AREER TSR
“BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Jai od Ink SIi .
*. —Warsaw is seeing the greatest local
war she ever saw.
. —Let us have only one candidate for
~ Superior court Judge ?
or —And now we’ll soon be pestered with
“Ia warm enough for you ?”’
£“LThe new County Superintendent is a
publican, but he is not a politician.
* —Many good men go wrong because so
many bad ones profess to be going righ.
+ —Many a man shook his flannels on
Wednesday, only to begin shaking a cold
next week. :
- —If you can’t accomplish an undertak-
ing hy fair means it is no accomplishment
to succeed by foul.
—Since Bellefonte is to be without a
wholesale beer license keg parties will not
be so popular this summer.
\ —TI¢ is a dull day these times that some
Democrat doesn’t run up a rod for the local
political lightning to strike.
; —Most any man would sooner be a mem-
ber of the U. G. I. in Philadelphia than a
Pullman porter in Wisconsin.
| | —ABE MILLER has had so many Republi-
gan offices in Centre county that he has the
advantage of being well known, at least.
i. ~—NAN PATTERSON seems to be as suc-
cessful in entangling juries as she was in
enmeshing CARSER YOUNG the turfman.
“—=%“Your Uncle” CEPHAS was the wise
man when he decided to withdraw. We
congratulate him on the exhibition of good
judgment.
' —The man with the Panama hat has
been seen but the palm leaf fan and alpaca
coat have to get here before we will be
sure it is summer. y
~ —The artist who advertises himself in
the Billboard as ‘‘the man who made After
the Ball and KATHERINE MAYER" is to
be commended for his honesty.
—What a world of trouble NAN PATTER-
SON could have escaped had she remember-
ed that absolutely nothing could justify
her flirtation with a married man.
~ —No, dear reader, the new twelve inch
water main on Allegheny street is not de-
signed to curtail either the consumption of
soda water or beer during the hot weather.
—By the time the next issue of this paper
reaches ite readers GREEN and DILLEN will
have passed into history as co-temporaries
of MoNKs, Negro DAN, HOPKINS and AN-
DREWS.
{'—**Your Uncle’’ CEPH was entirely right
in getting pro voked because he was acous-
ed of being drunk. We know him entire.
1y too well to side with anyone who makes
such a charge.
"1 Toco and ROJESTVENSKI don’t get
together pretty soon a sea serpent will be
appearing off Newport or Atlantic City to
use up much of the space they might oth-
erwise command.
i
—Enterprising moving picture show men
are advertising ‘‘The Hold-up of the Lead-
ville Stage’ as ‘‘the picture that chills the
blood.”” ‘What a pleasant spectacle it
would have been to gaze upon yesterday.
—In so far as it is possible to make
amends without making a bad matter worse
we wish to offer our most profound apolo-
gies to the gentleman whom we so inad-
vertently and base-ly slandered in this pa-
per last week.
—Cashier SPEAR, of the Oberlin, Ohio,
bank has been sentenced to seven years in
the peni tentiary for his high financing op-
erations with CAssie CHADWICK. And
the worst of it all is that CASSIE said **poor
man’’ when she heard it.
' —Mayor DUNNE, of Chicago, is having
his hands so full of striking teamsters these
days that municipal ownership of street
railways is temporarily pigeon-holed. Mau-
nicipal ownership of horses and drivers out
there now would be a blessing. ;
—It only cost Senator WARNER, of Mis-
souri, $29.80 and Senator FRAZIER, of Ten-
nessee, $11.50 to get into the United States
Senate, yet right bere in Bellefonte you
counldn’t get ‘‘a look in’’ at anything but
high constable for such figures.
—The retirement of JOSEPH C. SIBLEY
asa possible candidate for Governor and
his advocacy of the candidacy of JoHN P.
ELKIN may not make ‘‘the Plowboy of
Indiana’’ the next Governor of Pennsylva-
nia, but it will start a few of the boys to
thinking.
'—Those Dickinson college boys who
burned the grand stand on their athletic
field during a rowdy celebration of the an-
niversary of DEWEY’S victory in Manila
bay might bave saved the property had
they been able to command the fire water
they had probably tanked up.
—Ib is a little early tostart a political
campaign but if MILLER and BAILEY had
a thousand years in which to do it they
could not explain to the taxpayers of Cen-
tre county why it cost them nearly a third
more to run the county the last year than
it has ever done before,
—I# is too late for J. J. HILL to say that
the Panama canal ought not to be built be-
cause it will prove unprofitable. If he were
a great oitizen as well as a great railroad
magnate he would have set about trying to
reduce transcontinental carrying rates be-
fore the demand for the canal became so
general in the country. Furthermore, the
project is not being made as an investment.
It’s greatest usefulness will be in bringing
our Atlantic and Paoifio coast lines into
speedier communication.
VOL. 50
Roosevelt and Religion.
President ROOSEVELT turned a Rocky
mountain religious meeting into a sort of
circus parade on Sunday. That is fo say,
he and his camp comrades rode to the Old
Blue school house on West Divide creek,
Colorado, on that day and attended relig-
ions services. The little building wasn’t
near big enough for the congregation and
the organ was moved to the porch where
the president and his party sat with the
preacher. ‘‘The President’s party,’ ac-
cording to the press dispatches, ‘‘presented
a picturesque appearance’ as it came up.
Moreover, ‘‘they were dressed in their
hunting olothes,” the story goes. Mr.
ROOSEVELT being in the same clothes he
wore when he left his private car at New
Castle, two weeks ago. His hat was what
is known as the ‘slouch.’ He wore it pulled
over his eyes and badly ous of shape.
His jacket was sheep-lined duck, his
trousers of duck tied about his ankles with
strong cord. His shirt was blue cotton.
He had discarded his chaperejos, or leather
trousers, as a concession toward the proper
church-going raiment.’’
That was pretty near the limit for the
costume of u President but didn’t exhaust
the possibilities. For example, as the
narrative adds, ‘‘the clothes of Dr. ALEX-
ANDER LAMBERT,of New York, and of the
guides were even rougher.” That is to
say, the President’s companions made no
concessions ‘‘toward the proper church-
going raiment.”’ In faot, the story states
that ‘‘no mountain band of road agents
ever looked more formidable.”’. Road
agents, it should be understood, are ous-
laws who infest the mountains and fron-
tier settlements and rob trains, stages and
travelers. President ROOSEVELT appears
to take delight in resembling such free-
booters. At any rate whenever he can he
wears his slouch bat ‘‘pulled over his eyes
and badly out of shape.” He probably
imagines that such a costume appeals to
the savage nature of the ruffian. In the
case in point he was not mistaken. Accord-
ing to the accounts the mountaineers
‘‘yelled boisterous praise of the President
regardless of the day and of the fact
that they were virtually in a house
of worship.”
Of course this demonstration gratified
the President. These present. worshipped
him and that is the only worship which he
regards as worth while. It is small won-
der, therefore, that at the conclusion of the
service he took advantage of the oppor-
tunity to deliver one of his speeches made
up of cant and egotism. He assured them
that they represented the highest type of
American citizenship. “He was the pic-
ture of rugged health,’ the account of the
event continues, a8 he said, leaning for-
ward, “and now I want to shake hands
with all of you. There are a good many
of you, so don’t stampede or get to mill-
ing.” These ‘‘cattle terms’’ completely
captivated the cow boys and ‘‘the applause
wae terrific.” The crowd passed before
him and shook his hand enthusiastically
but remained, however, ‘“‘until the Presi-
dent’s party started back to camp.” In
other words,they remained until the circus
was over and the most outrageous bit of
sacrilege that has sver come into public
notice was completed. It was an insul
to every Christian impulse.
Cutting His Vacation.
The President wiil cut his hunting vaca-
tion short by a week, according to the
Washington ~ dispatches. No reason is
officially given for this curtailment of the
Presidental pleasure but one may easily be
conjectured. It is that Secretary Taft who
was left in obarge of the administration
has not been able to keep the lid down.
Taft is a heavy man measured in avoirdu-
pois. He weighs more than three hundred
pounds and when he sits down on an ob-
ject it is usually well settled. But the
science of mechanics teaches that neither
air nor steam can be confined when the
volume is too great and experience proves
that it is bard to keep the lid over scan-
dals when they begin to smell.
President ROOSEVELT is a trifle unfor-
tunate in his trips on politics and pleas-
ure. Three years ago he was obliged to
out 8 stumping tour short because his
tongue was playing havoc with the voters
in Indiana. A year later he was forced to
abandon an excursion into the Yellowstone
Park some ‘time before it was completed
for the reason that the scandals in the
Postoffice Department had leaked ont dur-
ing his absence. Now he has been sum-
moned home from camp in the Rocky
mountains because Secretary TAFT has
failed to keep the lid down and scandals
are oozing out from various. points. The
Venezuela affair is not the only disturbing
element in the official life at Washing-
ton. :
All things considered it would be better
for ROOSEVELT 60 either purify the politio-
al atmosphere of Washington or remain
at home. The public doesn’t want to
have its ears constantly outraged with the
details of scandals and if the President
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 5, 1905.
can’t find somebody able to keep the lid
on, he would better sit on it himself. If
is fair to presume that if he had remained
at his post the Venezuelan scandal would
never have reached the public. But he
didn’t remain at home and the result is
that the Assistant Secretary of State is ac-
oused of scandalous conduct and the proof
against him is so well sustained that there
seems to be no possibility of suppressing
it.
Bowen Under the Ban.
Minister BOWEN, of Venezuela, is about to
pay the penalty of telling tales out of
school. That is to say, that gentleman has
been called home from his official station at
Carracas to be punished for exposing a
scandal which involves assistant secretary
of state Loomis. The President doesn’t
like to bave scandals exposed. His idea is
that when officials ‘‘are caught in the act’’
they ought to be allowed to sneak ont from
under the lime light and be forgotten while
they enjoy the fruits of their sinister labor.
That was the course he wanted to pursue
in the Postoffice Department scandals and
every man who interfered with his plans
was severely disciplined.
The charge against LooMIs is that while
acting in his official capacity he accepted a
$10,000 fee to aot as attorney for the
asphalt trust and that he threatened to
levy war against Venezuela unless the crimi-
nal demands of that trust were satisfied.
The proof of the charge is the cancelled
check of the trust for that amount payable
to Loomis and now in possession of the
President of Venezuela. It would be im-
possible to get better evidence, and having
come to a knowledge of it,we can’t see how
Minister BOWEN could have done anything
else than make the exposure. But Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT doesn’t take that view of
such things and he invariably penalizes
fidelity to duty.
Cander requires the statement that
Assistant Secretary BOWEN denies the ac-
cusation. But BEAVERS and all the other
official buccaneers who were concerned in
the postal frauds did the same thing. Be-
sides LooMIs hasn’t explained how such a
check could be in existence unless the
transaction of which he is accused actually
happened. The trust hardly gave him a
good $10,000 check for fun and we all
“know that his actions in the asphalt mat-
ter almost resulted in a war with Ven-
ezuela. But ROOSEVELT would silence both
criticism and accusation and the chances
are that Minister BowEN, though hereto-
fore a favorite at the White house, will be
severely punished for his temerity and
honesty.
Penrose’s Flat Failure.
Senator PENROSE made a little pilgrim-
age to Pittsburg the other day with the
view of reconciling the difference among
Republicans there, but according to the
newspaper reports of the event he failed
absolutely. In other words, the Repuabli-
cans of Pittsburg listened to what Mr. PEN-
ROSE had to say and then told him to mind
his own business. They added in sub-
stance that they understood conditions quite
as well as heand are equally able to dis-
tinguish black from white. Such rudeness
may have been surprising to the successor
of QUAY but it will not be the last curren-
oy of the kind he will get. There isa rod
in pickle for the Senator.
Close observers of events have been look-
ing forward for some months for a revolt
against the insolent rule of PENROSE. Ac-
cording to the evidence of an eye witness
he lost his temper during the recent Repub-
lican State convention in Harrisburg and
blurted his indignation in a brutal way.
The report in kind which was about to fol-
low was prevented by the good offices of
mutual friends but a repetition of the inci-
dent won’t be so easily condoned. Men
stood vituperation from QUAY because he
had heen serving them for years. But
PENROSE has no such claim on them and
they won’t tolerate his presumption. As
least that is what some of the knowing
ones say. |
In any event the Senator's mission
to Pittsburg was a flat failare and the
greater city, if it becomes a fact, will begin
its municipal life under Democratic aunspi-
combined to elect JOHN B. LARKIN to the
office of Controller in February will be in
alliance and equally vigorous at the next
municipal election. It is understood that
Chairman ANDREWS will be dispatched to
the scene of the trouble in a few days with
the view of putting his hypnotic influence
to work on the contending factions. But
ANDREWS is liked there little better than
PENROSE and we predict that there will be
no reconciliation’ of differences.
HATA
——A$ 1,65 o'clock yesterday morning
the jury in the trial of NAN PATTERSON,
for the alleged murder of CAESER YOUNG,
reported a disagreement and were dis-
oharged. This was the third time NAN
underwent trial for her life. The first
time the jury was withdrawn on account
of the sudden illness of one of the jurors;
on the second trial the jury disagreed and
now the third trial ends the same way.
Evidently there is a woeful lack of evi-
dence to convict or NAN’S mystic powers
even penetrates the jur box; in. either
event this will likely be her last trial.
ces. That is to say, the elements which |-
No Sympathy for Humbugs.
We have very little sympathy with the
people in Philadelphia in what appears to
be a serious menace against their property.
That is to say, the governing power in thas
oity is negotiating for the practical sale of
the gas works for less than one-tenth of
their value. The transaction is not called
a sale of the works. The conspirators
prefer to call it a lease. But it runs for so
long a period and is so entirely free of
restraints in other respects that it amounts
to the same as a sale. The people are
protesting more or less vehemently against
the consummation of the scheme. Bat so
far as outward appearances indicate inward
conditions there is not likely to be much
attention paid to the protests.
And why should the political pirates
whom the people of Philadelphia have in-
stalled in power alter their plans because
of a protest? They have fulfilled their
part of every agreement made with the
members of the Union League, the Manu-
facturers’ club and other groups of respect-
able citizens. Those gentlemen supplied
the machine managers with money to
debauch the elections upon the understand-
ing that they would keep Democrats out of
office. There was no other’condition, and
that one has been falfilled. The Demo-
orats have been kept out. Occasionally
the operation involved severe labor and
considerable expense. Bat the purpose
was achieved nevertheless. Faith was
kept by the pirates to the captains of
industry. .
Why shouldn’t the other side be equally
bound by the terms of the contract? The
respectable gentlemen who sit in boards of
directors, who participate in church coun-
oils, who manage the giant corporations
and maintain the respectability of the
comm unity agreed to supply the necessary
funds and permit the pirates to run. the
municipal governnient in their own way.
The proposed sale of the gas works is
simply a feature of the machine policy and
the re spectable hypocrites have no right to
complain if the transaction pinches them.
The truth is that between the pirates and
the Pharisees we prefer the pirates. Asa
choice between DURHAM and DOLAN we
prefer to take chances with DURHAM. He
will at least give warning before he
strikes. 2i
Our Too Anxious Enemies.
Oar friends, the Republican newspapers
of this State are far too anxious that the
Democrats shall nominate three candidates
for Judge of Superior court at the coming
convention instead of one. They know
that the Democrats can’t possibly elect
more than one and that nominating more
than can be elected can have no other el-
fect than to create complications. But they
reason that each voter has the right to vote
for three candidates and that therefore
voting for but one would be a sacrifice of
opportunities. They are actually worry-
ing themselves sick over the matter.
A distinguished warrior once said thas
he always tried to find ous what his enemy
wanted him to do and then he didn’6 do it.
Acting upon this obviously wise policy the
Democrats’ duty at this time is plain. That
is to say, the Republican press, uttering as
it invariably does, the sentiments of the
Republican managers, having expressed the
hope that we will nominate three candi-
dates for Judge we should nominate but
one. By voting for only one we will get
just as many judges as if we had voted for
three, and we will have the satisfaction of
knowing that one thus elected will have
been the choice of the Democrats instead of
the Republicans.
The real purpose of the Republicans in
urging the nomination of three candidates
is to open negotiations with one of the
three for the support of the surplus Repub-
lican vote, thus making the Republican
managers the real arbitrators of Demo-
oratio affairs. In Philadelphia forty or fitty
thousand Republican votes have been cast
for Democratic candidates who will serve
the Republican machine in order to defeat
a Democratic candidate who won’t. Thas
the Republican machine is able to select
the successfal candidates of both parties
and the bench is prostituted to the base
uses of a corrapé machine.
——John C. Miller is again at the helm
of the ship of newspaperdom. This time
it is as editor of the Barnesboro Star. Our
readers will remember that some four or
five years ago he became associated with
the Daily News and Republican as editor-in-
chief, and for a time made things hum,
but finally tiring ‘of the work after a couple
years experience, he retired from those
papers and went to Patton to go into the
insurance business; and now his connec-
tion with the Barnesboro Star comes as a
surprise to his friends here, though all
wish him unbounded success.
-——Monday the ‘hello’ girls in the
Pennsylvania telephone exchange at Phil-
ipshurg went on a strike and for several
hours there were no doin’s by telephone
in that town until manager Brown seonred
operators from Clearfield and Tyrone. A$
latest reports the strike was still on.
still further weakening the organization in
‘darker with each pamiog day,’”’ and says
NO. 18.
An Un-bossed Party.
From the Philadelphia Record.
In the benevolent interests of the Pressin
the Democratic nomination of a candidate
for Judge of the Superior court it says:
With the absolute control exercised by the
bosses through the party organization $his
leaves practically no chance for com) ion
in the convention.’’ This of cant
over the control of Democratic State con-
ventions by alleged ‘‘bosses’’ has. become
quite familiar with Republican organs. It
is intended to serve as a set-off and con-
donation for the complete servility of the
Republican party of Pennsylvania to a
despotic and corrupt’ Machine. Between
the two party organizations there is not
one solitary condition in common. The
alleged Democratic bosses have no offices,
national, State or municipal, to influence
their pretended followers in favor of the
dark and insidious designs so absurdly
imputed to them by mongers of partisan
gossip. They have none of the spoils of
two great cities, no graft, none of the
familiar agencies and arts of legislative
corruption so notoriously employed for
control of Republican State conventions.
How ridiculously false, then, is the
babble of the Press over the ‘‘boss-ridden
Democratic party of Pennsylvania.’”’ The
truth is that in the entire independence in
Democratic State conventions of Machine
rule and in the want of any motive for it
the tendency is too often to faction. If is
to this spirit of faction that the Press
appealed in its disinterested suggestions
that the convention nominate three candi-
dates for Judges of the Superior court
when only one can be elected. : Thus
would it gladly foment a Kilkenny quarrel
in the minority organization that would
at the same time afford the Machine an
opportunity to hurl a few thousand of its
Philadelphia pretorians for one of these
candidates, and in this way control the
election of all four Judges of the Superior
cours.
Bat as in the past, wise counsels are
moss likely to prevail over the spirit of
faction and the benevolent advice of the
Press in this matter. The common sense
Democrats of Pennsylvania are opposed to
a wrangle and a scandal over a Judge of
the Superior court.
Hopeless Out-look in the Pnilippines.
From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner.
The returning transport ‘‘Buford,’’ which
arrived recently at Portland, brings some
returning soldiers, and also news of trouble
in the Islands. The Army and Navy
Journal,published at Manilla, declares that
‘‘the clouds of war are growing darker and
‘‘the general opinion ng citizetis and
officers is that she insular government is
up against a difficult sitmation.”” The:
Army and Navy Journal also prints a letter
which,according to the Portland Oregonian
would lead to the belief that ‘‘all of the
islands composing this group are on the
verge of insurrection.’ :
While the high officials in the Republi-
can party talk of benevolent assimilation,
the reports brought by returning soldiers
indicate that the Filipinos regard the Amer-
icans as enemies and are unalterably op-
posed to foreign rule. This is perfectly
natural, and it is strange that any person
can be so ignorant of history and of human
nature a8 to expect it to be otherwise. No
instance is on record where people have
welcomed a foreign ruler. If our country
intended to exterminate the Filipinos and
then colonize the Islands with Americans,
some might defend the position on the
ground that the Americans would make
better use of the Islands than the Filipinos
and develop a higher civilization. This is
the argument that has been used to justify
the supplanting of the Indians, but there is
no thought of colonizing the Islands.
Americans will not live there, and it is
not likely that any other white race will
ever live there. We must choose between
the independence of the islands and a col-
onial policy under which a carpet bag gov-
ernment will be held in place by a stand-
ing army.
That has been the situation in India for
ahundred and fifsy years, and the Indian
people are as rebellious now as they werea
century ago. A colonial system is not only
contrary to the American theory of govern-
ment, but it must always rest upon force.
How long will it be before the costly and
ruinous policy of imperialism will be repu-
diated by the country ?
They Fish for Them in Other Holes
Now.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
It has been very truly remarked that,
whatever may have been the case in the
past, the ‘‘suckers’’ do not now live in re-
mote and sparsely settled sections of the
country. They are found in the cities, the
suppositious centres of intelligence and
enlightenment. The get-rich-quick artist,
the vender of bonanza mining stock, the
individnal with an infallible system for
“‘beating’’ the wheat market, no longer
make up their mailing. lists from county
directories and rural voting registers. They
look for—and they find—their victims
within commuting distance of the New
York Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board
of Trade, the Cleveland banks and the
Milwaukee financiers.
Discs rding the Mask.
From the Chicago Public. g
That Republican county convention of
Erie, Pa.; which formally declared on the
15th in favor of unlimited terms for all
elective officers, including congressmen,
and of making breach of truet whilein of-
fice the only reason for terminating official
terms, spoke the true sentiment which now
controls the Republican party. This is
Hamiltonism undisguised ; and the modern
name of Hamiltonism is Republican-
jem. Life terms for judges, Hamiltonism
has already given as ; life terms for presi-
dents and congressmen, it would like to
give. Let the Republican convention of
Erie county, Pa., be thanked for its indis- |
oreet official formulation of the prevailing
Spawls from the Keystone.
—There are fifty-three prisoners in th
Lycoming county jail.
—All the schools, Sunday schools and
| churches at Newton Hamilton are closed on
account of the small pox epidemic raging
there. ; ry
—The small-pox epidemic at Mt. Union
having about subsided all trains so sched-
uled on the Pennsylvania railroad now stop
there.
—President Roosevelt has appointed ex-
Senator Brewer, of Chambersburg, to a con-
sulship at Redditch, England. He will en-
ter upon his duties in July.
—Clay Strayer, son of Dr. A. S. Strayer, of
Altoona, has been appointed by Colonel
Rufus Elder as battalion sergeant major of
the First battalion of the Fifth regiment.
—The Altoona district Epworth League
convention will be held in the Eighth
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Al-
toona on Thursday and Friday, May 25 and
26. Er
—The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has assigned to the Juniata shops at Altoona
an order for the construction of one hua-
dred and sixty-eight engines of various types
during the year.
—While dozing ina seat of a passenger
train on the Indiana branch of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad Edward H. Sutton, of Indi-
ana, Pa., was robbed of about $160 in cash
and his watch.
—An attempt to steal a kiss cost C. A.
Reed, a traveling salesman, of Scranton, a
$10 fine and thirty days in the Carbon
county jail. Reed entered the Thomas home
at Audenried, tried to embrace Miss Mary
Thomas-and was landed in jail.
—A high record in the price of Fayette
county coal land was established at Connels-
ville, Monday, when a deal went through
for the sale to the Struthers Furnace com-
pany,of Struthers, O., of 240 acres of coal.
The price paid was $1,200 an acre.
—Andrew Carnegie has donated $16,000 to
the Columbia hospital new building at Wil-
kinsburg. The money is for the furnishing
.and endowment of two rooms in the hos-
‘pital, to be named respectively for Mrs. Car-
negie, and Miss Margaret Carnegie, his
daughter.
—State economic zoologist H. A. Surface is
not inclined to be pessimistic in regard to
the damage done the fruit crop by the frosts.
From the unofficial reports he has thus far
received he is of the opinion that the bud-
ding orchards are in far better condition than
has been indicated.
—John McLaughlin, of Wilkesbarre, con-
fined in Northumberland county prison at
Sunbury to wait trial on the charge of horse
stealing, attempted to break jail Friday
night, but was discovered just in time by
warden George Hancock, who made him
surrender at the point of a pistol.
—The big French engine, which the Penn-
sylvania Railroad company had on’ exhi-
bition at the world’s fairat St. Louis, has
been turned out of the shops at Altoona. It
has been completely over-hauled and will be
used for a time on the mountain as a “‘help-
er’ and later may be used on the middle
| division. 4 j
“During the month of April thirty-five
immigrant trains passed through Altoona.
The trains were made up of 323 coaches,
each holding from thirty-five to forty immi-
grants, making a total of about 12,000 for-
'eigners who passed west through that city
during the month just passed. These num-
bers surpass all previous records.
—Arrested Saturday by his pretty black-
eyed wife, who charges that he deserted her
and their baby. James F. Brennan, base-ball
player and sprinter, isin jail at Coatesville
longing for bail. The young wife confrented
Brennan on the street, led him by the coat
collar to a magistrate’s office and locked the
door while she made her charge against him.
—One night last week as Mrs. Mary
Morningstar, of Huntingdon, was in the
act of retiring for the night and while
kneeling in prayer, a large stone came crash-
ing through the front window, striking the
opposite wall. Fortunately no one was in
its course. Greatly startled, Mrs. Morning-
star called for help, but the perpetrator of
the dastardly act had vanished.
—President Cassatt, of the P. R. R,, and
oth er officials broke the record in making
the transit from Pittsburg to ‘Philadelphia
on Saturday afternoon, the distance being
353 miles and the time 350 minutes. It broke
the schedule time of the Penn. Limited by
2 hours and 35 minutes and beat the
‘fastest train of the system by 2 hours and 12
was the rate.
—Two hundred engineers will be added to
the force of the Pennsylvania railroad with-
in the next thirty days. This is necessary
because of the large number of locomotives
to be added to its equipment within the next
three months. General Manager Atterbury
has ordered examinations to be held on
dered up for a test.
possessor of an interesting heirloom in the
form of a solid silver ladle, which he prizes
very highly. The ladle was handed down
from Mr. Packer’s great great grandmother,
Mrs. William Jones, and is over 100 years
old. It was made in Fredericksburg, Va.,
from 19silver half dollars, especially for
of the maker, I. Adams,
—Mrs. Ann Dawes, of Williamsport, is the
coming county, if not the largest. Although
only seventy-eight years of age she is the
mother of a progeny of seventy-nine persons,
nearly all of whom are still residents of Ly-
coming county. She has thirteen children,
sixty-two grandchildren and four great-
grandchildren. Her husband, Patrick Dawes,
has been dead for eighteen years.
—The contract has been. let for a new
Masonic temple in McKeesport to cost $111,-
500. The building will be of stone and
Roman-faced brick and will be one of the
handsomest in the Tube city. It will basix
stories high. The basement will be occupied
by abowling alley and billiard ‘hall, the
first floor will be a storeroom, and the other
floors, with the exception of the last, will be
‘office rooms. The top floor will be used ex-
sentiment of its party.
clusively by the Masons of McKeesport.
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minutes. Some places 100 miles per hour ..
each division as soon as possible and every :
fireman entitled to promotion will be or-
—W. C. C. Packer, of Lock Haven, is the
Mrs. Jones, and bears the stamped name
mother of one of the largest families in Ly-
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