BrwaiHitdpn TT By P. GRAY MEEK. m——— rE ————— a LT — River ice isn't quite as popular just . ‘pow as it will be in July and August. —March came in with the head of a lion ‘but the day closed like the tail of a lamb. —An Arab proverb says ‘‘all sunshine makes the desert.” How we long for a little desert around here just now. —Japan’s list of contraband of war does not includei ether the { Missouri mule or RICHARD HARDING DAVIS. . —The post-office thieves in Washington baving been convicted at last now make their punishment just as certain. —REED SMo0T’s trial began on Tuesday. Other men who have had polygamous in- clinations have found their trials contin- uous. —At a dollar a bushel wheat is profis- able to the farmer, but at the same rate of increase the consumer finds his bread very unprofitable. —New stockings being made for women have pockets in them. It will not become ‘fashionable, however, for the ladies to stand around with their bands in their pockets. .—Inthe city of Washington there are fifteen ‘thousand SMiTHS, fourteen thou- <and JOHNSONS and away too many ROOSEVELTS. Pennsylvania bas been fall of great [Democratic opportunities for years, hut ‘they: are rarely to be found when election ‘day comes round. —The New Work judge who has de- «gided that ridicule of poetry is not libel must have read a few from the pen of ‘the poet laurate of the West ward. —Blue-birds were heard in Bellefonte on Tuesday; that is the .gentleman said ‘he wasn’t quite sure whether they were blue-birds or chippies. ‘What a nice gentleman, —Judge LovE might have had good reasons for granting license to HARRY W ASHBURN, but we wouldn’t be afraid to bet that he won’t tell the public the real reason. It ‘Little Fill”’ and .JeHN KNISELY ‘are redlly to make up the Republican leg- islasive team they will have to be. driven tandem, because they wouldn’t be mated well enough to go to the pole. ~——The University of Pennsylvania ought to have a Doctor of Appropriations " degree. It would come iin handy at Har- risburg abous the time that institation is looking for its bi-ennial band-out. —President ROOSEVELT'S - strenuosity is very apparent in the way he spends government money. Up to this time his distle whims have cost the comntry over one million dollars, in addition to his salary. —CARNEGIE having bequeathed anoth- er two and one hall million dollars for education in Pittsburg it won’t be long a ntil all the folks in that city ought to be as smart ae the BraELows and FLINNS. —The Japan-Russian war will not make a good subject for dramatization for the reason that to make it true to life all the talking parte would have to be given to the Russians while the Japs would have to «do all the acting. ~—When Col. WARREN WORTH BAILEY and his estimable Johnstown Democrat de- cide to fall in behind the Clearfield Public Spirit as a bell cow he’ll find himself vith his head up in the air sniffin’ for a scent of home many a time. ~The flood yesterday was a reminder of two years ago, except that we did not get quite as much of the cornfields along Spring creek and Logan’s branch as we did the last time. We haven’ts recorded any complaint, however, for this little falling off. —Acecording to PENNY’S notion there is nothing wrong in the Philadelphia bar expressing it’s indignation at his trying %o catapult himself! onto the Supreme bench: According to the same notion there is nothing wrong in his getting here, if he can, either. —J. Avcustus BECK, the Harrisburg portrait artist, has juss completed portraits Wn oils of former Governor BEAVER and the late Governor HASTINGS for the State Historial soeiety of Philadelphia. He is “to paint one of Governor PENNYPACKER Juss as soon as the latter can find time to sit for it. If the artist only bad asu- preme bench in his studio, PENNY would give him a sitting right away. ~—NoAH RABY, who died at the age of one hundred and thirty years, is supposed to have been the oldest man living. That he used tobacco for over one hundred years of his life: ie said fo be a fact, therefore it is not probable that the anti-tobacco cru- saders will refer to him often, though no «one knows how much longer NoAH would save lived had he not used tobacco at all. However this may be it is certain that he dived as long as any mortal has a right to. —1It is reported that COLONEL oham- bers frightened a man out of town who was here on Tuesday for the purpose of testify- ing against some one of the liquor appli- «cants from Rash township. Aside from the interest there is in learning that the COL- ‘ONFEL can scare someone moss people will want so know what reason he could have bad for attempting it—if the ramor be true. There could have been no harm in hearing ‘What the informer wanted to say and that ia the view the public will take of it. STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 49 Roosevelt a Costly Luxury. r— extraodinary expepses, such as repairs in the White House, cost of maintaining vachts for the use of the President and erecting a new stable for the President’s horses and that whick: it is estimated must be paid during the coming summer, Presi- dent ROOSEVELT is an expensive luxury. In order to accommodate his family an ad- dition was put to the White House at a cost of $475,445. To meet his official conve- nience a six-room office building has been attached to the White House at an expense of $63,196. To fulfill his idea of holiday comfort the United States steamship May- flower was furnished for the uee of his fam- ily at an expense of $100,000, and repairs and cost of maintenance of that yacht and the Sylph for his personal use during the summers of 1902 and 1903 amounted to out of $765,641 for luxuries that no pre- vious President even dreamed of. The schedule for future payments of ex- traordinary expenses is modest, compara- tively speaking. That is to say the esti- mated expense of repairing, maintaining and equipping the steamers Mayflower and Sylph during the coming summer is $145,- 000 and that of huilding anew stable for the White House, $90,000, making a total for next summer of $235,000 and an aggre- gate for the term of office to which he suc- ceeded through a national calamity -of $910,641. Is should be known that the expenses of his special trains and transpor- tation service was born by the railroad companies, reluctantly, no doubt, but cer- tainly. He simply demanded the favor and in one instance, that of his prolonged tripto the Yellowstone Park last fall is item bad been added to the others the total would have heen increased to the extent of at least a quarter of a million dollars. When the profligate Kings of France were ‘‘on their last legs’’ they used to ap- pease the wrath of their suffering subjects by providing expensive amusements for their entertainments. When corrupt Em- perors of Rome were severely pressed by the indignant public which they habitually ‘wronged, they crdered costly fetes and extravagant exhibitions in the coliseum to divert attention from their vices and prob- have fallen ‘into ‘the samme habit. At least it is certain that ROOSEVELT has been an amusing spectacle in the office of President and while he has been ocavorting in costly exhibitions the work of looting the gov- ernment has been going on in every de- partment. If ROOSEVELT is given a new commission by the votes of the people, it may be expected that.he will carry his abuse to a greater extent than ever and naturally the predatory bands in office will improve their opportunity to plunder. Jon J arose fof one f t Bepumentail practically the leader of the Republicans in'the House, shook the reciprocity mask from bis face the other day and frankly de- olared that neither: he nor his party wants any of it. Ever since BLAINE rebuked the ultra-protectionists by declaring tbat the McKINLEY bill wouldn’t create a market for a barrel of flour or: pork, the principle involved in the theory of reciprocity has been a cardinal doctrine of the Republi- cans. The last speech of the lamented Mo- KINLEY at Buffalo was a .plea for it and every platform of the party since has con- tained a re-iteration of his sentiment. But BLAINE ‘and MCKINLEY are gone and the control of the party bas been sur- rendered to the tariff mongers influenced by covetousness and greed. The reciprocity treaties negotiated under the. direction of ‘McKINLEY by a distinguished Republican statesman, Hon. JoHN A. KassoN, of Iowa, and for more than four years pend- ing in the senate committee, . have been constantly pointed to as proof of the anxiety of the party for BLAINE’S hobby. . But the other day Mr. DALZELL ended the matter in ‘‘one fell swoop.’ ‘‘We are opposed to all reciprocity,” he declared, ‘‘except on articles which do not come into competi: tion with products of this country.” Proba- bly he would stand for resiprosiiy on sun- beams. . ~Another’ Repaiblican Congisemnt» Mi. LOVERING, of Massachusetts, entertains a differen view of the subject according to a statement he made during the same debate. ‘“To stand pat on tariff duties that hinder and obstruct commerce,” he observed, ‘‘is inflicting great injury upon American prod- ucts which could be given a much. wider and more remunerative market under other conditions,” But it is the DALZELLS and not the LOVERINGS who are guiding the destiny of the-Republican party at present and the ruinous policy will be maintained gerved bounties to the monopolies and trusts which supply Sorruphion ‘funds for the party. : ——Subsoribe for the WATORMAN. ~ Counting what has already been paid for | $125,000 making an aggregate already paid | cost one railroad company $50,000. If that ably the -Republican machine managers as long as it provides unearned and unde-| ' Smoot’s Seat: Secure. * It thet was ever any doubt that Mormon Apostle REED SMOOT is to be allowed to retain his seat in the United States Senate it was dissipated by the Washington corres- pondent of the Philadelphia Press the other day. ‘‘The Senate Committee on Privi- leges and Eleotions,’’ wrote that favored source of Republican information, ‘‘which will next week take up the case of Senator REED Smoot, of Utah, proposes to act in an absolutely judicial capacity.”” If that means anything it means that the testi- mony will be held strictly within the rules of evidence. In that case the basis of the contention will be the fundamental law of the land which forbids religious test as to qualification for office and Mormon or no Mormon SMooT will “‘stay put,”’ as the President would say. The correspondent continues that it is he purpose of those who are pressing the matter *‘to keep politics out of the case as much as possible.” Precisely. The Re- publican ‘national committee, through its secretary, PERRY S. HEATH, made a oor- rapt bargain with the Mormon church un- der the terms of which the polygamists were to vote as a unit for the Republican party and the Republican party was to give the polygamist organization, in the person of one of the Apostles of the Mormon church, a seat in the United States Senate. Both parties to the agreement have fulfilled their obligations thus far. That is, she Mormon church unanimously voted for the Republican candidates and REED SMooOT was elected to the Senate and seated. If the corrupt bargain were alleged as the cause for his expulsion and supported ae i$ might be, there would be no escape from that result. Every Republican would be ‘obliged to-vote for his expuision or sénlsily himself. But the managers are not going to allow any such thing. They will need the Mor- mon church next fall and in order to keep it in lie for the ticket they will keep SMooT in’ his seat. It will be no difficult matter to achieve that result. All that is necessary is to ‘“‘keep politics out of the case as much as possible,” and rest on the assertion that SM0ooT 18 a Mormon. The constitution of the country will do the rest. Mr. SMoo1’s friends can ‘‘own the soft im- peachment’’ and add ‘‘what are you going to do about it." Section 3 of Article 6, of that instrument declares that ‘no religious test shall ever be required as a qualifica- tion to any office or public trust under the United States.’”” That will end the dispute with a trinmph for polygamy and cans. Ignorant or Venal, Which? Attorney General CARSON has asked the Dauphin county court to issue a writ of mandamus to compel the State Treasurer to pay the salaries of the judges of the Supreme, Superior, Common Pleas and Orphans’ courts under the judicial salary law enacted during the last session of the Legislature. The law provides for an increase of salaries to judges in com- mission at the time it was enacted to an aggregate of about $200,000. Section 13 of Article 3 of the constitution specifically and unequivocally forbids the increase of the salary of any public official during the term for which he’ was elected or ap- pointed. The new salary law is therefore obviously in conflict with the constitu- tion, on which account State Treasurer HARRIS refused to obey it. The Attorney General contends that - the new law is valid on the ground that the constitution provides thas judges shall be paid adequate salaries and the provision which forbids the increase of salaries of public officials does not apply to them, because they are not public officials. But his petition for a mandamus is not intend- ed ‘to bring that question to a decision. On the contrary he simply asserts that the office .of State Treasurer is purely minie- terial and that when an obviously im- proper warrant signed by the’ Auditor General is presented to him he is obliged to pay it just as if it was a just eolaim against the State. If he can induce the Dauphin county court to take that view the Stase Treasurer will have no alterna- ‘tive except to pay. But what position does this leave the Attorney General in. He is the law offi oer of the Commonwealth‘and his. ‘construc. tion of the law is either the result of igno- rance or venality. The proceedings in the constitutional convention makes that fact clear. When section 13 of article.3 was under consideration Mr. CALVIN, of Blair county, offered an amendment exempting judges from its operation and it was de- bated as considerable length. Finally it was defeated by an overwhelming major- ity. Later Mr. ARMSTRONG, of Williams. port, renewed. the effort to exempt the judges and he again failed. Mr. BuUCK- ALEW vigorously opposed the proposition and during the, debate declared that he could ‘‘see no reason why the judges of our law courts should not be left on | the same footing as other public officers.” bo] ——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN. BELLEFON TE, PA., MARCH 4, 1904. Protest of the Lawyers. * One hundred and five ‘prominent 'Phila- delpbia lawyers, mostly Republicans, bave signed a protest against the consummation of the conspiracy to transfer Governor PEN- NYPACKER from his present office to that of justice of the Supreme cours. The pro- test is informal, so to speak, but emphatic. That is to say it assumes the shape of a pe- tition addressed to the lawyers of the State and declares thas the signers are inflaenced to the action by interest in the ‘‘honor of the profession.” They in that way ask the lawyers addressed to express an *‘opin- jon of the propriety of nominating and electing the Governor to a seat upon the Supreme bench." “As the disapproval of the profession seems to be universal,’’ continues the man- ifesto, *‘it is thought desirable to get the whole hody of the bar of Pennsylvania in touch upon the subject.” In other words, the signers of the petition, among whom of the city, obviously aim to unite the bar of the State in a systematic and energetic opposition to the nomination of Governor PENNYPACKER t0 a vacant seat on the bench. They imagine, probably, that in the face of sneh an organized opposition Senator QUAY would be frightened into the abandonment of his scheme, or else that the Governor would be driven from his purposes by fear of defeat. Possibly the gentlemen are acourate in their estimate of the courage and obduraoy of QUAY aud the sensibility of his marvel- ously constructed cousin SAM, but we are inclined to doubt. This is a bad year, no doubt, for QUAY to cavort, for his own re- election is involved in the battle of the ballots next fall. But revealing the‘ white feather” isn’t a QUAY characteristic or yielding, as FALSTAFF pus it, ‘‘apon com- pulsion” one of his customs. If QUAY wants $0 nominate PENNYPACKER he will achieve the result even if every lawyer in the State is opposed to him and if be doesn’t want to it is on his own account rather than ous of consideration for cousin Sam. ~ Fairbanks for Tall, of the Ticket. It is substantially y agreed that Senator | FAIR¥ANKS, of Indiava, is to be the Re- ‘publican nominee for Vice President on the ticket with RoosEvELT. In fact ac- cording to a Washington correspondent of one of the ROOSEVELT organs, the President himself selected the Hoosier Senator and for very plausible reasons. ‘FAIRBANKS is satisfactory to tbe busi- ness interests of Wall street,’’ the writer alleges, “and that was the influencing cause of his selection.” Of conrse there were other reasons though they were over- looked purposely. Indiana is one of the pivotal States in the coming contest. Of late years it has been looked upon as a substantial Repub- lican preserve but with ROOSEVELT as the candidate everybody knows that it is lost. It was in that State that he was called off the stump two years ago and sent home under the pretense that something was the matter with his leg. As a mat- ter of fact, however, there was nothing the matter with his leg. It was his head that was affected. He had been uttering a succession of silly platitudes on the tariff and the trusts and the party mana- gers came to the conclusion that unless he was silenced the ticket would be de- feated. Accordingly a fiction about a sore leg was invented and he was sent home, with much ostentation. The Republican party has no more ehanoe of carrying the election next fall without the vote of Indiana than the Bar- gess of Bellefonte has of establishing a coal trade with the man in the moon. Every Republican leader and every intelligent citizen understands this fact. The late BENJAMIN HARRISON despised cow-boy politics and his influence is still potent in the popular mind of Indiana. But ROOSEVELT imagines that with Senator FAIRBANKS on the ticket the Hoosier opposition can be overcome and for that reason FAIRBANKS bas been selected. ——TI¢ is juss possible that the recent rather mysterious visit of former Judge GORDON and former Senator McQUOWN, of Clearfield, so this place has its explanation in the granting of a wholesale liguor li- cense t6 HARRY WASHBURN, in Rush township. ‘In fact GORDON and McQUOWN are reported to have been receiving oon- gratulations in Clearfield yesterday on hav- ing landed a license for WASHBURN. The latter’s notoriety in Clearfield oconuty we will deal with at more length later, suffice it to say now that he is regarded by many asnothing more than a political . boodler | and heeler, whose influence is to be thrown to LovEand the missionaries from Clear- field oounty. ~The condition of William P. Dun- can, of Philipsburg, is very much improv- wo FRI are some of the most distinguished lawyers | NO. 9. Comfortable Feeling 1 for Congressman. Pann a Contingent as as. a Rule Seem Certarn of ceeding Themselves, WASHINGTON, Feb, & 23. —With the ex- ception of Representatives Shiras," and Brown, of Allegheny county, and Rep- resentative Alvin Evans, of the Nineteeuth distries made up of Bedford, Blair and Cambria counties, all the present members have the comfortable feeling that Sheir nomination ‘or another term is assured, and thas they will be elected in the fall mnlese the Democrats show more signs of life and energy than they have Sisplayed for several years. Representative Bates, of the Twen- ty-fitth district, to-day had all anxiety re- moved from his mind by information that the time for making nominations in his district had expired without any Republi- oan announcing himself a candidate for Congress against him. This gives Mr. Bates a record, as it is said to be the firsé time in 40 years that any man has been given a third consecutive nomination for Congress in the district. Representative Acheson, of the Fourteenth district, Huff of ‘the Tweuty-second; ‘Cooper of the Twenty-third, Smith of TWénty seventh, Sibley of the Twenty-eight, and Dresser of the Twenty-first, are alsa sb ppos- ed to have cinches on renomination as bas- Mr. Dalzell. There is some show of opposi- tion to Mr. Dresser, but it is not expected to amount to anything substantial, as thas gentleman is regarded by the “boys of his’ district as one of the hest things that ever! came down the political pike. There is a’ story floating around Washington to .the effect that in the campaign of 1902 Mr. Dresser was generosity itself to the boys, giving up something like $40,000 for the ‘“negessary’’ expenses of the campaign. DEEMER HAS OPPOSITION.’ Representative Elias Deemer, of the Clinson-Potter - Tioga - Lycoming district has a fight on for renomination, the out- come of which is still regarded as uncer- tain here. Representative Evan's retire: mens is. settled on, it appears, and ‘his’ suecessor as the Republican nominee from. the Nineteenth district will be John M. Reynolds, of Bedford, a. recent convert to Republicanism, who was nt secretary of the interior under Cleveland’s sound administration. The Sufferings Satlors Endured. Pennlless and Almost Destitute of Clothes They Were Picked Up. Belonged to the Wreck. NORFOLK, Va., March 1.—Penniless and almost dessitute ot clothes, six members of the crew of the wrecked schooner, David | P. Davis, of Bath, Me., which were picked up off Hatteras during i a gale by Diamond Shoals lightship No. 72, bave arrived here. The Davis was ran down and dismasted off Hatteras last Friday ni by an un- known schooner. ~The schooners crew of ten men manned the three pumps and worked until they were exhausted. Find- ing his vessel doomed, Captain Erwin or- dered the Davis abandoned Satarday morn- ing and a boat was launched and manned. In the meantime the dismantled wreck had been sighted by the Diamond Shoal lightship, which sent off a boat to take the survivors. The lightship's' boat had to abandon the effort to tow the schooher’s yawl with its ten occupants, and Captain Erwin, Mate Dittman, Second Mate Wil- liam H. Yaman and Seaman William Row- ley were left in the boat, while the other six ocoupants of the boat, who were ex- hausted, were removed to the lightship’s boat. While awaiting the return of the lightship’s boat for them, a tank ship hove to and picked up Captain Erwin and his companions and steamed northward. The Davis was bound from a South At- lantic port to Baltimore with a cargo of phosphate. The seamen who were brought here are Engineer Charles Groskan, R. A. Mosley, William Pearsall, Thomas Towns, James K. Newton and 8S. Cc. Holtz. PHILADELPHIA, March 1.—The tank steamer Toledo, from Sabine. Pass, has ar- rived as Marcus Hook, Pa., with four members of the orew of the wrecked schooner, David P. Davis. Publisher E. A. Abell Ends Newspaper Carer. Baltimore Sun Proprietor; tor; Last of 12 Children, Dies Aged 64, . . BALTIMORE, Feb, 28.—Edwin Franklin Abell, president of the A. S. Abell com- pany, publishers of the Sun newspaper of this city, died at his residence today y aged 64 years. Mr. Abell was born ih Balti- more and was the oldest of 12 children of the late Arunah S. Abell founder of the Sun, and by hisdeath the last of the found- er's sons has passed away. Upon finishing his school studies, at the age of 16, Mr. Abell entered - the counting room of the Sun. He bad given his atten- tion more closely to the management of his father’s estate and not until the death of George W. Abell did he assume direos con- trol of the paper. Since the death of his brother he has been thie directing head of the paper’s politics and views on national questions and local affairs. - As direotor of his paper it was his fixed policy to keep his personal identity from the: pgblic gaze and in this be achieved a Hot e: snooess. Mr. Abell had been no throughout a lifetime for his charitable deeds, always performed in an unostentations way. Walter W. Abell, son of the deceased, who has been in practical charge of the Sun i) the past few years, will continue tocon- uot it. cavauy Horse Prices go Up. IRKUTSK, SIBERIA, Feb. 29.—The price of horses is rising rapidly. Over $40 is now offered, while a week ago $20 to $25 was the price. This ie explained by the demand for horses at Baikal and the proba- ble requisition for the army. i St. Petersburg Semds Arms. St. PETERSBURG, Feb. 26.—A further con. signment of guns and ammunition was des- patched trom here to the Far East today. All churches are filled with soldiers, offer- | ing up their devotion pehoe to their depart- ure for the Far Eas, ia Syne rd Porter | | burg for burial. Spawls from the Keystone. , —'Squire L.K. McCullough, a prominen leading Clearfield citizen and a prominent | mason, died Wednesday morning, after a ghort illness, aged 71 years. | TEs ‘Gearhart, of knitting machine 'fame, of Clearfield, will build a new factory | in the spring. He has worked ups an n immense trade in that line. —Two new cases of small-pox developed in Williamsport Sunday and one case has been reported from South Williamsport, up to the present time it is estimated that 5,000 per- sons have been vaccinated in that city. . —Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Hood celebrated their sixty-third wedding anniversary at their home in Indiana this week. They are the oldest couple in Indiana county, and both are in perfect health. —New York Central railroad men are fear ful of a strike in the soft coal region and the proceedings of the Indianapolis conventiom the coming week will be watched with. the greatest interest. A strike will mean anoth- ‘er dull summer for Jersey Shore and there of th House from Western Pennsylvania would § be. very little Pennsylvania division traffic. —in consequence of a rush order from the Japanese government for locomotives the Baldwin locomotive plant, in Philadelphia, ‘has established a new record by the con- struction of seven locomotives in a day. The engines ordered by Japan are for the military railroad that will connect Fusan on the ‘southern coast of Corea with Seoul.’ —The bedy of Col.- J. G. Rurss, qdarier- master of the 148th regiment, and a former resident of Bellefonte, who died in Wash- ington about ten years ago and was buried in ‘the Lutherin cemetery at Aaronsburg, was disinterred recently and taken to Mifflin- ‘Upon lifting the casket it was found very heavy and im being opened the eorpse was found petrified—turned into stone. Bodies are occasionally found petrified, _ caused by a peculiar chemical condition of ‘tne soil in which they are buried. : —Sam Shanker, a Mill Hall merchant, re- ceived a letter a few days ago from his fath- er at Wasser, Russia, giving some information regarding the condition of things there since the war began. ‘All ‘business, he says, is paralyzed, industries are closed and the tal k is all about the war. The reserves are being ‘increased by calling out additional men, and 30 sharp shooters from each company of the army is being selected and sent to the front. The people, he says, are given no informa - tion regarding either the defeat or victories of the Russian army. —Treed by a hungry bear, David Renner, of Johnstown, was almost frozen before hel p «arrived and he could get down from his un- comfortable perch. Renner was walking frem DuBois to Clearfield when,at a secluded place in the road, he met a big black bear. ‘Bruin showed no disposition to stop when they met, and Renner at once took to a tree. | The bear walked ’round and ’round the tree and showed not the slightest inclination to go away. Renner was in the tree in the severe cold for a couple of hours before =a ‘team came in sight. Then the bear fled and Renner was rescued, almost frozen. —The Pennsylvania railroad company wilt ‘shortly erect four hospital cars. The cars are to be put into operation as soon as possi- bie. The only sembiance to the usual Pennsy ‘coach will be in their length and exterior color. They are each to have an operatine room for the surgeons, a room with several beds for the injured, a department of sup- plies and quarters for physicians, nurses an attendants. One of these cars will be per- manently located in Philadelphia, one in Pittsburg and one in Altoona, and one in another section of the road, where several branches converge. The regulation hospital cot will be used on the cars. —Even common table salt has not ape adulteration at the hands of unscrupulous dealers, according to the reports’ now beinu prepared by chemists under instructions from Dr. Warren, dairy and food commissioney Within a few days the pure food agents wi? summon more than.a score of persons fir selling adulterated table salt. Just what the dealers use as an adulterant has not been made known, but of 40 samples, purchased «ut various places by the agents the chemists report that they found 36 of the specimem< adulterated. Dr. Warren has ordered hi attorney to begin prosecutions and’ action will be taken as seon as the chemical repori« are complete. The crusade against adulter- ated foods, Dr. ‘Warren says, will be me-~t eomplete this year. “His agents are securinu specimens of everything which the. people eat and drink, and persistent violators will be prosecuted. —About one hundred thousand dolla, IN will be expended in the erection of new churches in Altoona the coming season. The First Methodist congregation will erect handsome church, costing about $50,000 « the site of the old one. The Simpson Meth .- dist congregation will re-build and remod. the present structure and $15,000 worth « improvements will be made. The Seco. United Brethren church has purchased tw: lots in the East End and a new church will be erected as soon as the cold weathér break « up. St. Joseph’s Catholic church will be ti. name of anew church which the German ‘Catholics will build during the summer o the corner of Crawford avenue and seco; street. A new edifice will be erected by ti: Mt. Zion Baptist church where the old ow now stamds, at Fifth avenue and Twentv. second street. The building will cost be- tween $3,000 and $4,000. —John Benson, who has been doing cur- penter work at Slate Rum, repentant ani mournful, appeared in Newberry on Thui-- day afternoon with a tale of woe. Possessii: just one dollar, he was looking for a bed f.r the night, intending to walk back to his work to start over again in savings his eayu- ings. According to his recital of his troubis he fell in. with bad companions, was gotiva under the influence of intoxicants and th. robbed. Benson is a Swede, and he tol straightforward story to the effect that 1 came to Williamsport to consult a physic'in and also to deposit his saving of sever: i months, $100, in a bank. In a Pine str: hotel, near the Reading station, he claus some men told him that grip was bis illne-«. and a glass of whiskey would help him. Me took the whiskey, and then he lost. his gr.t, eventually. | ming in such a condi ww. that even this strenueus weather did: 's bother him, for he didn’t now. but th. - roses were blooming. . ’
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