BY RP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—If you have troubles tell your friends
about them. They have none of their
own.
" —Reform waves have struck both Phila-
delphia and New York. What will the
harvest be ?
-—Talk about an early fall, there were
lots of signs on the side walks of Bellefonte
Saturday morning.
—SaxTA CLAUS is growing in popularity
and the bad little boy is being ‘‘as dood
as dood tan be’’ these days.
—With all this talk about oleomargarine
being sold in Centre county we are led to
wonder where JOHN HAMILTON is?
— SARAH BERNHARDT has come to
American again and will be made up ina
dozen or more roles because she needs our
‘‘dough.”
—1It costs money to live, but that isn’t
saying that every person who lives high
“‘pays the shot.” Now there is the man
in the moon, for instance.
—The ‘“‘Divine Sarah’ is on this side
again and, as usual, is assuring the Amer-
icans of her undying love. The foxy old
actress needn’t think she fools anybody.
—The millennium must certainly be ap-
proaching. Foot ball is being played in
Palestine and when they get to chasing the
pig-skin in Jerusalem it is time for some-
thing to happen.
—They say meat was highest when the
cow jumped over the moon, but the Beef
Trust seems to be determined to have every
old steer on the plains outdo the mythical
performance of Mother Goose’s bovine.
—The census report just finished show-
ing that Centre county has actually de-
ereased in population is borne out by the
result of the recent election. The Demo-
erats must certainly have taken to the
woods.
—One thousand men have been laid off
by the American Wire and Steel Co., at
Cleveland and the officers of the trust de-
cline to say why. They can do such things
with impunity now that the need for
frightening the men into line for McKiN-
LEY is past.
—Kentucky -justice is almost as slow in
apprehending BRowN, the clerk who loot-
ed the Newport bank of $201,000, as it has
been in bringing about the arrest and
punishment of a usurping Governor, who
was a party to the murder of the man
whose seat he stole.
—The idea of Philadelphia newspapers
telling New York that her water supply is
impure is worse than a case of the Kettle
calling the pot black. Nothing could be
worse than Philadelphia water, unless it.
might be Philadelphia pofities, and the
one is responsible for the other. oa
—The Missouri editor whose obituary of
an old lady wound up in these words ‘‘She
was a devoted Christian until about four
years ago, when she joined the Methodist
eburch’’ most think that all Methodists
are the same stripe as Bishop FOWLER.
In that he is mistaken, however, for a vast
majority of them have sense enough to
eondemn the foolish utterance of a light-
weight Bishop.
—Public opinion has alreadys associated
the name Newport with a fast place, but
the Newport of Rhode Island and not the
Newport of Kentucky is the resort that has
earned the synonym. Yet the Kentucky
Newport now comes to the front with a
bank clerk who has looted a bank of more
than double the amount of its capital.
Wine, women and horses are said to have
been the cause and when those three get
together they are a combination that is
hard to beat.
—Count ADEMAR CASTELLANE, a cou-
sin of the notorious BoXN1 who has been
running through with ANNA GouLp’s
millions so rapidly that her family has put
a stop to it,is in this country and is said to
be looking up an heiress. ADEMAR denies
the allegation and sets up an alibi in the
statement that he is here tosell champagne.
From what the public already knows about
these foreign fortune hunters we are in-
clined to shout Abas, CASTELLANE! Abas,
Champagne.
—The Philadelphia Press, with its ac-
customed warped view of things, lays the
cause of the recent horrible lynching in
Colorado to the large element of Southern-
ers in that State’s population, as well as
to its proximity to Texans. Asa matter of
fact there is a great preponderance of East-
erners in Colorado’s population, but as it
happens to he a Republican State the
partisan Press hesitates not to juggle with
the truth in order to lay this atrocious
crime to Southerners, thereby hoping to
place the onus of all such outrages on
Democratic localities. The Press is a great
newspaper, bat it has a mighty small edi-
torial calibre. :
—The Sultan of Turkey needn’t have
heen so thoughtful about congratulating
President McKINLEY on his re-election,
especially since he has been so forgetful
about paying that $100,000 due Uncle SAM
as indemnity for the destrnction of Ameri-
can property in Tnikey at the time of
the Armenian inassacres. The battleship
Kentucky has been ordered to make a little
call at: Smyrna on her way to the Philip-
pines and it is possible that when she gets
there the Sublime Porte will come down
with his check, because United States bat-
tleships are dangerous pop-callers, as the
Spanish have doubtless already whispered
VOL. 45
Skimping Ourselves for What ?
For the glory, if that is what we con-
sider it, of carrying on a war in the Philip-
pines we have heen paying pretty well.
Up to this time it bas cost us just about
$2 per year for each man, woman and child,
white or black, red or yellow, in the United
States. To some this may not apppear to
be an overwhelming sam, but to others it
is a drain that draws heavily upon their
scant resources. When we come to figure
it down to families of five we can readily
understand how many little comforts, and
what an amount of necessaries, many must
forego to furnish their ten dollars to con-
tinue a wasteful and useless war.
To be sure this sum is not paid at one
time or is it collected directly for the pur-
pose it is used. The government in the
evasive and indirect system it has of col-
lecting its revenues, gets this money out
of the people, as it does for scores of other
purposes through tariffs, stamp ahd revenue
taxation, and those who believe it right
try to maks themselves happy in the be-
lief that the people don’t feel it. Possibly
the ROCKEFELLERS and HAVEMEYERS, the
CARNEGIES and HANNAS of the country
do not, but there are others, and millions
of them, who do.
When it comes down to the rank and
file of the people, to the toiling, pinched
masses, and in this class can be included
workingmen, mechanics, farmers, clerks
and others this $10 tax per family for
Philippine war expenditures is a larger tax
than nine-tenths of these people pay for
school, poor, road or any other local pur-
pose. It isa greater tax than a $3,000
farm, in this county pays for county ex-
penses. It is more than two-fifths of the
professed christians of the country pay for
church purposes, and it is a larger sum
than many a hard-worker deserving wom-
an can afford to spend during the year on
her scanty ward-robe.
The amount may not seem much because
it is collected in dribs: A few cents on a
bottle of medicine; a few more on a box of
matches; a little on the woolen goods one
has to purchase and a little more on the
sugar we use; and so on through the entire
list of actual necesearies—a little on this
and another little on that—until the entire
sum, along with the cost of collections, is
taken from each jndividual or family. ~~ 1
+ - And then we nifist remember we are but
at the beginning. Up to this time we
have had a force of bu 635,000 soldiers in
the Philippines. Now we are told that
that force is insufficient. Prior to the elec-
tion the assurance was given the public
that if BRYAN were defeated, the cause of
the Filipinos would collapse at once. But
it has not, and Congress is looked to to
double the force now in those islands. To
double the force means to double the ex-
peunses and to double the expense means to
the average American family double what
it is now paying, or about $20 per year.
And for what ?
Ask those who are demanding that this
war, for conquest, be continued, and see
if they can give you an intelligent reason.
Ask them what good, to us, these islands
will be, with their hordes of ignorant, idle,
blacks; their malaria and fevers; their
lepers and paupers, their four months of
drenching rain and eight months of wither-
ing drought; valleys that are impassible
swamps one portion of the year—and blind-
ing dust the balance; a population too poor
to buy that which we would have to sell
and too lazy to earn enough to do so.
When we get it all, and bave conquered
the people, where will the compensation
cone in for the American people, who have
been taxed to a greater extent for this
than for any other one purpose ?
Look Out for the Committees.
That Mr. QUAY has no sure thing of a
re-election to the United States Senate,
and that his opponents will need the most
perfect of organizations if they are to suc-
ceed in preventing his return, are as
apparent as is the sunshine on a cloud-
less day. While both sides. claim a decided
advantage in the situation we have doubts
if either knows exactly where it stands or
what 1t ean depend upon.
Whatever may he the result, however,
on the senatorial question, the Democrats
and Independents owe: it to their own
profession of reform to ‘ascertain the exact
situation and act in sacha way as will
best enable them to fulfill their promises.
If there are sufficient of them to organize
the Senate and House, they should do so
in a manner that will be fair to both, and
with the distinct understanding that the
committees on hoth sides shall be so formed
that there will be no fear of them being
the burying grounds of reform legislation.
It is in this more than in who shall fill the
official places, that good work for the State
can be insured. It is the key to the situa-
tion in the reform movement, and no ef-
fort should be spared, under any condition
of affairs, to secure such a make-up of the
House and Senate committees as will he ‘a
guarantee that such reforms as are 'in-
troduced, are not to be squeezed to death,
or quietly smothered in the committees to
to the Turks.
which they must be entrusted.
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, PA,
Why Not, For the Benefit of Our Own
People ?
Have you ever thought of how much of
our own country is left a desolate waste,
while we are sacrificing the lives of our
people by the hundreds and spending mil-
lions upon millions of dollars to acquire
territory in other portions of the world ?
Do you know that within the territory of
New Mexico alone, there are more square
miles of Alkali deserts, than there are of
tillable lands in all the Philippine islands
put together. And do you know, further,
that every acre of this aid, treeless country,
can be turned into the most productive
land this continent can boast of, by the
simple process of irrigation ? Such is the
case.
And yet we make no effort to reclaim
these lands, while hundreds of millions of
dollars are being spent annually, and all
the waste, and horrors, and sufferings of
war are borne, simply to possess that which
belongs to others, while our own is left arid
wastes and treeless deserts for want of
water and cultivation.
During the past year we have spent in
subjugating the Filipino people and be-
coming the possessors of the islands they
own, over $150,000,000. One third of this
amount expended in boring artesian wells,
in building retaining dams and aqueducts,
and establishing a perfect system of irriga-
tion in western Texas, southern California,
Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nevada,
or any other portion of our western terri-
tory where irrigation is necessary to secure
vegetation, would open up to the people of
this country more opportunities than the
conquest of ten thousand Philippine is-
lands, and farhish homes for more of our
people, than will ever find place on all of
the Spanish territory we can acquire.
If we have money to spend; why not put
it where it will do our people some good;
where it will eventually furnish homes for
our own homeless.
We may acquire the Philippine islands,
make them a government, elevate their
people, give them a standing in the
world, but what will this benefit the
houseless, homeless Americans? It may
offer ‘opportunities to speculators, but
‘where will it in any way add to the wel-
fare of the people of this country ?
=
_ How. different the prospect, if the
‘now being so uselessly thrown away for Ld
the glory of governing a distant people,
were being expended for the benefit and
welfare of our own. And where could it
be spent to greater advantage than in mak-
ing our desert lands of the far west blossom
with fruit and flowers and grain ?
——Mr. QUAY is not feeling nearly so
certain of a re-election to the Senate as he
did before the returns were all in. In
fact the ex-Senator’s certainties, for some
years back; have only been the headaches
that come after an unusually hilarious
occasion.
Centre County May Lose a Member.
The completion of the census enumera-
tors work for the State of Pennsylvania
makes it almost obligatory on the next
General Assembly to pass senatorial and
legislative reapportionment bills. Though
the constitution provides for a reapportion-
ment as soon as possible after each decen-
nial census the senatorial districts have not
been changed since 1874, while the last ar-
rangement for Represehtatives was based
on the census of 1880.
In this time the State has nearly doubled
in population, thus bringing the need for
reapportionment emphatically to public
notice. And it is quite likely that bills of
this nature will be introduced at the next
session, as it certainly will be possible for
Republicans to gerrymander the State to
suit themselves. The present apportion-
mentsare examples of the worst gerryman-
ders possible and that is the reason there
has been no attem \t to improve upon them.
But with the greauly- increased population.
shown by the census row being completed
the Republican Legislature will see oppor-
tunities for further entrenching itself and |
work will more than likely be taken up.
It it is, and is carried out according to
constitutional requirements Centre county
will stand 1n danger ‘of losing a Member.
It is provided that the Members shall be
apportioned on a ratio obtained by divid-
ing the population of the State by 200.
Every county containing less than five
ratios has one Representative for every full
ratio and an additional ' Representative
when the surplus exceeds halfea ratio, but
each county shall have at least one Mem-
ber. Every county containing five ratios
or more shall have one Representative for
every full ratio. A Representative ratio,
on the recent census, is 31,511. The mini-
mum population for two Members is 47,-
266, for three Members 78,777, for four
Members 110,288 and for five Members
157,555. As the population of Centre
county is given as only 42,894 it will be
seen that it falls considerably below the
constitutional requirement for two Mem-
bers, .
Under the same proportion our neighbor-
ing county of Huntingdon would lose a
Member, while Clearfield and Blair would
each gain one.
| who supported and favored them cannot
D FEDERAL UNION,
"NOV. 23, 1900.
Can’t Come Too Soon.
It has not taken long for the people to
discover in what direction the McKINLEY
prosperity vane points since his election.
With meat up one cent a pound; with salt
two hundred per cent. higher than it was
three weeks ago; with rice threatened by
the grip of a trust, and with over two
dozen new combinations of capital strug-
gling for incorporated privileges, that they
may control the out-put and price of differ-
ent commodities the people need most, it
is not difficult to see what the success of
Mr. McKINLEY promises the great body of
the American people.
Already in different lines of manufac-
tures the word has gone out that wages
must be reduced, while on the other hand,
every preparation is being made to increase
the price of articles that the less paid labor
is expected to produce. This is not what
the people wanted, but it is what they vot-
ed for. It is possibly not what they ex-
pected, but it is what they worked for and
what they will get.
The masses who refuse to listen or to
think; who allow their partisan prejudices
to control their actions, and who are too
bigoted to even consider their own welfare,
when threatened by the party with which
they affiliate, will have no reason to com-
plain that they were deceived in political
matters. :
There never was a time when issues were
made plainer than daring the last campaign.
There never was a time when results were
more certain or aims and purposes more
apparent. There was even no denying the
intentions of the Republican party to foster
and protect trusts, and those who voted for
the party did so with a full knowledge of
what might be looked for.
Results may be coming a little sooner
than was anticipated and their effects be
found to be sooner than was expected, but
with it all, it is what the country wished
for, and what we hope it will get to the
fullest extent.
When we ave for a thing we ought to be
for it right, and when we are for the trusts,
we ought to ie for all they want, all they
ask and all they demand. If they are right
we can’t have them too soon or too much
of them. If they are wrong the people
Certain Uncertainty.
Mr. QUAY is certain that he will be re-
turned to the United States Senate; his
opponents are just as certain that he will
not be; the people are certain that neither
side is certain of the out-come, and with
all these certainties there is an uncertainty
about it that makes us conclude that it is
not best to be certain that there is an cer-
tainty to be counted on, except the un-
certainty that hangs over all.
Mast Have Been Switched on a Wrong
Track.
Yesterday the Inquirer pointed out that in
the four days following the announcement of
Bryan's defeat the value of stocks and bonds
presumably listed in New York, Philadel-
phia and other financial cities, bad increased
almost five hundred million dollars, and
ventured the assertion that the world had
never looked upon a’ similar rise since it
came into existence. ri
In that prosperity of course the people of
this State naturally shared, and they will
share in the future.
The above we get from the Philadelphia
Inquirer of the 8th inst. It will be news
to our readers—real live, hopeful, soul-
cheering news. The kind that makes a
man hold up his head, step high and throw
out his chest. Think of it ! We unsophisti-
cated country-bred denizens sharers in the
profits of Wall street brokers? What an
idea! How strange that we have never
known it before! How proud we ought to
feel ! How prosperous we must be! How
many thanks we owe the Inquirer for find-
ing this fact out and telling us.
But then, come to think of it, there must
be something wrong about this partnership
of the people and Wall street. At least so
far as it concerns the forty-two thousand
persons who constitute the population of
Centre county. Up to this time, and it is |
now over two weeks since this partnership
was announced, we have not had a cent
of a *‘divy”’ out of it, neither have we
heard of any man or woman hereabouts
who has. Who is pocketing our share of
it, Mr. Inquirer? Youn seem to have a
cinch on this news. Be kind enough to
tell us why our portion of this overwhelm-
ing prosperity is not on tap.
——The deaths of CHARLES H. HovyT
and JOE OTT within the week have re-
moved two characters who have done
much for the stage. No playright has
equalled Hoy in the production of up-
roariously funny comedies and while he
had already achieved fame enough to sat-
isfy most any man, yet the ever improv-
ing clas sof plays he evolved gave unmistak-
able evidence that there would be yet bet-
ter ones forthcoming. OTT was a come-
dian, unique in his field. He resorted
more to somber eccentricities than to horse
play for his fun and the result was most
successful,
that Congress, havin Jered )
——Willianisport has just finished a
denominational census of its inhabitants,
and now furnishes for publication the fact
that of its 38,000 population 2,130 families
are members of, or are inclined towards
the Methodst church; 1,408 belonging to,
or prefer the Lutheran; 1,071 proclaim
themselves Catholics; 905 Presbyterians;
575 Episcopalians; 738 Baptists and 418
Evangelicals. But 147 were found who had
no religious preference to express. On the
face of things Williamsport may imagine
itself a fairly moral city, from its own
showing, but then when we remember
that in religion as in politics men are not
always what they profess we are bound
to suspect that in this matter our neigh-
boring city bas presented its best side to
the public.
Tre Dollars and Cents of It.
From an Unknown Exchange. . b
To say nothing of the awful loss of life,
the wreck and demoralization of lives that
are diverted from the useful and productive
pursuits of peace, the cost of war in money
is an appalling burden. The yearly car-
rent cost of the attempt to hold the Philip-
pines, for example, amounts to about $2
per head of our 76,000,000 population, or
an average of $10 per year for each family.
In the case of a large majority of families
that sum is nearly equal to what the heads
thereof are able to earn in a week.
The taxes which go to meet this most
costly enterprise are collected from the peo-
ple in indirect and unobservable ways,
But they are taken, nevertheless, from the
pockets of the people, and not according to
the ability to pay, but according to the
consumption mainly of the necessaries of
life. Hence they come mainly from the
earnings of the working element.
Suppose the system of taxation ‘were
changed to a direct system and once a year
the federal tax gatherers were to up
and down the country, knocking at the door
of every family and demanding $10—for
what? For the holding of a distant and
unwilling people in subjection for the mere
glory of it and their exploitation by ‘the
syndicates and trusts. :
An Anniversary That Was Overlooked.
From the Pittsburg Post. To KH
The forgotten fact is recalled that las
Saturday, November 17th, was the anni-.
versary of the day the first Congress met
in the new town of Washington, in the
Distriet of Columbia, the unoccupied town
site being swamp, woodland and meadow.
It was on that day,jone hundred years ago,
abiding place in Philadelphia, r th
first py at the new i in hi
ton. Congress had adjourned in Philadel-’
phia on the 14th day of May, 1800, to
meet in Washington on November 17th,
and immediately after the adjournment
President Adams gave directions “‘for the
removal of the public offices, records and
properity’’ to that city. The long jour-
ney from the then distant Northern and
Southern States were made generally on
horseback. There were no turnpikes, and
the mud roads in winter and spring made
carriage travel almost impossible. On
Saturday, November 22nd, President John
Adams appeared in the Senate chamber,
where the members of the House had al-
ready assembled, and addressed both
Houses, congratulating the members on as-
sembling at the permanent seat of govern-
ment.
Seeking Another Turndown.'
From the Philadelphia Press.
Colonel Quay wants Members of the
Legislature so badly that, it is stated, it has
been proposed to test in the Supreme Court
the right of the Lincoln party in the Sib
ley Congressional distiict to a place on the
ticket. It was due to the Lincoln party
nomination that two anti-Quay Members
were elected in McKean county, and,
though there is no question whatever that
a majority of the people voted for them, it
is intended—because Mr. Quay is so great-
ly in need of Members—to raise some tech-
nicality with the hope of getting these
Members unseated. What is to be the
particular point the Supreme Court is to
be asked todetermine we are not inforhied,
bat all the objection to the Lincoln party
that conld be thought of at the time was
made in the lower court before election
and did not effect anything. We should
think it not likely Mr. Quay will have
any better luck in his appeal to the courts
ian he has had in his appeal to the peo-
ple. :
Yes, Bay a Few More Filipinos.
From the Westmoreland Democrat. *
If the Senate ratifies a treaty signed by
Secretary Hay and the Spanish minister,
$100,000 more of good American money
will go into the treasury of Spain. The
treaty binds this country to pay Spain that
amount for three little islands just outside
of the boundaries set by the treaty which
ceded the Philippine groupe to the United
States. Whether Spain will be able to
give this country any better title to these
islands, than she has done to the other
1,400, remains to be seen.
A Warning to Refomers,
From the Walkerton, Ind., Independent.
The county editor who starts out to re-
form the world will have a difficult job on
his hands, says the Walkerton (Ind.) In-
dependent. A local newspaper should
stand up for the right,” but it should not
shoulder more than its share of responsi-
bility. Being a bnsiuess institution, and
run on business principles, it cannot go be-
yond a certain limit as a regulator of morals
that is,if it expects to continue in business.
The editor should know his field and act
accordingly. ’
~ —Many a good man goes wrong because
it costs more money than it would to stay.
on the right track.
‘track near Winburne.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—A charter has been issued by the Sta
Department at Harrisburg to the Pemns:ii-
vania Fire Brick company, Beech Creek, eapi-
tal $180,000.
—The late W. D. Richmond, tobacconist,
of Williamsport, left all of his estate, valued
at $50,000, to T. Herbert Riley, who has been
mm his employ seventeen years.
—The final account of the receivers of the
Houtzdale bank has been filed. /The depos-
itors will receive another dividend of a little
over six per cent. The dividend will be paid
as soon as the account is confirmed by the
court.
—A wreck on the Beech Creek road Fri-
day morning occurred near Winbarne. It
was caused by cows being asleep on the
track. The engine and half a dozen coal cars
were derailed. The engine crew escaped by
jumping down an embankment.
~The first fatal accident at the Saxton
furnace occurred on Tuesday of last week
when Edward Stewart, aged about 20 years,
was caught by a car at the coal chutes and
was so badly crushed across his abdomen
that death ensued next evening.
—Thomas Maitland, aged 75 years, put a
lightning rod on the Methodist church at
Milton, last week, doing the most perilous
part of the work himself. The steeple is 165
feet high and the sight of such an old man
working at its top was considered marvel-
ous.
—The new Methodist Episcopal church at
Yellow Creek, Bedford county, was dedicat-
ed November 11th. After the sermon $365
was subscribed, which will pay all indebted-
ness and leave about 100 to be used in furth-
er improving the church property. The new
structure cost $1,200.
—The large stock and grain barn on the
farm of John Smith, near Rathmel, was
burned Saturday night, together with five
head of cattle and the season’s crop of grain
and hay. The loss will reach $5,000, unin-
sured. The fire is attributed to incendiaries.
Mr. Smith conducts a large general store at
Rathmel.
—Three young children of B. T. Gillmen,
of Gaines, will carry through life badly dis-
figured faces, as the result of a terrific gas
explosion. The three victims were fortu-
nate to escape with their lives. The ckildren
wandered to the oil well and the oldest of the
trio lighted a match, which cavsed the ex-
plosion.
—A movement has been inaugurated
among the rolling mill men of Hollidaysburg
for the establishing of a mutual burial asso-
ciation. The membership fee will be 10
cents and each member is subject to an
assessment of 10 cents when a death occurs.
The death benefit is fixed at $50. It is said
that 500 names have already been secured:
—The dead body of Michael Osborn, who
has been missing from Caledonia since Octo-
ber 28th, was found by hunters in a deep cut
near Weedville recently. It is supposed
that Osborn, while intoxicated, fell out of
the door of a shanty at that point and broke
his neck. He was was over 60 years old and
is survived by two sons.
—The judicial vaeaney in Lycoming coun-
‘ty, created by the death. of Judge John J.
Metzgar, three months ago, was filled: Mon-
| day by the appointment of Max IL. Mitchell,
|| gressman-elect Elias Deemer. He is 34 years
old and is a son of the late Rev: Thompson
Mitchell. He will accept the appeintment
and will hold his first court in December.
—Considerable excitement has been caused
at Indiana, by the alleged discovery that
certain records in the prothonotary’s offices
have been tampered with. The, judgments
are alleged to have been changed in a dozen
or more places, to extend the time they were
in force, the erasures being very crudely
done. The work was*®done five years ago,
and no suspicion attaches to the officials then
in charge.
—Hon. John Dean, of Hollidaysburg, oue’
of the associate justices of the state supreme
court, sailed from New York for Europe on.
Thursday on the American liner St. Louis.
He was accompanied by his wife and two
daughters, Misses Anna and Elizabeth, and
they will all spend the next two months in
the southern part of France. Justice Dean
has gone on the trip for the purpose of bene-
fitting his health.
—Miss Clara Odea, of Williamsport, who is
visiting at the home of J. W. McDermott, in
Jersey Shore, had an exciting adventure
with a burglar Tuesday morning. She was
rudely awakened by a man thrusting his
band under the pillow on which lay her
head. Miss Odea clutched the burglar’s arm
and at the same time uttered several cries to
alarm the household. The intruder tore
himself from her grasp and escaped. The
burglar was first in the room of Mrs, MeDer: -
mott, who was also awakened in the same
way, but she was too much frightened to give
an alarm. :
—The latter part of October the Altoona,
iron company gave notice that on the 1st of |
November the price for puddling would be re-
duced from $4.25 to $3 00 per ton, and when
that date arrived the iron workers refased
to go to work. Saturday a compromise be-
tween the company and the iron workers
was effected, the price per ton heing $3.50 as
‘agreed upon, based on the present market
value of iron, and, as it fluctnates, their .
wages. will fluctuate. Thus, if iron raises .
one-tenth of a cent a pound, or $2 per ton,
they get'25 cents increase, and, vice versa, if
it drops they will get a corresponding de-
crease.
—Bewildered by the noise of the approach-
ing freight train on the Beech Creek rail-
‘road, about dusk last Friday evening, a good
sized deer leaped onto the tracks, at a point
near Forks, just in time to be caught and
killed by the pilot of the engine, and a mor
ment later the mangled form of the an-
imal was cast to one side into the ditch. The
train was stopped and some of the crew ran
‘back to where the carcass of the deer lay.
It was so badly mangled, however, that'they
made no attempt to save any of it. Some
people who lived in the neighborhood, how=
ever, lugged the oddly-slanghtered venison
away. A strange coincidence in connection
with the killing of this deer was the fact
that on the west-bound trip,the day previous,
| Engineer Atherton’s locomotive ran into and
killed three cows which were asleep on the
Forks, near where
‘the deer was killed, is not far from Snow
‘Shoe, in the vicinity of which deer are quite
plentiful. i :
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