BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Rumors of a new opera house for Bellefonte are in the air. Hot air we presume. —PALMER, PENROSE, PINCHOTT! What's that you accuse the "WATCHMAN of doin’ on the parade? - —It isn’t reorganization that the WATCHMAN doesn’t like. It 1s the fel- lows who are running the party under the guise of reorganization. —Possibly the fellows who hang onto their money so tenaciously in this life are doing it in the hope of having “mon- ey to burn” in the hereafter. —This week last year the season's ice crop was being harvested in Centre coun- ty and business in Bellefonte was bum because that small pox scare was on. —It took a few days for the ground- hog to settle down to the business of weather making, but he has no reason to feel ashamed of his efforts of the past week. —Judged by the number of carloads of new automobiles already shipped into Bellefonte this spring it looks as though some people are seeing good times not very far off. —And Mr. PINCHOTT cast his first vote in Pennsylvania in 1912 and now . wants to represent the State in the U. S. Sen- ate. Don’t you think he'd better get dry behind the ears first. —Up in Maine they are paying forty cents a pound for lobsters, while down here in Pennsylvania, in the political market, they would be considered dear at half that price per ton. —Show us an act in the political ca- reer of either QUAY or PENROSE that looked any more like owning a great po- litical party than was that of three men meeting in Washington and deciding who the Democrats of Pennsylvania would be permitted to support. —Life is just one dang thing after another. Here the Republican leaders are seriously considering putting a Pro- hibition or local option plank into their platform for the campaign in Pennsylva- nia next fall. Are they really getting good or are they just hunting up dope to " make good with. —Centre county has lost another fed- eral position. G. W. REES, Kepublican district’ revenue collector, has resigned and a Democrat appointed to take his place, but not a Centre county Demo- | crat. PALMER and McCORMICK have already bought Centre county and they don’t propose to pay anything extra for its vote. —Of the sixtéen' thousand converts BILLY SUNDAY has thus’ far made in Pittsburgh more than a thousand have asked to be affiliated with three church- es that refused to participate in the tab- ernacle meetings. Do you suppose the’ churches in question will turn down the SUNDAY converts? Really, it wouldn't be much of a surprise. —Three men met in Washington and named the ticket for the Democrats of Pennsylvania to support. Of course you | might say that Democrats are not com- | STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. _VOL. 59. Bad Methods Make Trouble. We cordially agree with the esteemed , Philadelphia Record that the impending primary campaign in the Democratic par- . ty of Pennsylvania should be conducted upon lines so fair and just that when the nominations are made, neither the candi- dates nor the friends of the candidates defeated; will have any excuse for with- holding their earnest support from their antagonists who are successful. Except for that spirit the Democratic party would not have survived its frequent and sometimes disastrous defeats during the period since the Civil war. There were factions during all that time and we had our fights. But" when the nominations were made the result was accepted as the voice of the party and all joined in | the several efforts to elect the candi-! dates. But there is little promise of that sort of a primary campaign this year. Less than half a dozen men met in Washing- ton behind locked doors and selected candidates for the party and then pro- ceeded to use the party organization to dragoon the rank and file of the party to support their usurpation of power. Men | of spirit and character will not submit to such outrages. The party organization was not created for such purposes. Hith- erto it has never been so employed. In- dividual party leaders may have had preferences as between candidates but the organization was never used to en- force their preferences upon the voters. | There were no outrages to condone, no vital sores to heal after the nominations were made and all factions w re ready to engage in battle with the common enemy. For years VANCE MCCORMICK has been yearning for a seat in the Governor's chair. Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER is | equally anxious to occupy a seat in the United States Senate. ‘By the most un- scrupulous use of party patronage they have created a personal machine to pro- mote their own ambitions and serve their own purposes. Now they are maligning every citizen who fails or refuses to join in their schemes. Mr. MCCORMICK de- nounces, in bitter terms, a reputable gen- tleman who offers to compete for the nomination. PALMER openly declares that all who do not favor his ambitions are venal. We can have no harmony under such circumstances. It is impossi- | ble to even hope for success under such conditions. Our Philadelphia contempo- rary may introduce better methods, how- ever. ——The only surprise about Mr. J. M. BARRIE'S liberal Shackleton Antarctic enterprise is that he had the money. BARRIE is “one of i th lit ”» pelled to support it, and that would be | em literary fellers. true. But you will find out that all Dem- | ocrats who don’t support it will be called | traitors to the best interests of their par- Rockefeller Dodges Taxes. Mr. JonN D. ROCKEFELLER imagines BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 1 ! Bull Moosers Fail to Agree. , 1914. m——rp | Question of Panama Canal Tolls. Former State Senator FLINN, of Pitts- | President WILSON is right, as usual, in burgh, has again failed to bring his asso- his view that the provisions of the HAY- ciates in the Bull Moose party into agree- | PAUNCEFOTE treaty, with respect to the ment upon a candidate for Governor. At ' operation of the Panama canal, should contribution to the. the meeting in Harrisburg, last week, there was no trouble in concentrating upon GIFFORD PINCHOTT for Senator in Congress. He is ROOSEVELT’S choice for the office and represents ROOSEVELT'S in- terest in the party in Pennsylvana. Un- ' less PINCHOTT gets the nomination he | wants, ROOSEVELT will refuse to partici- , pate in the campaign and the organiza- i tion will go to pieces. ‘All the leaders | understand this and as most of them are anxious to handle the campaign fund, 4 they are willing to agree to any condi- { | tions. est in any of the candidates for Govern- | or in the party. Mr. VAN VALKENBURG, | Philadelphia, is anxious to nominate State Treasurer YOUNG but the represen- tatives of the party in the interior coun- ties distrust VAN VALKENBURG and are unwilling to accept his candidate. Hither- to FLINN and ' VAN VALKENBURG have worked together and originally both fa- vored Mr. YOUNG. Bat when the oppo sition to him, on account of VAN VALKFN- BURG, became formidable, FLINN switch- ed to WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS, of phila- delphia, and created a suspicion against him. The result was a sort of armistice, or agreement among six candidates to settle the matter among themselves. It is safe to predict, however, that Mr. LEwis will be the nominee. He will be accepted for that nomination for the rea- son that PINCHOTT is agreed upon for the other. The party is quite as dependent upon FLINN’S purse as it is upon ROOSE- VELT’S personality and FLINN having openly declared for LEWIS, will have no reasonable excuse for shifting to another. Young would probably be the strongest candidate except for the burden of VAN- VALKENBURG. But the election of the candidate for Governor is not the objec- tive point of the movement. ROOSEVELT wants friends in the United States Sen- | But ROOSEVELT has no personal inter- | i of PENROSE. ~——There are a good many more im- portant things to absorb the attention of Congress than the reduction of letter postage to one cent. Such an alteration of rates would scarcely have a percepti- ble effect on the cost of living for the common people. Reports that are Obviously False. Of course there is no foundation for ate and ‘believes thatuikis possible to ‘elect PINCHOTT because of the weakness: | be scrupulously maintained, notwithstand- ing a plank in the Baltimore convention platform, pledging the Democratic party to the policy of discrimination in tolls in the interest of American coasting ships. A treaty cannot be altered by act of Con- gress. The honor of the. subscribing power is pledged for its fulfillment. The HAY-PAUNCEFOTE treaty distinctly pledged the government of the United States to operate the canal without discrimination for or against any ships of any country and that pledge must be kept inviolate. | | The plank in the Baltimore platform which would violate the good faith of the American people was probably in- spired by the mistaken notion that it would catch votes. The Republican lead- rs had been trying for years to redeem 2 promise made by MARK HANNA to erican shipbuilGers, that in exchange campaign contributions they would be given a ship-subsidy of some sort. In legalizing conditions for the operation of the Panama canal, they found the op- portunity to do this and wrote it into the act. In the face of a protest from Great Britain® President TAFT approved the measure and all the units in the ship trust applauded. This was probably mistaken for popular approval. i The Baltimore platform was written by Mr. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN who may not have a clear understanding of public obligations: = At any rate he appears to care more for success than for methods and he probably imagined that twisting the British lion’s tail might entice voters to his. party standard. As a matter of fact the average voter didn’t know that there was such ‘a provision in the plat- farm” and never gave the subject a ‘ thought. But the average voter is not indifferent to moral obligations and a , vast majority of the Democrats of the country will cordially approve of Presi- | dent WILSON’s advice to amend the legis- lation so as to’make ‘it ‘conform with treaty obligation yea | According to the Harrisburg Patrioi— the organ of would-be-boss McCORMICK, our own Col. (?) JoHN A. WOODWARD, of Howard, has written the Honorable A. { MITCHELL PALMER, extolling the action of himself, candidate McCorMICK and chairman MORRIS, in dictating the ticket Pennsylvania Democrats will be expected i to support at the primaries, and assur- ing him that the “back room” methods the published statement that President adopted by this triumvirate of bosses is WILSON has selected candidates for Gov- , most warmly approved not only by him- ernor and United States Senator in Penn- self but by the Democrats of the county { an action would be subversive of a fun- goes on to say that the entire body of ty and be accused of not supporting that he has dodged the Ohio tax collector | damental Democratic principle and in , Democrats of the county are a unit for President WILSON. —You can bet all the money you own that MCCORMICK won’t tell the BRYAN Democrats of Centre county how vhatv! times he voted against BRYAN when he by stealing away from his residence in Cleveland and taking himself to his vast estate in New York State. During the administration of JUDSON HARMON as Governor of Ohio that sterling Democrat procured the passage of a tax law which ran for President, unless he has to. He' equalized taxation as between rich and | conflict with a policy which he has de- | the new management of the party and i clared with great emphasis. It would are just aching for an opportunity to | take from the people the right to govern ' show how delighted they are to be re- | themselves and assert the authority of , lieved of the right to have a voice in pre- bossism in its most offensive form. senting candidates, or the privilege of in- | President WILSON is an avowed and en- 1 dicating their preference as to the make- thusiastic believer in the principle of up of the ticket they will be expected to: sylvania, for the Democratic party. Such in general. The letter, we understand, Achievements of Ten Months. From the Philadelphia Record. We commend. to every voter who de- sires to do right by himself and his coun- try the summary of the achievements of the present administration prepared by the National committee. No Democrat can read it without increasing warmth of affection for the party of Jefferson and Jackson and Tilden and Cleveland and Wilson. No Progressive can read it with- out recognizing that all that his party has clamored for, that is neither destructive nor visionary, is in process of rapid ac- complishment. No Republican can read it without admitting to himself that it is a great record of good for the country. The Republican party bungled the tariff. The promise of the Republican platform of 1908 and the Payne-Aldrich bill were recognitions of the general de- mand for lower duties. Yet the tariff law was an evasion of the general de- mand, and the country showed its: re- sentment in the Sections of 1910. For twenty years the Republican party evaded or bungled the duty of providing a new currency system. The Demec- cratic party has performed this task, and now Republicans are trying to get some of the credit for it. But these are only two of the most conspicuous items. = The people have direct election of Senators to make our system more thoroughly ocratic. They have obtained them under a Demo- cratic administration.. During all the Republican regime the “Third House” was about as potent at the capitol as the two Houses established by the Constitu- tion. = President Wilson has put it to flight. The President has taken a long step toward promoting equity between employers and employees by bringing together the representatives of capital and labor, resulting in the passage of the Industrial Employees’ Arbitration act. Secretary Bryan has done much to promote the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means, and Sec- retary McAdoo relieved the stringency in the agricultural regions instead of the financial centres during the crop-moving period. The natural and legitimate de- mands of the Filipinos for a greater con- trol over their own affairs have been met. The foreign policy. of the country has been freed from all suspicion of being in the service of the moneyed interests. The postal service has become self-sustaining. Competition in naval contracts has been forced, with great pecuniary benefit to the country. The House of Representa- tives is no longer controlled by the Speaker and two colleagues on gthe com- mittee on rules selected by him. = Everywhere there has been progress toward fuller and better opportunities for “the man on the street,” and govern- ment has ceased to be in the service of any private interests, and monopolies, political and financial, are being broken up, with the result of the restoration of : power to the people. Wilson’s Re-election Predicted. Washington Dispatch to Chicago Record-Herald. Some of the. political gossips down East are getting agitated again over President Wilson and 1916. Such agita- tion shows itself every time the adminis- tration wins a Legislative victory, and now and then between times. When Bryan accepted a place in the Cabinet certain wiseacres declared that it was with an understanding that a single term for Mr. Wilson was to suffice, and that he—Bryan—was to fall heir to the next Presidential nomination if the party made good. . . . The fact is, however, that as matters stand today—if there is no catastrophe affecting the present dom- inant party—Mr. Wilson is as certain of renomination as McKinley was in 1900, or Roosevelt was of the Republican nom- ination in 1904. been demanding the income tax and the, i SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —A baby girl who came recently to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rippey, of Lock Haven, is the eighteenth child. Nine of the number are dead and the little girl is the only sister of eight boys. —Three foreigners were killed and three others were seriously injured near Osceola when the mine caron which they were riding jumped the track, knocking out some timbers, which fell on the men. —A stogie factory belonging to S. I. Yudleman, of Jersey Shore, was badly damaged by fire a few daysago. Mr. Yudleman had a large stock of tobacco in the basement that is likely ruined by the water. —The Punxsutawney Fair association is issu- ing bonds to cover its indebtedness and will take active steps for success at this year’s fair. The association has plenty of real estate to make its bonds desirable. —Two young men named Palmer and Shaffer have been arrested for trying to pass worthless checks at Blairsville. The checks bore the name of S. J. Sides, a prominent Blacklick business man, and totalled $95. ? : —Lewistown isn’t likely to be pleased with any site for its federal building that can be pur- chased for the appropriation price. Lock Haven solved the same difficulty by promptly offering to put up the balance. —Bloomsburg wants to entertain the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal conference in 1915 and will send an invitation to the coming Harrisburg meeting. Jersey Shore tock a similar action some weeks ago. * —Standing in the door at his home at Lycippus, George Blackburn, pit boss at St. Clair mine, ‘was’ shot by some unknown miscreant’ twice.” His recovery is likely and state troopers are looking for the would be assassin. ~—Miss Lizzie Harper, of Morrisdale, is in the Cottage hospital, Philipsburg, badly burned, She had been polishing the stove and a match she had lighted caught the kindling prematurely and leaped up to her clothing. Her mother beat’ out the flames. —Miss May Pooler, the Madera school teacher,, who was recently so brutally assaulted by Joha. Wilkinson for keeping his boy in beyond school hours as a reprimand for swearing, has entered a civil suit against Wilkinson demanding $1,000 for injuries received growing out of the attack. —Six students at Gettysburg college have been: suspended for two weeks for dancing the tango. which had been strictly forbidden by the faculty. There will be no more interfraternity dances until just before commencement. Two of the young men suspended belong to the musical clubs. —Small pox of the same light variety as is pre-: valent elsewhere in this part of the State has broken out in Somerset county, near Meyersdale. People at Coal Run, St. Paul and Boynton have been going about with eruptions on their faces for some time and the disease has had every chance to spread. —A store and three dwellings were burned at Westport recently by fire which started in a store cellar. Frank Skyles owned the store and Mrs.’ Nancy Robbins the building, both had some im-: surance. Loss, all told, is about $30,000. The Renovo fire company was summoned and ren- dered valuable aid. ‘—Three Huntingdon county holders of liquor license have applied for renewal of the privilege. Others, it is said, will do so in order that the: judges may have a chance to put themselves on record. But some are averse to spending money for nothing, as the sentiment of the judges is well known. ~—One of those rapid fire courtships one sometimes reads about occurred at Punxsutaw- ney this week. Bert States’ was introduced om Sunday evening to Miss Ruth Sobers, of DuBois, a visitor at Punxsutawney. On Tuesday they were married at Cumberland. Their engage- ment had lasted one day. v —Sometime between 1.30 and 5.15 a. m. Thurs-. day the safe in the post office at Duncansville was blown open and cash amounting to $12 or $15 taken, together with stamps to the value of $80 to $100. The robbery was discovered by Post- master I. C. Hess at 5.15, when he went to the building to open the office for the day. —While Mr. Reed, a young man whe teaches the Coal Hill school, near Luthersburg, was chastizing a girl pupil, her brother came up behind the teacher and plunged a knife into his hip. An artery was severed and Mr, Reed lost a great quantity of blood before medical aid could reach him. He is likely, however, to recover. —A large amount of the “postage due’’ stamps and five registered letters, which were part of the loot when the Dunlo postoffice was robbed recently were found the other day by boys, the burglars having thrown them over a railroad embankment. A cave near the place was alse found and it is pelieved the robbers made their. headquarters there. i ; Spl ed ly —D. R. Williams was convicted by a Clearfield county jury of negligence and reckless auto driv-_ ing in a civil court action by which verdict 1€’ must pay for the cow he mortally injured when’: won't tell them, either, that he rode all the way to Denver, with JIM GUFFEY, to | try to defeat BRYAN for .the nomination for President. . Oh no! It's BRYAN votes that MCCORMICK waats now and these ! little matters had best be forgotten. —Let us see, could the Democrats of | Pennsylvania find some nice office in which to place the janitor of those re- organization headquarters at Harrisburg, and the ice man who kept the cooler cool , during the hot days of the reformation in Pennsylvania. GUTHRIE is Ambassa-- dor to Japan; PALMER is going to let us vote for him for U. S. Senator; McCor- MICK has decided to let us common peo- ple put'his perfumed plutocratic person | into the Governor's chair; JiMMY BLAKESLIE has been made an Assistant Postmaster General and made himself saviour extraordinary of the President, and BERRY has been given an $8000 job on the Delaware. Surely we ought to be able to run the janitor and the ice man for something. —Writing to the Raftsman’s Journal some ‘Recollections of Gen. JAMES A. | BEAVER,” the Hon. THOMAS MURRAY says: “His lasting fame as a soldier and his enduring renown for having gov- erned wisely and well a State in the days when that State was an Empire greater than was England in the illustrious reign of Elizabeth are quite overshadowed by this single act of moral heroism that will shine out in the years to come brighter and more enduring than the stars that gather in the brow of night.” | Mr. MUR- RAY refers, of course, to the position Gen. BEAVER took at the time of the failure of the nail works in this place. It is a beautiful tribute to the integrity. of Gen. BEAVER and one everyone as honest as. he was will say Amen! to. h ‘owns a small farm adjacent to their mun- | State concerned in the operation. That | ‘taxes would amount to $12,000,000 and it he would hardly poor. Under this law Mr. ROCKEFELLER home rule and an uncompromising oppo- | was assessed on personai property at the nent of bossism. These truths are ex- market value of his shares in the Stand- pressed in every act of his public life. ~~; ard Oil company. It made an aggregate President WILSON may have a person- | estate of $90,000,000 upon which the tax ' a] liking for certain candidates for Dem- would amount to $12,000,000. All other | ocratic favor in Pennsylvania. That is a residents of the State are taxed in the | privilege which he enjoys in common same ratio and those who can’t get away ' with all other Democrats in and out of are compelled to pay it. the State. But he understands that no Like most other very rich men, how- _ man, even though he be President, has a ever, Mr. ROCKEFELLER objects to tax right to select the nominees of a great bills. They all enjoy the advantages of party in a Commonwealth of the propor- | government and rejoice in the security ! tions and resources of an empire. He which a strong government guarantees . knows, moreover, that four or five men them alike in person and property. But have ‘no right to make a ticket for a they are not willing to pay in proportion | great party anywhere and especially in a | to the benefit they derive. The man who city not within the jurisdiction of the sions, they imagine, ought to pay as jg much, acre for acre, as they. And be- and President WiLSON is opposed to boss- cause just laws are enacted which dif jsm of any variety. ii ferentiates, they move off to a neighbor- | We can hardly credit the rumor, either, hood which has a higher appreciation of that Secretary of State BRYAN and other wealth. They find protection for their members of the Presidents cabinet con- property in communities which have not template participation in a primary con- adopted the Democratic theory of tax- test in the Democratic party of Pennsyl- ‘ation. ; | vania, Secretary BRYAN has become a | Mr. ROCKEFELLER may succeed in evad- | “worshipper of the golden calf” and a ing his fs Shere SF the pon of gov. vast fortune may allure him to favor a ernment | e me e has adopted. man who consistently opposed him in It is said that under the Ohiolaw his three campaigns for the Presidency. But | violate the nciples of is not at all likely ‘that his magnificent ‘Democracy by Tr primary lake shore property at Cleveland would election in a State in which he is nota sell for that much. But it will sell for a voter, in view of his ‘present relation to bossism of the most obnoxious type 00d deal and it is to be hoped that un the party and the cotintry. For the pres.” less he returns and pays it will be sold. ent, at least, we will discredit all such support. Unfortunately for Col. WOODWARD’S assuranc8s there would be much more assurance in them if there were not three thousand nine hundred and ninety- nine other Democrats in the county, and ' each one having a mind and an opinion of his own. What they may conclude to do, finally, we do not know, but have serious doubts if the PENROSE Republican methods of making nominations, which our own would-be leaders are now at- tempting to force upon the Democratic party, are nearly as popular with the: Centre county Democrats, as the Howard statesman and political prophet would try to have the public believe. —The WATCHMAN has no choice for Governor since Justice MESTREZAT is not to be a candidate. In fact it wouldn't matter much if it had. PALMER and McCoRMICK are the only two men in the Democratic party in Pennsylvania who have any right to have a choice. Let Us Know, Please. Really brother Democrats, don’t it puz- zle you a good deal to distinguish any difference between the methods Mr. PENROSE has always employed to nominate his Republican ticket—methods which we as Democrats have always denounc- ed—and those our own saintly would-be- bosses are now asking ‘us to endorse? For our part we can see none. If you can, please let us know in what and At the rate he is going the chances are very fair, indeed, for the clearing up of i the constructive program undertaken by i President Wilson before the end of his present term. If it is cleared up it will be an accomplishment which few, if any, of his predecessors have wrought. It is conceivable that Mr. Wilson, seeing pledges of his party redeemed, might wish to lay down the cares of public of- fice and betake himself to. scholarly re- tirement with undimmed prestige. But while striving as at present to be Presi- dent of the whole people Mr. Wilson is one of the strongest party men who ever occupied the White House. He believes in the responsibility of the party in con- trol of the Government and has no great he drove into a herd on the road. The evideuce; was that he had laughed after he struck the cow and that his wife had told the boys their cows had no right on the road. : —The use of sulphate of copperas in treating the well water of Grove City, where 800 cases of winter cholera have recently developed, will stop the spread of the disease, the state department of health engineers have found. Friday 110 new . cases were reported, but Saturday, when the water was treated with sulphate of copperas, the number of new cases dropped to 57 and Sun- day but 12 cases were reported. , —With both legs broken and with numerous lacerated wounds about the body, Nicholas Hook a miner employed by the Wilbur Coal company at its operations four miles from Hooversville, faith in the good that would be done if ' lies at the point of death at the Memorial hospital that party was other than the Demo- in Johnstown. His injuries were received Tues- . Of course the difference bet € Pro- reports from all sources, Gi where it is, in order that we can show to duct of the sale and the face of the tax i Ei is me ——e] BL Dik our tin neighbor that our own par- bill would be lost. But- is better to ——A Germay professor declares that ty is not to be PENROSED, or bossed, just La. Ta ple” are the Daratncn’ an the | 22 our Rep ublican friends s have been ever ‘which has protected him in the past will imagines that this country ia suffering you to show 1. the diference—if ae get : 4 from the same causes. can any. wr cratic. day when he kindled a fire in the open and was ma | engaged in thawing out a quantity of dynamite A Delmonico Dynasty. | to be used in excavation work. Four sticks of : dynamite exploded simultaneously and Hook From the New York World. was hurled a considerable distance. ' When Charles F. Murphy, referring to his bossship, declares “I am going to stay here as long as I live!” we wonder what Tammany men themselves think of it. They have always regarded them- selves as the perpetual ruling caste of New York, but their theory has been that it was their high privilege to vouchsafe a boss to the city at their will and change him at their pleasure. Now they have a boss who, without a introduce the hereditary principle and found the Delmonico dynasty. Dr. Anna Shaw’s Dilemma. From the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Dr. Shaw is also said to have been puzzled by the assessments blank calling | for a declaration of property owned, by “him or it.” As she was neither, she could not very well comply. ~~—Senator OLIVER has announced. his intention to retire from public life at the | by-your-leave, confers on himself a life | tenure of office, and before long may | | expiration of his term as Senator; PEN- | ROSE needs some of the virus which has | made his colleague so wise. —Surrounded by the members of her immedi- ate family residing in Steelton, and a number of | relatives froma distance, including Mrs. Eliza- | beth Philips, her daughter, of Philadelphia: Mr. | and Mrs. Philip Trumater, of Gordon, Schuylkill county, the latter a grand-daughter, Mrs. Eliza- beth Sharon, Dauphin county’s oldest woman, : celebrated herone hundred and fourth birthday in a quiet manner at her home, 324 Myers street, Steelton, Sunday. Congratulations, flowers and post cards formed the greetings extended her by rélatives and friends. —A monster survivor of the original forest, the largest white oak tree in Northumberland coun- ty and perhaps in the State, had just been cut by L.J. Menges, of Turbotville. The height of this tree was 125 feet. and the calculation of its age from the number of rings in the trunk made it 310 years old. At the ground the trunk measured eight feet two inches in diameter, and forty-eight feet above the ground the diameter was four feet. A specially constructed saw, ten feet long, was used to fall it. These were the cuts from the tieee: Three sixteen-foot logs, measuring, re- spectively, at the small end, five, six and four. feet in diameter; two ten-foot logs, twenty inches , each in small end diameter; one eight-foot log, The total board feet in the tree was 15,000.
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