Come over here!
Come over here!
And see the Centre County Fair, Etc.
—To us it looks as if Col. ROOSEVELT'S |
greatest need just at this time is an =
bestos collar.
—Let come what may, Mr. TAFT win
still be entitled to the distinction of be-
ing known as the great Vetotaller. |
—No matter how true it might be, if |
PENROSE were to tell all he knows it |
would be so astounding that few people |
would believe it.
—This ought to be a bumper season in !
the laundry business. Just look at the]
poiitical linen Republican statesmen have |
furnished for the wash.
—As a Senator Mr. PENROSE may not
be marching in the first rank, but as a
lid lifter he's clear over the hill ahead of
the rest of ‘the procession.
—Some people have their progressive-
ness on so crooked that it is difficult to
distinguish between them and the polit-
ical crooks they profess to be fighting.
—Crookville, Ohio, is reported as unan-
imous in its support of the Bull Moose
ticket. Judging by the name of the place |
we can see nothing strange in that fact.
—Miss MAURICE RASSMUSSEN, the prize
beauty of California, says
faced New York women never smile.
How can they without cracking the plas-
ter.
——Democratic voters should remem-
ber that Wednesday next—September
4th, closes the Registry. It is the lastday
they can have their names placed upon
that list.
—Talk is cheap, but the billion dollars
expended by the Congress just gone
home, to pay for the 25,000,000 words it |
claims to have used, is not a convincing
proof of the fact.
—True, the Standard Oil company may
not hold formal title to the Republican
party, but the proofs show that it has
paid for it many times more than it has
ever been worth.
—There being only a few people left
in the land that ROOSEVELT hasn't placed
in the liar class it seems strange that he
should be so crazy to become the Presi-
dent of a Nation of liars.
—A beautiful hypocrite is ROOSEVELT:
Harangueing like a wild man against the
trusts and being forced to admit that
$100,000 of the Standard Oil money was
used to elect him in 1904.
~The public now can have some hope
of a reduction in the price of breakfast
* foods. The interstate Commerce Com-
mission has just ordered the lowering of
freight rates on excelsior.
—Do you think an ex-President who is |
asked to go on the stand and make oath
to his statements before they will be be-
lieved is the kind of man you would like
to have for President again.
—From the industry that Senator PEN-
“the plaster-
VOL. 57.
JELLEFONTS:
Roosevelt Reaching the Limit.
Colonel ROOSEVELT cannot always im-
pose upon public credulity as he has been
able to do thus far. His denunciation of
men will not, for all time, be sufficient
answer to accusations against him. Evi-
| dence cannot, in every instance, be over-
| come by assertions. Hitherto his coun-
| tercharge appears to have closed the in-
cident. Mr. WHITNEY, a distinguished
| citizen of Massachusetts, attributed to
{ him certain remarks upon the tariff ques-
“tion. Mr. WHITNEY'S statement was cor-
| roborated by half a dozen other gentle-
i men of character. But Mr. ROOSEVELT
| denounced them all as liars and the pub-
lic condemned them for falsifying the
- President of the United States.
On another occasion Mrs. BELLAMY
STORER alleged that Mr. ROOSEVELT had
| commissioned her to make certain repre-
| sentations to the Pope oi Rome. She
corroborated her statement by documen-
! tary proof, including letters of ROOSE-
| VELT and a statement from Archbishop
IRELAND. But ROOSEVELT said they were
liars and the public accepted his denial as
! decisive. Later the late Mr., HARRIMAN |
| declared that ROOSEVELT had entered in-
| to certain agreements with him and sup-
| ported his declaration with abundance of
| circumstantial and documentary evidence
| to convince any reasoning mind. But
ROOSEVELT replied that Mr. HARRIMAN
was a liar, an undesirable citizen and a
malefactor of great wealth and that end-
ed it.
There are dozens of similar charges
and answers and Mr. ROOSEVELT has
been able to get away with the cheese in
every instance. But he can hardly hope
that public credulity will accept such a
reply to the charges of Senator PENROSE
and the testimony of Mr. JOHN D. ARCH-
BOLD. Senator PENROSE is a professional
politician and Mr. ARCHBCLD may be a
malefactor of great wealth. But neither
of them has ever been convicted of falsi-
fication and besides they are supported
in their charges by ample, even over-
whelming, evidence, ROOSEVELT admits
that the Standard Oil company contribut-
{ed but adds that it was without his
knowledge and ~gainst his protest. But
his protest was issued, and was never
paid back.
up” to meet every accusation which may
be brought against him. A high class
crook always covers his tracks. But as
LINCOLN said “you can't fool all the peo-
Roosevelt and Campaign Contributions.
In his denial of the testimony of JOHN
D. ARCHBOLD that treasurer BLISS of the
Republican National committee in 1904,
had made an application to the Standard
Oil company for a second contribution
to the great corruption fund of that year,
Mr. ROOSEVELT declares that the money
was not needed for the reason that at
the close of the campaign there was a
surplus of $100,000 in the treasury of the
committee. The first contribution to Mr.
BLiss was $100,000 and the second appli-
cation was for $150,000, making an aggre
gate equal to the contribution which the
monopoly had made during the cam-
paigns of 1896 and 1900. But the Oil
monopoly declined to make the second
contribution.
It may be true that there was a sur-
plus of $100,000 in the treasury of the
Republican National committee at the
close of the campaign of 1904 but it is
absolutely certain that the committee
and Mr. ROOSEVELT himself were con-
stantly soliciting funds up until within a
day or two of the election. In fact the
letter to “Dear HARRIMAN” was written
within four days of the election and in
response to it Mr. HARRIMAN raised, by
bulldozing Wall street, $250,000 for the
use of the committee and Mr. HARRIMAN
estimated, subsequently, that the money
“changed 50,000 votes in New York city
alone.” If the committee didn't need
money at the close of the campaign, why
this almost hysterical appeal to HARRI-
MAN?
Another idea occurs to our mind in
connection with the contributions of
HARRIMAN and the Standard Oil conspi-
racy. ROOSEVELT didn’t write his letter
forbidding the acceptance of contributions
from the Oil conspiracy until after the
second request had been refused and he
| didn’t denounce Mr. HARRIMAN as “an
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA., AUGUST 30, 1912.
Manifestly Mr. GEORGE W. PERKINS
is in a wrong sphere. His home is in
Heaven. We have heard of other men
who are not “in politics for their health.”
Mr. PERKINS is neither in politics nor
business for his health. The sole object
of his endeavor is to guarantee the
health, prosperity and happiness of
others. He is afraid that the poor will
suffer from want and the rich from dis-
content. He aims to take the burdens
of both off their shoulders and carry
them upon his own back. It is a beauti- | j
ful ambition, a magnificent altruism. But |
he wants to accomplish these results
through government action with ROOSE-
VELT and himself in the role of govern-
ment.
We have reached these conclusions
with respect to Mr. PERKINS after care-
fully reading his own statement of him-
self. You don’t have to prove his good-
ness. He admits it. At the age of fifty
years, having discovered his own charac-
ter, he gave himself over to the Buli Moose
party and entered into "a solemn coven-
ant with the people,” to abolish poverty,
extirpate disease, eliminate suffering,
destroy all evil, remove discontent and
spread prosperity, happiness and content-
ment throughout the land. The Steel
trust and the Harvester trust will be the
anointed agents of his benevolences and
THEODORE ROOSEVELT the partner in all
his triumphs of justice and battles for the
Lord.
Such brazen impudence. GEORGE W.
PERKINS in 1904 stole $50,000 from the
policy holders of the Equitable insurance
company and gave it to the Republican
campaign fund to bribe voters to support
RooseverT for President. Thus far,
though he acquired millions of dollars
through the favors of ROOSEVELT, he has
made no restitution. In the primary
undesirable citizen and malefactor of | campaign this year he collected vast sums
great wealth,” until after HARRIMAN had | of money with which to buy negro dele-
refused the request of the Republican gates in the Republican National conven-
Congressional committee to contribute to tion who had been instructed for TAPT
the corruption fund used for the election | to vote for ROOSEVELT. That was a
of Republican Congressmen in 1906. Mr. crime against the conscience of the coun-
| refusal in 1906 did cause resentment.
Buiss told Mr. ARCHBOLD that a refusal. try which marks PERKINS as an enemy | ¢
of the second request might cause re- of justice who is better fitted for
the money was taken and spent before | sentment. It is certain that HARRIMAN'S service in the penitentiary than in office.
—Qf course Governor PENNYPACKER
| . a
| —You fellows who congregate about has butted into the dispute between PEN-
| needn't worry because it is to be closed
| in the future. There are plenty of other
| good places to go. The churches, for in-
| stance, will all be open as usual anda!
ROSE is exerting to get his confession be- | ple all the time,” and ROOSEVELT is due | cordial welcome will await you there.
fore the people, there is every reason to | for a scorching. He ordered CorTELYOU | IE
think that some one has been hinting to | to return money which he knew had been | a
| Chairman UNDERWOOD, of the House |
him about chances for immunity.
| paid to Mr. Briss and the order came
The Tariff Tax Burden.
—WILSON's speech to the farmers at | 2fter the money had been spent and he | committee on Ways and Means, declares
their Williams Grove picnic yesterday
was one of the kind that will make rea- |
sonable men think and the harder they |
think the harder they will work for him. |
—Heretofore we were firmly of the be-
lief that Senator PENROSE had much the |
best of it in his fight with the Bull |
Mooses. We have doubts now. Ex-Gov-
ernor PENNYPACKER has come to his de- |
fense.
| knew it had been spent.
Flinn Working Penrose’s Friends.
It begins to look as if BILL FLINN will
succeed in his scheme to use the PENROSE
rnachine to destroy PENROSE. He is not
only getting all the Republican candidates
for Congress, State Senator and Repre-
sentative in the Legislature to sign articles
that during the session of Congress just
| closed tariff legislation passed the House
| “which would have saved the people of
| this country approximately $650,000,000
| annually if they had become laws.” They
| failed to become laws because the Re-
i publican majority in the Senate refused
| to concur in some instances and for the
| reason that the Republican President ex-
| ercised his veto power in other cases. In
| of allegiance to the Bull Moose outfit, but other words the Republican party has
—And now we are told that Mr. he is tying Senator PENROSE'S closest | put a burden of $90 a year upon every
ROOSEVELT purposes replying to ARCH- |
friends to the support of the Bull
| man, woman and child in the country in
BOLD'S statements, in a lengthy letter to! Moose candidates for Auditor General | order to bestow nearly three quarters of
the public. Evidently he has no faith in |
and State Treasurer. If ROBERT L.
| a billion dollars of unearned bounty on
the belief that “the least said is easiest | YouNG and Senator POWELL are elected contributors to its corruption funds.
mended.”
| they will spend more energy knocking on |
It is almost inconceivable that such a
—Your share of the tariff taxes levied | PENROSE than in performing their official | wrong should be perpetrated by men of
in this country is $90. You pay it not for
the support of the government, but for |
dividends on the billions of dollars worth |
of watered-stock in the great corpora- |
tions cf the country.
duties, YOUNG is the creature of VAN
VALKENBURG while POWELL is owned
body and soul by FLINN.
Possibly Senator PENROSE'S friends who
| sane minds. Butit is done under the de-
lusion that the people will not under-
stand. When a man buys what appears
| to be a suit of woolen clothes for fifteen
| have been nominated for office imagine dollars he imagines that he is getting the
~—At least Detroit councilmen can save | that they are fooling FLINN by signing | worth of his money.
He is getting
that city the expense of heating its coun- | his pledge while they intend to support | clothes made of shoddy worth half the
i
cil chambers this winter, by holding their PENROSE in the event of their election. | price and paying the other half into the
meetings in the county jail
That's But in that event they are assuming a! Wool trust treasury for distribution
where a quorum of them will be by the | difficult role and a dangerous attitude. among the woolen manufacturers who
time cold weather sets in.
| Men are not able to betray pledges as have had no part in the matter except to
—After reading the speeches of some | they used to do and even if a foolish i fix the price. Without the tariff tax he
of the Republican Statesmen, now on the | Promise is made it is dangerous to betray would get a real wool suit for fifteen dol-
stump against WILSON, one would think it. Public sentiment has become resent- | lars or a shoddy suit for seven-fifty.
that that party had placed its hope entire- | ful as well as assertive and while no rea- | It is conservatively estimated that
ly in the weapon SAMSON used in hig | SOMing man believes in the integrity of . there are five persons to a family in this
fight against the Philistines.
FLINN most citizens will insist upon the
fulfillment of agreements with him. A
' country and therefore a tariff tax of $90
‘a head makes the average family tax
—What an amount of fun we all would pledge to support the Bull Moose party $450 a year. Of course some families of
have missed had Senator PENROSE ac- | js simply a promise to aid FLINN in his five don't pay that much because they
cepted ROOSEVELT'S request for his sup- |
port about six months ago. And what an |
amount of light on the question of who
has been furnishing the funds for Repub-
lican campaigns would still be “hidden
under the bushel.”
fight against PENROSE.
Now that Congress has adjourned and
PENROSE is released from his public obli-
| don't buy fifteen dollar shoddy suits for
the reason that they can't afford such
| luxuries. But others pay more because
| gations as Republican leader in the Unit- | they buy $20 or $25 shoddy suits and the
| ed States Senate conditions may assume ' average is $450 a family. This in itself
| a different aspect. But thus far it looks | is the bulk of the high cost of living for
Congress has adjourned without hav- | as if FLINN has everything his own way. | it includes the over-payment on all the
ing accomplished much in the way of re- |
lief to the country. Much good legisla.
There are a few candidates for Congress
who have not completely surrendered,
| necessaries of life. But the Republican
| party needs money to buy votes at the
tion was planned and passed by the body, | notably LAFEAN of the Twentieth district | coming election for the indications are it
but President TAFT declined to permii it | and FocHT of the Seventeenth. They | Will get few that are not paid for in some
to become the law. In other words he | are machine men, plain and simple, and
has stood in the way of all remedial leg- | may take chances of offending FLINN.
islation. Itis a certainty that nothing But it will require a good deal of nerve
can be done for the relief of the people |
to adopt that course and yet it may be as
with TAPT in the presidential chair and | wise as the other because everybody will
the only hope lies in the election of WiL- | know they are insincere if they “take the
SON.
pledge.”
kind of currency.
—Some of the by-products of oil are a
——Qf course ROOSEVELT has # “frame- | the post-office every Sunday morning! rose and ROOSEVELT and he denies that
Mr. CAsSATT and others named by ROOSE-
VELT selected KNox for Senator to suc-
ceed Quay. Yet that is about the only
thing alleged by ROOSEVELT which is sup-
ported by relevant circumstantial evi-
dence. KNOX was making trouble as At-
| torney General and his transfer to the
Senate saved the Pennsylvania railroad a
lot of mental anguish.
———Democratic voters should remem-
ber that Wednesday next—September
4th, closes the Registry. It is the last day
they can have their names placed upon
that list.
A Belated List.
Although it is but nine weeks until the
election and less than one week until the
closing of the registry in the country
districts, the list of our county committee
for the year is made public for the first
time in this week's issue of the papers.
The gentlemen named for the positions
of district committeemen, and whose du-
ty it will be to see that the Democratic
vote is fully registered and the other
work of the campaign properly perform-
ed, are all worthy citizens and should
have the interest of the party at heart
sufficient to get to work at once. Most
of them have been committeemen for
years, and although certain of the Demo-
crats of the county, including the gentle-
man who acts as chairman of the county
committee demanded last year, a “reor-
ganization” of the party, the old fellows,
who have been doing it heretofore, are
still looked to to see that it is done. And
it will be necessary for them to go at
that work very quickly. The chairman
has given them but five days to attend to
their first job—that is the registration of
the voter—and it will take every minute
of that time for them to see that this
work is attended to. They should par-
ticularly remember that the name of
every voter who cast his first ballot last
fall, must be upon the registry, or there is
no way under any conditions that he can
vote at the coming election. The closing
day of the registration for this county is
next Wednesday, September 4th.
——The dragnet which Senator PEN-
ROSE has cast into the pool of dirty Re-
publican politics may catch a lot of peo-
ple besides ROOSEVELT, but it is certain
to catch him and that was what PENROSE
had in mind.
—Demoeratic voters should remem-
ber that Wednesday next—September
4th closes the Registry. Itis the last day
they can have their names placed upon
that list.
: Facts that Flinn Can Verify.
| From the Clearfield Republican.
Now let Flinn give the inside figures
on the amount the late A. J. Cassatt
Henry C. Frick and the iquor
Dealers’ Association put up to have P. S.
Knox appointed by DE i to fill
the vacancy in the U. S. Senate caused by
the death of Matt Quay. About half a
million dollars had been taken from the
£
would have none of "
wanted it but could not raise the money
required to make good what was taken
from the State treasury to elect his fath-
er. It was offered to a i
Pittsburg, but he considered the price too
big for a short term, not Jeitig Satisfied
Penrose could control the n tion and
election for the full term two years later.
Penrose was in a hole for a time, but
finally saw a way out. He had Charley
Snyder, of Schuylkill, introduce in the
Legislature a bill to take granting of liquor
licenses from the courts and create excise
commissions to handle the liquor question.
The liquor interests were .frightened to
death. They did not want any excise
commissions handling licenses. Their
experience with excise commissions in
New York was sufficient. They were sat-
isfied to leave the question with the
They flew to Penrose for pro-
The Nation's Hip Pocket.
—
‘court-martial, ie
been inserted into the pendifig naval 0
propriation bill a provision for 4,000 ad-
ditional seamen. :
To provide for the health and comfort
of the officers and men of the navy dur-
ing the fiscal year of 1912 cost the
ple of the United States over 35 millions
of dollars. Of this sum over 10 millions
was required to pay the officers on the
active list and nearly three millions more
for the retired officers. Each man in the
navy receiving an honorable discharge is
given a bounty. This item alone costs
the government over $520.720. For each
officer or enlisted man who dies from
wounds or disease contracted in the time
of duty, his beneficiary is entitled to a
pension equal to one-half his pay.
Our navy is a very costly institution
and yet our jingo statesmen are clam-
oring for more battleships, more seamen,
more officers, which means additional in-
crease in the cost of living. This enor-
mous expenditure must be paid by the
labor of the American people. The peo-
ple do not realize this, because they pay
it indirectly in the increased cost of liv-
ing. And they pay it several times over.
It is estimated that for every dollar that
goes into the United States treasury, five
dollars are extracted from the people.
True As Gospel.
From the Clearfield Spirit.
As Democrats we have won every pres-
idential election since the Civil War dur-
ing the months of August, September and
October, but after election the Republican
candidates to our surprise were in pos-
session of the offices, except when Grover
Cleveland put one over on two Separate
occasions by the assistance of Republican
dissensions. And here we are again with
a lot of “blow hards” doing the same old
stunts over again, claming everthing in
sight and doing nothing but blow at a
time when work and not words can only
count for winning votes on election day.
* 2 & &* @ % 5 % © vr YP
* * + & * We must get this intoxi-
cating idea of the certainty of winni
hands down out of the heads of candi-
dates und leaders and all get together as
Democrats and hang together or our can-
didates will hang ely.
In 1908 Bryan Lost Cleveland.
From the Cleveland Press.
‘Phe Press reporters interviewed 1,513
Cleveland men this week—on street cor-
ners, street cars and in hotel and theater
lobbies, and asked them whom they
favored for President.
“Wilson,” was the answer of 764.
Six hundred and threc named Roose-
velt.
Only 146 chose Taft.
Wilson was she favorite in 11 of 16
places where the poll was taken.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~Dr. W. H. Zweigart, of Lewistown Junction,
is threshing a 1,500 bushel crop of wheat from
less than forty acres.
—Sunbury’s Civic club reports’a barrel of flies
killed by energetic youngsters of that town in a
prize contest just closed.
~The Mann axe factory at Yeagertown will
shortly add to its already large plant and make it
the largest in the country.
—Mines in the Punxsutawney district are work.
ing full time and their prosperity is in some
measure due to the West Virginia strike.
—Indiana banks have been notified to watch for
swindlers in the shape of check raisers, and also
to keep their eyes open for a counterfeit $20 gold
certificate.
—DuBois has been very good this summer.
During July only three arrests were made that
required a hearing and so far in August the num-
ber is the same.
—Churches at Carbondale are closed on ac-
count of smallpox, teachers’ institute is called off
and the opening of schools postponed. There were
thirty-one cases early in the week.
—Johnstown cornermen want $85 a month;
they get $75 now. Their desire brings a possi.
bility of much discussion, as other men on the
force will ask a proportionate raise.
—The chestnut blight is becoming more notice-
able through York and Adams counties. In the
woods of Emanuel Roth, not far from Hanover,
nearly every tree is dying because of it,
~The Mifflin county Democrat made its initial
bow to the public last week as a successor to the
McVeytown Journal. May its career be long and
illustrious, meeting the needs of the community
of whose life it is a part.
—Conductor Charles Kuhn, of the passenger
train wrecked on the Ligonier Valley railroad
some time ago, is still in the Allegheny general
hospital. He can now use his left arm, but his
right arm and both legs are still in casts.
—An audit recently completed shows a short-
age in the Northumberland county treasury of
$25,453.43. Former Treasurer Lloyd, it is said,
will blame deputy M. L. Swab for the deficit and
the case will be threshed out in the courts.
~The greatest production of hay per acre re-
ported this season in Lycoming county is that of
Charles Williams, above Hillsgrove, who har-
vested thirty-one tons from seven acres. The
field was at one time the bottom of a mill dam.
—Vintondale has a typhoid scare, following its
diphtheria epidemic which is just passing. Quite
a number of cases are reported, chiefly among
foreigners, One death, that of a 7-year-old child,
has resulted from the diphtheria epidemic at
Windber.
—The New York Central station at Clearfield
was robbed at an early hour last Tuesday morn
ing. Thesafe was blown open and relieved of
about $20 in money. No clue to the robbers has
been secured, but they are believed to be profes-
sional yeggmen.
—Owing to the numerous public events which
are to occur during the month of September, it
has been decided to postpone the reunion of the
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment, Penn.
. | sylvania volunteers, until next year, when it will
be held in Altoona.
—Franklin Enos, one of Garrett's oldest citi-
zens, fell from the roof of his home, which he
was shingling, and broke his neck in the fall. He
was highiy esteemed and his death is greatly
mourned. For twenty-nine years he had been
superintendent of the Lutheran Sunday school.
John E. DuBois, who is about to develop one
of the largest timber operations in the country,
in Oregon, will take to that State many of the
men who are employed at his Elk county opera”
tions. The Oregon operation has been post-
poned for several yearspast for the opening of
the Panama canal.
—Albert Leizon, of Flinton, Cambria county,
wishes to know the whereabouts of his daughter,
a girl 18 years of age with a scar onthe middle of
her forehead and a black spot on tip of nose. His
wife, Frances Leizon ran away with the girl on
August 5th. $50 reward will be paid if she is re-
turned to her father.
—Joseph Gulick, “king of chicken thieves,” is
in the Lycoming county jail. He was caught at
Northumberland and his right wrist and side,
filled with bird shot, were damaging evidence
against him. Other links in the chain of circum-
stantial evidence are strong and the police believe
that he will confess,
—Dashing at full speed into an excursion train
on the Williamsport and North Branch railroad
near Hughesville, a fine team of horses belonging
to Irvin Kramer, a Muncy. farmer, were both so
badly injured that they had to be shot. Several
windows in the coaches were broken and passen-
gers had a bad fright.
—Announcement that Major General Daniel
Sickles may attend the Bucktail anniversary in
Meadville, August 28th, adds new interest to the
event. General Sickles, now eighty-five years
old, is the only living corps commander of the
Union side of the great civil conflict of 1861.5. He
lost a leg at Gettysburg,
—Charles Eiseman, of Clarion, and William
McEwean, of Mars, telephone linemen, working
at Punxsutawney, are in the hospital at that place
with excellent chances for recovery, The wires
they were working with came in contact with a
feed wire and they received a charge of 2,000
volts. They were both injured by their falls and
burned by the wires.
—A big Cadillac, owned by Harry Brown, of
Huntingdon, driven by Miss Vera Hatfield, of
Pittsburgh, crashed into a telegraph pole after
tearing down twenty-five feet of line fence. The
machine is junk. Miss Hatfield and John Madigan
have bruises. Miss Dorothy Posthlewaite is
likely internally injured and Carl Brown is badly
cut from a trip through the wind shield.
—What is considered amost important capture
of pettythieves was consumated at Lewistown,
Monday night, when patrolmen Davis Bowers
and Markey of the Pennsylvania railroad force
arrested Nicholas Call, 23 years old, of Cresson
and Raffle Limarbo, 16 years old, of Harrisburg,
with a large amount of loot in their possession
which has since been identified as stolen prop-
erty.
—There is a vacancy in the office of county
commissioner in Westmoreland county, accord-
ing to a recent opinion handed down by Judge
McConnell, the imprisonment of forméri sheriff
Shields in the penitentiary barring him from hold,
but the two judges have not yet come to an agree-
ment as to how the vacancy shall be filled. It is
thought that Mr. Shields may appeal the case.
—Bishop and Mrs. William Perry Eveland, re-
cently of Wililamsport Dickinson Seminary, sail-
ed last Thursday from New York onthe steam.
ship Ivernia, Cunard line, for Naples. After a
short stay there they will visitthe Straits Settle-
ments in Bombay, India, on their way toManila,
where the bishop, who has justbeen appointed mis-
sionary bishop of southeastern Asia, will take
charge of mission work for the Methodist Epis.
copal church. i
ing the office. Judge Doty concurs in this opinion,