BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Siings.
—Yesterday morning made many a red
nose turn blue,
—The ice man is happy again. Nature
is fixing it up for him now, sare enough.
—I¢ is just Bellefonte’s luck to have her
water pumps out of commission at a time
when there is more water than evough to
run them.
—Mr. Governor SWETTENHAM might
have thought that Admira! DAVIS wanted
to benevolently assimulate bim and bis
Jamaicans.
~J. PIERPONT MORGAN is to retire from
business, i ¢, he will still own the country,
but he will permit someone else to manage
it for bim.
—In re-electing Senator BAILEY the Leg-
islatare of Texas has done what Pennsyl-
vania invariably does. Vote first, investi-
gate afterwards.
—Aholish the Indian school at Carlisle ?
Never! The most picturesque feature of
our great fall foot-ball games would be
gone and the country won’t stand for that,
-~Why does Gen. FUNSTON fuss because
masons and hod carriers are paid more
money thao army officers. There is time
for him to serve an apprenticeship as eit! er
trade.
—WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN was
thrown violently out of a sleigh a few days
ago and already some Republicans are
quaking lest he might have had his ear to
the ground.
— Representative THOMAS has introd need
an anti-treating bill in the Legislature at
Harrisburg. Do you think it will pass?
No, not so long as men have voice enough
left to say ‘‘Have one on me.”
~The islands of the sea disappear before
the frequent tidal waves like the babies on
the ball racks at our county fairs ; except
that old Neptune doesn’t get a cigar every
time he knocks an island down.
—There must be something wrong with
that Panama job. SHONTZ has resigued as
chief engineer. He wae getting a salary of
thirty thousand dollars a year and men are
not giving up such things without cause.
—Those selfish MarLBOROUGHS ! How
mean of them to get at and fix up all their
family differences without banging out the
usual amount of dirty linen on the public
wash line. Now the CASTELLANES didn’t
act that way.
~The THAW trial is on in New York so
that during its tedious progress yon need
not expect to find much real news in the
metropolitan dailies. It will all be THAW,
even to such silly details as the brand of
toilet paper HARRY uses.
—One who is supposed to be the best
dressed woman in all of Eogland is in this
country now. Possibly she merits she dis-
tinction hut she will discover that when it
comes to convincing us she will find that
moss of us are from Missouri.
—The Machiue is after Gen. GosiN. The
Senate is to refuse to confirm his appoint-
ment as Major General of the N. G. P. be.
cause at sandry times he declined to climb
onto the QUAY band wagon. The infer-
ence is that the head of the Goard must be
a Machine gun.
—The floods along the Ohio are causing
millions of dollars in property loss and un-
told hardships for persons living along the
river bottoms. The watersare higher than
they have been since 1883 and thousands
of families are homeless. Surely for disas-
ters 1907 is starting in well.
—Aud to think! Some one is actually
trying to introduce the civil service reform
practice in Pennsylvania. Yon know
about how much chance such a bill would
have in getting through the Legislatare of
this State where fitness counts for vothing
and Machine oilers are what is wanted.
—It is rnmored that boss PENROSE is
growing tired of giving orders over the
long distance telephone and threatens to
appear in person in Harrisburg unless there
is a better showing of machine froits. All
this is very distasteful to Governor STUART
and a few others who are enjoying some
liberties they wonld no: have were PEN-
ROSE on the ground, but what are they
going to do about it? PENROSE is the boss
aod if he wants to go to Harrisharg he'll
go and be’ll do the bossing, too.
_=—And now it comes to pass that eleven
gallons of alcobol can be distilled from a
ton of green corn cobs, from a tou of green
corn stalks two hundred and forty pounds
of a fermentable substance that can be con-
verted into the finest champagne ean be se-
cured, while the waste product can be used
for paper stock. Ifthe price of the con-
verting machive it not too high you need
not he surprised to learn of our offering to
take corn on subscription. For what use
could a printer have for money with all
those dazzling possibilities in corn.
—Tomorrow the primaries will be held
in Centre county. They are the beginning
of political organism. If they are good,
controlled hy men of good motives, the re-
sults will be good, but if left to the manip-
ulation of political backs and petty place
hunters the results cannot but he unsatis-
factory. Yon are a citizen enjoying the
greatest gift of a Republican form of gov-
ernment. It is as much your duty to pro.
tect that government as it is the duty of
the government to protect youn and if you
do not attend the primaries you are shirk.
ing yourdaty. If youn are for reform, strike
at the root of the evil by going to the pri.
maries for there is where machines ges their
start and their fostering care.
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ties are borrowing trouble.
longed regular session of the Legislature,
‘adjourned session,” during which the
indicated will be achieved. The maj rity
of the committee will coincide with the re-
civil proceedings will not lie and for the
sans criminal prosecutions are
session to reach that conclusion. It will |
be accomplished at the regular session and
without much circumlocution. Adjourned |
sessions cost the machine money.
Oar esteemed metropolitan contempo. |
raries are too credulous [or anything. They |
appear to believe that a considerable nam-
ber of the Republicans in the present Gen-
eral Assembly are bent on certain import-
ant reforms and will create all kinds of
trouble unless they are adopted. Asa mat-
ter of fact, however, ninety-nine out of |
every hundred Republican Legislators care |
infinitely more for personal iofluence and |
recognition than civic reform. Take the
Tioga county members, for example. Daur- |
ing the special session of a year ago HiTCH-
COCK wore the surface off the carpet be-
tween his seat and the Speaker's chair run-
ning back and forward for orders and the
Speaker was the notorious and still nore-
generate WALTON. Our metropolitan con-
temporaries, moreover, accepted the work
of that session aw a labor of reform while in
reality it was simply a plea in confession
and avoidance. The HitcHCOCKS will play
the same game again and because they have
access to the ear of the Chair will support
any legislation that is satisfactory to the
machive.
The majority of the dominant element
in the Legislature wonld stand for an extra
session, probably, because they get pay for
an extra session and mileage and perqui-
sites. Bat it iy doubtful if the wavagers
of the machine woald consent to an extra
session for the reason that the people might
resent such a palpable outrage as that bill
of expense for purely partisan purposes,
The machine wants to recover the state
treasury vext fall and it will adopt the
easiest and surest way to thas result which
is not the vindication of the grafters
through either an adjourned or a special
gession. The whitewashing will, be done
at the regular session and with sufficient
expedition to minimize the burden upon
the pockets of the faithful Senators and
Representatives. This is not official bot
you cau bet that it is accurate.
~The administration at Washington
has determined to “‘ignore’’ the Kingston
incident which is wise. A burglar eaught
‘with the goods on him,” is usually wil-
ling to forget and forgive,
Our national vanity may have been
jolted somewhat hy the recent exchange of
compliments between Governor General
SWEITENHAM, of the British colony of
Jamaica, and Admiral DAVIS, of the United
States navy at Kingston. After the earth.
quake Adwiral DAVIS went to the scene of
the calamity with two battleships and a
cruiser. Hin ‘ostensible purpose was to
furnish relief to the sofferers and contiib-
ute in every possible way to the ameliora-
tion of the distress which prevailed. Is
was both humanitarian and progressive,
Promptness is as essential as liberality in
the face of disaster and the whole world
applauded the promptness and generosity
of the American admiral.
But he didn’t sobsequently proceed
along right lines to carry out his humani-
tarian aime. He sigoalized his arrival at
the port by firing a «salute which frighten-
ed the natives, already terrorized, intoa
belief of a rec of the disaster. That
might bave
it bad been the worst. But it wasn’t.
Admiral Davis debarked a considerable
force of sailors and marines and undertook
not only te the stricken city, bat to
direct its sanitary affairs. He wanted to
superintend the barying of the dead as
well as the of the living and to regu-
late everythi
The result was jost what might have
been expected. The British Governor of
the colony resented the intrusion, nos to
ay orion of anthority, and request.
ed the American admiral io remove all his
arwed forces from the territory of the
colony. Toecaunal observers it may have
been a drastic remedy for an imaginary
evil. Bat as 4 matter of fact is was almost
A necessary comise to pursae. As Governor
SWETTENHAM said, the robbery of a mil-
lionaire in Néw York afforded no exonse
for “a British admiral landing an armed
party’ to the New York police. In
Troubled Clty Contemporaries, |
Our esteemed metropolitan contempora- |
Be That is to say, | Harrisbarg, according to press dispatches
they are imagining that after a rather pro- |trom that city, and Governor STUART is
committee to investigate the *‘Palace of |
Graft” will be submitted and considered, |
and incidentally the grafters will be excul- | :
pated. We have no doubs that the result | Erriorr RODGERS, of Pittsburg. Scott,
| Keyser and McNicHoLL, of Philadelphia,
think the Pittshurger is too fresh and de-
cent Attorney General in his opinion that | e
because the frauds have been consummated | before he undertakes to direct veterans in
that the giafters were faithful parti- |
TR gla not candi | 30d PENROSE is inclined to take them by
overlooked, however, if
other words interference was inexous-
able. i
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNIO
Penrose and Sinart.
Senator PENROSE is anxious to get to
strongly averse to such a thing. The exist.
there will be what is technically calied an | vg conditions at the State capital don’s
suit the big boss and he wants to straight.
en them oat. Some of the State Senators
refuse to yield obedience to the PENROSE
“floor walker’’ in that chamber, Senator
clare that he ought to get his seat warm
the business. Thas far long-distance or-
ders have failed to subdue the recaleitrants
ent. Bat there will not be an adjourned | the collar.
But the presence of PENROSE would be
embarrassing to the new Governor who
continues to keep up the pretense of inde-
pendence of the machine. The appoint.
ment of MCAFEE as Secretary of the Com-
monwealth and concurrence in PENNY.
PACKER'S appointment of DAVE MARTIN
a8 Insurance Commisioner make STUART'S
pretense difficult enough without having
Pexrose hanging like a millstone
on his neck. But there is urgent need of a
strong hand at the helm and the Seuator
doesn’t feel like taking chances of an out.
break which his friends say is impending,
They know that if PENROSE were on the
ground the opposition to RONGERS would
vanish ‘“‘like the baseless fabric of a vis-
ion,” and that comparatively speaking the
objections of the Governor are unimport-
ant.
All things considered we are inclined to
the opinion that the Senator will bave his
way. RODGERS is as anxious to have him
in Harrisburg as STUART is to keep him
away and it is a good guess that STUART
will yield in this matter as he did in the
matter of the appointment of MCAFEE.
He bad made up his mind to dismiss thas
Pittsburg politician from the service of the
State. He Lad even gone so far, according
to fairly well authenticated gossip, as to
tell PENROSE and GEORGE OLIVER that be
conldn’s burden his administration with
such political flotsam. Bat in the end the
appointment was made, notwithstanding
the aversion to it and PENROSE will bave
his way in this other matter as well,
——1I the Jamaican incident will serve
to admonish our Admirals that the sover-
eignty of the President doesn’t extend to the
end of the earth in all directions, it will
not be entirely withont value. That mis-
understanding might lead at some time to
consequences more painful than the re-
buke banded to Admiral Davis at King-
ston the other day.
General Carsons's Perfidy.
Attorney General CARSON has disap.
pointed no intelligent observer of events
by his report practically excalpating the
grafters in the capitol building operations,
Mr. CARSON has not said exactly that there
was no graft in the construction and fur-
nishing of the building. That would be
too palpable a falsehood. But he bas said
that transactions having been completed
there is no use in trying to recover hy oiv-
il process and for the reason that no actual
criminality has been revealed it isn’t worth
while to proceed against the grafters in the
criminal courts. Such absurdities have
probably never before been embodied in an
official decument.
State Treasurer BERRY has olearly shown
that immense sums were paid by the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings for work
and materials thas bad already been paid
for by the Capitol Building Commission-
ere, or at least had been ivcluded in the
schedule upon which the bids for the eon-
struction of the bu‘lding were based. He
has shown that inferior materia's were used
where superior materials were contracted
for and the price for the best material was
charged and paid. He has proved that un-
usual methods of awarding contracts were
employed in order that favored contractors
would have advantage and that duplicate
payments were made in several instances
and to the aggregate of vast sums.
Notwithstanding these facts the late At-
torney General has given an opinion that
the criminals can’t be forord to make res-
titution or be panished in any way. He
bas indeed proved himself a subservient in-
strument of the machive. If such an opin.
ion bad come from come of the machine
pettylogeers it would have provoked ridi-
cule. Coming from a man who professes
to ocoupy a respectable position among the
lawyers of she State it simply inspired con-
tempt. It is the more regrestable, more.
over, because b fore HaMPTON L. CARSON
came under the malign influence of the
machine be professed to desire juss govern-
ment and pretended to advicate ocivie
righteousness. But that opinion marks
him as the servile tool of a corrups gang.
——Senator TILLMAN is not discreet but
he was acourate, the other day, in his esti-
mate of his colleagues who have sacrificed
conscience and betrayed principle in order
to win the favor of the President. It was
a stultification of the Senate. rip»
The Ratllroad Commissioner Bill
Mr. Creasy’'s bill creating a Board of
Railroad Commissioners will encounter a
good many spags during its progress
through the Legislature, the most for-
midable of which, probably, being the fact
tbat he is a Democrat. Both parties are
practically pledged to such legislation and
there ought to be no partisan polities either
in the measure or its consideration. Bat
the Republicans are exceedingly sensitive
on the point of precedence and imagine
that all the prestige of the reform would
not come to them if a bill introduced by a
Democrat should hecome alaw. They put
a rather scant estimate upon the intelli-
geuce of the people and think the average
man caa be fooled by trifles. They will
probably insist on substituting another hill
for that of Mr. CREASY.
There is some question as to the covstitu-
tionality of the proposed legislation, more-
over, which may be difficult to overcome.
The fundamental law vests in the Secre-
tary of Internal Affairs the regulation of
railroads and those who are opposed to
regulation will probably insist that the an-
thority lodged in she Board of Railroad
Commissioners by the Creasy bill is al-
ready located by the covstitution in the
Secretary of Internal Affairs. That con-
tention will be impaired in force to some
extent by the fact that Governor STUART
bas recommended legislation along those
lines nod that his Attorney General, said
to be an expert in constitutional law, has
advised him on the subject. But it will
be vsed against the bill, nevertheless, most
assiduously.
In any event, however, the value of such
legislation if enacted and enforced would
be worth the experiment. There is press.
ing and iuvsistent cause for compelling the
railroads to show some measure of respect
for the organic law of the State and if the
Secretary of Internal Affairs bas the au-
thority and fails to exercise it, there ought
to be a compelling force or the removal of
the authority. There is a possibility, of
course, that enabling legislation is neces-
sary to put that provision of the constitu-
tion into operation as there is to make the
seventeenth article of that ipstrument ef-
feétlive. Iv’ that event he plain Quty of
the Legislature is to enact such legislation
aud that is practically all Mr. CREASY and
the Democrats want.
—General GOMEZ, the Cuban libera.
tor, bas been fined for cockfighting. That
is pretty tough but the old man may find
comfort in the fact that there are traditions
which incolpate the late GEORGE WASH-
INGTON in some of the frivolities of sport-
ing life,
A Philosopher's Notion.
The most comprehensive answer that has
heen or will be given to President RoOSE-
VELT's demand for two battleships as large
or larger than the British colossus, the
Dreadnaught, is contained in the closing
paragraph of philosopher DOOLEY'S recent
dissertation on diplomacy. Mr. FINLEY
PETER DUNNE, she author of the Dooney
philosophy, is not only a master of humor
bat like MARK TwaIN, he is a satitist and
philosopher of the highest standard of ex-
cellence. Each of his articles point a mor-
al and though the Irish brogue is hardly an
adornment the Irish wit is as keen as any
ever written and the satire quite as pene-
trating.
Alter summarizing the requirements and
achievements of modern diplomacy in an
article published last Sunday Mr. DooLEY
ghides gracefully into a reference to what
may, by courtesy, be called the Japanese
incident. “I heerd HoGaAN say,” he
writes, ‘‘there was talk in the Euglish pa-
pers iv goin’ to war with us ahont Japan,”
said Mr. HENNESSY. “I'd like to see it.
D'ye think they will?’ “The English pa-
pers,” said Mr. DooLEy, “like our own,
ar-re condocted by renowned warryors,
Bat do ye think if there was on’y waan
butcher shop in th’ city I'd thry to wreck
it?” There is the whole master in a nut-
shell. No wise man will cat off his only
sourae of food supply.
There is no coutingency as remote as a
war between this country and any Euro-
peau power. In fact it may be safely said
that no such thing could occur unless we
should in some way mortally offend anoth-
er government. This country i= now and
destined to be for years the gravaty of the
wotld. No foreign government could sab-
sist either in peace or war without access
to the food supplies of the United States.
Even if Canadian grain resources are devel.
oped to the fall measure of expectations
Great Britain conldn’s afford a war with
us for the reason that food would then be
contraband. For that reason we have
no more need for big ships than for flying
machines, :
—— It has been discovered that there is
a modest man living in the West who has
a fortune far exceeding shat of Rocke-
FELLER. Bas his methods of arquiring it
having been different and the necessity of
“'squaring’’ less insistent, he has escaped
the criticism of the oil magnate. :
re ———
The Congressional Salary Grab,
| From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Ind. Rep.)
The proposed increase of congressional
salaries by filty per cents may not deserve
the description, depending upon whether
the sort of representatives we get for the
larger amount is worth that much wore,
but the action of the Honse last Friday
was on the grab principle. No other char-
acterization will fit the unsavory methods
taken to ges the increase through without
placing the members on record.
When, after judicious preparation of the
public mind for the , the House
took up the legislative appropriation bill
earlier in the session the courage of the
members failed them and passed the
measure along to the Senate with increases
for only the Vice President, the Speaker
and the members of the Cabinet. It was
the House idea then that the Senate would
take the responsibility for making the in-
crease general, but the Senate refused to
pull the House chestnuts out of the fire,
Thus balked the plan put through was de-
vised. Littaner of New York, who retires
with this session and consequently had
nothing to fear, was chosen to move the
amendment for the general increase. Har-
ry calls summoned the members. Instant.
ly there was a babel of protest—{or publi-
cation only—against railroading through
the increase without a roll call. Bat when
the motion was put there was *‘a resound.
ing chorus of yeas, while the nays were
noticeable through their absence.’ A di-
vision showed 138 votes for to 92 against,
And that these 92 were not anxious to
Learry their opposition to extremes was
shown upon the motion of an Arkansas
wember for a roll call. Only 34 of the 92
seem to have been in earnest, and the
Speaker ruled the number not sufficient.
The House had raised its salary withont
being put on record and all was well. The
Senate's concurrence is taken for granted.
It is trae the increase does not take effect
until the next Congress, but most of the
members of this will be members of the
next. The country would not have been dis-
posed to complain of the increase if the
members proved themselves worthy of it.
But the lack of backbone exhibited in this
sneaking through of a raise the Honse bad
not the courage to vote openly will hardly
convince the public that that class of rep.
resentatives are worth the money.
——————
Iniquitons Harvard.
From the New York Press.
Au iron founder of Pennsylvania, having
risen from penury to opulence, sent his son
to Harvard University. The boy was
bright, diligent, and gradoated with hon-
ors. Three weeks after the boy’s return to
bis home in Pittsburg the iron founder
sought his pastor.
“I'm greatly worried about William
John since his return from Harvard,” he-
gan the father.
‘Ah, I warned you against Harvard.
He has become a drunkard,” interrupted
the good man.
‘No, no; I asked him to take a drink
with me several times and he wouldn't.”
‘‘He bas become entangled with some
creatare of the chorus 2’
‘No; be knows no such women.’
**Ah, it is worse; he gambles?’
‘No; he don’t know one card from
another.”
‘I see—I see—it is far, far worse. Har-
vard is a Unitarian university. He has
come back a heathen ?'’
The unhappy father groaned.
than all that.
iff reform !"’
“Worse
Doctor, he believes in tar-
Roosevelt an Immense Joke,
From the Clearfield Republican.
Many of President Roosevelt's critios
have charged bim with borrowing, stealing,
and appropriating the ideas of William J.
Bryan during the past ten years and with
trying to imitate the great Nebraskan as a
champion of the common people. Bat he
has never yet imitated Bryan in the mas-
ter of consistency. Up to the present day
Bryan was never found on both sides of
any question, nor has be ever side-stepped
or back-tracked when ouce he took a posi
tion on any important question. As an
imitator of Bryan Roosevelt is worse than
a failure; be is an immense joke and by the
time the end of his present term arrives his
stock as a popular idol will be down below
the thirty cent mark.
Tom Johnson's Hard—Earned Triumph,
From the Chicago Public,
After six years’ work of the hardest kind,
full of perplexities, often disheartening,
and sometimes apparently futile, Tom L.
Johnson is now upon the threshold of a cam-
paign for the establishment of municipal
ownership in Cleveland. The reason he is
only on the threshold, is because the law
at presents permits bim to go no farther.
Bus the traction combine of his city is at
the end cof its high rate goudititivies and
bas offered to surrender. Nothing remains
to be done, so far as it is concerned, but to
appraise its property fairly and execute the
documents.
S——
Carson's Explanation.
From the McKeesport News,
‘‘Have you been guilty of grafting?"
asked Mr. Carson of the architect.
‘*No,”’ that gentleman replied.
Tnereupon Mr. Carson addressed the
contractor,
“Kuow of ang gralt?"’ he inquired.
“I do not,’ said the contactor.
Thereupon, having concluded a 8earch-
ing investigation, Mr. Carson informed the
State of Pennsylvania that he could dis-
cover no trace of graft.
Er—just so
Large Tank of a Smal Small Man,
From the Springfield Republican.
John Sharp Williams's campaign ‘‘to
save Mr. Bryan from himself” will he
watched wish interest. No one hitherto
has ever sncoeeded in that undertaking, al-
though several have tried. It is usually
found that Mi. Bryan, hy a curious perver-
sity of his vature, does not like to be saved
from himself, A, ‘besides, it onghs to
occur to Mr. Williams that a wan who
1eally bas to he saved from himself is not
the sort thas the country moet desire for ite
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Spawls from the Keystone,
—Charles Mihleder, a barber, of Franklin,
Venango county, has sold a miniature elee-
tric city of his own construction to a Pitts.
burg syndicate for $40,000. It is a mechan—
ical marvel and Mr. Mibleder worked seven
years on its construction.
—Bedford citizens are rejoicing over the
fact that they may soon have their mail de-
livered to their doors. The postoflice re—
ceipts at Bedford during 1906 amounted to
almost $10,000. They hope to make up the
difference which will entitle them to free
delivery service,
—Recently a charter was granted the Big
Valley Street Railroad company to build
twenty-seven miles of road beginning at
Mill Creek, Huntingdon couuty, and ex-
tending to Reedsville, Mifflin county. Cap-
ital $162,000. R. W. Jacobs, Huntingdon, is
the president of the company.
—Mrs. Margaret H. Philips, of Shamokin,
who lived a sort of hermit life apparently in
want, died on Saturday when it was found
that she had twenty $20 gold pieces sewed
in little bags about her waist and was siso
the possessor of goverment bounds upon
which the interest had not been collected.
—According to the Pennsylvania Grange
News, Pennsylvania leads all the States in
the union in grange development. During
the past year 358 new granges have been es-
tablished and 17 re-organized. The whole
number of granges organized throughout the
State was 249 and the number re-or ganized
was 66.
~The announcement has just been made
public of the wedding of Dr. Thomas 8S.
Wilcox, the well known young Williamsport
dentist, and son of Rev. T. 8. Wilcox,
formerly of Philipshurg, to Miss Jessie M.
Gunter, also of Willismsport, and which
took place in Elmira, N. Y., in August
last.
~The Marshall furnace in East Newport
is to be enlarged, the capacity increased, and
more men given employment, which wiil
be glad news to the residents of that com-
munity. The furnace is now making from
fifty to seventy-five tons of iron in twenty-
four hours and this is to be increased to 100
or 150 tous.
—By order of the mayor a raid is being
made on the thousands of sparrows that
gather on the trees of the court house
square in Wilkes'Barre. A band of sharp:
shooters goes to work as soou as the birds
begin to settle in the evening and 1.000 were
killed on Friday evening. The Italians
gather the dead birds and make pot pie out
of them.
—A two-headed calf, well formed, is a new
addition to the livestock owned by Albert
Berger, a farmer living about one mile from
Newberrytown, York county. The animal
has two perfectly formed heads, with three
eyes in cach head, two mouths and all the
natural senses on both heads. The calf was
born on Sunday. It is frisky and eats from
both mouths.
—8ix masked men entered the home of
Stephen Chester, near Byrnesville, North-
umberland county, on Thursday night,
bound Mr. and Mrs. Chester and burned’
them with a hot poker to force them to tell
where their money was as Chester, it was
believed, had considerable money about the
house. After ransacking the house the men
fled, leaving the inmates unconscious, and
their condition is critical.
—Leah Gift, aged 80 years, 11 months and
25 days, died at Burnhaw, Miflin county,
Junuary 16. She was born in Centre town.
ship, Union county now Franklin township,
Snyder county, Pa. She was never outside
of her native county until the fall of 1906,
and never road on a railroad train before
November 12, 1906. She never saw a trolley
car or rode on one before the above date.
She was the last in her generation of rela-
tives.
— Lewisburg has been robbed of one of its
most substantial industries by the removal
of the Monroe H. Kulp & Co. lumbering
equipment to Oldtown, Md. and scores of
men arc thrown out of employment. For
ten years this corporation has operated in
the timber lands of the Nittany mountains
and has removed millions of feet of logs,
but now the woods have been stripped and
the company has directed its efforts to
new fields.
—A Sunbury man has a pair of slippers
that are made of dermis or epidermis, or to
be wore plain, skin taken from the body of a
man who was killed near Williamsport some
years ago. [It appears that no one came
forward to claim the body and it eventually
got into a hospital in this State where it
was dissected. One of the surgeons there is
also interested in a tannery and he had a
portion of the skin tanned. It later was
sent to a Muncy shoemaker who ‘made a
number of pocketbooks and & pair of slippers
from it. }
—Willinmn Buck, who had been foreman
and bookkeeper for John E. Detweiler, a
cigar manufacturer, of Red Lion, York
county, for ten years, went to York last
Friday and surrendered himscif to an alder:
mau, confessing that he bad robbed his em-
ployer of about $600 the past year. He was
imprisoned, but Detwiler came and asked
for his release saying he had helped him to
make money and that he would forgive his
offense and reinstate him with an increase
of $10 per month in his wages.
—Fires have been started in the new
blast-furnace which was recently completed
at Josephine, Indiana county, and on Wed-
nesday the mammoth plant, which was
erected at a cost of $1,000,000, was put in
full operation. The plant has a capacity of
1,000 tons per day and will employ 125 men.
Stones and blowing machinery have been
installed for two furnaces and when the
second one is completed, which will be
some time during the present year, the
capacity of the plant will be doubled.
" “Last week Abram L. Houch, a tobacco
farmer, residing near New Holland, Lan-
caster county, delivered his last year's crop
in Lancaster, was paid $600 for it, went to
New Holland, visited several hotels, became
intoxicated, went home after dark and next
morning discovered that his monéy was
gone. Later be accused J. 8. Bard and John
Woomer with having robbed him. They
were arrested and lodged in juil, but Sun.
day moruing Joseph Berler found the purse
with $545, on the highway near Naw Hol
land, and the accused were liberated.