i EB Demonic, atc AY MEEK. TITIES ; 8y P. GR “Dear MARIA!" You're a liar! + TEDDY. —France is having a few troubles of her own just now. —The Christmas tarkey only game in season now. —The old idea of state rights is likely to be sorely tried before this California Japan- ese trouble is settled. —When a $7.21 case is appealed to the Superior court it is evident thatjtbere is moreofa chase for satisfaction than the coin. —Every good man and woman in the land will pray for the recovery of Chaplain MoCang and every good Methodist espec- ially. —Poor Caruso! He isn’t even heard of since the STORER—ROO0SEVELT [combina- tion have jumped onto the moukey-house stage. i= about the —We wonder if TEDDY was thinking of | the STORERS when he dwelt at such great | length upon the question of divorces in his latest message. —Many a parent wonders why his or her child grows up to lose all respect for them and never stops to think that it is their own life that bas done it all. —The fact that there won’t be any six dollar carpet on the legislative halls won’t interfere with the kind of laws that will be launched at Harrisburg next month. —Well, the district attorney bas done something. Now will the claquers hold their tongues long enough to permit Lim $0 work out the other two cases without interference. —Oar President is a busy man, indeed, but not too busy to hang his dirty linen ont on the public wash line just the same as all the other folks who get mixed up in scandals nod intrigue. —The Pittsburg court has ruled in favor of Mrs. HARTIE and he cannot have a di- voree from the beautiful wile he tried to discard by the most outrageous charges against her character. —The “Dear MARIA!’ Letters, bound in balf-kaki, with a handsome {nll page front- ispiece of the woman who made the avthor aud is not afraid of the big stick will be apropos for Christmas remembrances for friends tn Washington. —The store windows bave more of in- terest for schoo! children these days than their books, and how we would all love to be children again; light hearted and happy the whole day long; without a care today nor a thought of the morrow. —When BErnamy, ‘‘Dear MARIA" and TEDDY get through with their dispute as to which one of the trio is lying the public might call Senators BAILEY, TILLMAN and CHANDLER to the stand to impeach TED- pY’'s reputation for sticking to the truth. —If it is to be LEWIS BEITLER, of Phil- adelphia, for Secretary of the Common- wealth ; WALTER LYON, of Pittsburg, for Attoroey General and Tom STEWART for Adjutant General, it will be all machine, sare enough, but it might be worse parts of the machine. —Some State, some where, ought to offer a prize for a law without a loop hole. Now look at that great corruption breaking law of ours that was passed to make political parties and candidates tell whence came and whither goes their campaign funds, then read the certified statements filed with the court officials. You know the amounts. That's all. —Mr. Secretary SHAW has once more come to the rescue of the stock market job- bers in Wall street and they all divided “‘the melon’ that was cat on Wednesday. Those money sharks will never get through manipulating the finances of the country until we get a Secretary of the Treasury who will give them a lemon when they pray for a melon. —The next session of the Legislature will have a great many people who will in- gist on its doing its duty. The Grangers of the State are already organizing to see that The Pennsylvania State College gets enough of an appropriation to relieve it of its finaucial strain and if they do the work they declare they will do the State's great institution of learning will develop more rapidly than it ever has doue. ~The Greensburg Argus says ‘‘there is more than one road to the soup house. The rapidly increasing price of necessities makes fearful the approach of winter to thousands of honest working people whose wages have not kept pace with their needs.” And the Argus is right. While this coun- try is enjoying an era of prosperity uopree- edented in its history the great masses know little of it farther than that they bave steady work to earn the woney that does not go as far in purchases as it used ‘| women that it is their duty to bear chil- to do. —At lass it has become apparent why Phil. KxNoX left the cabinet and became a United States Senator. Cassatr didn’ buy the place for him at all. He wasn’s cabinet material and the Senate was the only open place to shunt him. That he wasn’t cabinet material we need only quote from one of RooSEVELT'S ‘Dear MARIA" letters as follows : ‘“There is not one of them’’—meaning his cabinet officers— ‘‘with the possible exception of Roor, who can appear before the country with the prestige of a great political leader.” VOL. 51 BELLEFONTE, PA., Great Day for the Boodlers. Representative FRANK prospective Speaker of the next House of the General Assembly, revealed the par- | i “will not be marked with the hysteria of | the special session of 1906." By hysteria he means reform. In all that be said le ex- pressed the opinion that the party was | atampeded a year ago by the defeat of its! candidate for State Treasurer and frighten- ed into reform legislation that might have been avoided. PENNYPACKER and Speak- er WALTON aud other machine managers were faint-hearted huccaneers who yielded needlessly toan exaggerated expression of public sentiment. But McCLAIN prom. | igen to show no such weakness. He will heard the reform lion and throttle him, We may easily believe that to Mr. Me- CLAIN’S mind the tendency toward reform revealed daring the special session of 1900 | was in the nature of ‘‘hysteria.” Any man or measure which basn’t the endorse- | ment of Boss Grist, of Lancaster, appears wrong to MeCLAIN, At least he pretends to think #0 and makes GREIST believe he thinks so. It is the condition nnder which GREIST allows him to hold his job aod he needs the money. But he was neve: wore mistaken in his life, There was no hys- teria and mighty little reform in the legis. lation enacted during the extra session of 1906. [It was a very transparent false pre- | tense of reform. The machine was playing | politics to the limit and nine-tenths of the laws passed during the session had jokers in them or were so palpably invalid that they can be nullified wuenever the ma- | chine desires that result. i We may infer from the remarks of Mr. | McCLAIN that there won't be even the | pretenee of reform during the coming ses- | the gavg will be loot aud piunder. There | dalliance with conscience. Freebooter Mec- CrAIN will be in the saddle and everything | will be in order except reform. DURHAM i way not be if evidence and PENROSE may | | nse the telephone jastead of a wessenger. | But the gang will be all there or there. | on the basis of ‘honor among thieves.” It will be a great day for the machine when the old order ia restored and MeCLAIN takes command as Speaker. Roosevelt Promptly Rebuked. If ever there was a deserved rebuke fitly administered it was that banded to President RoosevELT by the Appropria- tions committee of the House of Represen- tatives in Washington in the order forbid- ding the ‘‘use of any other than the WEB- STEER standard of spelling in all documents authorized by law.” OI all the ahsordities in which President ROOSEVELT has in- dulged since his accidental elevation to the Presidency that socalled spelling order was mischievous. His dining on bears’ claws without knives and forks was ledi- oroas and his sleeping in a snow drift in the Yellowstone park sills. Those things affected nobody but himeelf and could easily be overlcoked. But his preposterous spelling reform affected the entire country and has properly been rebuked. Of course ROOSEVELT never stopped a moment to consider the effect which the adoption of his spelling order might have upon the country and the people. Neors- sarily she adoption of such a system would tiave isolated the literature of the conntry for no other English speaking people wonld have thooght of indulging in such an absurdity and in our diplomatic intercourse with other countries employing the same tongue, we woanld have been compelled to change documents made in Washington to go abroad hefore they would have been ac- cepted and documents coming from abroad would have been of necessity put throogh the same process as an essential prerequi- site to filing in our government archives, The considerable expense would have been the least cause for objecting to this. But it is donbtfal if the President would have neglected the opportunity for adver- tising himself even if be bad given the matter consideration. His abnormal vanity and covetousness of power is expressed in the spelling order and nothing else. The impulses that have forced bim to tell dren, that reaches out to the looal school system and asks for shooting ualleries and that may at any sime culminate in an order instructing mothers how to pin diapers on their babies, is respoosible for the absurd order on spelling reform. It is to be hoped that the action of the Appro- priations committee of the House at Wash- ington will work a cure of the malady. ~——On Tuesday Governor Pennypacker appointed Marlin E. Olmsted, of Harris- Campaign Expenditures. DEC STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. A Shameful Exhibit, In his speech at the Fellowship elub din- | There is a good deal to learn in the ac- | The first meeting of the legislative com- ner, in Philadelphia, the other evening, counts of the candidates and committees of | mission to “‘investigate conditions of the B. MeCLAIN, | campaign expenditures filed in the courts various insane asylums of the State,” was and at the state department at Harcisharg. i beld in Philadelphia last Saturday. It The objet of the law requiring the filing | would better have been beld ® year ago for tics and the sources of supply. poses of the machine unmistakably. ‘The ' of statements was to give the public some | it revealed a condition of things that is Legislative session of 1907,”” he remarked, | idea of the amount of money spent in poli- | simply intolerable. The first witness, Dr. If the ac- J. NICHOLAS MITCHELL, secretary of the | counts filed were acourate, the information | State Board on Lunacy, testified that there they contain would be of much value. But are 1,779 more insane patients in the state the probabilities are that many of the state- | hospitals for the insane than the hospitals ments are falee, thongh the law requires jare capable of accommodating properly. that they be sworn to. For example, acan- | This fact, it may be assumed, was known didate for Judge in a neighhoriug county | to Governor PENNYPACKER w) en he was files a statement which represents only a | cutting appropriations for such charitable the fund, thoogh it is known that moss of the amount came from outside sources. Bat there is something to be learned from the statements filed without going into the question of their accaracy or hon- esty. Take the statements of the two lead- ing state committees for example. The Democratic State committee expended a matter of a fraction over $18,000 while the Republican committee dishursed upwards of $50,000 and bas unpaid hills to the amount of abont $25,000. In she city of Philadelphia the Republican committee ex- pended more than $60,000, four-fifths of which were contributed by PENROSE, Me- NicroL aud the VARE brothers, all ex- cept PENROSE being municipal coutractors, It requires no great amount of perspicaci- ty to conjecture why these contractors gave #0 liberally of their funds. The reasons which influenced them to give ought to have influenced others not only to refuse to contribute but to vote against the candi- dates in whom they were interested. In Luzerne county there is likely to be a judicial inquiry into the campaign ex- penses of a candidate and we sincerely hope it will be pursued to the end. The defeat- sion, however. The black flag will be | ed Republican candidate for Congress in raised at the outset and she shibboleth of | that county spent money lavishly and there is reason to believe that at least some of will be no compromise with decency or | the expenditures were without the sanction of the law. It i= more than likely thas other candidates in other sections of the State algo violated the law but made their statements to conceal the fact. The issne of the judicial proceedings there, however, will determine whether or not accurate abouts and won't care much for what the | statements will he made in the future. people think or say so long as the harvest is | There are ways to find out the facts if can- plenty and the distribution of the spoils is | didates will employ them and it ie safe to say that honest elections will only be se. cured when statements of expenses are ac: | curate. The President and the Storers, In the dispute between Presidents Roosk- VELT on one side and BELLAMY and Mis. STORER on the other there is one fact clear- ly revealed and that is that sex makes no difference to the President. In a recent controversy between the President and the then Lieutenant Governor of Massachu- setts, the President was proved an ordinary liar. Still later be raised a quest.on of ve- 1acity between himself cn one side and Senators TILLMAN and BAILEY on the oth- er in which former Senator CHANDLER tes- tified that the President bad lied. But his antagonisis in these disputes were men and a man may prevaricate in a controversy with another man and still claim respecta- bility. Bat when he lies to a woman be is a scamp. That the President was concerned with Mr. aud Mrs. BELLAMY STORER in an in- trigue to promote Archbishop IRELAND is well established by the correspondence which bas been made public. And so far as we are able to discover there is no great fault to be found with him on that account. Both the President and the Republican par- ty owed a good deal to Archbishop IRE- LAND. For several years that prelate has been using his oburch relationship for the Republican party and especially Tmgo- DOR ROOSEVELT. That being true what reason is there why ROOSEVELT should not perform a similar service for the Archbish- op ? Especially if it could be done on the quiet. BELLAMY and Mrs. STORER were admirable agents. Of course negotiations of that character ought to have been conducted hy secrecy and failing of achievement Mr. and Mrs. STORER ought to have taken upon them- selves the blame unless it could have been shifted over upon Loxn. In other inci- dents of similar character LOEB has heen ready aud willing to swear to auything that the exigencies required. But we can understand why that faithful and patient burden bearer hesitated in this case. The affectionate terms of the President's letters to ‘My Dear MARIA,” might bave got Logs into trouble from which extrication would be impossible. But BeErraMy and Mania ought to have been equal to the ocoasion. When the King is concerned perjury is a pleasure. ~The annual Sophomore—Freshman football game at State College was played in the snow on Beaver field last Saturday. It proved a most exciting contest and was burg, a member of the Board of Trustees of The Pennsylvania State College. won by the Freshmen by the score of 10 to 0. . | fraction of the mouey he expended, and | institutions in order to preserve an immense | makes no meation of the contributions to | surplus for the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings to squander in extravagant adornments for the capitol. The treatment of the wards of Pennsyl- vania bas long been a snbject of scandal, It has been part of the machine program to stint the helpless in order that there might be the greater opportunity to help the mwa- chine. QUAY understood that the average citizen doesn’t care for details. An im- posing ageregate impresses the public mind and the machine understood that the total charity appropriations amounted to much. Therefore little attention was given to de- linquencies in the equipment of this institu. tion or that. Altogether they drew] a vast sum from the treasary, and afforded a con- siderable source of graft for every charity appropriation was subject to a rebate to the machine. Probably the reason PENNY- PACKER cut down the amoant was that be knew the rebate had been paid. This business taken altogether composes the colossal crime of the age and since the death of QUAY the principal figure in the aflair bas been PENNYPACKER. Possibly he never received a cent of the profits to the machine. DURHAM and MceNicHOL estimated bum as an easy mark and fed him on flattery. His insane and absurd vanity made him an easy victim of the con- spirators. The promise of an office which he covets or the statement that he is a scholar and a patriot was better to bim than milk and houey. Under the influence of praige be strated like n gobbler in the barnyard alone. But he worked harm to the obaritable institutions of the State by cutting appropriations when huwanity and charity cried out together in protest. The School Appropriation, Dr. NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER, superin- tendent of public instruction, is determine ed that there sball he no decrease in taxes in Pennsylvania if he can help it. He wante the appropriation for the public schools increased in the same ratio that the number of pupils increases. There bas been no increase in the appropriation in re- cent years and the number of pupils bave increased considerably, be saye. There- fore, he adds, the per capita appropriation is diminishing. That is certainly true. No argument is necessary to prove it. It may be admitted also that redundant revenues could hardly be put to a better use than that of maintaining and improv- ing the educational system. We say re. dundant revenues for as a matter of fact the framers of onr government never in- tended that taxes should be levied and col- lected in excess of the amount actully necessary to maintain the government and educating the children was no part of that plan. No one questions the wisdom, how- ever, or grudges the expense, of the best possible public school system, but there is a limit to the advantage of the best and wisest beneficenoces. There is a disposition to introduce a good many expensive fiills into the school sys- tem of Pennsylvania and Dr. SCHAEFFER encoarages all of them. Care should be taken to not go to excess in this respect. This State pays more to the cause of edu- cation thau any other State in the Union and it should continue to lead in that re- spect. But we can see no reason for in- creasing the present appropriation. Prop- erly administered the department can do all its work and do it well with the pres- ent appropriation, and the superintendent ought not ask for more. ——This week a deed was filed in the office of the recorder of Centre county trans- | t0y8 ferring a large tract of land from Monroe H. Kulp & Co., lumbermen, of Shamokin, to the State of Pennsylvania. The tract embraces 12,789 acres and extends over por- tious of four counties —~in Miles township, Centre county ; in Green and Crawford towaships, Clinton county ; in Washington township, Lycoming county, and in Hart- ley, Lewis, West Buffalo and White Deer townships, Union county. The considera- tion stated is $30,971.31. It is the intention of the State to use the land as a forest pre- serve. —Don't fail to see the ‘Mummy and the Humming Bird’’ at Garman'’s tonight, We don’t often advise our readers to go to the shows and then only when we are ab. solutely certain they will witness a good one. Don’t let this be another ease ofa good show and a poor house. EMBER 14, 1906. We Ought to Get Ont, From the San Francisco Star. We ought to get out of the Philipines. As the Star insisted from the very incep- tion of she proposition of annexation, we ought never to have set up our dominion in those islands. In 1898 reason was thrown away upon the jingoes. At that time even the noisy coxcomb Bev passed for a prophet and statesman. e bad deluges of senseless and sonorous ora- tory. Men shouted that the American flag should never be bauled down, until they went quite red in the face with spasms of patriotism. Fiery editors filled columns with flaming ap to ignorant and thoughtless prejudice—as near akin to cala reason as a real Iudiac is to the Bos- ton conception of the noble savage. The common sense and the love of fair play nat. ural to our people were simply drowned in an ocean of slush, gush and demagogy. Happily that time is past. The nation now sees its folly. And a very little in- sistence by men of the type of Senator Hoar—if his type can be found in public life—and by newspapers of the type of the Spriogfield Republican, let us say, wou!d lead to an almost universal demand that we drop our foolishness. The greatest ob- stacle in the path of safety and honor is the stubbornness of President Roosevelt, But even be cannot stand up oP the expressed will of the whole people. e bave held the Philippines now for eight years and their retention has cost us the encrmous sam of four handred aud tweusy millions of dollars. This sum—as we pointed ont eight years ago—would have redeemed all the arid lands in the United States, given employment to all ons of work, and made farm-houses for four millions of self-supporting Americans liv. ing under the American flag. The incred- ible folly of wasting these millions in keeping up a vice-regal court in a land whose natives abhor us as a result, was plain enough to a sane, balanced mind at the beginning. We think even the Los Avugeles Times can begin to perceive it now. It is useless to ory over spilt milk. Bat it is only sense to take care not to spill any more. Just as surely as the folly of 1898 resulted io all the cost it bas caused, just #0 surely will we be put to the loss of many more millions and of many thousands of lives, if we persist in maintaining our rule over the Filipinos. The agents of Japan are even now mivgling with the natives and enciting them to expect Japanese aid. Oar fleet in Pacific waters is outnumbered ten to one by the Japanese fleet. Our troops in the islande woald be overwhelm- ed by numbers. And the attack is abso- lately certain to come. We cannot under- stand the amazing blindness and indiffes ence of our people to this threatening peril. If we had aby right to be in the Philip- pines with arms in hand, the Star would believe in keeping our flag there if it took the last man and the last dollar. But since we have no right, and never had any right to be there, we would not give the life of one single American boy to retain a con- quest alike unjust to the conquered and hateful to every tradition and every ideal of our own free republic. The Japanese have raised the cry of Asia for the Asiatics. They. are wholly right. That is a yellow man's continent and belongs to the yellow man. Since there are at least five hundred millions of him, he must have seme por- tion of the earth for his fees to stand upon. And Japan bas a perfect right to apply the Monroe doctrine to Asia. It is our own teaching, and it is right. Gen. Koontz's Contest. From the Philadelphia Press, Gen. William H. Koontz, of Somerset, who was a delegate to the convention which first nominated Abrabam Lincoln for president, who was a member of Congress more than forty vears ago, who was a mem- bers of the State Legislature, and who lived through seventy-six summers and other seasons, is still in the fight. This veteran was a candidate on the fasion ticket for the State Senate in his district at the late election, and thongh his opponent was returned as elected by a majority of forty, Gen. Koontz is contest. iog the election on the ground of illegal votes. He bas presented a petition to the court, in which he makes it very plain that in one township in Somerset county no registration of voters bad been made and thas the affidavits filed by electors to en- able them to vote were defective. The Senate, however, may not be so handy ir arbitrary action juss now as it has been in the past. If Gen. Koontz proves through his contest in conrt that he was elected he will be justly entitled to his seat, and the Senate cannot decently de- prive him of it. How It Hits the Holldsy Shopper. From the Johnstown Democrat. When yon buy the Christmas toys for the little children and when you wish that they did not cost so much so that you might also buy for some other little chil- dren you know who are not so well vided for as your own are, it might be well to remember that is from 25 to 60 per cent. according to the kind and quality. As there is over $200,000,000 in the treasury more than the government re. quires, and of that amount $154,000,000 is loaned without interest to favored nation. al banks, there is no need for this tax on dolls and toys that the Republican party persists in collecting. The tariff o as an unnecessary tax upon the Ch generosity of the nation. The tax is not n for the support of the govern- SE orl for every dollar the gov- ernment gets the trusts collect six. Of all e ip the world the Christmas shopper east reason to be a stand-patter. ~The stone work on the walls of the new Reformed ciiurch chapel was completed lass week and the building is now in the bande of the carpenters for completion. It will be a very complete and convenient edifice when finished and will greatly en. bance the value of the Reformed church property. the tariff tax on these __ Spawls from the Keystone. —More than 400 houses will be built in Bristol, Bucks county, next year, for the em- ployees of a new pipe mill and leather works. ~—In DuBois there were 10,800 feet of water pipe laid during the season just closed. “There is now about-seven miles of pipe in the water system of that town. ~—Senator J. H. Cochran, of Williamsport, will be the Santa Claus for the Industrial Home boys of that city, as he is arranging to give them a big Christmas dinner. —Upwards of 500 deer, 109 bears and near- ly 600 wild turkeys is the record of game shot during the brief open season in this Bite this year. Four hunters lost their ves. ~The Elks of Pennsylvania will hold their annusl convention at Harrisburg May 14th and 15th. There are ninety-four lodges in the State with a membership of more than 22,000, ~The Salvation Army of Scranton has pur. chased a plot of ground, removed from the slum district of the city, on which a barracks will be erected. The price paid for the plot is $39,000, —Rebecea Anderson,of West Vincent town- ship, Chester county, who died on Wednes- day, aged 91 years, has left an estate of about $125,000, nearly all of which is to be devoted to charities. —A lady in Germantown who is 35 years of age began attending Sunday school when she was 2} years old and has not missed at- tendance a singls Sunday in ail these inter. vening years, ~The school board of Reading has passed a resolution directing the prosecution of all persons who negleet or refuse to pay the one dollar personal or occupation tax imposed when they are able to do so. ~—Three men were killed at Waynesboro Wednesday afternoon by the fall of an eleva- tor in the Geiser Manufacturing company’s shops, one was so severely injured that he will die and six others were injured. —A mine fire, which was started thirty years ago in a mine breach in the Sharp mountain, above East Mount Carbon, has broken ont with new vigor and sends out sparks and tongues of fire like a volcano. —Joe Litner aged 19, shot and kiiled John Payne, a boy 9 years old, at Stanley, five miles from DuBois, Sunday. The shooting was the result of young Payne picking up and looking at a rifle belonging at Litner. ~—J. Hayden, a justice of the peace and Enoch Oskoski, both of Mount Carmel, have been fined $50 each and cost in the Columbia county court, for having severely beaten a woman because she refused to pay a bill of $6, —William K. McBeth, of Scottdale, has started out on a trip in which he is to visit the capital of every State in this country, making the entire journey on horseback, on a wager of $20,000 that he can do it within four years. ~Mrs. Emma H. Sandt, of Easton, who was buried on Thursday, left a will in which she directed that all of her pet dogs and cats, twelve in number, shall be chloroformed, except two, as she feared they would not be kindly treated. ~All the furnaces in the eastern part of the State, at Lebanon, Cornwall, Sheridan, Orbisonia, Temple, Topton, Leesport, Potts. town, two at Swedeland and three in Read- ing, are in blast, with a weekly output of 20,~ 000 tons, and the entire product is used as quickly as produced. —There are sixty three cases of typhoid fever in Scranton that have been reported and a number more are believed to be un- reported. The city water is claimed to be pure,and the origin of the fever is attributed to local water supplies that may be contami. nated aud to bad milk. —The largest chestnut tree in the State is believed to be standing on the farm of John K. Stauffer, near the Landisville Methodist Episcopal camp grounds, in Lancaster coun. ty. At the ground it measures forty feet in circumference and four feet up the circum. ference is twenty-seven feet. —Alfred Grabam, of Clearfield, und Cole- man & Allen, of Williamsport, purchased the 0. L. Schoonover estate timber and mill at Forest, Clearfield county, early last week, at public sale. The price paid was $13,000. Next dny the Grabam Lumber Co. was or. ganized and werk will be begun at once operating the purchase. —Last spring M. 8. Quiggle, of Pine Sta. tion, went over to Nippenose valley and pur- chased of Steward Group,on the valley farm, four pigs which were farrowed on the 20th day of March and he killed them on the ith day of December. One weighed 405 pounds, one 408 pounds, one 418 pounds und one 426 pounds, or a total of 1.657 pounds of pork. —At Dover,Dslaware,articles of incorpora- tion were filed Thursday for the Penu Coal & Lumber corporation,of Bedford, Pa., to ac- quire lumber and coal lands and to dispose of the products of the same. The incorporators are John M. Reynolds, A. I. Lyon, R. C. Halderman, all of Bedford, and T. Frank Boyer, of Huntingdon. Capital stock, $200, 060, —An eighteen-mile stretch of railway. to be constructed by the Pennsylvania com. pany, and which will connect the two coun- ty seats of Bedford and Blair, will constitute one of the expected blessings for which the residents of Bedford and Hollidaysburg are thankful in advance. The prospective new line will be a link in a branch from Cumber- land to Pittsburg. —Because his wife threatened to leave him, Max Unick, of Mt. Carmel, slashed his throat with a razor, and isin a critical con. dition. The pair have had words, and Uniek’s wife Wednesday informed him she would leave, and also impressed the fact upon him that she held the deed for the home, and that be would be a pauper when she decided to make him one. —While the mercury in the thermometer was away below the freezing ; point and with a piercing wind blowing, last Friday after. noon, two young society women of McKees- port, stood for hours in front of their home, in a hole dug for the purpose of erecting a telephone pole. Permission to place the pole there had been refused, and they were de- termined to prevent it if possible. As dark. ness came on the workmen departed leaving the girls as victors. A
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