©. GRAY MEEK.
on — :
dentally, the son bas been mak-
le that sonnds like bot weather.
man bas done the right
ait ot
Ming for the ciroase fn Belletonte thus fa
. Sn al " ave mush faith in the ol
ote’ wp of our ball players they
ate not making & toisé like pennant win-
5 &
i
OER
couple who took their
‘thought it the right thing to get up in the
~Chageellor Vox BEuLOW, of Germany,
migh _ be disappointed il the Reichstag
_ sbould regard bis threat of resignation as
~ blufl and call it.
- was good order, of ccurse, bat
2 that dido’s keep the thonsands who went
#0 the cirous on Wednesday afternoon from
biving a hot time.
,==President TAFT sends a tariff message
Congress and stocks depreciate seventy-
e million dollars in consequence. For
tunately the new President doesn’t write
8% many messages as the former one did.
\=BILLY DoLL's new ice plant can’t be
likened noto DEWITT'S early risers, any”
way. They are reputed to work while
Fe
you sleep. While the ice plant, thas lar,
bas kept working and kept your uncle
FULLER awake as well.
{==The Congressman who imagines that
he oan secure the support of any honest
newspaper by voting to pat paper on the
free list and then voting to keep a high
tariff on shoes, clothing, ete., will find out
what the honest newspaper is here for
when he comes up for re-election.
-—The approach of the Glorious Fourth
recalls so vividly the spectacular ascent of
the rooket and she petered out descent of
the stick that we cso’t help thinking of
that great bunting expedition to Africa that
drew columns when it started and is now
rarely good for a single inch io the daily
papers.
—Roumania is the most illiterate coun,
try of Europe. Two-thirds of the popula-
gion can neither read nor write, yet its
Queen bas written thirty volumes. She
was not the author of Three Weeks, bow.
ever, else the percentage of the non read-
& populace would have been materially
e fighting in Bellefonte got what
od on Mouday night. A good so-
lexus in the enthusiasm of the fellows
heen putting np for the game.
“When that kind of sport is necessary to the
bappiness of this community we are glad
that its devotees are given such rank exhi-
bitions as will disgust them.
—We are in the newspaper business and
always have been opposed to high tariffs,
but Congress bas no more business to put
wood pulp and white paper on the free list
than it has to put hides, lumber, wool or
any other raw material that enters into the
necessaries of life on the free list. It is
more important that the public get their
shoes, clothes and food cheaper than that
newspapers be given the benefit of free raw
material.
—Of course it is only street gossip, but
as there is something io such things, some-
times, it is amusing, to say the least, the
way some of the older members of council
have played rings around some of the newer
ones in the new hydro-electric lighting
proposition. Rumor has it that some of
the latter joined in the burrab against hav-
ing a street carnival merely to ‘‘log roll”
in the larger movement, but when the ‘‘log
rolling” was began it turned out to bea
regular ‘steam roller’ and they got on
der is.
~The sad death of ELsiE SIGEL,a grand-
daaghter of Gen. FRANZ SIGEL, in a
Chinese chop suey Louse, in New Yaoik, a
few days ago, is another warning against
the danger of young American girls be-
coming too friendly with the semi-civilized
men of foreign nationalitiee. While she
was a christian slum worker and bad every
surface reason to trust her slayer, yet the
peril was always present and always will
be ; hence the folly of American women
exposing themselves to the frenzy of such
lecherous characters.
—It you are the owner of any kind of an
old hammer get it out and knock on the
hospital awhile. Young and experimental
as it is the institution has dope so much
more good in this community than any-
thing else we ever had that the wise (?)
ones who wouldn't pay thirty cents to
keep it going or devote an hour's time to
‘helping along think now that they must do
something so they are in on the anvil cho-
rus with a vim that would make the hos-
pital run as easily as the big spring if their
energies were applied in the right direo-
tion.
=A White House conference has fixed up
the tariff bill so that speedy action may be
lgoked for from Washington. The newest
feature is a tax of two per cent. on the nes
earnings of corporations in excess of five
thousand dollars. While the proposed law
has not been framed up yet and we can
only guess at how it will read we feel safe
in making a statement in advance to the
effect that there will be so many loop holes
in is thas very few corporations will be na.
able to show up that they do not bave net
earnings in excess of the five thousand dol.
1ér exemption limit.
Senator Lodge Forced to Reform.
Senator Longe, of Massachusetts, was
severely chided hy hia protectionist friends
in the Senate, the other day, because he in-
dicated a disposition to favor free hides
The real tariff monger wants nothing on
the free list that is made by anybody in
this country. He believes with all the fer-
vor of a bigot that is is the daty of protec-
tionists to stand together, right or wrong.
senator LODGE bas acted upon this prinei-
ple, bitherto, with a fidelisy that couldn’t
be questioned. Bat the matter of taxing
hides is one which immediately concerns
bis constituents. A very large proportion
of she shoe factories of this country are lo-
cated in Massachusetts and the markes for
their product is necessarily outside of that
State and to a considerable extent outside
of the country. In the trade of this char-
acter the matter of tariff tax on hides outs
a very considerable figure.
The beef trust enjoys a practical monop-
oly of the supply of hides under existing
conditions. That is to say that colossal
corporation kills a large proportion of toe
cattle slaughtered in this country and with
a prohibitive tariff on hides produced in
other countries, it can fix the prices of
leather, ahsolutely. The Massachusetts
shoe factories are thus made slaves of the
beef trust. If the capacity of their facto-
ries was limited to the demand for domes.
tio uses, the Massachusetts shoemakerg
might take a complaisant view of the sub-
jeot of tariff taxation on bides for they
could regulate their prices accordingly.
But the capacity of the factories i= much
greater than the home consumption and
the owners of the factories muss look else-
where for markets for their surplus or else
out down the volume of their product.
For this reason they demand free hides and
Senator LODGE must join in the demand
or lose his job.
Of course in this tariff tax on hides ae in
the tariff tax on all other commodities, the
consumer has the greatest interest and as
it bappene she consumer is vastly the great-
er in number. Every man, woman and
child who wears shoes pays tribute to the
beef trust in the tariff tax on hides for the
reason that the price of shoes is inoreased,
not only by the amoant of the tax, but in
an additional #um to pay for the time and
trouble of collecting the tax. But Senator
LODGE paye no attention to this aspect of
the affair. He said in a speech, several
weeks ago, that the consumer is a myth,
and not worth considering. Bat the shoe
manufacturers of Massaobusetts are not a
myth. They are reai men who have mon-
ey and take a hand in polities now and
shen, and they bave forced Senator LopGE
to take notice.
Still Asleep or Cousiderably Of.
That Rip-van-Winkle of Philadelphia
newspaperdom — the Ledger — awakened
sufficiently on Monday last to give evi-
dence of how loag aud how soundly it has
bees aleeping, hy asserting that since 1906
there ‘‘bas been no Democratic party in
Pennsylvania.” In its comatose oondi-
tion, is seems to have forgotten that in
November 1900, there were 424,232 oiti-
zens who understood themselves so be
Demoorats, and cast their ballots for what
they believed to be Democratic principles
and the Democratic candidates ; that in
1904 there were 335,430 who did the same
thing, and that as late as November 1908,
448,785 of the best people of the State reg-
istered themselves as Demoorats by the
votes they cast.
This body of men—almost oue-hall mil-
lion etrong—and representing every trade,
profession, interest and business in the
State, certainly ought to be considered of
sufficient importance, when working to-
gether for a common purpose, to be con-
sidered and recognized as a pretty formida-
ble party, or at least a nuoleus for the per-
fecting of one. But our esteemed contem-
porary can’t see it in that way. Whether
it don’t want to, or whether it is because
of its only partly awakened condition the
WarcEMAN would pot care to make a
guess,
Oat of regard, however, to the persistent
claims it is always makiog of its honesty
in the expression ol its opinions, and the
correctness of its statements, we will try to
believe that its conclusions on this sabject
and which wipes the Democracy of Penn-
sylvaunia off of the political map, are charge-
able more to its want of knowledge than to
a desire to misrepresent or deceive. As ev-
idence of how little it knows of political
conditions we need only read a little farth-
er down in the same column to find that
it bas the Democratic State convention
meeting in Harrisburg next week, and a
fall hall colamn of advice as to what it
should, but what it knows it will not, do.
Sareiy a paper that gives no more evi.
dence of thought as to political conditions,
or has no more reliable political koowl.
edge than the Ledger shows in she article
referred to, is not much of a source to
which intelligent men can turn for either
adyioe or information.
TAA AAT NTMI
«There has been no great demand for
overcoats the past few daye.
BELLEFONTE,
Concerning Wood Pulp and Prine |
Paper.
The esteemed New York Evening Post
bas adopted she view expressed in these
colamns some time ago to the effect that
the protectionist newspapers which demand
free pulp aud free white paper are alike in-
consistent and undeserving of considera.
tion. A number ofl our esteemed coo-
temporaries insist on the fall measure of
prohibitive tariff tax on all articles of gen-
eral consumption except wood pulp aod
white print paper avd demand with equal
vehemence that those articles be pat upon
the free list. The New York Evening Post
in a recent issue, declares, as the WATCH-
MAN declared a year ago that this is hypo-
oritical and absurd. There is less reason
for putting print paper and wood pulp on
the free list than either one of a baudred
other articles which are necessaries of life.
Neither of those articles are that.
The only excuse for putting wood pulp
and print paper on the free list is that they
are raw materials and it is good ecovomic
policy to put all raw materials on the (ree
list for the reason that such action stimu-
lates industrial activity and gives em-
ployment to labor. But there is far greacer
reason for pusting iron ore, hides, wool,
coal and a vast number of other raw wma-
terials on the free liss than there is for put-
ting wood pulp and white paper on that
list. Pablic intelligence is promoted by
cheap newspapers and education is beve-
fisted by the extension of newspaper oir-
culations and influence. But it is quite as
important that people should bave food to
eat and clothes to wear as thas shey should
bave information and literature, and for
that reason we protest against the bypoorisy
that demands free wood pulp and white
paper aud tariff taxation upon wool, hides
and other raw materials essential to in-
dustrial prosperity and healthfal existence.
We are quite as much io favor of free
wood pulp and white paper as any of our
esteemed protectionist contemporaries. The
tariff tax on those commodities puts a con-
siderable borden upon every newspaper
aud printing establishment, tor aulike other
victims of the tariff schedules, our burden
can’t be shifted on to the consumer. Bat
we protest that other taxes on raw ma-
terials are more objectionable for the rea-
eon thas they affect a greater number, be-
cause the tariff tax on hides aod iron ore
as well as most other artioles of commerce
are put upon the consumer hy increasing
the price of she necessaries of life into the
manafavtere of which they enter. We
sincerely hope, therefore, thas unless the
other raw materials are placed oo the [ree
list the tariff tax on wood pulp and white
print paper will be continued indefinitely.
The Right Time.
It’s a long while until she election and
people are nos bothering much about poli-
tics, but a great many people are wonder
ing why it wouldn't be a good time to
show the bosses oad their gang followers a
thing or two in the way of upsettiog calon-
lations.
It wouldn't bart the State nor lessen jus.
tice a bit, to have two Democratic judges
on the Supreme cours bench. There would
still be a Republican majority of five iu
that body and if that party needed any
special decision it could be bad.
It wouldn’t make Peonsylvania Demo-
oratio to place a Democrat in charge of the
Auditor Geveral’s office for a term or two,
bat it would lessen the power aud control
of the bosses aud rings to an amazing ex-
tent, and thereby give more importance
and influence to that claas of citizens who
pride themselves on their independence.
It wouldn't injure the oredis or good
name of the State a partiole to place an
honest Democrat in the Treasurer's office
again, hut it might frighten the manipa-
lators of Republican conventions into pick-
ing cleaner and better men for that place
in the fature than the creature they have
put up for the reputable voters to support
this fall.
Altogether it is about as good a time to
give the bosses such a trouncing as would
induce them to be good, for a little while
at least.
——Mr. TAFT may be Presidents, but
outside of the tariff deception that is being
practiced npon the people, there don’t seem
to be much going ov in his party other than
ite attempt to get onto the Democratic
platform. Since November last four States
bave adopted the Democratic proposition
of requiring a state guarantee for bank de-
positors. President TAFT himeell and the
greater portion of his party bave come out
for the Democratic idea of an individual in-
come tax, and if things don’t soon change
there is no tellin’ bow long it may be until
the Republican papers will be claiming the
Denver declarations as the doctrines of
that party. And what seems strangest of
all is thas the country seems to be none the
less promising of prosperity because of the
adoption of these BRY ANistic ideas.
EE ———
weHarvest time will be here in about
three weeks when the farmers wil! bave
their busiest time of the whole year.
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA., JUNE 25. 1909.
Sudden Changes of Mind.
Dariog th: Presidential campaign last |
tall President TAFT nos only declared the |
present power of Congress to eoact an in-
come tax law bu: added thas io the
event she condition of the revenues re-
quired is be would favor she exercise of
that power. [It is safe to say that no single
incident of the campaign contributed more
$0 the sucoess of the Republican party thao
that. The pledge shat she tarifl wonld be
revised downward held a large namber of |
voters of thas faith to the siokes it is true, |
but pablic sentimeut was more fixed in
favor of she income sax shan in the matter
of tariff revision. All other commercial
countries have suoh sources of revenue and
thos ealth is made to bear its juss share
of the burdens of government. Tn Great
Britain, for example, the tax oo incomes
produces more revenue than any other
single subject of taxation.
Now that the campaign is over, however,
and Tavr is firmly fixed in bis office, he
appears to have ohanged bis mind with
respect to th: authority of Congress on that
subject. Iona special message, the other
day, he asserts she proposition that no
such law can be enacted unless the consti-
tation 1+ amended. No each sadden
change has been made in the mini of any
public official since Jadge SHIRAS, of the
Sapreme court reversed, himsell on the
same subject. Wish a majority of his ocol-
leagues on the bench that jorist declared
on one day thas the income feature of the
Witson tariff bill was coostitational and
the next day he decided the same ques-
tion on the other side and again made a
majority of she court. Is has always been
believed that the rich men’s lobby had
been laboriog with him daring the inter-
val between the two decisions.
It is not easy to conjecture why the maul-
timillionaires of the country are so much
opposed to an income tax. Is would take
a considerable pars of sheir sarplus money
no doubt and possibly the power to give
away books aud make large contributions
to colleges or other ivstisations. Bat an
income tax is the fairest and best method
of raising revenue that has ever been de-
vised, Men of large incomes can pay taxes
withotit impairing the comtorts of their
tamilies and they ought to pay for the rea-
son that they derive larger benefits from
governments. The same influences that
obanged Jadge SHIRAS' mind over night
mast bave been operating upon President
TAFT since his election.
~The attention of the WATCHMAN
editor has been called to the large amount
of Canada thistle allowed to thrive in vari-
ous places in Centre county, especially
through Bald Eagle valley. This is one of
the worst pests that farmers have to ocon-
tend with and it is eurprising that the
noxious weed is allowed to thrive as it
does. Onoe it gets a good start it is one of
the bardess of weeds to exterminate and
for this reason a law is in force imposing a
fine on all property owners who wiltally
allow Canada thistle to thrive uwpou their
premises. It also makes it obligatory upon
constables to oat the thistle along the pub.
lic highway and even go on another man’s
premises and cut the weed wherever it hae
not heen attended to. And this is the time
of year wheu the thistle ought so be cut as
is will soon be in blossom and then it takes
it bat a short time to seed. In facta bet-
ter way to treat the pest is to pull it ont.
The ground is quite wes now and on ordi-
nary land is would be an easy matter to
pull the thistle out, roots and all. Io any
event, ges rid of it.
—— It has hecome very apparent that
the Republican Senate and House don’t
propose giving auy relief to the country
through Tariff revision. The same high
prices for every necessary of life is to be
maintained aud the poor devil who hes to
dig every day for enough to fill his belly
and cover his back is to be kept on digging
it be 18 to earn encogh to live on, while
the few who have always been she bene-
ficiaries of the system are to go on acoumu-
lating wealth to uutold amounts. Bat
most of the fellows whose dinner tables
have the least upon them, and whose hacks
will blister these bot days through the
holes in their thin shirts, voted to have it
that way, and we presume it is right that
it abounld be so. As least is will be no
fault of the Democratic voter, if bigh prices
for everything but labor, and tough times
for every one but the tariff beneficiary,
should continue indefinitely.
that muoh satisfaction in the situation any
way.
——AS least once a year, generally in
the spring, a story is started that a trolley
line is to be built over the Seven moun-
tains from Lewistown to Bellefonte, and
thie summer is no exception to the rule.
And the fact that the General Utilities | rejoicing
company, of Philadelphia, have purchased
all the stook of the Mifflin county gas and
electrio company is given as almost a oer-
tain reason why it will be bails this time.
S—
There is | iD
A Piattorm Asininhy.
From the Altoona Times.
Many causes have been advanced as rea-
sous for the business depression which was
usuered in a couple of years back, but is
remained for the framers of the Republican
platform at last week’s state convention,
to make them absolutely ridiculous by as-
eribing it toa fear of Democratic success
in capturing the presidency. Thas the
Democratic party was regarded as danger-
ous a year ago will be cheering news to
millions of members of that party who
were unable to sev anything but the defeat
thas overtook their candidate.
Of course, it was mavilestly impossible
for the Pennsylvania Republican leaders
to be hovest, even in the perfauctory task
of writing a platform in ao off year. Every
intelligent person knows that the panic
was precipitated by wildcat speculation and
excesses of market manipulators, plus a
determined effort to compel President
Roosevelt 10 desist in his effective crusade
against ‘‘malefactors of wealth.”
As far as we know, no decent Republican
Dewspape!, no matter how hidebound, has
bad the effrontery to ascribe the business
setback to any influence that the Demo-
cratic party exerted, and for the Pennsyl-
vaoia convention to advance such a Jee.
posterons and asinine claim at this lateday
denotes a lack of intelligence and a deplor-
able disregard for fairness on the part of
ig who dominated Wednesday's gather-
ng.
The many workmen who read the plas-
form declaration will not beable to reconcile
its pretensions with aotual conditions that
exist today. The statement that business
balted notil the identity of Mr. Roosevelt's
successor had heen determined is really
bumoroas in view of she fact that there has
not been any appreciable improvement six
mouths after all uncertainty had been clear-
ed away. It will bea difficult matter to
convince idle workmen, and others who are
on shortened time and reduced pay, that
the speotre of ible Democratic success
is responsible for their misery.
The Selfishness of It
From the New York Evening Post.
We do not often agree with Senator Till-
man, but confess to a certain sympathy
with his blunt characterization, yesterday,
of a high-tariff press now demanding free
wood pulp and printing paper. The South
Carolina Senator deolared thay newspapers
which advocated bigh duties on everything
thas the people eat, wear and use, yes at
the same time clamored for the free admis.
sion of their own pulp and paper, were ar-
rant humbaogs ; and we do not see how. it
can be denied. The Evening Post is
aunxions as auy other paper to get its raw
materials cheap, but we should be asham-
ed to ask that our own tariff taxes be re-
mitted, while consenting or stipulating
that every one else's shold be i high-
er. Toe press campaign for she lowering
or removal of the paper duties cannot be
made to appear respectable, exoeps as a
part of a gesaral movement to free all forms
of industry and consumption from needless
tariff burdens. That was one reason why
President Roosevelt's appeal to Congress
to take off the duties on wood pulp and
printing paper got eo little response. It
pleased the newspapers, just as a proposal
to put a duty of $50 a ton on steel rails
would please the rail manufactarers ; bat
either, standing by itself, would be a piece
of favoritism, In the common benefit to be
bad from a general cutting down of the
tariff, newspapers are entitled to their
share; but to demand that they be lavored,
while advocating that others be muloted,
is enough to stir bile more sloggish than
Senator Tillman's.
Taft and the Tariff.
From the Dover (Del.) Index.
Many Republicaus are coming to believe
President Taft a political trimmer and
time server, and some Republican Senators
are openly saying eo. hat are Demo-
orate and real tariff reformers to believe?
Daring the campaign Taft emphatically de-
clared aud reiterated the declaration clear
up to the calling of the extra session of
Congress that he favored real revision and
downward and vot upward. Aldrich and
the few other bosses of the Repablican par-
ty let him work his mouth so long as it
answered their purposes. They knew their
man and they knew they could shut him
up when the time came. Since the tariff
bill bas been in the hands of Congress,
though duties bave been increased on al-
most every article of necessity and the gen-
eral average of duties is above the average
of the Dingley bill, President Taft has not
opened bis mouth. The Republican Sen-
ators who took the Republican promises
seriously aud could not sacrifice conviction
and honesty at the behest of Aldrich, have
done everything possible to call the fat
President from his apparent stupor. He
seems either doped or scared into silence,
or his loud professions were political lies.
Now he is playing into the hands of his
masters on & new-fangled soheme of income
taxation. Either the Republican bosses
are playing with dynamite and are to be
treated to an awful awakening, or William
H. Taft will go down in history as the big-
gest fake that bas ever occupied the presi.
dential chair.
Democracy.
From Bryan's Commoner,
Senator McEnery, of Louisiava, in mak.
an argument for a duty on sugar says :
“‘It is gratifying that at this session of Con-
gress we notice a great clLange of opinion
among Democrats who are voting for a
duty on raw materiai,althongh at one time
raw material was considered a cardinal
neiple of Dem If Senator Me-
ery will listen closely he will notice that
the sonnd which emanates from the throats
of the Democrats of the rank and file when
they read of this charge does not resemble
. And if the Senator bappens to
look in upon the Senate a few years hence,
it may not be gratifying to him to notice
80 many new faces.
~The farmers are now busy making
hay and she bum of the mower is heard on
———fubsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
all sides as one travels through the country,
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Thirty-three cattle, on the farm of John
DuBois, at DuBois, have been killed by state
authorities, on account of being infected with
tuberculosis.
—The officials of the Clearfield Bituminous
Coal corporation say that the machinery
being installed at Clymer, will enable the
operations to keep abreast with the most
successful in Western Pennsylvania.
~The campaign for $20,000 which has been
waged by the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation at Williamsport for some time past
closed at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening, when
the subscriptions amounted to $21,414.67.
—At Barneshoro, every dog appearing on
the street anmuzzled is shot. Some dog
owners are very indignant over this state of
affairs, but the drastic measures are con-
sidered necessary on account of the spread
of hydrophobia.
~The farmers who peddle their produce
in the streets of Pittsburg, are very indig-
nant over the new license fees they must
pay. Some of the sons of the soil are taxed
as high as $75 per annum for privilege of
selling to Pittsburgers.
—Rather than run down a number of
women avd children, Harry Naylor, a fire.
man of Harrishurg, drove his horse and ap*
paratus through a plate glass window.
Neither of the men on the carriage were
hurt but the horse was badly cat.
—Dr. D. L. Bufington, of Johustown, was
found guilty of embezzlement, by the county
court, at Ebensburg, of $735 of the funds of
the Patriotic Order of Americans. The jury
in the case returned the verdict in ten min-
utes after they left the court room.
—S0 weak from typhoid fever that he
could not rise, J. Clayton Gable, of Felton,
near York, when he saw a fox which had
stolen forty of his chickens in his yard, had
his wife prop him up in bed with pillows
and succeeded in shooting Reynard.
—The auto line from Mill Hall to Lock
Haven, runon the same plan asa trolley
line, may be extends 1 to Avis, to connect
with the Jersey Shore and Antis Fort elec~
tric railway. Quitea number of residents
along the line are booming the project.
~The contract was let for the buildings,
machinery aud sidings for a milk conden.
sary to be erected at Mill Hall, not far from
Lock Haven. The new industry will give
employment to a number of people, and the
Mill Hallersare enthusiastic over the pros.
pect.
—A gas well with a pressure of 11,000,000
feet was lately drilled on the lease of G. C.
Deemer, near Panxsutawney. The pressure
was at first pot believed to be near as great
as itis. The Standard Oil company is said
to have offered $80,000 for the well. Deemer
refused.
~The company taking over the leases of
J. W. Hooton and Dr. H. H. Thompson, in
connection with the 900 acres of valuable
coal land belonging to the Schoonover estate,
near Munson, will proceed at once to put in
a slope and begin the development of the
Property on a large scale. The operation
will give employment to a large number of
hands.
—At Montgomery, near Williamsport, last
Thursday, Eimer Hull was on the dam ina
launch, fishing. Near the breast of the
dam the boat became unmanageable, and
Hull, becoming freightened, jumped into the
water. He was unable to swim, and was
carried through the chute by the currems
and drowned. Persons on the shore saw the
whole catastrophe, but were unable to help
the unfortunate young man.
—John Krell's big gypsy outfit was camp-
ing lately at Irwin when one of the band
who was kicked by a horse and had develop.
ed blood poisoning, died. Krell purchased
an expensive coffin and gave out that the
man would be buried on Sunday afternoon.
A large crowd went out to see the funeral,
but the body had already been interred.
The most vigilant search failed to discover
the whereabouts of the grave,
~At Willlamspott, Mrs. Albert 8. Munro,
a bride ofa week, ate a hearty meal and
then took a warm bath. This caused dip-
theritic heart trouble, and resulted in the
woman's death. Her husband on finding
her dead, fell in a swoon and bis face being
pressed against the bed clothes and his hands
he was smothered to death. At first there
was mystery about the case, and before post-
mortem examinations were held the poisom
in food theory was advanced.
—A novel wedding occarred at Williams-
port last Thursday, when A. 8S. Speece, aged
63, of Speeceville, Dauphin county, wedded
Anna E. Reich aged 63, of Lewistown, in the
presence of a large gathering of relatives
from the two counties. Among the attend.
ants were the thirteen sons and daughters
of the bridegroom and also two former
sweethearts. Mr. Speece is a prominent
brick manufacturer and the bride is a well
known teacher. They met two mouths ago.
—It is not altogether probable the Coder
run viaduct, asteel-girder bridge of over
800 feet in length ou the Jamestown, Frank-
lin & Clearfield railroad, will be completed
by the first of July. Preparations are now
being made for the placing of the deck, and
in two weeks’ time it will take on a practic-
ally finished appearance. Thisis the last
bridge to be completed before the connection
is made with the Pennsylvania railroad at
Rose siding, two miles west of Brookville.
By the 10th of July the road will be com-
pleted, as far as the track-laying is concern=
ed, after which time trains will be able to
run over the entire distance of sixty miles.
—The coming anuual convention of the
Penusyivania State Educational association
at Bethlebew, Pa, June 20.30, and July 1,
promises to be the greatest held for many
years. This convention will be the fifty-third
avnual meeting, and during that period of
time many important changes have been
wrought in the sphere of teaching in this
state. The greatest of instruciors have
shared this body of teachers the benefit of
their rare experience and through their
labors Pennsylvania owes its present stand-
ing in the advancement of general education.
The executive committee has strenuously
worked to make the program strong and in-
teresting, and a very helpful gathering is
assured.