BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —1¢ is not what you were twenty-years ago that counts, but what you are today. —We should all. give thanks that we are well and, being well, we should be happy. —With McCURDY down and out of the New York Life THOMAS LAWSON bas made good another promise. — President ROOSEVELT is taking such an active hand in everybody’s troubles that he might be pressed into service asan ad- judicator of that PRUNER orphanage prob- lem. —AIll of the game in the mountains of Pennsylvania, except poor harrassed bruin, joined in a general Thanksgiving service last evening because the hunting season had ended. —Teach your children to have respect for age. No matter how humble one may be a younger person shows the best evi- d ence of gentle breeding when they are properly respectful. —The president has promulgated an order that cabinet meetings will be seoret hereafter. So they will but the President must needs keep the sieves out of his official family. —TF there is to be a new deal in Republi- can politics of Pennsylvania why don’t some of the ambitious young Republicans of Centre county endeavor to ges into it. There is a fine field here for the right man. —Were you properly thankful yesterday? If you had nothing more than good health you should have been on your knees thank- ing Heaven for something that all the money that JOHN D. ROCKERFELLER can eommand won't buy. —United States Senator BURTON having been convicted on all of the six counts against him a second sime there is merely another demur between him and two years in the penitentiary and $2,500 fine. —Thus far during the foot-ball season of 1905 nineteen players have been killed and one hundred and thirty-seven injured £0 badly that they will suffer the effects for life. Modern warfare or automobiles are little less destructive. —— We congratulate the policy holders in the big insurance companies on the fact that it won’t be necessary to maintain a lobby in Harrisburg during the extra session for the reason that there can be no insur- ance legislation under the call. The New York investigation reveals the fact that leg: islative lobbies are very expensive features of insurance management. —1It is too bad about that ‘‘impaired health?’ of Mr. MCCURDY, the president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. He bas been under such hot fire re- cently as to make him feel very badly and it was thonght that when he voluntarily cut his salary from $150,000 to $75,000 per annum that he would feel better, but the care didn’t work, the fire kept up and he had to resign. —According to a plan said to be formu- lating FRANK B. MCCLAIN, of Lancaster, is to deliver a speech at the opening of the special session of the Legislature that will stampede that body to JOHN P ELKIN a8 the new Mosgs who will lead the Republi- cans of Pennsylvania into the promised land of reform. Frank is a brilliant talker and an astute politician but it will take more than beautiful rhetoric and glitter- ing generalities to induce the honest meim- bers of that bedy to jump out of the jaws of Soylla into those of Charybdis. —The Sultan of Tarkey having been very bad of late the powers of Europe de- oided to make a demonstration in his waters. A demonstatrion is what we call brandishing the big stick. The Saltan, however, has sent out a cargo of presents for the menacing naval vessels and, as usual, had a lot of those dope cigarettes for which his country is famous in the consi gnment and it is to be expected that the dope will get in its work promptly enoangh to make the powers imagine that everything is as lovely as an utopian dream in Tarkey. ——The reform waveappears to have struck Senator SPROUL, of Delaware coun- ty, amidship. He says there are too many sinecures in the Legislature, which is true. “It i= a well known facs,”’ the Senator continued, ‘‘that there are dozens of men upon the rolls of employes of both the Senate and House who render little or no service for the money which is paid them.’’ So there are, but singularly enough the president pro tem. of the Senate, Mr. SPROUL, of Delaware, never found it out until the reform tide swept over the Com- monwealth and carried the wrecked ma- chine responsihle for that condition oat into the sea. ! —The Hon PERRY BELMONT'S project to have a national commission appointed looking to legislation that will require the publicity of campaign subscriptions will not meet with much favor among the fat fryers. Itisa matter worthy of note, too, that he has not included in his list of prom- inent men who could compass such an end any of the McCURDY’S, of New York Life fame. Surely they would be as usefal in giving information as to how such things are done as Brother WANAMAKER, who once raised a barrel of money to swing New York, or ANDY CARNEGIE, whom United States steel trast has always been bled in return for exorbitant prices on armor plate. CULE s STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 50 BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 1, 1905. Gratifying but Expensive. An esteemed Philadelphia contemporary has gone to the labor and taken .the pains to poll the present Legislature on the sab- jeot of the reforms proposed in the Gov- ernor’s proclamation calling an extra ses- sion and we are gratified to be able to an- nounce that all the Senators and Repre- sentatives are ‘‘solid’’ for everything. The Hon. SAMUEL RIPP, of Philadelphia, ex- presses the common sentiment of his Re- publican colleagues in his sententious and unequivocal declaration that he is in favor of ‘“‘any reform measures which are in the line of the Governor's views.”” As Mr. Ri1PP and most of his Republican associates voted against every reform measure in the line of the Governor’s views and every- body else’s views during the regular ses- sion and as he and they took pleasure and pride in supporting every iniquity which came from the BoAs mansion during that session, it is easy to see that a marvelous change in opinion has occurred. During the recent session of the Legisla- ture the handful of Democrats in the rep- resentative house voted consistently and continuously against the legislative atrooi- ties demanded by the machine and for the very reforms that are embodied in the Governo:’s proclamation. They were sup- ported in some instances by a contingent of Republican Senators and Representa- tives, but only in some, for our own Re- publican Representatives voted for the Philadelphia ripper and one or two other infamous propositions. It is gratifying, of course, that the change of heart has occur- red, for every step in the direction of bet- ter government deserves to be welcomed. Bat it is a trifle hard on the tax payers that the reform impulse expressed by the Hon. SAMUEL R1pp and his colleagues on the Republican side of the Legislature neces- sarily costs so much. In other words, it is a great pity that they didn’t see the re- form light during the regular session and thus save the public the cost of the extra session, a master of some balf million doi- lars according to conservative estimates. We own that the information that a re- form wave has swept over the State and submerged the Hon. SAMUEL RIPP and his political associates in the Legislature would appear :irfinitely more satisfying it we could beliéve that the change is in the heart of the Senators and Representatives rather than in the head. But unhappily we are not able to bring ourselves to that opin- ion. The Hon. SAMUEL and his associates are altogether too unanimous and quite too complete in their change for that. That is to say, they take tos eagerly the good and the bad of the Governor’s reform sugges- tions to be sincere. = The Hon. SAMUEL is just as enthusiastic for the Governor’s ab- surd pr oposition to increase the rate of in- terest on State deposits as he is for the merito rious suggestion in favor of personal registration. This fact gives a suspicions cast to the professions of reform of the Hon. SAMUEL R1pp and his Republican associ- ates in the Legislature. Vast Value of Farm Products. The farm products of this country for the present year aggregate $6,450,000,000 in value, according to statistics issued from the Department of Agricultare the other day. Of this immense total wheat count- ed for $525,000,000, oats for $282,000,000, potatoes for $138,000,000, barley $58,000,- 000, tobacco, $52,000,000, sugar cane and beets $50,000,000, dairy products $625,- 000,000, beef cattle $662,000,000, sheep and swine $283,000,000, corn $1,216,000,- 000, hay $605,000,000, and the balance represents the value of horses and mules and other products of the farm. The prod- ucts of the dairy and poultry amounted to as mcnh as the iron industry. In the history of the world no country has ever before produced from the soil such value in that time. It is small wonder, in view of these facts, that the farmers want banks and other conveniences and utilities, They produce the wealth and have just claim to the right to control it in part. But the exhibit does not reveal the vast wealth of the farmers. They bave paid off their mortgages, im proved their standard of liv- ing and hold at present lands of the value of more than $20,000,000,000, horses and mules of the value of $1,450,000,000 and agricultural machinery and implements to a figure beyond the dream of avarice. In the face of this exhibit how absurd appears the pretense that the prosperity of this country depends upon tariff taxation? As a matter of fact the tariff policy of the dominant party retards, rather than pro- motes the prosperity of the country. Upon the items of clothing, mackinery, imple- ments and other tariff-burdened articles which the farmers consume if is safe to es- timate a tariff taxation within the year of the aggregate of a billion dollars. We don’t say that that amount of their earn- ings went into the treasury in the form of revenue. Bat it went into the pockets of the tariff pampered manufacturing barons in the shape of enhanced profits and un- earned bounties and the farmers are foolish for permitting such robbery. Value of the Reform Movement. We are not inclined to underestimate either the force or the importance of the reform movement in Philadelphia. The defeat of the machine candidates for Sheriffs Coroner and City Commissioners in that city is not only highly significant but im- mensely valuable to the cause of political reform. It would hardly be just to say that the election of Mayor BERRY to the office of State Treasurer and the prospective improvement in the fiscal affairs of the Commonwealth are ascribable to that move- ment, though it was a potential contribu-! ting agent. As a matter of fact, however, notwithstanding the vast fraudulent vote in Allegheny county, the State outside of Philadelphia gave Mr. BERRY a consid- erable and very substantial majority. But the real value of the reform move- ment in Philadelphia is yet to be deter- mined. Se far as it has gone it is genuine and effective. The rout of the machine was complete and overwhelming for the time and the loss of the offices enumerated together with the reform in the executive department of the municipal government is a severe blow to the ‘‘organization.”” The serpent has only been scotched, however, not killed. The killing mast be done a$ the February election and if there is any abatement of zeal or impairment of energy on the part of the reform forces between now and then, there may be no killing at all. In other words the monster may recover from the wonuds inflicted and strike a fatal blow himself in February. And what is true of the city of Philadel- phia is true of all sections of the State. During the recent campaign we labored assiduously to show that the defeat of the local candidates in Philadelphia was of vastly less importance than the overthrow of the State machine. The effect of the election of Mayor BERRY on the public mind vindicates that opinion. If PLUMMER bad been successful the result on the Philadelphia local ticket would have heen langhed at by the machine managers. On the other hand his defeat was a solar plexus bump. But it must be supplemented by future victories of the people and the time and place to lay the foundations for future victories are in February and at the local elections. ——Even the Philadelphia courts have gone back on the machine. That is tosay, since the election it has beer announced that the courts will order the ballot boxes to be opened whenever there is ‘reasonable complaint of frand.”” When the DURHAM power was in full sway the courts shielded the ballot frauds by refusing to open the ballot boxes except upon impossible condi- tions. There has been a marvelous change and vast improvement beyond question. iniquitous Enterprise Doomed. The present signs respecting the Isth- mian canal are that there will be neither a sea level nor any other sort of a water way for many years. When the lock ditch system was changed to a sea-level scheme, delay was manifestly the purpose though defeat may not have been contemplated. But the evidences of graft and frand which have since developed in consequence of that change in plans have worked that re- sult, at least until a change in the political complexion of the administration in Wash- ington occurs. Even those in charge of the work distrust each other and there is the highest authority for the statement that ‘‘a house divided against itself cannot stand.”’ It is nearly three years now since Presi- dent ROOSEVELT organized a revolution in Panama in order to expedite his purpose of office. It was a dastard enterprise in- volving international bad faith and nation- al perfidy. But it was excused on the questionable principle that ‘‘the end justi- fied the means.’”” In other words, because it was believed that such a highway would greatly promote the commerce of the world the immorality of the method was over- looked. The expeotations with respect to the matter bave not been fulfilled, bow ever. The crime was committed and the purpose has not been achieved. Conceived in iniquity and brought forth in vice, therefore,the Panama canal scheme promises to leave an indelible stain upon the record of the nation without contribat- ing a mite to the promotion of human hap- piness or commercial progress. The re- cords show that it has proven an immense source of graft. Every man who has heen associated with it is smirched and now after nearly three years of looting, it bas heen practically abandoned. The coming Congress may be able to expiate the crimes which bave grown about the scheme but it will hardly be possible to even start the enterprise on a hopefnl basis within a generation. ——The way to get ballot reform legisla: tion during the coming extra session has been pointed out to Governor PENNYPACK- ER but he refuses to recognize it. The Governor doesn’t want ballot reform. Bal- lot frauds have heen too serviceable to hin. The Fifty-ninth Congress. The first session of the Fifty-ninth Con- gress will open on Monday next under pecul- iar conditions. In the Senate there are fifty-seven Republicans and thirty-two Democrats with one seat vacant. But two of the Republican Senators are ineligible to occupy their seats. That is to say MITCH- ELL, of Oregon, and BURTON, of Kansas, have been convicted of crimes since the ad- jouynment of the last session so that the Republican majority is twenty-three. In the House of Representatives there are 347 Republicans and 136 Democrats with three vacancies, or a Republican majority of 111. That would seem to leave ample margin for political contingencies and yet the trend of legislation is uncertain. In other words, nobody is abie to even conjecture the political alignments of the coming session. Mr. CANNON, of Illinois, will be elected Speaker of the House, be- yond question, for there is no serious, or at least no formidable opposition to him, and Major MeDOWELL, of this State, will be clerk. But beyond that nothing is cer- tain. There have been vast changes in political conditions since the adjournment of the last louse and as President ROOSE- VELT intends to make his caprices the standard of party fidelity rather than the traditions of the past. there may be quite as great a change, relatively speaking, in Congress during the coming session, as oc- curred in Pennsylvania and Obin at the recent election. One thing may be confidently predicted, however. The coming session wii! witness some material changes in the paity align. ments in both branches of Cougiess. In opposing tariff revision the President will alienate a considerable number of Republi- can Senators and Representatives and will receive no compensation for their loss from the Democrats. Oa the question of legislation to regulate railroad rates he will lose another lot of Lis former political friends but is likely to make up such losses by accessions from the Democratic side of the chamber. Meantime the public will watch the proceedings with interest and the WATCHMAN will give all the news as well as the facts all the time. ——Representative MeCraAIN, of Lan- caster, in a somewhat hysterical manifesto issued the other day calls upon the country Senators and Representatives in the Legis- lature to combine against the Philadelphia banditti, not only in matters of legislation bnt in respevt to party policies and candi- dates. During the regular session of the Legislature every attempt made by the de- cent element of the country membership to combine against the iniquities of the Phila- delphia banditti was resisted by Mr. Me- CLAIN with all the energy and eloquence he could command. Adversity appears to have had a ochastening inflaence on his mind also. Boss Leib Properly Rebuked. The summary and somewkat sarcastic removal of Assistant Treasurer LEIB, of Pottsville, from the office of sub-treasurer of Philadelphia, may be fitly characterized as ‘‘an echo of the election.” Before the recent land-slide, at least during the life of that consummate political huckster, Mr. QUAY, such a thing never would bave hap- pened. Bat the recent complete rout of the machine has admonished the President that there is nothing to expect from the legatees of QUAY, that everything is possi- ble from the other side and consequently the President in caustic terms and vitriolic tone serves notice on LEIB that he is under the ban of condemnation. We can’t withhold our admiration for the President in thus courageously ‘‘taking the bull by the horns.” LEIB has been monkeying with the buzz saw long enough. It has been shown, as the President states, that there ‘‘was constant and consistent ef- fort on your (Mr. LEIB’S) part to evade the provisions of the civil service law, to hamper its workings as far as possible, and to obstruct in every way the action of the commission.” While the patent force of QUAY and the machine was behind him that didn’t matter much, for it can be shown that the President is equally oul- pable. But QUAY is dead and the machine in disgrace and defeat and it is eminently just and proper, though not altogether con- sistent, that such palpable malfeasance should be publicly and emphatically con- demned. Probably if Mr. LEiB had had the least suspicion that the President is influenced by political reverses he wonld not have laid himself open to the epistolary castiga- tion from which he is now suffering. When QuAY was working to humiliate ELKIN and reward his sycophantic cousin SAM with a gubernatorial commission, the Presi- dent cheerfully consented to the use of the federal patronage as currency in bribing operations, and LEIB learned the value of evading the provision of the civil service law.”” Bat QUAY could guarantee the ‘“‘quid pro quo,’’ while LEIB is as helpless as an unborn babe in that respect and his humiliation is a just penalty for imbecility. For the WATCHMAN. DANKSAAGUNGSDAAG. (Pennsylvania German Dialect.) Wem sin mar schuldig unser Dank Far unser deeglich Schpeiss un Drank? Far Kleeder, Heemet, Umgang froh Un baddig far den Tarreky do? 'M Daadi der es Ess-sach grickt; De Mammi die sei Hosse flickt Un wollni Schtrimp un Hensching schtrickt; De Kinner, unser Druwwel un Freed; De Maad, die schmaertscht vun all de Meed, 'As fleissig darch die Arwet geht; All de Vewandte, un de Freind Aus denne ihre Gsichter scheint Die Lieb 'as Mensch mit Mensch vereint— Was waer die Welt werth unne Friend? De Vorvetter, as kumme sin Iwwer dar See un gschtritte hen Far Freiheit un Gerechtigkeit— Net juscht far ihre eege Gwinn Awwer aa far uns un alli Zeit; Mar danke aa de brau alt Aerd, Die gut alt Mu'ter ’as uns ernehrt; De Sunn mit ihre Hitz un Licht; 'M Muun mit seim bedriibte Gsicht; De Szhtarne as funkle in de nacht Un langsam gehne unne Sound Wie Uhre-zeeche ihre Round: Sie gehne ihre Gang so sacht Un saage nix vun ihrem Ziel Un doch vekindige gaar viel Vun de unbeschrenkte Gottesmacht; Dir, unserm Vater-un-Mutter-Gott, Der uns bis hieher g’holfe hot Un draagt in seinre allmachts Hand Es Schicksahl vun em jede Land, Dir danke mar in heechschte Graad! 0, fihr uns in deim eegne Paad Un mach uns schtandhaft in de Zeit Un seelig in de Ewigkeit! Amen! C. C. Ziegler. Is it the Coming Issue. From the Springfield Republican. The municipal ownership party move- ment in New York city is one of the most extraordinary upheavals in recent Ameri- can politics. Nor is the significance of it hard to find. There is little of the personal in this demonstration; it represents rather a popular rising over an issue, and that iesne is the plundering of our American cities through the bosses, by corrupting and aggrandizing corporations engaged in exploiting for private profit monopoly franchises of untold value. What has now happened in New York is a repetition essentially of what has been happening in Chicago—a demonstration of strong popular favor, whenever it has bad | jail. a chance to express itself, for the policy of public ownership of publie service enter- prises, as against the peliey of #ving over these privileges to private monopoly work- ing in leagne with the dominant political machine. There plainly exists among the people, even in this time of anexampled prosperity, great unrest over the concentration of wealth which is still going on apparently as never before, and the misnse of it as shown in the insurance exposures. There prevails a feeling that this grossly unequal distribution of the industrial product of the country is related in no small degree to the private ownership of monopoly privileges granted by law or assumed in spite of law; and the municipal ownership movement represents one direction in which the popu- lar protest is organizing for the preventive action. This is not surprising. It was bound to come some time, but that it should be able at this time to make so great a demon- stration in the first city of the country will amaze and confound the interests identified with the private exploitation of public privileges. The country is unquestionably face to face with a general extension of this movement, whose practical and ' successful application in a kindred country supposed to be far more consecutive than our own, is being known and read of by all oar people. A Reign of Terror? From the Washington Post. The President’s recent order authorizing heads of departments to discharge employes summarily, on any or no pretext, has had the effect of demoralizing the departmental service to a great extent. Scores of letters have been received by the Post from de- parsment clerks, complaining of the in- justice to which they are subjected. Near- ly every letter speaks of the necessity of withholding names, for fear of dismissal. These clerks are literally under a reign of terror. The protection of civil service has been made a mockery by its chief exponent. Yet, in spite of the duplicity and sycophan- cy that are sure to be developed under the new conditions, there is an unmistakable tone of righteous protest from these em- ployes who are deprived of the right to be beard in their own behalf. The govern- ment is treating them with injustice, and there will be friction, unsatisfactory work, and demoralization until the wrong is remedied. Les Congress face this situation promptly, and insure to its faithful ser- vants a square deal ! ; Z The Same Wrong in Pennsylvania. From the Pittsburg Pest. Thomas C. Platt’s admission that some of the life insurance companies had paid large sums to him for the Republican cam- paign fund, with the idea that he would exert his influence in their favor with the Legislature of New York, has caused a gen- eral denunciation of the New York Senator. While this is well deserved, it is well for the people of Pennsylvania to recollect that the same state of affairs has long existed in their own Commonwealth. The senatorial bosses of Pennsylvania have for many years received immense sums from the big cor- porations to be used for campaign and other purposes, the payment of which was made solely with the idea of securing the inflo- enoe of the bosses with the members of the Legislature. As aresult the big corpora- tions of Pennsylvania have practically dic- tated legislation. This state of affairs will continue until the people of the State elect a Legislature controlled by them, and not Spawls from the Keystone. —The Clearfield and Franklin railroad has decided not to use the B. R. & P. from Du- Bois to Clearfield, as was originally intended but will build their own tracks to the latter point. —J. C. Merrill’s fast trotter, ‘‘John Tay- lor’’ was sold at the Old Glory sale in New York last Thursday. The price paid for him was $2,100, but the name of the purchaser was not learned. - —Retail merchants all over Pennsylvania are being urged to get into line with a move- ment to obtain an amendment to the pure food laws so as to exempt the retailer from being penalized for the offenses of the whole - saler or manufacturer. —A few nights ago, at about 9.40, St. Louis Express, coming west, struck an object near Mill Creek. The engineer thinking some one had been killed, backed and discovered that it was a 200 pound decr, which he took to his home in Altoona. —John Coleman, a lumberman, of Wil- liamsport, has purchased the timber on the Hartshorne estate in Pike township, Clear- field county for $37,000. This tract covers 300 acres and is the last good tract of timber in this section of the county. —Rev. Samuel Cox died at the home of his daughter in Altoona, Monday morning, from infirmities due to his 90 years of age. De" ceased was one of the best known ministers in Blair county. He was born in Warriors. mark and all his life was spent in Blair and Huntingdon counties. —The Altoona glass plant was put into full operation on Saturday and the manufacture of glass was begun with a full complement of employes, numbering over one hundred and, twenty-four of whom will be blowers. The whole plant bas been put in first class condi- tion,and is now in completed running order. —Two of the oldest miners in Cambria county are residents of Moss Creek. They are Andy Boyle, who was born September, 1828, and Toney Dominick, born December, 1827, Boyle and Dominick are 77 and 78 years old, respectively. The two old men can be found at their work digging coal every working day in the week. —The coal interests of two townships, Am- well and West Rethlebem, in the southern part of Washington county, are being absorb- ed entirely by the United States Steel cor- poration, For some time agents of the steel combine have been at work there, and the deal, embracing about 60,000 acres, and for which almost $10,000,000 is to be paid, is al- most wound up. —Patrick McGovern, of Punxsutawney, has secured the contract for building = branch railroad from Sidney, near McGee's Mills, to an opening in the coal lands be- longing to a company whieh is composed of James B. Phelan, of Punxsutawney, and Michael Burns, of Houtzdale. The new line will be a continuation of a branch of the Pennsylvania railroad. —Judge C. B. Staples, of Stroudsburg, Pa., has directed Albert H. Kitner to pay the board bill of Alonzo Bartholomew as long as the latter remains a prisoner in the county Kitner sued Bartholomew for slander and got judgment for $950. Bartholomew is unable to pay,and if the order stands he will in all probability be released, as there is no public provision for maintaining the prisoner confined asa result of a damage suit for slander. = —While beside his 19-year-old son, Oscar Baker, whom he was bringing from a sick bed at Bluefield, Va., to his home in Harris- burg, Harry Baker, a conductor on the Mid- dle division of the Pennsylvania railroad, was instantly killed Saturday night in a wreck, before he and his son had passed through the Bluefield railroad yards. The train on which they were riding collided with a freight train. The young man escap- ed serious injury. —The first serious hunting accident in Clinton county occurred Thursday. A. L. Lichtenwalner,manager of the City Traction company, lost a hand. He slipped and fell, his gun swerved, was discharged and the shot entered the hand, tearing it to pieces. Being alone, he bound his arm with his handkerchief and, grasping the injured arm tightly with the right hand to check the flow of blood, walked to Salina, a distance of over a mile. $ —Corry is a fortunate town politically. The fish hatchery there gets an appropria- tion of $10,000; the schools $5,000, the hospit- al $4,000, and added to this the salaries of Hon. I. B. Brown, secretary of internal af- fairs, Captain M. N. Baker, deputy factory inspector; F. E. Mulkie,state bank examiner; W. W. Morgaridge, of the bureau of railroad statistics, and Miss Glenn Myer, stenogra- pher. The salaries paid these state employ- ees, together with the appropriations above mentioned, amount to about $30,000 a year. —During the past week the men who are excavating the trenches for the West End Water company’s pipe line, in Lock Haven, have unearthed a number of Indian relics— reminders of the dim past,when the red man held sway in the West Branch valley. The articles were found ata depth of nearly three feet, just below K. D. Packer’s place on the opposite side of the river, and consists of a skidding knife, whitestone, beads and a huge kettle, seversl feet in diameter, made of clay, around the rim of which several strings of Indian beads were hanging. —Several hundred thousand trees have been planted by the Pennsylvania railroad this year on plots of ground along its right of way and elsewhere, with the object of preparing for future needs of lumber for ties. In four years, up to October 1st, the company planted 477,295 trees at various points, chief- ly on the Philadelphia and Middle divisions. From January 1st to October 1st of this year there were 195,765 trees planted. It is de- sired to increase this number to 600,000 be- fore next spring. ' The company requires 3,850,000 ties a year. —Of the 558 persons, who took the recent examination before the State pharmaceuticay examining board, 287 passed as registered pharmacists and 99 as qualified assistants. Two women—Sister M. Cassilda Ruewe and Sister Mary Etheldreda, of Pittsburg, are among those who qualified as registered pharamacists. The law under which the board now acts will cease to be in force after the present year and the new law requiring applicants for degree to be a graduate of a regularly chartered and reputable college of by the bosses. pharmacy will be in force.
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