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BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—A magazine called How to Make Money
Has just gone up the spout.
Now really, doesn’t it seem quite funny
That this Mag couldn't find out.
—Judging from the temperature this
morning His Hog-ship bas started in to
out-rival TEDDY in strenuosity.
—The Centennial State has done well.
In ballot box stuffing it seems to have em-
ulated Philadelphia, the Centennial city.
—GROVER CLEVELAND might get a call
to become pastor of a church, and GROVER
wouldn’t make a bad preacher either.
—Statistica prove that married life aver-
ages only twenty-eight years, yet how
much longer it seems to most of the vic-
tims.
—1It is not at all probable that the ex-
eursions KUROPATKIN has been trying to
make into the Japanese lines are person-
ally conducted.
—In theory the new Japanese system of
defense, jin jitsu, may be all right but we
would rather not be the midget who wnder-
took to work it on a giant.
-—Some of the churches of Bellefonte
might find a speedy relief from their troub-
fes by borrowing the good old mourner's
benches from their Methodist brethren.
—Sousa is playing ‘‘Bedelia’’ to London
audiences thas are reported as going wild
with delight over it. How lovely that BE-
DELIA bas been taken back home. It
leaves more room for ‘‘Alexander.’’
—Before the Republican Senators at
Harrisburg finally decide to add $5,000 a
year to the Governor's salary shey had bet-
ter prove to us that we are getting all
we are paying for in that quarter now. .
—In light of the unfortunate death of
two tailors in a Russian bath house in New
York, on Sunday, the Czar might bring
victory to his arms by organizing a bath-
house brigade for service against the Japs.
—A pew ruling of the police depart-
ment of Buffalo requires policemen to visit
every saloon on their beats. ‘Put me off
at Buffalo” will be revived by every police-
man out of a job in every city in the land.
—The Pittsburg Post suggests the possi-
bility of air ships supplanting the: antomo-
bile fad within the next decade. What
a happy solution of all the important nni-
sances. Up in the air automobilists will in~
terfere with no one but themselves.
—The fable of the cow jumping over the
moon found a8 new version at Boalsburg a
few days ago when a butcher made a mis-
take and slanghtered the wrong man’s cow.
In this instance the owner nearly jumped
over the moon when he found it ous.
—Poor BRYAN! There will be ‘nothing
for him to stand on in 1908. ROOSEVELT
has stolen all his ammunition —lock, stozk |
and barrel, just like BLAINE appropriated
our limited free-trade propositions some
years ago and called them reciprocity.
—Mrs. RICHARDS, iv her scientific cook-
book, says: ‘‘Modern woman is wasting
her time in cooking and like drudgery.”
Possibly she is, but Mrs. RICHARDS will
never be able to prove her statement with
any corroborative evidence from the mod-
ern man.
—— What is troubling Republican
statesmen juss at this particular time is to
determine whether the Demooracy have
captured President ROOSEVELT, or wheth-
er his effort to prevent rebates by rail-
roads isonly an attempt to appropriate
Democratic thunder.
—That French doctor who declared
thas there could be no harm in kissing did
the osoulatory world a great service, but
then he went and spoiled it all by suggest-
ing kissing as a cure for dyspepsia. Who
would want to ran around kissing every
sour visaged old dyspeptic he met.
—The Sapreme court sat down rather
hard on the defense in she GREEN and:
DILLEN case. To say that their reasons
for a new trial were ‘frivolous’ wonld
have beeu bad enough from a lay mind,
but coming from the highest tribuual of
the State it is, to say the least, quite un-
eomplimentary.
—What is the use of spending so much
money for speed in our naval vessels, if
their armament has to be sacrificed iu or-
der to accomplish it? There would be lit-
tle sense in having vessels fast enough to
overhaul those of any other navy if
they would have to turn tail immediately
upon accomplishing the feat.
—Gen. KUROPATKIN'S victory over the
Japanese on Saturday was a great victory,
to be sure, but the General was juss a little
mixed in his report of it because the vic-
tors were the Japanese instead of the Ros-
sians. Of course, he is to be pardoned for
the slight error, becanse it is so much
easier t0 win victories by telegraph than by
bullets.
—In New England the working man has
always been credited with doubt as to
where his share of the tariff comes in.
Were be to take up the last census report
and figure ont the average wage received
by men in’ protected industries he would
find it to be $300.94 annually; while those
in the unprotected industries average
$456.87 aonually. This would leave no
room for doubt. It would make him aer:
tain that the tariff enabled his employer to
pocket $155.93 that he should have receiv-
ed in wages. And the sad pars of it all is:
This same working man usually votes with
the tari fi-making party.
‘| constitution.
may well be passed forbidding the inter |
{olears away the uncertainties,
“VOL. 50
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 3, 1905.
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Williams.
Since Mr. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska, and afterwards Mr. JOHN
SHARP WILLIAMS, of Mississippi, bave as.
sured the President that ‘‘they are in
line with his motion on the question of
discrimination in rates of and the payment
of rebates by railroads,’”’ that subject has
assumed a new aspect. Mr. BRYAN isa
very influential private citizen and Mr.
WILLIAMS, the Democratic leader on the
floor of Congress, and their opinions are
necessarily important. What motives in-
floenced them to their declarations on the
subject have not as yet been made public
but it may be said is was no sudden im"
pulse. Mr. BRYAN declared for Federal
control of railroads two years ago, and
Mr. WiLLiAMs endorsed the President’s
message on the subject the moments it was
read in Congress. :
The question of Federal control of cor.
porations is one of the gravest character.
It is certainly not in consonance with the
principles of the Democratic party as ex-
pressed by JEFFERSON and must be regard-
ed as utterly intolerable to any one who be-
lieves in JEFFERSON’S doctrine of a strict
construction of the Federal constitution.
By that instrument all powers not express-
ly delegated to the Federal government are
reserved to the States or the people, and
the right to regulate the business of corpor-
ations created by the States, within the
State, has certainly not been delegated spe-
cifically or inferentially to either the
President or Congress. But discrimi-
nation in rates and payment of rebates by
railroads are great evils and if these wrongs
cannot be righted any other way the sup-
pression of them might justify an amend-
ment to the constitution.
We have great respect for the intelligence
and patriotism of both the gentlemen who
bave spoken, but our respect for the funda-
meptal law of the land is paramount to all
friendships or other considerations of what-
ever kind. That being true we can’t see how
it would be possible for Congress to act in
the manner in which Mr. BRYAN and Mr.
WiLLIiAMS suggests without violating the
The right to regulate inter-}
te commerce is pnguestionably conveyed |
by the constitution to Congress and laws
ruption of traffic and regulating the rate ‘of
freight that could be charged while pass-
ing through States other thau those from
which the corporation obtained its.charter-
ed right.
Bat to go to the extreme of holding thas
Congress can interfere with or regulate the
business of a corporation within the State
that gave it birth is, simply to place every
corporate interest, no matter how small, or
how local within the power of the Federal
government to do with as it pleases. If
would be giving to Maine and to Florida,
to California and to Washington the pow-
er to regulate the price we shall pay for
gas, electric light, bridge and pike toll, ag-
riocnltural implements, coal or any article,
commedity or convenience manufactured,
sold or furnished by. a corporate company.
Is there any visionary anywhere wild
enough to imagine that such a condition of
affairs conld be either beneficial to the peo-
ple or in accord with the spirit and intent
of our form of government.
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Roosvelt’s Philadelphia Speech.
The President’s speech at the Union
League anniversary in Philadelphia, on
Monday night, was a candid, complete
and fairly forceful exposition of his scheme
to put railroads under control of the Fed-
eral RKovernment. The brief reference to
good deal with respect to his purpose to
conjecture. The Philadelpbia speech
howeyer,’
and shows that he really desires to exer-
cise absolute control.
In fact he says, if wvecessary, he ‘would
bave the constitution amended to compass
the puipose. ,
We bave no idea, however, that the
President’ s speech in Philadelphia will in
the least measure promote his plans. He
hinted that there is danger in delay and
that if the desired changes are not made
cautiously they may come violently; that
if reforms are not effected by friends they
may be forced by enemies. But the Phila-
delphia Union Leaguers who have been
buying legislation and controlling elections
by fraud, for years, are not likely to be-
come alarmed av the mild admonition of a
gentleman who is’ particularly fond of
luxurious special trains.
The President is entirely righ in his
opposition to discrimination in freight
rates through the paying of rebates or
otherwise. Ibis an evil which works the
destruction of competition - first and ‘ulti-
mately of prosperity. But even in hie
Philadelphia speech be doesn’t hint at the
real remedy which is hoth expedient and
constitutional. The penalizing of the act
is the sure care but the President doesn’t
even allude to it. In fact, he substantially
declares against it for he proposes fines
for the offending corporations rather than
imprisonment for the criminal officials.
years.
Interest in the Question Abated.
It is practically settled that there will be
no legislation giving the Federal govern-
ment control of the railroads at the present
session. I6 is almost certain that there will
be no extra session of the next Congress for
the enactment of such legislation. The
President has found out something that
has abated his zeal. He isalready turning
his attention to race suicide, the parity of
the home and other psychological questions
which he now declares are paramonnt to all
economic problems. Besides they are less
dangerous to handle. Asan esteemed Phila-
delphia contemporary pats it, nobody de-
clares for public immorality out loud.
We can understand in some measure
what bas influenced the President to a
change of heart on the subject of Federal
control of the railroads. When be first de-
clared his opinions on that subject rather
tentatively, the railroad magnates took
somewhat kindly to the proposition. His
plan had a little joker concealed in a forest
of verbiage created hy PAUL MORTON which
was exceedingly enticing. It proposed to
legalize pooling which bas been a sort of
forlorn hope of the railroad managers en-
gaged in interstate commerce for many
To this scheme Mr. CAssATT and.
others gave a prompt and cordial assent.
Bat the shippers went for it with rough
hands and the President abandoned the
joker.
Then she big railroaders wens over to
Washington ‘and began ‘‘doing things.”’
They called out the railroad solicitors in
the Senate and told them what would bap-
pen to their professional salaries if they
monkeyed with Federal control of the rail-
roadson any other terms than those proposed
by MorTON and the Senators carried their
tales of woe to the White House. Of course
the President wasn’t very well pleased be-
cause he is marvelously fond of having his
own way, but he found out that he would
have to accept the inevitable and that if he
pressed the Senators too strenuously he
wouldn’t get any kind of legislation that
he wanted at all. The result is an abate-
ment of interest in the question.
‘The Delaware River Improvement. <ul
We take this opportunity to “protest
against the appropriation out of the State
Treasury of ball a million dollars for the
improvement of the Delaware river. The
reason given forsauch an appropriation is
that Congress refuses to make an appro-
priation or such work unless the State re-
veals sufficient interest in the matter to
contribute part of the expense. That is not
a good reason to begin with. Congress has
not made such conditions in other cases and
if Philadelphia were properly represented
in Congress there would be no discrimina-
tion against that city. Philadelphia elects
machine men with neither intelligence nor
influence to represent her and should pay
the penalty of dereliction.
Besides the improvement of the Delaware
river is a matter entirely local to Philadel-
phia. It is said that the effect will be a
considerable increase of the commerce of
the city. If that be true itis the business
‘of the city to pay whatever proportion of
the expense which Congress refuses to as-
The people of the State have no in-
terest in the matter, If the Delaware river
is improved to the full measure of the
hopes of the business men of the city the
expense of products sold from that city to
the people of this will not be lessened. In
other words the advantage of the improve-
ment will go to Philadelphia and therefore
the people of Philadelphia should pay for
it. That is reasonable.
The people of Philadelphia contribute
every year more than a million dollars for
the maintenance of the most iniquitous
political machine which was ever organized
in any civilized community. It gives fran-
.| chises of vast value gratuitously to favorite
political manipulators. The captains of
finance of that city cheerfully pay the
enormous sums necessary to poll 80,000
fraudulent votes every year in order to de-
feat the will of the people of the State as
expressed at the ballot box. If they want
to increase their foreign commerce les them
pay some of that mouey for the improve-
ment of the Delaware. Thus appropriated
and used it will do no harm. As it is used
now it works infamous results.
Asinine Senator Spoomer.
Senator SPOONER, of Wisconsin, made an
amusing spectacle of himself daring the
sessian of one of the Senate committees the
other day. Senator BAcoN, of Georgia,
who has an old-fashioned respect for the
constitution as well as his oath of office,
introduced a resolution asking the Presi-
dent to send to the Senate, ‘‘if not incom-
patible with public interests,’’ the corres-
pondence relating to the San Domingo af-
fair, and incidentally suggesting that there
is no constitutional warrant for his action in
the matter. Senator SPOONER declared such
a resolution an insult to the President, a
great outrage and nothing less than scan-
dalous.
According to the reports of the incident
the committee was about to adopt the reso-
lution without division or objection, but
when SPOONER ‘‘made his little speech”
party lines were drawn and no action was
taken. The Wisconsin man got very ve-
hement, however, and shook his shaggy
main with ominous freedom. But nothing
serious happened. Senator BACON quietly
assured him that there was no intention
to insult or otherwise injure the President,
hut that his purpose was simply to ‘‘sup-
port, obey and ‘defend the fundamental law
of the land according to his official duty
and agreeable to his oath of office.”” But
SPOONER conldn’t be appeased. He was
mortally offended.
As a matter of fact the President bad no
more right to assume the charaoter of an
international policeman in San Domingo
than he would bave to pull King Edward's
nose if that gentleman should happen to
offend him and his undertaking to collect
the revenues and pay the debts of the
Domingan government is an international
outrage for which he ought to be properly
chastised. Besides the resolution of Mr.
BACON was similar in tone and the same
in substance as resolutions which have
been adopted by the Senate hundreds of
times and been responded to at one time or
another by every President who ever held
office. SPOONER simply made an egregious
ass of himself.
The President Insulted.
Representative CREASY’S little joke on
the Republican majority in the House of
‘Representatives on Monday evening re-
vealed a sad measure of inefficiency on the
part of the ‘leadership of that side. Mr.
auti-discriminasion clause of the Democratic
National platform into a resolution of en-
dorsement of the President’s crusade for
-anti-discrimination and introduced it into
the House of Representatives. Of course
the majority leaders didn’t know that
adopting the resolution was an endorse-
ment of the Democratic platform: at the
time. Bat in exulting over the joke subse-
quently, the facts were revealed, where-
upon the yote was reconsidered aud the
resolution defeated: ;
~This supplemental idiocy only broadetied
‘thegoke, however, if it didn’t change the
proceeding from a parliamentary comedy
/into a political tragedy. That is to say in
defeating the resolution they prevented an
endorsement of the President of their own
choice in his most cherished policy. In
other words, the popular branch of the
Legislature of Pennsylvania refused a vote
of endorsement of the Republican Presi-
dent while he was a guest of the principal
Republican organization of the United
States, in the chief city of the State for
which the Legislature speaks, though he
was at the moment appealing to the lead-
ing Republicans of the State for support on
the measure.
The President was of course cordially
‘treated in Philadelphia but he could ‘get
little comfort out of perfunctory courtesies
there while the Legislature was practically
condemning him at Harrisburg. It was
the cruelist incident that we can call to
mind in the political history of Pennsyl-
vania. But it was exactly what was to be
expected of a Legislature made up of in-
competents and under the slavish domina-
tion of a not too enlightened boss. Proba-
bly Mr. CREASY intended to trick his
friends, the enemy. Possibly he didn’t
want the President endorsed at all. But
his resolution was an unequivocal endorse-
ment of ROOSEVELT and its defeat can be
construed in no other light than as an
insuls.
Bill Which will be Defeated.
It may be safely predicted that the bill
introdnced in the Senate by Mr. Gob-
CHARLES, of Northumberland county and
in the House by Representative SNYDER,
of Schuylkill, to create excise boards to
grant liquor licenses, will never getloat
of the committee. It was simply a
“pincher’’ and will achieve its purpose
without ever getting into position to jwork
harm. The organization of a liquor deal-
ers’ association with a lobby attachment,
was an invitation to the legislative rooss-
ers to present such measures. The liquor
dealers want excise boards hecause if
would make things comparatively easy for
them. They are usually able and willing
to pay for what they want. The advocates
of law and order are opposed to the boards
for the reason that the dealers want them,
and they are sometimes willing} to pay
legitimate expenses for the kind of legis-
lation they want.
The indications are that the liquor deal-
ers are going to be worked ‘‘coming and
going’’ this year. That is to say they will
be pinched for the purpose of seouring
legislation they want, notably the excise
boards and to defeat legislation they don’t
want such a3 a local option bill. It is the
talk of the lobby that they have already
‘‘given up’’ for the excise bill. That was
comparatively easy for there never was any
intention of passing it and only a nominal
sum was exacted. But with the local op-
tion law it is different. They will be
CREASY somewhat adroitly worked the |
obliged to pay generonsly for the defeat of
that measure though as a matter of fact it
would be overwhelmingly defeated anyway
for the machine is not’ going to fake the
hazard of crippling so productive a politic-
al ally as the liquor dealers’ association.
Bat the managers need money.
We are glad, however, that the tvobious
exise board hill is not to be enacted. That
would convert the license franchises of the
State into a most powerful agency of polit-
ical corruption. It would force every
liquor dealer into willing or unwilling
service of the machine and contribute more
to the corruption of politics than any
agenoy we can conceive of. We have no
doubt that such a bill will be enacted some
time if the machine continues its complete
control of the Legislature. + But the present
leaders are comparatively new and will not
risk such hazardous measures until a few
year’s experience have given them a better
understanding of their work and greater
confidence in their power. Until after the
candidate for Governor is nominated they
will not go to such extremes. But after
that, the deluge. ; :
'" A Vicious Measure.
d——
- From the Pittsburg Post. 2
Short work ough to lie wade of killing |
the proposed amendment so the Brooks
lignor law which would take from: the |:
courts the power of granting licenses in
all the counties of the State excepts Phila-
delphia and Allegheny, The bill proposes
0 vest this power ina board of three per-
sons in each county, who are fo be selected
by the people for five years, and who are
to have all. the diseretion: ‘mow lodged: in
the license courts.
There are no redeeming features about.
this proposition. . It is intended solely to
give the political machine of the State en-:
tire control of the liquor business, and to |
make. it rich with power and money. . The
objections which bave been made agajnst
she conrts granting licenses would sink in-
‘to insignificance in comparison ‘with those
which would: be justly raided: against the
propusel new system. if it shonld be pus in
orce
ence and probity of : action in this matter:
of granting liquor licenses which could
not be expected and. woul be in evi-
dence in boards col ig of poli-
ticians. = The peopl veo. ave a i pack
‘for the actions ie ogprts ‘which j
‘never would ‘exh Le the proposed
political boards. y
The proposed law is vicious in-its con-
ception and would be intolerable in its ex-
eousion,, - ‘While it is ‘stated that it wounld
not apply to the counties of Philadelphia
and Allegheny, such an exception would
not last long, and these connties would
also soon be brought under its operations.
The people of the whole State should take
prompt steps to make known their opposi-
tion to the proposed act and to all others
whose object is to make our lignor laws
worse, instead of better, than they are at
present. The fact that the proposed law is to
be fathered by lieutenants of Senator Pen-
rose recalls the statement of she latter that
there was to be no jobbery at this session
of the Legislature, and makes pertinent
the inquiry whether these men are suppos-
ed to be trying to make that statement a
mockery or not.
The New 1mauguration Party:
From the New York World, Jan. 28.
So far as the regulation of railway rates
is concerned Mr. Roosevelt's most enthusi-
astic supporters in Congress are Democrats.
John Sharp Williams, following the
leadership of Mr. Bryan, bas pledged the
House minority to ‘‘toe-mark’’ the Presi-
dent's footsteps. He is appealing to the Re-
publicans ‘‘as fellow citizens to belp us
toe-mark.”’
Mr. Bryan is elated over Mr. Roosevelt's
railroad measures. ‘‘There is a reform ele-
ment in the Republican party as well as a
plutocratic element,” he says, ‘‘and this
reform element is now marshaling ‘behind
the President.’’
While Democratic support of the Presi-
dent’s rate recommendations has become ef-
tusive, the President’s own party is exer-
cising a good deal of self control. It is not
so enthusiastic. To be sure, the western
Senators and Representatives have heard
the unmistakable demands of their conssit-
uents. Hepburn has finally tinkered up a
bill that is much more moderate than the
one the President asked for. The ‘railroad
group”’ in the Senate is playiug for delay
and hoping to smother any railroad bill the
House may pass.
If the President had to rely on the Re-
publican leaders there would be no rate
legislation. But a new Administration
party seems to be forming in Congress,
oom of Democrats and radical Repub-
licans. Will the conservative Republican
element be able to resist this new force?
Where it Could Have been Used to Better
Advantage.
From the Lincoln (Neb.,) Commoner.
According to government statistics. the
close of the year 1902 saw the completion
of the 33,415 irrigation systems irrigating
9,500,000 acres of land. The Boston Herald
bas made some interesting comparisons. It
finds that the irrigation enterprises cost
$93,320,452 and made 134,000 farms profit-
able. The money spent by Uncle Sam on
his navy in 1904 would have paid the en-
tire cost of all these irrigation systems and
left a balance of $9,500,000. Accord-
ing to the government statistics the amoung
speat on the navy would have irrigated
and made profitable an area greater than
the combined States of Maryland and Con-
necticut, or more than half the area of In-
diana. Every dollar spent on irrigation
has added to the material wealth of the
pation. The money spent on the navy did
not increase the general wealth of the
country a penny. The farmer who is an
advocate of the . ‘‘big stick’’ policy or. is
| the Lock Haven hospital,
‘caught the human bali.’
Spawls from the Keystone.
—There were 1199 miners killed in the
Wyoming valley last year, and they left 109
widows and 212 orphans.
—The increase in’ freight receipts at the
December 1904, was $10,000 above December
1903.
—Clearfield county now comes to the front
with a remarkable cow—one that gave birth
-| to a fully developed calf on December 18th,
and another on January 21st.
—Miss Viola Rathgeber, a stenographer in
the law office of Brown & Stevenson, Lock
Haven, was, last week, commissioned a
notary public by Governor Pennypacker.
—The Lumberman’s Prectective association
of Pennsylvania,composed of men prominent
in the lumbering interests of the State, will
hold their semi-annual meeting in Blooms-
burg in July.
—Plans for the proposed annex tothe Blair
county court house, ‘at a cost of about $100,-
000, have been completed by architect W. I.
Plack, and have been approved by the conn
ty commissioners.
—Martha Dick, a 16- wearold daughter of
George Dick, of Clear Spring, York county,
with the exclamation, ‘I can’t see!” was
Shippénsburg Normal school.
and scholars of the county for the benefit of
just before the holiday vacation was very
gratifying, the sum amounting to nearly
$140.
—The Western Union has established tele-
graph offices along the line of the Curwens-
ville & Bower railroad and beyond, taking
in Lumbeér City, Curry Run, Mahaffey,
Clearfield county.
pany has practically closed a deal with the
Stineman coal and coke company, of South
Fork, to purchase
operations at that place. The coffidéritive
approximates $1,000,000.
—Ex-Judge Cyrus Gordon, of Clearfield,
has been appointed counsel for the- State
dairy and pure food department to succeed
Charles B, Witmer, Esq., of Sunbury, whe
~—Just when he was about to give im
evidence as a star witness in the case of
Wagner vs. Spangler, at Gettysburg, on Sat-
with paralysis of the throat.
continued until the next term of court.
—On Sunday Pine street M. E. church at
Williamsport solicited the annual missiom-
ary collection and $1,600 was subscribed.
This ‘is an unusually large collection’ for
missions and with the $600 raised by the
Sunday school during the conference year
i da
The courts: exhibits; a rulean independ: makes = grand total of 32, 20 fbr Pine street,
—~—Clearfield and Curwensville will have an
elgetric road in the near. future in which
road from Clearfield to Philipsburg. thus
connecting these three towns. The work of
grading, etc., may begin early inthe spring.
‘Hyde City will also be touched by this line.
—D. W. Vandyke, of Nelson, Tioga counm-
ty, recently sold his 1904 crop of tobacco to a
‘New York city buyer for.13_ cents per pound :
in the bundle. Mr. Vandyke's crop of 7,200
pounds was raised on four acres of land, ad-
5,400 pounds, raised on the same amount of
for 13 cents per pound.
Seminary, Williamsport, has been placed at
the head of the institution for the balance of
the school year.
the board of directors of the institution last
been in charge of affairs at the institution
since Dr. Gray’s illness became acute, and he
is thoroughly familiar with them, as well as
fully capable.
—When John P. Roberts slipped and fell
Hazleton, he went bounding over like a ball.
Half way down Michael Cunningham saw
Roberts coming. He braced himself and
Canningham was
hurled against a pillar and severely in-
jured. Roberts was not burt. Had he fallen
to the bottom of the slope he would have
been killed,
—According to the Honesdale Herald,
Among the centenarians it mentions
Watson, whose death occurred January 3rd,
1905, at 101 years ; ‘Granny’ Benjamin,whe
died at Pleasant Mount at 113 ; Abram John-
son, of Salem, who died at 108, and Prudence
Lakin, daughter of Josiah Parks, the’ first
settler of Equinunk, who died at the age of
108.
bituminous coal fields have organized for
a fight to a finish over tbe question
‘of wages at the approaching . confer-
ence to be held in Altoona on the 17th of
March, whereat will be considered the mat-
ter of a new scale to be operative for one
the attitude of one side or the other shall
change between now and the date of the con-
ference, a strike involving many thousands
in a position to know what is going on.
—Fish Commissioner W. E. Meehan in a
bulletin on the eel fishing industry of the
State says that out of 316 persons holding
licenses 99 reported a total of eels taken as
99,955, their weight being 45,982 pounds.
The price varied from three cents to fifteen
cents a pound and the total value of the catch
was $5,131. As the number of reports cover
about a little less than one-third of the li-
censes it is fair to say, the report affirms,
that the catch of eels was 300,000 and the
total weight about 150,000 pounds, the value
of which would be a little over $15,000. The
largest catches were reported from Lycoming
county, 7,000 eels weighing 2,000 pounds;
and by a Dauphin county man who caught
9,876 eels weighing only 2,551 pounds and a
a Lancaster man who caught 8,000 eels that
weighed 1,928 pounds. The largest pecuniary
return is by a Bradford county man, whe
blinded by the ‘‘world power’ glitter,
should do a little more earnest thinking.
sold his eels tor $375.
suddenly stricken blind at her studies af the
land was recently sold to a New York buyer |
year from the 1st of April following. Unless
of men is deemed almost a certainty by those
N.Y. C. depot at Clearfield for the month of -
—The annual contribution of the teachers
which was made -
Burnside and other towns in that section of
—The Berwind-White coal mining com- .
its extensive mining
was promoted to special counsel in the Andi-
‘tor General's department. ?
urday, David Gulden was stricken dumb
The case was
Clearfield capital is largely interested. The *
company also contemplates extending their
joining land of E. R. Cupp, whose crop of °
— Professor C. E. McCloskey, of Dickinson
This action was taken by
Friday. Professor McCloskey had virtually '
down a 300-foot slope at Black Ridge, near
Wayne county is a good place to rear old
‘folks.
‘who were residents of that county are Sally
—Quietly, but carefully, the coal miners -
‘and operators in the Central Pennsylvania
iin,