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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK _SLINGS.
—What kind of a Fourth of July is
Bellefonte to have?
—A prophet is not without honor save
in his own country.
—And the mountains heaved and
brought forth a mouse.
—Anyway the farmers can’t complain
because they have to haul water.
—Reorganization is complete. Will
reconciliation be just as complete.
—We Democrats fought like pirates at
Harrisburg, on Tuesday, but it's all over
now.
—TEDDY i3 too busy just now bran.
dishing “the big stick” to think anything
about a "square deal.”
——TAFT is hardly equal to his pred-
ecessor as a lip fighter but he is devel.
oping speed very rapidly.
—In New York they are employing
the Boy Scouts to swat flies and we can’t
imagine a more useful purpose to put
them to.
~The milliners have no objection to
an all-around decrease in the cost of liv-
ing but protest that hats shouldn't bear
all the burdens.
—Talking about the way that Missouri
houn’ dawg was kicked around, do you
think it had anything on the Old Guard
at Harrisburg on Tuesday.
——S0 far as TAPT is concerned it is
not likely to make much difference
whether the constitution forbids or favors
a second term for the President.
—It is funny what devilish things many
Republicans believe all Democrats to be
and yet how courteously candidates WiL-
SON and CLARK treat one another.
—We are ready to make a wager that
the Hon. WEBSTER GRIM will treat candi-
date BERRY more courteously than the
Hon. WiLLiAM BERRY treated candidate
GRIM.
—The farmer who hasn't his oats
sowed is worrying about as much as the
one who sowed his too early. Surely the
farmer sees too much of the hole in the
doughnut.
—TAFT says ROOSEVELT is dangerous
and ROOSEVELT says TAFT is useless. So
there you have it. Believe both of them
and you'll vote for the Democratic nomi-
nee for President.
—You farmer! If you are uneasy be-
cause the season is so late and you
haven't your oats out yet pick up your
bible and read the 22nd verse of the 8th
5, Chapter of Genesis.
——The beef trust magnates recently
escaped imprisonment as the result of
an expensive trial and now proposes to
reimburse itself by increasing the price
of meat. In other words you can't scare
the beef trust.
——Texas is a southern State, all right,
but New Jersey's candidate for President
appears to have developed an immense
popularity in that “neck o' the woods.”
But then Woobrow WILSON is a south-
erner by birth.
—Since our naval high-brows have de-
cided that the first thing this country
should do, in the event of becoming em-
broiled in a serious foreign war, is to
evacuate the Philippines, wouldn't it
be a little more creditable to evacuate
right now.
—It didn't take Messrs. PALMER, GUTH-
RIE and McCoRrMICK long to force the unit
rule down the throats of those reorgan-
izer delegates who were sent to Harris-
burg with the understanding that they
were to be free agents and take orders
from no one.
—Talking about bosses, read the pa-
pers and see if Mr. A. MITCHELL PAL-
MER, GEORGE W. GUTHRIE and VANCE
McCormick didn’t play the part to the
limit at Harrisburg on Tuesday. The
unit rule was forced on the delegates
and the “slate” that had been made up
weeks before went through without a jar.
—That parade of twenty thousand
Suffragists in New York city was certain-
ly a corker. They say it was impress.
ive. It must have been. Think of how
much happier those women were brazen.
ly tramping the streets than they could
possibly have been at home preparing
cheery welcomes for twenty thousand |
husbands.
—A Sunday baseball game in Wilming-
ton, Del., broke up in a free-for-all fight
in the eighth inning. With the field cov-
ered with a riotous mob the band in the
grand stand struck up that late popular
air, “Everybody's Doin’ it Now,” and
then the fight stopped. There is no ac-
counting for the tangents at which a lot
of excited baseball fans will shoot off.
~—Mr. PALMER'S little scheme to have
the Pennsylvania delegation to the Na-
tional convention as his own personal
trading stock, in order to pay CHAMP
CLARK for having put him on such im-
portant congressional committees, was
beautifully balked. If the Regulars
couldn't accomplish anything else they
did force that ambitious young gentleman
to permit the Pennsylvania delegation to
be instructed to stick to WILSON to the
finish. It was a bitter pill for PALMER
but we smoked him out so effectively
that he didn’t have the courage to pull
off the trick that he has been working
for for months.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_VOL. 57.
The State Co Goaveation.
The Democratic Stat State convention was
disappointing in some respects but it
nominated a ticket that we hope will
meet the approval of the Democratic vot-
ers generally. and adopted a platform
that will doubtless be accepted and en-
dorsed by every one who desires a change
from the rotten conditions Republicanism
has brought upon the country.
We had hoped that the factional spirit
which has disturbed the harmony and im-
paired the prosperity of the party for the
past two years would be completely ex-
orcised by a reorganization of the party
on a basis of exact justice to all. This
expectation was not fulfilled in the or-
ganization and proceedings of the con-
vention, but notwithstanding this, the
fact that a Democratic convention, speak-
ing for the Democratic people, has nam-
ed its candidates and expressed its
principles, we sincerely hope that all
Democrats will acquiesce in the work it
has done, and do their duty as Demo-
crats.
The so-called reorganizers have no
claim to leadership of the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania. GEORGE W. GUTH-
RIE and VANCE C. McCorMmicK, for ex-
ample, are not Democrats either in prac-
tice or precept. Neither of them has
voted the ticket regularly or consistently
for sixteen years. Both are ambitious to
rule and ready to ruin if the ambition is
disappointed. Their active associates in
the political revolution are equally ambi-
tious as is shown by the fact that each
of them has grabbed for himself a large
part of the honors. Mr. PALMER is a del-
egate at large and wants to be member
of the National committee. Mr. GUTH-
RIE is delegate at large and wants to be
chairman of the State committee. Mr.
McCormick is delegate at large and as-
pires to be the dispenser of patronage
and Mr. BLAKESLIE is a district delegate
to the National convention.
But as we have already said the voice
of the Democratic people of the State
has, through its regularly chosen repre-
sentatives, been registered by the action
of its convention and all should overlook
Mens demugreso¢ he affair and_join in
an to elect the ticket and
restore the party to its rightful place in
the civic life of the Commonwealth. The
manhood of the Democracy of Pennsyl-
vania will not long endure the leadership
of men who have heretofore been recre-
ants and before long these political huck-
sters will be relegated to oblivion. We
have no desire for the restoration to pow-
er of the old leaders, any mcre than they
have themselves. But we do hope and
believe that the management of the par-
ty will soon be committed to men who
have been faithful to their party obliga-
tions.
——An esteemed contemporary says
that “a few years ago it was not a com-
mon thing for the President to go on the
stump.” Quite true. But it wasn't cus-
tomary, a few years ago, to elevate such
rough riders as ROOSEVELT to the office
of President and then permit him to
name his successor.
The Archbald Inquiry.
The charges against circuit Judge
ARCHBALD, of the United States’ court, are
assuming serious proportions. He is ac-
cused of participating in some business
enterprises incompatible with his public
obligations. At first the accusations were
treated as trifling. It was said that the
ARCHBALD concerned was not the judge
but his brother and that no harm had
been done and no law violated. But those
interested refused to accept such explana-
tions and continued to demand an inves:
tigation and now information comes from
Washington that a real and searching
inquiry will be instituted.
The public is to be congratulated upon
| this issue of the question. Public officials
are altogether too willing to engage in
commercial enterprises in which their in.
terests may be promoted by information
which comes to them in their official
capacity and which is closed to all com-
petitors. This is the most objectionable
form of special privilege. It is subversive
of moral as well as business principles.
If Judge ARCHBALD has been concerned
in any such transactions he ought to be
punished to the full limit of the law. But
the greatest care should be taken to as-
certain the facts before the punishment is
meted out.
Judge ArcHBALD acquired « reputation
both for ability and integrity while he oc-
cupied a seat on the Common Pleas bench
of Lackawanna county. But that is not
a guarantee of fidelity of high ideals in
an office in which the tenure is presum-:
ably for life. If he has been indulging in
evil practices since his promotion to a
higher court he should pay the penalty.
It keeps them under restraints which are
needed for the orderly performance of
their duty to the people.
~Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
went through the farce of calling a State
convention of their own, and on three
different occasions since, the WATCHMAN
assured its readers that there wouid be
but one Democratic State convention
and that that would be the regular con-
vention called by Mr. RITTER, the chair-
man of the regular Democratic State
committee.
It gave its reasons for so asserting that
Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, claiming to be
State chairman, knew as well as did any
one else that his pretensions and claims
had neither legality nor a shadow of reg-
ularity behind them, and that as a conse-
quence he had no more right or power
to call a State convention, or if one was
held under his call, to certify a ticket
than any other individual, or combina-
tion of conspirators who might presume
to usurp authority to do so.
The result of last Tuesday shows how
clearly right the WATCHMAN was in its
prediction.
It also shows Mr. GUTHRIE'S acknowl-
edgement that his claim to the chairman-
ship was without grounds. In that acknowl
edgement he admits that the only legal
Democratic State committee in Pennsyl-
vania is the one recognized last Tuesday
and which is presided over by WALTER
E. RITTER, Esq., of Williamsport, whose
term of office expires, under the rules, on
the 1st of January, 1913.
On the third Wednesday of July next
the election of a chairman to follow Mr.
RITTER will occur. Mr. GUTHRIE can
then get title to the position by getting
himself regularly elected, if that is pos-
sible. And then he will have nothing
but the title. His term will not begin
until the 1st of January, 1913, unless Mr.
RITTER sees proper to turn over the
work and the responsibility of the cam-
paign to his successor.
So that after all our disorganizing
friends may have a good wait before
they can assume the authority they think
they now have, or direct the actions of
the party they are seeking to have abso-
lute control over.
——1It might be well for some people jo
to remember that there are over 4,000
Democratic votes in Centre county. That
of this number but 1537 were interested
enough to come out and vote for what
was called “re-organization,” notwith-
standing the appeals that were made to
them to do so, and the efforts that were
put forth to falsify the condition of the
party. If the party in the county is left
to depend upon this number of its voters,
it will be a pitiful showing it will make
next fall. Those who imagine they are
at the head of it now should bear this
i fact in mind.
The President and the ‘‘Coinel.”
The quarrel between the "Coinel” and
the President is increasing in intensity
and interest. It may safely be said that
in Massachusetts it was a draw though it
must be admitted that the “Coinel” got
the oyster while the President had to be
satisfied with the shell. But oysters are
not really succulent at this season of the
year or altogether wholesome and possi-
bly the President fared as well as the
“Coinel” in the division of the spoils and
the rewards.
There are several battles to be tought
yet, however, and they will be watched
with curious attention. It may safely be
predicted that the “Coinel” is hopelessly
crippled but it is equally certain that the
President is limping badly. According to
his campaign manager he is within a few
votes of the number necessary to nomi-
nate. But a nomination by a close mar-
gin would be an empty honor for it is
practically certain that if the “Coinel” is
defeated in the convention he will bolt
and such action would make the Presi-
dent's endorsement a hollow mockery.
The “Coinel’'s” personal following is suf-
ficient to defeat any candidate he does
not support.
Really we can hardly imagine a more
satisfying situation from a Democratic
standpoint. If ROOSEVELT could be
nominated which is practically impossi-
ble the conservatives in his party would
defeat him by voting for the safe and
sane gentleman who will be named at
Baltimore and if the President is nomi-
nated, and he will be if he insists upon
it, ROOSEVELT will become an independ-
ent candidate, not in the hope of being
elected but with the view of defeating
Tart. The quarrel has progressed to a
point where compromise is out of the
question and however it proceeds the
Democrats must get considerable benefit | Miles.
from it. Under the circumstances more
power to both their elbows.
they produce that result there might be
worse things even in the east.
Tuesday Judge GORDON, of Philadelphia,
who have been professing so much polit.
ical virtue. It was the obvious intention
of MITCHELL PALMER to bind our delega-
tion to Wooprow WiLsON with a bond of
straw, which could be broken at the ca-
price of the conspirators. In other words
it was the intention to instruct for Mr.
WILSON on the first ballot and then go to
another candidate who has PALMER'S
pledge, at the crucial moment. Judge
GORDON forced instructions for WILSON
so long as his name is before the con-
vention.
On Sunday, in Pittsburg, Mr. WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN declared that CHAMP
CLARK will be nominated for President
by the Baltimore convention on the sec-
ond ballot. He appears to have had an
understanding with the conspirators on
this point. The withdrawal of the prac- | three
tically unanimous vote of Pennsylvania
from WILSON on the second ballot and
the polling of it for CLARK would have
easily created a stampede and made the
nomination of the Speaker certain. But
this little trick was checked in its infancy
by Judge GORDON who noticed the am-
biguous form of the resolution as it was
reported by the committee on platform.
It will not do to say that the omission
of the original resolution to make the in-
struction binding until the end of the
balloting at Baltimore was an accident.
Mr. PALMER, who was chairman of the
committee on platform, was asked before
the committee acted to put the resolu-
tion in the form which Judge GORDON'S
amendment presented it and he promised
to do so. But in the committee he vio-
lated his promise, emasculated the in-
structions and hoped the fact would not
be discovered. But he reckoned without
his host for the moment the platform
was read the omission was noticed and
when the demand for correction was
made PALMER acquiesced because he was
afraid to refuse.
ET
Fortunately for the Democracy of
State ‘all its voters do not believe that
the way to strengthen or buildup a party
is to try to discredit its organization'and |
bolt its tickets when these do not suit
them personally. This fact will possibly
give us a peaceful condition of party af-
fairs, for a time at least, even if it don't
insure an enthusiastic and hopeful cam.
paign.
Another Hat in the Ring.
Boss FLINN'S hat is also “in the ring.”
We are not to be understood as stating
that the ex-municipal contractor of
Pittsburgh is a candidate for President.
That would be out of the question un-
less the constitution of the United States
be first abrogated. Boss FLINN was born
abroad and is therefore ineligible to the
Presidency. But he has certainly cast
his cady into the oratorical ring for he
has challenged Mr. GEORGE W. OcHs,
editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, to meet
him in joint debate, the platform of the
recent FLINN State convention to be the
theme, or to speak more accurately, the
bone of contention.
Our esteemed Philadelphia contem-
porary recently expressed a rather ad-
verse opinion of Boss FLINN's platform.
It characterized it as “a base and danger-
ous appeal to the reckless,” a “desperate
and unscrupulous incitement to unrest”
and the "product of shallow-brained the-
ories.” Other newspapers were equally
free in condemning the screed and some
of them were more extravagant in lan-
guage than the Ledger. But Boss TLINN
paid no attention to the others and seems
to have centered his resentment upon
Mr. Ocus. Therefore he invites Mr.
OcHs to join him in the expenditure of
several thousand dollars to amuse the
curious public by an exhibition of ama-
teur oratory.
Of course such an entertainment would
add greatly to “the gayety of nations,”
and we feel like encouraging all rational
forms of amusement. But Boss FLINN
has a newspaper of his own and we can’t
see why he doesn’t propose an intellectu-
al duel in the columns of the respective
papers. Verhal quarrels are not usually
damaging to life or limb but in the case
of such competitors as FLINN and OcHs
a disturbance in the audience might do
bodily harm. On the other hand a news-
paper controversy could hardly havesuch
an effect, especially when the contestants
are separated by three or four hundred
——Clean-yp week means that every
person living in the town is a to
help in whatever way possible, in this an-
nual effort to make Bellefonte cleaner
and more attractive. A little effort will
do for you what it did for your neighbor.
Make it, if not for your own sake, for
the sake of that neighbor.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 10, 1912. — NO. 19.
TF ane Shasta ds Stisls Totty: | - ous Palmer Trick Defeated. I ig
Immediately after the disorganizers | In the Democratic State convention on | From the Johnstown Democrat.
It is really amusing to hear apparently
well-informed Ee that Roose-
velt 1 ts the great popular cause—
the i A CO ems
ve nst the conservative, the
‘ory against Democrat. What justi-
ion is there for such a statement,
such a belief? It is said that Taft filled
his cabinet with corporation lawyers. But
did not Roosevelt do the same?
Elihu Root, a cororation la of the
most pronounced type, wap t's
Secretary of State. M. Shaw, the
most subservient tool of the corporations,
was his secretary of the Jor six
years. Ethan A. Hitchcock was secre-
tary po the interior, with the notorious
Ballinger as his commissioner of the land
Office. Roosevelt had iad six, Serataties of
e navy, among them orton, who,
as a railroad president, was indicted for
violations o the anti-trust 2uj interstate
commerce Se jaws, t was protected from
prosecution by Roosevelt's order. He had
ive postwmasters general. them
the notorious corporation
Nr Payne, of Wisconsin. He
Franklin MacVeagh, Taft's secretary of
the , is not a bit more friendly
to the interests than was
M. Shaw. Elihu Root, who was
Ties secretary of war bifore he batame
more
of State,
bio iE te a
L. Stimson, Taft's secretary of war.
Hicheoek, Tatts postaster general, will
gompars favorably with either Henry C.
Lg A TL
a 10 the trusts, prosecuted
as many trusts and secured as con
victions as Knox or as
storeys gefieral. J by the cor-
on mow
is as much of a corporation
tool as Taft, if in fact not more so. To
think for a Tome: that such 3 shallow
as
leader of a popuar popular cause, is really nau-
seating.
Another Taft Blunder.
From the Harrisburg Star--Independent.
President Taft scored
blunder in what he hoped Se one
of the crowning achievements of his ad-
ministration; or rather the 5A was
Snother
made when biished hd 3 letter to
Theodore t in
ERE
home and and the direct a
will be notion of the Roosevelt can-
didacy for the nomination of his party.
The t declared for reciprocity
with Canada, assisted in negotiating with
the British ment a reciprocity
agreement, and recommended the enact-
ment of a bill embodying its features.
That was well enough. But while the
matter was pending he wrote a letter to
the Colonel in which he spoke rather
more openly than one writing on State
matters usually Last week he
made the crowning blunder of giving the
letter to i gs
The Bri press and some British
tors, who heard of the letter
which was given to the publiclast Thurs-
day night, are furious over this sentence
in the missive: “Meantime the amount
of Canadian products we would take
would uce a Surrent of of business be-
tween Western and the United
States that would make Canada only an
adjunct of the United States.” A more
discreet and politically shrewd man
Would not hia have Siven publicity to that
part of the e omitted other
parts of it Rig blunderingly publisied
the part that would be most harmful to
him. The furious Britons are and-
ing the recall of their Am , who
negotiated the eaent for his govern-
ment that make Canada “an ad-
junct” of this country.
How “Dissolution” Helps.
From the Altoona Times.
Standard Oil and tobacco trust stocks
have increased greatly in value since the
recent “dissolution” decisions of the Uni-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Judge J. IM. Welodeg president of the Hunting:
| den county courts, was much improved in health
Carma He spent several weeks
—An Osceola citizen, who was having a good
| time at Philipsburg a few nights ago found him-
| self $50 short when he was ready to quit. The
| chief of police located it.
—Frank Fagan, of Braddock, who had a habit
of shocking his friends by pretending to commit
suicide, tried the joke once too often. His trick
was to place just one cartridge in his revolver.
—Work started this week on a new Pennsylva-
nia spur at Bolivar, to reach the new workings of
the Lacolle Mining company a short distance
from Bolivar. Thattown expectsa considerable
| boom.
—At a post mortem held at Indiana, the heart
of R. T. Longwill, supposed to have died of tuber-
culosis, was found to be twelve inches long, the
abnormal growth having been the cause of his
death.
—The “last raft” made at Cherrytree went down
the Susquehanna last week. It was of pine timber,
24 by 80 feet, with anold time shanty. It took
two hours to get safely over the Mabaffey dam,
there being no shute.
~—State Senator Joseph Alexander, of Madera,
Clearfield county, after two months spent in the
south and Florida, seeking health and recreation,
has returned. He is looking rugged and has
gained five pounds in weight.
=Mr. and Mrs. August Lung, of Greensburg,
have buried three sons who met violent deaths—
two on the railroad and one in a mine. The
fourth is in the hospital at that place, in a critical
condition because of injuries received at the iron
works.
—Annie Lancronie, a 9 year old Italian girl of
Janesville, was taken to the Philipsburg hospital
last week with a bullet wound in her abdomen.
The bullet came out at the back, yet she has a
chance for recovery. She had been plaving with
a revolver.
~In Wednesday morning's fog, H. R. Juries, a
section hand on the P. & E. railroad, was run
down and killed at McElhattan. It is the first
fatal accident to happento a member of the crew
under J. H. Taylor, who has been foreman for
many years.
—Sixty horses belonging to a gypsy camp near
DuBois, had been pastured in a nearby farmer's
meadow for two nights before the farmer discov-
€ | ered their presence. The third night thirty-four
of them were rounded up by police and held for
$1,000 damages.
—Residents of Glenn White, many of whom are
Polish, are recovering from an epidemic of
measles that raged with unabated vigor for two
months, ending with the death of two children of
Stephen Burick. Joseph and Francis Burick died
within forty-eight hours of each other.
—Governor Tener haspromised tc make an ad-
dress at the meeting of the state board of agricul-
ture, which will be held at Towanda, Bradford
county, May 21-25. More than 300 Pennsylvania
farmers will be in attendance. This will be the
first meeting of the boerd in Northwestern Penn-
sylvania.
—Seven hundred pounds of dynamite exploded
in the Dull mines of the Pennsylvania Glass Sand
company, near McVeytown, failed to do the ex-
pected work. The public road had already fallen
in because of the cavein of the mine. The proper
authorities will get together on it now and formu-
late some other plan.
~The mystery of the disappearance of Thomas
Scott, of Reynoldsville, who had not been seen
since November 18, 1911, was solved on Sunday
when a boy walking along the creek near Brook-
ville, saw the badly decomposed body of a man on
a saw mill pier. It had been washed there by the
To Waker anil Was identified asthaiaf Scott,
~Arrangements for a great n meet to be
held in Altoona are now by
the Blair County Road Drivers’ association. The
aviator is to be no one less than the great Walter
Brookins, world famous as one of the pioneer
flyers in the United States and well known to
everyone in this country for his many great feats
in aerial stunts.
—Over 35,000,000 pike perch have been sent out
from three of the state's hatcheries the last few
days, the shipments being made at rate of 12,000,-
000 from each of the three establishments. The
fish are distributed throughout the State, the Sus-
quehanna and Delaware getting large shares in
the east and the Allegheny, Monongahela and
Kiskiminetas rivers and French creek in the west.
—Two and a haif years ago Edward Shrecken-
gost, of Butler, left home for the west, promising
to write when he located. Before he had time to
do so he had his skull fractured, and when he re-
covered his memory was a blank. Recently he
had typhoid fever and with his recovery came his
memory. His home folks received the long looked
for letter and expect him homebefore the week
is over.
—G. H. Gibboney, whose large planing mill at
Everett was destroyed by fire last Tuesday night,
entailing a loss of almost $200,000, announced that
he will at once begin to rebuild. Mr. Gibboney
employs over forty men and this news causes re-
joicing in that community; also among the busi-
ness men, among whom Mr. Gibboney holds a
prominent position. Excellent offers were made
to induce Mr. Gibboney to locate elsewhere, but
he will remain at Everett.
—~Miss Ella Lattimer, the New Bethlehem
stenographer and bookkeeper in the postoffice,
who successfully juggled her accounts until she
embezzled $6,118.80, is now a federa! prisoner con-
fined in the Armstrong county jail. She is serving
a term of 30 days which began last Monday even-
ing, and is a part of the sentence imposed upon
her by the federal court judge in Pittsburg when
she plead guilty to the charge of embezzlement.
The rest of the sentence is to pay a fine of $5,118.-
80, which covers her shortage.
=The banks throughout the State have been
notified that there are counterfeit ten and twenty
dollar bills abroad. The advice is sent out by
Captain Matthew Griffin of the gevernment
secret service force at Philadelphia. The notes
are the cleverest that have ever been floated and
require extra vigilance to detect. They are said to
have come from the south. - The notes are printed
on two pieces of paper between which silk threads
are run, according to Captain Griffin, and they
are so hard to detect that extra caution should be
used by all persons handling money.
—Definite arrangements were completed on
May 1st by a company headed by Samuel Morris»
of Altoona, for the purchase of the Wopsononock
railroad,
New York Central and allowing that road an en-
trance at Altoona. On tep of the mountain at
Wopsononock the hotel destroyed by fire is to be
rebuilt and the resort improved and rehabited.
~When the nine men who had been selected to
carry the body of Isaac Bordner, of Point town-
After several ineffectual efforts to get it in the
body was carried back to the house, followed by
the relatives and friends, where it remained until
the undertaker made atrip to Northumberland
and returned with a larger vehicle. Mr. Bordner
was one of the largest men in that section. He
was six feet eight inches tall and weighed about
320 pounds. He was 60 years of age,