Bellefonte, Pa., September 14, 1906. A TRAVELER'S THOUGHT. Let me but live my life from year to year, With forward face and unreluctant soul, Not hastening to nor turning from the goal ; Not mourning for the things that disappear In the dim past, nor holding back in fear. From what the future veils bat with a whole And happy heart, that pays its toll To Youth and Age, and travels on with cheer. 80 let the way wind up the hill or down, Through rough or smooth, the journey will be joy ; Still seeing what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown, I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, Because the road's last turn will be the bes, —Henry Van Dyke. SE————— WHEN KEITH GOT SUPPER. “Why, Mrs. Brewster !”’ said Mrs. Starr, “‘a white-haired woman like you going to work in a cannery !”’ Mr. Starr looked on, smiling a little. “You could borrow money,” he sug- ‘No,’ said Mrs. Brewster. ‘“That would mean a mortgage on that little bit of land in the South. ‘No, I've made up ny at might mortgage till she’s throug normal school and can teach. But I don’t want am e.” “Well,” Mr. Starr, ‘‘if you're de- termined, Mrs. Brewster, we'll take you in our carriage to a cannery and get you a Mrs. Starr looked grave. “Does Keith know ?"’ she asked. ‘“No,’’ said Mrs. Brewster. The Starrs made ready, and white-baired Mrs. Brewster climbed into the carriage. y " didn’t expect this,’’ she said, grate- ally. The cannery chosen was one having a superior name. It was several miles out of town. The cannery bad not intended to em- oy many more, but the Starr carriage some weight, and when Mr. Starr said, “You'll make a Plase for Mrs. Brewster, won't you?" the forewoman smilingly agreed. Mrs. Brewster was to begin the next morning. A ‘bus’ carried workers back and forth daily between town and the can- nery for five cents each way. The Starrs carried Mrs. Brewster home. ‘Don’t yon feel guilty ? You’ve got to tell Keith I’ said Mr. Starr, as he helped Mrs. Brewster out of the carriage. Bat Mrs. Brewster only smiled and said good-bye. She went through the trees in a yard to the three-roomed house in which she aod ber daughter Keith lived, at the side and back of another larger house. A year ago Mrs. Brewster and Keith had come here from the southern part of the state so Keith could attend the ‘‘Normal”’ and fit herself for teaching. Now their money was exbansted. All they owned was an interest in a small farm in a dis- tant part of the State. Keith had recently favored mortgaging. “I'll earn enough to pay it back as soon as I'm through Normal and can get a school,’’ she had argued. But her mother’s dislike of mortgaging, and her caution, horu of the hard exper- iences with which she had saved their lit- tle, bad colminated in today’s act. Elated over getting a place at the cannery, Mra. Brewster bad hardly realized, until now, that she must tell Keith. Mrs. Brewster opened the door of the little house. Keith was there studying, though it was vacation’s beginning. Briefly Mrs. Brewster told what she had done. “Mother !"’ exclaimed Keith, ‘‘von work in a cannery !"’ “I've got a place,” said Mrs. Brewster, cheerfully. Keith barst into tears. “You might have mortgaged!" she wept. ‘I'd pay it just as soon as I could get a school alter graduating! It's dis. graceful I" “Well,” said Mrs. Brewster, gently, ‘‘sou can keep house this vacation. I can’t bear having a mortgage and paying inter- est for two or three years. If you found sou couldn’t stand it to teach school, where'd be the paying of the mortgage then ?"’ ‘Maybe you don’t care to keep up ap- races, but I do!’ said Keith, with eightened color. ‘‘Mortgages are respecs- wep 4 paring fruit in a cannery,” per- sisted her mother. ode The rest of the day Keith maintained re- sentful silence on the subject. Next morn- ing, when her mother burried to ges ready for the ’'bue that went to the cannery, Keith sallenly found her own hat. “If you're going, I'm going,” she said, bitterly. “Why, Keith, child, you needn’s I" ex- postulated her mother. ‘I don’t know as they'll take you at the cannery, anyhow ! They didn’t expect to hire many more. | meant you should stay home and keep ‘““Keep house!” said Keith, looking scornfully at the three little rooms. She went out resentfully and climbed into the cannery 'bus with her mother. The 'bus was almost fall of women and girls. Keith bid among them, lest some one she knew should see her riding on the cannery 'bus. At the cannery Mrs. Brewster said to the forewoman, ‘‘I've t my daughter with me. Can you find a place for ber, too?" ¢ The forewoman smiled. She took Mrs. and Keith to a side table. ‘‘You can both work here,” she . They could sit down all the time. The fruit was brought to them and carried away again. Keith and her mother par- iog peaches and pears. But #! Keith knew that the surety of pay for the work was a relief to her mother’s mind, yet she abated no jot of her resentment that she bad been forced to work in a caovery. {Ste told herself that it had amounted to foro- ing. Mother knew Keith would not allow her to work alone this vacation. Mother might bave mortgaged, and ‘‘kept up ap- To Mrs. Brewster the paring of the bean- tifal fruit seemed but asa wonted house. hold task, and, as they were paid by the box, the ambition to work faster to earn Keith's sation thos dupont ry igh, of 's 'n pened “I wish Keith wouldn’s take itso hard,” she t. Day after day Keith kept up ber air of martyrdom. Going back and forth in the "bus, Keith wore a purple veil, so that no one might see through. Work at six o'clock every night Saturday. Satarday night they wor till almost midnight, in order to save the frais. There was no work Sundays. Saturday nights refreshments of coffee and sandwiches were passed among workers. At midnight the bus carried them home, Keith always dis- tinctly aloof from she other girls. By the time vacation was over Keith bad earned ber new s3to0] DS to stop canuery work now n going to school again. Hundreds of usormal girls were back. Keith wondered how many knew that her mother rode on the canner bus . For Mrs. Brewster still kept on working at the . ‘“There’s no sense in our living #0 poor- folksy 1"? gaid Keith, angrily. “Id rather not lie awake nights over " said her mother, decidedly. o I'd mortgaged, we would be Skipping ong, trying to keep up aPpenians make the mortgage money last as long as ble, and wonder what we'd do when t gave out. We skimp enough, now, bat there’s no Honlgage. » For a while Keith bad supper ready for her mother nights. Then, gradually, as she grew absorbed in her studies, Keith became careless. Mrs. Brewster said noth- ing. Many a night when she came home tired ous it would have seemed so good to have found supper ready and a sympa- thetic daughter to talk to. Bat Mrs. Brew- ster got her own supper. If she tried to talk about the day’s happeninge, Keith would say sharply, ‘‘Don’t tell me any- thing about the cannery ! I don’t want to hear it ! If there wasn’t any other way for me to go through Normal only for you to work at the cannery, I'd be grateful to you, but as there is the other way of mortgaging I'm not spatially ratefal !"’ White-baired Mrs. Brewster would go away with trembling lips. To think Keith could keep up resentment so long! If Keith would only have a cup of tea ready, nights ! Didn’¢ Keith care how tired she was? Sometimes, Saturday nights, com- ing home in the 'bus with aching shoulders and wearied body, Mrs. Brewster felt al- most like yielding and letting Keith bave ber way about the m reckless of the future. But by Monday Mrs. Brewster was always ready for her cannery work to have a erp on Keith's fature,”’ she told hersell. at Keith had small thought for any but her own point of view. “It I ever look back at my normal course it will be as at one long irritation,” Keith told herself. The landlady, Mrs. Carson, who owned both houses, the big and the littie one, came in one evening for the rent and dis covered that Keith bad no supper ready for her mother. ‘Keith's a tremendous smart girl and stands high at school, they tell me,” re- flected Mrs. Carson, as she plodded back to her house. ‘‘But I'm afraid she doesn’t appreciate her mother. But who of ue do, as long as we have our mothers?’ A while alter this Keith, some evenings, looking up from her books, notised her mother often reading the missionary maga- zines or jotting down some items, bat Keith asked no questions. Mother was always reading about missions, anyway. Ove evening, some weeks later, Keith, sitting beside the lamp with her hooks, suddenly became aware that her mother bad not come home. Keith looked at the clock. It was almost nine. Nive! Why, where was mother ? She always came at seven. “Ididn's hear the has come either, to- night,’’ thought Keith, startled. She went out doors. The larger honse wae dark. Evidently no one was there. Keith harried to the gate. There was nohudy on the streets. She went to the corner. Usually the "has started from the cannery promptly at a quarter past six,and it was nine ! Could mother bave been taken sick ? Possibly there might be an extra rush of work, but mother wouldn't miss the "hus for that. She never did. Something had happened ! If mother had missed the "bus and had walked, she would bave been here before now. Something had happened ! Keith remembered that the ‘bus had to go over two railroad crossings. With a start she recalled how near an ex- press tiain bad come to striking the 'bus once last summer ata crossing, a cut he- tween hills. Oue train bad passed and the "hus driver had not expected the express. Something had happened ! There were 80 many trains at the crossings ! Keith ran down the street with a wild idea of ronning out to the cann:ry. Some source of feeling, long pent up, seemed to break within her. +0, if anything's happened to mother !”’ she panted wildly, as she ran. Theo she came to her senses. She could not run the miles to the cannery. Perbaps mother had reached home by now. Keith tarned and ran back home, through the yard to the little bouse. ‘‘Mother !" cried Keith, bursting in at the door. The lamp burned where Keith had left it. She ran into the two other rooms. ‘Mother !"" she called. There was no one. ‘Something's bappened I’ cried Keith. With trembliog baods che turned out the lsmp. Bhe bad & swilt remembrance that she bad ue) oid Jo Reb eu pes ready for mother. In imagination see the wreck at the railroad crossing. Keith ran through the front yard. “Mother !"’ che cried. in at the A little figure was comi gate. “Say,” a small boy in the darkness, ‘‘ain’t you Keith » ‘‘Yes,"’ said Keith, breathlessly. ;embarrassed, ‘‘ "bout told me to run over’n’ tell you your ma was as the church Jose a I bn to playin’, t to come fl ed now ! Say, you won’t tell Mis’ Carson on me, will you?” Keith bad clutobed him. ‘‘You forgot !'’ she cried. ‘‘Is my moth- er over there now?" ‘‘Yessum,’’ said the boy. “‘I—I—"' But Keith was running toward the church. The reaction from her startled dread set her trembling. If she could only reach mother ! But by the time Keith near- ed the church she began to realize that she could not run batless and panting into av audience. . The church was lit. Keith wens soft] oD the Hae. The doors were open. If i ust peer in once and see mother Perhaps a hundred women sat on the seats within. It was a quarter] gather- ing of different churches. Keith's eyes hurriedly sweps the audience, vainly seek- ing her mother. Bat Was, vice was i Keith's startled eyes sough platform. There stood mother, uy don’t want any mo about that subject. Keith Lalf couscionsly noted how interested the audience seemed. But Keith was looking at mother. Moth. er wore her one black silk waist. It had begun to wear ont. Keith knew where the little patch under the arm was, and the weak place that had been darned ou one elbow. That ribhon aronnd mother’s neck was ber only good black one. Other women ou the platform bad new white gloves. A lamp came in Keith's throat, remembering how woru mother’s old black gloves were. Mother should have white gloves, too, some day, when Keith began to teach ! How the women’ were listening ! Sud- : denly it came to Keith. This was moth- er’s vatural place! Mother had been a schoo! teacher once. Hadn’t it been hard for mother to work in the cannery ? Had the humiliation been all Keith's? The tears blinded Keith. “I've heen unkind to mother—dear mother’ —she told herself. She slipped coftly down the steps avd ran home. There she flew around. She made a fire. She made toast and tea. Mother would like a cup of tea after meet. no en Keith seized her hat an” ran hack to the church. Meeting was just ont. Her mother was lcoking around, as if missing some one in the audience. “0, Keith !"" she exclaimed, in a re. lieved tone, “‘I looked for you in the andi- ence and did’s see you! The little hoy brought you word, dido’t he ?*’ Mrs. Carson, the landlady, stood there, smiling. ‘‘We thought we'd surprise you hy let- ting you see your mother on the platform,’ she said, pleasantly. “It was very kind in her to agree to write a paper. Wasn't it interesting ?"’ ‘‘Yes,”” said Keith. But something in her voice made her mother look np. “I'm going right home, Keith, dear,” | she said. They burried home. Mrs. Brewster locked around the little kitchen with sur- prise. ‘Why, Keith I" sbe said, ‘‘sou’ve got supper ready ! I do want a cap of tea? Why, Keith !"’ For Keith had put her arms around her mother and burst into tears. ‘It’s time I did get supper ready !"’ sob- bed the girl. ‘0, mother—mother—I thought there'd been an accident—and I'd been so bad —and you'd been #0 good to me ! And then, with her arms around her daughter, Mrs. Brewster knew she had Keith's heart again. East Oakland, Cal.—By Mary E. Bam- ford, in the Christian Advocate. “Roosevelt’s Dictionary.’ A publication of high historic interest was issued Sept. 5th, is from the Govern- ment printing office. It is Roosevelt's Die- tionary of Reformed English with som- mentaries, marginal and foot notes by Public Printer Stillinge, editor. It is of et size, hound in flexible cioth, and as a sort of introduction the President’s famons order to the Public Printer in- structing him to use hereafter in executive publications the list of 300 words whose spelling has been reformed by the Carvegie- Matthews Board of Spelling Reformers. The dictionary proper consists of the 300 words spelled in the old and the new way, with derivations and comments. Copies of the little dictionary will be distributed generally in the departments and sent to newspapers and publishing bouses through- out the country. With the distribution of the dictionary in the departments the era of reformed spelling will he officially in- angarated. ~The pharmacists of Washington are blessing the Federal government for the order promulgated regulating the amount of wig, the women employe by the Bureau o Engraving and Printing ma, wear. The sale of anti-fat has cracked all records. At first it was believed the ukase was the creation of some official faddiss. It stipulates that no woman onder 4 feet 10} inches shall be employed. It bars women whose hip width is more than 16 inches and women whose busts exceed 13 inches in depth are ostracized. The mere mechanical contrivances in the burean bave ceused this order. The ma- chines are crowded in a small space. Most of them are so high that women below the specified height cannot operate them, and operators of large Proportions interfere seri- ously, the officials say, with the smooth ranning of the department hecause of the space they occupy. The female employes who do not conform to the sylph-like proportions in- dicated will have to go,and there is a great rash for weight-reducing apparatus among prospective employes. —*‘It’s the unexpected that happens,you know,’ said the slow boarder. 4 *‘I guess that’s right,”’ rejoined the land. lady. ‘‘At least I know the money I ex- from you last week hasn’t material- as yet.” ——Agent: “I'd like to sell yon this bottle of mosquito exterminator.” Mr. Jackson : ‘‘No, sir-ee! I'm a mana- facturer of mosquito netting.’ ‘What was it Fraoklin said ? ‘It you’d have a thing well done—"' ““Tell your cook you'd like it rare,” in. terra Sabbabs. ~——He is a wise man who can have burn- ing zeal with broad sympathies. ~The salt of the earth is not strength- ened by being soaked in heer. ——Even pardon cannot pluck up by its roots the sin we have sown. ——The world is not waiting to know what you think of yourself. ———There is no hidden consecration without open confession. ——No policy will be table that is not steered by principle. ios —Swart sayings are not known hy making others smart. — Fretful preaching never leads to faithful practice. Low Rate Niagara Falls Excursions Popular ten-day excursions to Niagara Fale will be wo by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on Fridays, September 7, 21 and October 12. Special of lor cars, coaches and diningoar will start iar aio Whisl pool and the Rapids never lose their ab- sorbing interest to the American e. For illustrated booklet and full infor- tis fas apply to nearest ticket agent. . t Wid, CURB THB TRUSTS ie Lon dum PATRIOTISM ABOVE PARTY | Declares People Demand Gang Rule | Shall Cease and Corporations Forced | to Confine Their Activities Within | Charter Limits. John J. Green, the Demecratic-Lin- | toln Party candidate for secretary of | internal affairs, in accepting the nomi- nation, declared that if elected he | would use the powers of the office tc | check abuses by corporations, which | had never been done in the past by the | Republican machine. His speech of ac- | ceptance in full is as follows: i ! “Mr. Chairman and Gentiemen—With | | deep appreciation of the honor con- | ferred, 1 accept the nominations by | the Democratic and Lincoln Parties | | for the office of Secretary of Internal i Affairs. By the nominations which you ! have tendered today decent citizens of diverse political creeds have shown that patriotism is stronger than party prejudices. “Four hundred thousand Democrats, subordinating party pride to public good, crossed beyond their party lines jw select as their candidate for the highest place him whose life fits their platform as the glove fits the hand, and whose courageous manhood meets every requirement, no matter how ex- acting. “Hundreds of thousands of Republi- cans, earnest believers in every tenet of Republican faith, seeking the re- demption of the state and the purifi- cation of their party, in the name of their martyred Lincoln, have joined forces with their Democratic fellow- citizens and have nominated a ticket, upon which appears the names of three candidates selected by the Dem- ocratic convention. “These patriotic Republicans have left to the despoilers of their party oaly a party name which was kept from them by fraud, and the shattered remains of what was the most power- ful and the most unscrupulous ma- chine that had ever plumdered an American commonwealth, “In almost every state, as in Penn- sylvania, honest citizens are breaking party ties where necessary, to curb conscienceless corporations and to de- stroy corrupt political machines. Most of the evils that afflict Pennsylvania have come from the lawlessness of corporations and the rapacity of the corrupt political machine of which they are and have been silent part- ners. The people demand that gang | rule shall end, and that corporations shall divorce themselves from politics and confine their activities within their charter limits. Because of the in- timate relationship between quasi- ! public corporations and the Republican | | machine, the moneys of share-holders | have been diverted to the coffers of the gang to bribe legislatures and de- bauch the electorate in return for per- nicious corporation legislation. In every battle that the people have waged to regain control of the state they have found the great carrying companies and the public utilities cor- porations openly allied with the gang, aiding and abetting them with purse, power and passes. The railroads of the state have hindered the enact- ment and enforcement of those sec- tions of the Seventeenth Article of the Constitution which are most bene- ficial to the people. Today their gang allies. with pretended contrition, are promising the enactment of those safe- guards against corporation aggression which they have so long denied. “No taint of insincerity can be read into the Democratic and Lincoln Party platforms. Since 1875 the Demo- crats have demanded what their plat- form now promises. Were the Demo cratic and Lincoln Party platforms si- lent on the subject of corporation abuses, yet the people would know that every needful law would be en- acted and enforced, for Lewis Pmery, Jr., in himself as to these things, has become a platform, by 30 years’ earn- est and sincere opposition to corpora- tion corruption and gang control. Written words cannot speak with the sincerity of deeds performed. “The election of this determined foe to wrong-doing will destroy the gang and divorce corporations from poli tics; force them to become truly com: mon carriers, open on equal terms to all users; stop discrimination in charges, cars and transportation facili- ties, prevent abatements, drawbacks or rebates; destroy their control of parallel lines; compel them to retire from mining and manufacturing en terprices and confine themselves strictly within their corporate limits; and open again for public use the abandoned canals in the state. “It is the peculiar province of the office of Secretary of Internal Affairs, for which I am your nominee, to ex- ercise a watchful supervision over railroad, banking, mining, manufactur ing and other corporations and com- pel them to confine themselves strict ly within their corporate limits. By statute the secretary is given power to summon and examine witnesses, and upon complaint made by individ- uals, he has authority to investigate charges against corporations, and if he find any charges well founded and be- yond the ordinary process of individ. ual redress, to certify his opinion to the Attorney General, whose duty it then becomes to proceed against the corporation in the name of the state. “Had the machine-controlled secre- | ronsist of more than obtaining formal | size, wealth or power. All Americans : are proud of the great carrying com- ! sult at the polls in November. It will tarfes adequately exercised these in A ee quisitorial functions of their office, in- vestigation of the Pennsylvania rail- road by the national government would have been unnecessary. Proper | Inquiry by the Department of Internal | | Affairs would have disclosed the fact | that the coal-carrying companies were | | unlawfully engaged in mining aud | manufacturing along the lines of their | voads, and a certificate of this finding | to the Attorney General would have compelled these law-defying corpora | tions to withdraw their activities | within their proper charter limits. : “Investigation of corporations should | reports as to the assets, liabilities and : volume of business done. The inquisi- | tion should ascertain whether corpor ate powers are being exceeded. It should be as fair, impartial and un- prejudiced as are proceedings in open court. Corporations should not be harrassed by unreasonably frequent examinations, but they shouhll be made to undegstand that every viola- tion of their charter will be met by speedy ‘investigation and prompt insti tution of adverse proceedings. “Neither I nor the parties I represent oppose corporations because of their panies that are so essential to the wel- fare and commercial good of our vast country. But all thoughtful citizens | oppose corporation lawlessness. These creatures of law must be compelled to respect the law. They must not be per mitted to use their vast wealth and great power to defy, override or evade law, and their officers must be taught to conduct corporation affairs with the same good conscience and sense of de cency and honesty which rule tham in the direction of their private affairs. “I pledge myself, if elected, to the honest, diligent and impartial admin. istration of the vast power of the great office for which you have named me; and I invite the suffrages of my fellow Pennsylvanians in the enno- bling work of redeeming our common: wealth.” PEOPLEDEMANDREFOR ¢“Farmer’’ Creasy’s Ringing Ad- dress of Acceptance. HE STANDS FOR “SQUARE DEAL" The Fusion Candidate For Auditor General In the Fight For the Con. stitutional Rights of the People. William T. Creasy, in accepting the Pemocratic-Lincoln Party nomination for auditor general, declared for re- form in the most emphatic manner. He reviewed many of the changes the people demanded for years, but which were always denied them by the ma- chine. The action of some railroads in re- ducing their rate of fare, said Mr. Creasy, will have no bearing on the re- have no effect on the legislature of 1907, he added, declaring that the peo- ple will insist on the passage of two- cent rate legislation, the right of trolley companies to carry freight and the creation of a railroad commission. Mr. Creasy's speech in full is as fol- lows: “Mr. Chairman and Committee of No- tification of the Democratic and Lin- coln Republican State Conventions: “Gentlemen—In accepting the nomi- nation for the office of Auditor General I am deeply sensible of the responsi- bility which it involves. “While I appreciate the honor con- ferred, I cannot fail to realize the fact that personal considerations did not influence the choice of your conven- tions, but rather the belief that the candidate whom it named would, in good faith and good comsciefice, en- deavor to discharge every duty, how- ever grave, imposed upon him along the lines of honest government and good citizenship which are being laio down, in no uncertain courses, in Penn. sylvania today. “The declarations of principles and reforms advocated by the several rep- resentative conventions of that great body of the people of Pennsylvania who are opposed to the existing condi- tions and methods of the administra- tion of those offices of the state gov- ernment still in the hands of the ma- chine, meet my hearty endorsement, and are in line with my efforts in the last six legislatures of our state. “These platforms mean to give back to the people their constitutional rights, which for 30 years or more have been shamefully trampled under foot by un- scrupulous and defiant manipulators of a political machine run in the interests of predatory corporations, “The result is a patch work system of laws for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. “In the Pennsylvania state govern- ment the auditor general's department is the business office of the state, and should be run on business principles. The reports, which are several years behind, should be promptly made. In no other department is the mighty financial growth and industrial ad- vancement of the state so clearly mani- fested. “The duties of the auditor general are very broad, and give him great power, which, if properly used, will save to the state thousands of dollars. In con- junction with the state treasurer, he collects and disburses annually over $20,000,000. “What are the necessities of the state government which demand the produc- tion of such an immense revenue? “There are always the expenses of the different departments of government, the care of charitable institutions, and the payments to counties for schools, | roads and cther purposes, and yet the annual average balance remaining in the state treasury exseeds $10,000,000. “When the thoughtful citizen takes the time to inquire into the history of the revenue legislation of Pennsylva- nia, he will find that the cumbersome and expensive methods under which the state taxes are collected are patches upon a framework which was enacted nearly 100 years ago. And notwith- standing the totally changed conditions of today, the old vehicle is still driven recklessly, and it would be difficult to sstimate the cost of the collection of | state taxes, or explain the irrational methods that are used to disburse or invest the balances. “It is a sound financial proposition that the government should not be a lender. It is also a common-sense proposition that it is a poor financial policy to exact taxes from the people and after deducting the cost of collect. ing them to repay them. Better permit them to remain with the people in the first instance. “The man whose duty calls him to administer the affairs of the auditor general's department of Pennsylvania must do his part in running the cum- bersome tax machine as it is set up, but he Is not a careful man who will not make a thorough examination and an overhauling of the machinery with a view to suggesting legitimate repairs. “The first consideration of a citizen who has been deputized by the people to fill a state office is their interests. “The unequal and excessive burdens of taxation justify one who would be- come a finance officer of the state to safely and rightfully subscribe to the proposition in this reform fight, which says: “ “We repeat our demands for equali- gation, and recommend that the large surplus of the people's taxes remaining in the state treasury from year to year be applied to the reduction of taxes for the support of the common schools levied in the several school districts of the state, and to improvement of township roads, and that the revenues derived by the state from licenses and personal property be retained by the several counties in which they are raised.’ “Your candidate for auditor gemeral in accepting this nomination, if called to the office by the vote of the people, promises a “square deal” to all, and will devote his best energies and abil- ities to administeriqg the office faith- fully and honestly for the best inter. ests of the state, which are the best interests of the people.” L. B. COOK FATALLY STABBED Was In Company of a Woman, When Her Husband Attacked Him. Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 10.—Lawrence B. Cook, member of the Pennsylvania legislature from the Fourth district, who was renominated by the Republi- can party, was perhaps fatally stabbed by Andrew MacMillan, a justice of the peace, and one of the wealthiest resi- dents of Carnegie. Cook, who became famous during the last legislature for being the author of the Greater Pitts- burg bill, is alleged to have been cele- brating his renomination. He met a woman, said to be Mrs. MacMillan, and the two went to a house in Lawn street. While they were in the room MacMillan burst open the door and en- gaged in a struggle with Cook. During the battle Cook was stabbed a number of times and is now in a critical condi. tion in the Mercy hospital, while Mac- Millan is in the Oakland police sta- tion, held without bail. ADOPTED NEW INSURANCE RATES Pennsylvania United Workmen Make Change In Schedule. Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 8. — A mew “level” system of insurance rates for members of the order has been adopt- ed by the grand lodge of Pennsylvania of the Ancient Order of United Work- men, in session here. The new sched- ule differs from that formerly in use, in that it increases the rate for those who join the order between the ages of 55 and 70 years of age. There also is a change in the rates for those of other ages, the new schedule provid- ing for a fixed rate by the year. Rates are fixed for $500, $1000 and $2000 beneficiary certificates, the rates being respectively 62 cents, $1.24 and $2.48 for these certificates at the age of 18 years, while it is $2.33, $4.65 and $9.30 for members of 65 years, and in- creases to $4.83, $9.65 and $19.30 for those of 70 years or over. TWO SISTERS DIE OF BURNS Father Badly injured Trying To Save His Daughters. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 10.—In a fire near the Continental breaker Fred. Smith was badly burned and his two daughters, Nettie and Emily, were burned so badly that they died in the Moses Taylor hospital. The two girls were playing in a shanty adjoining the house and in some manner their clothing caught fire. The father in his attempt to save them, sustained his burns, but the doctors have strong hopes for his recovery. General Smith Arrives at Manila. Manila, Sept. 11.—General James T. Smith, vice governor of the Philip pines, who is to succeed Governor General Ide, arrived on the transport Logan. He was warmly welcomed and an elaborate reception was given in the evening. Great enthusiasm is man- ifested by the Filipinos, who will ten- der General Smith a reception. Five Scalded By Bursting of Pipe. Allentown, Pa., Sept. 10.—Five men were severely scalded by the bursting of a steam pipe in the engine room of the Atlas Portland Cement company’s old mill at North Coplay. O in Herb is not expected to recover. rac i aA Bilis
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