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Teachers Institute Program.

Following is the program of the Forest
County Teachers Institute to be held in
the Opera House, Marienville. Pa, Dec.
1920, 1912, and also of the School Direct
ors' Convention, Dec. 18th and 10th:
Monday, Dec. l6, Forenoon Session.
lO:30, Enrolment at Opera House.
Afternoon Session. -l:S0, Devotional
Exercises; l:45, Teachers Institute,
Prof Leroy A. King; 2;4O, Evolution of
Ideals, DR.. A. S. Martin; 3;20, DR.. D. G..
Murphy; 500, Teachers Reception.
Tuesday, Dec. II, Forenoon Session.
900, Devotional; 9:l5, The First Lessons
in History, DR.. Murphy; 1000, The Indi-
vidual Child, Prof. King; ll:OO, Evolution
of Methods, DR.. Martin.
Afternoon Sessit n.-l:l5, The School
Code from Teachers View Point, Prof.
j. l.. Simmons; 200, School Room HUI
NOR, DR.. Murphy; 300, An Educational
Experiment, DR.. Martin; 500, Euclid
Male Quartette.
Wednesday, Dec. IS, Forenoon Session.
800, Devotional; 9:15, Primary Reading,
Prot. King; 1000, Mistakes in Teaching
History, DR.. Murphy; ll:0O, Nature Study
Function and Content, DR.. Murphy.
Afternoon Session.-l:l5, Realities in
the Public School, Prof. King; 200, A
Day in the School Room, DR.. Murphy;
300, Method in Nature Study, DR.. Mar
tin; 500, DR.. l.. b. Wickersham.
Thursday, Dec. 10, Forenoon Session.
800, DEVOTIONAL; 9:l5, Primary Num-
ber Work, Prof. King; 1000, Examina-
tions-Use and Abuse, DR.. Martin; ll:00,
Manila-A Decisive Battle of the World,
DR.. Murphy.
Afternoon Session.-l:l5, Apperception
as Related TO Teaching, Prof. King; 200,
Why Teachers Leave the Pro fession,
Prof. Simmons; 2:40, Vocational Train
ing, DR.. Martin; 800, The Parent and the
Teacher, Dr. Murphy; 500, The Pilgrim
Girls Orchestra.
Friday, Dec. 20, Forenoon Session.
900, Devotional; 9:l5, Characteristic
Teachers, DR.. Murphy; 1000, Geography,
Prof King; 10:40, Lying Poets Among
the Birds, DR.. Martin; ll:2O, Reports and
Adjournment.
CONVENTION PROGRAM
December 18th. LIB, Devotional; 1880,
Election of Officers; 200, Duties and Re.
sponsiblities of the School Director, DR..
Martin; 800, The Teachers Qualifications,
DR.. Murphy; 500, DR.. l.. B. Wickersham.
December l9th.- 900, The Measure of a
Good School, DR.. Martin; 9:45, Address,
Prof. King; 1890, General Discussion;
1l:O0, Joint Session With Teachers.
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Winter Term of School.

The winter term OF the State Normal
School at Clarion, Pa, will open January
Sd. Tuition is free to persons who in
tend to teach. The three main purposes
of the school are the development # char
scter, health and teaching ability. The
influences which surround the students
are such as would be fonnd in the best
christian homes. The physical needs OF
students are given individual attention.
trained nurse is a member of the
faculty and directs all matters pertaining
to student health.
For further information address Harry
Nj. Shaier, Principal, Clarion, Pa.-Adv.
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For Sale and Exchange.

Twenty head of native draft horses and
mares in foal. | will begin sale Thurs
day, Dec. II, 1912, for two weeks only, at
American House Barn, Brookville, Pa.
Adv. 2t GRANT SHUsTER.
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cbamberlain's Cough Remedy.

This remedy has no superior for coughs
and colds. Ii is pleasant to take. 1t CON
tains no opium or other narcotic. 1t al
ways cures. For sale by all dealers.
Adv.
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LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Levi & Co. Ad.
hammers. Ad.
Harvey Fritz. Ad.
The Printz Co. Ad.
BogRs & Bull. Ad.
The Kinter 60. Ad.
Robinson Il Son. Ad.
Oil City Trust Co. Ad.
Hopkins Store. Locals.
Grant Shuster. Reader.
Perry Nurseries. Local.
Smart e Silberberg. Ad.
Clarion Normal. Reader.
Bovard's Pharmacy. Ad.
Tionesta Water Co. Reader.
Forest Co. Nat. Bank. Ad. and Reader
Monarch Clothing Co. Ad. and Reader
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Wanted for Cash.

White Oak Spoke Timber, delivered at
Mantel Works, Tionesta, Pa.
adv EAGLE STOKE WORKS.
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For Sale.

Team of draft horses. Will sell one
or both. Inquire of Mrs. w. A. Hanes,
Watson Farm, Ps.-Advt. At
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MAcERArINc7 WoRN MoNEr

corued by the sleuth who followed him.
His mail was also examined and 1t was
discovered that he had begTn to pay off
some heavy debts owed In Maryland. In
one letter he spoke of his wife having
come into some property, which was
found to be untrue. The fact
was that the suspects only legitimate
per month. out Of which he was sup
porting family. Everything he did was
reported to Brooks.
One Sunday morning Winslow was seen
by the secret service men to enter an
F street office. One sleuth followed him
home and the other covered the man on
whom he called. This man shortly aft
Treasurer Wyman. There was no one
about but the detective. who took care
to keep out Of sight, but who saw the
man toss package into the treasurer
vestibule. Then, few minutes later, the
man came back. rang the door bell and
stated that while passing he had Glanced
to see the package on the step. This
the stolen money except about 81. Goo
4 =
But. despite his cleverness Winslow
neglected to destroy the most damaging
evidence against him. When arrested in
his home that Sunday morning he wore
a dressing gown. In one pocket were
found the trimmings of the paper he had
used to manufacture the counterfeit en-
velope in which the package was ex-
pressed to Chicago. and in the other
pocket were some pieces of the sealing
wax used. In his waistcoat pocket were
two OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES notes bearing
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numbers consecutive to those thrown into
Treasurer Wyman's vestibule.
Winslow broke down. confessed. was
sent to the penitentiary for eighteen
months, and after his release went al
together to the bad. Investigation show
ed that he had served a sentence for
forgery before political influence had
gained him a place of trust in the treas
urer's Office. That was before the days
when the civil service commission COM
menced to look into the past records OF
trusted government employees.
The only case In which woman employe
ever robbed the Treasury occurred some
twenty years ago. She was counter OF
worn money who had a record of about
twenty-five years in the department. In
fact, her appointment had been made
through the direct influence of Presi-
dent of the United States. She was con-
sidered an excellent counter and up to
the time when Albert Relyea took charge
Of the redemption division had never
been suspected.
But love of display eventually proved
her undoing. One day as the treasurer
of the United States, Mr.. Hyatt, and
Chief Relyea were walking to the de-
partment. neither being able to AFFORD
q vehicle, they were surprised to see
their trusted subordinate pass them In
her private turnout, with liveried coach,
man. Surprised that she could AFFORD
such service on salary of 81 600 year,
they Immediately commenced an investl-
cation. This resulted in the discovery
that she maintained an establishment not
only in Washington, but in the country.
and that she had sent her son to Europe
to be educated. Further inquiry devel-
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ExPERr MONEY COUNTERS
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by trusted Treasury employees. About
this same time that Hallock and his pals
escaped punishment young clerk in the
redemption division of the treasurer's
office-the branch where soiled and worm
out money is redeemed with new notes
stole an amount somewhat less than
500, and although the theft was traced
to him he had Influence" behind him
and escaped trial.
The redemption division offered the
chief temptations Of these times as worn
and soiled money was not so liable to
be missed as new currency packed in
bundles and consecutively marked When
the redemption Office was first establish
ed. in 1874. trusted Treasury clerk,
with twenty-year record for honesty.
was transferred to it. The temptation
to steal a small fortune in filthy lucre
soon became too strong for him, and after
he had taken some $1,000 the theft was
revealed by the state Of his books, which
he had falsified to conceal the pecula-
tions This man also got off scot-free.
After influential friends outside the
Treasury had made good $1,000 of the
shortage. and his fellOw-clerks had con-
tributed the remaining 500. the officials
agreed not to prosecute.
There was one famous theft in the
Treasurer.s Office, however, which was
punished during these early times. Early
In 1877 valuable money sack was con-
signed by Treasurer Wyman to the First
National Bank Of Chicago. 1t was sup
posed to contain $1,000 in one-hundred-
dollar notes, numbered cOnSecutively, but
when opened In Chicago nothing was
found in it but tissue paper. cut in the
exact size of the missing money. To all
outward appearances the package was as
it should have been. and the envelope.
seal and sealing wax were such as to
apparently indicate its genuine character.
Treasurer Wyman put the matter at once
in the hands of j. j. Brooks. then chief
of the secret service. who placed under
rigid surveillance all who had handled
the package in either Washington or Chi
cago.
In the cash room Of the treasurer's Of
flee the package-according to the regular
routine-had passed through the hands of
four men in different cages. The first
three had been responsible for counting,
approving and tying up the notes, and the
fourth with addressing it. These four
men were examined separately as to all
they knew about the package. and the one
man against whom there was not the
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ALEXANDRlA'S WATER FRONT PICTURESQUE BLENDING

is wharf, and behind others is where
there once was wharf Behind them
in most cases is a wharfhouse or freight
shed. The sizes Of these sheds vary from
small to large; some are rickety and
out OF plumb and some are in adj
vanced state Of decay. From the land
end OF the wharfhouse an abutment or
causeway leads to the river front street.
These causeways have an outer frame
work or piles and heavy longitudinal tim
hers. and this framework in numerous
instances is filled In with oyster shell,
reminder of the oyster harvests OF many,
many seasons. The shells near the sur
face are generally bleached so white that
they dazzle the eye when the sun shines.
me causeWays, where not tracked by
traffic, are green with the growth of
grass and weeds. Enough fresh shells
are thrown on these oyster causeways
each season to maintain and perpetuate
the distinctive odor that reminds one OF
salt water and sea trips.
Between many of these wharves and
causeways are slips through which the
river reaches to the edge of the water
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clerk or messenger stolen $4,000 Of this
sum and succeeded In secreting 1t beyond
the reach Of secret service men. Mr..
McClung would have had to make good
the full amount, and only a special act
of Congress could have relieved him of
the obligation
The only safeguard which the Treasury
has long held over it's vast corps OF
money handlers is cleverly cO-ordinated
system wherein each employee serves as
q check upon his one c0-worker who hands
him money and his other co-worker to
whom he passes it. Each employe Is the
cOgwheel of a great, complicated cash
register and when one cogwheel goes
wrong the whole machine stops until the
cause Of the error has been determined.
After devoting years to the Development
of this system Treasury officials appear
to have perfected it to the point where
no thief from within can steal a dollar
of Uncle Sans treasure and escape ex-
posture unless a considerable group of his
fellow-employes enter into the conspiracy
with him; and herein lies the secret of
the systems safety.
Thefts by Uncle Sans money-handlers
are now very rare and for really dra-
matte instances of such dishonesty the
Treasury officials have to go back gen.
Grafton or more to the days before the
present system of checks and balances
One Of the most famous cases in which
the Treasury was robbed by one Of its
Jwn trusted employees occurred in 1875,
when Benjamin Hallock, a clerk in the
cashroom, took $47 600 in Treasury notes
of $500 each They were not new notes
otherwise their numbers would have been
consecutive, and 1T would have been an
easy tier to identify and trace them.
In i;.is theft Hallock had to accom-
plices. salOonkeeper named Ottman
and sporting character known as peg
leg" Brown. They fell under suspicion
and directly afterward the secret service
officers began to shadow Hallock, who
upon being arrested, turned states evil
dence and escaped punishment, as did his
two accomplices. through a disagreement
of the jury. And q scandal was later
raised by the discovery that 81. 500 found
on deposit in Alexandria. Va, to the
credit of the soloonkeeper, Gilman, and
which was supposed to be part of the
stolen money, had been turned over to
the counsel for the accused men.
Indeed, the government seems to have
gotten very little satisfaction from its
prosecutions Of these early cases of theft
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came to be called Belle Haven. The cove
on which Belle Haven stood was ions
ago filled in and built over
In 174S the general assembly of the
colony of Virginia passed an act CON
stituting Thomas Lord Fairfax; William
Fairfax. George Fairfax, Richard W.
borne. Lawrence Washington or mount
Vernon, William Ramsey. John Caryas
John Pagan. Gerard Alexander. Hugh
West and Philip Alexander directors ana
trustees for designing. building, carrylns
on and maintaining the town OF AieAan
dria to supersede Belle Haven the town
site was surveyed and subdivided. George
Washington, then seventeen years Old.
assisting in the survey.
A year after the organization OF .ne
town fairs and markets were held. put
the trade of the town was hampereo py
fear of the indians. still infesting the for
ests a few miles westward Of the new
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business man has not yet learned that
hump and hustle. noise and confusion are
the necessary accomplishments OF enter
prise. He still goes home to dinner at
midday. and chats with friends during
office hours, and yet he conducts bust
ness. and on larger scale than is done
in some communities whose citizens bolt
quick lunches at noon and always APP
pear to be in hurry.
Looking at Alexandria from the river
one sees many sets Of plies dashed to-
gether with iron hoops. or secured by
great iron spikes, in groups of four. six
and eight, and reaching upward from
four to eight feet above the wharf ends.
These are tenders to guard the wharf
against the bumps of steamboats,, and to
guard the steamboats, against the shock
of collision with the wharf They also
fend the pier against the grind and
crush of moving ice.
Behind some of these clusters of piles
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drained and watered by the Potomac. it's
tributaries and it's bays.
Along this street one may always see
groups of men who never appear to work.
but who always seem to be plentifully
supplied with tobacco. They do not seem
prosperous, but they do seem content.
Their boots may be broken and their
trousers patched and frayed, but there
is no haunting, eager look on their faces.
They indulge in strong drink, as rule,
when they can.
One short square uptown from the
wharves is Union street. II is paved, but
dismal: still. yet quite busy. 1t is lined
with storehouses and laid with a double
railroad track where freight trains grind
and groan along and where cars are slow
Iy loaded and unloaded. Drays and
freight cars often block this street for
squares. The beauty spots Of Alexandria
are uptown or in the northern and vest
ern suburbs, while Union street Is given
over to business.
The next street up is Lee. So many
years ago that it is now dim history the
river Tapped the shore along the line of
this street-that is, north of King street
which is the main east and west thor
oughfare. South Of King, Lee street
climbs a gentle hill which no doubt was
a green and tree-groWn river bank when
immigrants and Indians gathered where
Alexandria stands. North of King, Lee
street is cobble paved. with only an oc-
casional tree. but with a double row of
black and gaunt telegraph poles. Lee.
south of King, Is paved with brick and
the trees begin to grow.
1t is on North Lee street that the gar
den stone wall. or the river WALL" Of the
Carlyle House stands. This house was
built in 1745 by John Carlyle who came
over to Virginia as collector Of the GUS
toms under the crown and settled first at
Dumfries. He married Sarah Fairfax,
daughter Of William Fairfax of Belvoir,
and was one Of the original trustees
named in the charter Of the city of Alex
andr,a- At the request of George Wash
ington and William Fairfax he was APP
quartermaster during the French and In
dian war. and while acting in this capac-
ity entertained Cows Dlnwiddie. Sharpe,
Delaney, Morris and Gen Braddock at
the conference which has been often
called the First Colonial Congress. 1t
was here that George Washington and
Gen Braddock first met. But the story
Of this old house on what was the river
front of Alexandria is another story.
When Capt John Smith assembled the
Potomac as far as the Great Falls he, of
course, passed the sites of Alexandria
and Washington. Alexandria was then
q part Of the domain Of the Doag Indians,
a family of the nation ruled by PoWhat-
an. In 1859 Capt. Robert Howsen
brought 40 colonists to Virginia. and
was repaid by a grant of land under the
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NEARLY Seven Billions
IN Handled Without Loss
of a Penny by Office of
United States Treasurer-Yet
No Employe Was Subjected
to Espionage-Each a HUI
man Cog in Vast Cash
Register, Which Stops Work
ing When a Shortage Occurs
Interesting Treasury Thefts
in Past Years-Clerk Who
Stole $4,000 From the Cash
Room-Another Who Took
$I7,ooo in Notes, SUBSTITUTE
ing Tissue Paper Dummy
Packages-Case Where Lead
Disks Were Substituted for
Dollars-Woman Counters
Ingenious Thefts Betrayed by
Her Love of Display-Came
to Office Behind Liveried
Coachman and Ran Two Ex-
pensive Establishments on
Small Salary-Sone Clever
Detective Work That Caught
Dishonest Money Handlers
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seal of Gov. Berkeley. The grant was for
6GOO acres, including what is now Alex
andria, the national cemetery OF Airing
Ton and other interesting districts ada
cent to the National Capital The grant
extended from Indian Cabin creek, now
Hunting creek, to the Virginia shore OPP
posite my Lords Island" now Analos-
tan Island.
Howsen sold all this land to John Alex
ander, in 1867, for 5000 pounds of to-
bacco. About 1896 little settlement of
colonists was started at Jones point. now
a part of Alexandria, but the names OF
this settlement and Of the settlers have
not been preserved. In ITO q tobacco
warehouse was erected on the river d
the present sate of Alexandria, and a
small settlement grew UP around 1t, which
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slightest suspicion - who. indeed. proved
innocent at the end of the Investigation
showed more symptoms of guilt than any
of the others. When questioned he turn
ed pale and trembled like the proverbial
aspen leaf.
Having passed the counter, the proven
and the sealer, Chief Brooks finally came
to the addresser. named WinslOw. He
was tall, handsome man, with sharp
black eyes and a magnetic manner.
Brooks placed the package on Winslow' $
desk and proceeded to question him. first
about the handwriting of the address.
Then the secret service chief suddenly
turned his back to the suspect, as il to
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speak to some one else, but took care to
watch him out of the tail of his eye.
Quick as a flash, Winslow turned back
the flap of the package. to see the CON
tents, and his motion at once aroused the
suspicious of the detective, who, to dis
guise them, confidentially asked WinsloW
to help him watch the other three men.
Winslow jumped at the chance and the
same afternoon came to Brooks room
three times to relate his suspicious of the
others.
But when he left the Treasury that
afternoon Winslow was under close
shadow. What he spent that afternoon
and during the days following was re-
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out the shortage of single penny.
Out of this enormous sum every man,
woman and child in the United States
could be given ST. Or, if il were equally
divided among all the people of Peoria,
Savannah or Erie, each would be indie
pendently fixed for life with a fortune Of
100000
No other Office or institution in America
or probably in the world ever handled
nearly so much money in a single year.
In the Treasury ii passed through thou
sands of fingers, to none of which it
stuck. vet none of these fingers did its
work under the argus eyes of government
spoilers, such as spy through peep-holes
at our postal employees.
Were Treasurer McClung not blessed
with cast-iron nerves he might, during
this record year, have spent many a
Sleepless night rejecting upon the posi-
bility of being reduced to poverty by
some dishonest subordinate trusted with
part OF the handling of such a fortune
for he would have been personally re-
sponsible for any peculation therefr0m-
responsible, at least, to the sum of $780,
600. This is the amount of the bond
which he had to give Uncle Sam before
taking hold of that gentleman's purse
strings Indeed. the responsibilities Of
the federal treasurers Office are SO great
that few men have sought it in the past.
The bond demanded is perpetual. II
a shortage discovered in the treasury
vaults hundred years hence should be
traced back to this period of Mr.. Nc
Clungs custodianship. the heirs of his
bondsmen could be held responsible for
1t. And yet Congress cannot see fit to
require bond. in any amount, of even
the most responsible of his subordinates
intrusted with the handling oof $1,000, 900
each working day of the year. Had any
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A Delicate Job.

CENATOR ROOT, apropos OF the dis
~ pute with Great Britain over the
Panama canal tolls. said the other day:
1T will take q diplomat. a real diplo-
mat, to settle this question. n real
diplomat you know. is man who
can stretch hands across the sea with
out putting his foot in It.
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town. Alexandria's history is a long
and full one and the footprints ana
finger marks of George Washington are
all over the old city.
The student OF human nature or the
artist or the photographer in stroiiing
along or lettering on the water front or
Alexandria may ind many characters ana
things to sketch that VIII please his o.
her fancy.
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"HE Alexandria water front IL
reminiscent of the past, though
this phrase should not be con-
strued as meaning that there Is
no effort to keep step with the
changing times and the march of prog
ress. There is a picturesque blending of
yesterday and today along that line of
wharves. but yesterday is the dominant
tone of the picture. II must not be over
looked that though rotted wharves and
decrepit wharves outnumber those that
are sound and prime, there are some Of
the latter kind. because lazy men Toll
and dawdle and idle there it must not
be concluded that there is no enterprise
and progress. %or there is.
Across the Is of Alexandria. and
in and out OF Cd warehouses that
were built in the long ago. but We're built
10 last long. a considerable volume of
traffic comes and goes. The Alexandria
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LII records for hon
esty have been
broken by the hun
dreds of subOrdi-
mates of Lee Nc
Chung. treasurer
Of I he Unit e d
States During tho
fiscal year lately
closed they have
handled the unpre-
cedented sum Of
$6,6O1, 731.O2 with