BY P. GRAY MEEK.
EE ———————————————
* Ink Slings.
—KUROPATKIN and KUROKI both begin
with K, so does killed and the accent is
on the K.
—The Russians might hire BARNEY
'OLDFIELD’S automobile. It could kill a
‘few Japs, maybe.
—The Water committee of oouncil has
joined the average farmer of the county in
an earnest supplication for rain.
—September is here and with it comes
the oyster and the theatre. The lobster
and the ham are ever among us.
—Secandal will flourish in any communi-
ty as long as gossiping prevails. But to
suppress gossiping! Ah! There is the
rub.
—For once since the opening of the war
the Russians have succeeded in doing some-
thing. Daring the fighting at Liao-Yang
on Wednesday they forced the Japs back
with serious losses.
—The business in children’s tin soldiers
having increased about fifty per cent with-
in the past three months'all that remains
is for Mr. Strennous Teddy ROOSEVELT to
rush ont onto the stage and claim the
credit.
—CHRISTIAN BEEKER, the New Yorker
who has just been sent to the penitentiary
for masquerading as a woman for the past
twenty years, was probably a very virtu-
ous woman, but the judge evidently ques-
tioned his virtue as a man.
——The balloon race from St. Louis to
Washington, D. C., has been called off,
principally because the balloons hadn’$
been made familiar enough with the topog-
raphy of the country to know that the
goal was east of the starting point. They
all sailed west.
—The Republicans of Centre county
would hardly confer the chairmanship of
their organization on Mr. QUIGLEY, just
at this time, and should they forges so
soon the memory of their dead chieftain we
doubt if Mr. QUIGLEY wonld even consid-
er accepting the office. :
—Now where is the Republican paper
that will be mean enough to ascribe Sena-
tor D. B. HILL'S announced intention to
retire from politics on January 1st as an
effort on his part to bust the corner that
breakfast food manufacturers are trying to
make in peanut shelis.
—1It the Republicans are looking for a
county chairman, really in search of leaders
who could lead, why don’t they persuade
Col. Jim CoBURN or the Hon. A. O. FURST
to take the helm. They were politicians
before some of those other fellows were ont
of their long slips.
~~—The Pennsylvania farmers will-lash
themselves into a fury of indignation over
the outrageous manner in which they have
been set before the world at St. Louis, but
they will continue to vote for the party
that makes just that sort of misrepresenta-
tion possible. Watch them endorse it with
their votes next fall.
—~Chairman HALL’S lester of advice to
Democratic workers in Pennsylvania points
out a few pleasant possibilities that have
not been generally thought of. He urges
that it is possible for the Democrats to elect
seven Congressmen, seven Senators, and
seven Judges. There ought to be luck in
this series of seven. And as to the latter
we are going to get one of them right here
in Centre county.
—The appearance of the Hon. DRESSER
in Beliefonte on Wednesday was the signal
for a host of Republicans to swarm about
him so thick that the poor man actually
had trouble in getting air. He wasn’t
feeling well, either, and it is needless to re-
mark that he would have felt much worse
had he staid hereany longer. This thing
of being a Congressman aint what it is
cracked up to be; especially when the
seeds are to be sent out and the constitu-
ents in other counties are to he visited.
Why they were actually so enthusiastic
over ‘‘Uncle SoLLy,” on Wednesday
ni ght, that some of them issisted on sleep-
ing right in his hed.
—The struggle for the chairmanship of
the Republican county committee has be-
gan in earnest. Rumor has it that JosgpH
L. MONTGOMERY could have the place, if
he wants it, because Uncle SOLLY DRESSER
perfers him and, you know, uncle SOLLY’S
wad talks loudest these days when there
are no more HASTINGS to foot the bills.
Aunt CLEMENTINA DALE could be ‘‘it,”’
so ’tis said, bus she has the rare good sense
to take care of a very profitable law prac-
tice just now and let the fellows who for-
got her when she was a candidate for Con-
gress run things. PHIL FOSTER, the conn-
ty treasurer, could have it, and might ac-
cept because Judge LovE is said to prefer
him, bus it is not probable that PHIL has
.80 soon forgotten the man who made him
what be is politically. HARD P. HARRIS
is spoken of, though it is not known
whether be could have it or whether he
would take it, if offered. Certain it is that
of all the men mentioned he would be bess
adapted for the detail work, as well as for
doing the ‘‘glad hand’’ act when ‘the
boys” come to town. After these four.
ramors run riot among COLONEL cham-
bers, tom harter, J. THOMAS MITCHELL and
G, WASHINGTON REES, but it is not like-
ly that the latter would accept because the
ink on that letter about the little school
board matter hasn’t faded sufficiently to
“VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
1904.
The Indiana Campaign.
The friends of the late BENJAMIN HAR-
RISON in Indiana may be set down as sup-
porters of Judge PARKER in the pending
campaign. 1t will be remembered that
before his death General HARRISON had
expressed opposition to the colonial policy
of his party. In one of his public addresses
he stated ‘‘we hold no command from God
to police the world.” With respect to the
ship subsidy bill he was very bitterly op-
posed to the policy of his party. It is now
known that W. H. H. MILLER, of Indian-
apolis, who was Attorney-General under
the HARRISON administration, bas express-
ed himself as opposed to ROOSEVELT.
SMILEY N. CHAMBERS, who was United
States District- Attorney under HARRISON
for Indiana, said in a recent interview :
“The persapality of Mr. PARKER is satis-
factory to the entire people of this country.
No one, Republican or Democrat can ob-
jeot to him. The personality of RoOOSk-
VELT is obnoxious to many of the business
interests of the country.”
This statement is so generally expressed
among the HARRISON element of the Re-
publican party of Indiana that there is no
longer ground for doubt that Judge PARK-
ER will carry that State by a substantial
majority. Republicans have frequently
conceded this in their effort to enlist the
services of the corporations, railroad and
industrial interests in hehalf of ROOSE-
VELT. Chairman CORTELYOU recently
stated to the President, that so far as the
corporations could control the election in
Indiana, the result would be favorable to
the Republican candidate. Buf as a mat-
ter of fact the corporations are unable to
control the elections in Indiana and public
sentiment has been so aroused by the open
negotiations between the Republican com-
mittee and the corporations that the effect
will be of the greatest advantage to the
Democracy. Chairman TAGGART appreci-
ates this fact and has been directing his
campaign in the State to meet these condi-
tions.
It has been arranged that HENRY G.
Davis, Democratic candidate for Vice
President, will deliver a number of ad-
dresses in that State. There is great de-
mand for his presence at meetings and the
purpose of the party management is to put
him in the industrial centers, where his
‘satisfactory. record among labor men will
prove efféctive. His presence will have a
good effect, moreover, on the railroad em-
ployees whose votes the railroad officials
are trying to influence. DAVIS has so long
been associated with railroad managements
that he is certain $0 have a marked influ-
ence upon this element of the voting popu-
lation.
At this time the Democrats are entirely
confident of the State and tke ind ications
are that they are justified in their confi-
dence.
The President’s Change ot Habit.
The marked difference between the con-
duct of the President now and a year ago
is beginning to attract public attention.
Then he was leading a strenuous life and
breathing the spirit of war, doing all sorts
of stunts in athletics and commanding pub-
lic notice by his extravagances. Now
there is no one so demure. He works ten
hours a day, six days a week and has no
time to give even to his intimate friends,
he is so anxious.to serve the public. In
the broad land there is no man to-day so
devoted to the arts of peace and the tri-
umphs of fraternity. In all his public
utterances now, he avoids even the men-
tion of war. The big stick is a lost uten-
sil in his political household. The change
is of course gratifying but the suddenness
of it excites suspicion.
Last year in the early spring the Presi-
dent made his famous excursion into the
swamps of Mississippi in pursuit of bear.
Daring that trip he slept in the open and
entertained his friends at asumptuousdin-
ner on bearclaws. Afterward, in Virginia,
‘he rode wildly through a drenching storm
to show his contempt for the elements.
Still later he visited the Yellowstone Park
and after a week’s isolation in the wilder-
ness he emerged with the boast that his
bed during the time was a snow drift.
Upon his réturn to Oyster Bay he estab-
lished a ‘ferry service consisting of two or
more vaval ships for the use of himself and
his friends. He also gave a naval manoeu-
vre for the entertainment of his family at
the cost to the public of several million
dollars.
This year She President is spending no
public money, wasting none of the time for
which he is paid out of the treasury and is
assiduously cultivating a reputation for
industry and fidelity to the public. This
change naturally sets people to thinking.
ROOSEVELT’S record ever since his first
conspicuous appearance in’ public life
shows him to be a man of violent passions
and extravagant purposes. That he has
changed from these life customs to others
diametrically opposite can hardly be possi-
ble. It is more reasonable to infer thas his
present purpose is to deceive the public 1n’
order that by a renewal of his commission
permit of his mixing in much,
in public he may have a greater opportuni-
ty to put in effect his nataral inclinations.
It we conld buy our lnmber in Canada by
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 2,
Reciprocity with Canada.
The Canadian government has a curious
but effective way of equalizing things.
Some days ago the Canadian Pacific rail-
road purchased from the American steel
trust large quantities of steel rails at $21
per ton. The same trust charges American
consumers of the same material $28 a ton.
The tari ff tax on steel rails is $7.84 a ton
just .84 cents more than the Canadian cor-
poration was charged as compared with the
American consumers of steel rails. That
was giving ths Canadian corporation the
best of it. If the Canadian government
had permitted it to go at that but the gov-
ernment declared a tariff tax on steel rails
bought in America of $7.00 a ton so that
either the Canadian Pacific Railroad will
have to cancel its order to the steel trust
or pay in the aggregate what American
consumers pay.
Of course the Canadian government was
not influenced by a desire to injure the
Canadian corporation or discriminate
against Cavadian industry. If the rails
had not been hought from the American
steel trust it would have been necessary
to purchase them in Great Britian or Ger-
many, so that there was no incentive for
complaint that Canadian industry had been
damaged. Bat the Canadian government
has been for more than a dozen years ap-
pealing to the government of the United
States for a restoration of the reciprocity
treaty which formerly existed between the
two governments and the American steel
trust has been the most strenuous oppon-
ent of this policy. The American govern-
ment has simply given the American steel
trust a few allopathic doses of its own
medicine. If a fair and just system of
reciprocity between the government of the
United States and Canada would be pui in
force, the people of both countries would
be materially benefited. In Canada they
would ges cheaper steel and iron products,
because our factories are developed and
they have no occasion to spend energy and
money on something they do not need.
On the other hand there are many prod-
ucts of Canada which we could nse fo great
advantage and procure it at a much cheap-
er rate if the impost was removed. Lum-
ber, for example, is abundant and cheap
in Canada, while in this country we are
getting perilously close to the famine stage.
exchanging steel products, both parties to
the enterprise would profit, but so long as
our insane polioy to discriminate against
Canada and favor China is in operation,
the best results of reciprocity are defeated.
Democracy and Tariff. |
The main contention of the Republican
Press is, that in the event of Democratic
success, the tariff fabric will be completely
destroyed. It suits their purpose to con-
vey the notion that the Democratic party
Is antagonistic to all tariff taxation. Asa
matter of fact, during the sixty years of
Democratic control, previous to 1861, the
entire revenues of the government were
raised by tariff taxation. What the Dem-
oocrats complain of is, not that imposts
are levied for revenue purposes, but, that
vast sums are collected from the people
which never reaches the treasury at all
through the processes of excessive tariff
schedules.
The Democrats have always favored
tariff for revenue. The first tariff was pro-
posed by JEFFERSON and during all the
period from the beginning of his admin-
istration until the olose of that of
BUCHANAN'’S there was no other form of
taxation. Even the war tariff of ‘61,
though far in excess of any previous tariff,
was not opposed by the Democrats because
it was recognized as a war measure and
national necessity. But when, in times of
peace, tariff schedules in all cases double
and in some cases treble the rates of the
MoRRIL tariff Jaw are enacted, and when it
is obvious that the purpose of these sched-
ules is not to support the government, but
to pay unearned bounties to political fa-
vorites, the Democrats object and they
shall continue to object notwithstanding
the false statements of the Republican
Press concerning the matter.
The Democratic platform faithfully
representes the Democratic attitude on the
tariff question. It declares that protection
is robbery, because the money drawn from
the people through the protective feature
of the tariff law is not appropriated to the
legitimate uses of taxation. Long agoa
famous writer and statesman said that
taxes collected from the people for pur-
‘poses other than the actual expenses of the
government is robbery. That is precisely
what the Democratic platform says. Bat
it does not propose to tear down the tariff
fabric suddenly or violently. It proposes
to revise the tariff not in the interest of the
beneficiaries or monopolists but IN THE IN-
TERFST OF LHE PEOPLE. If Republican
newspapers imagine they can fool the
people into the belief thas this is danger-
ous dootrine they are welcome to indulge
the effort.
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than men.
ty.
Women as Mail Carriers.
More flattering and more indicative of
their claims to consideration in all fields of
work than any editorials attempting to
decry their inefficiency and weakness, are
the columns, in the last week’s dailies,
devoted to women as mail carriers. The
very fact that one large daily devoted half
a page to a caricature and another two
columns to the action of JOHN McKAY,
postmaster of DesMoines, Iowa, who has
requested permission from Washington to
appeint women as letter carriers, is evi-
dence that woman ‘is a factor, important
and felt, in business today. Newspapers
do not waste caricatures and columns on
nothing. p .
‘The struggle to be recognized has been a
long and bitterly fought one for woman,
but that it is a winning one is proven by
the importance accorded this pertinent
move of Mr. McKaAY’S. The DesMoines
postoffice ranks ninebeenth-in the country
in volume of business and the opinion of
-its postmaster is worthy of consideration.
He says shat in his sixty years of busi-
ness experience he has found women to
pay stricter attention to any assignment
They are more ambitions,
appreoiate more the wages that they earn,
have a higher’sense of honesty than the
average man, will over-work to please, are
more loyal to their task. To the objection
that the health of women will not permit
them to do the work satisfactorily, Mr.
McKAY replied, ‘This is an age of sturdy
women, good and healthy, with oconstitn-
tions that will easily stand the work.’ He
continues :
‘‘Give a woman the same experience in
business life that you give a man, and she
is much steadier. She learns quicker what
she must avoid. She has a better memory.
She bas a clearer mind, and she is not un-
duly inquisitive.”
. I wouldn’t pick out a woman under 25
for the work. I have learned this about
women, that when they do command re-
specs they are masters of a larger world
than men can master. The average citizen
will givete a woman of character greater
respect than he will to a man.
‘“There is no danger that the kind of
women I would pick out for letter carriers
| would be insulted. They would not have
to listen to ‘cuss’ words. They would
go straight ahead about their business and
return to the office promptly on time. I
am confident that kicks on the routes
would be very few.”’
——Don’t forget that on Wednesday,
Sept. 7th, will be the last day on which
voters can be registered in time to vote
next fall.
Campaign of False Pretense.
The bread line at a New York hakery,
according to the New York World ‘‘now
nightly contains 400 men.”’” The bread
line is an assemblage of hungry men who
have gathered to obtain bread through
charity to save them from starvation.
They are not tramps. They are mechan-
ics, laboring men, clerks, and men of one
occupation or another, willing to work if
work could be obtained. ‘‘There are other
signs in the city of unusual destitution,”’
continues our esteemed contemporary. Yet
there has been no change in the tariff
schedules. We are still ‘‘standizg pat.’’
It has been the custom of the Republi-
cans to claim that protective tariff laws not
only guarantee constant employment bus
good wages. Senator LODGE said in one of
his New England speeches, the other day
that so long as the tariff law is undisturb-
ed there can be no impairment of prosperi-
If that be true these people in the
New York bread line must he begging for
fun. Or possibly they may be experiment-
ing with the charity of the city. In any
event it is unusual for able bodied, indus-
trious and 2apable mechanics to beg bread
if they can obtain employment or find
opportunity to earn money to buy.
Either the statement of the New York
newspaper is false or that of the Massa-
chusetts senator is misleading. With re-
spect to the newspaper statement it has
been authenticated substantially. There-
fore, the onus of the falsehood is on Sena-
tor LonGE and it is fair to assume that
when he is caught in one lie he is more
than likely to indulge in others.
The Republican campaign is predicated
on falsehood and maintained in fraud.
Senator LODGE is only a fair sample of
the orators of that party.
——The Democratic congressional con-
ference for this, the twenty-first, district
will be held in DuBois next Wednesday,
Sept. 7sh. It is announced that Mr. Geo.
Dimeling, of Clearfield, will not be a can-
didate before the conference for the nomi-
nation, which will likely go to Mr. Lewis
Emery, Jr., of Bradford, McKean county.
——Saturday, Oct. 8th, will be the lass
day on which you can pay taxes in order
to secure a vote nexs fall.
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NO. 34.
Blood Money and the Tariff.
From The Harrisburg Patriot, August 29.
In discussing the riches left by - William
Weightman, popularly supposed to have
been the wealthiest man in Pennsylvania
when he died, the Philadelphia Presseays
that his fortune was a mere by-product and
that the real work of his life was in pro-
viding work for other men. As a matter
of fact, Mr. Weightman’s fortune was the
direct product of a most iniquitons tariff—
the tariff on quinine. »
During the Civil War, when quinine was
the chief medicine demanded by oursol-
diersin the field, and for a good many
years, afterward. Powers & Weightman,
the principal manufacturers of quinine in
this country, were piling up millions a
the expense of the Governments, and of all
the sick and suffering who needed that |
ted |
the Altoona Times, and a prominent Knight
medicine, because that firm was
by a practically prohibitive tariff, which
enabled it to demand and get from the con-
sumer a price outrageously in excess of the
cost of manufacture. The fact thatthe
scandal finally became so great and. the
demand for reform so persistent that the
tariff on quinine was taken off, does not
affect the issme. The great Powers &
Weightman fortunes had then been made.
. It is on such iniquitous tariff laws that
the Republican party is this year standing
pat, and will continue to stand pat go long
as its policy is shaped by the Trust and
monopolies as it is now. :
Where That Procession Fell Short.
From the Lincoln (Neb) Commoner.
It was eminently fitting that ‘‘Philip-
pine Day’’ at the St. Louis exposition
should have been made the occasion for a
great military pageant. If is reported that
5,000 soldiers were in line in the parade.
Doubtless the parade was beautiful to be-
hold, but it must have called up sorrowful
memories to thoughtful Americans who
witnessed is. The 5,000 soldiers in the pa-
rade about equalled in numbers the sold-
iers that have been sacrificed upon the altar
of imperialism ; about the number that
succumbed to fever and bullets and dis
ease in the ‘‘colony.”” But the military
showing was not sufficient to point out all
of this miserable Philippine business. It
included no division showing the $600,-
000,000 worse than squandered in attempt-
ing to engraft the un-American doctrine of
colonialism upon our system of govern-
ment. ‘‘Philippine Day’’ at the exposi-
tion was not fully taken advantage of by
those who insist upon holding the islands
for commercial reasons and attempts fo ex-
cuse themselves upon humanitarian
grounds. \
Ten Dollars a Day for Repeating.
From the Elmira Gazette. Ns
A very respectable citizen of Elmira,
who was working temporarily in Philadel-
phia, relates that he thought he wonld fin
out what their election Jaws weit wor
down there. He bad not lived in .Phila-
delphia long enough to vote. Neverthe-
less, he secured an engagement to ride about
the city and vote at as many polling
places as a good cab horse could reach in
the day. A list of names under which he
was to vote was supplied him. His com-
pensation was to be $10. But he did not
do the voting, despite his solemn compact
and the fact that the voting was perfectly
safe. That is the system which the Re-
publican party protects in Philadelphia hy
failing to provide legislation to check is.
The resuls is that Philadelphia has a phe-
nomenal proportion of ‘‘voters’”” to popu-
lation.
Never Twice in Same Office.
From the Troy Press (Dem.) t
Theodore Roosevelt never held the same
office twice.
He has held numerous offices, but was
never reappointed or re-elected to one of
them.
And he has rarely retired from one with-
ont a rampus with his official associates.
Mr. Roosevelt’s whole career emphasizes
the fact that he is essentially a one-term
man, a fact likely to gain greatly .in im-
pressiveness hy the result of t he next elec-
tion.
Pen DMightier than Sword.
From the Chicago Chronicle. :
The Port Arthur garrison has siain i
thousands, but the Che-Foo correspondent
has slain his tens of thousands.
Bolt Roosevelt for Pavker,
NEw YORK, Sept. 1.—Two influential
Republicans have come out for Parker—
Theodore Cox and William G. Choate—
both of them life-long members of Presi-
dent Rossevelt’s party.
Mr. Cox has been especially prominent
in Republican circles. He bas been presi-
dent of the New York State League of Re-
publican Clubs and Republican candidate
for Congress.
Mr. Choate is a brother of Joseph H.
Choate, American Ambassador to Great
Britain, and is head of the noted law firm
of which his brother is also a member.
Owing to his brother’s connection with the
present administration, Mr. Choate has
made no public announcement of his new
position, but his friends are well acquaint-
ed with his views, which are the same as
those of his brother lawyers who have
formed the Parker Constitution Club.
Mr. Cox has announced his political
change in an open letter, in which he says,
after condemning Roosevelt for his dis-
regard of constitutional limitations :
As to Mr. Parker, all I oan say is that
his career shows that he is not a poser in
any line, who, while claiming ne virtues
above those of the majority of his fellow-
citizens, has filled his place with unassam-
ing honor and credit. Moreover, his gold
telegram shows strength of character of a
high order, and his speech of acceptance
reveals a safe and sane man, who appre-
oiates the responsibility of his position, and
who, if elected, will give the country an
administration whose purpose will he a
continuance of the steady growth that has
gradually and surely, and not by any fire-
sracker war in Cuba, brought this country
to its present position, and not simply
tease the great colossus into roaring so that
the wondering world may hear a ‘‘Roose-
‘interest.
‘Tpergonnel odin Liha
velt’’ or a ‘‘Parker’’ in the rumbles.
“Spawls from the Keystowe, =
—Lebanon Valley college, Annville, has
added to its faculty professors J. Karl Jack-
son and Harry E. Spessard of Harvard and
«| Washington:
~- —Two valuable horses belonging to An-
drew Miller, of Chambersburg, were ma-
liciously poisoned on Saturday night; paris
green: having been scattered all over the
racks and trough.
‘| . —Eighteen cases of small-pox have been
reported at Edna, No. 2, a mining town three
miles southeast of Irwin. Edna is perhaps
the model coal town of the entire bitumi-
nous region of western Pennsylvania.
—Notices were posted at the Rankin plant
of the American Wire and Steel company,
Monday, ordering 211 employees to report
for work to put the plant in shape for imme
diate resumption. The resumption will af-
fect about 1,200, {
—Perry Snyder, a young man of Enkaut,
was bitten on the index finger of his left
hand by a spider or mosquito and a form of
blood poison resulted, due according to the
;consultation of physicians, to the bite having
been on a vein.
—William W. Smith on Joseph McGuire's
farm in Wayne township, Clinton county,
threshed last week, he reports, 416. bushels
from seven acres. Almost 60 bushels to the
acre. Mr. Smith is the champion oats raiser
along the west branch.
—John A. Lawver, aged 54, part owner of
Templar, mysteriously disappeared while on
a business trip to Newport, Perry county.
Foul play was feared, but later reports lead
to the belief that he is still alive, but has
‘wandered away in a fit of mental derange-
ment, ’
—Emily Malm, a Swedish woman of Coal
Run, near Osceola, was accidentally shot last
week by her son, a young man, who is near-
ly crazed over the affair. He was cleaning
the revolver, and not knowing it was loaded
discharged it. The ball penetrated the fore-
head and came out near the temple, of his
mother.
—The peach belt in thé vicinity of
Macungie, Pa., is all right. Jacob Stine’s
young orchard will yield 2,000 baskets, Dan-
iel Diehl’s, 500 and George Rohrbach’s 700.
In Boyertown Dr. John H. Funk’s three or-
chards will yield 2,500 baskets. Peaches
this year bring from 75 cents to $1.25 a
basket, according to quality, in the or-
chards.
—Judge Bittinger, of York,in his charge to
the Grand Jury, Aug. 29th, recom mended to
them the enlargement and repairing of the
jail at a cost of from $50,000 to $60.000. The
judge called attention to the $700,000 debt of
t the county, saying that the county could
| not afford a new jail, while it could afford
alterations that would provide a jail good
enough to last 50 years.
—Representatives of the great industries,
the business interests and the social classes
of Great Brieain will be among the fifty or
more members of the British House of Com-
mons, who will visit Pittsburg the latter
days of September. They will be accorded
every opportunity to inspect local points of
Englishmen, Scotchmen, Irish-
men and Welshmen will be included in the
ak
—The police have discovered, after two
years, that the Bradford county valley, in
which the towns of Sayre and Athens are
situated, is infested with a gang of Mafia
bandits, and that the members of the blood-
thirsty set have been levying tribute right
under their noses. An Italian who ‘‘squeal-
ed” on the bandits is now in the Parker hos-
pital at Sayre with two builet holes and five
stiletto gashes in his body and he will proba- »
bly die.
—A justiee of the peace in Wilkes-Barre
has fined a young woman $1.34 for uttering
two profane words in the privacy of her
home ‘“‘against the peace and dignity of the
State of Pennsylvania and contrary to the
statutes thereunto printed.” An appeal has
been taken to see whether a lady may swear
a little on her own account at home or
whether profanity is only an offense against
public morals when uttered to the distress of
unwilling auditors.
—Dr. Reed, president of Dickinson col-
lege, has received a definite offer from a
wealthy and philanthropic gentleman to
give to the college the sum of $50,000, when
he shall have completed the raising of an
equal amount for the reconstruction of the
Denny Memorial building, destroyed by fire,
March 3rd, 1904. Dr. Reed has already ob-
tained in cash and valid subscriptions a lit-
tle more than $30,000 of the $50,000 requir-
ed. The remaining $20,000 must be secured
within the next two months.
—The ponderous machinery in the great
million dollar power plant on the banks of
the Susquehanna river, at York Haven, was
set in motion Monday for the first time for
commercial purposes. A special train from
Philadelphia and New York brought a
large party of bondholders, bankers and
other interested capitalists 10 York Haven
to witness the initial operation of the plant.
Most of the large industries in York will be
connected with the current and operated by
the power generated at York Haven.
—One of the biggest celebrations of Eman-
cipation day ever held in Johnstown was
that of Monday, when about 500 of the col-
ored residents of the city and vicinity joined
in merrymaking in honor of the proclama-
tion which freed the slaves. The orator of
the day was Bishop George W. Clinton, of
Charlotteville, N. C,, a noted negro divine,
who delivered a brilliant address on
‘Thoughts for the Occasion.” The whole
celebration is said to have been most credi-
table to the colored people of Joh nstown.
—William Weightman, of the firm of
Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chem-
ists of Philadelphia, who died a few days ago
at the age of 91 years, lett his entire estate,
valued at more than $50,000,000, to his
daughter, Mrs. Annie M. Walker, of Wil-
liamsport. Mrs. Walker becomes sole pro-
prietor of the extensive chemical works,
which makes her one of the richest women
in the world. Mrs! Walker will assume
active management of the business, besides
looking after the real estate left her by her
father, who was one of the largest holders of
real estate in the country.