Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-07-13

+ The American people and the Re-
publican party have lost one of their
greatest ornaments in the death of
John Hay, Secretary of State. Pres
ident Roosevelt has announced Mr..
1 Hay the equal of the greatest Secre.
tary of State the American people
eyer had and those who have OBJ
served his long career will heartily
endorse the Presidents eulogy. Mr..
!. HAYS acatl, came tdna&xgely because
Fof his fidelity to dut@ Full year
ago he realized ths.sbllIy complete res
could save his heafspd yet it was
not until he became absolutely. I'M
able to attend to the arduons duties
of his high office that he consented
to go abroad in search Of health.
| Rarely if ever has man stepped
into cabinet office amid the plaud-
| its of the American people, as has
done Elihu Root. No man and no
newspaper has had the temerity to
criticise the Presidents selection of
a successor to John Hay, late Secre-
tary of State. Some violently parti.
san papers have, it is true, criticised
Mr.. Root because of the fact that he
has acted as attorney for certain
trusts and corporations but even
those who have pointed with disap-
proval at this phase of the career of
the new Secretary of State have felt
constrained to acknowledge the pres
eminent fitness of Elihu Root, the
man for the responsible duties which
will fall to him when the mantle of
John Hay rests upon his shoulders.
1t has been said that no man leaves
public Office with his work eomplet-
ed, and the larger the man the truer
which John Hay left unfinished,
left so because the fullness of time
had not ripened them and because
he was far too wise diplomat ever
to act precipiately. But unfinished
they are and to Elihu Root will fall
the completion of many of them,
and the guidance Of Others which
not even this generation will live to
r.. V. Rogers, Esq. of Remove,
formerly of Hughesville and II. w.
a. Jameson, of Lock Haven, while
surveying on the mountains the
other day had an experience they
will remember for some time, says
the Hughesville Mail.
The gentlemen were interested in
some timber land, and their work
had proceeded without unusal Incl
dent until about 3 O'Clock in the
afternoon. Rogers having become
thirsty started in search of water.
He was travelling several yards ahead
of jameson when suddenly the latter
heard an awful scream and looking
ahead saw large black snake coiIing
about the body of his paialyZed COM
paniOn.
Jameson carried Il hatchet or small
hand ax with which to cut away the
underbrush and with this raised in
the air hastened to the assistance of
Rogers. Getting within striking
J distance of his snakeship with a well
directed blow jameson severed the
: head of the reptile and saved the life
: of the thoroughly frightened deciple
/ of Blackstone. The snake was over
five feet i'm length and was as thick
an ones arm. Rogers says it was
wing in his pathway and he stepped
ipon it and felt it twining its Shiny
body about him.
+ The Bcllefonte watchman says.
: Port Matilda can boast of perhaps
the most remarkable man in the
. county in the person of William Le-
wis, who next January will be nine
ty-one years old. Notwithstanding
his age he shoulders his ax and with
dinner bucket in hand walks two
miles to the mountain, cuts and peels
one cord of paper wood every day for
which he receives - cord and
walks two miles back to his home In
the evening This he has done all