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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—A word to our candidates.
Stay busy ! See everyone !
~As the vacation shortens the faces of
the school children lengthen.
~The new arc light in the Nosth ward
echool grounds is designed principally to
save wear and tear ou the grass.
—Dou’t be foolish enough to think that
fall has came, because summer hae not yet
went. We bave all saw this kind of
weather before.
~There are more women members of
clabs in New York thao in any two other
cities in the world, remarks an exchange.
And almost every day a new volume is
added to the vile literature of the day tell-
ing of the dissolute lives of many of these
Very women.
~The assessors liste show that there are
972 horses at an average value of $70 in
Williamsport, but the value of the average
Williamsport horse probably swings
through a wide variation between the day
the assessor gets round sud the day you go
to prioe him. ;
~The most important election the coun-
try has bad in years is coming on. You
will want to exercise your right of fran-
chise. You can’t do it unless youjare reg-
istered. Wednesday, Sept. 20d, is the last
day on which you can register. Are yon
wise to your duty.
~The New York World bas come out
squarely and fairly for BRYAN. It never |
sapported him before, bat now it sees the
only hope for reform is deems necessary is
nurtured under the baoner of Democracy
and once more it is on the fighting line
with its old comrades.
—Everyoue admits that the sigos are la-
vorable. BRYAN's election grows more
probable every day. He started out to
capture the middle West, but New York is
{ooking so good now that it would not be a
matter of much surprise to see the Empire |
State swing in for the Nebraskan in No- |
vember.
—Candidate JorN D. MILLER is going
right after the Treasurership and most
everyove is glad of it for JOHN is a good,
clean man ; honest, sober and upright. He
is just the kind of a man to be treasurer |
Ges busy !
|
because he is #0 courteous and genial in |
his manner and he represents the best type
of citizenship we have : The sturdy, suo-
cessful farmer.
~The scheme to have several BRYAN
tickets in this county may have been con
ceived with the best of motives, bat if it
should result in drawing off a considerable
number of votes from the regular Demo-
cratic column it woald rednoe our repre.
sentation in the State convention and that
is soarcely to be desired, when there is no
real gain to be made,
* —"There will not be any blare of tramp-
és, nor glare of red fire, but the cam-
paigo in this county will open actively
next week. It is ap to every Democrat to
do his part. We have a good ticket, a
much better one than our opponents and
with that in our favor the work will cer-
“thinly be pleasant, though let us warn you
_agaiort falling into the notion'that it will
be easy.
—Don’t lose track of the fact that we
have a very excellent board of Commission-
ers. They bave been prudent yet ready
for public improvement whenever needs
have been apparent and have reduced the
county indebtedness materially. It has
taken good management to do this in the
face of the large appropriation to the mon-
ument but it bas been done and the Com-
missioners should be given proper credit.
The best credit youn can give them is by re-
electing them.
~The Gazette wants to know which is
better : “Democratic management and a
5 mill tax or Republican, managements and
a 3 mill tax?’ What a silly question |
The Gazette knows it was Republican
management on a 3 mill tax that squan-
dered the $25,000.00 balance in the treas-
ury and run the county into debt and it
also knows that the only reason we have a 5
mili tax now is to pay the debts made by
Repoblican mismanagement. The tax pay-
ers of Centre county are wise enough not
to be impressed with such flap-doodle.
—A solitary bandit held up seven stage
coaches in the Yellowstone Park, on Mon-
day aud robbed the tourists of gix thousand
dollars. Wouldn't Col. JoHN DuBss and
Col. Dave ForRTNEY, who were held up
at the business men’s picnic last week,
have a joke on Col. JACK SPANGLER and
ELLIs ORVISs, if the latter were among the
viotims. It was bad enough to be plucked
within seven miles of home, but to go way
out to Wyoming to bave it done—well,
we'll leave DUBBS and FORTNEY to do the
laughing when the other fellows ges back.
—The System papers are scouring the
land for “ prominent’ (?) Democratic bus-
iness men who are going to vote for Tarr.
In the first place these ‘‘prominent” busi-
ness men are probably of the pin head va-
riety we know so well, who think their
prominence enhanced by being given a few
inches of space in a paper that would never
know they exist under other circumstan-
ces. In the second, it is a lair chavoce to bet
that for every ove of these molly coddles,
thas haven't brains enough to have a convio-
tion and are to politics what the mutts are
who select their church io order to get into
sassiety, there will be a hundred good, hon-
est, reading, thinking, Republican ocom-
mon people who will vote for Bryan and
never dream that th
| way to all reforms.
| Great Commoner and acknowledge
_VOL. 53
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STATE RIGHT
FEDERAL UNION.
$§ AND
ELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 28, 1908.
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Mr. Bryan's DeMolnes Speech.
Of Mr. BRYAN'S great speech at De-
Moines, Iowa, a few days ago, the New
York TVmes says : ‘‘He marshals the ad-
missions and the avowals of representa-
tives of the protected interests, the arga-
ments and appeals of manafactarers now
convinced of the necessity of revision, the
principles enunciated by Mr. CLEVELAND
and Mr. McKINLEY in support of bis posi-
tion that the time has come to reduce the
castoms imposts. Much shat he says is
quite beyond disproof or denial.” The
New York Sun declares that ‘‘it would be
unfair nos to recoguize the moderation of
the language, the apparent candor of tone,
the directness and suavity of statements and
the clearness of argament which distin-
guieh this and other recent addresses of
Mr. BRYAN."
The New York Evening Post comments in
this laugaage : ‘‘His strongest arguments
deal with the Repablican Record of shut-
fling and inconsistency on thie question.
| The Republicans have talked tariff reform,
bave admitted the inequalities of the DiNG-
LEY schedules, and yet have done nothing.
A Republican President has urged the
abolition of a duty on wood pulp, but the
stolid ‘‘stand-patters”” have blocked the
The Republicans, in
fear of offending the protected interests,
have not dared to make the obanges which
they bave acknowledged are unecessary.
Mr. BRYAN, then, is justified in askivg
whether the Republicans oan now, alter
their eleventh-hour repentance, be trusted
to revise the tariff in she interest of the
consumer.”
These newspapers are not sapporters of
Mr. BRYAN and their words of praise are
reluctantly given. Bat intelligent ob-
servers of ourrent events, they are com-
pelled to pay she tribute of justice to she
the
shortoowings of the Republicaa party.
And Mr. BRYAN'S splendid speech deserv-
* ed the implied and expressed encomiums.
As an esteemed contemporary who is sup-
porting him for President declared, the
speech was too good and great to epitomize
or sammarize. It ought to be read in full
by every citizen of the Republic and no
man can read it without being impressed
with what the New York Sun characterizes
as “she mofifPatisi Or Ie" Madlage, the
apparent candor of tone and the directness
of statement’’ it contains.
Mr. Taf Falsified Facts.
In his speech delivered at Hot Springs,
Virginia, the other day, Mr. TAFT de-
clared that ‘“‘the industrial depression of
1893 followed the passage of the WILSON
tariff bill.”’ In a presidential candidate
we expeot truthfulness, as least, if not ac-
curacy. It has been a subject of ‘pride to
the American people that until within six
years no Presideut of the United States had
ever heen accused of faleification. Is onght
to be a desire that so long as the country
endares we will never again bave a Presi-
dent who oan be accused of lying and have
the accusation proved. The reckless state.
ment of TAFT, quoted above, makes this
expectation dependent upon his defeas.
The panic of 1893 practically began with
the Homestead riots in July, 1892, four
mouths before the presidential election of
that year. The results of she election was
largely influenced hy the impending ipdne-
ttial paralysis and before Cleveland. was
inauguraied in) March, 1893, preparations
had been made to replenish the treasury
reserve by selling bouds. Mr. TAFT was a
judge on the federal bench at thas, Sime
and shrough hi otal . disposi tiop ‘of de:
faniting corporatios was familias, seith
both industrial pnd financial ocondisiops.
The WrLsox — bill was passed in Ooto-
ber,1894,80 that thé statement of Mr, Tarr
in his Hot Springs speech was, therefore,
vot only a falsification, but ode ‘made
knowingly. Rise nisi
If a gustersnipe politician ora paid party
speaker is igoosant or mendacious, we
don’s mind it much. What be says is of
little consequence and no value. Bat a man
who nepires to the great office of President
of the United States is under moral obliga
tion to be truthful. If heis not he is unfit
for the office and his impudent assurance
ought to be rebuked by every self-respeot-
ing voter in the country. Deliberate lying
is among the most contemptible of all
vices. Mr. ROOSEVELT'S controversies with
Mrs. BELLAMY STORER, Mr. HARRIMAN
and others made him a most contemptible
figare. The people should see thas a simi-
lar humiliation is not pat upon them
again. Io other words, a candidate for
President who falsifies should be defeated
overwhelmingly.
——September 2nd, is a most important
day for Democrats. They all want to vote
for the next President, and if they are not
Registered by the evening of that day they
may be unable to cast a ballot for W. J,
BRYAN.
oS ——
— The All-Scholastio football team of
Altoona would like to arrange a game with
any 1401b. team. Address C. E. Clark,
have done soythi
to make newspaper sotoriety. yom
2215 Broad Ave.
Mr. Meyer's Little Scheme
Postmaster General MEYER offers postal
saviogs banks as a substitute for the guar.
antee of deposits proposed in the Demo-
cratic plasform and imagines that he has a
panacea for all the commercial and fioan-
oial ills from which she country is suffering.
“In the postal savings bank the deposits
are guaracteed by the government,” Mr.
MEYER observes, ‘‘becaunse the government
has received the deposits and made iteell
responsible.” They would make Post.
master General MEYER the biggest and
most influential banker in the world, he
might bave added, and if he happened to
desire it give him a ‘rake off’’ from the
| business of all the other banks that he
| allowed to exist.
We have no doabt that in the event of
the election of the Republican candidate for
President postal savings banks will be
adopted. They are among the pet schemes of
ROOSEVELT for the reason that they ave in
thedirection of centralization. Judge Tarr
himself appears to be without ideas of any
| kind ou any sabject, and he would be an
| easy mark in the hands of ROOSEVELT and
| MEYER in the formation of schemes to
| perpetuate the political dynasty which
| they imagine they have founded. MEYER
| would probably be continued in office on
| account of his experience as a banker and
the “‘malefactors of great wealth’ would
be compelled to give up freely for cam-
paiga purposes or suffer denunciation more
severe than that imposed on ‘Dear HARRI.
MAN.”
But it will he a sad day for the onuntry
when Mr. MEYER'S idea is legislated into
law. The deposits in savings banks ron
by the postoffice being guaranteed by the
government at the first sign of currency
famine every dollar in every community
would be drawn from other banks which
would be without the guarantee and
placed in the savings hank whence it
would be shifted to Wall street and made
to earn usurious interest for the New York
bankers who happened to enjoy she friend-
ship of Mr. MEYER or were willing to di-
vide the profits with him. As a matter of
fact there is no more hazard in guaraotee-
ing the deposits in all the banks than in
guaranteeing the safety of all the mouey in
one bank ander the absolute coutrol of one
man of the type of Postm General
MEYER.
EP ——
Facts About Personal Registration.
Residents of cities of the 1st, 20d and
3rd classes must personally Register or they
canuot vote at all. There is no way by
which they can get upon the Registry only
by personal application on the following
dates ;
In cities of the 1st and 20d olasees—
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Allegheny and
Scranton —il they have no tax receipts they
mast Register on the 3M of September, or
lose their votes. II they have a tax
receipt, Tor tax paid within two years, they
can Register on the 3rd or 15th of Sep-
tember or on the 3rd day of October.
In cities of the 3rd classes —which means
all other cities wishin the State—if they
have no tax receipt they must Register on
September 1st. If they have a tax receipt
dated within two years they can Register
either on the 1st or the 15th of September
ur on the 17h of October.
« ——Edmuuod Blaochard’s horse ran away
on Wednesday afternoon and caused con-
siderable excitement. John MoCoy was
‘driving the animal in a boggy and was in
the aot of getting into the vehicle, at the
McCoy home on Lino street, when she
‘horse started. MoCoy was thrown to the
grognd but not burt. The horse ran east
to Allegheny street, south to the Diamond,
“where the. bo ed with the Adams
Expréas ‘deli " breaking the
shaft, The animal then tarned down
High street and | ite the residence of
Emil Joseph broke loose from the buggy,
the vehicle running in onto the pavement.
With parts of the shafts hanging to she
torn baroess she horse ran down High
street and ato the Palace livery stables.
The damage was confined entirely to the
buggy, which was pretty badly demolished.
i ———
2%" Sept. 2nd BE
Do you ask why we point to that date?
If you are not Registergd on or before that
time, your vote may be lost. gItfis the last
day that you can Register.
~-—Wm. Sampsell, the man arrested
last Wednesday for attempted criminal
assault on Catharine, the six-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Harry Ryan, was given a
bearing before justice of the peace John M.
Keichline last Friday afternoon. A. W.
Moore, of the Western Union Telegraph of-
fice, and Frank Shogert were the main wit-
nesses against Sampsell and after hearing
their evidence the latter eonlessed and was
remanded to jail for trial at the September
term of court ; apparently not realizing the
extreme gravity of his orime.
Sp—
~The weather the past week has heen
quite Antumnlike.
Dollars Rather than Reasons, |
i
The esteemed Philadelphia Ledger josti- |
fies its support of Judge TAFT by stating |
that ‘‘independent newspapers like the |
Baltimore Sun and the Springfield Republi. |
can, whioh have declared in favor of TAFT,
express with great decision she belief that
Mr. TAFT would be a much safer and a
saver pilot of the ship of State than Mr.
BRYAN.” The Baltimore Sun, once a great
newspaper and potent influence in public
aflsire bas degenerated into a wercenary
which serves the master who pays moss
liberally and the Springfield Republican ex-
presses the opinions of a senile gentleman
who was somewhat of an oracle half a cen-
tury ago. But the esteemed Philadelphia
Ledger is even weaker in defending itself
on other grounds.
For example the Ledger states that ‘‘the
only legislation during the ROOSEVELT ad-
ministration which could by any possible
reasouing bear relation to prosperity or ad-
versity was the legislatiqn regulating rail-
toads engaged in interstate commerce,’
and therefore, it declares inferentially, that
the Republican party is acquitted of any
responsibility for the present indastrial and
commercial depression. According to Mr.
VAN CLEAVE, president of the American
Manufacturers’ association, the excessive
schedules of the DINGLEY tariff law rob the
wage earners of the country of a million
dollars a day, and the Republican party is
responsible for continuing the robbery dar-
ing the entire period of ROUSEVELT'S serv-
ice in the office of Presidens.
The legislation to regulate railroads had
comparatively little to do with the indus-
trial slamp which came last fall, bat Roose.
VELT'S absurd talk of the centralization of
government, the seizare of property and
other forms of imperialistic usurpation de-
stroyed confidence in the future and oreat-
ed uvcertainty for the present. These
thiogs brooght on the panic and as Mr.
TAFT stands pledged to carry out Roosk-
VELT'S policies his election will prolong is.
This fact is so plain that it is self evident
and in is labored argament for TAFT the
Ledger wabbles like a convert to conven,
jence rather than conviction. Manifestly
oar esteemed contemporary gets its reasons
through the coantiog room.
* a
An’ Excellent Change.
?
Democrats thionghout the country will
learn with keen satisfaction that the or-
igival plans of campaign, so far as they re.
late to Mr. BRYAN himself, bave heen
changed. It was his intention to wake
only a lew speeches and spend most of his
time at home where those who had soffi-
cient leisure and money to afford the trip
could visit him and bear brief addresses on
‘the issues of the campaign. Of course if
this pian bad been carried out his short
speeches would bave been widely publish-
ed and universally read. But he souldn’s
bave reached as many people by that
method as by the usual campaign tour.
It is gratifying, therefore, 20 learn that
Mr. Bryan’s plans have been altered, with
his own consent, and that he will tour the
country as he did in his previous cam-
paigus, but with vastly greater effect, be-
cause time bas improved him largely and
the asperities which sharpened opposition
to him before have been toned down or
entirely removed. It is sale vo say that in
his campaign tour this year Mr. BRYAN
will be greeted by an unanimous and en-
thusiastio Democracy where ever he goes
and that was pot the case in either of his
other campaigns. Besides he can present
the issues with greater force and effect from
the stump.
Mr. BRYAN'S campaign itinerary has not
been announced as yes, bat it ie certain
that he will speak in all the doabttal
States among whioh are both New York
aod New Jersey. He will make a few
speedhes in Indiana and at least one in
Kentucky and it ie a safe conjecture that
wherever he speaks the respoase will be"
all that he can possibly hope for. The
plain people of the country believe in Mr.
BRYAN and will follow him this year as
they never have before. The change in the
plan of campaign, therefore, well serve to
encourage those who don’t hear him and
strengthen those whe do. It was a splen-
did resolution.
A Matter that Should Not be For.
gotten.
Young men who voted on age last fall
MUST be Registered or they can not vote
under any circumstances. Othess who
have paid a State or County tax within
two years may be able to ewear in their
votes, if they are not upon the Registry,
but the voter who cast his first ballot in
1907, has no possible chance to do this.
He is not upon any duplicate, has no tax
assessed against him, and consequently
cannot qualify to baving paid a tax, as is
necessary where voters are lelé off the
Registry. By failing to Register he prac- | and
tically and effectually disfranchises himself,
There is no way by whioh he can vote, and
NO. 34.
in 1907, is upon the polling list of 1908,
And this must be seen too before the even-
ing of September 2nd. Don’t forget this,
Bryan on Tariff
From the Johnstown Demoerat.
Mr. Bryan's tariff speech at Des Moines
is a powerful and convincing presentation
of the Demooratic position on thas vital
subject. It is full of sledge-hammer blows
at protection and it is likely so stir the
old Democracy up as nothing else from Mr.
Bryan has ever dove.
Mr. Bryan makes no equivocation in his
attack upon the so-called ‘‘American sys-
tem.” He hits it bard and he bits is so
that it will hart. Few Democratic speakers
have discussed she tariff with equal force
and equal candor. Too many Democrats
have conceded something to the protection
claim. Too many bave feared to press the
logic of the Democratic position home. Bat
Mr. Bryau does not hesitate. He is not
afraid. He bas no apology to make for his
telling assaults upon a system which at its
best is a falee pretense and at ita worst is
an unblashing scheme of robbery and cor-
ruption.
The effect of this speech is likely to be
not unlike that of Mr. Cleveland’s famous
tariff message in 1887. It is the keynote of
the present campaign and since Mr. Bryan
has chosen the tariff as the theme of his
first address to the American people it is
fair to assume that it is because he deems
the tariff the subject of first importance.
And that is our view. We believe that
the tariff isthe keystone of the arch of
privilege. To knock it out will be to bring
the whole predatory system to the ground.
And that Mr. Bryan feels this to be so we
are strongly persuaded. He minoes no
words in characterizing the grafts which
flourishes under the name of protection
and by grace of the Republican party. He
exposes its operation in every essential de-
tail. He makes plain the relation which
exists between the protected interests and
the party which bas become their band-
maiden. And in laying bare the false pre-
tense which has so long deceived the
masses of the country Mr. Bryan goes far-
ther and shows why American wages have
been higher than wages in foreign coun-
tries. It is nos because of the tariff, but in
spite of it. American wages are better
is more intelligent ; it works under better
conditions, and 1ts opportunities are
wider.
This indeed is the most convincing part
of a most convincing discussion. It goes
right to the marrow of the whole wage
guestion and if Mr. Bryan shall in futare
speeches enlarge apon the idea he has so
admirably expressed he will be able to
show the American workmen that if his
wages have heen higher than those ohtain-
ed by the foreigner for like service it has
been because land bas been cheaper in this
country and opportunity therefore freer.
The effect of this speech upon the so-
called conservative Democrats, these Demo-
crats who have been out of line with the
party for the last twelve years, is likely to
be great. It is hound to make a profound
impression upon most of them and to some
it will come as a bugle call to arms.
bound to inspire many who havefor a
long while been despondensand shat it
will enormously stimulate radical tariff re-
vision sentiment in the prairie etates is
beyond any reasonable douht.
Opportunity snd Fu
tunity,
Equal Oppor-
From the Chicago Public,
The social philosophy of President Eliot
of Harvard is fall of surprises. Having
turned the dootrine of personal equality
into confasion and rejected it, he seems
now to have made ducks and drakes of the
dootrine of equality of opportanity. To
those who are not over-lettered, persoual
equality means equality with reference to
rights under the law ; and equality of op-
portunity is a corollary, which demande
that opportunities to use one’s own powers
without depriving others of like liberty
shall be maintained. Bat President Eliot
discovers that equality of opportunity—
whatever he may mean by it, is neither
obtainable nor desirable. What he de-
mands is ‘‘fis opportunity.” Bus really
there is no essential difference between
{qual opportunity aod fit opportunity.
hen wen are free to exert sheir powers
as they choose, within she limits of noun-in-
jury to others, they bave equal opportunity.
Bat the two things, while essentially the
same, may be made widely different in
practice. It depends upon who decides as
to fitness. Under equal opportunity each
decides for himself ; bot under “fit opor-
tunity” some one else may decide arbi-
trarily for him. Consequently the doctrine
of fit opportunity may turn into a eaphem-
ism for servitude. The old cotton planters
by their own accounts, furnished heir
slaves with ‘‘fis opportunity.”
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Uniformity of Laws.
From the Altoona Times.
The necessity of uniformity of laws has
claimed the attention of leading thinkers
for several years, but, although there has
been endless agitation of the subject,
practically nothing bas heen done to re-
move inconsistencies that are the source of
great perplexing and incalulable mischief.
Foremost among the laws where uni.
formity is urgensly demanded are those
governing and divorce. The
statutes n force in varions states are so
widely divergent as to be absolutely ridica-
lous. Many of the domestic ills are direot-
ly traceable to this prolific source of evil
and so insistent bas been the clamor for
united and harmonious action between the
several states that there is some reason for
the hope that it will not be many years
until the coveted objective is attained.
The American Bar association will hold
its anoual session at Seatile this week,
and among the most important topics that
will be considered will be that of nnilor-
wity, espeeially with reference to marriage
divorce. Preliminary theretoa ocon-
ference of many of the nation’s ablest
lawyers and ju last week discussed the
a in all ite phases and their recom-
Democrats should remember and see thas
every young Demoorat who voted on age
mendation will assist the bar association
ee
spawlis from the Keystone.
—The thirty-fifth annual Grangers’ inter-
state picnic at Williams’ Grove, Cumberland
county, is in progress this week. The ex-
hibits of farming machivery are unusually
large and with fair weather the attendance
will be very great.
—More fish were received by Huntingdon
county on Tuesday night, when at 6:30 the
United State fisheries car left off at the
Union depot, Huntingdon, 4.500 black and
little mouth bass to be distributed in Stone
Creek and the Raystown Branch.
~The people of Everett are pleased to
learn that the Eariston furnace, operated by
Joseph E. Thropp, which has been out of
blast for some time undergoing repairs, is to
be put in blast early in September. This
will give employment to seversl hundred
men.
—Moses Frehlich, a Jewish newsdealer of
Philadelphia, who bas for years had a hard
struggle to keep the wolf from the door, has
just received intelligence of the death of his
grandfather in Russia, and that he is the sole
legatee of an estate worth $180,000 in Ameri-
oan money.
—The potato crop in Lancaster county
will be below the average and in some locali-
ties will be almost an entire failure, some
growers not getting as many bushels as they
planted. But in other sections there will be
some good yields. Wesley 8. Weaver, near
Kinzer’'s expects a crop of 1,200 bushels from
six acres.
—There have been six deaths from typhoid
fever in Hastiogs since the epidemic started
several weeks ugo. Miss Margaret Gilliland,
a trained nurse whose former home was
Roaring Springs and who isa graduate of the
Roaring Springs hospital, was taken ill on
Friday with the fever at Hastings where she
is now located.
—One of the richest gas strikes in the field
about Delmont, was brought injon Saturday
morning by the Pittsburg Plate Glass com.
pany on the Hutton farm. When the drillers
tapped the sand the pressure was so great
that tools were blown out of the hole. No
estimate could be ascertained at once as to its
capacity bat the well is a corker.
—During an electric storm in Schuylkill
county, on Saturday, a lightning bolt fol-
lowed the steel rails or an electric wire into
A tunnel, 1,300 feet into the monutain side at
Valley View in the western part of the coun-
ty, where workmen are engaged conuecting
two collieries of the Philadelphia and Read-
ing Coal and Iron company. A charge of
dynamite was exploded by the bolt and two
men were killed.
—Aun engineering corps of eighteen men
| are stopping with Harry Law at Houtzdale,
| Clearfield connty, snd are employed by the
New York and Chieago Air Line making
survey for that much talked of through main
than foreign wages because American labor |
It is |
line at Sandy Ridge and working their way
{ across the mountains at that place and thence
down to Sunbury, the point of their desting.
| tion. This is the Ramsey railroad and they
| seem to mean business now.
| —It is estimated that berry pickers, mostly
¢hildren, picked and sold 12.000 quurts of
| blackberries in the vicinity of Irwiu, West.
! moreland county, during the last few weeks.
One firm purchased 8,000 quarts to turn into
blackberry brandy. The berries vever before
| grew in such profusion. The pickers were
mostly children of foreign miners, and their
| earnings added Inrgely to the family income.
| which was running low on account of the
slack work in the mines.
{ =—The Buffalo, Rochester aud Pittsburg
| Railway company, through its attorneys,
{ Thomas H. Murray aud C. H. McCauley,
filed a bill in equity in the prothouotary’s
office against Clearfield county on Wednes-
day, in which they ask that tbe provisions
of the "Two Cent Bate Law” of April 5th,
1907, be declared void in so far as the said
company is concerned, Service was at once
accepted by county solicito? Liveright and
the case was placed upon the list for trial.
—Anna Peeler, the girl who was with Roy
Warner, a former, Mill Hall boy,in the house
at Bradford when he was shot and who re-
ceived two wounds herself, has been held by
the Bradford authorities charged with kill-
ing the young man. When arrested in the
Bradford lockup, where she was held on a
trumped -up charge awaiting the verdict of
the coroner's jury, she showed no signs of
fear and does not appear to be worried about
itin the least. She claims that Warner shot
her and then shot him:elf. She was held
without bail for the grand jury.
There is a considerable difference of
opinion as to the value of Williamsport real
estate between the men who make the assess.
ment for county purposes and the board of
city assessors. In both cases the valuation
is supposed to be based on what the property
ought to bring at a fair public sale, but the
valuation as fixed by the ward assessors for
county purposes is nearly $4,000,000 less than
the valuation placed on the properties by
the city assessors. The total valuation by
the city assessors was nearly $14,000,000,
while the valuation on which county taxes
will be levied is a little more than $10,000,.
000.
—Clell Kissell, of Kissell’'s Springs, West.
moreland county, was strolling along a
mountain stream a few days ago when he
spied a large and beautiful trout in the shal-
low water. He knew it was not the season
to capture trout but the beauty was €o large
and tempting that he whipped out his
revolver and shot it. The trout measured
eighten inches and he carried it to Ligonier
to show to some of his friends. While there
some one made him a good offer and he sold
it. Next some one informed the game war-
den and he was arrested and taken before a
Ligonier justice, where it cost him $49.80—
$10 for shooting a trout, $10 for taking it out
of season, $25 for selling it, and $4.80 for
costs,
—J. V. Thompson and I. W, Semans, of
Uniontown, have closed the sale of 5.9288
acres of coal land in Mosgan and Washington
townships, Greene county, for a reported
consideration of $1,463,000, to men who are
organizing the Emerald Coal company, iu-
cluding Julian Kennedy, of Pittsburg; presi
dent of the Orient Coke company ; R. C.
Crawford, of McKeesport; James Henderson,
of Charleroi, and Resid Kennedy, of Home-
stead. The track adjoins both the Bessemer
Coke company’s holdings and those of the
Pittsburg- Buffalo company, which is estab-
lishing an enormous coal and coke plant at
in forming action.
Mariana, It is announced that plans for
opeuing mines and establishing coke ovens
are well under way.