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nk Sitges.
—If April doesn’t settle down soon it
will be up to May.
—*‘Faus’’ at baseball games these days
must find most of their comfort in bottles.
—Statisticians have figured out that a
man's hair generally tarns gray five years
before a woman's. Oars won't.
—“Women over thirty are often the
most charming,” says a woman writer who
probably passed that milestone long ago.
~—We will probably have a respite from
“dementia Americana,” ‘“‘brain storms?’
aud ‘“‘the exaggerated ego’’ until next fall.
—An Italian baving invented a process
that makes celluloid non-inflammable the
man with the celluloid collar can be more
at ease.
—Woaldn’t it be well if the Daughters
now assembled in Congress in Washington
dust fell in with the much talked of pil-
grimage to The Hague.
—The PENNY press muzzler has been re-
pealed. It makes no change in onr busi-
ness, however. We alwaysdid and always
will say just what we think.
—Caba is to have a standing army of
twelve thousand men ; that is if enough
Cabans who have the ambition not to sit
too much can be mustered in.
—We nominate the Hon(?) Sam SaL-
TER for grand high muck-a-muck of May-
or REYBURN'S proposed two million dollar
Temple of Justice in Philadelphia.
~The tront fishing season was opened
Monday morning in a fairly auspicious
manner, but the extreme cold made the
opening of bait bottles more auspicious.
~—FORAKER and TAFT will both be
drinking out of that Ohiospring, the waters
of which are said to inebriate without pro-
ducing an after headache, before they get
their little differences settled.
. —Judging from the action of the House
appropriation committee in reporting out
bills it must be inferred that the revenues
of the State for the next two years are nos
to be made the prey of either SANDERSON
or HusTON.
.=That Pittshurg club woman who as-
eerts that "ADAM was the viotim of the
first lawn parsy”’ might bave added that
most of his later indieposition was tracea-
ble to his having dallied too much with the
apple merangue that was served.
—Pittaburg is doing better. Twenty
~ ‘Bast End saloon. keepers bave tasued over
their places of business for gospel services
each Monday night daring the week and
one high priced minister has bad the nerve
to tell his congregation what he actually
thinks of it.
—One pound of common salt, two ounces
of oxalio acid, one gallon of water mixed
thoroughly and sprinkled over one part of
coal and three parts ashes is said to be the
formula whereby the much talked of Al-
toona cobbler burns ashes, Try it, and if
. you succeed give your coal man the laugh.
—Our Uncle ANDY CARNEGIE has ideas
of his own as to the real meaning of peace
and they are very different from those en-
tertained by the President. The pleasaut
part of their controversy lies in the fact
that Uncie ANDY cares about as much for
the Prerident as the President cares for
Uncle ANDY.
—The Swedish vice-consul at St. Lonis
has bad his exequatur withdrawn because
he wrote an impudent letter to President
ROOSEVELT. The news dispatches did not
state the hospital in which the operation
was performed, but we infer that ‘‘the big
stick” was the instrument used and thas
the patient suffered more from the shock
than anything else.
~The Danghters of the American Revo.
lution are in congress in Washington this
week aod their priucipal topic of discus-
sion is as to how they happened to spend
80 much more money than they had in
their treasury. Take courage, Daughters,
the recent board of Republican Commission-
ers for Centre county had this business
down pat. They found is the easiest thing
in the world to do.
—It was vot wonderful that Mr. BRYAN,
the greatest political fighter of his time
should sweep the delegates to the New
York peace conference off their feet with
his glowing oratory and pronouncements
for universal peace. Such enthusiasm as
his utterances aroused was remarkable, bus
then poor BRYAN has long since found ont
that getting cheers and getting votes are
entirely different propositions.
—It any one is gullible enough to think
that PENROSE is not still the boss of Penn-
sylvania all he needs do to be convinced of
the contrary is to read Taesday’s proceed-
ings at Harrisburg. The McCorp bill,
which provided for the selection of United
States senatorial candidates at the primary
elections, thus makiug their election prac-
tically by popular vote, was killed in the
Senate. A known majority in favor of she
bill was changed in a night by the sinister
means the Boss bad at hand to obange the
opinions of Senators so that now PENROSE
is reasonably certain of succeeding himself
in the upper house of Congress. Of course
there is a way of defeating this eventuality
by defeating all Legislators who will not
promise to oppose him, but experience of
the past has been such as to give little hope
from this source.
VOL. 52
Reform Bills Will Fall,
The work of the Legislature bas pro-
gressed sufficiently to make guesses as to
the ultimate fate of some of the most im-
portant measures reasonably safe. The
calendars of both Houses are crowded im-
mensely and it will be an easy matter for
skillful parliamentarians to juggle the work
80 that the reform measures may be defeat-
ed without the positive expression of hos-
tility on the part of the machine. In this
way the bills requiring fire extingunishers
on passenger trains, prohibiting contribu-
tions by corporations or partnerships to
political campaign foods, requiring watch-
men at railway crossings, empowering bor-
oughs to compel railroads to erect safety
gates, providing for taxing franchises and
rights of way of railway companies and
soores of others, will probably be stifled.
There are so many meritorions measures
in this long list of ‘‘lost legislation,”’ that
is seems invidious to refer to avy partio-
ular bill as especially deserving approha-
tion. Yet it may be said that Mr. Sires’
bill prohibiting contributions to political
campaign fands by ‘‘corporations or part-
nership companies,” is entitled to special
mention. The national civic reform or-
ganization endeavored to pase a similar bill
throngh Congress with respect to congres-
sional and other federal elections more than
a year ago and President RoosEVELT in.
tervened to prevent it. The idea was sug-
gested by the investigation of the New
York insurance companies. It was shown
that the policy holders of those institutions
had been deliberately robbed in order to
raise funds to elect ROOSEVELT and he is
too loyal to his friends to permit such a
prolific source of political power to be cut
off before the last congressional elections.
Bat a similar law was enacted by the New
York Legislature a year ago.
It is within the limits of conservatism to
say that the greatest present danger to the
country is in the effort of corporations to
sontrol elections hy contribating to the cor-
raption fonds. No candidate accepts mon-
ey from a corporation during bis campaign
for election without morally binding him-
sell to favor the contributing eorporation
after the el . Thus when RooseveLr,
in October, 1904, after soliciting HARRIMAN
to collect funds for the campaign, wrote to
the Wall street wizard thas aféer the eleo-
tion he wonld ask him to come and look
over certain features of his subsequent
megsage, the obligation to let HARRIMAN
edit the interstate commerce feature of the
message was as absolute as if it bad been
plainly written in the bond and endorsed
by substantial sureties. It was “‘cotrupt
solicitation,’ plain and simple, and action-
able in avy criminal court if any one other
than the President had been responsible
for it.
President ROOSEVELT prevented the pas-
sage of the act during the session of Con-
gress a year ago because he hoped the cor-
porations could be milked during the con-
gressional elections of last fall. That he
accurately estimated the possibilities isa
well established fact. The Standard Oil
company, the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany and other predatory combinations and
criminal conspiracies contributed vast sums
to the Republican campaign fand last fall,
ostensibly for the purpose of defeating
EMERY for Governor but really to elect
Congressmen. It accomplished the pur-
pose, moreover, for at least three distriots
were saved to the machine by the boodle
thus bronght into the contest. For this
reason the SIPES bill is of the greatest im-
portance and likewise for this reason it will
fail.
A Long Ory but Covered.
It isa long ory from Colonel Grorae
HARVEY, editor of ‘‘the Journal of Civiliza-
tion," and EUGENE V. DEBS, the anarob-
istic socialist who conducted the prolonged
and costly railroad strike in Chicago in
1894, bat the distance was covered within
the last week when both those gentlemen,
under widely different circumstances and
environment, spoke of the President : f the
United States. Colonel HARVEY spoke at
the JEFFERSON day celebration of the New
York Democratic club and Mr. DEBS gave
his views to an interviewer. But they were
strangely alike in most respects and in.
dicated that both gentlemen bave come to
a perfeot understanding of onr ‘‘brain.
storm” President.
Ol the two statements, however, Colonel
HARVEY'S is the most significant. I
can’t be said that he is either an anarchist
or a frenzied financier. He is really a
scholarly gentleman of the highest attain-
ments and best type of citizenship. Because
of these facts he has come to a complete
understanding of the danger to publio tran.
quility and industrial progress of an irre.
sponsible clown moving abous in she official
life of the country, bullying bere and mis.
representing there, in order to compel the
acceptance of his own absurd notions as the
fixed policies of the government, Mr,
DBs may have followed other lines of rea-
soning bus he reached the same eonclasion.
The trath is that every thoughtful citi.
=en is alarmed about the idiosynoracies of
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 19, 1907.
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| President RoosgveELT. He is like *‘a hen
with her bead cut off,” and if any man,
however learned or respectable, has the
temerity to disagree with RooseveLr, he is
instantly catapuited in the Ananias club or
forced down to the level of a ruffian. As
both HARVEY and DEBS declare this con-
dition of affairs must be brought to an end.
The perpetuity of the country is involved
and with such a hazard in the equation, it
is time that the people should call a halt.
With sycophants vastly in the majority in
both branches of Congress it’s hardly worth
while to talk of impeachment but even
that may come.
The Senatorial Contest.
The lines for the coming senatorial con-
test are being laid, so far as the Republi-
cans are concerned, and the contest will be
between Senator PENROSE and Justice
Jonx P. ELKIN. When ELKIN was havd-
ed the judical ‘lemon,’ succeeding his de-
feat for Governor by ** mysterious infla-
ences which changed a minority of the con-
vention into a majority over night,” he
announced that it would not take him out
of politiss. Ttis not likely that he had
the senatorial seat in view, for he still
cheriebed an ambition to be Governor. But
be bad no kindly feelings toward PENROSE,
who was largely responsible for the nom-
ination of PENNYPACKER, and it is al-
together likely that he will be glad to take
revenge.
Since that event political conditions have
greatly favored Mr. ELKIN. In spite of
himself his judicial duties have removed
him from the turmoil of politics and time
bas somewhat tempered the bitterness of
the enmities which were then created. On
the other hand PENROSE has been going
from bad to worse in public estimation aad
with QUAY io the grave, DURHAM in secla-
sion aud PENNYPACKER in disgrace, the
organization is in poor condition to wake a
fight. The new Mayor of Philadelphia
will be able to steady the lines somewhat
and it may safely be conjectured that the
state administration will not be hostile to
the Senator. Bat noder the most fortui-
tous conditions he enters the contest with
the short end of she stick in his band.
The contest will be a battle royal, how. |
ever, and unless the signs are misleading it
will be accrimonious in the extreme.
QuaY’s denunciation of ELKIN and his
somewhat devions record first as {assistant
and subsequently as Attorney General will
be quoted with telling effect. The rather
arrogant manner in which the machine bas
asserted itself since the victory in Philadel
phia will unquestionably work injury to
the party io the legislative electioas more-
over, and a reasonable development of in-
dependent strength in the Legislature will
possibly make it necessary to take a candi-
date outside of the factions. In any event
it stands to make a very pretty fight and
we hope it will not be compromised.
Machine Methods Restored.
The bill to authorize voters to designate
their preferences for United States Senator
at the primary elections was defeated in
the Senate on Tuesday. The measure had
little merit under any circumstances and as
it was introuced by Representative Mo-
CORD was absolutely worthless. Bat dar-
ing one of its readings in the Senate the
Democratic members of that body tlew
some vitality into it with an amendment
providing that the vote of the people of a
senatorial or legislative district should
operate as instructions binding upon the
Senator or Representative in the Legisla-
ture for that district.
The constitution of the United States
designates the manner of electing United
States Senators. Is makes no reference to
the method of nomivation but in view of
the provisions of the fandamental law, the
only thivg the people can do at a primary
election is to instruct the Senators and
Kepresentatives in the Legislature and un-
less the instructions so given would be
made binding by law, they might as well
be withheld altogether. That is why the
Democratic Senators so amended the bill
and voted for it unanimously, so far as
those present are concerned. Withous the
amendment the bill wouldn’t bave been
worth the paper it was printed on and the
fact that the amendment had to be forced
on the majority shows the insincerity of
those who compose the dominaut party in
the Legislature.
While the measure was of little practical
value even with the amendment, the spirit
expressed in its defeat is to be reprobated.
No barm could bave cocarred to the State
fzom an expression of popular sentiment on
the subject. That was the idea which iu-
flaenced the Democrats to vote for the bill
and ought to have bad the same effect on
the Republicans. But under the spar of
the party boss whose ambitions to be re-
turned to the Senate were threatened, the
majority of the Republicans voted to deny
the right of the people to a voice in the
master. It revealed the restoration of ma-
ohine methods. -
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~Sabsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
Pennypacker and the Geafl
It is said that former Governor PENNY-
PACKER will be a witness before the capi-
tol probers next week and that he is anx-
ious to tell all he knows of the looting. As
present the burden of blame appears to be
on him and he hopes to shift it. He was
the author of the resolution of the Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings which made
the grafs not only possible bus practically
inevitable. His associates on the board
declare thas the resolution was rescinded
before the letting, and that the Governor
might have given consideration to other
bide and awarded the work to the lowest
competitor. But PENNYPACKER protests
thas the resolution was in force at the time
of the letting and that he had no alterna.
tive but togive everything in the trimming
line to SANDERSON.
The former Governor may or may not
obscure the subject or confuse she public
on these points. He is an exceedingly
crafty aod cunning individual, as was
shown _by his prom ization of ppropriations by the |
n,by bis prompt organ thet apria
penny-a-mile excursions to dazzle the pub-
lio by the magnificence of the putty orna-
ments and grotesque decorations. He cor-
rectly estimated the result of that daring
undertaking. No cursory observer could
tell the difference between the real and
bogus bacarat glass avd ninety-nine out
of every hundred of the visitors went away
from the building firmly convinced that
the charges of corruption were wvillifica-
tions. A man who has the cunning, and
absence of conscience, to work such a trick
iano gaileless innocent. Those are the
characteristics of an experienced orook.
We are glad, however, that PENNY-
PACKER is to testify before the probing
commission whether he shifts the blame
for the scandals or not. The odious ‘‘press
muzzler’’ haviog been repealed, there is
nothing lefs of the PENNYPACKER admin.
istration except these scandals and an ex.
oeedingly disagreeable memory, and it
would be creditable if the scandals could
be put upon one who had not been so
highly favored by the people of Penusyl-
vania. In any event they arean ineffacea-
ble stain on the escutoheon of the Common-
Hwealth, bus if PENNYPACKER is given an
“immunity bath” by being called as a wis- hospi
ness, a criminal prosecution of HusTON
and SANDERSON won't be quite #0 humil-
iativg. Is will hardly work out the full
measure of justice, bat it will be moving
in that direction.
Who Get the Loot?!
Nobody believes that contractor SAND-
ERSON and Architect HUSTON got all of the
five or six million dollars taken from the
State Treasury in the form of grafs during
the construction of the new capitol. Neither
of them have any experience in practical
politics and it is not usual for amateurs in
the political game to get away with all the
ewag. Bus nobody undertakes to say who
shared the loot with those gentlemen. Mr,
H. BURD CASSELL, who represents the
Lancaster district in Congress, got an exor-
bitant price for the steel filing cases but
the aggregate payments to him only
amounted to about $2,000,000. PAYNE
& Co., unquestionably got some in
one way or another but who got the rest?
We have never heard anybody express
even a suspicion that any of the graft
found its way into PENNYPACKER'S pock-
ets bus a good many are carious to know
what he did get ous of it. It seems almost
impossible for him not to have known what
was going on. Itis incredible that putty
mouldings, spurious marble, fraudulent
wainscoting and bogus materials of all
kinds could have been put up before his
eyes without his knowledge unless he
dido’s want to see. He koew that it was
his duty to protect the State against such
depredatory operations but he took no steps
in that direction. Insavely vain it may be
that he was flattered into obliviousness but
it is bardly probable. He must have simp-
ly permitted she crimes because his sympa-
thies are with public planderers.
State Treasurer BERRY wasn’t fooled
long by the trewsury looters. He passed
one or two padded bills but no more. The
fact that payments were rashed between
the time of his election and that of his in-
duction into office aroused his suspicions.
PENNYPACKER ought to have made the
discovery from the same circumstance and
possibly be did. Bus he failed to turn his
information to the use of the people and it
may safely be said that it Mr. BERRY bad
not heen elected the looting would not only
never have been found ous bat would have
coutinned indefinitely. If there were no
other reason than that it ought to be
sufficient to make the people resolve to
always keep a member of she minority
party in that office as a obeck on the
chine. .
—Patton is to bave a home talent
minstrel entertainment in the near future
and on the list of ‘‘stars’’ appear the names
of Will Rees and Ollie Campbell ; bus as
the programs have pot yet been issued we
are unable to say whether they are going to
play end men or blow the base dram. ©
—— The new limestone plant of W. C.
Lingle, at Salona, is fast nearing comple-
tion and when finished it will be one of the
most complete plants of any in the State.
At the present time it is not the intention
of Mr. Liogle to burn lime, so no kilns
bave been built. The output now will
consist mainly of ballast and the crusher
capacity installed will be about forty car-
loads a day. The machinery installed is
all of the very latest design and best on
the market. The quarries have been open-
ed and is is expected thas she plans will
be ready to begin operations within a few
weeks.
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State Beard of Charities.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The commission appointed to investigate
and report on the insane of the
state discovered that those iustitutions
were overcrowded and that the condition
was produoctive of serious evils. For years
past the reports of the State Board of Chari-
ties bave told the same story. The
remedy for this condition is adequate
glaiatare, a the
often and urgently requested.
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gation as reflected in tho | re is not
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There has been no failure shown in the
machinery to conduct the ritable insti.
tutions. The lack bas been wholly in the
amount ols
‘the appro.
priations made to correct this evil. Ten
years ago the board, through its committee
on lunacy, recommended appropriations for
a hospital for the crimioal insane, a new
hospital for the insane near Allentown, and
a hospital for the feeble minded and epilep-
tics. Now, after ten years, these hospitals
have had appropriations wade for them,
but, in the meantime, through the failure
of the legislatures to give sufficient mon-
eys to add to the growth of the present
hospitals and to facilitate the work of the
other institutions, the hospitals bave be-
come grossiy overcrowded aud this has
given rise to the inevitable evils that go
with such a condition.
The members of the State Board of ckari-
ties, with the exception of the secretary,
serve without pay. They bave performed
their duties in a way to leave no ground
for unfavorabie criticism. Had the legisla
tare heeded their requests and provided
promptly for the requirements of the help-
+83 dependents of the state, the great evila
of overcrowding in our insane hospitals
would have heen avoided. We see no
reason in this for sidetrackiog and subordi-
nating the unpaid members of the Board of
Charities by imposing on them an $8,000
president and a $5,000 lawyer.
Roosevelt Seeing Enemtes,
From the Lock Haven Demoarat.
During these daye, President Roosevelt
is seeing an enemy lurking behind every
bush. He claims that there is a conspi-
racy against him; but all this may be in his
imagination. Be that as it may, bis errat-
io utterances of late and his display of bad
temper have been the cause of his losing
mavy of his former friends, in his own
party. His manifest irritability leads
many to suppose thas, notwithstanding his
declaration to the contrary, he is anxious
to secure another nomination. Bat, in
view of recent developments, should he
consent to be a candidate agaio, he prob-
ably would be badly defeated. His anger
aod eseiteent, § because of alleged 3 300
ery of a gigantio conspiracy to e
presidency of the United States, might be
excusable ina ohief magighte who bad
been elected under itions, different
from those which attended his election.
Bat for Mr. Roosevelt to stand aghast at
the spectacle of a cabal of plutocrats, com-
bining for the pu of influencing the
choice of a Te. is ridiculons; is
would be so, even with due regard for the
seriousness which naturally attaches to the
banefal use of money. President Roose-
velt bas practically admitted that he was
the beneficiary of what is acknow to
bave been the largest campaign fund ever
collected by the national committee of any
political party, and to which the very men,
whom he now aconses of being engaged in
an unholy alliance to dictate the election
of his successor, were liberal contributors.
Mr. Roosevelt is evidently suffering from
an exaggerated attack of egotism.
From the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune.
President Roosevelt has made a mistake
this time in calling his opponent a liar; he
shonld have mes the case ina different
manner. Notonly is the weight of the testi-
moony against him bat the oi
the tendencies, and everything about
the developments are she tinal;
and unless something very d from
what is now shown can be produced, the
public judgment. must certainly rest
with Mr. Harriman and against Mr.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Counterfeit half dollars as well as two
dollar bills are being circulated quite ex
tensively in Altoona.
—H#zelton’s new building for the Young
Men's Christian Association, costing $69,000,
is to be dedicated April 18,
=A strike of 150 union moulders in Wil-
liamsport was inaugerated on Saturday.
They ask for a nine hour day, at $2.75, in.
stead of $2.65 for ten hours.
—The plant of the Fitzpatrick Glass come
pany, at Falls Creek, Clearfield county, was
disposed of at bankrupt sale on Tuesday last,
It was bought in for the sum of $31,000.
—A report just compiled by the Pittsburg
chamber of commerce shows that the im-
mense sum of $350,000,000 is paid anvually
to the wage earners of the Pittsburg dis~
trict.
—While Simon Cohen, a pawn broker, of
Sharon, Mercer county, was at dinner on
Wednesday, a thief broke into Jhis store and
stole a tray containing $1.000 worth of dia-
monds.
—Statistics from the county treasurer show
that there are 395 licensed places in North-
umberland county, with an annual revenue
of $70,225, Sunbury receives $2,160 of this
amount.
—Dennis Watuck, 38 years oid, rode from
Buck Mountain to Mabanoy City on a fast
Reading freight, but when he attempted to
alight was thrown under the train and cut
to pieces.
—Viewers appointed by the state have
decided to recommend the building of a
$65,000 steel bridge across the river at Jersey
Shore to take the place of the bridge recent:
ly destroyed by the ice floe.
—Prospectors have discovered a fine de-
deposit of asbestos on the farm of Augustus
Baker's heirs, in Hamilton township, Adams
county. Shafts sunk twenty three feet fzil-
od to pass through the deposit.
—Huntingdon grangers have organized a
trust company, with an authorized capital-
ization of $125,000, divided into 1250 shares
of a par value of $100 each. Practically all
of the stock has been subscribed.
—The 8lst annual commencement of the
Lutheran Theological seminary at Gettys-
burg will be held May i2th to 16th, when
fourteen young men, most of whom already
have calls to charges, will be graduated.
—The bill which Governor Stuart signed
on the 10th inst. provides for a bounty of $4
on a wildeat, $2 on a fox and $1 on a weasel
or mink. These noxious animals now give
the sportsman not only pleasure but profit
in their extinguishment.
—The frequent falling of snow and rain
and alternate freezing and thawing last
week, froze early vegetation in various parts
of the state and fruit buds are also reported
from different places as being nipped, so that
a poor fruit crop is likely to be the result.
—A corporation to be known as the Sus-
quehanna Cement company has been organ:
ized, of which George L. Sanderson is presi.
dent, to build a mammoth plant for the
manufacture of cement at Larry's Creek,
Lycoming county. The company is capitaliz-
ed at $750,000,
—Hugh M. Caldwell, residing in Ferguson
valley, Mifflin county, met with a terrible
accident on Tuesday afternoon last. He was
placing a belt on the rapidly revolving wheel
of a threshing machine, when his left arm
was caught in the machivery and the hand
was almost torn off at the wrist joint.
—Timothy Hennessy, a contractor aged
about 70, was found drowned in the river
in front of Witmer park just off Market
street, and near the Market street bridge at
Clearfield, Friday evening at 5 o'clock by
some boys who were fishing. They summon
ed a number of men who drew the body out
of the water.
—During the winter the average enroll.
ment of the Berks county almshouse was
close to four hundred, fally one-third
being tramps. But with the opening
of spring, when all who are able to do any
‘work are given something to do, the tramp
element is leaving, over 100 having taken to
the road within a few days.
—On account of failing health James Bar-
nett bas resigned his commission as colonel
of the Tenth regiment, N. G. P. Colonel
Barnett has forwarded his resignation to
Adjutant General Stuart. Colonel Barnett
has bad twenty-three years continuous
sesvice in the National Guard, serving in
every capacity from private up to colonel.
~A West Easton inventor who refuses to
divalge his name has come forward with a
private demonstration of an invention that
is said will rival that of John Ellmore, of
Altoona, who burns ashes. At this West
Easton demonstration ashes were taken from
a railroad embankment at Odenweldertown, |
and, after treatment, burned several hours.
—On Sunday the milk dealers of Union.
town strickly observed the Sanday law by
refusing to sell any milk aftar § o'clock in
the morning, as they feared the repetition of
fines imposed the previous Sunday. In
consequence many citizens did not get any
milk, and now some are making an effort te
induce the legislature to amend the Sunday
laws to allow the sale of milk all day.
~The Maryland Coal company is to ctart
the sinking of a shaft in what is known as
South Fork basin. The shaft will go down
to a depth of 650 feet. The Maryland's
venture will be one of the largest in that
coal district. There will be a coal tipple
built of steel and two compartment hoisting
cages. These will enable the company to
turn out an average of between 3,000 and
4,000 tons per day. The equipment will
also include a railroad siding running down
to the tracks of the main line and it will
have a capacity of 126 cars. The Maryland
will own its own cars.
—~Official annonncement was made in York
on Friday of a silk mill merger with $22.-
500,000 capital. Thus far the
includes the York and Monarch mills, in
York, and mills at Carlisle, Fleetwood, Kunte-
town and Reynoldsville, in this state. The
purchaser is the American Silk Manufactur-
ing company of New York. Plans are under
way for the merging of a total of 30 mills,
principally in Pennsylvania, under one man-
agement, L. G. Collins, manager of the
York silk mill, will be general manager of
the corporations. “The Lock Haven mill is
not included in ‘the combing, v7 "i