B8Y P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Japan is merely taking Korea as a chaser after her big Russian drink. —Some of the student strikers at State might find congenial spirits among the stadents in Russia. : —Governor PENNYPACKER got sea-sick on his voyage south, bat he didn’t regret anything. —Mr. GEORGE JOSE ROSE MCGEE seems %0 be the JOHN MITCHELL of the State Col- lege strikers. —Wouldn’t it be a good deal if we could trade the Philippines to some Power that would dig the canal for us? —The rule to omit flowers at the open- ing session of Congress deprived many of tthe Members of their only means of being conspicuous. —Of course Boy PENROSE cannot be kept away from Harrisburg but, certain it is, every decent Member or Senator can keep away from Boy PENROSE. —Had it not been for the peace of Ports- mouth Japan might easily have taken St. Petersburg, if, perchance, that unhappy city would be worth having. —Just seventeen days until Christmas. Remember that it is more blessed to give than receive and that it iz not the value, but the sentiment of the gift that counts. —President ROOSEVELT, in his message, told everyone and everyplace just what to do, with the notable exception of St. Louis. He failed to tell the people of that city how to properly entertain and feed vis- itors. —-The action of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Co. in declining to issme any [ree passes over its lines after January first next will throw consternation into the camp of the wortby gentlemen who will sit in the special session of the Legislature. —No silver dollars have been coined this year and there being prospect that none will be coined during 1906 unless the present Congress takes some action all the PALMER and BUCKNER bankers are raising a howl ahout the scarcity of silver coin. - —After the little unpleasantness of the past ten days we think it advisable that provision be made for P. G. work in stiik- ing at the Pennsylvania State College. There are a number of men there who have already earned the degree of walking dele- gate. —We notice that the City party man- agers in Philadelphia bave very philan- thropically arranged to fill all the offices secured as a result of the recent revolution in that city. Of course it is not to be ex- pected that the Democrats who helped will get anything else than snow-water. —Thbe Cubans who fought in the war against Spain have been voted pensions aggregating nineteen million dollars. The Island Republic must certainly be getting on when she has reached the stage of main- taining a pension department, with all its red tape, coffee coolers and sharks. —A new phase was put on the local political situation on Monday when CLEMENT DALE Esq. appeared in a fine pair of Congress gaiters. While Mr. DALE would not commit himseif the donning of such significant foot-wear is supposed to be notice to Uncle SoLLY DRESSER that there will be others after the Centre county con- ferees next Spring. —A bulletin issued by the United States census bureau states that one hundred in every thousand persons over thirteen years of age in this country are unable to read and write. Can it he possible the percent- age of illiteracy 1s so small(?) Judging from the number who claim that as a dis- ability on election day we imagined that about fifty per cent of the voters alone couldn’t read or write. —The Hon. HAMPTON L. CARSON'S nerve is only surpassed by Cousin PENNY- PACKER’S idiocy. If they can’t find the fraud in the State Treasury they are more than fools tc think that it is HOMER L. CASTLE’S duty to tell them how. Had Mr. BERRY not been elected and CASTLE put in the position to stick his probe into the State’s strong box these same CAKSON and PENNYPACKER would probably be insist- ing that ‘Pennsylvania has no ills worthy of mention.”’ —Congreseman BROWNLOW has immor- ta lized himself in the eyes of some by in- t roducing a bill in Congress which, if pass- ed, will make it a criminal offense for a sl eeping car porter to pull down the upper berths in a car when they are not in use. It is designed to make it more comfortable forthe occupant of a lower berth and so it would be, but what good would such a law accomplish? The sleeping car companies w ould probably retaliate by selling no lower berths at all until all the uppers were taken. —The Municipal News recently published a list of thirty-seven towns and cities in the United States that are receiving from $5,000 to $153,000 annually for franchises they have granted public service corpora- tions in their respective communities. The list is interesting to us because of the fact that Bellefonte has granted a number of franchises from which she does not receive a cent; viz, those of the Bell and Commer- cial telephone companies, the Bellefonte Electric Co, and the Bellefonte Gas and Steam Heating Co. The latter having been an exceedingly expensive one to the bor- ough because of the manner in which the streets are frequently dug up and left in a condition of repair that unusally requires the attention of the street commissioners at a later date. VOL. 50 Elkin a Poor Peace Offering. m—— That the PENROSE—DURHAM machine intends to use Justice ELKIN as a peace of- fering to public opinion is now entirely ob- vious. In their fatuous stupidity the lead- ers of that corrupt combination imagine that the tremendous political vprising which culminated in the land-slide of No- vember 7 had its inception in the defeat of Mr. ELKIN for the gubernatorial nomina- tion three years ago and that by conferring upon him the party favor now popular in- dignaticn will be appeased. There is noth- ing further from the facts. There was juste ly more or less complaint three years ago because of the manner in which Cousin PENNYPACKER was catapulted into the nomination. As Major MERRITT stated at the time a majority of the convention was changed over night by ‘‘mysterious influences,”’ and that fact provoked resent- ment. But no sane or honest man sincere- ly regretted the defeat of ELKIN. Asa matter of fact he represented all that was most vicious in the politics of the State and if he bad been nominated instead of PENNYPACKER the revolt which now prom- ises a political regeneration of the State would have come then instead of this year. The defeat of ELKIN in the Republican convention of 1902 was not a triumph of the machine over political morality and the assumption by PENROSE and DURHAM that it was simply proves that they haven’t the remotest conception of political conditions or influences. QUAY ordered the defeat of ELKIN for that nomination primarily for the reason that ELKIN’S record was 80 no- toriously rotten that the older and wiser political conspirator was afraid to attempt to carry it through the campaign. That PENNYPACKER was chosen as the instru- ment with whom to achieve the result is ascribable to the fact that QUAY knew that PENNYPACKER could be depended on for any iniquity while the public was laboring under the delusion that he was honest. QUAY understood his man. He knew that beneath an exterior which conveyed the notion of an unsophisticated nature there was a wicked heart and a mind which idolized vice. He felt certain that a man who estimated QUAY as superior to WEB- STER, and DURHAM as “the most influ- ential political” leader in Philadelphia,’ would serve: the purposesof the machine quite as well as ELKIN and would be much easier to elect. Therefore in using ELKIN as a sacrifice to appease public indignation now, the ma- chine managers reveal little political per- spicacity. Three years ago, with the ballot fraud machinery in Philadelphia in active operation and unimpaired condition, ELKIN might have heen elected notwithstanding bis infamous record in relation to padded pay rolls and criminal indemnifying bonds. But QUAY was afraid to take the chances. Since that ELKIN has heen elected to the bench but under conditions which worked no condonation of his crimes of the past. For that reason his nomination by the coming convention would be an insult to the conscience of the Commonwealth and an outrage on the integrity of the people. Leaders who wonld make such a proposi- tion must be more than drunk. They must be rank mad for the people would condemn it with such an avalanche of ballots as would make J. LEE PLUMMER imagine that he has been a popular candidate. QUAY’s method of deception is infinitely wiser than so bold a contempt of decent public sentiment. ; The Remedy Worse than the Disease, We may all agree upon the proposition that the vast corporations of the country treat the public unfairly. By collusion and other expedients of high finance the people of the country are robbed mercilessly and the loot goes into the treasuries of the cor- porations. For example, the railroads al- low the Steel trust to greatly overcharge for rails and cars because they can reim- burse themselves for the loss by excessive tariff for their service. Steel rails are sold by the American manufacturers in London for $8 a ton les§’than in New York for the reason that ‘after all the shippers and trav- ellers pay the money. The same discrim- ination is made in other commodities. But there cannot be the same unanimity of opinion as to the remedy. That is to say, thoughtful men can’t agree with the President and those who support his pol- -| icies upon a scheme which involves the most complete concentration of power in the governmentat Washington. and the most absolute paternalism. For a dozen years or more the trend of public sentiment ‘has been in that direction and out of that fact has unquestionably evolved the Presi- dent’s idea of Federal control of railroad rates. But recently a change bas ocourred in this matter. Co-incident with the as- sertion of the public conscience against “grafting’’ there has been a reversal of public opinion op the subject of paternal- ism and as Judge GRosscUP, of Chicago, said the other day ‘‘the one thing more important than any other is that the owner- ship of wealth should he diverted from the corporations towards individuaals.”’ STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 8, 1905. If that be true, and it can hardly be questioned, the proposed legislation to vest in the Federal government control of the railroads would work infinitely greater harm than the unfair dealing of the corpo- rations accomplishes. In other words, we would “‘better hear the ills we have than fly to others we know not of,’’ if govern- ment control of the corporations is the only remedy for the existing evil. But happily that is not the case. Corporations may be amply restrained through State legislation if the authorities who administer the gov- ernments are honest and courageous and the unfair discrimination checked by the repeal of the tariff taxation on products. A Just ‘Decision by Root. Secretary of State RooT bas greatly dise appointed a number of American citizens by his recent decision that the Isle of Pines is a part of the Cuban Republic and that they ‘‘are bound to render obedience to the laws of that country,’’ as long as they remain on the sland. The enterprising American citizens to whom this observa- tion was addressed area group of gentle- men who took possession of the Isle of Pines at the termination of the Spanish war. They bought some of the compara- tively worthless territory and organized a club to exploit it. The first step was to ‘““raise the American sovereignty'’ over the territory and that achieved they proceeded to terrorize the natives and rob them. This isa habit which American adven- turers have in dealing with the people of weak and helpless South American cogn- tries. Shameful to say, moreover, it has been greatly encouraged by the present ad- ministration of the government at Wash- ington. It gave great opportunity to call out fleets of battleships and flotillas of craisers and torpedoboat destroyers and swish the big stick in the face of the world until weak powers on all parts of the globe trembled. Bat for some reason, as yet un- explained, it didn’t work in this particular case. Mr. Roor waa Secretary of War when the conspiracy was hatched and maybe felt that his honor was involved in doing jus- tice to Cuba. : > In any event fair-minded citizens of the United States must have felt a thrill of pride when they read the manly and ob: viously just decision in question. If it goes no further, and other adventurers are allowed to commit similar outrages in oth- er portions of South America, it will still serve the purpose of making a lucid inter- val in Washington which can be referred to with pride and satisfaction for a long time. But if on the other hand, as the esteemed Johnstown Democrat suggests, it means ‘‘that our government has ceased to be a bully and a braggart,” then it is indeed a beneficence and a source of honor at which all may justly and properly rejoice. The President and Congress. We are inclined to agree with Represent- ative HAY, of Virginia, in his protest against the support of President Roosk- VELT’S policies by the Democrats in Con- gress. We have a good deal of faith in the intelligence and wisdom of JoHN SHARP WILLIAMS, the Democratic leader in the House, an abiding confidence in his integ-. rity and patriotism, But as Representa- tive HAY states ‘ROOSEVELT is as far fo- day from the good, cardinal principles of Democracy as he ever was,’ and, besides, as Mr. HAY continues, ‘he has not ‘made good’ on a single national factor. It, he sacceeds in getting his rate bill through this Congress,’” Mr. HAY adds, ‘‘it will be’ the first thing he has accomplished which broadly affects the national welfare.’ President ROOSEVELT has acquired an ex- traordinary popularity by his dramatic methods and spectacular movements. But we question whether it is an enduring or deserved endorsement. For example, he has absolutely disregarded the traditional as well as the constitutional restrictions upon the authority of the President which in- fluenced all his predecessors and the more radical and direct his usurpations the more liberal the applause. Possibly no evil may come from his encroachments upon)” other departments of the government and the bad consequences of his usurpations may, be averted by fortuitous circumstances in the future. But there is immense danger in such things in any event and we doubt the expediency of encouraging them. We couldn’t recommend the Democrats in. Congress to vote against a measure for the reason that it has the approval of the President. That would be a childish pro- cedure. Bat neither would we counsel tho support of bills partly right and partly wrong simply to create the impression that Democrats in Congress age free from parti- sanship.. On the contrary we prefer to fol- low Mr. HAY'S suggestion that the Demo- orats frame bills of their own ‘embodying their principles and theirs only.” If that course is purened the President and bis friends on the Republican side of the House can accept the Democratic legislation or en- act their own bills by their own strength, Let ROOSEVELT draw lis own ohestnuts out of the fire. tt : Governor Pennypacker’s Preference. Our curious Governor has declared his disapproval of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. The distinguished statesman, diplomas, soien- tist and philosopher, who shed more lustre on and won more fame for the State of Pennsylvania than all others of his day and generation, happened $o be a printer and PENNYPACKER can’t tolerate printers. Moreover BENJAMIN FRANKLIN had a bard struggle in early life to ‘‘make ends meet,’’ and sometimes his obligations of a pecuniary character were not discharged as promptly as punctiliousness requires. Be- | cause of that fact Governor PENNYPACKER says he didn’t pay his dehts and conse- quently was not a good citizen. There- fore our curions Governor has con- cluded to sell all the literature, manu- sciipts, pamphlets and other forms of ‘Fravklinania,’’ which he has been able to collect by assiduous effort during a consid- erable time. The late GE0. WASHINGTON had a vastly different notions of FRANKLIN. The illus- trious ‘‘Father of the Republic’ put the highest estimate on his services to the country both at home aud abroad upon his contribution to the uplifting of humanity and the progress of civilization through his literary and scientific achievements. Wash- ington had the integrity to estimate justly and the manliness to express his opinions fairly. FRANKLIN might have heen his rival in popular favor and public affairs but his judgment was not clouded by the cancer of envy or the corrosive influence of prejudice. Of all the tributes of esteem and confidence which he has left to adorn the archives of tbe government and decorate the history of Lis life that to FRANKLIN was the most generons and spovtaneous. It will remain radiant when the recollec- tions of all the PENNYP ACKERS hae faded from the earth. PENNYPACKER was probably moved to the expression of his disapproval of FRANK- LIN by the fact that some of the self-re- specting newspapers of the State had recent- ly suggested that a monument to FRANK- LIN in the new capitol building or park would be fitter than a similar testimonial to the memory of QUAY. FRANKLIN was a riot, unselfish, earnest, self-sacrificing, bovest. ~The other was a criminal, selfish, ‘sordid, grasping, whose whole life was spent in devising methods for looting the public, debauching official life and feeding his cupidity. As between these two PEN- NYPACKER'S affections and admirations naturally go toward QUAY. “‘Birdsof a feather flock together’ and thongh PEN- NYPACKER has never been compelled to plead the statutes of limitation to preserve his personal liberty he would exalt asa model for the youth of the Commonwealth one who did. Attorney General Carson and Mr. Castle. A curious correspondence between At- torney General HAMPTON L. CARSON and the Hon. HOMER L. CASTLE, recently a Prohibition candidate for the Superior Court bench, has been made public within the past week. It will be remembered that daring the recent campaign Mr. CAs- TLE charged numerous irregularities in the age of the State funds, all of which were subsequently confirmed by the failure of the Enterprise National bank, of Allegheny City, and other incidents. Since the elec- tion State Treasurer-elect BERRY has publicly announced that upon his accession to the office he will designate Mr. CASTLE as counsel for the department to investi- gate and expose irregularities which are alleged to exist but were not referred to in his speeches. Thereupon Attorney General CARSON invited Mr. CASTLE to give him all his information on the subject in order that the investigation may be inaugurated and completed before Mr. BERRY comes to the office. Obviously CARSON imagined that Cas- TLE i8 a simpleton. Philadelphia lawyers are inclined to put that estimate upon the lawyers of other parts of the State. Ever singe the election the Republicans in office have been striving with great energy nos only to correct the abuses in the treasury management but to destroy all evidence thas they had ever existed. State bonds are being purchased as required by law wherever they can be found and worthless securities for the deposit of State funds are being replaced by substantial and valid bonds. This official house cleaning ie making rapid and hopeful progress and the manipulators of the State moneys during recent years are beginning to have confi- dence that by the first of May they will have things in tolerably good shape for even a genuine investigation. But they would like to remove all chances of failure and Attorney General CARSON hoped to use Mr. CASTLE in it making certain. But the conrageous and capable Prohibi- tionist, politician and lawyer appears to bave disappointed him. With ample means of acquiring all the information needed, Mr. CASTLE declared, the Attor- ney General bas no right to call upon a private citizen for facts unless in the char- NO 48. acter of a witness in a judical proceeding. It is a patriotic duty to aid the authorities in exposing fraud, the Attorney General protested. So it is if the authorities are sincere in their purpose to conserve the public good. Bat it is neither a patriotic duty nor any other kind of a duty to help the authorities to shield crininals and de- stroy the evidences of their crimes and that is manifestly what Mr. CASTLE was expect: ed todo. If he had complied with. Mr. CARSON’s request now there would bave been little chance of achieving results after he becomes counsel for the State Treasurer next May. iE — Taint that the Republican Party Must Stand Responsible For. From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner. .. Boasting that the Republican party may be depended upon to provide a businessad- ministration of public affairs, these epub- lican editors expect the people to overlook the gross extravagance, the private snaps, the embezzlements and the frauds general- ly that have been committed under Repab- lican administration. They expeot the people to forget the deficit for the lass fiscal year and to overlook the prospective deficit for the current year. : : Deitrich, Burton and Mitchell, United States senators, and the several 1epresenta- tives in congress who were required to answer to criminal indictments were elect- ed to office hy the Republican party. - _ Former Governor Odell, who has not clearly explained how he bappened to be paid $75,000 in the settlement of a suit pending against the Equitable Life Assur- ance society, is the present day Republican boss of New York. ih RE The frauds committed by the machines and others in the postoffice department were committed by men who, in 1896, were either avowed Republicans or were so zeal- ous for the ‘‘national honor” that they rushed to the support of the Republican ticket in that campaign, and held their of- fices under Republican administration. The frauds committed, in Cnba by the Neelys were perpetrated by distinguished Republicans, and under Republican ad- ministration. : : Loomis, whose official transactions. in Venezuela were so discreditable that, althongh, plainly, he had the friendship of the administration, he was required to re- tire from the diplomatic service, was one of the noisiest pretenders in 1896; and his official existence was made possible hy the Republican party. Uo Depew, the United States senator lately unmasked in various ways, pleaded in 1896 for what he called ‘the salvation country.’ oth a He was elected and re-e bhi 8 by the Republican party, and with all his discreditable conduct still holds his official position without serious protest on the part ‘of Republican leaders. McCall, McCurdy, Hyde, Harriman and the other frenzied financiers into whose af- fairs Attorney Hughes has recently insert ed the probe, were greatly exercised in 1896 lest the honor of the United States be tarnished. They are the men upon whose testimony the Republican party has often relied to prove that it is, in” fact and in deed, the party of “God and morality.” Andrews, the Detroit banker who charg- ed the Democratic candidite in 1896 with being “‘the dishonest leader of dishonest men,’’ and was subsequently shown to be an embezzler to the extent of $1,600,000, was a champion of the Republican party. Bigelow, the Milwaukee banker who re- cently defaulted to the extent of more than three million dollars, pleaded for the elec- tion of the Republican ticket in 1896 .in order that the ‘business interests’’ of the country might be preserved. Rockefeller and every one of his cheaper imitations—men who seek to pile np wealth at the expense of their helpless fellows— not only vote the Republican ticket, but from their illgotten gains, contribute lib- erally to Republican campaign funds. Reform has Come to Stay. From a Speech by Gov. Folk of Missouri. The next few years will be distinguished as the time in which industrial problems are settled, the reign of special privileges -brought to an end, the recognition of the doctrine of equal rights fixed in national policies and in the conspience of mankind. We are in the midst of the most drastic period of American history, the period in which the people’s rights are to be defined and observed as they have never been be- fore." The men who share in these activities in a capacity no matter how humble, are taking part in the tremendous moral up- heavals now going on. A . ‘There have been great reform movements in the days gone by, but they were spas- modic; the vampires of graft were driven away and remained but a season, and then returned after the waves of public indigna- tion had spent their fury. The present presents a situation of brighter promise to. our vision. Reform shows signs of becom- ing universal instead of local and ‘transi- tory. The revolt from political oppression is rearing its head in city after city and State after State. A civic regeneration - is going on all aver the land. Will it last? is the question. =~ Will not the people soon forget and allow things to continue in the same old way? I answer no. Revolutions never go backwards, and thisisa revolu- tion that has been wrought in the con- sciences of men. We are but in the begin- ning of the movement for higher ideals in our political life which will gather strength as the years go by. The elections of last week were but the taking of the first breastworks of the opposition. The fight will go on with unceasing vigor and the time will come when the people can rest on their arms in idleness. A : The moral idea in politics bas come to stay. = This wave of patriotism of peace will go on with increasing force. : ——Many Iriends throughout the State will rejoice to learn of the entire recovery of the Hon. J. K. P. HALL,after a protrac- ted illness of the most serious nature. He was able to resnme charge of his various business enterprises during the fore part of the week. : Spawls from the Keystone. —8ix neighboring Lehigh county farmers raised nearly 11,000 bushels of potatoes. —Mus. Elizabeth Lehman, of Mt. Joy, in ber 102d year, is the oldest resident of Lan- caster county. : —The Moravian church at Lancaster Sun- day celebrated the 160th anniversary of its organization. —Several burglaries in and around Carlisle the past week have netted the enterprising burglars nearly $1,000. : —The Baffalo & Susquehanna Coal come pany wiil erect fifty houses at Tyler, Clears field county, in the near future. —The Pennsylvania railroad has issued an order that its employees must not be en- gaged in any other business while working for the cor pany. —The local trolley company of Sunbury expeets to extend its line to Shamokin, thug fore-stalling farmer Kulp’s project to run his Shamokin line to Sunbury. —A grade crossing accident,due to a heavy snow storm late Monday afternoon east of Erie, may result in the death of three chil- dren of Joseph Schwartz, a truck farmer. —The Williamsburg paper mill is to have an additional equipment costing $100,000, Chas. M. Schwab is ambitious to make the Williamsburg mill the finest in the country. —On account of an outbreak of scarlet fever in Saxton, Bedford county, the schools have been closed,and assemblages in churches and halls prohibited by the board of health. —The Mahler glass plant of DuBois,employ- ing 150 men and paying out $30,000 a month, was closed down Monday because of financial stringencies. This means a great loss to Du- Bois. —Beginning Friday the men employed in the Altoona shops will work ten hours a day. Heretofore the men had been working nine hours per day, but the increased orders has made it necessary to work another hour. —The town council of Barneshoro has of- fered a reward of $250 and the commisoners of Cambria county have added $500, for the arrest of Frank Farrell, who shot and killed Samuel Taylor, policeman, of Barneshoro, on November 12th, 1905. : —Clarence Brawley, an employe of the Adams Express company at the Pennsylvania railroad station at Cresson, was fatally in. jured by being struck by a passenger train at Cresson at 9:24 o'clock Friday morning. He died a few hours later in the Altoona hos- pital. —James H. Allport, of Barnesboro, has Just received an ink stand, ash receiver and two thermometers,all made from the hoofs of the large Moose he Killed in the Maine woods last winter. They are beautiful ornaments, and show the handi-work of an artist in their manufacture. —The Clearfield and Franklin railroad, now building into Clearfield county, will have its own tracks for the entire distance of the road. A corps of engineers are now at work running the grade between DuBois and Clearfield, and they report that it will be a most excellent grade. —The Pennsylvania Railroad company’ moved 185,080 freight cars over its main’ line in November, establishing a new record, The best previous record was made in June, 1902, when 184,983 cars were hauvled. Of the 185,000 cars moved in the month just closed, 111,940 were loaded. —The prospects are most encouraging for Huntingdon county’s obtaining a state fish hatchery and the favored spot is Spruce Creek. Several months ago:Barree was re- garded as a very suitable place but as the water rights of Diamond creek were owned by an official of the Pennsylvania railroad and could not be purchased, that site bad to be abandoned. —That the Beezer Bros., of Pittsburg, will be awarded the contract fox, the plans of the Penn Traffic company’s magnificent new building at Johnstown, has been pretty de- finitely decided. The building will be at least 300 feet long, of adequate depth, and will not only be the largest mercantile ¢s- tablishment under one roof in this State, but will rank among the handsomest. —Dr. Gustave Adolph Prieson,a prominen? physician of Lock Haven, died at his home in that place Saturday morning last. He had been a resident there for forty-nine years. He was almost 75 years old and was a native of France, but came to the United States in 1858, and leaves a wife and one : daughter. He was a member of the Sixth regiment, Pennsylvania cavalry, during the Civil war. —Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs Theodore B. Kline has just completed a care- ful estimate of what the population of Penn- sylvania will be on January 1st, 1906. Mr. Kline's figures are 7,562,538. The census of 1900 gave the State a population of 6,305,115, showing the present estimate to be an in- crease of 1,204,423 souls. At this rate of in crease Pennsylvania would have about 8,750,- 000 people in 1910. —A charter was granted to the Farmers & Merchants’ Telephone company, capital stock $6,000,having the home office at Beaver Springs. The new company has a right to operate in Snyder and Mifflin counties, but for the present will confine its business to points between and including Lewistown and-Middleburg, Beaver Springs and Troxel- ville, McClure and Bannerville. Other branch lines will be constructed as occasion demands. —Roy C. McCurdy, of Harrisburg,shot and slightly wounded Mrs. Mary Chard with a revolver, then shot himself, inflicting injuries from which he died three hours later. The shooting occurred in the street while the woman was on the way to a butcher shop near her home, Mis. Chard is about 42 years old and is the wife of a Pennsylvania railroad freight con- ductor, McCurdy was only 19 years old, and was employed as a caller hy the Penn- sylvania railroad. " —Perry Brubaker, of Cedar Lane, Lan- caster county, although 90 years old, recent- .| ly walked from his home to that of his son in Lancaster, a distance of more than twenty miles, and a walk of four or five miles is his usual daily excercise. Mr. Brubaker is probably the oldest fox hunter in the coun- try. He was only 14 years old when he and the late Brisben Skiles, the famous Salisbury hunter, chased their first quarry, and for many years the two old sportsmen were the -| feature of every chase hel in the couniy.
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