rho BR ————r BY PRP. GRAY MEEK. — Ink Slings. —May is almost gone. June will be here before we know it and —alter shat— only July and August before fall is upon us again. —Ol the work of the last Legislature Governor STUART approved six hundred and sixty-two bills and vetoed one hundred and seventeen. ~—Let us bope that the show to-night will earn enoagh money to buy the amba- lance for the hospital, bat not bring ahont a condition that might call it into service. —What’s the use. Savannah, Georgia, is in possession of twenty thousand gallons of whiskey, hesides wuch wine and heer. Being confiscated at ‘‘speak-easies’’ it cap- not be wold or given away. ~The public is now concerned lest the wild Somalis, the tsetse fly or the spirillum tick catch TepDY. Have no fear of such bogies. TEDDY was one so long himself that he knows what a fake they are. —The Pennsylvania Railroad company did not kil! one of the hundred aod forty million passengers it carried duriog 1908. A splendid record, to he sure, but not a suf- ficient reason for dropping vour accident insurance if you are a traveler over its lines. —When a wan once starts on the road down hill he usnally gathers speed with each step. Poor old Senator PLATT i8 now about to be kicked out of the presidency of the United Ssates Express Co., a corpor- ation be served most pesid uously while he was in the Senate. —Senator CARTER, of Montana, says that there are two million four hundred thousaud idle men in the country, ali of whom will be at work within thirty days after the PAYNE tariff bill is passed. What a pleasing prophet the Senator is | and what a big liar. ~They say that all the land in England is owned hy fewer than eight thoasand people. What of that? When ROCKER- FELLER and MORGAN get done counting theirs what's left for the rest of us in this country would be scarcely more than six fees in the cemetery. ~The story that there are sixty-six thousand trained German soldiers now em- ployed in London who are ready to strike at a moment's notice has sent another ohill to the marrow of the Eoglish spine. The Dreadoaoght builders will get JonNNYy BuLL scared into doing just what they want. —The sweet girl gradaate now foudles her new white shoes and stockings, adds a last bib of ribbon to that dream of a dress aud sighs for the hour of her triumph— after that-——marriage—then dreamland gradually fading into an endless, disconso- late existence of dish-washing, dirty brats, and a worthless husband. —Monazite may be on the free list, thanks to the watchlal concern of our very assiduous Senator PENROSE. It is nice to have monazite on the free list because it will reduce the cost to the common people four cents a pound. If yon have never heard of monazite before, il yon do not know what it is used for or in what quan- tities don’t look it up. You will feel un- der more lasting obligations to your splen- did Senator for baving asked to have it pat on the free list if you don’t know what it is. —THOoMAS L. HISGEN, late candidate of the Independence League for President, bas dropped HEARST and has decided that the only hope for this Republic is in an united Democracy. Mr. HISGEN'S delayed flash of consciousness of the real situation way lead others to the fold for the fight in 1912. Aud there is no doubt bat that the decep- tive practices of the presens Congress on the tariff bill are daily adding to the pub- lic belief that a change will he absolutely necessary for the salvation of the country from the complete supremacy of the trusts. —Governor STUART has heer honest, no doubt and sincere in his effort to do the right thing while in office, bat the slash he made in the appropriation to the Bellefonte hospital was such a serious master to that institation and it would bave been such a trifling matter to the State if left intact that one can scarcely understand how he could bring himself to make the cus. Of onarse it might be said that there were many others in the same condition, but we don’t believe there were any with a crisis just like that of the Bellefonte hospital and it asked so listle thai the giving would never have been felt. —The latest discovery, and one of very great importance, was anncunced in a special from St. Louis on Monday in effect that a very fine quality of flour is now be- ing made from alfalfa. The discovery was made some time ago by a number of stun. dents in a St. Louis University, who are now living almost entirely on bread, cakes and pies made from alfalfa flonr, the dis- patob said, avd it is claimed they are not only lighter and more palatable than if baked from wheat flour but contain as much nourishment as a meal of eggs, meat and potatoes. The leaves and tops of the stalks are nsed to make the flour, first be. ing dried then bleached, ground and bolt- ed, resulting in a flour only a little less white than the wheat flour. But why make flour of it at all? If the time has come that we bave to eat grass what's the use of killing the best pars of it by roasting it. Why not go right out into the alfalfa field and pasture like any other ani- mal and thas be done with is? a VOL. 54 RIGHTS AND FED RAL UNIO NO-2) Singing a Different Song. Republican Senators in Congress appear anxions at this time to do justice to Gen. eral WiNrigLp Scorr HaNcock, long since gone to his reward. In 1880 General HANCOCK was the Demooratio nominee for President and after the election of a Demo- oratic Governor in Maine that party be- came panic stricken and raised the ory of free trade. The CoBDEN club was denoune- ed with great vehemence and by appealing to the ignorance and credulity of the conn- try a sort of tariff frenzy was created. In the midst of this absurd clamor a commit. tee representing some body or organization which was supposed to he worth while was asked to write a letter to General HANCOCK asking him to declare his views on the tar- iff question. The General with the caution of a capa- ble tactician replied to the inquiry that the tariff is parely a local question and that while Democrats in one section might favor proteotion for selfish or pe=rsonal rea- sons, Republicans in another locality might be equally earnest for revenue tariff which at that time was designated as free trade. The answer took the opposition by surprise and after recovery fron the con- sternation that ensued was roundly ridi- culed. The tariff, they protested, is es- sentially a national question. It had al- ways been a natioval question, they added and always wouid be, Nobody but avn igunoramas or a knave could entertain any other idea of the subject and manifestly General HANCOCK was both. This opinion was expressed with equal earnestness by the Republican orators and Republican newspapers. Now, however, these Republican *‘wind- jammers’’ and orgav-grinders have adopled a different potion of the subject. They want votes for the inignitons ALDRICH bill from the Democratic side of the Senate chamber and imagine that the assertion of the HaXcoCK idea will promote that re- sult. Consequently they are now generouns- ly praising HANCOCK as a man of extraor- dinary perspicacity. In a speech on the snhjeos the other day that most egregions political wanton and moral pervert, Senator DEepPEW, of New York, went into ecstacies over HANCOCK. He was the wost discern- ing man of bis time, this plunderer of the Equitable Insurance company policy hol- ders, declared. He had discovered the pro- fonud secret of political economy, he added, and until the end of time his mem- ory ought to he revered because he had so wisely pointed the way for his party asso- oiates now. At the time, however, DEPEW sang a different song. The servile slave of a cor- poration then as now he led in thedenun- ciation of an ignoramus who would dare make such an assertion. With borrowed wit and in stolen phrases he protested that a man with such crude notions of political science had no right to ran for President or any other office. Of course it was DEPEW who was absurd. The tariff question is a local issue but it isan issue upon which the two great parties in this country are irreconcilably divided. The late Judge BLACK once declared that no man ean be a protectionist and a Demo. crat and that is as true now as it was when he spoke. The ro called Democrats who are voting for protection are traitors. The Quay Statue, The present status of the QUAY statue js uncertain. The Legislature of 1905 created a commission to procure a statue of the late Senator and erect it on the capitol grounds and appropriated $20,000 to defray the ex- penses of fulfilling the proposition. The members of the commission were not ap- pointed until after the adjournment of thas session and under the constitution it was the duty of the Governor to send the names of those selected to the State Senate for confirmation, no appointment being valid ontil so confirmed. The Governor failed to send the names to the Senate for con- firmation, however, and they were not confirmed. The commission proceeded, notwithstanding this fact, nevertheless, and procured the monument which has been ready for delivery for at least two years. For some reason it has not been ereoted on the capitol grounds. Dariog the recent session of the Legis- lature Senator MoNICHOL, of Philadelphia, introduced a concurrent resolution provid- ing that the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings place the QUAY statue in one of the niches in the corrider of the capitol. This resolution was forced tbrough both branches of the Legislature, under the spur of the party whip, near the close of the ses- sion and was among the measures left in the hands of the Governor for approval or veto within thirty days after the adjourn- ment. The Governor neither approved nor vetoed it. If it werea bill, instead of a resolution, and were otherwise regular, there would be no uncertainty about it, In that event the failure to veto and file rea- sons therefor, within the thirty days would have the :ame effect as signing. But the constitution is silent upon the subject of resolutions which have been so neglected. BELLEFONTE, PA, MAY 21, 1o00. Bat there are varions other things te consider in respect to this resolution. The law authorizing the monument specifically provided for ita erection oun the capitol grounds. The resolution provided for its erection in the capitol corridor. Conse- quently the carrying out of the provisions of the resolution would work a repeal or at least the abrogation of the law. The con- stitation forhids the repea! of laws in thas way. To repeal a law it is necessary to proceed by bill in which the law to Be re- pealed is to be recited. Therefore unless it is shown that the law aothorizing the procuring of the QUAY statue aud the eree- tiou of it on the capitol grounds is invalid, the MeNICHOL concurrent resolution is in- valid whether signed or not. If that law was nullified by the failure to confirm the commissioners, the McNicHOL resolution might have been valid if it had been signed. Governor Stuart Vetoes. In so far as Governor STUART'S purpose was to concerve the puplio interest, bie vetoes are to he commended in the most generous terms, Tae Legislatare betrayed a criminal disregard of ite obligations in putting him to the necessity of shaving the appropriation bills twenty-one million dol lars or any sum. The constitution confers upon the Governor no legislative power and fixing the amount of the appropriations is essentially legisiatiog. A man witha scrupulons regard for his official obliga tions would bave reduced the appropria- tions in a constitutional way, if the duty of reducing them bad been imposed upon him. The constitutional way would bave been to veto enough bills in their entirety to make the revennes and appropriations balance. He followed the precedent of his two immediate predecessors, however, and usarped the powers of the Legislature by cutting down items, not separate, to the amount which he estimates the revenues to be. Bat it is not certain or even probable that there was any necessity for catting the appropriations to the extent of $21,- 000,000. Estimates differ materially as to the amonnt of the revenues for the two years covered by the appropriations. The Auditor General estimates them at $47, 000,000 while the State Treasurer is re- sponsible for the statement that they will reach $36,000,000. Divergent statements have also been published as to the aggre. gate of the appropriations. An estimate made in the Governor's office pute them at $67,000,000 while the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House and the chief clerk of that boly estimates them at abont $56,000,000. If the Gov- ernor is right in his estimates both as to the revenues and appropriations, there would be a difference of $20,000,000. Bat with a sarplus inthe Treasury of from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 there would be no necessity for cutting the appropriations $21,000,000. A cat of $10,000,000 wonld have balanced the books acd lefs an ample balance and that could have been accom- plished without even straining the cousti- tation. The most cherished purpose of the Re- publican machine is to preserve a hig balance in the treasury with the view of ‘““larming’’ the public fands. There is no political asset as effective as that. The difference between the interest charged the favored banks, as required by law, and that which currency commands, makes a vast sam on a balance of $15,000,000 to $18,000,000 and if the Governor has out something like $250,000 out of the appro- priation for State College and $6,000 out of the appropriation for the Bellefonte hos- pital simply to create a balance for favorite bankers and speoulative politicians to jog- gle, he has perpetrated an unpardonable orime against the people of Pennsylvania. We are notconvinced that he bas done that. Bat the vast discrepancy in the es- timates, both with respect to the revenues and appropriations give a sinister aspect at least to the situation. ~The National Monthly, a new Demo- cratic magazine, edited by NorMAN E. MACK, chairman of fhe Democratic Nation- al committee, has just made its appearance. It is a magazine of much more than ordi- nary merit, and which we hope will meet with the general approbation, as well as receive the most liberal support o! the Demooratio people. It is a publication of 32 pages with illuminated cover— (pages 10x13) —printed on a good quality of book paper, plentifully illastrated and filled in addition to its editorial and general polit- ical matter with articles from the pens of many of the most prominent and trusted Democrats of the country. It will be far- nished to subscribers at one dollar per year, and at that price the individual who be- comes a patron is getting many times the worth of his money in good, solid Demo- cratio dootrines as well as in alter page of the most interesting valaable reading. We trust that every Demoorat who oan afford to do so will have his name placed upon the subscription list of this most excelient publication, and hope to be able to announce within a few days, olab- bing rates that will enable every patron of the WATCHMAN to become a reader of the National Monthly, Signs of Party Treachery. The discussion of the tariff bill is devel. oping some carious results. On the ques- tion of a tariff tax on iron ore, for example, the other day, some twenty Demoorats, under the leadership of Senator BAILEY, of Texas, voted with the Republicavs fora daty of twenty-five cents a ton, the DING: LEY hill rate being forty cents. From the beginning of tariff discussion in this conn- try, near the close of the eighteenth cen- tary, the policy of the Democratic party bas heen against tariff tax on raw materials. Iron ore is essentially a raw material. It is in greater abundance and easier of ac: cess in this country than any other in the world, Voting for a tariff tax on iron ore ie, therefore, not only a violation of the cardinal principles of Demociacy bat it is outraging the traditions of she party. The Steel trust and the Swandard Oil company owns more than eighty per cent. of all the iron ore concealed and exposed in the United States. A tariff tax ou iron ore is therefore, of ad vantage,almoss exclusive ly, to those two predatory trusts. Prac- tically all the iron and steel mills east of the Ohio line are obliged to bay all the ores they consume from either the Steel trust or the Standard Oil company. There are vast deposits of iroa ore in Caba and if the product of those mines could be brought into this country free of tariff tax a large reduction in the price of structural steel and implemengs of farming would not only be possible bat certain. At present the Steel trust and the Standard Oil company supply the independent concerns with ore only on condition that they will not cut prices, Some time ago Senator BAILEY was un- der snspicion of being in the employ of the Standard Oil company. It was shown that be bad received an enormous fee for per. forming a nominal professional service for that trust. He protested that his relation. ship with the Standard didn’t inflaence his senatorial actions, however, and under an agreement that he would resign if the oon- trary were proven, he was re-elected to the Senate by a perilously small margin. His vote and voice for a tariff tax on iron ore, in the face of the frequently repeated pledge of the Democratic National convention, would indicate therefore, that he is again serving the Standard company, not profes- sionally this time bat officially avd in the Senate. The circumstances are saffisiently suspicions, at least, to jastily a careful inquiry. Traducing an Honest Man, The National Association of Manafactar- ers of which Mr, VAN CLEAVE, of St. Louis is has until lately been president, made a very bitter attack against organized labor, the other day, iv a report of a committee made to the association, during its session in New York. The report is particularly vehement against Mr. SAMUEL GOMPERS, President of the American Federation of Labor, whom it denounced as ‘‘defying the highest courts in the land, and that, too, while he is ander a jail sentence.’ Other labor leaders are severely condemned, though vot by name. ‘‘To put a move- ment for the advancement of the human race in charge of organized labor,” the re. port continues, “‘woald be like putting the lamb in the care of a wolf or a chicken in the care of a hawk.” That was a rather impressive figure of speech but coming from the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers it doesn’t count for much. That association is made up mainly of men who have been debauchiag the politics of this country for nearly fifty years and most of whom bave been guilty, at one time or another, of every electoral crime in the catalogue. Through the me- diom of bribery, fraud and force they have been controlling the elections for the par- pose of perverting the powers of govern- ment to personal uses. They have oppress- ed the poor by legalized robbery and evad- ing the burdens of government have coined the sweat of labor into tainted dollars with which to pay the expenses of costly vices. They are the worst enemies the country bas ever bad in times of war or peace. These men of fat purses and criminal im- pulses imagine that they have a right to bay men and women as they buy trinkets and their enmity to SAMUEL GOMPERS had its inception in their discovery that he couldn’s be corrupted. For years they bave been in the habit of paying labor leaders to betray their obligations, thas de- feating the aims and aspirations of indus- trial workers. But they couldn’s debauch SAMUEL Goumpems. His conscience was proof against all their offers of bribe mon- ey and having failed to ges him they have set out to ornsh him. A more dastardly purpose has never been undertaken and those concerned in it should be lashed ev- erlastingly by decent public opinion. Mr. GOMPERS is ander a jail sentence, but the fact is #0 outrageous that they don’t dare enforoe the penalty. ~—Each person in the United States eats an average of eighty-nine pounds of sugar every year; whiob probably accounts for some of them being so sweet. Excessive Tariffs Worst Fonture. From the Washington Post. Une of the worst features abont excessive tariff rates is that they more or less demor- alize everyholy connected with them. The premium on spoliation and deceit is too large for human nature in ite vormal mor- al strength to resist The condescension to petty larcenies in the falsification of weights and measures by the sogar trast is a couspicaous example of this kind of de- pravity, begotten of the same greed that, on the other hand, fathers moonshining and smoggling. Bat this is not the whole of the sin of tariff rapacity. It leads also to perjury, {and the development into a fine art of wis- representation and deceit. This is not intended to cass any reflection, of course, apon the integrity of the advocates of pro- hibitive tariffs. Many of the very best men who have ever adorned public life in this country have honestly believed in and advocated unscalable tariff walla—walls as high as heaven if peed be—‘‘to keep the foreigner out.’”” Ibis not our purpose to question the sincerity of such champions, or any af them ; bat the fact remains that they bave used and continue to use the sophistries, fallacies, and tariff trickeries, commonly oalled jokers, which the un- sorupuloas beneficiaries bave invented to mislead and to deceive even the elect. Oue ancient verbal igous fatas which it was supposed coald never again illumine the mephitic fogs enveloping this sabjeot is the false pretense that the foreigner pays the tax because it is relatively so small in comparison with the retail price as to he a negligible quantity—that is is loss, so to speak, in the sbuffle. For instance, the argoment is serionsly advanced in con. gress that because the cost of the materials far making, say, a $16 suit is only about $5, tue total duty on which does not ex- oeed $2 ; therefore the added cost attribu- table to the tariff is only $2, whioh the merchant, we are gravely told, dedunots from hie profit. The proposition generally rans this way : The costs of materials, in- cluding duty, is $5 ; add to this $3 lor making and we have a total shop cost $8. The selling price is $16 ; the profit to job- her aud seller is therefore $8, or 100 per cent. . Now as a matter of fact, the selling price in moat schedules, particularly in machin- ery, metallurgy, chemicals, aud art goods of all kinds, exceeds 100 per cents. over shop cost, Even great mavufacturing plants like the General Eleotrio company oould not pay dividends if restricted to thas ad- vance ; for upon shop cost has to be added advertising, say 20 per cent. and interest and fixed charges of, say 30 per cent. and then to thas must he sn dded mauvafac- turing profis, say 30 per . making 180 per oent. (or 80 per cent. advanes =n avery shop cost anit), and finally of thas must come commissions and selling cost of at least two-thirds of the selling prioe, which in the case cited will hring she re- tail price up to 200 per cents. above shop. Let us now apply this scale to the case of the suit of olothes mentioned, and see how it works. The suit cost $8, all told, and bas to be sold at $16 to bring even 100 per cent. above shop cost. Bas if the $2 duty had not been added to she shop cost, then the shop cost would have been $6 instead of $8 and the selling price wounld have been at two for one, $12 instead of $16. So the poor consumer has to pay $4, although the tariff duty was only $2. Thus we see that the initial tariff tax is multiplied all along the line, so that the ultimate consumer pays it at least twice. That this is a very conservative statement every manufacturer well knows. The trick in this argument then lies in the suppression of the fact that the duty entering into the shop cost has invariably to be multiplied hy 100 to 300 r oens. before it gets to the consumer. f the duty isa reasonable one, the tax should be cheerfully borne for the indirect benefits that are involved but when itis excessive, then the consumer is not only taxed, but robbed, hy maltiplication of the excess tribute laid by prohibition rates. Blaming Delany on the Public. From the Pittsburg Post, “We won’s get through uotil August,” is the mistio refrain now coming out of legislative balls in Washington. Pro- tection senators who would re-enact the Dingley law, in effect, complain of the ‘wind jamming,’”” and Senator Scott, of West Virginia, is oredited with the asser- tion that, if the press and public galleries were closed, Congress could adjourn in two weeks. All of which is a ead commentary on Mr. Scots and others of similiar charao. ter, who prefer to work under cover of the night, who set selfish interests above that of he, Whale peuple and Yio ih be & pected to ignore the people more flagrantly than they already have if permitted to re. vise the tariff behind cl doovs. Sena- tor Scott should know that tariff making is a matter which concerns the Toe Nation, even though a very great m ty e people have no voice nor representation in t. Rayner on Tariff Liars. Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record. Senator Rayner made a sensational speech against (the duty on iron ore), in which he made a stinging attack oo tariff liars, declaring that he would Helieve no Huge int ——— the tariff. Whe any n ; 4 situation in Washington here to- day,” he declared, ‘‘is such that you can- not get the truth out of anybody. Iam very fond of liars. I bave studied them by day and by night, but I never in my life saw such an of them as are assembled in this capitol, and they can lie with a facility upon one side or the other of the same question.” —The gentleman who took a nude bath in the sea at Atlantio City, on Tuesday, probably needed it, but he is probably not #0 certain as to whether he needed sixty days in jail, which he is now serving. ~—Quite a number of Centre countians were a courtin’ this week,and quite a nom. ber more will be at it again next week. spawls from the Keystone. ~—Before the end of the summer Danville, Sunbury and Shamokin will be counected with as fine a system of improved highways as exist in the commonwealth. —Punxsutawney will hold an Old Home Week celebration during the fourth week in August. The promoters plan to make it the most memorable event ever pulled off in Jefferson or adjoining counties. —Rev. A. Houtz, one of the best known ministers of the Reformad church in Cen- tral Peounsylvania, after serving the Grange- ville congregation for forty years, his first and only pastorate, has resigned. — The Readiug Coal and Iron company has struck seven valuable veius at their Otto colliery No. 2at Branchdale which expose coal for the miners’ picks worth $10,000,000, the mining of which will take fifty years. —There are 2000 coal miners idle in the Broad Top region. Times are bad through- out the district. The Saxton furnaces are closed and work in the coal and ore mines, which are operated in connection therewith, has been suspended. —On Saturday, May 20th, the monument erected by the people of Clinton county to the memory of those who have served their country in the army or navy of the United States who went from that county, will be dedicated in Lock Haven. ~The mercantile appraisement of Schuyl- kill county shows an increase of 500 business establishments over last year, which will net the state and county over $12,000 in ad- ditional revenue, The wial number of es- tablishments taxed is 4,000. —John Hockenberry, of Milton, while waiting on a car sat down on the wing wall of the Lewisburg bridge, went to sleep and fell thirty feet, breaking his back. He lay where he had fallen for several hours before his condition was discovered. —John Roumanis, a Lancaster confection- er, has been fined thirty-nine tines for sell ing on Sunday. He has paid $271.92 in fines and costs and says the notoriety he gets pays his weekiy penalties. Other dealers who keep open Sundays are not molested, -=Peter Reaninger, of Reading,a puddier’s helper has thrown up his work, sold all his helongings und left for New York, where he says he is to receive $30,000 bequeathed to him by a woman for saving the life of her daughter in the Philippines May 8, 1907. —@G. W. Broocks, 75 years old, is dead at his home in Clarion county. For twenty: aix years he was enployed as a pipe line worker and it is estimated that during that period he walked 162,760 miles, or more than four times the circumference of the globe, in ail kinds of weather. —Johustown stands to lose the location there of a glass bottle manufactory on ae count of the high prices owners of desirable sites have placed on the land. Unless a site can be secured at a reasonable figure the plant will be located elsewhere and the city will lose a valuable industry. —If present intentions are realized Barnes: boro and Spangler, Cambria county, will soon be supplied with natural gas. A com- pany has been formed, several wells will be hared near Carrolitown and the gas piped to tEese places. Work is to be commenced im- mediately and gas will be delivered “before winter. —Indiana ia to have a $30,000 filtration plant, which is to be erected on a nine-acre tract of land. The Marsh run passes through the east side of it, and is said to be an ideal location for a filtration plant. As much of the $40,000, voted for the purpose at the election last fall as is needed will be used in erecting the plant. —A posse of police and miners all Satar- day night and Sunday took part in a man hunt for the slayer of Gaorge Setset, 23 years old, who was killed by an unknown man at Graceton, seven miles north of Blairs: ville. Setset and his murderer were drink. ing together when rn quarrel started which ended in the tragedy. —James Herzog, of Johnstown, is in the Memorial hospital that city, suffering from a fracture of the pelvis, lacerations of injuries, which he receiv. ed when an sufomobile in which he was riding becamy unmanageable and turned turtle. r/0ther occupants of the machine with slight injuries. ~The Clearfield and Franklin railroad people are moving right along and are get- ting in shape to inaugurate Now York Cen- tral traffic on the new route hetween the east and west through Clearfield as early this summer as possible. It is stated that the passenger trains on this new line will be running to Clearfield by July 15. —A court decision of wide interest was handed down by Judge Woods, at Bedford, a few days ago, in which it is held that where a township has adopted the cash road sys- tem, it cannot return again to the work tax system. The voters of a Bedford towuship at an election held a year or two ago declar: ed in favor of the cash tax system, and after trial it was again submitted to a vote of the qualified electors,when the majority of them favored a return to the old system. This, Judge Woods holds, they had ne right to do, and he has set aside the election. —Last Friday night at 12 o'clock fire broke out in the stave and saw mill of E. E. Herlacher, in Bull Run gap, about three miles south of Loganton, and despite the efforts of the mon employed on the mill who were aroused from their slumbers in the boarding house nearby, the mill and 175,000 staves were burned, and the machinery was ruined. The mill was in operation on Fri. day, but there was no fire about the place that night, and the origin of the fireis a mystery. The loss on mill, machinery and staves will reach $2,000 with no insurance. ~Unknown men blew up the power house of the Clymer Brick works, twelve miles from Indiana causing $23,000 loss, and escap- ed without leaving a clew. No motiye is known. The power house of the works was broken into and from it were taken 150 pounds of dynamite in three cases. The ex. plosive was placed under the power house and a fuse 250 feet long was attached and ignited. The wreck of the building and the valuable machinery in it was complete, not a board being left standing The power house was about three hundred feet from the main building, which wae not damaged. =
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