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8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
WANTED -ADVICE!
If a woman with a temper
Shook her fist beneath your nose
And at the same time had a broomstick
Concealed behind her clothes.
Would you stand and take your chances,
Of her slipping you a swat,
Or would you leave the raging lady
At a walk, or pace, or trot?
—The days of the Christmas turkey are
fast drawing to a close.
—What has become of the orphanage?
Council has voted that we are to bave it.
Why don’t we?
—BRrRYAN acd BERRY is the latest
combination of presidential possibilities,
but why wouldn't BERRY and BRYAN be
better.
— Wednesday's weather might be an all
right kind for London or Pittsburg, but
for Bellefonte—Well, we prefer another
variety.
—The streets of Bellefonte suggest the
idea that whatever reform there may have
been in councils it basn’t overworked itself
in that direction.
—ANDREW CARNEGIE bas added two
million more to the endowment of Carne-
gie Tech, and, strange to say, there is no
olamor about tainted money.
—A London physician having announc-
ed that kissing causes the teeth to fall out
our friends with the false ones will be
more modest about it thao ever.
—Senator TILLMAN is acting as though
he were from Missouri. He wants CORTEL-
vou to show him by what authority he
jssned debt certificates in times of peace.
—The death of King Oscar, of Sweden,
has removed one universally beloved ruler.
He was a man as well as a Kiog aod his
manliness won admiration for his sov-
ereignty.
—Who is this man CORTELYOU, what
has be ever done to be even spoken of as a
possibility for President. If he embodies
a single type of statesmanship the public
has never seen it.
—The fire grew too hot for TEDDY. He
has finally decided that he is not a candi-
date for a third term. In truth the public
decided it for him some time ago and he
has jost got wise to it.
—New York city has nothing to he
proud over becanse she closed her theatres
last Sunday. The city should feel bumili-
ated and disgraced because they were ever
permitted to he open.
—We heartily endorse the Harrieburg
Patriot's declaration that the cutting of
public school teacher's salaries on enforced
holidays is about as mean a piece of busi.
ness as we care to hear of.
—1It will be interesting to note the oon-
dition of our sailors and marines after they
finish their hundred and fifteen day sail
around The Horn and undergo a diet of
dessicated foods, dried eggs, hydrated veg-
etables, etc.
—Russia is trying by court martial the
General who surrendered Port Arthur.
She had better save the money and apply
it to the war debt that was kept from
growing larger by the surrender of that be-
sieged port.
—-Being blind is an awfal affiiction, yet
who can say that Oklahoma's new Senator
might not have many a cause to be glad of
it when he gets in among the bunch ofjplu-
tocratic nonentities that represent so many
of the States of the Union in the upper
house of Congress.
—Nay, nay, Pauline! The fellow out
in Ohio who shipped a box by American
express to ‘Governor SAMUEL PENNY-
PACKER, Bellefonte, Pa.,”’ one day last
week, is politely informed that while
Bellefonte is the home of the Governors
we don’t claim the bugologist of Schwenks-
ville.
—Jndgiog from the fact that his Secre-
tary of the Treasury recently issued bonds
and debs certificates in clear violation of
law Mr. RooseverLT will have to enlarge
his society of ‘‘malefactors of great
wealth’’ and ‘‘andesirable citizens’' suffi-
ciently to admit CORTELYOU so member-
ship.
—The poor old Republican elephant
is going to have trouble chosing a rider
for the next campaign. ROOSEVELT wants
the mount but is afraid to say so. Wall
Street wants CORTELYOU but the people
don’t, TAFT wants the place but all sides
are knocking Tarr. In fact there are
knooks oo all of them. This being so why
not KNoX of Pennsylvania ?
—The movement to put the public
schools of the State back to the realms of
‘readin, writen and rithmatio,”” threwing
physics, French, pink paper pictures, and
the like to the dogs, is about the sanest
agitation we bave heard of for some time.
A boy or girl who cao afford only a com-
mon school education neede to know com-
mon things and to know them well. In
fact a good deal better than they are taught
in the public schools today.
—Mr. ROOSEVELT is most brazen in his
statements of untruth. In his recent mes-
sage he says, ‘‘it is noteworthy that the
institutions which failed during the recent
crisis were instiiutions which were not
under the supervision and control of the
national government.” The National
Bauk of Commerce, of Kansas City and the
Fort Pitt National Bank, of Pittsburg, were
both national banke and under the super-
vision of Mr. RoosEVELT'S administration.
VOL. 52
Tarning Down Roosevelt.
The failure of Kansas City to get the
Republican National convention after the
President had presty clearly indicated his
preference for that city is significant. A
year ago it would have been impossible to
get a corporal’s guard for any other place
under the circumstances. Bat at the
meeting of the National committee last
week in Washington po other reason was
required to influence the decision the oth-
er way. Chicago didn’t want the conven:
tion at all. There was no committee pres-
ent asking for the favor. There were cer-
tified checks in sight to guarantee expenses
and the nocleus of a campaign fond. Io
fact there was no inducement to take the
convention to Chicago except the under-
standing that the President wanted it
somewhere else.
What's the matter with the G.O. P. ?
Has the ROOSEVELT ambition fora third
term developed into a bogie ? We have be-
come accustomed to seeing the name used
to conjare with but now it seems to be a
token of danger. There has been a panic,
it is true, and it was treated with gqoaock
remedies. The illegal treasury certificates
through which favored banks were paid
three per cent. interest on government de-
posite were absurd and expensive. The
unlawful “sale of Panama bonds and the
use of the proceeds for purposes other than
those expressed in the law hazardous. Bat
those things were bardly enough to turn
she tide of popular favor which bad been
surging toward the President in the oppo-
site direction. That is what has occurred,
however.
The truth of the matter is that the peo-
ple of the country are coming to an under-
standing of RooseveLr. His game of
“hide and seek’’ with the country has been
analyzed and is understood. Ever since
his elevation to the Presidency he has been
striving to Mexicanize if not to imperialize
the government. With that object in view
he has usurped the authority of Congress
and of the courte. While the''malefactors
of great wealth’’ were coining hie policies
into money for themselves, his sinister
purposes were not condemuved. Boi now
that he is po longer helping them to ac-
quire tainted svealth; he bas been cast
aside and the first evidence of the new
condition was revealed in the vote for the
location of the next Republican National
convention.
Dr. Schaeffer's Wise Idea.
Dr. NATHAN (. SCHAEFFER, Superin-
tendent of Public Instraction, strikes a
sound note when he states in his anouoal
report that our public schools ought to be
brought back to the purposes for which
they were originally established. ‘‘Read-
ing, writing, reckoning and acouracy in
keepivg accounts and in the addition of a
column of figures,’ says that experienced
educator, are among ‘‘the essentials in the
education of the individual which should
not be omitted in she course of study for
the sake of solving any of the later prob-
lems that have been shied at our schools.”
Of course Dr. SCHAEFFER wouldn't be
understood as opposed to the higher edu-
oation. He bas no antipathy, probably,
to college bred men ani women. But
what he means to convey is the view that
persons who bave the inclination and op-
portunity to acquire she higher branches
of learning ought to pay for the service out
of sheir own resources and leave the money
which is taken from the pockets of the pub-
lic to the use of primary schools in which
pupils are tanght in addition to the funda-
mentale “bow to live and bebave.” The
tax burdens would be materially diminish-
ed under saoh circumstances.
Dr. SCHARFFER is, however, a good
deal to blame himself for the departure of
the public schools from their original
scope and parpose. Of course there were
improvements both in the system and in
the curriculum over the original plan be-
fore Dr. SCHAEFFER came into the educa-
tional life of the Commonwealth. Bat such
absurd innovations as military departments
and similar follies have been intreduced
since the Spanish war cansed something
like an epidemic of militarism throughout
the country. Dr. SCHAFFER may not have
been in favor of those follies, but if he was
opposed to them he was too timid to say so
while the Republican leaders were within
hearing distance.
A Little Polttical Modesty Needed.
It don’t take much political horse sense
on the part of Democrats to understand
that the wise thing for the party, in this
State, to do next epring is to elect a dele-
gation of its very best citizens and truest
Demoorats, and send them to the National
convention, nntrammeled by instractions
and free to act and vote for any candidate
who is moss acceptable to and will most
surely carry the States that can properly be
called doubtful. While each of us have our
preference—and have a right to bave them
~—it would be poor polioy, even if we were
unanimously for one man, to attempt to
forestal the work of the convention unless
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
the candidate we desire is also the choice |
of shose States thas must be carried if the
Democrats are to win, Pennsylvania can- |
not give an electoral vote to any nominee, |
no matter who be may he, and a little bit |
of modesty on our part in the matter of
waking the candidate, that other States
BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 13, 1907.
The Grangers and thelr Work.
Our -gsteemed friends, the Grangers, are
holding their annual session at West Ches-
ter, this week. By the time this paper
reaches its destination the labors of the
convention will bave been completed and
the participants in the deliberations} and
must eleat, would seem to be the proper “jawlest” will have returned to their
thing just now. |
Fooling Senator Knox.
It is diffionlt to imagine what purpose
the Republecan politicians of this State can |
have in keeping np the false pretense that
NOX for the |
they are supporting Senator KNoXx for - alierad chbomie ach, ou Thusedoy
presidential nomi-ation. There were vari-
ous and obvious reasons for it in the be- ube way aod “ered the primioee path
| i ”"
VELT intoa more amiable relationship | °f 481Hance.
ginning. PENROSE wanted to force ROOSE-
with himself and projecting one of those
odions “railroad lawyers”’ of the Senate
into the presidential equation was one way |
of forcing the President to terme,
sire to reconcile the respectable element of |
the party to PENROSE'S.mavagement was
auother incentive. Bat both of these rea- |
8008 are past. i
Yet the pretense is still continued. At
a diover given by former Congressman
“Jog” SIBLEY, in Washington, last week
the KNOX candidacy was the borden of all |
the speeches. Kapresentative BURKE, of |
Pittsburg, opened the question by a speech
of great length and striking irrelevancy,
and he was follewed by Senator Knox
himself who accepted the bogus homage of |
the gang in all sincerity. Then others, in-
cluding SIBLEY, talked and the next day |
the papers were fall of the KNOX boom.
Bat it wasall ‘fuse and feathers.” The
machine managers of Pennsylvania are
“laughing in their sleeves’ and looking
about for promising commercial operations
during the convention.
It may be assumed with considerable
confidence that PENROSE and his followers
are opposed to ROOSEVELT and they may
be expected to join in the sapport of any !
candidate who has a chance to defeat
RoOSEVELT'S choice whether it be the
President himself or CORTELYOU or TAFT.
But they are not deceived with the notion
that K~ox bas any show for the favor.
He is a corporation lawyer and a conserva.
tive but the frenzied financiers have not
forgotten that it was he who prosecuted
the Northern Securities company and was
hot on the trail of the coal trust when the
late president CAsSATT induced him to
abandon the work and go to the Senate.
They prefer a man with another kind of a
record and PENROSE is their prophet.
Acquisition to the Ananias Club.
The venerable Mr. SAMUEL WaTTs, of
Lewisburg, is the last acquisition to the
Avauvias club. The old gentleman, who is
a banlger and presumably wealthy, is an
admirer of ROOSEVELT, or was. While in
Washington, the other day, he called as the
White House and told the President about
it. He even went so far as to add that the
people are all anxious to have bim con-
tinge in office for another term. This was
too much for RooseveELT, With tearsin his
voice he assared Mr. Warrs that he
couldn't think of such a thing. ‘‘That
cannot be,’ he said. *‘I cannot serve be-
yond my present term."
Of course Mr. WATTS conldn’t keep this
confidential communication to himself.
Old men are given to garrality and Mr.
WATTS handed out the story to the first
newspaper man he met. It was the event
of hie life and he no doubt felt years
younger because of it. But imagine the
chagrin he must bave felt when on the af-
ternoon of the day his story was published
a denial came from the White House, not
official, of course, but ‘‘anthoritative.’”” It
marked the old gentleman as a liar, though
assurances from his home are to the effect
that be is not only highly respectable but
a gentleman of unquestioned veracity.
But thus it goes. Of course the vener-
able Mr. WaTTs will not entertain as high
an opinion of President ROOSEVELT in the
future as he has in the past and it may be
doubted if he would vote for ROOSEVELT
again even if he were nominated, which is
not likely. Bat he has received a lesson
which ought to be useful to him. He must
have known that the President has been in
the habit of denying in public statements
that be bas made in private, and when he
got the direot information he ought to have
cherished it in secret as a privileged com-
munication to be revealed to no one.
© Fan Ahead.
Senator FORAKER still seems to think
that he is the choice of the Republican peo-
ple of Ohio for the presidential nomina-
tion. At least he is out in a letter asking
that the delegation to the next convention
be chosen at the regular primaries at which
every voter can express his choice of dele-
gates and candidates, and thus puts up a
blaff to the TAFT crowd thas will require
either a show of hands or an ignomnious
back-down. With such fellows as Fora-
KER suffering from the presidential itoh,
there is great prospect of a high old time
and plenty of fun in politics daring the
The de- |
homes. That is to say if, the gentlemen
and ladies who compose this honorable
fraternity are the well behaved persons we
believe them to be they will be in the bos-
oms of their families by Friday evening,
for the convention is scheduled to adjourn,
night. Others than Grangers might loiter
Bat nothing like that for
the Grangers.
We own to an abatement of personal in-
terest in the proceedings of these annual
conventions of the Grangers of Pennsylva-
nia. There was a time when our heart
| bled at the recital of the wrongs which the
| wicked politicians and sounlless{corporations
put upon these amiable and worthy citi-
| zens and which were the sam and sub
stance of the garruiity at these annual
meetings. Bat we are no longer suscepti-
ble to such emotions. We have seen (80
many of the pastoral orators of such occa-
sions subsequently give exhibition of high
| and lofty political tumbling shat we bave
come to the conclusion that sympathy is
wasted upon them. Some of them can
give the moss expert political crooks points
and beat them at their own game.
For example, last fall when it was possi-
ble to defeat .the Republican machine,
which is responsible for all the rcorporate
‘abuses of recent years, the Grangers re-
mained at home and thus permitted the
machine to renew its grasp upon the peo-
ple. If the professions of hostility to cor-
poration aggression, which are the burden
of the Grangers’ conversation, had been ex-
pressed in the ballot box on the 5th of last
November, those public enemies would
have received a chastisement which might
have kept them on their good behavior for
a score of years. But our Granger friends
preferred to husk corn and let the politi-
cian# regain their mastery of the Common-
wealth.
The President's Message.
The President’s message is charaoteristio,
It is long, tedious and without merit. Upon
the only two questions of commanding
present public concern he hasn’t a helpful
suggestion to offer. He refers to the panic
but makes no propositions as to a remedy.
He acknowledges the inignity of the tariff
but recommends a postponement of the cor-
rection of the evil. He favors the spending
of vast sams for the enlargement of the na-
vy though there is no more reason for the
inoreased floating armament than there is
for five wheels ona wagou. Besides he
kuows that sufficient vaval force to man
the present ships of war is maiotaived
with the greatest difficulty and increase
means conseription.
Bat the absurd vanity and egotism of
the President is shown at frequent inter.
vals, ‘‘As I said” insach and such a mes-
sage. “As I remarked” on another occa-
sion, oconrs a dozen times. Other Presi-
dents have quoted from predecessors or
statesmen of another period, but not be.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT is the only man
dead or alive, past, present or prospective,
. whose opinions are worth consideration.
It is obviously a case of big head. He
thinks only of himseli and imagives that
be alone understands. Oblivions of the
absurdity of the spectacle he stands before
the world worshipping his own image. He
has proved himself a fraud and a humbug.
Happily his opportunities for sach exhi-
bitions will soon be at an end, not by
choice but of necessity. He wants another
term and has been manipulating the wires
for months to gratify his ambition. He
never intended that TAFT should be his
successor. He put TAFT up as a decoy and
sent him out of the country so that he
wouldn't see what a fool he was being
made. But the people are ‘‘onto bis
game'’ now and they will defeat his plans.
It is not certain who will be the nominee
of his party for the succession bus it is ab-
solately sure thas it will be neither Roosg-
VELT nor any one whom he designates.
The next Republican candidate for Presi-
dent will be an anti-RoOSEVELT man.
—— 48 an illustration of how a check is
made the purchasing power of hundreds of
dollars worth of property we give the fol-
lowing ; Last Saturday a Bellefonte attor-
ney closed a deal for thesale of a certain
property to another gentleman and on Mon-
day was given a oheck for $200 as part pay-
ment. The same afternoon he was the
mediam of the purchase of a piece of land
from a nearby farmer for the American
Lime and Stone company and gave the
above mentioned check to the farmer as
pay for the option. The farmer in turn,
without ever pooketiog the piece of paper
banded ii back to the attorney as payment
of hisfee and on Tuesday the attorney
gave the check as part payment on a prop-
next six months.
erty recently purchased by himself.
i
ately
NO. 30.
The Message In Japan,
From the Lancaster Intelligencer,
, The President’s message a; to bave
been no where received with as t inter-
est as in Japan. A diepatoh Tokio
states that a leading newspaper publishes
cabled extracts from the message to the ex-
tent of one thousand words ; rather an ex-
tended notice at that long and costly range
and particnlarly when it is considered that
less than a hundred words of the unabridg-
ed message are devoted to foreign affairs.
It may be guessed that the Japanese
report included, in condensed form, the
president’s references to the cruise of our
big fleet to the Pacific, and also his referen-
ces to the Chinese Boxer indemnity and
his request for anthority to excuse
Chiva from the payment of that part of it
which is in excess of the approved claims
and expenses of our government and citi-
zens incident to that outbreak.
It will be remembered that we astonish-
ed the other powers by intimating long ago
that he would not take all of our part of
the damages asseseed against helpless China
alter the combined or allied armies bad
marched to Pekin. Our share was twenty
millions of dollars and the cost of our part
of the pacifying operations, when added to
the claims of the missionaries and others,
amounted to less than twelve millions,
which oar state departmeat announced was
all that we would accept. At this foreign-
ers and Europeans alike smiled ineredu-
lously, aod will now bave a chance to
~The Healey coal breakers at Miners
Mills, near Wilkes-Barre, were destroyed by
fire on Sunday evening. Loss, $40.000.
~Telegraph linemen reported finding
thirty-one snakes in a telegraph pole at
Arcola, Montgomery county, a few days ago.
~There are over ninety cases of measles in
the village of Collinsburg, Westmoreland
county. and the schools have been closed for
some time.
—Over $1,500 were collected on Sunday in
three Pittsburg Presbyterian churches for
the relief of the miners’ families in West
Virginia, lef: destitate by the horrible mine
d saster.
—Barglars ransacked the homes of Benja -
min H. Nissley, Simon Rutt snd A. G.
Brandt, at Elizabethtown, Lancaster county,
and among the booty secured was a diamond
ring valued at $100.
—Just as Peter Veras, an inmate;’of the
Pottsville hospital from Lansford,bade good-
bye to some friends on Sunday] evening,
saying “I'll soon be well,” he dropped over
dead. He was suffering from pneumonia.
—A vote on a proposed increase of the cap-
ital stock of the Hamilton Watch company
at Lancaster, from $500,000 to $1,000,000, fo r
development and extension of business, will
be taken by the stockholders in February.
—A breach of promise suit, in which $10.
000 damages is claimed, was instituted on
Wednesday, in the Lycoming county,court,
against Joseph A. Updegrafl by Miss §Mar-
garet M. Smith. Both are residentsjof Wil-
liamsport.
—After an idleness of nearly six months
undergoing repairs and installing new ma-
chinery,the Mammoth Maxwell coal breaker
at Ashley, Luzerne county, will resume
operations next week, giving employment
to 1,100 men and boys.
~The court house for Westmoreland coun-
ty, at Greensburg, is practically completed
and arrangements are being made to occupy
18 by the first of January. The building has
been two and one-half years in the course
smile again.
Of course Japan may take it as a bid for
Chineve favor and part of onr far-reaching
and sagacions Oriental policy ; another
phase of the same aggressiveness which
they see in our Philippine expansion and
the westward ornise of our fleet. To them
we daily grow more and more carious,
interesting and menacing.
The president’s message, despite its
protestations of good will, is well caloula-
ted to sustain this Japanese view of us.
for a very large part of it is devoted to
liars a aud Javed ddl. He discusece perity at this time, being so rushed with
| orders as to make it neeessary to run the
a Caer. om he vera of one who plant part of the time at night, up until 9 or
Kuowing the man, this does not alarm us, 1 10 o'clock and to work full time on Satur-
but it may well produce a different impres- day instead of taking a half holiday.
sion in Japan. :
of constructson and the total cost will be, it
is claimed, $1,450,000.
~The new law and order society of
Schuylkill county claims to have evidence
to prove that there are over 150 saloons in
that county where lijuors can be procured
on Sundays, by giving particular raps and »
specified password at a rear door, while the
front doors are kept closed.
~The Netherland Shirt factory at Philips-
burg is enjoying an unusual degree of pros-
~The climax to a number of robberies in
Pottsville was reached on Saturday, when
the warehouse of Weiner Bros. was robbed
The sal savioge banks of Ecropean of a large quantity of merchandise. The
Wale Sies vingh bind many open thieves drove up in a wagon liesurely load-
born dwellers in America to their native | ¢d the gouds on it and drove away in sight
lands. More than 7,000,000 immigrants | of the neighbors who thought the men were
have come to she United States during the | employes.
ha ten eas Toe sal sure sh VY | paring 0 roors mse shout
of it has heen sent to their native countri twenty deer were killed in Clearfield county
to be deposited in postal savings butiks. 018 year which is considerably less than in
The United States postoflice department, | previous years. Fifteen bears have been kill-
daring the year ending June 30 lass, seus to | ed and since the new bounty law became
European countries, in the form of money | effective the animals in that class killed were
sd ote Duo SIN. Bh Sig as follows: Wildeats 5, foxes 51, mink 84,
$16,000,000 to Austria-Hungary, $11,000, ( “eusel® 34.
000 to Great Britain avd $7,000,000 to Rus- | —H.W. Shoamaker, proprietor offthejNaw-
sia. These millions were sent in small port Shirt factory, in Perry county, was in
uu ” a he Pov wi New York last week, on a business trip, and
’ Bakr returned home with the assurance of enough
year are typical of what has been going on |, oo 1) keek his plant busy without ces-
sation, for one year. The shirt factory has
for a long period.
Without doubt many foreign-born resi-
a capacity of four hundred dozen shirts per
week, which are made by thirty-six operas
dents of this country whose savings are on
deposit and earning interest in European |
postal banke have made application for | tors.
aruliomion Jadess.. THO ut wa — Friends of Dickinson seminary, at Wil-
live permauently in she United States. linmsport, will be gratified to learn that the
They would be led wore quickly into a pa- | efforts to secure an endowment fund of $50,
sriotioc regard for the government of this | 000 for the ivstitution are meeting with
country if they found here a system of gov- | very encouraging success, as by the ind efa-
ernment depositories for the safekeeping of tigable labors of Secretury Bowman, the fund
their small sconumulations of money. has reached nearly $38,000. The roll of the
a Geson Heyer iA lis "- seminary registers the largest attendance of
portant object of the proposed postal sav- | Students iu its history.
Yue banks world be to Sneourage he i. —An offensive odor in the house of John
. io depose bio Jarsiogs in 30) Warlaski, of Minersville, Schuylkill county,
. i
a few bundred dollars he will nos be con- | “used him to pull up some of the flooring
tent to receive merely 2 per cent. interest, to uscertain the cause when he found » dead
hat will possibly seek to purchase a home, rat and also & rat nest partly made up of
and the moment he acquires real property | bank notes most of them badly chewed and
here he becomes a more conservative oiti- | representing a value of over $200. They
#0, io atively inter dited in shy airs of yu be sent to the treasury department in
e Nation at the same time places 3
ey A vy | Washington for redemption
likelihood of becoming public charges.” —The council of Renovo has voted that
the curfew law be enforced. The time for
Cutting Too Deep. children under sixteen being on the streets
From the Pittsburg Sun. in the evening is limited to 8:30 o'clock.
President Jim Hill, railroad king of the | Fifteen minutes before the expiration of the
Sota bus | DWE Ro ne oy i time the signal, the blowing of & whistle,
stating bis well-founded opinion that the will Dogiven. Avy patath BE guunine-¥ ho
metropolis bas reached her olimax of com- | Per™m!ts children to break this law w
mercial expansion. Commerce for abroad, notified and fined one dollar for the second
he asserts, will seek other outlets, where breaking of the law, two for the third and
Jerminnl sod fiauater sharges Are lower aud five for the fourth.
elays are fewer. who have n
taking toll of this traffic have been cutting ~The borough of Montoursville, Lycom-
too deep, aud once this golden stream of | ing county, was agog with excitement last
trade gets tarned aside it will be almost | Thursday evening. The occasion was the
impossible to ever retarn it to its wonted | dedicating of the new $36,000 high echool
channels. building. A large and attentive assemblage
It is inevitable that this friction and in- | more than taxed the capacity of the main
expense of bandling business |. 4i00rium and chairs were placed in the
creased
should,i: some measure at least, grow with
the volume of traflic, but New York is very | Cass rooms on thethind floor. The Qedica-
eedy and inconsiderate of others. Sh tory address was delivered by Dr. Nathan C.
Bas not guarded the control of her wharves | Schaeffer, state superintendent of public
and terminal facilities or the disposal of her | instruction. Sufficient money was also raised
public service utilities as she should. She | at the meeting to buy a new piano, over $250
will reap as she bas sown, and to her 8or- | being subscribed in five minutes time. A
or is an le Pitsbuis init banquet followed the dedicatory service.
ere warning for Pi 8
situation. This oity now is known the | —The Home Gas company of Waynesburg,
length aud breadth of the land for the ex- | on the Hoge furm near Oak Forest, Sunday
orbitant cost of living. Who Sain compute | grilled what proved to be the biggest active
how gaan Suda), busi) ki Be ave gas well east of the Mississippi river. Its
resarns for labor are less, but where the | Present flow is estimated at 25,000,000 cubic
necessaries of life can be obtained on more | feet of gas a day. At the present rate of gas
favorable terms ? Who can tell how many | in Pittsburg the well would yield owners
pective residents have been deterred | $7,500 a day, or $2,737,500 a year. It would
push. coming hither because our food pur- | supply nearly 50,000 average size dwelling
veyors will not be satisfied with the profits | houses. Iu a single day's flow it would sup+
that obtain with those of other cities? We | 10 vor 1,650 dwellings for a month. If
Jave Hemet vue Basra slviulages Sha converted into gas engines it would furnish
pd ig the NE itaar which run the | Power emough to drive Admiral “Bob
reasona b Evans’ entir fleet of battleships around the
a bogs tions oe ino in Horn. The pressure is so great that the gas
city’s growth will be permavently impair- | cannot be controlled and is blowing into
ed. e must break the toils this cruel | space. The well moans that a new fleld will
Postal Banks and New Citizens.
From the Chicago News.
greed is casting around us. be opened at Oak Forest.