CAPITOL PLOT T{ BE TRIED OUT,
Court Overrales Motion to Dismiss the
Conspiracy)Oharge Against Any Defon-
dant.
The Capitol conspiracy trial must
be fought out to a finish. Judge Kun-
kel overruled last Thursday's motion
to dismiss the prosecution. The law-
yers then contended that no adequate
proof of guilt had been produced. The
Court differs with them on this point,
for in overruling the motion to dismiss
it practically assumes the position
that they must disprove what is al-
ready in evidence, or the case msgking
out the conspiracy must stand. Con-
spiracy, it appears from the Court's
view, is not such a vague and vision.
ary offense as some classes of legal and
other critica for a week have been try-
ing to make out.
This decision, which may, as George
8. Graham, one of the lawyers for the
defense, said at the close of Tuesday's
proceedings, prolong the trial for six
weeks, was a plain, outright dissap-
pointment to the defense, Judge Kun-
kel, without any preliminaries, and in
his blunt manner, briefly announced
that the motion to dismiss had been
overruled.
{.sThe defense, however, jreally had no
reason to hope from anything the
Court had done; but it chose to in
terpet certain questions last week put
by Judge Kunkel to Attorney Bearlet,
who opposed the motion, as favorable
to the defense, and it was a very
slender thread. Judge Kunkel is not
going to make any mistakes in this
trial, if he can avoid them. If he
does it will, be ,up to the Bupreme
Court to rectify them, for there is
where the cases will certainly be taken,
{ The defense, however, had prepared
for an overruling of its motion, aud
had its witnesses and exhibits oa hsad
all ready for action.}
AS THE COURT SEES IT,
* Gentlemen,’ said Judge Kunkel,
as he took his seat on the Bench with
Judge McCarrell, ** wé have consider
ed the motion and arguments thal
have been made in this case, and have
reached the conclusion that they
should be overruled.”
The defendants, ail of whom were
there, except poor, demented Frank
Irvine, looked at each other and then
at their counsel, and then settled down
to what, it is apparent, is going lobe a
long contest,
But oue expert for the defense, 8B. W.
Hine, Lecame so confused and went so
far wrong in trying to contradict the
experts’ testimony for Lhe prosecution
that he had to be withdrawn from the
stand,
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Apecial Urange Meeting.
Progress Grange will hold ils pext
meeting, Saturday, 13th ost, at 1:30
o'clock. lavitations have been seat
out to neighboring Granges and there
is no doubt but that there will be a
good attendance of both members of
the local Grange and visitore,
Qae or more officers of the state
Grange have ULeeu iuvited tu sitend
this meeting, sud a promise of their
presence has been secured.
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LOCALS,
Mr. and Mrs. D. Wagner Geiss and
children, of Bellefonte, were in Centre
Hall from Saturday until Monday.
C. M. Garman, who has been en-
gaged in the hotel business in Atlantic
City, bas disposed of his business there
and wid move to Bellefonte,
Prof. Irwin WW. Zeigler, one of the
teachers in the Clearfield High school,
is st the home of his mother, Mrs,
Lydia Zeigler, west of Centre Hall,
A lucky fisherman was Cal. Cooney,
of Colyer, who a day or two ago went
to Fleishers Gap sud flsned out forty
speckled beauties [rum the stream.
H. UG, Strohmeicr, Lhe marble dealer,
is haviug his house repsiuted. The
work is being done by Mr. Penny
packer, of Pleasant Gdp, assisted by
Charles McClenahao, of Centre Hall
Aifalfs ls making a record for itsel!
this season. Stalks of the legume
forty-three and one-half inches in
length are hangiog in this office, aud
these were plucked June 2, and before
the plants were in blossom.
Ex-Buperintendent of schools C. L.
Gramley, of Rebersburg, was in Centre
Hall Inst week, and although not now
an official his interest ia school work
continues. He ls, by the way, at Lhe
head of one of the leading township
high schools.
The meeting of the County Com
mitteé upon Farmers [ustitute, (0
select places for holding the lostitute
next winter will be held at the office
of the County Commissioners in Belle
fonte, at 10 o'clock io the worniog of
Tuesday, Juue 23, Localities wishing
an Iostitute should be represented at
that meeting, either by committees, or
by letters addressed to the couuty
chairman, Joho A, Woodward,
Howard,
John B. Foster, of Tyrone, sccom-
panied by James Durham, drove from
that place to Spring Mills Ssturday,
to remain over Bunday. Mr, Foster
is a native of Gregg township, but bas
been in Tyrone for eighteen years, avd
for some years was employed by a
drayman, Later he purchased his
employer's business, and is now con.
ducting it in a very successful manner,
The gentleman who accompanied him
spring Mills.
John Heckman, who had been
making bis home with Robert Bmith
the past year or so, has gone to stay
for a time with his daughter, Mrs,
Wm. Neese, east of Penn Hall,
Mrs. Wm. Hunsinger, of Bellefonte,
Charles CO. Duck and family, of Lew-
istown, visited at the home of his fa
ther, M. B. Duck.
Word was received here Bunday of
the death of Mr. Donachy, of Lewis
burg. He is the son-in-law of Bquire
M. B. Hering.
The Memorial Day program was
well gotten up, but the rain spoiled
This (Thursday) evening Rev. Hart,
versary sermon for the I. 0,0. F,, in
Miss Clara Condo, of Penn Hall, vis-
Bartholomew,
John Rossman, who had been home
His
with him,
Will Rossman has completed his
The corpse of Mrs, Homer Roberts,
Early Monday morning occurred the
The little fellow was
Interment was made Wednesday.
The recent rains the past few weeks
I'be most damage done was gardens
Through rushes high and grasses green
It's sparkling in sun and hallo'd in fog
It's peaceful and quiet, the traveler's retreat;
They wade in its waters and play on the ledge,
And those who long since to manhood have
grown,
have flown ;
They loiter about by the bridge at the ford,
he faithful plow horse gladly drinks from
the stream,
are seen
And the busy town folks their pathway will
wedge,
Its ripples play lightly thro’ shadow and sheen,
It's bortlered with willows, and gay goldenrod
foot log
The poet can gase with eyes only for beauty |
The mill fwheel turns merrily then hastens
along
But life's not all sunshine, the storm clouds
are coming
It rushes through garden and meadow and bog,
it's gone from us now, though we ne'er shall
forget it,
The * steps ‘and fond memories cling to the
edge,
bridge.
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Marrmge Licenses,
Thomes Williams, Jersey Bhote
Cora Kinkead, Philipsburg
Roland Felmlee, Curtin
Ads Watkins, Curtin
Charles Thomas, McKeesport
Frances M. Barnhart, Bellefonte
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mith Studio Notiee,
The C. H. Smith photograple stu-
LOCALS,
The Centre Hall base ball team will
play a return game with Milesburg on
the latter's ground Saturday after-
noon, .
The marriage of Miss Caroline A,
Orvis and Milford CO. Btoddard, will
take place at the home of Hon. and
Mrs. Ellis L. Orvis, in Bellefonte this
pervising prineipal of the Bellefonte
schools for a three year term at a salary
of $1500 per year at a meeting of the
school board of that borough Monday
evening.
DEATHS,
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MRS, H, C. ROBHRTS,
The death of Mrs. H. OC. Roberts oc-
curred at the Lewistown hospital Fri.
day, after having submitted to an op-
eration which was performed by Dr.
Shoemaker, a noted Philadelphia sur-
geon, Mri Roberts was in delicate
health for some time, and finally she
was removed from her home in Yager-
town to the hospital where every
effort was made to prolong life.
Mrs. Roberts was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Long, of Bpring
Mills, to which place the remains
were taken and from whose home
the funeral was held Tuesday after-
noon, Rev. Rhoads, Reformed minister
of Lewistown, officiating, assisted by
Rev. D. Gress, Dr. D. M. Wolf, Rev.
W. H. Behuyler and Rev, J. Max
Lantz. Interment wes made in the
Presbyterian cemetery, at Bpring
Mills.
The marriage of Busan Emily Long
to Mr. Roberts took place about seven
years ago, and the greater part of their
married life was spent in the far west,
About eighteen months ago the couple
moved to Yeagertown.
Besides the husband and the parents
of the deceased, there survive also four
brothers and one sister, namely, C. P.
Long, Spring Mills ; G, H. Loong,
Newark, Ohlo ; Philip Long, Union-
town ; Frank Long, Cambridge, Ohio,
and Miss Ida, at home,
The casket was beautifu:ly bedecked
with numerous floral designs con-
tributed by friends, the display having
been exceptionably elaborate,
SEARLBCORMANJ
Thejlittle son of Mr. and Mrs, Oliver
T. Corman, of Bpring Mills, became ill
last Bunday, and before the day was
over death came. His age was four
years. Interment was made Wednes.
day morning, in the cemetery at the
Union church, Farmers Mills,
Misa Lizzie Delaney, a daughter of
Mrs. Winifred Delaney, of Lock Ha-
ven, died at her home in tht place
Thursday of last week. Bhe had been
ill from typhoid pneumonia snd never
fully recovered. Miss Delaney was
born at Howard, where the family
lived for many years. Burviviog are
Ler mother, ope sister, Mary, and two
brothers, John and James.
Mise Jennie Armstrong, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Armstrong,
died at the home of her parents in
Bellefonte, Bunday morning, of pueu-
monia,. Her age was iwenty-three
years, ten months, twenty-two days
Her parents survive ; also two broth-
ers, John and Walter.
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LOCALS.
Col. and Mre. Austin Curtin have
arrived at their home at Roland from
an extended visit in the south, where
the Colonel has been for his health.
He is much improved.
Buperintendent D. O. Etters held
examinations for teacher's certificate
at Asronsburg on Monday snd at
Spring Mills on Pueaday. The classes
at Loth places were quite large.
Mr. and Mrs, COC. C. Ramsey, and
dsughter, Mis. Harry Ishler and son
Ray Charles, all of Plessant Gap,
drove to Centre Hall Wednesday and
were the guests of Mra Mary A.
Rearick, in Centre Hall,
18th iost., in the Presbyterian church,
st Centre Hall. This refers to the
prospective marriage of Rev. James
Johnston Glenn, of the Branch, and
Rev. Elmer Meridith, of Moshan-
pon, was in Centre Hall Monday to
have dental work done for him. He
is pastor of the Messiah church, ou the
Moshannon field, one of his appoiut-
ments being Zon.
Ex-Commissioner, George L.. Good-
hart has two very fine suckling colts,
yne bred from Nickabon owned by
Q. H. Detwiler, and the other from a
Mifflin county horse. Both animals
have the appearance of making good
roadsters.
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Stationery for Ladies,
A fine grade of box paper, baviog
embossed at the top “Centre Hall, Pa.”
has just been added to the assortment
of stationery for ladies. The quality
and style are good enough for the ute
of 8 queen,
Joes OF DISSOLUTION «Notice is here-
ven that ip existing
come plentiful in Penns Valley. The
plied with applications, and for once
ity to select teachers from among the
gumber who are ready to fill that role.
Ihe Philadelphia Record will pub
lish, beginning Bunday, June 7th, a
story by William J. Grimm, entitled
“QOonetta of Goaden Huetten”. This
story ls now published for the first
time. Itiss tale of colonial Pennayl-
vanis at the beginning of the French
sod Indian war, and during the latter
part of the active career of Conrad
Weiser, the then famed but now al
most forgotten Indian loterpreter,
to thé Germans
of Branch
on day %
ala lod by the t and
Sa
A ate College, R. 1, 4., Ta,
1908,
2,
DR. SMITH’S SALVE
is A A wis
A HARD JOB IN BAD WEATHER
Each Man, With His Feet and Legs
Bare, Scrubs His Own Clgthes and
Gets Them Ready For Inspection.
“Jimmy Legs” and the “Lucky Bag.”
Have you ever noticed how clean and
well dressed a sallor lad looks when
on shore leave, how white his clothes
look when you board the ship on vis-
Iting days? But did you ever fealize
that he was his own washerman?
With a shrill blast of his silver whis-
tle the chief boatswaln's mate will
pipe, "SBerub and wash clothes!” and
every man hurries to his bucket, gets
his solled clothes, salt water soap.
draws a bucket of briny or fresh wa
ter, as the case may be, and begins his
washing
He Is generally barefooted at this
time, so that he will not wet his shoes
and stockings. He wears his frousers
very bell shaped at the bottom in order
that he may roll them up over the
knee
After scrubbing and rubbing his
clothes until clean he turns them in
side out and with “stops” proceeds to
get them ready for hanglug up. These
stops are short pleces of twine, twisted
and with whipped ends, that he uses
in lien of clothespins, They are fas
tened In eyelets placed at the side
seams and bottom of his shirts and the
waistband of his trousers. He turns
all his washed clothes Inside out to
prevent the right side getting soiled.
They are then hung on a line which,
gays the Youth's Companion, is run
from the bow to the topmast or upper
top of a fighting mast. The well In
formed man now usually puts his
clothes to scak the night before In a
bucket half full of water Into which
he has either sprinkled a haudful of
soap powder or a small plece of salt
water soap. In the morning a little
rubbing and his clothes are clean and
hung up, while the “landiubber” has
just begun
When they have been thoroughly
dried, the chief boatswaln again pipes,
“Scrub and wash clothes!” and every
man rushes for the
claim his own. If he faliz to secure
them within a reasonable time, the
master at arms, or “Jimmy Legs”
takes them down, and they go into the
“lucky bag.” Then the only recourse
the unlucky owner has Is to go to the
mast, or the “stick.”
board ship is commonly called, and pe
tition the “first luff,” or executive offi
cer, to order them released,
As a Jimmy Legs, hax
charge of the cleanliness of the decks,
always has extra cleaning painting
and so forth in mind, and the man
whose clothes get into the luel bag
recelves 80 many hours’ extra duly as
a pentle reminder to be more careful
in the future. His name goes on Jim
my Lege’ time book, and when ther
i any extra labor to be performed be
is called upon to assist
This Is usaaily the lot of the
man” who has spot been aboard
enocugh to “learn the ropes.”
After the taken from the
the stops are taken out and the clothes
rosded in rn
no ironing
Bt ead
clothesline to
asx the court on
ww ho
rae,
“lands
long
fire ine
bh a manner that they need
rolls are then tied
with the stops are
stowed away in the clothes bag Io
this way all his clothes, both bive and
white, are kept clean, and when Sun
day morning comes and there is gen-
eral Inspection on the quarter deck he
has no fear of being reprimanded for
haviug on a soiled uniform
The hardest things of a sallor's outfit
to wash are his blanket and hammock.
The hammock forms part of his equip
ment. but belongs to the ship. He is
however, required to keep It clean
His mattress and blanket are lashed
into the hammock and stowed In the
netiings or crates provided for that
purpose,
Every day a couple or more men are
detalled to stow them away amd at
night to Lreak them out, It is this
handling so much that gets them fear
fully dirty, especially while a ship Is
conllng. When washing bis hammock,
a saflor lays It flat on the deck and
uses & wire brush to get it clean, with
the assistance of soap and lots of “el
bow grease.”
In visiting a foreign port hud before
the ship has come to anchor it will be
surrounded by “bumboats” generally
bringing out washerwomen, who are
usually negresses and who clamor for
any work in the laundry line. They
do good work and charge very little
for it. They always show their refer-
ences from the last ship and always
want a new one to add to thelr atready
Jong list, >
It Is In wet and stormy weather that
the sallor has his own troubles trying
to dry his clothes, Round the uptakes
of the smokestack there Is a drying
room in which clothes may be hung,
but as they grow yellowish when bung
there often this room is used as ltt
as possible. In the newer men-of-
there are Installed washing and drying
i hose
bu end and
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™ THE DIVINING ROD.
No Mysterious Virtues Hidden in the
2 Dowser’s Wand.
In experiments with a divining rod
as used for discovering underground
supplies of water one of the geolo-
glets of the United States geological
survey found that at points it turned
downward independently of his will,
but more complete tests showed that
the down turning resulted from slight
and-—-untll watched for-—unconscious
changes in the inclination of his body,
the effects of which were communi-
cated through the arms and wrists to
the rod. No movement of the-rod from
causes outside the body could be de-
tected, and it soon became obvious
that the view held by other men of
science is correct, that the operation
of the “divining rod” is generally due
to unconscious movements of the body
or of the muscles of the hand. The ex-
periments made show that these move-
ments happen most frequently at
places where the operator's experience
has led him to believe that water may
be found.
The uselessness of the divining rod
is Indicated by the facts that the rod
may be worked at will by the operator
that he falls to detect strong currents
of water running in tunnels and other
channels that afford no surface indica-
tions of water and that his locations
in limestone regions where water flows
in well defined channels are rarely
more successful than those dependent
on mere guesses. In fact, its operators
are successful only in regions in which
ground water occurs in a definite sheet
in porous material or in more or less
clayey deposits, such as the pebbly
clay or till, in which, although a few
fallures occur, wells would get water
anywhere,
Ground water occurs under certain
definite conditions, and as In humid
regions a stream may be predicted
wherever a valley 1s known, so one fa-
milisr with rocks and ground water
conditions may predict places where
ground water can be found. No appli
ance elther electrical or mechanical
has yet been successfully used for de-
tecting water in places where plain
common sense or mere guessing would
not have shown its presence just as
well. The only advantage of employ-
ing a “water witch’ as the operdtor
of the divining rod 18 sometimes call-
ed, Is that skilled services are obtain-
ed, most men so employed being keen-
er and better observers of the occur-
rence and movements qf ground water
than the average person —Sclentific
American
A Pet Bear.
Bears unless hungry or abused are
good natured animals and make amus-
ing pets. “When I was in the revenue
service at Alaska” sald a lieutenant,
“we had a pet bear on the boat, and
we called him Wineska., He used to
climb to the erosstrees, going up hand
tover hand by the ratiines. One day he
ventured ont on the yardarm, and
there he starved. We had to get a rope
and haul him down. Once he vaulted
over the head gf our Chinese cook and
went into the lockers, where he helped
himself to sugar and butter. We had a
tackling made for him, much the same
as a harness of a pet pug, and we
would drop him overboard, with a rope
attached, to take his bath. Once he
landed In a native boat and nearly
frightened the occupants out of their
wits. He was as playful as a kitten,
and, although he sometimes disobeyed,
he was never treacherous or unkind
When he was lost or hid himself, as he
often id, we would look in the dark
till we saw two little balls of fire.
These were his eyes and gave him
away every time."
She Carried a Parcel.
The laugh is on one of the attend
ants at the Congressional library at
Washington. One of the rules Is that
cel of any kind into the building. One
day a tall young woman appeared at
the door, and when the attendant saw
that she had a parcel under her arm
be told her that It was against the
rules for her to take it with her. She
demurred and pronounced the rule
absurd. There were certain parcels
that people should be allowed to carry
with them, and so forth, and so forth.
But the man insisted that he must en-
force the rule and that she would have
to leave the parcel with him until she
came out. That settled it. The young
woman deliberately opened the parcel,
ings that she evidently had just
bought, and, hanging them over her
arm, she gave the attendant the paper
fn which they had been wrapped, say-
ing:
“There, please keep that untill I come
out. 1 have no parcel now.” Chicago
News,
What Audiences Believe.
The light suddenly went out during
one of wy performances In Waterbury,
A panle was in prospect. However, 1
shouted out: “Ladies and gentlemen,
1 am about to perform a most marvel
ous trick. 1 have bere a lemon; but,
of course, you can’t see it. I am about
to cut it In two and bring out of it
an elephant!”
The avdience settled down. Squash!
1 cut the lemon. “And now,” 1 sald,
“the elephant has gone. It has walked
off the stage.” But, of course, you can't
see it, but that doesn’t matter.”
Sure enough, there was heard a slow,
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