BY P. GRAY MEEK. LE TET. INK SLINGS. * —Possibly the reason that Mr. HUERTA don’t “go to the front” may be that there is no front to it any longer. — April is more than half gone and very little farm work has been done in Centre county, owing to the ground being . too wet. —A late Paris fashion fastens a wom- an’s watch on her garter. And, we sup- pose, the face of the watch is covered with embarrassment. —Now that the trout fishing season is on all those fellows who swore off lying on the first of the year may be expected ‘ to break back to their old habits. —Blair county paid a thousand dollars for the capture of HoHL, thé bank rob- ‘ber, then let him slip away as easily as if " stage money had been the ransom, ——Senator PENROSE in a pulpit is an anomaly but anybody in a pulpit preach- ' ing against President WILSON’s peaceful policy with respect to Mexico is simply absurd. —<Investigations gone Mad,” is the way a Philadelphia paper puts it. And from the swearing that is going on about them we are inclined to think they are very much in that condition. ———President WILSON spent the Easter holiday delightfully at Hot Srings, Va, and is back on the job so improved by his rest that he may continue his good work until Congress adjourns. —The local minister who has been preaching an intermediary state to his congregation has some of them guessing as to whether it might not be intended as more of an admonition of their pres- ent welfare than of their future condi- tion. —Ex-Speaker CANNON is making a trip to the Bermudas to see, as he alleges, if they are as “near like Heaven as some people report them to be.” Just as if he had any chance to get “near” enough Heaven to see if there is any likeness be- tween the two places. —It is said that the President’s repre- sentative in Mexico, Mr. JOHN LIND, can speak English, Swedish and Spanish all fluently, which makes us wonder at the size of the job he hason hand: keeping secret, in four languages, the many State ‘ secrets that are necessarily confided to him. —The chief regret our friend Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER is experiencing at this time is, that with all the frost he and Mr. VANCE McCoORMICK have been able to create among the Democrats of the State, it has not been sufficient to nip the op- position to his Senatorial ambition in the BuDD. —The decision of our government to reimburse Colombia for seizing the Ca- nal Zone and setting up Panama as an independent Republic is a most honora- ble one, and should restore us to the high position we held in the eyes of the world before ROOSEVELT perpetrated that outrage on a weaker people. —The hole that bandit HoRL escaped through was so small as to make it ap- pear almost a miracle that any human head could squeeze through it, yet we'll bet that all the jail officials of Blair county felt small enough on Sunday morning to have gone through it easily without even soaping their bodies. —It’s looking wonderfully just now as if the gentleman whom Pennsylvania fur. nished President WILSON to conduct the affairs of the Fourth Assistant Postmas- ter General's office had worked himself into a condition necessitating that an im- mediate and unlimited leave of absence, from official duties, be granted him. ——Even the treacherous Democratic State Committee which failed to -poll a respectable vote for the most popular Democratic candidate for President we have had in a quarter of a century, will not be able to prevent the renomination of Congressman LEE. The Democrats of Schuylkill know LEE and they are finding the treacherous Democratic Committee out. —1If the people who are now organiz- ing a war on “useless noises’ could only realize the purpose of the continual clat- ter that is heard about a “bi-partisan ma- chine” anyone could guess, the first time, where their first effort would be made. A more useless noise never annoyed a long-suffering public since FORAKER quit politics or ROOSEVELT went to ex- plore South America, than this guff about a bi-partisan Democratic machine. —“Lefty Louie” ROSENBERG, one of the four New York gunmen who died in the electric chair at Sing Sing, on Mon- day morning, sent this last message to his boyhood friends of the East Side of New York: “Tell them that the syna- gogue is their best home and God is their best friend. When they understand that they will not land as I have landed.” It’s the old, old story that so few heed and fewer understand until it is too late. The lamentable end of these four boys should arouse serious thoughts in the minds of others who are trying to “beat the game” on these matters of their “best home” and their “best friend.” Be- cause the boy who: really has God for “his best friend” will lead such a life that prison bars never becloud. 4 7 NN EL7 6 &_7 7 \ Ne Na Ny STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 50. BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 17, 1914. Palmer’s False Claim of Importance. Mr. A. MiTcHELL PALMER and VANCE C. McCorMICK are declaring from the stump wherever they appear that the failure to nominate them for the offices to which they aspire will be interpreted as a rebuke to President WILSON and work the destruction of the policies of his administration. We can conceive of nothing further from the truth. Presi- dent WILSON is not dependent upon either Mr. PALMER or Mr. MCCORMICK. They are not his candidates for Senator in Congress for Pennsylvania or Gover: nor of the State. Having been chosen by themselves, Jim BLAKESLIE and ROL- AND S. MORRIS, as candidates for those offices they announced to the President that they were candidates and he didn’t object. If any other Democrat in Penn- sylvania had gone to President WILSON in the same way he would have given him a similar answer. There was noth- ing else for him to say. Mr. PALMER iterates and reiterates that he appeals to the Democrats of Pennsylvania for support upon the rec- ord of achievements of President WIL- SON’S administration. That means, if it means anything, that Mr. PALMER has shaped the policies of the administration and personally influenced Congress to enact the legislation necessary to put magnifying the importance of Mr. PAL- MER and correspondingly diminishing the importance of President WILSON’S work. Through an industrious press agency Mr. PALMER has raised himself to a high pinnacle. He makes himself appear as about the “entire cheese” in the affairs of the government at Washington. As a matter of fact, however, he has not been so potent a figure in the public life of the country. Other leaders have been quite as active and efficient. That Mr. PALMER has been in accord with the policies of the President and the majority in Congress is true. It was his personal and political advantage to be so. He was in favor of CHAMP CLARK for the Presidential nomination while striving to'get a desirable place in the committee assignments and subsequent- ly deserted the man who had helped him because he could do better for himself by another alignment. He was enthusi- astically in favor of Colonel GUFFEY as Democratic leader in Pennsylvania so long as that association conserved his personal ambitions and he was earnestly for Senator HALL while that gentleman “paid the freight” for his aspirations. But the moment he found he could do better for himself by traducing them he “emptied the vials of his wrath upon their heads.” If President WILSON de- pends upon PALMER he “is leaning upon a broken reed.”” —This week last year was cold, with drizzling rain nearly every day. Macing Schuylkill County | Democrats. The Democratic organization of Schuylkill county protests against the “macing” of Democratic postmasters in that county for the benefit of the PAL- MER-MCCORMICK office brokerage firm. Congressman LEE of that county procur- ed the appointment of all the Democrat- ic postmasters in commission within that area, and PALMER and MCCORMICK want to force them to contribute to a fund to be used in.an effort to prevent the re- nomination of Mr. LEE. Naturally this has created some indignation among the Democrats there for LEE is as efficient as he is popular. But even while they ob- ject to the act the Schuylkill county Democrats admire the business methods of the collector, one WILSON BAILEY. Mr. BAILEY, who appears to be on the pay roll of the State committee as “so- licitor of funds,” is as importunate as a loan shark and as methodical as a pawn broker. After assuring them that Fourth Assistant Postmaster General JAMES IL BLAKESLIE has contributed $600 he tells them that five per cent. ot their year’s salary is only a trifling sum for them to surrender and then he refuses to take “no” for an answer. If they undertake to side-step under pretense that they are short of funds he is equal to the emer- gency. He simply shoves a “note of hand” under their noses and asks them to sign. With contracts in advance and notes afterward there is little chance of escape from BAILEY. How long is the great Democratic par- ty to be subject to such humiliation at the hands of these party hucksters? How long will the Democratic voters of the State consent to this “macing” operation? The CAMERONS introduced this method of campaigning into Pennsylvania and Quay developed it to a high degree of perfection. But nobody ever applied it in the full measure of brutal atrocity til DoN CAMERON'S nephew, VANCE McCorMICK became ‘ambitious to hol office. When he can’t buy control party he fights the ticket. : (3 A WRK 4 those policies in force. That is greatly’ Jim Blakeslie an Office Broker. | Mr. James I. BLAKESLIE, according to {the Washington correspondent of the Pbiladelphia Public Ledger, has been | transacting some office brokerage busi- ness on his own hook, recently. The | Republican postmaster at Mahanoy City, 1a man named GRAHAM, is afriend of Mr, i BLAKESLIE. He is under serious charges, the correspondent writes, and Mr. BLAKESLIE has been caught up “in a deal to protect him.” It is said the matter will be brought before President WILSON and the chances are that MITCHELL PAL- MER and VANCE McCoRMICK wiil have a good deal of difficulty to convince the President that it is a harmless bi-parti- san effort to rehabilitate, rejuvenate and reform the Democratic party. publican postmaster, under serious charges, Mr. BLAKESLIE has been striv- ing to defeat the renomination of Hon. ROBERT E. LEE, the Democratic Repre- sentative in Congress for the Twelfth District. Mr. LEE is one of the most ef- egation. He hasn’t maintained a. public- ity bureau or employed a press agent but during his two terms in the House he has accomplished more than all the oth- ers together, including the puissant PAL- MER. But he hasn’t joined the illustri- ous or notorious “Order of the Worship- pers of the Golden Calf,” and for that reason he is to be sacrificed by the trait- orous Democratic State organization. Mr. BLAKESLIE was nominated at the Allentown convention of 1910, on the ticket with WEBSTER GRIM and during the campaign he availed himself of every opportunity to discourage Democrats. When the State Executive committee met in Philadelphia to consider the prop- osition of Mr. BERRY that GRIM and he both get out of the running in order that a candidate who would unite the party and get all the votes of those who op- posed the PENROSE machine might be substituted, BLAKESLIE was among the most vociferous of those who advised GRIM to remain on the ticket. But he the back and as soon as the election was over he joined the re-organizers in their treacherous effort to wreck the party. ——We positively and emphatically re- fuse to believe that the WILSON admin- istration will collapse in the event that VANCE MCCORMICK and MITCH PALMER fail of the Democratic nomination for Governor and United States Senator. President WILSON’s success thus far justi- fies our confident belief that he can steer the ship of State safely no matter what happens at the Pennsylvania primary election. Mr. Underwood Nominated. The United States Senate will be strengthened in character and ability by the election of OscAR W. UNDERWOOD, who was nominated by the Democrats of Alabama on Monday. He is splendidly equipped for the important office in learning and experience and has courage as well as conscience. On the question of canal tolls he was wrong, the other day, but his error was of the head rather than of the heart. He believed he was right and expressed his view in his vote clause. But he cast no aspersions upon those who disagreed with him and offer- ed no obstruction to the operation of the will of the majority. The State of Alabama made a wise choice in the nomination ot Mr. UNDER- woobD. It might have done badly but did well. His antagonist in the primary cam- paign, RICHARD PEARSON HOBSON is a blatherskite who has embraced all the “isms” which have vote-catching quali- ties. For years he has been pestering his Democratic colleagues in the House with absurd jingo notions and filling the pages of the Congressional Record with platitudes upon one heresy or another. Education is not as far advanced in Ala- bama as in Pennsylvania and there was grave danger that he might influence the credulous and impose upon the the illiter- ates sufficiently to poll a majority of the votes. Happily this danger is past now and HoBsON has been eliminated from Con- gress. Thus two valuable results have been accomplished by the primary vote of the State on Monday. The State will secure one of the strongest and best Senators in the body and the House has gotten rid of a nuisance. Besides, Mr. UNDERWOOD will be a great help to the President in writing his wise policies into the statutes of the country, for except in the matter of canal tolls they are in com- plete nt and will be close In pursuance of this deal with a Re- ficient members of the Pennsylvania del-- was. secretly stabbing ‘the candidate in against the repeal of the exemption ' | | Campaign scandals multiply. Almost from the moment that the PALMER-Mc- | CoRrMICK outfit became fixed in its usurp- ed place the odious practices of the PEN- { ROSE machine have been in operation in | the Democratic organization. The sale | of party favors has become as common | as the purchase of vegetables in the market places and the money obtained | by this sinister commerce is used for financing the operations of a party fac- tion. Neither the CAMERONS, QUAY nor PENROSE ever went as far in political corruption and nefarious practices as the Democratic organization has ventured since these arrant hypocrites have been in control. Every day brings forth a ' new scandal. When the Democratic party of Penn- sylvania was hopelessly in the minority and men of that political faith regarded the expense of maintaining an organiza- tion as a waste of funds, Colonel JAMES M. GUFFEY occasionally provided trans- portation for State committeemen to at- tend party conferences or conventions. But the expense was paid by him personally and the favor was extended alike to friends and foes in the committee. Now those in control of the organization have adopted the same policy except that only their servile followers are provided with transportation and the money to pay the expenses is obtained. by macing public officials. Colonel GUFFEY’S generous im- pulses were condemned as crimes and , this deliberate corruption is lauded as a : virtue. The fact of the matter is that PALMER [and McCoRrMICK acquired control of the i Democratic organization precisely as a | burglar secures loot by a midnight raid ! and having obtained it thus are using it . like a train robber uses his plunder. They | don’t represent President WILSON or his policies and the success of the adminis- tration doesn’t depend upon their fac- tional triumph. The Democrats of Penn- sylvania are all for President WILSON and when PALMER was pledging the sup- port of Pennsylvania to CHAMP CLARK pa Political Scandals Multiply. sonal favors in committee assignments, many of the rest of us were doing what we could for WOODROW WILSON. ——Secretary of State BRYAN ably defends the President’s attitude on the canal tolls question by proving that one plank in the Baltimore platform required the repeal of the exemption clause of the canal law quite as emphatically as anoth- er plank forbade it. As Mr. BRYAN wrote the platform it must be inferred that he had set the trap to “catch them coming or going.” Chairman Morris Mistaken. At the meeting of the Democratic State committee, held in Harrisburg, on Tues- day, chairman MORRIS assured the mem- bers of that body that none of the funds had been improperly used. It has been charged, he said, that money contributed by Democrats for the use of the party had been employed for the benefit of individuals. This he declared is not true. Every dollar expended by the committee was for the benefit of the party, he added with the solemnity of a crook caught with the goods upon him. , It is intimated that he even ‘crossed his breast,” in his anxiety to have himself believed. The largest bill of expense which the State committee has had to meet since the election of last fall is that for plate matter for use in the country papers. A page of the plate matter furnished to one hundred papers weekly will cost in the neighborhood of four hundred dollars a month. Ever since the “Three Tailors ' of Tooley street” met in Washington and { appointed VANCE MCCORMICK the can- - didate for Governor and A. MITCHELL | PALMER the nominee for Senator in Con- . gress something like a page of fulsome eulogy of those gentlemen has been sent | to the papers every week and the bill i for the service has been paid out of the treasury of the Democratic State com- mittee. | This was plainly and palpably a mis- | appropriation of the funds of the com- , mittee. It was as clearly an embezzle- , ment as if the money had been used to ‘pay Mr. MORRIS’ grocery bills or to fill , Mr. BLAKESLIE'S coal bin. Mr. MORRIS | may imagine that boosting McCORMICK : and PALMER and vilifying those who are | opposed to them is benefiting the party but men with a better conception of moral ethics, and a much better idea of , what constitutes work for the Demo- . cratic party than he seems to have, are of a different opinign and Mr. MORRIS , mas well understand first as last that | he will be called to account for his mis- also anid always & “dernier fesort, “for President, in consideration of per- NO. 16. An English View of Us. , From the London Saturday Review. > | America, trust-ridden and union-ridden, ! still offers some scope for the adventurous, land the average American iS on the | whole more self-reliant and enterprising | than his counterpart here. He has the | spirit of a Pawnee brave, out after scalps, {if not of a knight errant. He is more | ambitious and has even yet more chance | of realizing ambition than the product of : our coldly regulated society. The American, too, has this further i advantage. He attacks work with a i single mind. He is thoroughly convinced | that work, be it merely pig killing, is the only fit occupation for a man. He is ‘called a dollar hunter. But no mere “lover of money would continue, as Amer- {icans do, to work at money making long : after health, digestion and the power of | employment have gone. ; The American works because he likes work, becouse he has taste for little else, and because, generally speaking, money- making is his only notion of work. | The English sausage-maker sells his business and retires to a Surrey villa { when he has amassed 30,000 pounds. An American continues to turn out sausages when he is worth millions. The fortune is incidental, the real epic of his life is expressed in festoons of sausages girdling the globe. One of the “Big Five” of Chicago used when he was 70 to get up at 5 o'clock “in the morning, leave behind him a houseful of Titians and Rembrandts and go down to the stock yards—to kill a pig. With- out this daily offering to his gods, life to him was a hollow and empty thing. The English are not lazy, but they are not industrious in that way. They are content to use up their energies in by ways such as golf or scribbling of social enjoyment. The postoffice supplies us with novelists and dramatic critics, and probably many of Lord Claude Ham- ilton’s “clever and capable men,” not quite fit for the first place fritter away their time in humanizing themselves. It is the American’s strange power of getting rid of all inconvenient human characteristics during early youth that makes him the terribly efficient industrial machine he often is. Whether the result is worth the sacrifice is another question. Senator Lodge’s Patriotism. From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. After all the thundering by members of the Republican and Progressive par: ties against the repeal of the canal tolls exemption bill as a craven. sutigider to Great Britain, Senator Lodge, a ‘Republi. can of the Republicans and the ranking member of his party on the Senate For- eign Affairs committee, comes out with the flat declaration that President Wilson is entirely right in his stand. This is the pith of his long and admirable ar- gument: To thwart the purposes or to discredit the policies of the official head of a political par- ty is legitimate political warfare. To dis- credit or break down the President of the United States upon a question of foreign pol- icy is quite another thing, never to be under- taken except for very grave reasons. In other words Senator Lodge thinks there are some lengths to which even a partisan cannot go with honor in oppos- ing the policies of the enemy. He is no admirer of Democratic ideas of govern- ment. He has been one of the most vigorous and intelligent fighters against the party now in the ascendency, but he has ideals of his duty toward his country. He believes that not even hope of party advantage should delude men into forget- ting the allegiance they owe to patriot- ism. He knows, as every sober-minded observer knows, that in the main the opposition to the repeal of the tolls ex- emption bill has had for its animus a base desire to gain party advantage by misrepresentation and allegation of un- worthy motives in the man and his sup- porters who are making a single-minded fight to rescue the honor of the country from peril in which it has been placed. It is significant of Senator Lodge’s patriotism that this high-minded attitude should be taken by a stand-pat Republi- can, rather than by one of the Progres- sives who boast of “standing at Armaged- don and battling for the Lord.” No Ground for Alarm. - From the Johnstown Democrat. The Washington Post is much alarmed over the apparent failure of the Under- wood tariff and the income tax to raise the amount of revenue they were ex- pected to bring into the treasury and it hints at the necessity of an issue of bonds. Of course it does not occur to the Post that a deficit may easily be avoided by the simple and perfectly natural, highly expedient and altogether desirable meth- od of reducing appropriations, especially for army and navy. In a time of pro- found peace these establishments are costing the people almost if not quite $300,000,000. It would be possible to clip a hundred or even a hundred and fifty millions from this staggering sum without the slightest danger of the public interest. As a mat- ter of fact, our great standing army and our huge navy are an abiding menace to the peace of the world. They present a standing invitation to aggression. They provoke other countries to arm against us. They afford to jingoism a continued excuse for rousing popular passions in the slightest pretext or even without pretext. Disarmament on a great scale by the United States is in every aspect desirable. And why shouldn't this country set an example to the most of the nations? We prate of peace, but what does such prating come to when we go on uncheck- ed in building war ships, in extending our far-flung fortifications in strengthen- ing the army and in ever-increasing ap- propriations for offensive purposes not the latter give the lie direct to all our pretenses of peaceful purposes? SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —The home of Thomas Fitzsimmons, at Tun- nellhill, a suburb of Gallitzin, was robbed of $995, together with some jewlery Sunday morning. —An Italian gentleman of leisure who entered a Johnstown home, demanding money and food, and who became turbuient, was found after his arrest to have $10 in money in his pockets. —Fourteen youths of Williamsport, caught in freight cars on sidings and engaged in card play- ing were taken before the mayor and fined $5 each. Those lads are making a very poor start in life. —The Odd Fellows of Lewisburg are making extensive preparations for the celebration of Odd Fellows’ Day on the 25th inst. Many visiting lodges are expected to grace the occasion by | their presence. . —Clearfield will entertain the twenty-fourth annual session of the Pittsburgh district confer- ence of the African Methodist Episcopal church, April 21-23, inclusive. An interesting program has been prepared. —The large department store of Frank Straw, at Listonburg, Somerset county, was recently destroyed by an early morning fire, as well as his residence and contents, which were entirely consumed, and the insurance is only nominal. ~—Three colored boys have been arrested in Williamsport charged with the theft of valuable relics, antiques and heirlooms belonging to Mrs. Susan E. Webster. They were gathered by the lady’s relatives in many foreign countries dur- ing the last half century. —James Dunn, superintendent of the Loyal- hanna brewery, at Latrobe, who was recently given a heavy sentence by Judge Telford, of Indiana county, for alleged violation of the liquor laws, died last Friday after an illness of two days, from heart trouble. He was born in 1867. —The Odd Fellows Cemetery Association o Warren has discovered that Guy C. Swanson, for years a member of the County Bar Associa- tion and secretary of the Warren Odd Fellows Cemetery Association, embezzled the funds of the association to the extent of more than $18,- 000. —Mrs. Columbia Remedia, whose husband, Dominic Remedia, was murdered near Janes- ville, will this week returnto her old home near Naples, Italy, the Clearfield county commission- ers having arranged with the immigration, bureau for her deportation as well as her three children. —Farrandsville had a fire last Friday night which destroyed the large frame building near the Philadelphia & Erie station occupied by the Vulcan Trading company, doing a general mer- cantile business, the post office and a board- ing house. The loss was $9,000, partially cover- ed by insurance. -#%n individual answering to the name of Raymond Brien and claiming Tyrone as his home is now quarantined with a family in Hooversville, Somerset county, whom he is ac- cused of robbing. There is a case of diphtheria in the house and when the fellow was arrested he was sent back to live with his victims. —David Kirk, miller, of Rockton, Somerset county, is in a mule, a wagon, a lot of chickens and a side of pork which were left at his place by three men who entered his mill the other evening and undertook to blow open the safe. One of the younger Kirks began to use his revol- ver rather freely when the men took to their heels leaving the aforementioned articles behind them. —Theodore Davis, of Morrisdale, who had been arrested on the charge of deserting his wife and baby, was on Monday brought before Judge Bell, at Clearfield, who sentenced him to pay his wife $15 per month and to give bond in the sum of $300 to carry out the order. In the event of failure to do so he is to be sentenced to a penal * institution of hard labor. He was taken to jail in default of the bond. —Home and foreign mission activities will prof- it by the will of the late Mrs. Eliza A. Henry, of Warren,disposing of an estate valued at $500,000. The Home Mission board of the Presbyterian church, the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions and the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the United States, are each given $10,000 and $25,000 is given to the Presbyterian Board of Ministerial Relief. The Warren library will profit to the ex- tent of $5,000. —The frozen bodies of Audus Linzey, aged 30, and John Poppenburg, aged 22, of Russell City, a small town nine mile south of Kane, were found late Friday afternoon by a searching party com- posed of Glade Holland, Edgar Kline and Wil- liam Poppenburg, the latter a brother of one of the dead men. The bodies were lying face down- ward along Spring Creek, near Pig's run, which is three miles from Russell City. Both men had been missing from their homes since last Tues- day. —The Fifth regiment of Pennsylvania volun- teers in the Spanish American war, an organiza- tion composed of the old Fifth regiment of the State National guard, will hold its annual re- union at Gettysburg on Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26. An elaborate program for the entertainment of the visitors has been prepared by the Gettysburg people. The regiment wasin the command of Golonol Theodore Burchfield, and old Company B, of Bellefonte was included in the roster. —Owing to a big falling off in business every chemical plant in McKean, Elk and Potter coun- ties ceased operation last Saturday, throwing 3000 men out of work. Prices for chemical products have decreased to such an extent that it is impossible for the manufacturers to operate their plants at a profit and all the men employed in the plants in the three counties were notified of the shutting down, which is for an indefinite period. There are more chemical plants in these three counties than in any other locality in the State. —Jacob Wakenhut, aged 39 years, of Williams- port, died at the Ridgway hospital Tuesday afternoon from two bullet wounds in the head, self inflicted Monday night after he shot his wife, Vera Wakenhut, aged 18, at the home of her grandmother, in Emporium. The young woman, wounded in the body and one arm, was taken to Ridgway from Emporium with her husband and was reported to have a fair chance to recover. It'is said that Mrs. Wakenhut left her husband a few weeks ago because of alleged abuses, went to Emporium and went to work in a hotel. —The largest gas well ever drilled in the Elk county gas fields was drilled in late Thursday afternoon on the Fisher farm, about four miles from Ridgway. Since the drill first pierced the sand the pressure has gradually increased, and Friday night the well registered a flow of 5,800,- 000 feet. The well is owned by the Beaver Gas and Oil company, composed principally of John- sonburg capitalists, The lease on which the record well was drilled was purchased a few weeks ago from Charles Salberg, of Ridgway, for $30,000. The big gusher is the deepest well in the Elk county field. It was struck at a depth of 2,700 feet. —Producers of maple sugar and syrup in Som- erset county declare that this has been the worst season in a number of years, the weather condi tions having been most unfavorable. Warm days and frosty nights, which gladden the hearts of the producers, failed to come at the right time and the flow of sap in almost every instance was limited to a production much smaller than any in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Elijah Livengood, who for a number of yearsjhas been one of the heaviest producers of the county, made about 1,200 gallons of syrup this year, while 3p other years the yield from his two camps has "been very close to the 4,000 mark.
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