BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The popular song at Harrisburg in
Jannary will be : Neath the shade of the
shattered plum tree.
—You can notice the fellows who intend
running for office next Febroary beginning
$0 be as polite as a woman playing bridge.
—This has certainly been a beautiful
fall. Beautiful falls are likely to continue
popular after the season for icy pavements
sets in.
——The principal effort that some {peo-
ple seem to be making, at this time, is to
get their gubernatorial lightning rods a
little higher than the other fellows.
—Statisticians tell us that seventy mil-
lion animals are killed each year for their
‘fur. There is no danger of our being rob-
bed for that particular purpose.
——As it looks now the principal busi-
ness of PENNYPACKER’S extra session, will
be to show how eagerly and how satisfac-
torily some people can eat crow.
. —When the Russians wanted to get rid
of the Japs they fled to Portsmouth. Now
that they want to get rid of themselves
they do not know which way to turn.
—The sad part of it all for WILLIE
HEARST must be the thought that he spent
$80,206 trying to get elected Mayor of New
York, while it didn’s cost Mayor MCCLEL-
LAN a cent.
. —-Now that the Commissioners-elect have
settled on their cabinet let us hope that
the entire body will give the county the
cleanest and most economical government
it has ever had.
—~Those two handred and fifty farmers
w ho started that toy revolutin on the Isle
of Pines didn’t succeed in revolotin’ much
for the very sufficient reason that there was
nothing to revolute.
—There will have to be a stop put to
this reform stampede else we will soon get
to thinking that there never was a rascal in
Pennsylvania and that turning out pro-
ceeding we had on November 7th was only
a dream.
—And to think of it eight hundred and
ten thousand gallons of whiskey burned
np in the OVERHOLT honded warehouse at
Connellsville, on Wednesday. My, the
lot of comfortable jags that were lost in
that unlucky fire.
—*‘The divine SARAH’ is with us again
and they doeay tbat her artistic powers
have not diminished a particle. In fact
about the only change that is perceptible
in SALLIE'S make-up is the need of more
| rouge to keep her looking young.
+ ——And now it is said that both the
Hon. Sor.omoN R. DRESSER and the Hon.
Evr1As DEEMER intend to carry flags at the
head. of the *‘reform?’ procession. If they
will only leave their purses behind the
boys won’t care how far ahead or in what
procession they march.
—While Prince Louis of Battenbarg
was blowing in thousands of English
pounds making a spectacle in New York
last week three hundred starving women
and children were marching in one of the
principal cities under English rule crying
for bread.
—Oune of the most hopeful signs of the
recent repudiation of machine politics in
Pennsylvania is the rumor that comes from
Harrisburg to the effect that the Governor
is getting cold feet on the QUAY monu-
mens. It is highly probahle now that it
never will be built.
——Representative SCHOFIELD, of Clear-
field county, who has just announced him-
self as a candidate for congressional en-
dorsement, is a Republican and one of the
few men of that party in the last Legisla-
ture who bad the desire to do right and
the nerve to talk and vote zcoordingly.
~—=S8enator PENROSE bas concluded to
make Harrisburg his headquarters during
the sitting of Governor PENNYPACKER’S
e xtra session, which would seem to be no-
tice to the KNOX crowd that the late hosses
do not propose to trast ‘‘reform’’ to the
unskilled bands of those who didn’t know
exactly whether they were ‘for or agin’
it,”’ until after the voice of the people was
heard.
—The ancient political prophet of Dela-
ware county, the Hon. THoS. V. COOPER, is
out with the information that ‘‘the day of
bosses has passed into history.’’ So it may
be as far as the Hon. THOMAS is concerned,
but we prefer to wait and see whether there
will not be some one to give and many to
take orders even during the coming special
session of the Legislature, in which he will
. Bik.
—The mayor and six alderman of Wind-
sor, Mo., have resigned because at the re-
cent election local option prevailed and
they say there will not be enough revenue
for the city to run it. Inasmuch as the
Mayor had to pay for two loads of stone
for street improvements out of his own
pocket ‘before the Prohibs got the upper
hand in Windsor it doesn’t look as though
his resignation will canse the sacrifice of
anyé bing else than glory.
—It deesn’t look altogether like a square
deal to require a young man who hopes to
become a lawyer to answer questions that
half the lawyers in the State would stum-
ble on before he can enter as a law stu-
dent. That is what the new board of ex-
aminers is said to be doing and the public
mind takes a quick jump to the conclusion
that the lawyers of the State bave made up
their minds that there are enough of them
now. And, perhaps there are.
Dorit, Ge
nocd
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFON TE, PA., NOV.
~~
VOL. 50
24, 1905.
NO 46.
Roosevelt’s Bad Manners and Temper.
President ROOSEVELT gave a striking ex-
hibition of bad manners and bad temper
the other day. The occasion was one which |
| the subjects of legislation the question of
should have inspired the most amiable
feelings. A delegation of shoe manufac-
turers of the country had waited on him to
express some views on the subject of the
tariff tax on hides. They represented an
important industry and this personnel of
the delegation was of the bighest. In fact
the Govern or of the State of Massachusetts
wag among the number and the spokesman
of the contingent. Governor DOUGLAS
after expressing his admiration for some of
the characteristic of the President present-
ed the opinions of himself and his associates
in most forceful and eloquent periods.
At the conclusion of the remarks of Gov-
ernor DOUGLAS the President called for a
stenographer and declared that it would
be impossible for him to discuss the sub-
ject of their mission for the reason that a
year ago a delegation representing the same
industry and the same organization had
called upon him and subsequently betray-
ed his confidence. In other words, on that
occasion he had spoken freely and frankly
upon a question of public interest and that
after the event one of the gentlemen had
told what he said. President ROOSEVELT
didn’t put it exactly in that way but that
is what ocourred.. The President declared,
however, that Mr. WHITNEY, of Massa-
chuset ts, who was the spokesman on the
previous occasion,bad not only divulged a
confidential conversation but had grossly
perverted it and for that reason he couldn’
talk with another delegation representing
the same organization.
The fact of the matter is that on the oc-
casion of a year ago the President had ex-
pressed unequivocally in favor of the repeal
of the tariff tax on hides and asitwasa
public conference and nothing had been
said about concealment Mr. WHITNEY had
subsequently, with more or less exunltation,
declared that the President was in sympa-
thy with the shoe manufacturers on the
tariff tax on hides. He had probably been
giving opposite assurances to Senator
LoDGE and other stand-patters, who
promptly took him to task for his liberty
of speech and the President got revenge by
insulting the gentlemen who called on him
this year. Meantime Mr. WHITNEY has
proved the accugacy of his statement of the
affair, that the President’s manners and
temper are bad and his morals not too good
to falsify when occasion appears to justify
it.
A Sea-Level Canal.
The engineers bave finally decided on a
sea-level canal across the Isthmus of Pana-
ma, the public is informed. The original
scheme which contemplated an ordinary
ship canal to be operated by locks and of
sufficient capacity to accommodate the
largest vessels used in commerce, has been
abandoned. That would have cost a good
deal, the amount being variously estimat-
ed at from $150,000,000 to double that vast
aggregate. It would have taken a good
deal of time, too, anywhere from eight to
ten years, the experts say. But that wasn’t
enough either in money or time. The en-
gineers want to increase in hoth and the
sea-level plan will accomplish that.
Under the altered plans it may be assum-
ed that the entire cost of the waterway
will be as much as half a billion dollars
and that it will not be available for use for
filteen or twenty years. It is surprising
that those. who have been advocating a
c anal for so many years are now willing to
postpone the date of its completion in this
way. It wili be remembered that the Pres-
ident was so impatient with respect to the
matter a couple of years ago that he organ-
ized a revolution in Panama in order to
expedite it. Yet current gossip in Wash-
ington at present credits him with entire
contentment with a change of plans which
will delay the completion of the work for
several years.
The truth is that the trans-continental
railroads are behind the movement for de-
lay. The GouLps and HARRIMANS and
HinLs, who have been plucking the public
goose with such entire satisfaction to them-
selves for more than a quarter of a century,
want to continue the operation as long as
possible and they find a way of influencing
the President and persuading the engineers
to whatever course will promote their in-
terests. It is a humiliating fact that the
comm eice of the whole world can be im-
paired and the progress of civilization re-
ta rded because the railroad magnates want
to prolong their opportunities for grafts.
Bu t it is a fact nevertheless. y
—— Possibly the work of the extra ses-
sion of the Legislature may prove to be
worth a half million dollars to the tax-pay-
ers of Pennsylvania, but there are many
doubting Thomases who will have to be
convinced, by the character of the legisla-
tion enacted, before they will helieve that
we are not paying a pretty big price for the
amount of reform that will be farnished
by it.
Doesn’t Want Reform.
The effort to gét the Governor to supple-
.ment his proclamation calling the Legisla-
ture in extra sessions so as to include in
ballot reform is practically certain to fail.
Governor PENNYPACKER doesn’t want bal-
lot reform. As a matter of fact it may be
said that he doesn’t want reform of any
kind and that the call of the extra session
is simply a subterfuge intended to quiet
public sentiment until an opportunity is
presented to restore the machine to power.
The adoption of the few unimportant re- |
forms enumerated in the Governor’s proo- |
lamation might achieve that result. In|
fact unless the people are vigilant there are
reasons to apprehend it. :
Governor PENNYPACKER owes his polit-
ical advancement primarily to boss rower
and finally to electoral frands. On a fair
vote he would have been defeated for his
present office and he fully understands
that he will never be elected to any office
again unless by fraud. He is not willing
to immolate himself at the expiration of
his gubernatorial term. The delights of
office are too enjoyable to him for thas.
T herefore he hopes that by the false pre-
tense of reform the machine may be restor-
ed to power and with the present iniqui-
tons ballot law in operation he might yet
secure a seat on the Supreme bench which
would guarantee bim a comfortable salary
until the end of his life,
The most urgent measure of legislation
needed at this time is ballot reform. Every
man of average intelligence understands
this. Until elections are houest no reforms
will be effective or enduring and ninety-
nine out of every hundred men would have
put that consideration first in arranging
the subjects of legislation. But it never
ocourred to PENNYPACKER. That colossal
fraud and egregious humbug imagined he
could fool the people by giving them the
shadow rather than the substance of reform.
Bat be will be disappointed in hie expec-
tations as to the result of the subterfuge.
Ballot reform will be delayed a year, prob-
ably, but it will come after the next legis-
lative election as certain as fate.
——1It is hardly necessary for that Reve-
nue Commission to overwork itself, as it
seems to be doing, in order to straighten
up the crooked things in the State Treasary,
Mr. BERRY was elected todo that job, and
will do it to his own, and the people’s eat-
isfaction, whether there is a board of Reve-
nue Commissioners or whether there is not.
A Lawless Corporation.
The other day in Pittsburg the home of a
widow was torn down in order to make
room for an extension of the plant of the
JONES & LAUGHLIN Steel company. I is
announced that the widow will be recom-
pensed for her loss, so that there will be no
injustice done, as justice is understood.
But it was a lawless operation just the
s ame. It was a crime against the commun-
ity which ought to be severely and prompt-
ly punished. ~The payment of an amount
equal to the value of the property is not
sufficient. As a matter of fact no pecun-
iary recompense is ample in such a case.
The authors of the outrage ought to be put
in prison.
The facts in the case invest the matter
with interest. The widow became an oc-
cupant of the house at her marriage. Her
children were born there and her hushand
died there. At his death he exacted the
promise from her that she would pever
sell the property and she wanted to keep
the faith which she had pledged. When
the big corporation coveted her little home
an offer to purchase was made and refused.
Then she was beguiled away on an errand
and while absent a large force of men be-
gan and completed the work of destruction.
On her return she found a structure of steel
beams and girders where ber fireside had
been. Hd ‘ ;
The shock to the widow almost drove
her into hysterics but the corporation of-
ficials didn’t mind that. They promptly re-
n ewed the offer of compensation and were
quite surprised when she persisted in refus-
al. They couldn’t understand or at least
failed to appreciate the sentiment which
attached her to the little home which had
been the scene of her pleasures and sorrows
for so many years. They finally told her
to appeal to the courts for redress, satisfied
no doubt, that she will get the worst of
such a procedure. But she ought not to
get the worst of it. The men who commit-
ted the crime ought to be puniched to the
fall extent of the law.
-—The viewers recently appointed by
the court to make a survey of the twenty-
three miles of the Bellefonte, Aaronsburg and
Youngmanstown turnpike have completed
their work and assessed the value of the
property at $3,500, which ends the oon-
demnation proceedings and hereafter the
pike will be a free public road.
——After a two weeks contest it's be-
ginning to look as if the lawyer would be
the principal winner in that New York
The Insurance Question.
The startling iniquities of the managers
of the great insurance corporations of the
country continue to unfold themselves
under the rigid examinations of the New
York Legislative committee. One witness
after another has told tales of the betrayal
of faith and the perversion of power by
those men of vast wealth and high stand-
ing. The testimony of Senator PLATT, of
New York, the other day, was particularly
pertinent in this direction. He stated that
each of the three large insurance societies
had given him annually large snms of
money for the corruption fundiin political
campaiguos.
Other witnesses had testified to political
contributions but the iniquity was justified
on the ground that one of the candidates
for President was inimical of fiduciary cor-
porations and the fand served to protect
the interests of those whose money was
misused. [It was an absurd false pretense,
0 be sure, but better than no excuse. The
testimony of Mr. PLATT, however, brushes
aside even that poor apolegy and reveals
the startling fact that the money was con-
tributed to keep the Republican party in
power because the Republican leaders
shielded the criminal use of insurance com-
pany fonds.
In view of these revelations of iniquity
we can’t see how those responsible shall es-
cape the just penalty of their crimes. The
funds of an insurance company are sacred
and the misuse of them the most atrocious
crime. But in the misappropriation of such
funds to a political party an even greater
depth of turpitude is sounded for it involves
a violation of the sancity of the ballot and
a corruption of every fountain of power.
McCALL, McCURDY and those who looted
the Equitable sosiety are not guilty of rob-
bery but bave committed high treason
against the government.
The President a Cad.
i,
If there ever was a doubt that. President
ROOSEVELT is a cad, his letter to Mr. H.
M. WHITNEY, of Boston, removes it. Mr.
WHITNEY has written asking for a hearing
in a matter of vital importance in which the
President had condemned him. The Presi-
dent in intemperate language refused the
‘request and practically declared Mr. WHIT-
REY guilty, of lese majestic. The German
Emperor or the Czar of Russia couldn’t
have asserted the accusation more olearly
and it may be assumed that neither of them
would have been assinine enough to utter
it at all under the circumstances.
The truth of the matter is that the Presi-
dent has been at fault in every respect in
his controversy with Mr. WHITNEY and
that he has belittled the great office he oc-
| cupies by his fatnity. Mr. WHITNEY did
nothing unbecoming either in quoting the
President or asking for an opportunity to
prove the accuracy of his statement. Jus-
tice and decency alike demanded that his |
properly expressed request be acceded to.
But instead of such a course the President
in a petulant letter which would have been
unworthy an intelligent and well-bred
school boy, refused.
Mr. WHITNEY can well afford to let the
matter drop at its present stage. Public
opinion will be with him and time will
prove that he bas spoken truly and she
President has falsified as he did during the
recent campaign when he vehemently as-
sailed Judge PARKER for stating a fact that
bh as since been abundantly confirmed.
Anent Holiday Advertising.
T here is only one way to make a snoces
of your life or a success of your business
and that is to keep pushing and everlast-
ingly at it. In this respect there is no differ
ence between the greatest politician and
statesman in the land and the poorest me-
chanic or laborer. You've got to be con-
stantly blowing your own horn or you'll
drop by the wayside. = You may not be as
smart as the fellow at your elbow; you
may not be quite as good a mechanic as
the man who works at the bench alongside
of you, or you may not carry half the stock
your neighbor merchant does, but if you
make a noise, diligently advertise yourself
or your wares, you're going to forge to the
front while the other fellow is lagging by
the wayside. ; :
And in no way is this more truly exem-
plified than in judicious advertising. Every,
mechanic ought to advertise his business
at all times. . The buyers not only expect
it but they look for it, and finding it not
go elsewhere. But even if you are nota
regular advertiser there are some seasons
of the year when you should do special ad-
vertising, and the one time above all others’
is for the Holiday season. Then it is that
everybody is watching to see where they
oan get the best and most appropriate Hol-
iday goods, ana there is no question but
what they turn to the newspapers as a me-
dium for such information.
The WATCHMAN’S advertising columns
are unprecedented in bringing good results.
If you have tried them you know it; if yon
haven’ try them now and be convinced.
There will be just four more issues of the
WATCHMAN before the Holidays. A
month’s advertising in its colamns will
bring you unexpected results in largely in-
creased sales. If you don’t believe it, try
mayorality matter.
it. It will be no experiment but a good
business proposition.
One Sided Justice.
From the Uniontown Genius.
How justice discriminates is shown in
the case of Cunliffe, the express robber,
who in less than six weeks after robbing
the express company finds himself in the
penitentiary, and the great’ insurances rob-
bers, ‘bank wreckers, State Treasury de-
spoilers and ethers.
Yes, Cunliffe is in the penitentiary bus
where are McCall, Perkins, McCurdy and
others, all men of high station and great
wealth who plundered insurance compa-
nies with which they were connected—who
robbed the widows’ and orphans’ funds for
the benefit of themselves and the grafting
politicians of the Republican party? :
Any of these men in jail! Not on your
fife. Out on hail? No. Even prosecnted?
o. :
They are rich.
the whole story. :
What about the Republican machine
looters of Philadelphia? Any of them in
jail? Not one.
And even if it were possible to get one
there, pardon board would probably soon
set him free. A few have been arrested
and are at liberty on bail, but there is a
great horde of criminals of one kind and
another, ballot-box stuffers, - repeaters,
thugs, contract plunderers, thieves, robbers
and grafters of every kind and varety, all
belonging to the political organization
which has had she city of Philadelphia in
its frightful clntches, who are not in pris-
on and never will he. :
Not one of these great rogues but isan
infinitely greater criminal than Cunliffe.
Bus fortunately for them they have bad the
protection of the leaders of the great party
that makes the laws and fills the office of
Pennsylvania. &
These three words tell
Only a Pretense at Reform.
From the Reading Telegram. '
Time bas now afforded a careful public
judgment upon the idea of an extra legis-
lative session as called by our interesting
Governor. The verdict is unfavorable.
This session will cost the taxpayers a
round balf a million dollars. What will it
advantage them? The present membership
was chosen under gang auspices, wears the
gang brand and, no matter how desperate-
ly it shall try to appear converted to re-
form, must inevitably . fall under public
suspicion and distross. Is has been so used
to dealing out gold bricks to the people
that nothing it can offer will receive the
confidence that good legislation merits.
There is, too,another side to this matter.
When the battle for reform was on; when
the issue was uncertain and the heat and
burden of the day were intense to those in
the forefront, the author of this latest gang
move was either doing nothing to help the
good cause along or else appearing on the
stamp as the apologist and defender of
gang tickets and Fang methods. And the
same may be said of Senator Knor: the al-
leged adviser of the extra session eall, and
of Attorney General Carson, Pennypacker’s
legal man Friday. Yet these vaulting op-
portunists now ask the people to desert the.
leaders who won reform’s victory in order
to continne themselves in control of the
Republican party organization. They are
for reform simply because there seems to
be no other way in which to hold on to
office and power. When reform was no
popular, they were for all that went with
the gang. Such facile elasticity of con-
science does not fit the temper of the times.
Philadelphia Miracles,
From the New York Evening Post.
Surely the age of miracles is come in
Philadelphia. It was wondeiful enough
last spring when the Mayor turned against
his political creators and made a stand-up
fight for principle. When the State, which
went 500,000 Republican a year ago, came
out 100,000 Democratic, Governor Penny-
packer became a reformer,and now ‘‘Dave’’
Martin, State Insurance Commissioner and
a veteran machine leader, declares himself
also a convert. In fact he adds one reform
to the Governor’s program—the entire abo-
lition of the fees in his own office, fees
which now amount to nearly six times his
salary. William McCoach, Internal Rev-
enue Collector, is another newly enrolled
reformer. The rush of defeated politicians
to the ‘“‘band wagon’ of righteousness is a
familiar phenomenon. No one seems to:in-
terpret Pennypacker’s change of heart in
this way,however. Peunsylvaniang'perceiv-
ed, even when the Governor was most per-
versely wrong, that his errors were of the
head and not of the heart. A man who
could withstand the tempest of ridicule
that beat about Pennypacker’s head in the
last few years is not likely to prove a cow-
ard, now that he is shonlder to shoulder
with his old-time foes. But conversions
bave been so rapid that one wonders if
there will be any spoilsmen or corruption-
ists left to fight. : :
Don’t Make em Any Better.’
From the Clearfield Spirit.
The Democratio friends over here of Dr.
F. K. White, of Philipsburg, are rejoicing
over his well earned and well deserved
election as county treasurer of Centre coun-
ty although from the day of his nomina-
tion his election seemed to be a foregone
conclusion. They don’t make better Dem-
ocrats or better citizens than Dr. White and
we are sure the lid of the Centre county
treasury will always be off so that she peo-
ple there can always see what is going on
Still Work to Do.
From the Buffalo Inquirer. .
Idaho shows a disposition to enforce the
criminal statutes against some of its land-
fraud statesmen. The Oregon notion of
jailing these land pirates seems to be catch-
ing. Taking it altogether the year 1905
has been a bad year for grafters in all parts
of the union, but the disparity between
the number ontside of the jails and the
number inside is still discouraging.
The Dust Would Fly.
From the Buffalo Times.
Joseph H. Choate tells us that we are
working too hard and too fast and doing
too much. He would probably be jogging
along a$ the same olip as the rest of us if
he needed the money as badly.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—George Hartman, a Reading weather
prophet, says there will be no snowfall this
winter exceeding an inch in depth.
—D. A. Pope, a fish warden,is chargediwith
having killed three deer out of season .down
in Clinton county, and was fined $100.
~ —The Wayne brick company, of iMcVey-
town, Mifflin county, has been granted a
charter by the State department. It is
capitalized at $50,000.
—Engineers who have been surveying the
coal regions of Clearfield county, have re-
ported more coal under the ground than has
yet been removed by the many years of min-
ing.
—In an altercation with Fiore Giaeinto, an
Italian, George Bush, of Burnham, was shot
and almost instantly killed at the gates of
the Standard Steel works, late Saturday
night.
—Roy E. Brown,a nineteen-year-old;young
man who resideson a farm near Glasgow,
attempted train wrecking along the Pennsyl-
vania and Northwestern railroad Friday
afternoon, and as a consequence he is now in
jail at Hollidaysburg.
—Rev. and Mrs. Allen Sheldon Woodle, of
Altoona, will leave on Thanksgiving day for
an all-winter’s tour of Egypt and the Holy
Land. The trip is taken in the interest of
Mr. Woodle’s health, which has been very
poor the past year or so. ¢
—Policeman Sammy Taylor, who was shot
last Sunday night a week at Barnesboro by
Frank Farrell, while attempting to place the
latter under arrest, was taken to the Uni-
versity hospital, in Philadelphia, where the
bullet was removed and it is now thought he
will recover. Farrell is still at large.
—Three Williamsport merchants were ar-
rested on Wednesday by Constable Sheffer,
charged with having violated the pure food
laws. The alleged offenders were arraigned.
before Alderman Batzle and each fined $50
and costs. It is said the costs amounted to
over $20 for each of the merchants. !
—On the farm of J. P. Fritz, in Columbia
county, where the Pennsylvania Copper and
Mining company have been conducting opera-
tions endeavoring to locate a vein of copper,
workmen were greatly surprised to discover
natural gas. Ifthe supply is great enough a
well for utilizing of the gas will no doubt be
erected. :
—The United Coal company has just com-
pleted a large tipple and coaliyard at Hols-
opple on the Somerset & Cambria branch of
the Baltimore & Ohio, 13 miles south of
Johnstown. A branch line five miles long
will be completed in a few days. The com"
pany will produce about 60 carloads of coal
a'day. i
—William Drowlsbaugh, an engineer on
the Cresson and Clearfield division, died at
the Altoona hospital Friday evening at 9
o’clock, as the result of injuries received in
a wreck near Hastings, Tuesday afternoon,
November 7th. He was aged 37 years, and
leaves a wife and five children, residing at
Glen Campbell. !
—One day last week, Mr. and Mrs. G. M.
Keck, of Marsteller, went on a fishing excur-
sion to a place near La Jose. They fished
but four hours, and in that time caught
seventeen pike, none under twelve inches in
length. Mrs. Keck landed the two largest, .
which measured twenty inches and fifteen
inches respectively.
—Mrs. Catherine Adams, of Prosser Hollow,
near Johnstown, is dead gs the result of a
cut on the thumb. While Mrs. Adams was
cutting a ham eight weeks ago she cut her
thumb. It became infected. The pus re-
sulting affected the heart and nervous sys-
tem and the woman died Friday morning.
—Last week Mr. W. W. McDaniel shipped
the 27th carload of apples from Everett sta-
tion. About 750 bushels were loaded in each
car, making the total amount over 20,000
bushels. Other dealers shipped about nine
car loads, or nearly 7,000 bushels, making
the total shipment from this station about
27,000 bushels this season.
—The month of October was the largest in
a business way the New York Central has
ever handled in the Clearfield yards. The
force in those yards under direction of How-
ard Scott, trainmaster, a former Philips.
burger, and 8, P. McCaul, master mechanic,
moved 105,000 cars during that time and
2399 engines. This is certainly a great rail-
road record.
—8. C. Watts, who founded aud for thir-
teen years successfully carried on the Clear-
field Monitor, has disposed of the paper to R.
M. Butler, formerly connected with the
Curwensville Mountaineer. The Monitor has
always been recognized as one of the ablest
| and most fearless exponents of the Prohibi-
tion party in the country. Under the new
management the paper will cesse to be a
Prohibition organ.
—While saving the life of a young woman,
Frank Singer, aged 53 years, of Williams-
port, was knocked down and run over by a
freight train shifting at one of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad crossings Friday evening, and
lost his right leg. The man was running
across the tracks, when he struck the woman
‘| and knocked her down in the path of the 3
train. With a great effort he lifted her from
danger, but in doing so he tas caught.
—E. W. Swartz, of Jersey Shore, a brake-
man on the N.Y. C., while on duty on the
Hawk Run branch Wednesday morning of
last week, slipped and fell under the engine
and was so horribly injured that he died
three hours later. One arm was cut off at
the socket, one leg severed and’ his face'cut
up. The unfortunate man was taken to the
Cottage hospital, Philipsburg, where he died
at 12:20. Mr. Swartz, who was only 26, is
survived by his young wife, his parents and
one sister. He had been employed by the
N. Y. C. people for about five years.
—Stroudsbarg is getting too gay for the
Rev. W. Q. Bennett, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church, Addressing a meeting of
church members, pastor Bennelt paid partic-
ular atttention to dancing classes, and de-
clared that some parents found it necessary
for the proper education of children to send
them to such gatherings. He declared that
these same parents were willing to pay $1 a
lesson for this privilege, and yet were not
willing to pay anything toward the coal bill
of the church. He also denounced play-
houses as the ‘‘playgrounds of the devil.”