. : a a for - bad a DELILAH SAMPSON didn’t have PAUL O. STEINSLAND, the de faulting Chicago bank president, skinned. —Does Mr. BRYAN intend that bis gov- ernment ownership of railroads shall put Uncle SAM at the bead of the Bellefonte Central ? ~The Wheeling, W. Va., woman who gave birth to a child while whirling about on a dance platform must certainly bave been the kind of a woman that the poor in- tant will some day be ashamed to acknowl. edge as mother. —Mr. HEARST is all right in his an- nouncement that be doesn’t want to be nominated for anything but be shoula go one step further and declare that, in the tature, he doesn’t intend to meddle in the nomination of anyone else. —Mayor Tox JomNsoN, of Cleveland, has predicted BRYAN’ election to the Presidency in 1908. Mr. JOHNSON bas quite a reputation for his foresightedness in some things, =o let us hope that it won’s be shattered by this prophecy. ~The trouble with that rotton Real Es- tate Truss Co., of Philadelphia, seems to have been that because it bad a president who was a great church man it was sup- posed to need nothing else, not even the customary examinations or board meetings. —After reading over all the rules laid down for the reform spelling we have come to the conclusion that the proper thing to do is just to spell any word you desire to use in the easiest manner possible and leave it for the person who reads it to fig- ure out what you mean. —An explosion in a winery at Fresno, California, killed one man and destroyed fifty thousand gallons of wine. Now it ie a question whether the explosion was not a good thing, even if a life was lost there by, for how many lives would the filty thousand gallons of wine have destroyed? —The performance of that Homestead man who captured a wild cow that bad run rampant on the streets of that place and threw it down by the tail will cause all to stop and think a little before we use that old expression about trusting people fur- ther than we could throw a bull by the tail. —Battling NELSON received $22,000 for his fight with Joe Gans, oo Monday night, but think of the punishment be had to take in the forty-two rounds that the fight went. Now there is ADOLPH SEGAL, of Philadelphia, who got money a great deal easier and probably won't get any punishment at all. —The question that the dispassionate man who dreads the appearance of militar- ism, as being inimical to theideasof a Re- publican form of government, now asks himself—and justly too, is: Would there have been any lives sacrificed at all at Flor- ence had the arrests that had to be made there been made in the old way instead of sending PENNYPACKER's ‘‘Cossacks’’ to és it. —If President ROOSEVELT wants sowe- thing to use his ‘‘big stick’ on just now, and something that should have it real bad, the gable end of the trousers of that son of his who, after witnessing the two pugs GANs and NELSON batter each other out of all semblance of humans remarked that ‘‘it was bully good sport.” A prize fight that the law bas banished from all fully civilized States is no place for the son of a President to be desporting bimaelf. —JaMEs J. HILL, president of the Great Northern railroad, bas just published a pa- per under the caption, ‘‘A Plea for the Farm." Itisa very exbaustiveand truth- ful treatise on the ancient and honorable vocation of husbandry, but knowing that JEEMS certainly made no mistake by leav- iog the farm we are forced to the concla- sion that the highest motive that inspired him in his writing was the hope of increas- ed passenger tolls from colonists for the lands along his lines. —Editor HARTER, of the Gazefle, bas openly declared himself and is now circu. lating a petition which he hopes will land him in the postoffice at the expiration of postmaster MONTGOMERY'S term next spring. Ever since the gentleman bas been in the county be bas been landing the lion’s share of the Republican patronage for bis newspaper and if this plam should fall to his lot he will certainly bave cause for thinking that it was a wise move that made him settle down in the Republican camp in Ceatre county. ~Many of the most prominent Prohi- bitionists in the State are declining to con- tribute to the party campaign fand because they believe their party bas taken the wrong course in repudiating EMERY. As one of the most prominent cold water men in the State, who lives right here in Belle- fonte, said : ‘‘I do not propose to contrib- ute toward the election of STUART and that is all our party can hope to accomplish by the stand it has taken.”” We notice that others no less prominent in other parts of the State concur in this view exactly, so if SWALLOW and CASTLE are going to play the dog in the manger act they will not have the support of the best element of their own party. VOL. 51 Roosevelt's Expensive Show. The naval parade at Oyster Bay on Mon- day was a great success. It afforded the President a splendid opportunity to exploit himself. In the history of the world it bas never been excelled and only equaled once. When the late Queen VICTORIA, of Great Britain and Empress of India, celebrated the filtieth anniversary of her coronation, the climax of the magnificent pageantry was the naval parade. She was a very old and very vain woman at the time. Her ad- ministration had been successful and in the main beneficent. Some of the syco- phants about her household, with the view of flattering her vanity, probably, conceiv- ed the notion of the naval parade. It would be expensive, they admitted, but she bad reigned long and faithfally, and ber de- voted subjects would cheerfully pay the cost, and they were right. The pathway to her grave was brightened by the event and nobody bad the heart to complain. The event must have made a strong im- pression upon the mind of ROOSEVELT. Be- fore that no President of the United States even dreamed of such a diversion. Mili- tary men are usually fond of “pomp and circumstance,” and GRANT introduced some expensive innovations into the public life of the country. He traveled much and encouraged the development of the military gpirit. He visited army posts and receiv- ed with obvious satisfaction the deference to authority which is ioculcated into the life of soldiers. McKINLEY wasn’t niggard- iy either in his personal expenses or his public affairs. But neither of them would have thought of so costly a luxury as a na- val parade, though McKINLEY was alive and in authority when the Queen's vanity was satiated by the event off Portsmouth. They would bave been afraid of public sentiment on account of the vast expense and the dangeroos effect on the popular mind. But ROOSEVELT had no such fears and last year he tried the experiment tentative- ly. That is, be assembled a fleet of a doz- en ships or so and there was not a murmur. That encouraged him to the magnificent spectacle which occorred on Monday and will be talked of for weeks to come. The expense was enormous, but that made no difference. It will go down on the records as an item of say $250,000 and LOEB and others will say that only con.emned pow- der was used and it would be of no use anyway so that little pecuniary damage was done. But that will be a false state- meént for every shot fired cost two or three hundred dollars and there was a continu- ous cannonading from morning until night. It will also be said that it was in honor of Labor Day, but if that had been the fact it would have heen at some point where workingmen could bave enjoyed it. The fact is, however, that it was a purely per- sonal affair gotten up to flatter the vanity of the President. An Easter Remedy. The opponents of Democracy have seized with avidity the feature of Mr. BRYAN'S Madison Square Garden speech which re- fers to ownership of trunk line railroads by the Federal government and of other roads by the States. ‘It is more dangercus than the silver heresy,’’ one of the organs of the element observes, and proceeds to enumer- ate the evils which might flow from such a policy. If Mr. BRYAN had taken the oth- er side of the proposition the opponents of Democracy would bave been equally vebe- ment and quite as earnest-in controverting him. Itisn’t a question of policies with them, it is a matter of politics. As a matter of fact, however, Mr. BRYAN didn’t declare for government ownership of railroads. He merely suggested that as a last resort, in the event that the railroads continue to exercise their control of the government. Of the two evils the control of the government by the railroads isinfinitely the worst and more dangerous and Mr. BRYAN suggested that in the event this pernicious and mischievous control could not be shaken off in any other way, the government ownership would afford a cer- tain remedy. If the railroads don’t want such a condition of affairs all they bave to do is to let loose of the government. No one would deprecate the paternalism involved in the government ownership of the railroads more earnestly than the WarcHMAN. Itis contrary to all our ideas of the -clationship between govern- ment and people and subversive of the fun- damental principles expressed in the con- stitution. Bat it wouldn’t be half as bad as the ownership of the goverament by the railroads and like Mr. BRYAN we believe in adopting the lesser of the evils, Mean. time, however, we believe that there isa better remedy than government owner- ship. In other words, we are confident that thedefeat of the Republican party will care the evil. —QOur Republican friends ooght not to get so sore about the enthusiastic welcome Mr. BRYAN received on hie return home. It will be time for them to sit up and take notice two years hence. The Bsyan Welcome Home. The bome-coming welcome of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN was as extraordinary as it was significant. Tens of thousands of people assembled to pay bim the tribute of their admiration, some of them traveling thousands of miles for the purpose. It was without a parallel in the history of the country. The welcome of Admiral DEW- EY after his great naval victory at Manilla was enthusiastic. The welcome of General GRANT after his tour around the world was immense, though obviously manufac- tared.s Bat both of those gentlemen were heroes of war and one bad served two terms in the office of President. Mr. BRYAN had bad no triumphs in war, however, no victories in battle. He issimply an Amer- ican citizen who bas endeared himself to the people by achievements in peace. No long nor difficult search is necessary to discover the reasons for the unusual wel- come of Mr. BRYAN. Asa New York con- temporary said, he is a wholesome and hearty chap and the people like him for that. He is honest, earnest and able, moreover, and those are attributes which command popular respect and admiration. Bat those things bad little, if anything, to do with the enthusiasm of his welcome home. They inspire affection but rarely stir up enthusiasm. Therefore, the inci- dent must be accounted for in another way. Something else was the influencing cause of a demonstration which stirred the coun. try from centre to circumference. It was av element which touches the emotions of the human heart closer than admiration of the person. The dominating characteristic of the American citizen is the love of justice. Wkten President ROOSEVELT announced bis platform to be ‘A Square Deal,"’ he put himself in eympathy with the purpose of a vast majority of the American people and subsequently when he shielded criminals because of personal or family pull, he be- trayed his pledge but didn’t entirely alien- ate popular friendship. He set people to thinking, however, and sowed the seeds of doubt which left the public mind in an oocertain frame. Still later the New York insurance investigation proved that Mr. BRYAN bad not been defeated for the Presidency in 1896 and 1900 but was cheat- ed out of the fruits of his victory and the American sense of fairness made him the hero who was welcomed with such enthu- siasm. : Answers of the Opposition. A Potteville dispatch to the Philadelphia Record of recent date contains the informa- tion that ‘‘State Republican leaders are supplying HoMER I. CASTLE and Dr. SWALLOW, Prohibition leaders, with cam- paigo materials to attack EMERY,’ on the authority of W. U. WETZEL, a prominent Prohibitionist who resides near Schuylkill Haven. ‘‘The object,”” Mr. WETZEL adds, ‘‘is to keep EMERY so busy replying to his accusers that his attacks on the adminis- tration of state affairs will lack force. Cas- TLE and SWALLOW bave been guaranteed,’ he continued, ‘‘that they will be given fresh material every day during the cam- paign.”’ From another source we learn that the head of the machine bureau of information is PETER J. HUGHES, of Philadelphia, who has been a sort of overseer of the criminal operations of the QUAY and PENROSE or- ganization for eight or ten years. He was appointed magistrate in Philadelphia dur- ing the early nineties, was compelled to resign io order to escape impeachment for raalfeasance in office and is among the most disreputable political grafters in the State. It is possible that Mr. CASTLE may not have known his reputation political- ly but Dr. SWALLOW must have been familiar with it for years for he has been rather a close and certainly not a stupid observer of public affairs. In this we have not only the personnel but the animus of the opposition to Mr. EMERY in the Probibition party. CaAsTLE is influenced, of course, by resentment be- cause he wasn’t given the place he coveted on the Fusion ticket. He felt that his services in the campaign for State Treas- urer BERRY, last year, ought to have been rewarded by the nomination for Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with EMERY and was encouraged to the hope of that by a good many Democrats. But SwALLow is obviously influenced by purely mercenary motives and be knows that the Standard Oil company bas been liberal in compensat- ing those who serve it. : ~——This summer Las been a season of unusually severe thunder storms and hard rains, in fact there bas hardly been a shower in the past three months that was not a regular downpour. Bat for a sucoes- sion of kard thunder showers those of last Sunday night were perhaps the hardest ex- perienced here this year. The first ocour- red a little past nine o'clock Sunday even- ing and there wae one shower after anoth- er all night long until six o'clock Monday morning, all accompanied with severe thunder and lightning. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 7, 1906. President Gompers' Campaign, President SAMUEL Goypers, of the American Federation of Labor, bas made an admirable campaign against Representa- tive LITTLEFIELD, of Maine. He made seven speeches in the district with the re. salt that the contest is admittedly in doubs and Mr. LITTLEFIELD'S friends are appre- benzive of defeat. The reason which has jnfloenced Mr. GoMPERs to his efforts against the Congressman is that during last | Gard was session be opposed legislation in the inter- est of labor. That is an ample reason. The opponents of labor strive to prevent just legislation by electing corporation lawyers or subservient tools of corporations to office and the labor interests have the same right to work for their own interests. But to our mind Mr. GOMPERS might have achieved his purpose better and with less expense in energy if he had adopted another plan. LITTLEFIELD is abler than the average Republican Congressman and can do more ham if he gets a chance. Un- der existing conditions, however, no Rep- resentative in Congress, other than the Speaker and the members of the committee | range on rules, gets a chance and the most incon- spicuous and un-influential member has as much power to help or harm labor legisla- tion as LITTLEFIELD. They all vote for CANNON for Speaker and he and the rules committee stifle all such legislation. Dur- ing the last session all measures of that na- ture were killed in committee by order of the Speaker. Iv this district, for example, if the Re- publican candidate ie elected he will vote for CANNON for Speaker and LITTLEFIELD can do no more against labor legislation. If SAMUEL GOMPERS would come into this district and make three speeches against the Republican candidate his defeat would | 380 he made certain. One speech of the sort would make the election of the Republican candidate impossible in the Sixteenth dis- trict and one each in the counties of Lu- zerne and Lackawanna would have the same result in those distriots so that six speeches might have secured four votes against Speaker CANNON and in favor of a candidate for Speaker who would have helped rather than hindered wholesome la- bor legislation. Some Essential Reforms. As the campaign progresses care should be taken that important issues are not for- gotten. For example, the QUAY monu- ment should not be allowed to drop ovt of sight. The appropriation of money to erect a monument to that champion of grafc was an outrage on the conscience of the Commonwealth. The erection of such a monument would be equivalent to the cannonization of vice and crime. The prevention of sugh a result is one of the purposes of the reform campaign. That fact should be kept before the people that they may vote understandingly. No man should be elected to the Legislature unless he is opposed to the perpetration of the crime against the public morals. The Highway departmeat must be re- formed. We do not mean by that merely a chauge in the personnel of the office. We mean a radical change in the law govern- ing the department. There is no fault to be found with the appropriation of money out of the state revenues for constructing and maintaining highways. Bat the mon- ey so appropriated ought to be disbursed by local aushorities and the work perform- ed under local supervision, as the school appropriation is disbursed now and the schools are conducted. The Highway de- partment was a conception of the machine for the purpose of making places for poli- ticians. It must be changed to an agency for constructing and maintaining roads. The elimination of PENROSE and DUR- HAM from the public life of the State is not a complete reform. The death of QUAY didn’t stop the iniquities which he practic- ed and promoted. The defeat of PENROSE and DURHAM won’t materially improve conditions unless the evils for which they stand are eliminated. Most of these results must of necessity be achieved bythe Legis- lature. The Governor can do a good deal but uot all. Therefore voters should keep in mind the importance of electing Sena- tors and Represeniatives in the Legislature who will make the improvements. The erection of the QUAY monument must be prevented and the Highway law changed in any event. —We did well in dubbing Mr. QUIGLEY HENRY CUTE. At the last senatorial con- ference he refused the proposition to send the deadlock up to the state committee for settlement, because he knew that once there it would be a case of : Are you for PENROSE? If not, you can’t bave the nomination and if yon are you will be licked in your district. ——Mr. Benjamin Schaeffer celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday, last Thursday, when all his children and grand children gathered at the paternal home to make merry and wish him many more such anviversaries. The “Why" of it All From the Pittsburg Post. In bis speech accepting the nomination for Governor given him by the State execu- tive committtee, after the State convention bad refused it to bim, Homer L. Castle took occasion to give new cu toa lot of lies concerning Lewis Emery, Jr., which were first put in circulalion by the agents of the Standard Oil company. For the publication of some of these charges several years ago an ewployes ul the Stan- convicted libel on a suit brought by Mr. Emery and compelled to pay large sum in damages. e proceeding at second hand from Mr. Castle are just as false now as they were when first made. That Mr. Castle should revamp them is not strange. During the meeting of the Prohibition State executive committee held in this city some weeks ago an agent of the Standard was on band su ing the misinformation concerning Mr. ry which Mr. Castle is now endeavoring to use as campaign capi- tal. As tbat time the nominee of the Pro- Bbitivg executive fomlnitiee was aware of e lies, scandal gossi ing from Standard Oil sources tn log Emery. Nevertheless, at his own instance he was appointed a committee of one to go to Philadelphia to see if he could not ar- with the Democratic and Lincoln parties’ leaders to have Jeremiah S. Black withdrawn as the fasion candidate for Lientenant Governor and himsel! placed on the ticket for that position. If this ar- rangement could have been effected he pould today be stumping the State for Mr. ery. Mr. Castle announces through the medi- um of the organ of the Standard Oil com- pany and the Penrose machine that he pro- to defeat Mr. Emery and that be will poses a hundred orators on the stump with him to help in the work. Certainly the campaign fund of the Prohibition party must bave been wonderfully swelled from some new sources within a very recent date. The fact that Mr. Castle and Boies Penrose were stopping at the same hotel in New York at the same time a few days may or may not have had something to do with the kind of campaign which the Prohibition organization is going to con- duet. One thing is certain, that Mr. Cas- tle represents the cause of the Standard Oil company and the Penrose machine just as much as does Edwin 8. Stuart. The common object of both candidates is to de feat Lewis Emery, Jr., the Jug -ime op- ponent of the oil octopus and the corrupt. machine. Castle's avowal of his determination to defeat Mr. Emery shows exactly where be stands. His pretense that he is animated b any high principle is the veriest bosh. ¢ is sore because he was not nominated for Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with Mr. Emery, and be is simply seeking re- venge nu those whom he conceives to be responsible for bis disappointment. His boast that he will drive Mr. Emery from the field with his revelations is only wild buncombe. The man who for more than thirty years bas successfully withstood the most bitter attacks of the Standard Oil company has nothing to dread from its latest mouthpiece and ally. Canpaign Contributions. From the Lock Haven Demcerat. In the mail a few days ago to the Repub- | Jican congressional committee in New York there was a letter from a distinguish. ed Republican trust magnate enclosing a check for §1. So far well and s Sie dollar is as good as any other dollar, even the one received from one of the treasury charwomen. But there was, it is said, another check enclosed in the same letter trom the Republican trust megnate for $10,000, which for obvious reasons the chairman of the committee did not inform the reportersas many other subscription letters have been reported. Why did the trust magnate give the additional $10,000, when he had only been invited to give $1? As he is interested in a corporation that 1s fostered by the tariff and is therefore in hearty sympathy with the policy agreed upon, to stand pat and still allow the tariff fostered trusts to continue to plunder the people, he evidently is willing to do his share towards corrupting the voters to their own undoing. The Simple Trath. From the Uniontown Genius of Liberty. A friend of the Genius thinks this was d tial the other day in referring to the late Russell as an ‘‘old geezer.” Our friend is right. It was Ajsrespestiul. But we have no intention of recalling it. A man of great ability who lived to be more than eighty years of age and left no other public or private monument than that he accumulated one hundred and oiilion of Sallam, not sae Sent of whic ueathed in recognition in any way of his creator, his race or his country, all that is coming to him in the way of com- pliment when erized as an ‘‘old geezer.” He died as he lived, a sordid, mean, stingy, old man. Low Rate Niagara Falls Excursions, Popular ten-day excursions to Niagara Falls will be run by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on Fridays, September 7, 21 and October 12. Special trains of par- lor cars, coaches and diningcar will start hom Fhilade) ia and Whi, be : ingara Niagara Gorge, Ie ri- pool and the Rapids never lose their ab. sorbing interest to the American le. For illustrated booklet and full infor. mation apply to nearest ticket agent. 51-35.4% Baltimore Jubilee. Reduced Rates via Penngyluania Railroad, On account of the Home Coming and Ju- bilee Week of the City of Baltimore, So- tember 10 to 15, the Pennsylvania A road Company will sell round-trip tickets to Baltimore from points on its line at Re. duced rafes (minimum rate 25 cents.) Tick. ete will be sold ber 9 and 1 to return until ber 17, inclusive, Consult nearest ticket agent. Spawls from the Keystone, ~—While bathing near Clarion 15-year-old Paul Meisinger got beyond his depth and was drowned. —J. V. Thompson, of Uniontown, has sold to Ohio capitalists 10,000 acres of coal land lying in Greene county. —The coroner of Allegheny county has been busy during the month of August, hav. ing been called upon to investigate 310 sud- den deaths. —Tom Madine, who figured prominently as a witness in the Hartje divorce trial at Pittsburg, it is announced will star on the dramatic stage. ~The residents of Pottsville are evidently looking out for a future rainy day. They have $2,200,000 at interest and will be re- quired to pay $8,851 as tax. ~After less than twenty minutes of spirited bidding, the fair ground property of the Ebensburg Agricultural scciety was sold Sat- urday afternoon to Ira Bloom, one of the principal stockholders, for $8,600. —A race war bas been inaugurated at Sayre against the Italian residents of that place. On account of the murder of a saloon keeper in that place a crowd of 1,500 men assembled and made such a demonstration that all the foreigners left for other places. —Alfred Hartshorn, of Cuba Mines, Clear. field county, a son of Enoch Hartshorn, aged about 18 years, was killed in a minea few days ago. It appears that he had seen some coal in what is known asa ‘‘dog hole” and was in the act of getting it out, when a lot of roof fell, causing instant death. —Last Friday judge Shull, in the Juniata county courts, issued an injunction against the Pennsylvania railroad, prohibiting it from building a large reservoir at Denholm. The people of the Licking Creek valley allege that, were this reservoir to burst, it would be a repetition of the flood of 1889 at Johns- town. —Three Italians—a man and two women —were arrested at Monument last Thursday on suspicion of having murdered a Jewish peddler, whose dead body was found last June at the bottom of an old well, with a number of beer kegs thrown on top. The accused were taken to the Clearfield jail pending a hearing. —While a train consisting of an engine and five heavily loaded cars was descending the Buffalo and Susquehanna switchback at Cross Fork, Potter county, the track sudden- ly slid, carrying the engine over the precipice. It rolled several hundred feet to the bottom of a ravine, where engineer Frith was found fatally scalded, dying soon after- ward, —Samuel Salada and wife were picking high blue huckleberries recently near Pan- ther Rock beyond Wild Mans Cave a mile or so, when they came upon & den of rattlers all out sunning themselves on the rocks. Salada prepared himself with a clab of proper length and lit into the rattlers in lively shape. He killed 63 of them in a short time but was compelled to quit on account of the peisonous smell. —Fire of unexplained origin, which broke out about 1 o'clock Saturday morning, de- stroyed the Harris & Boyer bakery, the office of Dr. C. E. Altemus above it, and the build. ing occupied as a harber shop and dwelling by D. W. Marsh, all in Morrellville, near Johnstown. The loss will aggregate $13,000, about half covered by insurance. The flames originated in the bakery, a frame structure at the rear of the Harris & Boyer store build. ing. —8, M. Williams, of Pittsburg, secretary of the “Homeless 26,” denies that there is any danger of disruption of that organiza. tion. He states that the publications of trouble in the order are inspired by the rail. road companies, aganist which it has been working and is still working to force them to give a two cent fare in this and other States. All the trouble will amount to noth- ing, he says, and the order will continue its agitation. —Mt. Union and intermediate towns and villages are soon to be connected with Hunt- ingdon by trolley, it being the purpose of the Juniata Valley Electric street railway to extend their local line through that busy section and to that point as fast as the pro- ject can be developed. Papers pre-empting the right of way along the public road from Huntingdon through Henderson and Brady townships, Huntingdon county, were filed in the register and recorder’s office at Hunt. ingdon. ~The Hayes run fire brick company is shipping two car loads of fire brick to Manilla. This company is running its plant to the full capacity, making and selling 30,- 000 brick per day. Twelve kilns are now in operation and two more are being built. It is proposed to put up two additional kilns, so as to bave 16 altogether. This will afford an output of from 40,000 to 50,000 bricks per day. Additional floor space is soon to be added that the output may be increased to meet the demand. —Karthaus is to have a new industry in the near future and one that will help that section of the country greatly. George MM. Dimeling, of Clearfield, having purchased all the timber on 6000 acres of the Karthaus estate in Karthaus township will erect a large saw mill at Karthaus to cut it out. It is thought that it will take from three to five years to complete the work and during most or all of that time two hundred or more men and scores of teams will be given employ. ment. Mr. Dimeling has begun to let con- tracts but has many contracts to let yet in the various departments of the operation. —Superintendent E. B. Green, of the Edi- son Electric light company, of Altoona, who by the way is a son of F. Peebles Green, of Bellefonte, is at Thousand Islands, in attend- ance at the annual convention of the Na- tional Association of Edison Electric Illumi- nating company superintendents. The presi- dent of the association is a Pennsylvania man, and Mr. Green has prepared a gavel for him that is artistically beautiful and of great historical interest to all who are en- gaged in electrical pursuits. It is made of wood taken from the headboard of the first direct current Edison dynamo that was operated in the United States. This ma- chine was started by Thomas A. Edison, the wizard, at Sunbury on July 4th, 1883. The good gavel is appropriately engraved. The cen- tral station at Sunbury was the only one that Mr. Edison ever put in operation. ne
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