&
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
ESS.
ink Slings.
~The plumber spruces up as the ice man
grows seedy.
—1If the weather is fair Centre county
will see the greatest fair she has ever seen
next week.
— Christianity is said to be growing fast-
er than the population in India. As to
whether it is growing in the soil or not the
statistician doesn’t explain.
—Many Chicago school teachers are said
to be suffering from over-stndy. We pre-
sume that the schools are therefor forced to
get along with nnderstudies,
—-Mr. ROOSEVELT and his managers have
dropped the idea of having a walkover. In
fact they are fast coming to understand
that they won’t even have a look in.
—Russia is said to be bracing up again.
The trouble with the Russians is that
while they are fierce as lions in St. Peters.
burg they become harmless as sheep in
Mudken.
" —The Republican press of the country
is devoting columns to Judge PARKER'S
letter of acceptance. There must have
been something worthy of consideration in
it, after all.
—1It wouldn’t matter much what they
smoked those smoking women in New
York automobiles, who are complained of
so much lately, wouldn’s smell quite as
bad as some of the automobiles.
—Inasmuch as there are sixty-seven
thousand more men than women in Michi-
gan it is only reasonable to suppose that
the average Michigoose is very choicy when
it comes to joining with a Michigander.
—Even if JoEN Norn don’s have the
op portunity of asking you personally for
_your support, give it to him. He would
be a credit in Harrisburg and he is the
kind of a man who merits your support.
—Up in Biair county the Democrats have
endorsed the Prohibition nominees for As-
sembly and they are to be commended for
this laudable attempt to redeem that conn-
ty from the grip of the machine politicians
who have been representing it at Harris-
burg for years.
—The practice of oiling the public roads
to keep down dust and mud has been in-
troduced at Bombay, India. It is said to
be very effective, but will likely never be
resorted to in this country because the
Standard oil company is too keen already
to make high priced oil.
—The rich old scientist who died in
Chester last week and left everybody with-
in his immediate acquaintance a few honses
and lots and a few thousand dollars is. the
kind of a man who should have lived for-
ever, yet it is doubtful whether thé recipi-
ents of his benefactions will agree with us
in this. © - ; Tinh
—A school for traveling men having
been opened in Chicago we trust that one
of thefirst things tanght the embryo dram-
mers will be an object lesson acquired
through a visit to the great pork pasking
houses of that city. It would be well to
show them what becomes of the hogs, lest
they later get into the car breed of the
genus Sus.
—Don’t do any complimentary voting.
The franchise is the dearest treasure a free
man has. It should not be bandied about
upon sentiment. Give no man a compli-
mentary vote. If your conscience tells you
that one candidate is superior in character
and ability to another, vote for him, but
under no other conditions. ‘‘Complimen-
tary votes’’ are the means that bad men use
to get into office.
° —Our Republican friends are insisting
that the tariff is too sacred to tamper with.
Yes, it ranks with the sacred cow of the
Hindoo and the sacred graves of the Chi-
nese ancestors about Mudken that the Japs
have lately evidenced such a reverence for.
T here need be no concern on this score,
however, for the next Democratic Congress
will certainly indite some epitaph sacred
to tke'memory of the DINGLEY law.
—In President ROOSEVELT'S hook
‘Winning of the West’’ he writes that the
cowboys ‘‘are much better fellows and
pleasanter companions than the small
farmers or agricultural laborers ; nor are
the mechanics and workmen of a great city
to be mentioned in the same breath.”
This was the President’s mind a few years
ago, when he was writing a book, hut now
that he wants the votes of the small farm-
ers, agricultural laborers and mechanics he
would have us believe thae he -has chang-
ed it. :
—There has been much ado in New York
lately over the question of a woman’s right
to smoke in public and the police of that
city are being censured for not stopping it.
How silly! A woman has a perfect legal
right to do anything that man does, if she
80 elects, and the law cannot interfere with
her enjoyment of it. As for the woman
who does smoke in public, or private
either—well, discussion of her character is
waste of thought on a bad subject.
—It is amusing to note the manner in
which the Republican newspapers are ap-
plauding Judge PARKER’S request that
the Democratic campaign book contain no
personal attack or reflection on the private
character of President ROOSEVELT. Well
they know that between the simple digni-
fied life of the distinguished jurist and the
strenuous, mountebank escapades of the
President there can be no comparison that
would not be prejudicial to the latter. If
the conditions were reversed, however,
would the Republicans be as magnanimous
as the Democrats are ?
“while.
VOL. 49
Judge Parker's Letter.
Judge PARKER'S formal letter of accept-
ance fulfills the best expectations of his
friends and his party. It is not only able,
it is masterful. At the outset he desig-
nates the issues which ‘‘stand forth pre-
eminent in the public mind.’ These are
in their order tariff reform, imperialism,
economical administration and honesty in
the public service. To each he devotes
sufficient space to prove a thorough nunder-
standing not alone of the subject but of
what may justly be expected in relation to
it. Throughout the letter is an admirable
expression of candor and courage. Ib is
characteristic of the splendid man who is
the standard bearer of the Democratic
party in a campaign of victory.
Judge PARKER fitly warns the public
against the danger of imperialism. “If we
would retain our liberties,”’ he declares,
‘‘and constitutional rights nnimpaired, we
cannot permit or tolerate, at any time or
for any purpose, the arrogation of unoon-
stitutional powers by the executive branch
of our government.’”’” This is not only
literally true but it is a truth which should
be constantly held in mind. Every repub-
lic from the beginning of time has suffered
from such usurpations and she downfall of
every popular government is traceable to
that source. As Judge PARKER adds, ‘‘the
magnitude of the country and the diver-
sity of icterests:and population wonld en-
able a determined; ambitions and able
executive, unmindful of constitutional
limitations, and fired with the last of pow-
er, to go far in the usurpation of anthority
and the aggrandizemenst of personal power
before the sitnation could be fully appre-
ciated or the people be aroused.”
Judge PARKER refuses to be betrayed
into violence on the tariff question though
he plainly reveals his sympathy with the
expression of the platform of the St. Louis
convention which declares for ‘‘a revision
and gradual reduction of the tariff by the
friends of the masses and for the common-
weal, and nos by the friends of its abuses,
its extortions and discriminations.” On
all other issues he is equally sound and
sensible. He declares emphatically for the
independence of ‘the Filipinos as soon as
they bave developed the power of self gov-
ernment, commends the Isthmian canal
laughs ROOSEVELT clear out of cours in de-
olaring that he will revoke the unconstitun-
tional order which usurps the power of
Congress to regulate pensions and adds that
he will use his influence to procure such
regulation in a legal way. Altogether the
letter is a splendid specimen of statesman-
ship.
James Kerr for Senator.
We were not mistaken in our prediction
last week that the Democrate of this Sena-
torial district would be ‘‘safe and sane’’ in
the selection of a senatorial candidate to
fill the vacancy. caused by the death of
Senator PATTON. At a conference held in
this town on Saturday last the Hon. JAMES
KERR, of Clearfield, was unanimously
chosen and it is faint praise to say it was a
wise nomination. ' Mr. KERR is not only
eminently fit intellectually for the service,
but he is equipped in every way to serve
the people of the district with distinguish-
ed ability and exceptional fidelity.
JAMES KERR needs no introduction to
the voters of the Thirty-fourth district, for
from his earliest childhood he has been
among us and from the beginning of his
mature life he has been identified actively
and helpfully with the business interests
of the people. Indeed no citizen has done
more to promote the development of the
resources and create the wealth which has
made this section of the State a subject of
envy throughout the entire country. Nor
has all his'time and energies been devoted
to business. He has always taken an ac-
tive interest in public affairs and after a
distinguished service in the office of pro-
thenotary' he served a term in Congress
‘with equal credit to himself and satisfac-
tion to the people. ;
We haven’t a: word to say against Mr.
KERR'S antagonist. He is a gentleman of
“high character and worthy of profound re-
spect. But he basn’t a virtue that isn’t as
strong in Mr. KERR nor a merit that isn’t
matohed by one in the nature of the Demo-
oratic candidate. That being true every
Democrat in the district should vote for
Mr. KERR and if that duty is fulfilled his
election is as certain as the rising and set-
ting of the sun on election day. Moreover
his election will be a service to the Demo-
crats of the State for he will greatly
strengthen the Democratic contingent in
the upper branch of the General Assembly.
~——WILLTAM GROH RUNKLE is reputed
as being one of the most promising of the
younger attorneys at the Centre county bar.
He ie thé kind of a man we should have for
District Attorney, because he has the brains
and ambition to try and make the mest of
the opportunity and in doing that be would
be serving the best interests of she people
of Centre county.
Rg -¥1e-propesses hy: | parison of the two men every consol
the franchise was acquired and finally
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 30, 1904.
The Contest
Up to this time there has been little said
on either side about the contest for the of-
fice of Prothonotary that will culminate
with the election on November 8th. Just
why it has been so is not apparent, for the
office to be filled is a most important one;
in fact in its importance to the people of
Centre county it ranks second only to that
of their President Judge. The Prothono-
tary is clerk of the courts, in his office
many of the court records are kept, judg-
ments are entered, mortgages satisfied and
the pills of costs on all cases before
the courts made up. It is important that
a man of unimpeachable character be se-
lected for this important duty. One who
by education and experience is fully quali-
fied to assume the conduct of the office.
While we have nothing to say of the
qualifications of Mr. GEORGE E. LAMB, the
one aspirant for the office, for the simple rea-
son that he hasnever been known to the peo-
ple of Centre county except through his ex-
perience as a wholesale beer dealer in Phil-
ipshurg several years ago and his present
occupation as ‘‘the gentlemanly mixolo-
gist’’ in one of the hotels in that town, we
do feel that we cannot say too much of the
other candidate, Mr. ARTHUR B. KIMPORT.
A son of a farmer, he spent his early life in
that honorable work until he became ma-
ture and qualified to teach school. Then
his winters were passed in the school room
and his summers on the farm until he came
to Bellefonte to become the Deputy Pro-
thonotary under W. F. SMITH. For this
latter work he seemed peculiarly adapted.
A good penman, a careful ard aconrate ac-
countant and a stickler for detail, coupled
with his innate courtesy under all circum-
stances, soon brought the public to realize
that the young Deputy was a man of more
than ordinary attainments and usefulness.
In fact it was his work in the Prothono-
tary’s office thas first commanded public at-
tention and won for him a place in popular
estimation held by few young men of om
acquaintance. Several years ago be went
back so the country and since that time has
been farming in Harris township.
We direct public attention to Mr. Kim-
PORT because we feel that his entire lite,
both private and official, will bear the clos-
est scrutiny and that after an honest com-.
for Prothonotary.
voter in Centre sounty will decide ‘that he
is the better qualified for the office of Pro-
thonotary.
——The memory of Col. E. A. IRVIN’S
position as a member of the WANAMAKER
executive committee in the revolution that
the pious JOHN organized against his party
in 1898 will likely rise up to haunt the
stalwart Republicans who are now called
upon to rally round the Colonel in his sen-
atorial fight.
Don’t Agree in Everything.
The Philadelphia Press, the editor of
which, by the. way, was Postmaster Gen-
eral while the fraud system was heing in-
troduced into that Department, is exceed-
ingly anxious to create the issues of the
campaign. It imagines that it can create
trouble among Democrats by charging that
there are differences of opinion among the
leaders of that party on the tariff question.
Bus it will have its labor for its pains. In
other words the Demoorats are in perfect
agreement on the tariff question. They
may not be of one mind on all subjeots
but on the tariff question they are all
right.
Some of the leading Democrats differ
widely, for instance, on the question ae
to whether the editor of the Press got a
rake-off from the operations, of MACHEN,
BEAVERS and PERRY HEATH as Postal De-
partment robbers. Mr. SMITH was head
of the Department then and his attension
was called to the frauds, but he refused to
consider them seriously and made a per-
functory examination after which he gave
a bill of moral health to the accused. Still
some leading Democrats believe implicitly
in the integrity of Mr. SMITH and protest
that it would be impossible for him to do
a dishonest act, We regret to say, how-
ever, that the opinion is not unanimous
and that there is more disagreement on
that subject among Democrats than with
respeot to the tariff.
The fact that the Philadelphia Press ap-
pears 8o anxious to divert the issues of the
campaign away from the Department scan-
dals is a suspicious incident, moreover.
When the question of investigating the
scandals was pending in Congress the most
anxious man in the country was ROOSE-
VELT who bad been getting expensive favors
from railroad companies while the charges
for carrying mails were mysteriously in-
creasing. Tracing cause from effect the
suspicion got a foothold that ROOSEVELT
was afraid of an investigation then and
there are those who think that editor
‘SMITH is now.
——A vote for KEPLER and NorLL will
be a vote for the two men who will best
l
serve the interests of the people of Centre
county in Harrisburg. re
Least We Forget.
Under the caption, ‘‘Standing on His
Record,”” the WATCHMAN last week follow-
ed the political career of Judge JOHN G.
LovE through the first three years of his
tenure of office. This for the purpose of
tefuting his oft repeated declaration that
he has not been in politics and should not
be held to accountability for having tra-
duced the dignity of his office by meddling
in affairs outside the province of a careful
and conscientious Judge.
Damaging as are the records found
against him during the years 1895, 96 and
’97 they might almost be raled out as
irrelevant, inadmissible and not pertain-
ing to the case when compared with the
outrageous proceedings of ’98, ’99 and
1900.
In the spring of 1898 Judge LOVE openly
and vigorously undertook a fight against
the then Gov. HASTINGS for delegates to
the state convention. It will be remem-
bered that his candidates were the late
Joun M. DALE and GEO. CHANDLER.
When they were defeated by JOHN G.
‘PLATT and 8. H. WILLIAMS the Judge,
through his lieutenants, carried the fight
onto the floor of QUAY’S convention in
Harrisburg and bad Mr. PLATT thrown out
and Mr. DALE seated. Later in that same
year it was the Judge who was giving aid
and comfort to ARNOLD'S successful at-
tempt to steal the endorsement of Centre
county for Congress away from CLEMENT
DALE, who was entitled to it under all the
precedents of his party. And it was the
-Judge’s fine Italian hand that was given
credit for the omission of any word of com-
mendation of Governor HASTING'S state
administration in the courty platform
adopted that year.
This latter act was looked upon as one
of the basest moves ever made by the
Judge, for the reason that the Governor,
no matter what he might have been, was
certainly entitled to some words of endorse-
ment from his home county. And espec-
inlly when it was an open secret that it was
Governor HASTINGS’ influence that took
LovELL, of Huntingdon, off the track and
made LOVE'S nomination in the old 49th
district possible. feral aap
* The fight in Centre county, in 1899, was
‘the most notorious ever recorded in local
background. It was an open and avowed
HAsTINGs—LOVE fight. The details of that
contest caused a stench that aroused pub-
lic indignation all over the State. Money,
liquor and personal vituperation were its
disgraceful features and after Governor
HASTINGS had succeeded in electing S. H.
WILLIAMS and JOHN GOWLAND as state
delegates it became common gossip that it
was his intention to institute impeachment
proceedings against Judge LOVE for hav-
ing done things in violation of his cath of
office.
For a year there were charges and count-
er charges between the leaders of the two
factions and it was not until the fall of 1900
that Judge LOVE thought it time to cast
an anchor to the windward.
Public indignation knew no hounds and
with his hopes for a renomination only four
years distant the Judge decided to drop his
vain straggle for a dictatorship. The first
intimation of this course was discovered
when be agreed that the HASTINGS’ people
should name WILLIAM ALLISON and JOHN
K. THOMPSON for the Legislature, without
a contest. But even in this he was unable
to keep his hands entirely clean, for it is
said that he was the person who planned
the scheme to have THOMPSON make an
ante-election pledge to vote for QUAY for
United States Senator. The details of this
treacherous aotion which resulted in the
disgrace of THOMPSON will be taken up in
a later article.
These facts are recounted, not for the
purpose of casting aspersions on the mem-
ories of the dead or traducing the charac-
ters of the living participantsin the con-
tests, but merely to show the connection
Judge Love bas had with the Republican
politics of Centre county during the time
he has been supposed to be the fair, im-
partial, non-partisan, unprejudiced Judge.
Looking them squarely in the face can
the reasonable man believe that had one of
the HASTINGS men of "98, ’99 or 1900 been
unfortunate enough to have gotten into
court he would have received absolute jns-
tice at the hands of a Judge who was em-
bittered and vindictive through his par-
ticipation in snch fights? No, such a thing
would have been a physical impossibility.
All men are haman and likely to be sway-
ed to some extent at least by versonal feel-
ings.
It is for that reason the people of Centre
county should take the opportunity thas
awaits them to remove Judge LOVE from a
position where his political activity might
swerve his sense of justice.
——When the Hon. Little Fill-up WoM-
ELSDORF, of Philipsburg, asks HASTINGS
Republicans to support him for the Legis-
lature we wonder what he tells them about
| the way he treated the Governor in 1895.
iz itioal annals. URE Aly LAI TC en
maintain the semblance of keeping in the
NO. 38.
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Looks Like Imexcusable Extrava=
gance.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is readily understood that in a coun-
try like the United States there must be an
increase in the expenses of government with
the growth of population. This increase
should be regular, normal and slow, except
when war and some other ordinary event
arises to require extraordinary expenditure.
Cleveland’s wise and economical adminis-
tration affords an example of what is meant
by a normal growsh of the expenditures of
government. A glance at the official fig-
ures (exclusive of postal receipts and ex-
penses) will present in a clear light the
contrast between Democratic and: Republi-
can administration : .
CLEVELAND,
Fiscal
Fiscal
Fiscal
Fiscal
year
year
year
year
Fiscal
Fiscal
Fiscal
Fiscal
year
year
year
year
Fiscal
Fiscal year
Fiscal year "
The expenses of the first two months of
the fiscal year of 1905 were $16,028,059
greater than those of the corresponding pars
of 1904. It is seen that in expenditure the
first year of McKinley’s administration ex-
ceeded that of Cleveland’s first year by
nearly $76,000,000. The fourth year of
MecKinley’s administration exceeds Cleve-
land’s fourth year in expenditure by about
$144,000,000. : res
Then came the four years of peace in
Roosevelt's administration, with the di-
minished expenditure in the army in the
Philippines, when it might naturally be
assumed that the cost of government would
recede to its normal limits. - But with each
month the expenditures under Roosevelt
have risen, until the appropriations for the
fiscal year ending June, 1905, apart from
the postal service and the sinking fund,
have swollen to the colossal sum of nearly
$553,000,000. Fis :
Under the three Administrations the to-
tal cost of government thus stands :
year
Cleveland's Administration.............. §1,441,674,182
McKinley's Administration.... we 2,056,121,905
Roosevelt's Administration.......cce.eons 2,112,885,109
It is thus seen that the cost of Roose-
velt’s four years’ rule rises $671,000,000
above the four years of Cleveland. Is rises
above the four years of McKinley, although
the ex of the Spanish war and the
subjugation of the Philippines were mes
during MoKinley’s administration.
‘All this vast and reckless expenditure
must come out of the earnings of the Amer-
ican people. Every dollar of it, besides the
fessional men of the coantry. Yet the peo-
‘ple are told that if Roosevelt shall be elect-
ed the extravagavce will
abatement or interruption. 4
‘ wh
An Alarming Tendency.
From the Springfield Republican.
The most important question to consider
is the tendency of things. If government
expenditures now are high, the indications
are that, under Mr. Roosevelt and the
policies he represents, they will go much
higker. Indeed, the president bluntly
says in his letter: “We intend in the
future to carry on the government in the
same way that we have carried it on in the
past.”’ Mr. Roosevelt personally is nota
man who by temperament, inheritance,
social environment, training or experience
is disposed to count the cost. But, more
significant than that is the line of policy
he takes in statecraft. He represents the
most expensive modes of government, for
he is a colonial enthusiast and is mili-
taristio, demanding a great and ever-grow-
ing navy, than which no more costly
branch of govermental service could be de-
vised. He bas also declared for ship sub-
sidies, which would cost many millions
more. Under his administration federal
expenditures are sare to increase heavily,
especially if his election comes with his
leadership.
And as expenditures increase so do the
taxes of the people.
Facts That are Indisputablc.
From Candidate Davis’ Speech.
*‘From the days of Jefferson, in 1800, to
those of Lincoln, in 1860, the Democrats
practically controlled the Government.
Daring all that time, with the exception
of a short interval immediately following
the war of 1812, the expeuses of the Gov-
ernment were paid almost entirely from
customs duties. There were practically no
internal revenue taxes, and yet under those
Democratic tariff customs the country
prospered, and grew from a nation of 3,-
000,000 to ome of 30,000,000 happy and
contented people. The increase in wealth
and in other important factors that entered
into the welfare of she country was greater
from 1850 to 1860 than it has been in any
decade since. The internal revenue taxes
collected in West Virginia average about
$1,500,000 annually, which, under Demo-
oratic practice, would have been saved to
the people of the State.”
The Tariff Issue Pointedly Put.
From the Philadelphla Ledger.
A tariff for revenue sufficient to meet the
requirements of the Government economic-
ally administered has always been a Demo-
oratio principle, while a tariff for the few
at the cost of the many has always been a
Republican principle, to which has lately
been added the policy of a tariff for the
creation, promotion and fostering of preda-
tory trusts in restraint of trade by the sup-
pression of competition.
When Failures Have Been Plentiest.
| From the New York World.
It appears that there have been more
failures, more closed mills and more wage
reductions under Roosevelt than under
Cleveland. And yet Cleveland did not pre-
tend that he could give every man a good
living, while this profession is the Repub-
lican party’s entire stock in trade.
go on’ without
Spawlis from the Keystone.
' —Work on the new State fishery at Mount
Pleasant, Susquehanna county, has been de-
clared off on account of the lack of funds.
—As a result of being forced to eat angle-
worms 10-year-old William Hummer, of
Jersey Shore, isin a critical condition. The
boy had been fishing with two bigger boys
who are alleged to have forced a bunch of
bait down his throat.
—The reunion of the survivors of the 142nd
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, was
held Friday at Mt. Pleasant. From 50 to 75
of the veterans of this regiment were present,
and about an equal number of those who
were connected with other regiments.
—A feature of the Luwrence county Wom-
en’s Christian Temperance Union conven-
tion held last Friday was an address deliver-
ed by Mrs. Charles W. Foulks, of New
Castle, who advocated a cooking strike of
the women to compel the men to leave liquor
alone or give women the ballot.
—The Warriors-mark brick company is the
name of a firm composed of H. H. Nearhoof,
J. W. Nearhoof and John R. Lemon, en-
gaged in the manufacture of sand cement
brick. Their factory is located at what is
known as the Nearhoof sand bank, about
half a mile west of Warriors-mark on the
‘line of the Tyrone and Lewisburg railroad.
—D. Doyle, of Mill Creek, while hunting
ginseng near the gap of Blacklog mountain
some months ago, found a mineral which he
believed to be copper or gold. He had it
‘ analyzed and has found thatit contains a
large per cent of copper. Experts have been
on the ground and a number of them have
made offers for bis holdings.
—A patient recently admitted to the in-
sane asylum at Norristown was found to
have more than $800 hidden in the folds of
her garments. The woman’s bent ran to $20
bills, of which she had $600 worth. The re-
mainder was of various denominations of
greenbacks, some being folded to about a
quarter of the size of an ordinary postage
stamp.
—The Pennsylvania railroad accomplished
one of the most remarkable feats in rail-
roading on record last. Friday, taking
through a special train from Philadelphia to
Chicago, a distance of 822 miles, in 18 hours
and 14 minutes, thereby winning a stake of
$250,000 for F. M. Pease, a wealthy Chicago
railway supply manager. The average run-
ning time of the special was more than a
mile a minute.
—The largest salary ever given to a Jewish
pastor on a limited contract has been voted
to Rev. Dr. Joseph Leonard Levy, of the
| Rodeph Shalom congregation, Pittsburg. At
a congregational meeting Sunday he was re-
elected for five years at $12,000a year, an
| increase of $2,000. The increase came as a
surprise to Dr. Levy. It was agreed upon
unanimously by the congregation, which has
made splendid progress in growth and in-
fluence under his pastorate.
—The South Bethlehem steel works were
swept by a devastating fire late Saturday
night, which will entail a loss of several
‘hundred thousand dollars. Despite the
combined efforts of the fire departments of
five boroughs, the big structural building
that covered five acres—pattern, paint and
carpenter shops—was totally consumed. The
loss occasioned by the consumption of the
pattern shops will be the’ heaviest.” There
thousands of patterns, models, drawings and
blue-prints were stored. Months of labor
will be required to reproduce them.
—It is expected that the new history of
the regiments that represented Pennsylvania
at Gettysburg, as prepared by state and
regimental historians will be issued about
December. The work has already been done
on the first volume, but the manuscript for
the second volume was delayed. The new
work will contain many pictures of regi-
mental monuments erected since the first
history was printed. It will also contain
two maps showing the battlefield and the
location of every Pennsylvania command,
which will be most interesting to those who
participated. Only 19,000 of these books
will be printed, and they will be distributed
by the department heads and members of
the Legislature.
“ ~—Almost all the big coal mining com-
panies in the Central Pennsylvania field
have discontinued the practice of delivering
the two weeks’ pay to the men at the mines,
where the operations are located outside of
town. They desire to avoid running any
risks of highwaymen. The miners and
other laborers have been instructed to go to
the offices of the company for their wages.
The plan has only been in vegue a short
time with some and other coal companies are
rapidly adopting it. Had the miners em-
ployed by the Puritan company been re-
quired to visit Portage for their pay Charles
Hays would still be living, paymaster Camp-
bell would not have been shot and the com-
pany would have been $3,000 richer.
—The Carnegie steel company has issued
a circular letter to the superintendents of the
different plants instructing them not to em-
ploy men over 35 years of age in certain de-
partments and extending the age limit to 40
years in others. The rule does not apply to
laborers. The orders affects a large number
the most expert steel men who left places
where a majority had been employed for the
last twenty years to accept flattering offers
from new steel plants. The recent reaction
in steel and iron left many of these plants
idle and this, coupled with the universal
resumption of the Carnegie mills in Pittsburg
enticed hundreds of these men back to their
old home only to meet the discouraging
statement that no men over 35 years would
be employed.
—The Connellsville and Lower Connells.
ville coke regions, which are at present en-
joying a boom, as all of the ovens were fired
in the last few days, were never so short of
laboring men as they are to-day and as a
result are greatly handicapped. This short-
age is said to be due to the extraordinary
emigration of foreigners, who are not return.
ing to the United States this fall in such
great n «(mbers as in years past. It is esti.
mated on good authority that in the last
year fully 10,000 foreign coke workers have
left Fayette and Westmoreland counties.
Connellsville agents have sold passage to
over 6,000, in addition to which it is believed
that enough to bring the total to 10,000 have
‘been sold at Uniontown and Masontown,
which are regarded as centres for the coke
workers.