BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
He weighs three hundred —then some more
Does Tarr, our Pres—i—dent
So when he drop'd in Teooy's chair
Its legs, they must 'a bent,
The screws and glue were fractured so
The chair was safe no more
And Wednesday, when our Brus sat down
He landed on the floor.
~The flittings bave started.
~—Have you made your onion hed yet.
~About three weeks more of peace for
the trout.
—=There is nothing worth while at Oys-
ter Bay now but the oyster and the bay.
—TepDY sailed on Tuesday and noth-
ing in the natare of a phenowena occurred.
That will probably be saved for his home
coming.
—Look out for LiNcOLS CARTER’S
thrilling dramatization of the abduction of
Winnie WHITLA. LINK oughs tofbe on
that job already.
~The nice thing about heing a WHITLA
boy mast be baving a dad who bas ten
thonsand dollars to get you back when
some one steals you away.
—TEDDY will need to keep his guo
cocked and primed all the while in Africa,
for there will be no towers over there to
oatch any C. Q. D. signals.
~A machine for detecting liars bas
been invented, says the Pittsburg Times.
It it is @ success the suspicions of the de.
feated candidate for office shouid be at an
end.
—Ex-president CASTRO, of Venezuela, is
surely ina bad way. He is a very rich
man, bus all of his riches are tied up in
Venezuela and he can’t go back there for
fear of arrest.
~=When Senator GEORGE T. OLIVER was
sworn into office about noon lass Friday he
was literally covered with flowers. ‘‘How
natural be looks'’ would scarcely have
been a remark fitting the occasion.
~Joa x FOSTER once wrote ‘every pleas-
are is acquired at the cost of suffering,’
which leads us to think that JOHN may
have received inspiration for this clever
thought immediately after having had a
tooth pulled.
~The State Legislature is getting down
to business ; thas is, it you call passing
bills at the orack of the whip and not pay-
ing serious heed to what they mean, busi-
ness. Is is business for she bosses, no
doubs, but not for the people.
—Last fall it required votes for TAFT to
revive business. Now wage reduotions are
anid to be the neoessary panacea. The
wage earner who believed the story last
fall has no reason to disbelieve the one of
thie spring. Both are based on the same
authority.
—“Trimmer’’ SANDERSON is reported
as being very ill at his home in New York,
in fact so ill that he does not want to ap-
pear for trial in Harrisburg on April 5th.
With the consequences of that great capitol
gralt staring him in the face it isn’t any
wonder that he is too ill to appear for trial.
—Lieutenant SHACKLETON, of the Eng-
lish navy, is a hero just now. He succeed.
ed in approaching within one bandred and
eleven miles of the south pole. BSoience
will make a great fuss over this achieve.
ment, while the public will wonder what
good would have been accomplished bad
the Lieutenant actually approsohed close
enough to have climbed the polo.
—A friend told us once, after the arrival
of his first child *‘I would not take ten
thousand dollars for this one, but I
wouldn't give ten cents for another.” As
such things usually happen another came
and since the WHITLA kidoapping incident
we bave wondered several times whether
this particular dad wouldn’s bave done the
same as Mr. WHITLA did, even though the
one he woanldu’t have given ten cents for
had been stolen.
—The war between MATT SAVAGE and
JorN SHORT, editors of the two leading
Clearfield papers, has colainated in a
criminal libel suit aud —stravge as it may
seem~—Mr. BRYAN is the oause of it all.
It appears that SAVAGE'S paper charged
SHORT with scalping tickets to Mr. Bry-
AN'S lecture in that place a few weeks ago
and SHORT has had its editor arrested. Id
would be a blessing for the Clearfield De-
mooraoy if this should prove the end of the
long and relentless war these two gentle.
men have been carrying on. While we
trust that this partioular case may be set-
tled to the satisfaction of each of them we
hope when it is concluded they will turn
their batteries on the common foe and not
continue the disastrous polioy of firing
within their own lines.
-Jt is a very grave question as to
whether a law making the penalsy for kid-
naping capital punishment isa wise pro-
vision. Of course everyone will feel that
hanging is none soo good for such offenders,
but the stolen child is the matter of first
bapers have gotten away with their
they are pressed too hard by the offi.
of the law, would not the first impulse
to take the most effective means of re-
the severity of their punishment anyway
80, in our opinion, it would be wiser to
leave the penalty ae it is and take greater
precaution in preventing kidoaping.
No Use in Resisting the Inevitable,
The debate on the PAYXE tariff bill was
opened by Mr. PAYNE on Monday but we
fail to see wherein he enlightened the
country on the subject. He frankly ad-
mitted that the object of the bill is less to
relieve the country of the onerous tax bar.
dens nuder which we are suffering, shan to
maintain the principles of protection, and
shat his bill is essentially a protective
measure. In this he is righs. While is
redaces the rates in a few instances and
puts hides and some kind of ores on
the free list, it makes au average inorease
in the daties of twenty per cent. and
leaves ail the essentials of the poor ou the
taxable list. For example, wool is just as
is was under the DINGLEY schedules and
wool is the staple of the poor iv this lati-
tade. ‘
Bat there is not mach use in the Demo-
orats in Congress making a prolouged fight
against the enactment of the PAYNE bill.
It is a fraud and a humbug, as the Demo-
cratio members of the House Committee on
Ways and Means have clearly indicated.
Bat the Republican machine has deter-
mined thas no Democrat shall make an
amendment and there is no chance of im-
provement. The most experienced steel
manaofactarer in the conntry, Mr. AN-
DREW CARNEGIE, has declared that there
is no necessity for any tariff tax on steel.
But the PAYNE bill puts a heavy tariff tax
on that commodity. It is known to every
one that there is no necessity for a tariff
tax on lumber but the pending bill puts a
tax on all forest products. Bat no amend-
ment correoting these faults will be enter-
tained.
The remedy for these evile is in the con.
gressional election next year. The Re-
publican majority in the present Congress
was maintained by the promise of Mr. TAFT
that in the evens of his election the tariff
would be revised downward. The Repub-
lican platform promised tariff reform bas
is didn's satisly the people for the reason
that it was ambiguous. TAFI's promise
was speoifis, however, and the people ao-
cepted is, not because they had faith in
Tarr but for the reason that they had
some doubts of his opponent. The inci.
dents as the Denver convention, attributed
to Mr, BRYAN, raised a question as to his
integrity, and that encouraged people to
accept Tarr's word. If there bad been
more faith in BRYAN there would bave
been less confidence in TAFT.
But TAFT won because his promise was
accepted and now that it has been betrayed
and apparently with his consent, or at
least with his acquiesoence, the people will
demand a reckoning at the next ocongres-
sional election. Mr. VAN CLEAVE has
said that the present tariff sohedules rob
the wage earners of the country of a mil-
lion dollars every day. With an addition
to the tariff taxes of swensy per cent. the
robbery in fature will amount to a million
and a quarter dollars a day. This outrage
will be resented and unless the signs are
misleading the next Congress will be Demo-
oratic and the iniquities ol the PAYNE
tariff law will then be corrected. The peo-
ple can’t be fooled all the time but there
is no use in trying to stop the present plans
of the majority.
Didn't Begin at Right Place.
Attorney General WICKERSHAM has
already ordered the dismissal of a lot of
suits instituted by his imbeoile predecessor
in office, BONAPARTE, but he hasn’t as yes
struck at the crowning folly of that asinine
individoal. To serve the parposes of
ROOSEVELT BONAPARTE was constautly
barrassing corporations with trifling prose.
outions. Is was never intended that they
gould be brought to trial. BONAPARTE
didn’s know enough law to conduot a suit
for petty larceny before a justice of the
peace. But he was able to institute pro-
ceedings on one ground or another against
this conoern or that aotil he had hundreds
of defendants on the rack.
But most of these oases were the result
of ignorance rather than malice. BoNA-
PARTE imagined that he was fooling the
people in every instance and he was going
into the courts as ROOSEVELT goes hunting
with a brass band and a kodak. They
were conceived in malice. We refer to the
oases against Mr. JOSEPH PULITZER, of the
New York World, and Mr. DELAVAN
SumiTH, of the Indianapolis News, for lese
majesty. These oases were laid on lines
which were intended to subvert she prin-
ciples of the government. The eoheme
was to deprive men of liberty and property
without process of law.
Astorney General WICKERSHAM ought
to have put the seal of his reprobation upon
these suits first. They are absoictely with
ous reason and their presence on the court
calendar is a menace agaivet the country
and a reflection upon she administration.
We firmly believe that Mr. WICKERSHAM
will ultimately thus dispose of them. We
oan’s imagine that he will staltify bim-
sell by even seeming to give sanction to
such proceedings. He is probably waiting
until ROOSEVELT gets out of the country
20 a8 to avoid the boisterous protest of thas
madcap. But that course is unworthy of
his reputation as a lawyer. He ought to
‘act promptly.
Roosevelt's Hunt for Office.
Former President RoosgvELT sailed on
Tuesday to begin his hunt for another eleo-
tion to the Presidency. His enterprise is
scheduled an expedition iu search of big
game in Africa and he himself states that
he is the head of an enterprise of the Smith.
sonian Institute to explore Afrioa for scien-
tifio purposes. But he deceives nobody
with sach a transparent subterfuge. The
Smithsonian Iustitute has no such enter-
prise in mind and has no authority to die-
patch ench ao expedition, besides,
ROOSEVELT is not a hunter of big game.
So far as she pablic knows hie bas never
killed an animal bigger or more formida-
ble than a jack rabbit. When he haunted
in the Yellowstone Park, at a great ex-
pense to the public, be got nothing. When
be visited the Southern swamps be came
back empty banded. He issimply a boast-
er.
The greatest disappointment of ROOSE-
vELT'S life was his failure to get the Re-
publican nomination for Presidents last
year. He had been scheming for it for
three years and like NAPOLEON had been
daring all that period weeding ous of the
army all men who couldn’s be relied on to
respond to his call for any sinister servioe
and filling their places with his sycophants
and time servers, The coming of the pan-
io disconcerted his plans. It made his
election impossible even with the army and
the vast foroe of officials ready to join in
any proposition be might suggest. So he
was obliged to relinquish bis nelarions
scheme of empire for if he had been re.
elected last fall there never would have
been another election. We believe he was
fully determined to establish an empire.
He has the ambition of CAESAR.
His trip to Alrioa is for the purpose of
keeping himsell in the limelight for the
next opportunity. With as army guides
and banters he will keep the couniry ina
faror until he retarne. Nobody will be
permitted to tell of the exploits of the ex
‘pedition except himself and be will be
hero of every evens. Alter two or three
years of this spectacular false pretense he
will return to enter upon a campaign for
the fulfillment of his ambition and unless
the people are alert and conrageous he will
succeed. For that reason the truth and
the whole truth concerning him ehould be
told. His ambitions schemes should be
exposed that popular exeoration may bave
full opportunity to defeat his plans. THE-
ODORE ROOSEVELT is a dangerous recreant
and conspirator.
The Daty of the Governor.
Annonncement was made yesterday that
the appropriations committee ot the House
had practically decided on the amount of
appropriation it would recommend for The
Pennsylvania State College. While the
specific amount is $769,000 considerably
less than was asked for it is understood
that it will prove entirely satisfac.
tory to the trustees of the College, though
not enabling them to carry into effect all of
the plans they had formulated for the de-
velopment of various branches of learning
at that institution.
The relation of the Pennsylvania State
College to this Commonwealth is peculiar,
In fact it is parallel with that of a guardian
aod a child. By av aot of Congress a oer-
tain amouns of public lands was set aside
for the endownment of Colleges of agricul-
ture and the mechanio arts in every State
in the Union. In 1863 this Commonwealth
ratified a compact with the federal govern-
ment in which it ‘‘accepted with all its
provisions and conditions and the faith of
the State pledged to carry the same into
effect.” Upon the acceptance of this
trust Pennsylvania came into a ehare of the
public lands, whioh were afterward sold ;
the income from the pioceeds constituting
the endowment of the College. Thus it
will be seen that Penneylvania actually
pays nothing in the way of endowment to
the College. All of that is received from
funds that the State holds io truss from
the federal government for it.
Bat the faith of the State is pledged by
the laws of 1863 to support and take care
of this institution.
Now the time bas come when the ques-
tion is practically up to the Governor. It
remains for his aos to say that Pennsylva-
| nis does not regard her statute pledge to
the federal government as a serious obli-
gation. The Pennsylvania State College
needs more than has been recommended for
ite use. Thereie no doubt of thas. It is
not she recipient of vast private legacies
thas some other institutions that are seek-
support is the State of Pennsylvania and
the State has made a solemz vow to main-
tain that support. Therefore it is the duty
of Governor STUART to approve the
recommendation of she Legislature with-
out paring it one cent.
A ——————
~-Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
BELLEPONIE, 2a"
a State institution and is, in consequence,
ing state support are receivig. Its only
The Payne Tariff Bull
The PAYNE tanfl bill bas been reported
and read in the Hounve of Representatives
in Washington. It isa volominous meas-
ure, four hours having been consumed in
reading it by the clerk. It is complicated,
moreover, and nobody appears to fully un-
derstand it. While it was pending in
committee only the Republican members
were permitted to see is. Now that it is
before the House notices kas heen served
that no Demoorat will be permitted to even
suggest an amendment. The whole thing
is rank partisanship. It bas neither in-
telligenoe nor honesty in its make op. It
is the response of a parsy to the demand
for a decrease in the tariff sobedules. As
a matter of fact it inoreases the average
tariff rate some twenty per cent. and gives
no relief to the tax hurdened people what-
ever,
Thereare some meritorious provisions
in the Will. [It puts hides and some kinds
of ores on the free list and outs the duty
ou steel fifty per cent. Of course thas is
not an adequate cat on steel. Mr. CARNE-
GIE states that there ought to be no tariff
tax on steel at alland patting it on the
free list woanld greatly reduce the expense
of structural shapes and vastly stimulate
building operations throughout the coun-
try. Bat what could CANNON and PAYNE
aod DALZELL do under the circumstances.
They are all on the pay roll of the Steel
trust and have to do somethiog to earn the
money that is paid to them. Limiting the
out to fifty per cent. was, therefore, as
much as could be expeoted of them. If
they had done less they would have been
condemned by the people. Doing more
would have cost them their fees.
The bill will be passed, however, with
all ite iniqaities, bus is will not settle she
question. LINCOLN once said that no
‘question in settled finally until isis settled
right. Presidents VAN CreavE, of the
American Manufacturers’ association, stat-
ed that the excessive schedules of the DING-
| LEY law robbed the wage earners of the
country of a million dollars every day. An
inorease of twenty per cent. on the average
| will add to this uojuss burden on the peo-
‘ple and the protest which forced the Re-
pablican party to promise relief will con-
tinue until there is a real tariff revision.
The people will not be fooled by this sub-
terfuge. They are better informed than
they used to be and as the nexs oougres-
sional election the retnros will show a
vastly different resals.
EE ——
Taft's False Adviser.
President TAPT has made Sevator AL-
DRICH his *“friend, philosopher and guide’
on the tariff question. ALDRICH is not
pow and never bas heen in favor of tariff
reform. He is the agent on the floor of the
Senate of the stand-patters. He will in-
voke every expedient to defeat tariff re-
form to which Presidents TAPT is pledged.
Yet upon every question with respect to
the tariff, upon which President TAFT is in
doubt, he summons ALDRICH to advise
him. There is scarcely a day that AL.
DRICH ie not as the White House suggest.
ing plans, not for tariff revision, but to
prevent tariff revision.
The latest scheme of Mr. ALDRICH in
this connection is to inject into the PAYNE
bill a provision authorizing the President
to determine whether the minimum or
maximum tariff rate shall be imposed. The
PAYNE bill vests that power in the courts
where it would, in all probability, be reg-
ulated by judicial processes. But ALDRICH
has convinced TAFT that it onght to be
lef to the executive. No doubt this idea
flattered TAFT. It added to his preroga-
tives and while he has been fair, as a rule,
he is not unmindful of the value of power.
The resalt is that he asks for av amend-
ment making this obange io the provisions
of the bill.
The constitution of the United States de-
olares that *‘sll legislative power is vested
in Congress.” Coogress and she coarts
bave always held thas fixing tariff rates is
legislation. If that interpretation is cor-
reot the fixing of the minimum or maxi-
mum rates by either she courts or the Pres-
ident ie a violation of the organic law. Bat
investing this dangerous prerogative in the
exeoutive is more offensive than placing it
in the hands of the courts and hence AL-
DRICH'S desire to put is in the hands of
the President. If the PAYNE bill is made
unconstitutional the DINGLEY schedules
will remain. That is what ALDLIOH
wants.
The Soldiers’ Pension Bill
The pension bill for Pennsylvania sol
diers will be reported out of committee,
mean that is will be passed or
Governor will sign is, il passed, it
of interest to our old soldiers to know
dred dollars. Those who served sixty days
will be included. Pensions will date
from December 1s8, 1909, aud the first pay-
ment will be made January 1st, 1910.
MARCH 26, 1909.
Working Another Bunce.
From the Johastown Democrat.
The Republican members of the ways
and means committee bave labored for
four and a balf months and have brought
forth the Payne tariff bill. Toe nes effect
of this measure, even if it should become a
law exactly as it now stands, would be, ac-
cording to the estimates of the committee
itsell, to increase the onstoms revenue by
$40,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year. In
osher words, itis an additional tax up
the consumers of the conusry of $40,000,-
000 so $50,000,000 aunvally. This is the
Republican party’s response to the demand
on the part of the people for revision of the
rit It is anosher bunco game, pure and
simple.
As first blush, when considering a list of
some eighteen or twenty ar pou
which a redaction of duty is made, she bill
may appear to bea ‘revision downward,
but a closer examination of the various
schedules discloses, even to the tariff lay-
wan, thas such is nos the case. A measure
which increases taxation hy $50,000,000 a
year can scarcely be asa
measure of reduotion, even by those who
are not acquainted with she intricacies of
tariff schedules. When this fact is pointed
out to the Republican leaders, they make
the pies tbat the increase is made neces-
sary in order to meet the rnnning expenses
of the governmens. While this may be
true from a Republican standpoint, is is
also plain thas the Republican Jory in.
tends to exercise no economy in main-
tenance of government, bat is bent upon
continniug its policy of extravagnooce, its
big expenditures lor keeping up she great
military arm of the government, and all
the other reckless waste of public lands.
The Payne bill, sherafore, means, if is
Aakeus an 4bi that here is do be 8 Gugadl
ment of gigantic expenses during the pres-
ent administration, and thas in order to
keep up these expenditures the tariff must
be revised so as to produce more revenue.
At the same time the framers of the
measure are anxious to have the impres-
sion made that the bill is a ‘‘revision
downward,’”” sud to this end they bave
seen fit to emphasize the reductions whioh
have been made upon certain articles. The
fact remains, however, that upon the great
majority of im there is ically no
a high] a ed ol
ee ona e y .
dostries will continue as heretofore. In
short, it has beeu the polioy of the tariff
makers to disturb no special interest iv the
exercise of the privilege which it has under
the tariff. Is is a notable fact shat, gener.
ally speaking, w! redactions are pro
Sere Tor tithe BTL the Tease Gh.
cerned will, in effect, be as well proteoted
as they are now, so thas ‘the advantage
whiob the consumer should gain in tariff
redaction is entirely discounted. This is
especially true of the steel schedule, for the
greas Steel Trust is absolately free from
tear of foreign competition, with or with-
oat a tariff ; it is also troe of other large
industries to a lesser extent.
Proposes More Than it Favors.
From the Washington Post,
The reduction in the steel and iron
duties, the removal of the duty on hides,
the halving of the duty on lumber, and the
change in the wool schedules go farther in
the way of ‘‘revision downward’ shan re.
daotionists hoped or etandpatters feared.
But the committee leaders are old hands at
the businees, are well aware that their bill
ie nothing more than a mere sugeestion.
Being a suggestion ouly, and not commis.
ting the house to any legislation, the com-
mittee may have heen willing to propose
far more than it actnally favors. The
provision for an increase of bond and cer-
tificate indebtedness may be taken asa
hint from the committee thas il its sugges-
sions for greatly reduced duties are adopted
he Sonakry must be prepared to go farther
nto debs.
The Jingolam of Taft.
From the New York World.
The most censurable thing Mr. Tals has
yet done in his repetition is his inaugural
address of Mr. Roosevelt's persistent mili-
tarism. Althongh he used the word ‘‘eco-
nomical’’ only once in relation to public
expenditures, be talked at leogth about
‘a proper navy,’ ‘‘sunitable fortification,”
“our coast defenses,’’ ‘‘a direot attack,”
*‘a modern navy,” ‘a strong navy’ and all
the rest of the jargon of jingoism. This
message of war has been shrieked into the
ears of the American people for so many
years that even Mr. Taft cannot forget it
euongh to deliver an inangural speech.
George Salley's Invitation.
From the Huston Post.
We invite every shivering saint and sin-
ner of the northern press, every congealed
and chattering clabberhead, every frosted
Spawls from the Keystone,
—One hundred and twenty-eight destitute
families are receiving relief from Contes.
ville’s charitable organization.
~The Pennsylvania highway department
has issued 4,000 more automobile licenses
thus far than were applied for during the
same period of 1908,
~The effort to largely increase the on-
dowment fand of Dickinson Seminary, at
Williamsport, has been very successiul and
it is expected that the entire sum asked for
will be secured within a short time.
—Charles Kenyon,a contractor and builder
residing in Cleaifield, bas just taken out a
patent on a new device for a paving block
which he is confident will inaugurate a new
era in the history of road building.
—Judge Fuller, of Luzerne county, has
declived to issue an order requiring ail
hotels and saloons to close their bars at 11
o'clock p. m. He says there is no law to that
effect and he doesn’t believe in judge made
law,
—Mercer county has a productive district
in the Cool spring township oil field. Since
it was opened thirty-eight wells have leen
completed, of which twenty-eight are good
producing oil wells, eight gas wells and two
dry holes.
~Brook trout from the Bellefonte hatchery
are now being distributed in the streams im
Central Pennsylvania. Some 81.000 trout
have already been sent out and placed in the
streams found between Hollidaysburg and
Newton Hamilton along the Juniata river.
—A special telephone has been installed on
the pulpit of the Lutheran church in Indiana
and also one in the hospital department of
the county home, by means of which the in-
mates of the latter institution ay have the
pleasure of listening to the religious services
on Sunday.
—Luman C. Maun, the son of a wealthy
resident of Chicago, who was arrested in
Philipaburg last June on the charge of mur
dering Mrs. Fravcis Gilmore Thompson ina
boarding house in that city, was acquitted
last week by a Chicago jury, the defense
proving an alibi.
—Some time Saturday night burglars ef
fected an entrance to the Farmers’ National
bank at Exchange, Montour county, shat.
tering the vault and getting awsy with an
unknown amount of money. The bank is
one of a chain established under the direc
tion of the State Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry.
~The ministers of Huntingdon want Judge
Woods to issue either a command or a re.
quest to the hotels of the city to close their
bars during Old Home Week. The men se’
lected from the different denominations met.
last week, and another meeting will be held
at Juniata College. Petitions will be ecir-
culated. .
~The commissioners of Cumberland coun-
ty, alarmed by the rapid growth in bills of
costs, have issued a notice to magistrates in
after they will pay ne
——— ave: i i
said hearing wus held in pursuance of the
criminal code.
—In the Westmoreland county court last
Monday morning Judges Doty and McCon-
nell heard 227 applications for license in one
hour and twenty-five minutes. Only the
new applicants and some of those against
whom remonstrances were filled were called
up and questioned. The list will be handed
down on Saturday.
—Warren H. and Chester A. Reed, coal
operators in the Clearfield district, have en-
tered suit in the United States circuit court
to recover $30,000 damages from the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company, charging said cor.
poration with rebating and discrimination in
favor of the Berwind-White and the Key-
stone Coal and Coke companies.
—Eighteen cars laden with aliens pass-
ed through Harrisburg on the Pennsylvania
railroad Monday. There were two special
sections of Pacific Express, arriving there at
2:30 o’clock, and there ware four extra ears
attached to train No. 33. The trains carried
more than 1.000 of the foreigners and al-
most every European nationality was repre- -
sented.
—Latrobe’s health officer on a recent tour
of inspection found a ealf, a dog, three wom-
en, three children and one man living in one
room of a house in that town. The calf was
found tied to the bedpost. When asked for
an explanation the women said it was too
cold for the calf to be in the stable and it had
been hrought into the bed room that it might
live and grow in comfort.
~—Forty-six coons were slaughtered during
the past season by E. W. Kelly, wocds sae
perintendent for J. E. DuBois on the Hicks
Run lumber operation. Mr. Kelly killed five
bears since last fall and had three of the
skins made into fine rugs. In his opinion
trout will be very scarce in this section the
coming spring and the sport will be trying
on the nerves of the anglers.
—An unusual state of affairs for these days
of business depression is reported from
Wilkesbarre, There has been a congestion
of freight in the yards of the Delaware and
Hudson railroad in that city and in order to
break it aud get things in good running order
again the Pennsylvania railroad company
has agreed to loan twenty-five of its big
freight engines. They were sent from Har.
risburg and Sanbury.
—Meadville school directors have taken
advantage of an act of assembly and have
provided half pay for teachers who have
taught for 30 years, 20 years of which serv-
ice must have been for the city. Under the
plan adopted each teacher is to be taxed two
per cent. of her salary till she has taught for
ten years, and then she is to be taxed three
per cent. Teachers receiving less than $45
per month are exempt.
—Earaged because they did vot find men-
ey in the home of Mrs. Lavina Swinehart,
at Treverton, two burgiars beat her into in-
sensibility and then placed heron a bed, tumb. -
led a lighted kerosene lamp om it and fled.
The lamp exploded and the bed was set on
fire. Neighbors who had heard the woman
scream when she was first assaulted harried
to the house and with considerable difficulty
extinguished the flames, but not before she
had been severely burned. Mrs. Swinehart
is 60 years of age and lived alone.