op EE —— ————— LU, AN, Bellefonte, Pa., November 21, 1902, P. GRAY MEEK, - - Epiror What the Official Vote of Pennsylvania Shows. The official returns of the recent election have all been received at the State De- partment. The tabulated fignies show that the total vote cast for Pennypacker in the Republican and Citizens’ column was 593,317; while Pattison’s total in the Democratic, Anti-machine and Ballot Reform columus was 450,977, Pennypacker’s plurality over Terms oF SusscriprioN.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance.........couuvenees Paid before expiration of year. ve Paid after expiration of year............ 2.00 No More Changes Than One Necessary. No one will censure Governor STONE for compelling the retirement of Superior court Judge, JOHN I. MITCHELL, and the placing upon the bench of some one mentally and physically fisted to perform the duties that were expected of him. MITCHELL has taken no part in the work of the court for years. €e makes no pretense, and has no hope, of ever being able to hear a case and why he shonld have been continued so long in the position, after his inability to act as a Judge bad manifested itself, unless it was to use the place as a bait for aspiring _judicial gudgeons, Governor STON} him- |. self would find trouble to tell. But when his Gubernatorial Highness undertakes to rip up both the Supreme and the Superior courts, and to saddle up- on the public,as pensioners, not only Judge MITCHELL and Judge SMITH of the Super- ior but Judge DEAN and McCOLLUM of the Supreme in addition, the taxpayers have a right to elevate their ears and demand a reason for this wholesale pengioning. No one will complain of the speedy re- tirement of Judge MITCHELL. It should have been done long ago. be any criticism for bringing Judge SMITH 40 the front and requiring him to do his duty. the proposition, to place upon the pension list two members from each of the courts, |- smacks much more of a desire to make vacancies, that opportunities to fill them may be provided, than it does of a desire to properly protect the public interests. MeceCoLLuM, DEAN and SMITH are all more competent to fill the positions they | hold, than is the individual, who seeks to retire them, the one he ocompies. And while the public will be entirely satisfied that the Governor shall choosé a friend for |. the place that he has been using for the two years, to buy judges with, it will ob- ject most seriously and most positively to any farther changes, by him, in the make- up of their courts of lass resort. ——A Washington special, under date of the 18th inst., says the failure of At- torney General KNOX to make public the report of United States District Attorney HOLLAND, in the QUAY case, hecause of the President’s absence, 1s taken as official confirmation of the statement that the ‘‘in- vestigation of the Senator’s violation of the civil service law was prompted by Mr. RoosevELT.” The public way not know, and we doubt if it cares, who ‘‘prompted’’ the farce, as it has turned out to be, of going for Mr. QUAY. There is only one opinion now about it, and that is that the whole matter was cooked up for the sole purpose of white-washing and covering up the most bare-faced and notorious violation of law that ever disgraced the public service. Mr. ROOSEVELT may take the credit of prompt- ing the movement, but at the same time the obloquy of failing to either discredit or punish a public official for an admitted and willful infraction of the laws he was sworn to obey, will cloud his administration as long as it may by remembered. ——The Connellsville Courier office is now sending out a daily edition in connec- tion with its extraordinarily good weekly issue. If brother SNYDER can furnish as complete and as interesting and as paying a daily as he does a weekly, he will accom- plish what many others have attempted and failed, and what would seem to be an impossibility, as near a large city as Con- nellsville is to Pittsburg. Mr. SNYDER, however, understands his business, and the citizens of his locality are assured in ad- vanes that any daily that he is willing to Tasher, will not only be interesting to them but will be a credit and a benefit to the en- tire community. For the Fellow it Fits? ‘Looking for luck,’’ are you ? Well, that’s another matter. We thought it was a case of pure down laziness. We have watched you holding yourself up against the win- dow sills of this office, or backed up against the railing of the bridge almost every hour of the day for months past, but we never thought you were looking for anything. In fact we bad concluded that you were too lazy to even look for a living. But if you are looking for luck that is different. But don’t you think you have looked long enough about here? Might it not he that your luck is somewhere else, and that if you would stir yourself a little you might find it. We have always noticed that the fellow who found the most luck was the fellow who was busy all the time looking for it in every qnarter and in every way. And when he found a little of it he stuck to it. He didn’t drop that and go out on the bridge and litter it with peanut hulls, and tobacco quids, while he waited for a better kind to turn up. He took advantage of what he had, and other luck, seeing how he appreciated what he had, came to him, and be is now on the way to Easy-street. It would be the same with you if you could only get it into your head, that luck is just what you make it. It meansgetting up in the morning and going to work at some- thing —no matter whether it pays you big or little for the time—work and stick to ny job you can get until a better one Nor “will there |’ This he owes to the public. But |E Pattison is, therefore, 142,340. F 3 : S ! 28 2a g SE 2 2 g £ . | £2 | %£ | 85 | 35 | 3! #2 | £5 | E% INTIES i 2m = 7 =e = = 22 h COUNTIES. EE gz gz op iz gs S2 23 | a8& ES d% 18s L232 | ES | TE | =F 2 2: LEZ gE [204 22 2 | 2 | %2 | °% |*o EEL 8 | 5 t 5 0 % = = a ed = Adams... 0 0 | 3906 4123 63 5 42 ee 4 1 Allegheny..... | 80191 31600 1361 1231 523 a ve Armstrong.... = 4308 3263 160 18 20 — Beaver...... vee 5145 3607 248 40 103 4 rn 4021 3661 99 5 1 wae 191 9657 16646 255 257 1227 2 47 10 6524 5063 362 36 61 3 4 4875 3644 383 10 8 i T7468 8378 155 7 22 2 12 139 5645 5068 223 16 45 .e 8009 8492 380 84 42 802 718 18 2 2 2 2741 3406 160 25 1643 1 3 4181 4574 175 — rE ve 8591 7205 316: 29 89 4 20 59 2149 3268 273 2 “ . Clearfield.. 6418 5891 709 76 36 Clinton.. 2602 3077 113 6 10 1 3 Columbi 2133 306 27 36 wi Crawford... 6468 6153 517 16 46 ov Cumberlan 4783 5885 278 1 10 1 Dauphin... ae 10219 8448 759 33 39 3 23 24 DelAWATe.... oo diiiisercns donne sities 9539 5435 250 10 101 ve T 1 | es 1741 3800 119 10 we 1 3 Erie . 8116 6316 519 176 1567 at ih Fayett 8758 8296 760 49 88 - Forest 1043 807 149 2 4 ve Frankl 5757 5441 171 2 2 4 Fulton 1117 25 or vee - Greene...... 1859 3562 93 1 3 Huntingdon.. a 3577 2394 134 1 3 1 Indiana..... bo 4244 2582 293 15 53 Jefferson 3981 ; 3413 324 23 13 1 Juniata.. 1557 1671 70 we we fe ro “we Lackawa 10670 7576 744 540 918 26 8687 58 Lancaster.. 17030 7689 386 39 496 =~ oe Lawrence.. 4026 2153 714 14 831 ral ae ae Lebanon 4623 2736 327 13 18 1 15 765 Lehigh... 8381 10364 177 67 65 = - Luzerne. 13178 16816 647 568 4556 24 21 11 Lycomin 5862 7451 623 44 798 2 17 9 cKean. 3908 3586 524 26 37 we 2 8 Mercer... 5374 4926 i 5562 33 153 we a an Mifflin.... 1943 1991 131 2 ie ove oo 6 3071 108 3 3 iw ~e 2 13800 266 34 401 1 4 338 . 2078 68 |... 42 2 1 1 wi 9439 389 252 106 2 7 168 7395 368 296 2002 21 21 21 2461 |: 61 wr oi ov 1 ee 70636 1039 457 1781 317 502 |. 2867 862 20 11 9 ses 1 ey 2172 447 8 192 4 4 15107 433 158 2794 .. er 1245 14 1 1 1 2095 340 14 45 ve a er 1350 80 2 9 -: oe wi 3590 381 17 Kid 1 3 3 2635 1307 24 33 10 47 9° 1551 42 2 Fo we 12 5 3564 1374 20 88 see ee. .. 2304 588 19 43 es 1 > 5994 475 57 84 4 8 6 29078 343 3 23 ne 2 wis 10040 613 194 188 14 17 248 2016 | 91 3 2 1 i 1 12894 426 19 288 3 b 5 Total 692867 | 436457 | 23327 | 5157 | 21010 | 430 | 9549 | om1 The total vote for the other candidates was as follows :— Lieutenant Governor—Brown (Rep.). 605,508; Guthrie (Dem. ), 410,985; Grumbine (Pro.), 23.076; Munro (Socialist-Labor), 4766; Barnes (Socialist), 21,232; Brown (Citizens’), 574; Guthrie ( Anti-machine), 8929; Guthrie (Ballot Reform), 4914; scat- tering, 5. Secretary of Internal Affairs—Brown (Rep.), 614,091; Nolan (Dem. ), 396,788; Mar- quis { Pro. ), 22,960; Feehan (Socialist-Labor), 4592; Gould (Socialist), 20,644; Brown (Citizens’), 469; Nolan (Anti-machine), 8681; Nolan (Ballot Reform), 4754. a. sensi taurus up. Then be ready for that. If you make but one dollar a day, live on half of it. Do well what you undertake. Be honest with your employer and yourself. Don’s try to kill time. That gets away from you fast enough. Try to make the most out of every minute you have. Keep your eye open all the time for something better. But be worthy of it. Save all yon can of what you earn. Savings is the greatest bait that can be placed upon your lack-trap. Try it. Go to work and see, We will guarantee that you will see luck approaching, the very day you quit loafing. The Great Freight Blockade. Situation In Pittsburg District is Growing Worse and Embargo on Perishable Goods is Made Neces™ sary. Scores of Mills Shut Down. The freight blockade in the Pittsburg district is growing worse daily. = It threat- ens the industrial prosperity and is imped- ing this by keeping many furnaces and mills idle. Interests suffering most from the so-called car shortage are losing thou- sands upon thousands of dollars. Mills and shops are closed, and, while there is plenty ‘of business offering it connot he taken, because raw materials cannot he secured. MANUFACTURES ASKED NOT TO TALK. One of the most singular developments of the conditions is that leading repre- sentatives of industrial interests, who have fought the railroads before to some purpose, will not discuss the situation, They have had word from the railroad managers that the carrying interests will do the best they: can, and asking that discussion of the con- dition be avoided. In the Shenango and Mahoning Valleys and the Cleveland district there were closed yesterday 22 blast furnaces. These are operations of the merchant furnacemen. In three months past they have not come up $040 per cent. of their noimal ontput. At the end of the year they will have to carry over at least 40 per cent. of their contracts taken for this ycar’s delivery. ‘ SMALLER CONSUMERS SUFFER. There were abont 1500 of the necessary 2200 cars delivered to the coke regions yesterday; but the merchant furnacemen expect little relief from this, the heavier operators getting most of the coke, while the smaller consumers suffer. For days and days of the past fortnight deliveries of cars to the coking region ranged from 400 to 800 of the 2200 required. For over a week some of the merchant furnace inter- ests have not bad a single car of coke pass through the blockaded Conway yards. In these yards there are now ahout 4000 cars, the movement of which is blockaded. Every siding on the Pennsylvania main line between Pittsburg and Johnstown is blockaded. On shipments of hitaminous coal east of Altoona the Pennsylvania Railroad embargo is still in force. TWENTY THOUSAND MINERS IDLE. Mines are idle throughout the Pittsburg district because enough cars cannot he se- cured to keep them going. An estimate of the number of men so thrown idle places the figure at 20,000, and at a time when the output is sorely needed. $200 for a Stolen Kiss. Court Fixed Price of Forcible Osculation In New York. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Nov. 17.—In the Supreme Court for this county, $200 was fixed Monday as the price a middle-aged man must pay for kissing a middle-aged woman against her will. The case was that of Mrs. Estella Hook, of this city, against Isaac H. Harris. She alleged that last March Harris called at her home and when she answered the bell be forced his way into the hall and embraced and kissed her despite her strenuous ob- jections. Harris denied the obarge, but the jury believed Mrs. Hook. Rebukes the Defamers of Col. Guffey. Pattison The Ex-Governor Says Allegheny Fusion Was Good, Credits His Defeat to the Forgetfulness of Inde. pendent Republicans, and Finds Comfort in the Election Returns. . Ex-Governor Robert E. Pattison is out in an interview in which he ays he cannot agree with the individuals which charge that National Committeeman James M. Guffey bad not the interest of his party at heart in enter ing into a deal with tbe Citizens’ party of Pittsburg to defeat the Flinn or- ganization there. Blog ‘The enthusiasm, loyalty and disinhter- estedness of Colonel Guffey contributed a great deal to the success we achieved in the late campaign,’’ said the ex-Governor. ‘He did everything in his power to elect the Democratic State, congressional, legis- lative and county candidates. *‘The result in Allegheny county could not have been anticipated by any one. The plan for fusion between the Democrats and Citizens was justified by the victory won through a similiar coalition last spring. It had the sanction and approval of George W. Guthrie, chairman of the Citizens’ party, my colleague on the Demo- cratic ticket, and all of the prominent Democrats in Allegheny county. That be- ing the case, Colonel Guffey could not be expected to withhold his indorsement. Mr. Guthrie favored it, I favored it, and it is not to be presumed that we were disloyal to onr own selves. : I explain the result this way : The con- test between the machine Republicans and independents became so fierce that the State ticket was overlooked or forgotten. The Democratic column contained the Democratic State ticket and the Fusion or Citizens’ candidates, and the Citizens’ col- umn contained the Republican State ticket and the Fulsion candidates. Mr. Guthrie, Colonel Guffey and other Democrats be- lieved that the independents would vote the entire Democratic column. It gave them their fusion preferences, and we thonght their opposition to Quay would induce them to support the Democratic State candidates. ‘But the plan did not work out. The independents, instead of cutting Judge Pennypacker, voted the Citizens’ column straight. I was defeated, but my showing was not so bad as scme have tried to make it appear. “I received a majority of 3000 in the State outside of the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburg. My total vote was 450,000, within 2000 of that received by Cleveland in 1892. Only once was that exceeded by a Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania, and that was in 1890, when I received 464- 000. It might also be noted that I receiv- ed the highest straight Democratic vote in Philadelphia, when in 1880 I polled 93,000 votes for Controller. ‘Colonel Guffey is an able leader of Pennsylvania Democracy, and will, no doubt, succeed himself as National Com- mitteeman from this State.’’ Anti-Trust Legislation Far Off. Republicans Unlikely to Accomplish Anything in Congress. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17—Represen- tative McDermott, of New Jersey, who introduced several anti-trust measures in the House last season, said Monday that he expected practically nothing to be accom- plished by the Republicans along this line ab either the present or any other session of Congress. *‘I can see absolutely no remedy in the suggestion that the Sherman Anti-Trust law be amended so as to strengthen the administrative features,’’ he added. ‘‘The only way bo solve the problem, in my opinion, is to give the Federal Govern- ment, instead of the States, the control of the creation of corporations. That would have to be brought about by a constitn- tional amendment, and such amendment bas been introduced by me. I am not sanguine of accomplishing any substantial good.”’ Horrors of the Shipwreck. Sixteen on Raft at Sea With 2 Apples for Food Eight died before Rescuers Came. Boat Pre- viously Near, but Missed Them. LoxDoxN, Nov. 17.—The ‘Daily Mail’s”’ correspondent at Wellington, New Zealand, telegraphs that the eight survivors from the wreck of the British steamer Elagamite, who were rescued on a raft by the British survey steamer Penguin, went through direful experiences. The rafts from which they were taken measured only 12 feet long by 7 feet wide, and bad 16 persous on it when it left the wreck. The only food on board was two apples. The first apple was consumed on Tues- day and the second on Wednesday, each being divided into 16 portions. From Sunday, the day they were wreck- ed, until Thursday, when they were res- cued, the survivors drifted 60 miles on the balf-submerged raft. Several attempts were made to land on the Three Kings Is- land, but without success. Three men died on Monday night from drinking salt water. All of the survivors suffered the tortures of thirst, and four other men and the stewardess died of ex- havstion, before they were picked up by the Penguin- ‘They had a cruel disappointment on Tues- day night. A steamer was sighted in the distance and frantic shouts were raised hy those on the raft to attract attention. The steamer lowered a boat, which passed within 50 yards of them, but the boat’s crew apparently did not see the raft and re- turned to their vessel. When the Penguin was sighted, only one of the survivors was able to stand and all were terribly emaciated. Volcanoes Quite Violent. Hawaitan Kilauca Worst for 20 Years— Stromboli Frightens Sicilians. ’ HONOLULU. Nov. 11, via San Francisco, 17.—A wireless message received here to- day from the islands of Hawaii states that the voleano Kilauca has broken out in the most violent eruption for the past 20 years. Kilauca has shown mild intermittent ac- tivity since the outbreak of St. Pierre. RoME, Nov. 17.—A fresh eruption of the volcano Stromboli occurred Monday even- ing, accompanied by a terrific explosion and a great flow of lava. It was a mag- nificent spectacle, visible from all the north- ern part of Sicily, the flames rising from the volcano illuminating the surrounding sea. The situation of the few inhabitants of the island of Stromboli is precarious. They. are frightened especially by the washing ashore of great quantities of dead fish, which have beeen killed apparently by a submarine disturbance. Caribou Murder. The Newfoundland Fishermen Kill Hundreds for Salting. Newfoundland is probably the only country in the world where venison, salted or fresh, is a staple article of diet for the masses. The coast folk make their plans with method and deliberation. From the harbors where they reside they go in their boats to the rivers and fiords which strike into the interior. When navigation is no longer possible, {hey debark and continue on foot to the deer country. They carry barrels filled with salt and sometimes go in large companies. When the rendezvous is reached, they camp. They ambush themselves along a promising “lead” or deer track, armed with long six foot muzzle loading sealing guns, which they charge with about “eight fingers” of coarse gunpowder and “slugs” of lead, fragments of iron or bits of rusty nails, whichever they may have. They fire point blank into a herd of caribou as it passes and, being usually good shots, contrive to kill almost anything . they aim at or to wound it so badly with these dreadful missiles that it soon collapses. Then they skin and cut up the meat, for these men know a lit- tle of every trade, and pack it in the barrels, with the salt as a preservative. —Outing. The Oriental and His Rugs. A recent writer on oriental rugs says that there is no arbitrary test by which an inexperienced person can tell a gen- uine rug from a bogus one. Knots and strands mean nothing except in con- nection with other important elements. Shades and spots are imitated. Wash- ing the rug to discover if it has been painted over with brush and water color frequently leads only to the dis- covery of a bad spot. in an otherwise fine rug. The oriental dyer does his work according to his own sweet will. Between the puffs of a cigarette and the gossip of his friends he dips his material in the dye tub. Only the ex- pert knowledge of the old rug buyer can be depended on. These buyers go to the great fairs on the edge of the desert, where once a year the men of the east gather to haggle together. Sometimes western buyers push into Persia and the Caucasus to search out rare weaves in the homes of the weav- ers, but the venture is always attended with some danger from native hostil- ity. It is said that the annals of com- merce contain greater romances than were ever woven around tales of war. With a Grain of Salt. The earliest record of the saying, “With a grain of salt,” dates back to the year 63 B. C., when the great Pom- pey entered the palace of Mithridates and discovered among his private pa- pers the description of an antidote against poisons of all sorts, which was composed of pounded herbs. These, ac- cording to the recipe, were to be taken with a grain of salt. Whether this was meant seriously or as a warning sar- casm is not known, but thenceforth it became the custom to say that doubt- ful preparations should be taken with a grain of salt. From this the meaning got trans- ferred to sayings of doubtful truth. “Attic salt” was a Greek synonym for wit or penetration, and the Latin word “sal” had somewhat of the same mean- ing. It is thus easy to see how the saying, “Cum grano salis,” could have come to mean the necessity of accept- ing doubtful or suspicious statements “with a grain of salt.” —-— oe HOT Stopped the ‘ Storm. The Snow was a Little too Heavy to Suit the Acter. “Mechanical devices are now maae wonderfully real on the stage,” said the old stock actor. “It hasn't been so many years ago since even the simple device of depicting a snowstorm was regarded an achievement. I remember on one occasion I was out with a com- pany playing repertoire and in one melodrama—I don’t even now recall the name—I took the part of an old man whose daughter, the heroine, had been abducted. I was supposed to be blind, and my strong scene was in the third act, when I went out into a snowstorm in search of my daughter. She was lying in a drift, and as I hob- bled across the stage I kept crying: ‘Me che-ild! Where is me che-ild? “Well, it was early in the season and the play was the first attraction at that theater. The scene painters had been at work and had dropped several paint brushes, hammers and other articles into the sheet that held the snowstorm. As the stage hands in the flies shook the sheets to make the snow come out a couple of hammers came down and just missed me by an inch. I was blind and didn’t dare to look up, but when a monkey wrench just grazed my temple I bad presence of mind enough to yell: ‘See yonder moon! The storm is over! cue and let up on me, and the audience never stopped to question how a blind man could see yonder moon.”—Phila- delphia Record. About Volcanoes. Few persons have any idea of the prodigious quantity eof lava and thot ashes which a volcano in a state of eruption can vomit in a few hours. ' The matter which was discharged in 1669 from Mount Etna and which threatened to overwhelm Catania forms ‘a mass the extent of which has been estimated as being not less than 1,000,- 000,000 cubic yards. From the immense crater of Kilauea, in Hawaii, there was vomited in 1840 during a single eruption a mass of lava equivalent to fifty. times the volume of earth which it was necessary to remove in order to form the Suez canal. In 1873 the Skaptar-Jokull, one of the most redoubtable volcanoes’ in Iceland, sent forth two rivers of fire, one of which ran along a valley for eighty miles, its depth ‘along the entire dis- tance being thirty yards. Finally, it is ‘estimated that from the mass of stones and ashes which were discharged in 1883 from Krakatoa could be formed a mountain higher and wider than Mont Blane. ; : An Old Time Remedy. In the ice chest of a Germantown residence there dré always lying four or five big keys. This is because the nose of the little son of the house bleeds every few days, and nothing stops the hemorrhage like the dropping a large, cold key down the child’s back, says the Philadelphia Record. He squirms and cries out before the shock, and then in a moment he is well, his nose stops. bleeding. A. physician said that the cold key remedy for the hem- orrhage of the nose was as old, he sup- posed, as keys themselves are. “It is a very good remedy,” he went on, “and its curative power is due to the shock it gives. But isn’t it an odd thing to use— a cold key? Almost as odd, to my mind, as the candle with which some pérsons tallow their noses when they have a cold. But the candle remedy does no good, so far as I can see, whereas the key remedy is one of the best in the business.” He Didn’t Take the Hint. ; Chicago once had as its superintend- ent of city schools a bachelor named Howland, whose gruffness of manner and love of neatness were proverbial. Going into the room of a young and at- tractive teacher one day, Mr. Howland took notice of an untidy desk and a carelessly arranged bookshelf, and, pointing his finger at them, queried brusquely: : “What kind of a housekeeper do you think you'd make?” “Why, Mr. Howland, are you looking for one?” was the humorously quizzical reply. His Grace. Bishop Wilberforce used to tell a sto- ry of a greedy clergyman who when asked to say grace looked anxiously to see if there were champagne glasses on the table. If there were, he began, “Bountiful Jehovah!” But if he saw only claret glasses he said, “We are not worthy of the least of thy mercies.” Have Some Municipal Ways. “Your town is getting to be quite a city, isn’t it?” “Well, I don’t know. Sometimes I think we're a city and sometimes I don’t. We wear swallowtail coats at evening parties, but we haven't had a street car strike yet.””—Chicago Trib- une. A Problem of the Present. Hortense—Papa is so pensive today! Perhaps he is wondering how he will get along without us after we are mar- ried. Helen—More likely he is wondering how he will get along with us until we are.—Brooklyn Life. No Ear For Music. “How do you like the music, Mr. Jud- king?” said Miss Parsons. “I’m sorry, but I have no ear for music,”” he answered. “No,” put in Mr. Jasper. “He uses his for a pen rack.”—Boston Christian Register. ; Capacity. Nothing will give permanent success in any enterprise of life except native capacity cultivated by honest and per- severing effort. Genius is often but the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.—George Eliot. The stage hands took their | Too Good a Liar. A young man from Banffshire was spending his holidays in Aberdeen. ‘While walking on “the green” in com- pany with his uncle he was surprised to see so many kites flying. Observing one far higher than the rest, he called his uncle’s attention and asked if ever he had seen a kite flying as high be- fore. “Did ever I see ane as high afore? Man, Jammie, that’s naething, for I hae seen some o’ them clean oot o’ sicht.”—Scottish American. Boston Public Library Advantages. ' Barnes—I suspect that Pingrey is quite a literary man. I know he spends the greater part of his time in the public library. Howes—Yes. He tells me it is so quiet there he can get a nap almost any time without being awakened.— Boston Transcript. Her Diagnosis. Mamma—You must be awfully care- ful, darling. The doctor says your sys- ‘tem is upset. Little Dot—Yes, I guess it is, mam- ma, ‘cause my foot’s asleep, and peo- iple must be terribly upset when they 'go to sleep at the wrong end.—Phila- delphia Inquirer. An After Election Admission, From the Clinton Democrat. An after-election thought of President Roosevelt ir to the effect that in these days of Republican ‘‘prosperity,’’ the cost of living has increased more largely than the wages of labor. Had the president made that statement hefore election, there is no telling what would have happened. ADDITIONAL LOCALS ——Chas. H. 8hirk only son of Harry and Elizabeth Shirk, died at his home a Boalsburg Sunday evening. He was 20 years old. The funeral services were held Wednesday noon. Interment in the Spruce- town cemetery. meer ee QA) imme. ——John B. Reilly, a well-known resi- dent of Clearfield, was returning from Chi- cago with a team of blooded horses Sunday night. When in the Altoona yards Mr. Reilly stepped off his train and was run over by the cars. He was instantly killed. He was born at Woodland, was aged about 35 years, and unmarried. He is survived by several brothers and sisters. ——Postmaster Bolger, Philipsbuig, received word from the first assistant Postmaster General, Monday, notifying him that the following persons were ap- pointed letter carriers for Philipsbog under the free delivery system to be in- augurated there on December 1st, viz : Charles T. Waring, of North Ninth street ; J. H. Harpster, Allport, and Geo. A. Wil- son, of Tyrone. The latter was a carrier in Tyrone for three years. There were 22 applicants, only 8 of whom passed the required examination. SHOOTS HiMSELF.—Philipsburg is ex- periencing a sorrowful sensation. On Tuesday evening, Chas. Vaux, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Vaux took his own life in the presence of his sister and sweetheart, Miss Patrick in the Central hotel in that place. They were discussing personal griev- ances, it is said, when young Vaux drew a revolver from his pocket, pressed it over "his heart and with the exclamation “‘Good- bye!" pulled the trigger and fell dead. It is said he purchased the revolver several days ago, evidently having suicide in mind. Vaux was a miner and a member of the volunteer fire department, He was anxious to marry Miss Patrick, but his parents objected. py Ll ANOTHER FATALITY FROM HUNTING. — Wednesday afternoon John Kline Jr., and Elliott Sauers of State College were hunting in Thompson's corn field near Centre Furnace. While they were walk- ing along, Sauers at a short distance from Kline and carrying a cozked gun with muz- zle pointing towards Kline, the gun acei- dentally went off discharging a load of fine shot into Kline’s right side. Kline sank to the ground unconscious. Dr. Robinson and Phil Shed saw the accident and were near to render any possible as- sistance, but the wound was fatal and death instantaneous. Both young men are well known in the village of State College where their fathers’ have been for years prominent citizens, and we extend them our sincere sympathy in the sorrow that is theirs. The victim of the accident was Mr. and Mrs. George H. Kline's only son. He was 19 years ofjage and was a brother of Mrs. Edward Erb, of this place. Funeral serv- ices will be held this morning in the Meth odist church of which he was a member. Rev. Heckman will officiate and interment will be made in the Branch cemetery, only a short distance from where he met his death. One more point scored in favor of Mr.Jas. R. Hughes recent assertion that statistics show that there are less fatalities in foot- ball than any other sport, most in hunting and yet there never has been universal disapproval of the latter as of the former ! It a man isfkilled in football it is published broadcast over the ceuntry but, if in hunting, ajnotice of the fact is made in local papers and the spor$ goes on; in foot- ball we say it was willful brutality and carelessness; in hunting a regrettable acei- dent. Why not the reverse? If only one man be at the gun why is he not responsi- ble for where it points rather than any man in the midst of many, be responsible kick which kill ? If the very sad accident which occurred ot State College would be a warning against the carelessness in handling fire- arms we would gladly devote columns to it. Summed up it means; a young man hurried prematurely into eternity and an- other one with a shadow of remorse to carry the remainder of his life. None ap- parently to blame and yet—.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers