BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—There was a thunder storm on Tues-
day. Is made a noise juss like spring.
~The mau or woman who bas a garden
and waso’s in it on Tuesday missed a day
the like of which any weather maker might
be proud of.
—Congress has cat the tariff oo oil from
twenty-five to one per cent. Poor JOHN
D. It is like stealing money out of a blind
teggar’s hat.
—A Laplander can travel about one
hundred aud sy miles a day on his skates.
The American usually gets a ride in the
barry-up wagon on his.
—Many a fellow will spend ten dollars
for flowers for bis best girl on Easier and
straighsway lend bis little gab to the bard
times stories that are floating round.
—Two patients in the Wills eye hospital,
both there having their sight restored, fell
in love at firss sight and were married
fnstanter. That's what comes of seein’
things sometimes.
—Congress bas agreed on free hides. The
cattle are about the only shings this body
isn’t skinning and that is because so far as
Congress has to do with them they bave
been skinned already.
--The Governor's three million dollar
state-highway bill has passed the House.
The most important pars of is, to our mind,
is the question as to whether the bighway
will pass Centre county.
—The employees of the American Lime
and Stone Co., are the first working men
io this section to get a taste of she good
times we are sapposed to be haviog. There
was a general out in the wages of the men
of thas corporation on Monday.
—Six students of the graduating class of
the New Casile High school pus limberger
oheese in the piano and hid it about the
school rocm. Of course it raised a big
stink and theoulprite were expelled with
she result that a bigger one has heen raised.
—QOne of the schedules of the PAYNE
bill was to make stockings higher. Whas
for? The ones in ordinary use no one sees
the tops of now and the ones in use oon the
stage couldn’s be any higher unless they'd
pus a seat in them and call them by avoth-
er nnmentionable name.
~The eighteen thousand milk producers
who supply Chicago are reported to be
about to form a union in order thas they
oan buy their supplies cheaper. We hadn't
noticed shat the price of either chalk or
water was at a prohibitive figure in the
wicinity of the Windy oity.
Ful £1
-
ag
tare will aggregate sixiy-four mil-
lion dollars. Large as this sum appears to
be the people of the State would not think
it a bis too bigh if they were only certain
that it will be judicially expended and that
there will be no graft in it.
—Presideut TAFT acd Governor Gen-
era! SMITH, of the Philippines, have bad a
disagreement, and the latter bas resigned.
Whatever their difference may be it is next
$0 a certanity that they agree on the prop-
osition that the islands comprise a very
bad investment for Uncle Sam.
~The last few days must certainly be
like the kind of weather that inspired a
listle couplet we heard years ago that ran
like this :
Providence sends the wicked wind
That blows our skirts knee high
But God is just and sends the dust
That biows in the bad man's eye.
—The Rev. Dr. WiLuiaM R. HuUNT-
INGDON, rector of Grace church, Broad-
way, New York, found a check for forty
thousand dollars under his plate at the
breaklast table a few mornings ago. Do
you suppose the very reverend gentleman
sang the doxology before he called up the
bank to see whether it was good ?
— Bellefontaine, Ohio, ie practically
without a cent to meet current expenses
because it voted dry last fall aud thereby
lost an annaal income of eighteen thousand
dollars from liquor licenses. Now it is
proposed to tax vehicles, loans, moving
pioctare shows, and everything else they
oan think of in order to make up the del-
fois.
~Franoe has decided to tax every Ger
man balloon that lights on her soil ove
handred dollars and hold the aeronaats in
custody until it is paid. This is bard
lines, sure enough. Bas still most people
who go up ina balloon ought to be glad
enough to land at all that the matter of a
hundred dollars fine for doing it would be
a pleasure.
—*Polly of the Cirons” will start in
this paper next week. It is a new and in-
tensely interesting story that would cost
you more in book form than the WarcH-
MAN would cost for an entire year. If youn
don’s take the WATCHMAN don’t fail to
borrow your neighbor's paper next week
aud start Porny, for il you do that you
will wans to borrow it every week the story
rune and then some.
~The supervisors of Spring aod Boggs
townships could do a little work just now
that might mean thousands of dollars in
saving in the fature upkeep of the new
state road between Bellelonte and Miles-
burg. Longer neglect in repairing the
holes that have appeared in it will proba.
bly result in general destruction of a splen-
did highway aod we trust that the good
judgment of the gentlemen in charge will
prompt them to make repairs before it be-
cames neoesaary to make new road.
VOL. 54
My, What a Fass!
It the PrUNER orphanage hasn’t been
able to cause the unearthing of more than
one inmate since its opening it has been
the centre around which there bas been no
end of commotion for the past week or
more. All of itstarted when W. MiILEs
WALKER, of this place, and J. T. ATLEE,
of Tyrone, were appointed suditors 0 go
zver and make an accounting of the trust
since the death of the benefactor Col. E. J.
PRUNEE. The result of their efforts isa
very concise and intelligent statement of
income and expenditures covering a period
of five years. Accompanying the state-
mens are some saggestions for the good of
the estate, no doubt inspired by the careful
investigation the auditors must have given
its affairs in order to secure the complete
accounting they presect. But here is the
rub.
Resolutions were passed by the Tyrone
council censuring the auditors for making
euch suggestions avd incidentally, Belle
fonte council was asked to withhold ap-
proval of the bills presented by the sudi-
tors for sheir services. Naturally the andi-
tors got mad. Then the auditors had sar-
obarged Dr. R. G. H. Haves with $200.00
of his bill for managing the business insme-
diately after the death of Col. PRUNER and
before anyone else was authorized to take
charge of it. Honestly we don’s think Dr.
HAYES was mad, bat he had a right to be.
Council made good to bim on Monday
nighs by directing the auditors to with
draw the surcharge and there was another
fuss in that lately serene hody.
And now it appears that the poor inno-
cent WATCHMAN has hurt somebody’s
feelings when it had no more intention of
doing it thao it bas of supporting the next
Republican candidate for President. Is
merely published a statement to the effect
that the anditors had said the estate had
not been properly managed, meaniog of
course, during the time whep no one was
actually authorized or responsible for its
management, and they tell us that Mr.
JARED HARPER, one uf board of managers
during the past year, war grievously
wounded ; considering the article a reflec
ion on kim. He bas resigned from the
4 and w Sai now we said
ppointed thas hoard has |
lost a good man ; especially good for that
kind of work hecause he is consoientions,
piudens and practical.
We trust that the various dissenting and
dissatisfied elements will ges their troubles
fixed up. And while the WATCHMAN was
opposed to the orphanage proposition solely
on the ground that it did not . lieve there
would be enough income to sapport it ite
opposition ended when the councils of the
boroughs of Bellefonte aud Tyrone decided
to undertake is. Therefore we would not
do or eay anything inimical to the best
interests of the institation and if we were
disposed to criticise we would join cause
with the auditors, for they were right in
intimatiog that some reforms are necessary
in handling an estate valued at $60,000 00
that bas accumulated only $2900.00 ina
period of five years.
a —
Cruel Process of the Steel Trust.
The executive committee of the Steel
Trust has practically determined to make a
out of filteen per cent. in the wages of all
its employees. The aggregate wages of the
employees of the Steel trust is $160,000,000.
Of this amonnt filteen per cents. is $24,000, -
000. There are 200,000 men on the pay
roll of she Steel trust and probably they
feed more than a million mouths. Taking
$24,000,000 ous of their earnings will create
many a sad hears. It would be bad enough
if necessary. Asan expedient to foroe un-
just legislation it is a orime worse than
cold blooded marder.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has said that there
is no necessity for tariff tax on steel prod-
wots in this country. We can make steel
as cheap as any competitors on the face of
the earth, he declares. Intelligent and
ohservant people didn’é need this infor-
mation from him. The fact that American
manufacturers of steel have been for years
underselling their competitors in the very
homes of those competitors was sufficient
evidence on the subject. But the Steel
Trast proposes, by a orael process which
will spread hanger il not starvation among
thousands, to foroe legislation which will
perpetuate to them this source of graft.
The American people are patient and
long suffering or they wouldn't submit to
this atrocious outrage. It is encouraging
to them, however, to know that they won't
bave to submit long. As true as that there
is & heaven above the people will resent
this orime against their own obildren and
those of their neighbors. Bat they will do
it in a quiet and lawful way. They will
vote down the party which cherishes these
oruel criminals at the expense of the peo-
ple who labor assiduously and suffer oon-
stantly because of the inequality of the
burdens of government and the injustioe of
the laws of our land.
—Patsoribe foi the WATCHMAN now
aod get the fall story of *‘Polly of the
Cirous.”
_egnivooal to. sakisly, she pablie, however,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL
The Two Pending Tarif Bills.
The President bas practially declared bis
sympathy with the Republican Senators in
Congress as against those of the House of
Representatives on the tariff bill. There
is not a great deal of difference between the
two measures, as a watter of fact. But the
President is afraid of the tax on tea direct
and the counterveiling tax on coffee, which
is an unknown quantity. The oil tax in
both measures is a perplexing proposition.
The House bill provides for a counterveiling
tax on that essentially truss produce. That
is to say, it would levy a duty ou oil im-
ported equal to the export tax imposed by
the country from which it is imported. As
Russia is the only country which exports
oil and Russia levies a considerable export
duty, the proposition contained in the
House bill is a practically prohibitive tax
and the Republican leaders are very much
afraid of the effect of such legislation on
the public mind.
The Senate bill is preferable to that of
the Honse of Representatives in one respect,
bowever. It provides for the application
of the minimum rates in the beginning.
That is to eay, the tax upon a commodity
imported shall he fixed at a figure agreed
upon whether the country whenoe it comes
favors us in trade relations or not. In the
event that the country from which the
product comes doesn’t inclade the United
States among ‘‘the most favored nations,”’
however, it is given a year to get into line
and if at the end of that time it has not
altered its commercial conditions, the
maximum rate, which is practically ipro-
hibitive, is puton. The House bill applies
she maximum rate in the beginning and
onts down il the other country favors us
and to some extent, in proportion to the
favor. Ol course this is only an expedient
#0 justify the highest rate of tariff taxes for
at best it will take some time to adjust
matters 80 as to ges the minimum rate.
Neither of the measures fulfill the prom-
ises of the Republican candidate or the
party platform, however. The platform
pledged tariff revision on a basis that would
afford the consumers relief withoat im-
pairing the legitimate profits of the Ameri-
can manufacturer. That was entirely too
and the Republican candidate persovally
pledged himself to a tariff revision down-
ward. Neither the Senate bill nor the
House measure attain this result. The
only reductions are upon commodities upon
which the DINGLEY rates were prohibitive,
and after the reductions are made, they
will still be practically se. This is not the
tariff reduction which the people demand-
ed. They asked for a tariff revision which
would save to them the million dollars a
day which Mr. VANCLEAVE says is stolen
throngh the excessive tariff taxes of the
DINGLEY bill from the industrial life of
the conntry.
More Democratic Treachery.
Through the recreanoy of Demoorats the
Republican congressional machine won
another signal victory on Monday. It was
a matter of little consequence, probably,
for the result would have been achieved in
the end auyway. But the Republican ma
chine bad undertaken to force aun arbitrary
rule providing for a vote on the PAYNE
tariff to-day, and would have failed if the
Demoorats had been faithful to eachjother
and to the party. Such failure woald have
heen damaging to the machine and given
the true Democrats more time to expose
the iniguity of the measure. The conse-
quence was fally appreciated by the ma-
chine managers and they exbausted every
resource to achieve their victory.
A Republican victory obtained in a fair
fight is nos Lalt as bad as one acquired by,
the prostitution of Demooratio recreants.
The industrial and commercial interests of
the sonntry would be vastly benefitted by
the passage of a tariff bill at this time
which would be just to the people. The
DINGLEY law robs the industrial life of
the country of a million dollars a day
through its excessive tariff tax rates. The
saving of this vast sum to those who earn
it would vot only inspire hope but is
would stimulate industrial activity. The
PAYNE bill increases the rates by at least
twenty per cent. and will continue the
robbery. Bat the Demooratio party could
endure that iniquity better than it can the
treachery of JUDAS ISCARIOTS in its official
ranks.
The DiNGLEY bill will pass of course,
and it will prolong the industrial paralysis |
of the present for a time. Baus no guestion
is settled until it is settled right. As the
nexs congressional election the Demoorate
of the South will out out the traitors who
have betrayed them and those of the North
and South together will elect sufficient of
the membership of the House to secure the
passage of a bill which will relieve the
wage earners of the burdens of excessive
tariff taxation. Is isan expensive delay
but one for which the Demooratio party ie
not responsible except in so far as it is re-
sponsible for the traitors who have stolen
its livery in which to serve the enemy.
" ——Bubsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
all
9, 1909.
False
Prvieuss Mevenied,
From the Johostown Democrat.
Jones & Laughlin celebrate Taft pros-
perity with a noble whoop by cating
wages 10 per cent. Bot was it necessary
for them to lie abous it in doing doicg so ?
“On account of the depression in business
due to the fear of a reduction in she tariff,”
they eay, “‘it bas become necessary to out
down expenses in every direction.” Evi
dently Jones & Laughlin think their em-
ployes have short memories. Men with
shinkingpots big enoagh to hold a memory
over night can bardly have forgotten shat
the “‘depression in husiness’’ came long
before there was any ‘‘fear of a reduotion
in she tariff '’ Bat waiving thas poing, is
there any real fear of a reduction in the
say apprebeosions, apon THEODORE
RoosgvELT's African adventure. That is
to say, we have been imagining that Mr.
ROOSEVELT is going into a daogerous jon-
gle, at the certain sacrifice of every crea-
ture comfort and considerable hazard of his
life and personal safesy. As he bas osteuta-
tiously announced that his mission is in
the interest of soieuce and for the purpose
of extending human knowledge of animal
lite, 8 good many amiable people bave
been greatly distressed. It gives us more
thac ordinary satisfaction, therefore, to | tariff at this moment? Do not all the
assure our readers that be is incurring no | #08 point to higher rather than lower
risks and sacrificing no comforts. utien ¥ Isn’s Presidents Taft lined up
Daring his sojourn in the jungle Mr. ape ae Cagoss, 3 ick Fordaer
RooskvELT will occupy the bangalo of | redustion iu wages is uapavoidable,’’ saye
Mr. WisniaM N. McMILLAN, a very Jonee 4 _laoghlin. bi the i yale
weaithy Englishman who has a passion for | 0 Cc Ny says preseut prices are
bunting big game. It is located thirty su sally ‘shay which She Steel
miles north of Nairobi, British East Alrica.
Trust bas long maintained. A lot of lying
The bungalo, writes a correspondent of
bas been dove about the ‘‘open market’
and its effects. There has been a little
the New York World, who bas been there,
“gontains all the conveniences that are
shading of prices here and there, bat there
has been more talk than anything else.
found in any New York bome, including
baths with hot and cold water.” Is is sor-
The reduction in wages is made, not be-
cause of any fear of tariff custing, not hes
rounded by wide verandas, low easy chairs
and set in the centre of a large smooth
cause prices have been lowered, hat
oause labor is helpless. It can’t resist. It
lawn, generously decorated with flowers.
“At uight the bangalo is ablaze with
has reached a point where it is a choice be-
tween the terms offered by the trast and
starvatian. And this is the fine conclusion
light,”” continues the correspondent,
‘from a carrent generated hy Mr. Mo-
MILLAN'S own plas.”
of the great Talt prosperity show.
Thus the false pretense of the African
For Geese Only.
From the Pittsburg Post.
trip of Mr. ROOSEVELT 1s revealed. He
bas plainly invested it in an atmosphere of
In 1896 the country paid large heed to
the McKinley sophistry that cheap coats
danger for the doable purpose, no doubs,
of exciting popular interess on one hand
make cheap men. The deluded laborer
was told that if he voted to give the mano-
facturer a big bonus, the latter would care
for him. And yet when bard times struck
the country a year and a half ago the very
and commanding a higher price for the | interests that were given the largest pro-
rubbish be proposes to write on the other.
But as a matter of fact he is in no danger
while there. The correspondents continues:
“As my male jogged ou toward Juja Farm
* ® ® * aronud me were many zebra; ga-
teotion under the Dingley schedules shat
zelle grazed in hundreds. Three hundred
down.
The mille and factories of the Pittsburg
yards away two rhinos were trotting along,
suspiciously waving their beads as they
distriot closed. Their workingmen were
winded me; beyond these was a berd of
compelled to hunt any sort of lahor, to live
a sort of hand-to-mounth existence. This
miloh cattle in frons of a man’s dwelling.”
And Rooseverr, blood thirsty and
oity issued park bonds to make work for
them. Their employers went to Earope,
or otherwise continued to enjoy life as be-
oruel-hearted, is off shooting these harm.
less tutes under the false pretense of
promoting the interests of science.
We areall wasting sentiment, not
fore. It is not on record that interest on
seonrities, or even dividends on grossly
watered stocks, were much reduced. It
not recorded that any drastic outs were
made in high salaries or that any of the
owners were pat on half time or less. :
The policy of tbe mill owners oft
that reduction of prices which e
stimalated trade and kept the men going
to the last moment. And now these in-
terests and men, many of whom bave be-
come suddenly and grossly rich beyond
any merit or ability of their own, tell the
country that if the tariff makes any differ-
ence in their gains, poor, hall-starved
labor must stand it. Wages are to be re-
dooced ; a local cut has already been an.
nonnoed. Will salaries, interest and divi-
dends he cnt, too ? If not, why not ? Why
should labor stand is all ?
A Chance for the Big Stick.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The little Central American republio of
Nicaragua appears to he at the head of the
line for she firat treatment of the big stick
to be given under the administration of
President Taft. Both Waskington and
Southern advices say that diplomatic rela-
tions may be severed at any moment, and
a curious world will then await develop-
ments with the keenest interest, not be-
cause the world cares much about the
trouble or even understands anything at
all about it, but hecause the world wants
to know whether Mr. Taft will wield the
big stick as Mr. Roosevelt might have
been expected to wield it. Just what is
going to to President Z:laya and
his faction if he fails to adjust things is the
point of curious interest. Will there be
aotive and armed intervention or a revolu-
tion and a readymade republic of the
Panama sort with a bill of costs for Uncle
Sam? Who knows ?
The one thing certain is that the pros-
peot of Central American peace aod unity,
which seemed so bright and real to some
cheerfal people bus a short time ago, was
but a dream. The dove of peace will need
both gentle and firm suasion to alight
upon that Central American peace palace
whioh Andrew Carnegie has paid for.
All Honorable
From the Philadelphia Resord.
The casual mention of the fact that 80
i aarer
ry a single selling
sheds a good deal of light on the ey
of the increased duties on stockings. If
there be one thing more than another to
which Republican are subser-
yieus itis rust. In fifths of ali the
ery a common agency
Tras and
wherever there is a combination in re-
straint of sndeitbers'yi) the Republican
Congressmen be gathered together to receive
their orders—and also other things, per-
haps ; not, of course, in a personal, bat in
a party way ; for the Congressmen are all
honorable men.
They Need Each Other.
The World's Work.
Exhaust the Surplus.
Weare constrained to agree with those
Representatives and Senators in the Legis
latare who insist on appropriating the vast
surplus in the State Treasury for needed
public improvements. The machine maoa
gers are strongly averse to this course.
They insist that the appropriations should
be kept within the revenues and the sar
plus allowed to remain intact. That bas
been the policy of the State for as much as
fitteen years and daring the administration
of WILLIAM A. STONE even the school ap-
propriation was cat to maintaiz it. Gov-
ernor STONE and Governor PENNYPACKER
also cunt items in the general appropriation
bill in violation of the constitution in or-
der to preserve the treasury surplus.
Of course there was but one purpose to
subserve by shis course which was the
“farming” of the fands for the benefit of
machine politicians. The law requires an
interest payments oo State moneys on de-
posit of two percent. Bas there bas been
no sronble, during the lass dozen years or
more in placing it at four per cent., the
extra two per cent. on an average balance
of over $12.000,000,being a matter of $240.-
000 a year to divide among the machine
managers or apply to the campaign fond.
Of course some of the favored banks were
not charged the two per cent. but recom-
peosed the machine by making loans to
members as in the case of the transactions
between the Enterprise National bank of
Allegheny city and “Bull”’ ANDREWS.
In taking this position on this question
we wonld not be interpreted as favoring
profligate appropriations as a rule. On the
contrary we believe in the former practice
of the Legislature of limiting the appropri-
ations to the actual needs of the public
service. Bus there are many public im-
provements, such as building highways,
enlarging she capitol park, pensioniog
veterans of the Civil war and other things
to which the present surplus might be ap-
plied to the advantage of the pablic and
when it is exhausted the taxes ought to be
reduced, or refanded to the connties, to an
extent which would prevent the fatare ac-
cumulation of such a surplus. The usiog
of the surplas is right from every point of
view.
Ben.
——Republican state chairman Wesley
R. Andrews on Monday iesued his call for
the state convention which will be held in
Harrisburg on June 16th. Under the new
apportionment of delegates ae based ob the
votes cast at the presidential election last
year Centre county will be entitled to only
two delegates instead of three as formerly,
and in the entire State there will be 372 as
against 425 in the last convention.
needs the Harvester company and
gobi etd to do business in these States
t both have been convicted of crimeand
Sotigten Ny ay bu! Die, The two Sites
are to find a proper
profitable way to reconcile the practical
needs of she situation with the demands of
the law, and the companies are trying to
do the same thing. y will succeed be-
fore long.
——Read the opening chapters of Marga-
res Mayo's great story, ‘Polly of the Cir-
ous,” which will appear in next week's
WATCHMAN.
——Thunder and lightning! We bad
both on Tuesday, as well as some rain.
—~John B. Maloney, of Greensburg, has
been notified by English barristers that he is
one of thiee heirs to a fortune in Ireland es-
| timated at $480,000.
—Ira J. Packer has sold 854 acres of land
in Lycomiug county to the State for a con-
sideration of $1,833.33. The land will be
used for forest reserve purposes.
~The country districts about Uniontown
bave been scourged with epidemies of scarlet
fever, diphtheria and black measles, many
deaths having resulted and several schools
having been closed.
—Harvey Pennington, of near La Jose,
Clearfield county, while driving in the
darkness Sunday night, went over an em-
bankment, the loaded wagon falling on him,
killing him. He was 35 years old.
—After many delays in the construction of
the plant, Potistown people expeet to find
out this wonth how much of an improve
ment filtered water will be over the present
mixture from the Schuylkill river.
—Running between the rails with a fast
approaching locomotive rapidly bearing
down upon him, venerable J. W. Lyous sav-
ed the life of his aged friend, Mrs. Charles
Kinsbury, of Sunbury, at that place.
~The Business Men's association of Hunt-
ingdon, which was agitating the question of
an Old Home week celebration for that
town, has given up the project for this year
aud postponed the matter indefinitely.
—York county commissioners have decid-
ed to make n temporary loan of $15 000 to re-
plenish the county treasury. With only
about $6,000 on hand the county officials
have claims of $13,000 awaiting pay went.
—The Pennsylvania Kailroad company bas
given William Gaul a check and a perma-
nent pass over its lines for saving a passen-
ger train from running into a landslide near
Frackville, Schuylkill county, a few nights
ago.
—Howard Burkbart has been arrested in
. | Johnstown charged with defrauding Italians
out of money. Twenty-seven separate infor-
mations were lodged against him and he was
held in $300 bail on each charge—oz $8,100—
for court.
—Pittsburg coal is soon to be carried across
the seas to foreign markets in the same vast
quantities it now is carried up the lakes to
the region of the morthwest. Ships capable
of carrying 20,000,000 tous a year will carry
the coal to southern Europe and return la-
den with iron ore.
—The commissioners of Northumberland
and Unien counties have entered into an
agreement with the Milton Passenger Rail.
way company for the exclusive use of the in-
ter county bridge at Lewisburg. The rail-
way company will pay to the two counties
£45,000 in cash before occupying the bridge.
—Within a few weeks contractors will be.
gin the erection of twenty new houses at
Nanty-Glo, Cambria county, for the Spring-
field Land company, au adjunet of the
Springfield Coal company. The coal compa-
ny has a big opening at Nanty-Glo and is
preparing to increase the output considera.
bly.
— About 600 blast furnace employees at the
four furnaces in the Shenango Furnace com-
pany, at Sharpsville, have been cut ten per
cent. in their wages. The men had antici
pated the reduction. These are the only
furnaces in operation, but it is eaid the four
others will make a similar cut wheu they re~
sume.
—Three thousand carrier pigeons, some of
the best in the eastern part of the United
States, will start on a race from Huntingdon
at daybreak on the morning of Mey 23. The
birds will fly from Huntingdon to Baltimore
and Washington, and the pigeon which ar-
rives at either of these cities first will win
$1.000 for its owner.
—Coleman K. Sober, of Lewisburg, known
throughout the United States as the ‘‘chest-
nut king” on account of his extensive in-
vestent in coltivating chestnuts, has pur-
chased 165 acres of titaberland in Cleveland
township, Columbia county, known as the
“Pine Swamp,” on which he will plant
another chestnut orchard.
—Judge Smith, of Clearfield county, has
ordered the release of L. H. Baumister, who
had been arrested at Du Bois because of his
failure to keep up payments on a set of
books he had purchused on the installment
plan. In his opinion the judge said : “Per
sonal liberty is too sacred to be involved im
mere jugglery in legal requirements for the
venders of these installment goods.”
—Valuable deposits of fire clay have been
found in the vicinity of Clearfield and a
company has been formed to develop them.
Quite a number of options on land in the vie
cinity of Rocton and points in Union town-
ship, in Clearfield county, have been closed,
and a large brick manufacturing plant will
be put up at DuBois if a suitable site can be
secured aud equitable rates ean be obtained
from the railroads.
—The health authorities of Williamsport
and other towns along the Susquehanna riv-
er, together with Wilkesbarre and nearby
coal towns, are in receipt of communications
from Dr. Dixon, of the department of health
at Philadelphia, notifying them to be on the
lookout for passengers ou the Merion, which,
with several cases of smallpox among its 500
steerage passengers, came to port znd allow-
ed them all to escape.
—Before many months the sewage of the
Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at
Huntingdon, will be taken out of the Juni-
ata river, where it now goes along with that
of Huntingdon and other means will be pre-
pared for its disposal. The Legislature re-
cently granted the institution an approprias~
tion of $37,000 to erect a disposal plant. Now
it will be a question as to how soon the plant
will be baile. which will be up to the State
Board of Health, who will have to prepare
the plans.
—W. H. Wheeler, of North Cameron, Tio-
ga county, met a horrible death the other
evening wheu he went to the barn to care
for his cattle and other stock. Failing to re~
turn at the accustomed time, his wife, fear.
ing some misfortune had overtakon him,
went to the barn in search of her husband.
Among his stock was a large bull, which to
all appearance had suddenly attacked Mr.
Wheeler ss he was feeding him and the un-
fortunate man evidently had been trampled
and gored by the infuriated beast till his life
had been crushed out.