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Bemoreaic Walden
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings,
Did you get your share of the white meat
yesterday or did some oue else do the oarv-
ing?
—JoBN D. ROCKERFELLER on the wit.
ness stand makes a spectacle very like a
pious old fraud.
—Pity us poor Democrats! Il CARNEGIE
succeeds in having his party filch free trade
from us what will there be left to stand on?
—*“There are more important things than
amassing money,’’ says JOHN D. ROCKER-
FELLER. One of them in his life probably
was dodging subpoena servers.
— After all which is best, the filty cent
dollar that bought one hundeed cents
worth of provisions or the dollar that buys
only twenty-five cente worth of them?
—Labor evidently wasn’s sore at GoM-
PERS lor having tried to elect BRYAN. as
the American Federation has just re-elect-
ed him its president, with only one dissent.
ing voice,
—Mr. BRYAN's declination to goona
jaguar hans while in Mexico makes it look
as if the Tammany tiger bad made him a
litle skeptical as to his prowess with the
family felis. |
~—CARRIE NATION has gone to Europe.
Poor CARRIE! There was only one other
thing she could have done to keep herself
in the public eye and that wae to have lost
her diamonds.
~=It is too bad, but KATHARINE CLEM-
ONS GouLDp will simply have to worry
along on twenty-five thousand a year;
since her husband refuses to worry along
with her any longer.
—Brother JoHN D. will doubtless resent
Mr. CARNEGIE'S becoming a mouth piece
for him. ANDY may be ready to have the
tariff on iron and steel out off, bat JOHN
hasn't said so about oil.
~The record of foot ball fatalities for the
year is thirteen to date, with one handred
and twenty-nine serionsly injured. Any
one of those Central American States can
pull off a good sized war with far less cas-
ualties,
—Why shounldn’t Governor STUART
plan his new Trans-State road so that it
touohes State College. Such a route would
not he devions and it would open a great
state highway to the State's one great in-
stitation of learning.
—Sheriff-elect HURLEY has appointed
Mr. HARRY Goss, of Philipsharg, as his
‘plimedtary t
~Alter all it is rather fortunate that Mr.
BRYAN was not elected else he wonld have
been hlamed with the plague of the mouth
and hoof disease that has gotten hold of
Pennsylvania and New York cattle. Yon
will remember that a certain wise (?) man
pamed SHARPLESS had poor BRYAN book-
ed to pat all the cows dry.
—Your Uncle JosgPH CANNON seems to
be willing to roll over, jump through and
eat out of everybody's hand just now =o that
ke can get back into the Speaker's chair,
but your Uncle JosgPH is so much like the
devil when he got sick and wanted to be
a monk that we fear if he gets back to pre-
siding over the House he will act just like
the devil again.
—Senator CHANDLER, of New Hamp-
shire, believes that when we die our souls
go off to some distant star and are there
reinvested with a new physical body so
that in eternity we may ‘‘see and hear and
have the sense of taste, smell and touch
and perhaps other new and more joyous
senses.” We don't koow what Senator
CHANDLER hopes for in those ‘‘other new
and more joyous senses,”’ hat probably he
bas in mind the thought that there won’s
be any souls reinvested with the ‘‘big
stick” on the star that he is going to, nor
any calling one another liar!
—The Hon. ANDREW CARNEGIE has
come to the conclusion that iron and steel
ought to be pat on the free list. In other
words, now that the Hon. ANDREW has
grown so rich on a protective tariff that he
don’t know what to do with his money he
thinks it is time to ont oat the protection.
It was time, long ago, and everybody
knew that tiie United States Steel Co., the
greatest Trust we have, could scarce longer
be called ‘‘an infant industry,” but wheth-
er it will be done or not remains to be
seen. We fear that the other fellows in
the Trust who haven’s gotten as much as
the Hon. ANDREW well make such a holier
as will completely drown the effect of his
forthcoming article in the Century Maga-
zine.
—The new five dollar gold coin that is be-
ing minted at the Philadelphia mint is the
oradest and most unattractive looking piece
of money that we have ever seen bearing
the stamp of the United States government,
It is a replica of the twenty aud ten issued
last year, with the exception that it bears
the motto “In God We Trust,” and is so
imperfectly esamped as to make it look
more like the brass button on my lady’s
coat than a government coin. It is not
milled at all, consequently the relief of the
Indian head and the eagle that are the only
redeeming features of the larger ooins is
lost entirely in an apparently indiscernible
jumble of feathers, stars and lettering. It
will pass, however, and notwithstanding
our disapproval of is, artistically, we will
receive it on subscription.
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VOL. 58
Let Us Try Our Old System With New
Safe-guards,
The thousands upon thousands of votes
that were lost to distriot and county tiok-
eto, at the recent election, by voters mark-
ing in the equare at the bead of the elect-
oral ticket in place of in the square desig-
pating a straight party tickes, bas pretty
effectually convinced the people of the ne-
cessity of a change in the form of our bal-
lot, or at least some simplification of it.
Four years ago when the same loss of
votes, from the same cause, was noted, it
was explained that the method was new
and that as voters became acquainted with
the ballot they would soon learn to mark
it properly and thas at future elections
there would be no causs of complaint.
Since then we have had four years of ex-
perience and the same old trouble and the
same old complaints are here to wrestle
with.
Surely a people who want to do right,
who mean to do right, can adopt some sys-
tem of voting that will enable the ordinary
citizen to express his choice of candidates
withoat having to go to a voting school to
learn how, or be compelled to rely on some
one else for assistance in voting properly.
Seventeen years ago we had the old vest
pocket system of voting. No one lost his
vote then nor did we bave to have aid or
assistance to show the many how to cast
their ballots. It was a simple system, a
system that enabled any one to vote for
whom he desired without instruction, ma-
nipulation or the oversight of either the
onrious or the interested.
Since that change after change in the bal-
lot has been made, and with each change
greater complications have been added, un-
til now only the practical politician is ab-
solutely certain that he knows just how the
right warking should be done. The most
intelligent oitizen casts his ballot with
doubt as to its being counted. The ordi-
nary man who dislikes to ask assistance re-
fuses to attend the election. The ‘‘float-
er’ finds good excuse for demanding the
aid of the ‘‘briber,"” who wants to see that
votes as he is paid to do and taken
‘we doabt if a more complicated,
int at ptiasd jindubrtbe ik
What we shonld have is an inexpensive,
simple and secret method of voting. One
that will allow any qualified citizen to cast
his ballot without aid and in entire secre-
oy, and this, a return to the vest-pooket
ballot, with proper safe-guards about the
voter while depositing his ballot, would
bring. A continuation of the eleciion
booth, which each voter woald be required
to enter, place his ticket in an envelope
and deposit itin the ballot box, unseen by
any one after entering the election room,
would simplily voting amazingly. It
would do away with all excuse for assist.
ance, because the voter would have the
opportunity of preparing his ballot before
coming to the election.
It would prevent ball-dozing by employ-
ers or bosses, hecaase they would be given
no opportunity to know what ballot their
employee placed in his envelope.
It would end the bribery of voters he-
cause the briber would have no means of
ascertaining if he was getting the ballot
deposited that he had paid for.
It would end the excnse that corrupt
election boards make for throwing out or
refusing to count ballots on the ground of
imperfeos marking.
In fact, it wonid end so many aud so
much of the wrongs now justly complained
ol in our voting system, that it seems to us
that the individual or the law maker who
would refase to go back to our former sys-
tem, with the safeguards added that we
have mentioned, don’t want either a sim-
ple and satisfactory method of voting, or
a lair and honest election.
The Greater of Evils,
The information which comes from Hot
Springs in regard to the purposes of the
President-elect with respect to the organiza-
tion of the Sixty-second Congress are con-
flioting. It has been alleged that Mr. TAFT
will intervene to prevent the re-election of
Speaker CANNON on ona band and asserted
with equal positiveness that he will not
interfere on the other. The latest reports,
however, indicate shat the moral influence
of the incoming administration will he
agaioat the Speaker. Representative Bur.
TON, of Ohio, had a prolonged conference
with Mr. TAFT the other day and states
that ‘the hig man’’ will tolerate no ob-
straction to legislation after his inaugura-
tion,
Of course the inference to he drawn from
that is that the new administration will
be hostile to the re election of CANNON,
The Speaker represents what President
ROOSEVELT anathematizes as the “‘re-
actionary element’’ of the party. The re-
form iegislation which ROOSEVELT has so
harmlessly insisted upon during she last
two sessions of Congress is inimical to the
interests of those who are behind CANNON
and all the obstructions that have been put
in the way of their passage are the work of
CANNON. In a speech delivered during
the campaign, and as yet uncontradicted,
Mr. CANNON declared that be was acting
in the matter at the request of ROOSEVELT,
and probably he was. Bat il TAFT wants
no obstructions during his administration,
he will necessarily defeat or discipline the
Speaker.
Every American citizen who favors just
government and opposes special privileges
will hope for the defeat of JosePH G. CAN-
NON for the speakership of the Sixty second
Congress. He has been the enemy of pro-
gress, the shelter of corruption and the
champion of corporate greed in the legisla-
tion of the country for many years. He
has prevented the consideration of just and
needed measures for no other reason than
that the predatory interests of which be
was acd is the servile instrument, opposed
such legislation. Bust we doubt the ex-
pediency of executive interference in the
organization of Congress even for the
achievement of so desirable a result. The
fundamental law of the land forbids the
encroachment upon one department of the
government by the other and when the
President projects himself into a fight for
the speakership of the House he is violat-
ing his oath of office and the fundamental
law of the country.
We bad hoped that when the present
victim of brain storm vacated the office of
President his successor would have decent
respects for the obligations of law and that
the administration of the government would
be restored to the lines honored by the preo-
edents of a century. Batil TAFT pursues
the unconstitutional methods of RoosE-
VELT, this expectation will be disappointed
and great as the evil of the re-election of
CANNON would he that wonld be more
dangerous.
The Sign of A Small Man,
It is not that anybody cares particularly
what his opinions are, or what his purposes
may be, State Treasurer SHEATZ is adding
nothing to his reputation as a man or to
the digoity of his office by his continuous
aud dirty insinuations about the manage-
ment of the State Treasury by his pred:
eoessor, the Hon. Wn. H. BERRY. Ever
since he assumed she duties of that office,
ti pa ait
hoa y ps
insinnations attempt to leave the impres-
sions that he alone was entitled to the
credit of abolishing methods and reforming
systems that bad brought disrepute upon the
department. He has gone so far as to claim
credit, through the newspaper press, for
nearly every reform inaugurated in that
office, whether it was in systematizing the
manner of keeping the accounts, she col-
lections and settlements of corporation
taxes, the prompt payment of the school
fand or the care taken to know thas bonds,
held for the guarantee of State depcsits, are
good and sofficient. And in each of his
claims for having done his daty the little-
ness of the man would crop out in the in-
sinaation that the State was having better
service under him than had ever been
known in the Treasury department.
When it is stated that since Mr. SHEATZ
has taken charge of that office not a single
reform, additional to those inaugurated
or enforced by Mr. BERRY, has been made
in its methods or management, the little-
ness and gall of the man in claiming that
all the reforms that have taken place are to
be credited to him will be understood and
appreciated. No one wants to detract a
particle from any good work that he may
be doing, but when he is advertising his
own astions it would be much more manly
in him todo it without attempting to cast re-
flectiona upon his predecessor, whose record
for carefunlness and efficiency has never been
questioned by even his bitterest enemies.
‘We recall two of his numerous instances
of glorifying himself and at the same time
reflecting upon bis predecessor. Last sum-
mer when closing up the business of pay-
ing out the money due to the various school
distriots of the State, it was loudly berald-
ed, as the only time in the history of the
Treasury, that such promptness had been
shown. It was Mr. BERRY that inaugurat-
ed that reform and enforced it during both
years of his terms. Mr. SHEATZ in mak-
ing these payments promptly was only fol-
lowing the example thas had been given
by his Democratic predecessor. A lew
weeks ago when the wreckage of a Pitts
burg bank threatened to lose to the State
a hall million dollars of its money, that a
Republican hoard of Treasury managers
had placed on deposit in is, Mr. SHEATZ
barriedly got into print to assure the pub-
lic that if any loss was sustained by the
State it would be due to Mr. BERRY'S
manipulation of the guarantee bonds, al-
though these bad heen accepted by Mr.
SHEATZ six months previous and held by
him all that time as entirely safficient se-
curity for the amount at atake.
It is little thiogs like these that show
the calibre of some people.
—A new counterfeit five dollar bill is in
circulation. Itisan Indian head silver
certifivate and if you notice that the In-
dian’s eyes are orossed cross your fingers
and don’t take the bill.
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
The Why eof It with Mr. Curnegte.|
NOVEMBER 27, 1908.
Mr. CARNEGIE bas evidently grown
tired of doling out organs to impecunious
churches and libraries to communities that
are willing to tax themselves to maintain
these evidences of his muchly advertised
generosities. He bas doubtless sickened of
the labor of distributing other people’s
money and concluded that henceforth he
will rest frow these labors. For after all,
the money he has given to she public was
taken from the people and he wakens up
at this late day to discover that holding his
bage under the hopper of the tariff mills
brings more duties aud more trials thao the
mere lugging away the loot that runs into
them.
Through the operations of a protective
tariff he has grown rich beyond the dreams
of avarice. Its coutivuation is the oon-
tinuation and increase of his immense for-
tune and now when the question of
how to care for,or what to do with, this great
wealth confronts him he sensibly awakens
to the fact that American manufacturers
have no farther need for protection and
that a revision of the tariff should be made
ss quickly as possible that will reduce is
to a revenue basis alone. In his argument
for a reduction of duties he states explicitly,
that with conditions as they now are in this
country our manufacturers can profitably
compete in any line with the productions
of any country oo the globe, and conse-
quently to continue tariff taxation for the
purpose of protection is simply taxing the
consumers of the coontry to swell the
profits of the favored few.
Others have seen and known this simple
truth for years. Itisa knowledge of this
fact that bas given the impetus and
strength to the demand for tariff reduction
which kas taken such bold upon the
entire country. It is the recognition of
this trath on the part of thinking Republi-
caus thas has split that party into ‘‘stand-
patters’’ and ‘‘reactionaries’’ and threatens
to continue that split until itis beyond
the bope of future barmony.
What effect Mr. CARNEGIE’S action and
advice may bave upon the law makers of
his party woald be difficult to forecast.
Bat, why that gentleman, after the many
Aciary of the protection that he mow de-
olares unnecessary and consequently wrong,
has taken the trouble to publicly demand
its reduction might be easier to guess.
It is not that Mr. CARNEGIE'S con-
science troubles him for he gives no intima-
tion that even a cent of the people's money
that “‘protection’’ has taken from them and
given to him will be returned. It is not
that be finds fault with the policy of the
party that be defends and will continue its
protective system, for his contribution of
$25 000 to its recent campaign fund is evi.
dence of thas, nor is it because of the
wrongs and falacies of the principle, for he
finds nothing to condemn therein.
What then can be the cause of his sud-
den and surprising awakening to the need-
lessness of protection other than that he is
surfeited with the immense wealth it has
brought him—weighed down with the loads
of money he can neither use nor enjoy, and
that he seeks relief from the accumulating
troubles that the distribution of his vast
and continuously incredsing fortune im-
poses.
Aud what a commentary is this, his con-
dition, upon a governmental policy that has
made such a thing possible? Whas an
illustration of the wrongs and the robbery
of the protective system. Tens of thous-
ands of honest laborers in this country who
have heen compelled to pay tariff taxes for
years upon years are wondering today
where their next meal is to come from.
Tens of thonsands of others from whom the
same iniquitous taxes have been wrung,
are being fed at public soup houses or
kept in the charity homes that are more
numerous and bave multiplied faster than
our “‘protected’’ industries.
Could a graver lesson on the iniguities
of the tariff be furnished ?
—— Pennsylvania Day at State College
has certainly given a forward impulse to
the uplift which is daily making iteelf
more manifest about that splendid institu
tion, in that it demonstrated ‘hat the
whole people of the State are behind it
with active interest and gocd wishes be-
cause of its recognized value and import.
ance to the common people. The presence
of so large a namber of the Senators and
Members-elect of the General Assembly,
and their abounding and uunetinted praise
for the institution and its great work, was
a most interesting feature of the day.
These Legislators were greatly impressed
with the equipment of buildings and ap-
pliances which they found there, and much
more 80 by the personnel of the really great
instructing force and officers, and the
splendid array of stalwart, mature, manly
students and their work in the practicums
and on the drill ground. Avnd they were
outspoken in their assurance of a more lib-
eral polioy than hae obtained heretofore in
its financial support which the State as-
sumed nearly a half century ago.
NO. 47.
Carnegie Would Cat Tariff
Claims “Infant Industries’ Ne Longer need Pro-
tection. Says Steel and Oil Duties Should Be
Abolished, and Urges Tariff for Revenue and an
Increase In Taxes on Imported Articles Consum-
ed by the Rich.
From the December Century.
Andrew Carnegie, who built up the steel
trust and amassed a huge fortune under
tive tariff, claims that there is no
onger any need of protecting our one-time
‘‘infans industries’ which have now grown
to lusty maturity ; that doties on maou-
factured articles ought to be greatly reduo-
ed, ve duties on steel and oil al-
toges abolished and ‘‘daties for reve-
pue'’ increased on imported luxuries con
sumed by the rich,
a a a
sap to be a ‘‘dyed-in-the -wool'’ pro-
tectionint, Mr. Carnegie makes in his ar-
ticle, ‘My Experience with and Views Up-
on the Tarif,’ which will appear in the
December issue of the Century Magazine, to
be published November 25th, ia whioh,
alter sketohing the development of Ameri-
can protection and relating inside stories of
tarifl legislation in Congress, he arrays the
facts and arguments which convince him
that she day of tariff for protection in
America is gone, and shat, in general, such
duties shonld be greatly decreased, abolish-
ed in many oases, and duties increased on
im luxuries.
o spite of this radical standpoint Mr.
Sovoesie Hinkel he is still = ugh of 2
on where protection y
needed ) as he ever was, and that he has not
one iota since he has formed a
olear and definite view in regard to protec-
tion. He further states that President Mo-
Kinley was of ‘‘our school of protection-
ists,’’ strong for protection where needed,
‘‘bus equally strong in abolishing the un-
necessary duties.”’ Pointing ous thas the
MoKinley bill, generally considered higb-
protective, really reduced duties on steel
rails, beams, structural shapes, nails, forg-
ings, eto., Mr. Carnegie goes on %0 narrate
the part he himself played in making out
liste reducing iron and steel dasies in con-
neotion with the Wilson and other tariff re-
form bills, and shows how two distinguish-
ed Democratic leaders, Senator Gorman
and Gov. Flower, hel to defeat the
‘revolutionary features’’ of the Wilson
bill aud yet obtained a thorough and judi-
cious reform, redaciog daties on iron and
steel one-third. i
Regarding the present status of the steel
industry, the master of Skibo castle says,
“‘the writer has co-operated in making the
several reductions as steel manufacturers
became ahle to bear reduction. Today
Spawls from this Keystone.
~Machivery is being inatalled for a new
bosigry plant at Birdsboro, Berks county.
—The work of clearing away the debris of
the Williamsport nail mill, destroyed by fire
some time ago, has been begun. The work
of rebuilding will be rushed as fast as possi-
ble.
~Six young men of Hellerton, Northamp-
ton county, passed through a toligate on the
Steinburg pike without stopping to pay the
required six cents toll and the trick cost
them $46.66.
—James T. Ormsly, of Philadelphia, who
is a bartender at a small saloon at Tenih and
Mifflin streets, has become heir to $1,500,000
left him by his cousin of the same nsme who
died in Alaska recently,
—The Bedford Ice and Cold Storage com-
pany was organized by Bedford business men
last Wednesday evening with = capital stock
of $20,000. An application has beea made
for a charter from the State.
—The State constabulary found a lot of
hides, worth $100, stolen from Brown's
slaughter house, near Osceols, on November
6th, buried in the woods mear Philipsburg.
They hope to catch the guilty parties seon.
—Five hundred thousand dollars in gold
are being coined every day at present in the
United States mint at Philadelphia, to meet
the demand which has already set in for the
valuable yellow pieces for Christmas pres-
ents.
—Johun A. Aullenbach, of Reading, treas-
urer of the Socialist party in Pennsylvania,
on Monday filed a statement at the State de-
partment, swearing that the recent cam-
paign expenses of the party in Pennsylvania
were less thao $50.
the United Evangelical church has purchas-
ed a grove of fifty acres at West Milton, Un-
fon county, for campmeeting purposes. A
large tabernacle will be erected and a site
laid out for 150 tents.
~The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company has completed arrangements
for the washing of the culm banks at the
Swatara colliery, near Pottsville, abandoned
twenty-five years ago. It is estimated that
fully 2.000 tone of coal will be thus secured.
—The postoffice at Wernersville, Berks
county, was robbed by thieves sometime dar.
ing Wednesday night of last week, who se
cured $400 in cash and stamps. Suspicion
rests on three strangers who were seen in the
neighborhood the evening previous to the
robbery.
—Chiel Burgess Charles B. Clayton, of
Waynesboro, recently fined himself $5 for
failing to clean the snow from his front pave-
ment within the allotted twenty-four hours.
Fifteen other people, including three minis.
ters, were compelled to fork over for failure
on the same thing.
—Attracted by a dog that had barked at
one place for four hours, several men found
the dead body of Clemence Biggle, aged 20
years, of Reynoldsville, Jefferson county, be.
hind a stump in a woods on Saturday. His
gun had evidently been discharged accident-
ally, causing his death.
—A mammoth saw mill is to be built on
they need no protection, unless ;
sone hew pesialtics unkoown Seen, ‘Hawk's Run, Clearfield county, to cut the
er, hecauee steel is now produced cheap-
er here than anywhere else, notwithatand-
ing the higher wages paid per man. Nota
ton of steel is produced in the world at as
small an outlay for labor as in our own
country,” and from his experience as a
steelmaker, he arrays facts and conditions
that explain the paradox of “‘high wages”
and ‘‘lower cost for labor.”
He is as positive on oil as on steal, and
concludes his apparently enthusiastic dis-
cussion of the protective and retaliatory oil
duty with the statement, ‘The oil produc:
ers, like the steel producers, of our coun-
try, need vo protection from the products
of other lands.”
“My Experience with, and Views Upon
the Tariff’’ most earnestly champions tariff
for revenue, and from Mr. Carnegie’s state-
wents and indorsements of this we quote :
“In conclusion, tariff for protection,
which was the issue fortv years ago, should
now give place to a tariff for revenue, and
therefore the strict ioaintenance of the
present duties upon foreign luxaries, paid
by the rich * * *»
**In the writer's opinion, the revision of
the tariff could today safely and advantag-
eously be made a radical one upon the lines
suggested, but if Congress, in deference to
the timid manufacturer, ‘whom we always
bave with ue,’ thinks it prudent not to dis-
tarb his dreams unduly, and only halves
the present duties upon some articles and
abolishes them entirely upon others, al-
ways provided it guards zealously the pres-
ent daties on laxaries of the rich for reve-
noes, the writer will be thankfal and phil-
osophical as usual, because one step in the
right direction will have been taken, and
he knows the final step must come belore
long —the sooner the better.”’
Characteristically enough, Mr. Carnegie
closes his article with a laurel wreath for
the ‘‘white bird of peace’’ which is more or
less his exclusive property—‘‘for nothi
can keep the republic from speedily dwarf-
ing all other nations industriously if she
only continues to frown upon the great na-
vies and increased armies and continues to
tread the paths of peace, foilowing the tru-
ly American policy of the fathers.”
Where Democratic flecovery Can Begin.
From the Newark Evening Star,
Democratic reorganization means a defi-
nite Democratic policy in national affairs
in barmony with approved Democrasio
principles. Congress will soon weet, and
she Democratic minority, fresh from a
great party defeat, is likely to be demoral-
ized unless steps shall be taken to reform
the party, inspire it with vew resolves and
make its representatives at Washington
feel that they have, indeed, behind them a
great organization of 6,000,000 voters, pre-
pared to do battle again and firm in the as-
sertion of party dootrine. Unity by the
Demooratic minority in Congress at the
comin suision is i ov Hal ue par.
ty reorgan on. 0 pol at
cratic policy should be given recognition
by the minority. If there is incoherence
in Congress among Democrats, where shall
coherence be looked for? If the session is
marked by the vagaries and inconsistencies
ot Detnutiakio members, hay can be ex-
pected of the party generally ? Demoorat-
io party recovery should set in at Washing-
ton next month. Much can be done by
Yue Dp ber) of Congress do re-
vive party t promote or-
gavization. But something is to Re done
by the representative Democrats of the
country in anticipation of the wession of
Congress.
timber on what is known as ‘‘the Forcey
Tract.” The job is estimated as being one
that will last for eight years and Philipsburg
merchants are happy over the prospects of
the business which the new industry will
create,
—The long looked for enlargement of the
Pennsylvania railread shops at Renovo is to
be begun by the erection of a new boiler
shop, which will be constructed of structural
steel and brick, the dimensions to be 280 by
80 feet, and will be equipped with hydraulic
machinery, electric crane and all modern
machinery necessary for a first class boiler
shop.
—Rev. Dr. J. W. Schwartz, pastor of the
Washington charge in Armstrong county, of
the Pittsburg general synod, Luth-
eran church, will soon be honored by the
celebration of his fiftieth anniversary in the
ministry, forty-one years of which he served
as pastor of the Worthington charge. Dar-
ing that period he admitted 993 persons to
church membership.
—Mrs. Oliver Nace, of near Petersville,
Lehigh county, was awakened Saturday
night about midnight by a choking sensation
and discovered her room filled with smoke
and the entire floor below in flames. She
quickly aroused the five members of her
household and all barely escaped by jumping
from the second story windows, arrayed only
in their night clothes.
—The epidemic of foot and mouth disease
continues to spread among the live stock in
the eastern part of the State aud now exe
perta are to be called in to help fight the
plague. These are federal inspectors and
they will make an examination of the differ.
ent farms in the counties in which the affec-
tion has spread. These counties are: Mon.
tour, Nortbumberland, Columbia, Union,
Snyder and Lehigh.
—A big slide of rock occurred suddenly
Tharsday afternoon about three o'clock, at
the California quarries of the PittsburgLime-
stone company, below Tyrone. Thousands
of tons of rock, suddenly released by the
thaw, crashed down without = seconds warn.
ing upon a gang of forty foreign laborers,
who almost miraculously escaped a terrible
death. Two of the men, however, were
caught and slightly injured.
—An epidemic of diphtheria at Muncy has
caused the local officers of the State board of
health to order all the churches closed.
Twenty cases of the disease were reported
last week, and there were as number of
deaths. Acting for the State department the
authorities one night last week, stopped a
moving picture show in the opera house and
ordered the closing of all nickel shows. The
schools have also been closed until further
notice.
—(George F. Kehrig, of Scranton, gives too
much religion as the cause for seeking di-
worce from his wife to whom he was married
seven years ago. He alleges, that so intense
is her zeal in church work that she neglect-
ed her home duties, and that she would
sometimes start out at nine o'clock in the
morning and not retarn until midnight; that
in the meantime he had to prepare his own
meals, and that his endeavors to convince
her that a wife's first duty is to her family
bad been unsuccessful.
—The Central Pennsylvania conference of «
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