car.
ryiog anywhere from sixteen to thirty guns
each, has heen sent around she world, to
burn up coal, salute royalty' and show 40
all countries what reckless and consnm-
mate asses we can make of ourselves when
it comes to a master of spending mouey.
Is is not time for the masses to awaken
to the condition that is upon shew ? 2Con-.
gress can put a check to the profligacy
thas has brought aboat the state of affairs
now existing, and the people cau put a
stop to the political existence of the Mem-
ber of Congress who fails to do his daty
under the circumstances.
Bus will they ?
Or do they prefer still higher taxes and
harder times ?
Should Either Shut Up or Show Up.
Evidently the Members of the Legisia-
tare have little faith in the department
stories of such a shortage in the revenues as
will necessitate the serious paring down of
many of the appropriations pgoposed for
charitable and educational purposes within
the State.
Already two propositions to draw from
the limited funds, now]said to be at
the disposal of the Treasury, despite
the reports of an insofficient amount
to meet the demands for public charity,
have been presented and may proba.
bly be enacted into law. The oue is
for a thirty thousand dollar appropriation
to cover the expenses of Governor STUART,
the heads of departments and a few of the
favored military companies of the State on
a trip to Washington to participate in the
inauguration of President TAFT. The
other is to appropriate four thonsaud dol-
lars to furnish the Senators and Members
a free frolic to the same place on the same
occasion,
Ot course, the pooriy(?) paid heads of the
departments at Harrisburg and the over-
worked (?) Senators and Members should,
and doubtless will, be cared for whether
the Treasury is short or not—and without
reference to the effet the proposed junket
may bave on the charities that can he
meted out to the State’s unfortunates. But
we submis, in all sarnestness, that the
_BELLEFO
proper thing for those who are in a posi-
tion to know the exaos condition of the
State’s finances, to do, is to either shut up
aboat the shortage or speak out boldly and
in time agaioes the proposed inaugural raid
upon the funds we do have,
Monopoly's Greatest Triumph.
The merger of the Steel trust and the
Teonesee Coal & Iron company was easily
the greatest victory which monopoly bas
achieved in this country from the begin.
ning of the governments. The Tennessee
Coal & Iron company, with a capitalization
of only $30,000,000, was vastly greater in
resources than the Steel trust. If the com-
bination which was contemplated with the
Republic Steel company had heen com-
pleted the power of the Steel trust wonld
have been completely broken. Nobody
understood this fact better, or even quite
as well, as the managers of she Steel trust,
For that reason they entered intoa oon-
spiraoy to prevent that result and whether
President ROOSEVELT knew it or nos, they
used him and his great office to further
thei: purposes and make their conspiracy
suocesfal.
In the light of recent revelations it is not
extravagans speech to say that the panic of
1907 was organized to prevent she consoli_
dation of the Tennesse Coal & Iron com.
pany and the Republic Steel company.
Large sums of money were needed to cone
summate that enterprise and shares of the
companies were being used as collateral
security to procure the money. About
October, 1907,she Wall street manipulators,
under the direction of J. PIERPONT MoR-
GAN, created a currency famine and black:
listed the shares of the Tennesse Coal &
Iron company. Asa consequence of this
loans made upon that security were called
and the owners of them were compelled to
lignidate. But foods were inaccessible
aod they were in despair. As thie stage of
the game the proposition was made that
the Tennesse Coal & Iron company he sold
to the Steel trast. It meant a vast sacrifice
to the owners of the southern property but
they bad no alternative. They were oblig-
ed $0 acquiesoe or go into bavkruptoy.
When this crime had been practically
perpetrated, however, it was discovered |
shat the laws could intervene to prevent
the falfilimens of the conspiracy. Then
Judge GARY and HENRY C. FRICK went
to Washiogton to see the President. It
was on the eve of a presidential contest in
which RoosevRLT had mach interest and
large sams of mouey would be needed
to carry on the campaign. The President
knew that the insurance companies could
not be depended upon as they had been in
previons campaigns. He koew aleo that an
acate panic would be almost certain to de-
feat bis party and that Wall street could
stop or prolong the panic. With these
thoughts in mind he agreed shat the gov-
ernment woald not intervene to prevent
the merger and thus gave not only his
sanction bus his assistance to the violation
of the law and the consummation of the
conspiracy.
Tells Its Own Story.
It is but a little over a year since DAVID
H. LANE, of Philadelphia, in about the
only public speech we have ever known
him to attempt to make said : “As for this
talk about civic righteousness it is about
time it was stopped.” Philadelphia was
then in the throes of a fighs for the enforce-
mens of the law, that the evils that were
stalking over that city unmolested might
be abridged ; that the white slave business
that was brazenly carried oo and flourish
ing without fear of molestation or danger of
punishment, might be blotted out ; a fight
between the moral and the immoral, be-
tween decency and indecency, between civia
righteousness and unholy debauchery. And
in thas fight, in that entire city, she dive
aud the den keeper, the speak easy and the
debaucher, she brothel and the bum, bad
no warmer defender or more open apologist
than DAvip H. LANE. It was daring that
contest that be uttered she words above
quoted.
Oo Saturday evening last shis same ex-
odse, of municipal debauchery, this same
opponent of civie righteousness was given a
diner and at is, 500 of Philadelphia's
“‘best citizens,’ we are toid, presented them.
selves and took part in honoring this man.
Is it strange that Philadelphia is weighted
down with a reputation that blights ite
business, disgraces its citizenship and makes
it a stench among the municipalities of the
coantry ? Is it any wonder thas when other
cities become #0 rotten and depraved that
words fail to fully express the depths to
whieh they have been forced, that sheir
condition is always compared to that of
Philadelphia ?
Think of it. Five hundred of thas city’s
best citizens doing honor to this defender of
immorality, this sneerer at civio righteons-
ness; this apologiss for indecency; this pro-
teotor of the brute whose basiness it is to
debauch younggirls ! And after this ex-
hibition of the moral obliquity of ite best
oitizens can there be any doubt as to ‘what
is wrong with Philadelphia?”
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
, PA, FEBRUARY 12, 1909.
A Stirring Up When Stirring Up Seems
Necessary.
Oue of the best and most sensible prop-
ositious in tbe way of suggested legisla.
tioo, that we have seen since she opening
of the present session of the Legislatare, is
a bill presented by Representative Scots, of
Philadelphia, to require each judge of the
several courts within the Sate to make
affidavit, when presenting his monthly req-
uisition for salary, that no oase held by
him for decision has been in his bands for a
period exceeding sixty days without the
consent of the parties interested and their
counsel.
The passage of this bill wonld clean up
the court dockets in the different counties
of the State in little or no time.
It would give litigants the ohance of
obtaining prompt decisions, and would do
what no other power seems able to do or
accomplish, compel oar judges to attend to
the duties they were elected to perform
first aud their personal or outside matters
afterwards,
The fact is thas she business of the courts
of Pennsylvania, with bat few exceptions,
is farther back aud more tardy in being
determined’ than in any other State of the
Union, notwithstanding the fact that we
have more judges in proportion to our pop-
ulation thao any other Commonwealth,
And the seemingly strange thing about
these truths is thas the greatest complains
of the failure of prompt action, on the pars
of the judges and of delays in secaring the
decisions of the courts, comes from the
counties in which the jodges bave the
least to do.
When it is known thas, in the 56 judi-
cial distriots into which this State is divid-
ed, we have 116 jndges and that in 38 of
these 56 districts less than 50 days of actual
court are held during the year, it will be
wondered why the business in any of them
should be back and why cases are not
taken up and disposed of at once.
It may be in this as in other cases where
there is little to do, and plenty of time to
do it in, the disposition to do anything
grows lessand we fall into the habit of
delaying those things which must be done
until the very last moment. Orit may be
jodges wot baving enough of
Judicial business to require all their time,
Ro into other matters that fially demand
their attention to such an extent that their
work as judges is crowded back in order
thas their personal matters may have the
attention required.
Whatever may be the cause, bowever,
there is no excuse for delay in judicial
decisions in the districts we bave referred
to and but little in the others, and if the
passage of Mr. Scorr's bill will aid in
righting the wrongs shat the people are
sofferivg throogh jndicial indifference,
carelessness and ioattention to duties de-
volving upon our judges, it will be a
measare that will mees the approbation of
every citizen of she State and should be
enacted into a law at once.
Is There a Stamp Tax Coming?
With a deficit of fifteen millions in the
government revenues for the first month of
1909, the prediction that we will have to
go baok to the odious stamp taxes of the
days of the Spanish war, is founded on
more than a probability, Last year the
deficit amounted to over one hundred mil-
lions. January's showing, if the other
months in the year do as well in running
behind, would indicate a shortage for this
year of almost double thas of last, and a
condition of affairs that shonld make think-
ing people demand a halt in the unneces-
sary expenditares and flagrant extrava-
gance of the party in power.
To think of getting back to the days
when the principal labor of one lot of peo-
ple was to lick stamps for the benefit of the
government, and the great hardship of
everybody else to earn money to pay for
them, is certainly anything but a pleasant
prospect for the American people. Bat is
bas come to a point where expenditures
muss be lessened or the stamp business re-
sorted to. [tie up to that now.
Decreasing revenues and inoreasing ex-
penditares can have but one ending, and
that is—debs and taxation.
And these, uader the reckless rule of a
President with a swelled head, and a Re-
publican Congress without conscience are
vow upon us. How these conditions are
going to be met, is for those who have
brought them about, and have the power
to ohange them to say. There is no inti. |
mation that it will be, as it could be done,
by economizing in the various departments
where economy could be practiced withont
any injury to the public service ; nor ie
there any promise that the enormous out.
lays that have been going on for years, to
build up a navy and an army for the sole
purpose of glorying over the fact that even
the monarchies of the old world do not
equal ns in these lines, are to be diminish-
ed in the least.
And is is doubtful if the people are not
too bigoted to see or too prejudiced, politio-
ally, to heed the danger and the conditions
thas confront them.
Possibly a stamp tax will open their
eyes.
From the San Francisco Star.
Preisidens Roosevelt has no sort of
authority over the California legislature.
Be Cea anyor of this:
nor as | ve © our
state governments, and he has no business
to interfere with our legisiatore or our
state government unless there is violation
of the lawe of the country.
The legislature of Cal ia is avder no
obligations to yield to the demands of the
president of she United States, for he has
no to make a demand of is. He de-
liberately slapped our state in the face
when he nrged cougress to enact a law
giving to Japanese the right of naturaliza-
tion. It was a deliberate insult to us,
because he knew she feeling in California
against Orientals, against all Asiation * * *
Is is very evident shas unless Califor-
oians stand op for their rights, those
rights will pos he respected either in
Washington or in Tokio. If we don't
make the necessary disturbance %0 proteot
our rights, po ene else will make the dis-
turbance.
It is not becanse we want trouble that
we insist upon Asiatic exclusion, but be-
cause we don’s want trouble. It is nos be.
cause we want a race war, bus we
don’t want a race war shat we ate making
the present distarbance.
It is not that we have raised the race
vestion, and made it acute ; bat it was
resident Roosevelt, who heedlessly and
loolishly insisted upon
Japanese, and belabored Californians with
abuse because they wished to be rid of a
race question.
What sinister influence in behind all this
hullabaloo in Washi ? The Southern
Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads, and the
other Niuscontinental toads, which ae
now employing thousands apanese in
various capacities on their lines as far as
Kansas ? Is President Roosevelt behind a
scheme of the railroads to bave at hand all
the Asiatio laborers they wans? And
doesn’t he know that thousands of Ameri-
Sup ae tramping because they can’t find
wor!
A Proper Veto.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
ob Tt, EE
Tinian goog to be iv the work,
;
without adequate examination, even though
the appointments are required to be non-
We know all about non- ip in
in such matters, and thas all we get
itis a tickle-me-and-I’ll-sickle-you seleo-
tion of men who are not fit for the work
and cannot be expeoted to be fit, since the
only qualification they have ever shown
for it is ability to do the dirty political
work that is required from them by she
boss politicians they serve, and who seeks
their payment out of the public treasury
for their service to him.
It does not matter to the country what
politics a censos taker may profess, hut is
does matter to it that he shall be compe.
tent to do his work well, and that be
should do honest work. There are
men in all parties, and when the politicians
offer to make non partisan appointments to
office, we have learned to understand their
reement is wholly selfish and never in
e public interest ; but only made so that
the work of supporting their adherents at
the pablio’s expense may be made easier.
The census has come to he a great grab
game for these men, and the consequence
is that is bas become costly to a degree far
heyond its value, and we do not think that
the country will suffer if the bill to sake
the next oensns shoald die. All the needed
work of the census can be done in a few
day=, and yes it bangs on for years, resuls-
ing in she production of mighty volumes
that produce stale data of little use or
interest.
Too Much Legislation.
From the Washington, (Pa.) Record.
Seven hundred bills have been presented
in the Senate and House so far this session
although the Legislature of 1909 is bas
three weeks old as far as business is con.
cerned. This number is so far ahead of all
previous records up to this time that some
of the members and officers of the two
houses are wondering when the end will be.
Practically none of the department bills
bave come in yet and it is said that some
obliem hte at least a fortnight to
pas iuto ‘
Speaker Cox says that is will soon be
time to put a limit on the presentation of
bills as there will be an enormous mass of
legislation to digest hetween now and the
fifteenth of April. Last session the time
for presentation of bills expired about the
middle of April, leaving the law-makers
Sore foge weeks in which to do their
work.
As in former sessions the House leads in
number of bills pus in, having 482 to ite
oredis, 118 of which were read on the first
night on which bills could be received. The
Senate has 218 as ite total, ninety having
been pot in this week.
The Laud of Lane,
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
After the testimonial dinner to David
Lane, participated in by leaders of she or.
ganization and eminent reformers, why not
another to Sam Salter? ‘‘They also serve”
who only staff ballot boxes and run away
till after the votes have been counted and
a jury bas been fixed.
Each and every one of the distinguished
orators at the testimonial dinner to Dave
Lane forgot to quote the most character
istio public utterance the guest of the even.
ing ever made :—‘*As for this talk of civie
righteousness, drop it I"
~—This isa holiday consequently all
the hanka in town will be closed.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Searlet fever is becoming very prevalent
in Johnstown. Seven new cases were re-
~The total output of coal at Erston mine,
Clearfield county, last Thursday was 2,600
tous, exceeding all previous records.
—FKight puddling furnaces at the Gearge
B. Lessig Iron works, in Pottstown, which
have been idle for over two months, resumed
operations on Monday.
~—Indiana is making an effort to secure a
State armory for its company of the National
Guard. The requirencent is that a suitable
plot of ground be furnisbed without cost to
the State,
—The revival meetings, in the Methodist
Episcopal church in Mount Union have been
closed, after an accession of about sixty mem- -
bers, bringing the membership of the con- -
gregation up to 600.
—Miss Nettie Nunuell, a teacher in the
Wilmerding schools, near Pittsburg, declar-
ing that formaldehyde used to disinfect the
school made her ill, has brought suit against
the school board for $10,000 damages.
~The residents of Pottsville have reason
to bé excited. It has been discovered that
six hundred spurious silver dollars have been
unloaded on that city and the authorities are
busy hunting evidence as to where they came
~The number of inmates committed to the
Huntingdon reformatory during the past
two years is largely in excess of that of any
previous year, that for 1907 was 457 while
that for 1908 was 580. The highest number
confined at any one time was 867 on August
10th, 1908.
—Rev. Dr. Henry Griggs Weston, for over
forty years president of Crozier Theological
Seminary. near Chester, widely known asa
preacher, author, teacher and extensive
traveler, often called the "Grand Old Man”
of the Baptist church died ou Saturday morn-
ing in his 80th year.
~There are a number of cases of searlet
fever in Chambersburg and there are grave
of | fears that the disease may become epidemic.
As a precantion the schools were all closed
on Friday and will all be thoroughly fumi-
gated. There are also a number of cases in
different parts of Franklin county.
—Work at the coke ovens about Mount
Pleasant, Westmoreland county, was quite
lively last week. Late on Monday evening
one hundred ovens were started at Stand-
ard, fifty on Tuesday and fifty on Wednes-
duy. One hundred were also ordered to be
fired on Thursday at Alice mine and forty at
Central.
—Caught, the police declare in the act of
touching a match to the fuse that was to
blow open the safe in the dry goods store of
Fleshed and Reynolds,in Lewistown, Thurs-
day night, Albert Gardner, an employee,
and John Maybus, Lewistown, were
arrested at the point of a pistol and lodged
iu the county jail.
~While Rev. C. H. Dunlap, pastor of the
Presbyterian charch at Avalon, a suburb of
Pittsburg, was preaching to his congregation
on Sunday evening on the dangers of laying
‘| up treasures on earth, where thieves break
through and steal, his home was ransacked
and a quantity of silverware, jewelry and
some money taken.
~The city councils of Williamsport are
considering a proposition to placea tax on
passenger railway, electric light, telephone
and telegraph companies, of one dollar per
mile for each mile of wire suspended within
the city limits, in addition to the pole tax of
fifty cents per pole and an increase of the
license for each trolley car from $50 to $75.
—The grading for the connection at Brook-
ville of the Franklin and Clearfield railroad
with the Pennsylvania tracks has been com-
pleted. The Franklin and Clearfield line
will use the Pennsy tracks from Brookville
to Keating, thence to continue over the P.
good | and E. division to a point east of Lock Ha-
ven, where there is a junction with the New
York Central,
~E. E. Stevenson, of Lock Haven, and
two dogs had a most exciting encounter with
a large female bear near the headwaters of
Chatham's ran last Friday afternoon and it
was due to Mr. Stevenson's nerve and un-
erring aim on the second shot, after bruin
had been wounded and was coming after him _
on the run, that the animal dropped and the
battle was won. The slain animal weighed
200 pounds.
—A free distribution of some pills, recom-
mended for various ills, was made in DuBois
on Thursday, by a traveling agent, and asa
result a smali child of C. H. Cadiz got hold
of the sample box thrown into the hallway
of his home. The child swallowed several of
the pills and in a short time became violents
ly ill, and it was for =» time feared it would
die, but the family physician, after working
several hours, got it uver the crisis.
~Whatever the fate of the four men im-
prisoved in the jail at Messina, Italy, atthe
time of the earthquake, who are charged
with the hold-up of Patrick Campbell, a
mine paymaster. of Portage, Pa., in 1904
when Campbell was seriously injured by a
dynumite explosion set off hy the highway.
men and robbed of about $3,000, it is an-
nounced that there will be no further prose-
cations in the case, so far as the authorities
in this State are concerned.
—A case which this week attracted consid-
erable attention in the Indiana county courts
was that of the five children of the noted
gypsy, James Guy, deceased, against the
Penusylvania railroad company, asking ten
thousand dollars damages for the death of
their father who died of injuries sustained
in an accident on the railroad near Blairs-
ville last July. The Guy family are from
Hagerstown, Md., and are well known
throughout all Pennsylvania.
~—S8imon 8. Barr, who was born in Holli-
daysburg in 1840, and who is now a resident
of Altoona, has the distinction of being the
last survivor of the 12 active pall-bearers at
the funeral of Abraham Liucoin. Mr. Barr
served through the Civil war, being wound.
ed twice. While serving in the Veteran
Reserve Corps, Mr. Barr was chosen as one
of the first sergeants who officiated as active
pall-bearers for President Lincoln, each of
the 12 being six feet in height. After the
funeral of President Lincoln, Mr. Barr was
detailed as one of President Johnson's body-
guards and served in that capacity until
December 20th,1865, when he was honorably
discharged from the army,