Beworrai tc
8Y FP. GRAY MEEK.
~—What's that we've heard about winter
lingering in the lap of spring.
—That new Pittsburg Sun looks as if it
might develop a few pretty bot rays.
—Now the question is: Did the ground
bog do it or was it merely a freak of the
weather mau.
—Because coal oil bas gone up halla
cent a gallon is no reason that itis costing
ROCKERFELLER a little extra to keep bid.
—Mr. BELLAMY STORER'S recall from
the Austria-Hangary post looks very much
like a plain case of kicking a man out of
office.
—The Philipsburg Ledger is boasting
because that place is 1400 feet above sea
level and we always thooght it ‘‘on the
dead level.”
—New York gas has gone dewn to eighty
cents. In Bellefonte it is just as precious
as ever and can’t be bought for less than a
dollar-eighty.
—A lady has just given $50,000 to
Harvard to establish a professorship of
ne urapathology. It is a little bard to say
at first, but it is a good thing.
— Rumor has it that ‘‘the best people are
taking snuff again.’”’ Many of them never
stop taking anything they can get until
they either wind up in prison or the grave.
—8o0 it was the police that stopped
Prince Henry of Prussia when he ran into
a team with his automobile. How silly
we were to think that it was the team that
stopped him.
—A negro has just been lynched down
in Louisiana for stealing a call. And we
suppose those hasty Louisianiane never
stopped to ask him whether he had it
himself.
—Poor Count BoN1 was too sick to at-
tend the divorce court in Paris in which his
wife was separating him from about the
nicest graft be ever enjoyed. It was no
wonder he was sick.
—Mr. HORNBLOWER may call ANDY
HAMILTON a clown as much as be pleases,
but no body has heard of HOBNBLOWER
bustin hie sides laughin’ at HAMILTON'S
actions at Albany last week.
—And now they are to oust poor
OHAUNCEY DEPEW from the corporation of
Yale. Verily, when a man is found out
his trials are many. This will add a sort
of Yale blue feeling to CHAUNCEY'S other
miseries.
—@Great Britain has cut down her naval
appropriation $25,000,000 for the current
year. And with us it is different. We
must go on spending vast sums for a vavy
that will be obsolete before we get into
another war.
—A New York magistrate ordered the
release of a prisoner from jail because he
wrote such good poetry. Here is a cue for
the poet-laureate of the West ward if he
ever gets too full of enthusiasm and wakens
up on “‘the hill.”
—The town of Charlton, Iowa, is wor-
ried because its honorable mayor has been
sentenced to a term of one year in an
in ebriate asylum. Probubly the onerous
duties of the office for which he received
no pay drove him to drink.
— There was a robin singing in Belle-
fonte on the first day of spring, but the
poor little bird bad a hall frozen trill. The
thermometer stood at 10° above 0 and there
was ten inches of suow on the ground with
the finest sleighing of the year.
—If WALTER WELLMAN really wants a
gas bag that will stay up in the air until
he finds the North pole he might try to
oon nect in transit with that congressional
boom of Judge LOVE'S that was let go some
months since and has never heen heard
of again.
~The Chester butcher who sawed his
thamb off while cutting a bam in two
made a natural mistake. A man who is
too dumb to get his thumb out of the way
of thesaw is not a man at all. Heiea
ham, therefore it was all right for him to
do just as he did.
—Gen. Karopatkin is perfectly safe in
laying the cause of the defeat of the Rus-
sian armies to their unpreparedness because,
since he was minister of war before the
trouble with Japan developed, it was his
own duty to have had the army ready, and
he is not likely to resent this charge of
dereliction made by himself.
~— Harper's Weekly suggests WooDROW
WiLson, of Princeton, as a likely man for
President and backs up the suggestion by
saying ‘‘he has no enemies.” Perhaps he
hasn’t any known to Harper'sbut get him
ont as a real aspirant and then you will
see them hobbing up. Every man has to
ran for office once before he really knows
who and what he is. :
—OIf course no one would assume to
know the court’s mind or to know what
the court knows abont it, but the impres-
sion is pretty general that the courts action
in refusing a wholesale beer license in
Bellefonte must be due to a peculiar pro-
cess of reasoning. Just why there should
be necessity {or three wholesale beer and
liquor licenses in Philipsburg and none in
Bellefonte is a matter that could scarcely
he measured by a relative drinking pro-
pensity between the two towns.
VOL. 51
Colonel Cooper's Conversion.
In accepting the nomination of his party
for re-election to the General Assembly the
Hon. THoMAs V. CooPER, of Delaware
county, declared that he will favor legisla-
tion authorizing trolley railroads to carry
freight. Mr. Coorer bas always, hereto-
fore, led the opposition to this manifestly
just policy. During the regular sessions
of 1903 and 1905 he was chairman of the
House committee on railroads, and instra-
mental in forthering bills to authorize
trolley lines to carry freight. During the
recent extra session he was persistent and
vehement in opposing the adoption of a
resolution requesting the Governor to
amend his proclamation calling the extra
session so as to include such a measure
among the subjects of legislation.
His declaration the other day, therefore,
to the effect that he will support such leg-
islation in the event of his re-election,
comes in the form of a surprise. This,
however, is not for the reason that it ex-
presses a reversal of Colonel COOPER'S opin-
ions on an important public question.
Those who have closely followed the pub-
lic record of that peculiar statesman have
long since learned that his opinions, like
the buckster’s stock-in-trade, are for sale
| and the steam railroad baving withdrawn
from the market they have no pecuniary
value and can be given gratis with best ad-
vantage to the public. For that reason
Colonel COOPER has deemed it expedient to
profess a friendliness for legislation to per-
mit the trolley lines to carry freight. The
people want that kind of legislation and
Colonel CooPER prefers a seat in the band
Wagon.
The surprise is, however, that political
conditions in Delaware county are such
that it is necessary for Colonel CooPER to
stultify himself in order to secure a re-elec-
tion to the Legislature. Hitherto, for at
least a quarter of a century, the machine
majority in that county has been so over-
whelming that Colonel CooPER and his
associate machine managers could ‘‘snap
their fingers'’ at public sentiment and they
did it with reckless disregard of conse.
quences. Delaware county is gridironed
with trolley railway lines and for more
than a dozen years a vast majority of the
people have favored legislation to permit
them to carry freight. But Colonel Coop-
ER opposed them to such an extent that he
became known as the ‘‘floor-walker’’ for
steam roads. Now that the public con-
science has been aroused, however, and
public sentiment is determined to assert
itself, Colonel CooPER comes forward as an
‘‘eleventh-hour convert’ in the hope that
he may fool the people into supporting
him.
Speaker Cannon's Supreme Folly.
It Speaker CANNON had set out to prove
the justice of the claim that the Senate is
entitled to greater consideration than the
House of Representatives, he could hardly
have chosen a more certain course to the
result than that he has adopted in the mat-
ter of the Statehood bill. That is to say,
in resentment of the constitutional right of
the Senate to amend that measure. the
‘‘anspeakable’’ Speaker has undertaken to
provoke an irreconcilable quarrel between
the two branches of Congress, with the ex-
pressed purpose of compelling the Senate to
yield or defeating the legislation altogeth-
er.
In the matter of the dispute the Senate
is absolutely right. The House, without
deliberation or discussion, passed a bill
creating a State out of the territories of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory and anoth-
er out of the territories of Arizona and
and New Mexico. The first of these prop-
ositions is entirely tenable. The two ter-
ritories form a community amply large in
area and population and entirely homogen-
ious. The people are entirely willing
and are anxious to be united and it would
be a hardship to deny them the constisu-
tional right of statehood. But the people
of Arizona and New Mexico are of differ-
ent races, opposite temperament, diverse
interests and bitterly opposed to union.
Therefore the Senate justly and wisely
amended the bill by striking out the pro-
vision which created Arizona and New
Mexico into a State and concurring in that
which creates a State of Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory.
It seems that President ROOSEVELT fa-
vored the House plan and exerted all his
power to dragoon Senators into adopting
it. Appealing to the trust for patronage of
the House membership, therefore, Speaker
CANNON begs the House to maintain its
own dignity and rebuke the usurpation of
the Senate in failing to obey the wishes of
the President. As a matter of fact the Sen-
ate bas not usnrped any prerogative either
of the President or the House. It has sim-
ply fulfilled its constitutional duty and for
that deserves and will receive a fall meas-
ure of popular approval. Speaker CaN-
NON is digging his own political grave.
~——ftate College borough Las contract-
ed with the Nittany Light, Heat and
Power company to light the streets of the
borough for $1.75 a light per month.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
General Wood's Natural Plea.
General LEONARD WoOD very patarally
protests that there was no ‘‘wanton slaugh-
ter’’ of Moros in the capture of Mount Fa-
jo recently. The colony was completely
extirpated, he admits, and women and
children, as well as men and boys, were
shot or bayonetted. But it was a military
necessity to extinguish the band for the
reason that some of the women wore trous-
ers, and all of them fought with desperate
earnestness for the preservation of their
firesides. Our own wives and daughters
would probably do the same thing under
similar circomstances, but that is neither
here nor there. General WooD is the cus-
todian of ‘‘the honor of the flag’ in that
“‘insular posseseion’’ and the naked babes
and tronsered women stood in his way.
When the late HENRY WARD BEECHER
was testifying in the celebrated TILTON
trial and was asked whether Mrs. TILTON
had bad improper relations with himself,
be dramatically declared that she was ‘‘in-
nocent of the great transgression.’’ Most
persons accused of crimes, misdemeanors
or other social affiances plead not guilty,
though the evidence against them is over-
whelming. As a rule, however, the ques-
tion of guilt or innocence is not left to the
accused. Inother words, the average court
of justice doesn’t accept the plea of not
guilty as ‘‘of course, entirely satisfactory.”
That appears to be a process peculiar to
President ROOSEVELT, who not only com-
mendes the action of the case in point, but
adds that ‘‘it was a most gallant and sol-
dierly feat,” that it ‘‘confers added credit
on the American army.’
We are not disposed to condemn General
Woop or those associated with him in
what might be justly designated as ‘‘the
massacre of Jolo,’”’ in the absence of in-
criminating evidence. But it seems in-
credible that it was necessary to complete-
ly exterminate a colony composed of men,
women and children, armed only with
knives and spears, in order to force obedi-
ence to the law against outlawry. No
doubt the men were desperate and the wo-
men fanatical. But the children could
hardly bave been either, and though pos-
sibly some of them may have been used as
shields, it is not likely that all were, while
the reports indicate al! were killed. At
least General Woobp's evidence ought to
be corroborated by disinterested, or at
most impartial witnesses.
Right Way to Apply the Remedy.
Judge PARKER'S recent great speech de-
livered before the Legislature of Miseiesip-
pi the other day revives an agitation which
ought not to be allowed $0 abate in the
least until the evil to which it relates is
obliterated. The last three presidential
elections have been caused by the misap-
propriation of corporate funds. Out of this
fact bas grown not only the great corporaie
evils, such as trust domination and dis-
crimination, but the more reprehensible
crimes exposed by the Now York insurance
investigation. The underlying reason for
these things, as Judge PARKER declared,
‘has been corporate political contributions
or other service.”
Of course the remedy for these evils is in
the punishment of the criminals. So long
as the crime is condoned and the criminals
petted there will be no effectiveZreform,
and so long as the party which has invent-
ed and fostered the crimes remains in pow-
er there will be no punishment of the crim.
inals. For example, when PAvrL MortOoN
was literally ‘‘oaught io the act,” Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT dismissed him with a cer-
tificate of character, instead of directing
the issue of a warrant for his arrest. The
course he adopted encourages the crime:
The other policy would have fadmonished
against it.
“Turn the rascals out,”’ should, there-
fore, be the war ory in the coming contest.
Every machine corruptionist who aspires to
re-election to any office will profess to fa-
vor reforms, now that she people have de-
termined on reforms. The Philadelphia
baoditti will declare for legislation author-
izing trolley railroads to carry freight,
quite as earnestly as Representative Coop-
ER, of Delaware county, has spoken for
that measure. Bat it is a false pretense of
reform which should not deceive the pub-
lio for a moment. The Republican party
is for special privileges and graft and to
stop these evils the party must be defeated.
——Quite an interesting hearing was
held before ’Squire Mobley, at Heech
Creek, last Thursday evening. Charles F.
Bechdel, at one time bartender at the
Fallon house, Lock Haven, was the defen:
dant and the prosecutor was W. D. Clark,
of Blanchard, who charged that Bechdel
sold his son Harris Clark, a minor, intoxi-
cating drinks. Three hundred persons at-
tended the hearing and many witnesses
were heard but up to this writing the
'Bquire bas rendered no decision.
—
—The Potter township road supervis-
ors have decided that it is not incumbent
upon them to keep the condemned turn-
pikes in good condition, bat will ask the
county commissioners to maintain them.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 23, 1906.
An Absurdity Exposed
The utter absurdity of President RoosE-
VELT'S contention that legislation givingthe
federal government the right to regulate
freight rates ic an essential prerequisite to
the prevention of discrimination and rebat-
ing is no longer a matter of doubt. The re- |
cent decisions of the Supreme court to the ef-
fect that corporation officials and trust
magnates may be compelled to testily fi-
nally settled the question. That corporation
officers who violate the law may be prose-
cated criminally has never been denied
since the passage of the SHERMAN law, but
it was held that they couldn’t be convicted
for the reason that those whe knew the
facts wouldn't give the necessary evidence
of guilt. The recent court decisions dis-
pose of that expedient of defense.
When PAaun MorTON, the Secretary of
the Navy, was ‘“‘caught with the goods on
him,’ a criminal prosecution as advised by
special counsel, would have gene further
toward checking rebating than a dozen
| laws providing for the government regula-
tion of rates. Mr. MorTON himself admis-
ted the offences, and gave as a reason that
it was necessary to secure the business con-
cerned for the Santa Fe railroad of which
he been traffic manager. Of course
wn testimony couldn’t have been used
nst him in criminal proceedings, but the
record of his operations, corroborated by
the evidence of others, would have served
the purpose and a good stiff sentence for
the crime would have made cvery other
traffic manager ‘‘be good'’ during his nat-
ural life.
President RooSEVELT wonldn’t permit
the c:iminal prosecution of Paur MORTON
for the reason that he was a personal friend
aud a member of the cabinet. Conviction
in bis ca-c might Lave cast an aspersion on
the administration and certainly would
have raised a donhtas to the intelligence
or sincerity of the President. But there is
not the same reason for preventing the
criminal prosecution of other trafic man-
agers who have violated the law and there
is no doubt about the ability to convict
some of them. The presidential evergy
which has been wasted on legisiation for
the right of the government to regulate
rates, would have put all of them in jail
long ago and stopped rate discrimination
and rebatiog for all time.
Treachery or Folly.
The reception to Governor PENNYPACK-
ER by the Pennsylvania club, Washington,
last week, was obviously for the purpose of
promoting his judicial aspirations. The
club is composed of the Pennsylvania office-
holders in Washington. Necessarily, there-
fore, its members are faithful followers of
the PENROSE machine, for otherwise they
wouldn’t be where they are. The leaders
of that conspiracy owe something to Gov-
ernor PENNYPACKER, and they understand
the value of conspicuity coin to an inordi-
nate ambition. When the lightning is
monkeying around it is good policy to have
a rod ready aod when the President is
searching for a judge it is wise for a candi-
date to be within view. No doubt Chair-
man ANDREWS, who is president of the
club, bad these palpable facts in mind
when he arranged the reception.
It is proverbial that a young politician
is prone to blunder and Chairman AN-
DREWS is riding on a toboggan of ill luck.
Daring the campaign last fall there was no
time at which Mr. ANDREWS had the re-
motest understanding of conditions. He
really believed that his candidate for State
Treasurer would have the usual majority
because the committeemen upon whom he
depended for information refused to see the
chauges which were going on all around
them. There is a story to the effect that
some of Noah's neighbors on being refused
accommodations on the ark professed in-
difference because ‘‘it wasn’t going to be
much of a shower anyway.” They found
out differently later on and so did AN-
DREWS. But he never made a greater
blander in the campaign than his recep-
tion to PEXNYPACKER as an agency for
promoting his ambition for a seat on the
Supreme bench.
The Pennsylvania club in Washington
is a discredited organization. Not long
ago it was refused license to sell liquors by
the commissioners of the District of Colam-
bia, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts
of the congressional delegation and the of-
ficial colony. In the controversy which en-
sued the questionable obaracter of the or-
ganization must bave reached the Presi-
dent’s ears. That being the case the spon-
sorship of the club must have done PEN-
NYPACKER infinitely more harm than
good. Of course the Governor himself
didn’t know about such things. Blinded
by his own overwhelming vanity, he is ob-
livious to all things of present human in-
terest. But ANDREWS and PENROSE
knew and upon the hypothesis that they
were really for PENNYPACKER for judge
the reception was an egregious folly.
~The members of the Centre Hall
Reformed church are now devising ways
and means for wiping out a church debt of
about eleven hundred dollars.
Explaining A “Brilliant Feat of Arms."
From the Johnstown Democrat.
And now the word comes from General
Wood that the women were killed at Dajo
Hill because they acted as shields for the
men. Did they do that? There bave
been women who did just that very hing.
Duthiape the Moro women are of that heroic
The women at Dajo Hill doubtless real-
ized that it was a time when stout hearts
and strong arms were needed. The Moro
force was so small that its cause suffered
severely whenever a dark-skinned soldier
fell. The leaders of the Moro cause real-
ized that they must husband their forces.
And so we are told Moro soldiers went
forth to battle with a woman's live warm
flesh for a shield. It was not fear of their
lords that caused the women to be such.
They were not forced to march ahead.
They went of their own will. Their arms
could not, : pertiate, wield bolos. Their eye
and their aim were not true Bat
their breasts would stop bullets and every
woman who fell meant that a man had
been saved to fight. ‘It was necessary,”
says Wood, ‘to shoot the Moro women.
They were in the front of the fight !"’
Sach are the savage creatures who resist
our will. Theirs is a waning cause. Slow-
ly but surely their passionate ferver must
die, just as the fires of the mountain upon
which they fell grew cold. We have the
money, the guns and the men ; and were
there twice as many women willing to act
as shields we could kill them. The Moro
is a fanatic, a bandit, a wild and danger-
ous person. Wood says so. ‘‘Hell Roar-
ing”’ Jake Smith said the same thing about
the Filipicos. They must be over
the brim. They must h in the dead
crater of the hill of their high hopes. We
want their land. Our soldiers want their
women. And yet the foolish Lucretias
prefer to die as shields for their own fight-
ers.
The first instalments of explanation
have been filed. They will doubtless keep
coming in—these explanations that do not
explain.
Too Quick With Congratulations.
From the Springfield Republican.
The battle of extermination with the Mo-
ros last week, in which 600 natives were
killed, including women and children, has
aroused criticism even in army circles.
One may quote in this connection from the
Huulla correspondence of the New York
n:
Gen. Wood is criticised for sacrificing
men in an assault when a short siege of
the mountain top where the natives
were fortified would inevitably have re-
sulted in their surrender. Gen. Lawton
and Capt. Pershing in their campaigns
against the Moros under similar circom-
stances used the less spectacular but less
bloody methods with success. ES
The President is also criticised on ac-
count of his quick message of congratula-
tions to Gen. Wood. The feeling is more
widespread than Mr. Roosevelt appreciates,
perhaps, that there was something to re-
gret, as well as to exult over, insuch a
slaughter. The whole 600 of the Moros
bad bat 150 firearms ; the bulk of them
were armed with bolos and spears. Even
if their extermination was a “brilliant feat
of arms,’’ people are asking wherein it was
a cause for rejoicing over the upholding ‘‘of
the honor of the American flag.” If, as
some military critics say, the wholesale kill-
ing was unnecessary, the honor of the flag
suffers rather than gains from the episode.
The President's dispatch is probably ac-
koowledged now to have been hasty, since
the second day’s news reported the killing
of the women and children. Had Mr.
Roosevelt known of that phase of the bat-
tle, he might have expressed his feelings
over the brilliant feat of arms more sober-
ly. No one else has enthused over the vio-
tory.
How Justice Is Administered.
From the Lincoln (Neb) Commoner.
Another illustration of that sort of jus-
tice which is the cause of a feeling of dis-
respect for sone of the courts comes from
the west. A few weeks ago two men
charged with fencing in and appropriatin
to their own use a tract of public land thir-
ty-five miles wide and seventy-five miles
long, were fined $300 each hy a federal
judge. A week ago a private soldier in
the regular army was brought before the
same judge on the of baving stolen
a bugle from Uncle ’'s store house.
Like the land thieves, the private soldier
entered a plea of guilty. He was fined
$1,000, or $700 more the men who
bad stolen 200,000 acres of land. Of course
the land thieves were forced to give up the
land had stolen, but the bugle thief
had to give up the horn.
Only for the Little Fish.
From Tom Watson's Magazine.
“The constitution of the United States
expressly declares that no money shall be
taken from the treasury without an appro-
rr. when Lyman Gage and Lee-
lie Shaw, pe La Traasory, took
$15,000,000 out of the treasury placed
it iu the Standard Oil bank in New York
City violated the supreme law of the
land. The $56,000,000 which Mr. Roose-
velt’s administration has been allowing
the National banke to hold and to use is
held and used in vivlation of the coustitn-
tion. What do our big men care for the
law? Nothing. The law is for the small
and the weak.
be
—— Last week the Bellefonte school au-
thorities had William Bathurst, John
Sechler, Mrs. Phoebe Houtz and William
MoElbattan arrested for disregarding the
compulsory attendance law in allowing
their children under sixteen years of age to
stay out of school. They were given a
hearing on Saturday before 'Squire John
M. Keichline who fined each one two dol-
lars and costs. The school authorities are
determined to enforce the compulsory at-
tendaoce law and all parents in Bellefonte
who have been distegarding the same in
the past had better obey it in the futare.
Spawls from the Keystone.
~The Pennsylvania State Fireman's Asso-
ciation will meet this year in Gestysburg,
October 1st to 6th.
~The entire national guard of Pennsy!
vania is to be equipped with new uniforms
this spring. They will be of a light olive
drab in color, similar to those worn by regu.
lar army soldiers.
—Aecused of embezzling about $300 of the
fund of the Security Life & Annuity com-
pany, of which he was the local represen-
tative, E. T. Morrison, of Harrisburg, was
arrested at Bloomsburg by Detective Harry
C. White.
—David Mitchell, a coal miner, was way-
laid and stabbed on Saturday while on his
way to Amsbry by four Italians. They cut
Mitchell on the face, body and legs and left
him for dead. Mitchell had received a Black
Hand warning.
~The Methodists of South Fork, at a spe-
cial meeting of the quarterly conference
Tuesday evening, decided to build a new
house of worship in that place during the
coming summer, the edifice to cost in the
neighborhood of $8,000.
—Clayton Christy, aged 24 years, shot and
killed Frank Meissinger, 47 years old, Sat-
urday night, at Columbia. Christy claimed
that Meissinger had attempted to prejudice
against him Miss Grace Findley, to whom he
had been paying attention.
—The congregation of Trinity Episcopal
church at Tyrone has extended a call to
Rev. Alexander M. Rich, of Baltimore, to
become their pastor, succeeding Rev. Thomas
H. Johnston, who will give his time entirely
to the rectorship of St. John's church at
Huntingdon.
—Smarting under the jibes and taunts of
his fellow prisoners, who despised him be-
cause he was so easily captured after having
committed one of tho biggest robberies in
recent years, Edward G. Cunliffe, the Adams
Express messenger who stole $101,000, at-
tempted suicide in the western penitentiary
during the past week.
—Charles A. Pownell has been nominated
naval cadet by Congressman John H. Rey-
nolds and has been notified to report to
Annapolis April 27th. The young man isa
son of Dr. H, W. Pownell, of Tyrone. He
was a student at the Altoona High school up
until the present term and since that time
has been attending the preparatory school at
Mt. Harman, Mass.
—State Fish Commissioner Meehan, in a
special report to Governor Pennypacker, says
that if the proposed dam is constructed in
the Susquehanna river at McCall's Ferry it
would mean, if not the complete wiping out
of the shad industry, its reduction to narrow
limits for the natural migration of fish up
the stream beyond the ferry would only be
possible by means of fishways.
—Firebugs burned two barns south of
Hollidaysburg Saturday night. The barn of
William A. Smith was first fired and it was
destroyed together with nine horses and five
head of cattle. The loss will reach $10,000.
About midnight the barn on the Dr. Craw-
ford Irvin farm near Hollidaysburg was
burned. The occupant, George Slippy, esti-
mated his loss at $2,000 while the Irvin estate
will lose $3,000,
~The new burgesses in many of the towns
of Pennsylvania seem to be affected in a
marked way with the wave of reform that
has swept over the State. The burgess of
Coatesville is a case in point. He will not
permit two persons to stand upon the street
conversing. Several arrests have already
been made and although no fines have been
collected the offenders have heen given
notice that in the event of a second offense
the full penalty will be imposed.
—Of five hundred and forty patients treated
at the White Haven sanitorium for con-
sumptives during the past year not one suc-
cumbed to the disease. This is certainly a
remarkable record. That fresh air and
nutrition are the true and sure cures for
tuberculosis is no longer open to doubt ; but
the truth is emphasized by the fact that at
the White Haven instiution there were ex-
pended during the year $15,000 for milk and
eggs and only $800 for medicine.
—Aided by the Altoona Ministerium, the
Auti-Saloon league is preparing for the great-
est struggle against licensed liquor selling
ever known in Blair county. Notan appli-
cant in the country districts will escape the
crusade, while in Altoona 41 of the 73 ap-
plicants are strongly opposed. New appli-
cants in communities heretofore without
B | licensed taverns, have to contend against a
general uprising of church-goers, and it is
predicted all will fail of the privilege.
—Friday evening some unknown person
entered the bed room of Rath, the 12.year
old daughter of Frank Feathers, of Latrobe,
who is ill with pneumonia, and cut off her
hair. She heard the clip of the scissors and
screamed, at the same time looking around
in time to sce a man going out of the room.
Mr. and Mrs. Feathers, hearing the child's
screams, rushed up stairs and found the two
plaits of hair and the scissors lying on the
floor beside the sick bed. As they came up
the back stairs the miscreant escaped from
the house by the front way.
—In an explosion that occurred at the
Williamsport Staple company’s plant at 5
o'clock Thursday afternoon of last week,
William Buerger, 43 years old was almost in-
stantly killed, and Charles C. Crouse, prin-
cipal owner and manager of the plant, was
probably fatally hurt. The men were con-
ducting a chemical experiment in a tem-
porary laboratory, when the explosion cec-
curred. The door of the apartment was
burst open, and both men were thrown out
upon the ground. Buerger, literally torn to
shreds, died in a fow minutes. Crouse is
burned from head to feet, and the doctors
say he has but a small chance for recovery.
—The Juniata locomotive shops of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona made a
record for building locomotives during last
month. In twenty-two and a half working
days the shops turned out twenty-four
engines ready for use, an average of more
than one a day. The boiler shop holds the
key to the output of the shops and at the
rate the department is working this month
all previous records will be broken and
twenty-nine engines will be turned out. The
output of the shops in a year can easily be
figured out as about 318 locomotives. No
doubt but that the shops, if worked to their
capacity, could turn out some 350 engines or
more in a year. : .