Ink Slings.
—Congress is in session. God save the
country !
~—1It turns out that the Holy Rollers of
Kavsas City are realy holy terrors.
~-This is apple week and if you baven’s
eaten at least one apples day the apple
growers of the land will imagine that you
are not doing your duty by them.
—How many of the Centre county farm-
ers who are holding their wheat for a dol-
lar ten or swenty-five will finally have to
take eighty-five or ninety cents for it ?
—8ootoh tavern keepers have been throw-
ing CARRIE NATION out of their establish-
ments with a promptness that indicates
that they are trying to emulate their
American brothers.
~The President's last message to Con-
gress cootaios iwenty thousand words.
They are not all different words, bowever,
bus they are words, all right, and they are
about all there is to is.
—There is yet time before the fourth of
March for the boss trust buster to get alter
that Chicago undertaker's combination
thas sells at two bundred and filty dollars
a casket in whioh there is good profit at
filsy.
—While we bave no sympathy with
“Uncle Jor’ CANNON’S methods as speak-
er of the House we do believe he is right
when he tells the President and the Presi.
dent-elect thas it is the business of Con-
gress to make the laws and pot theirs.
—JouN F. SHEATZ is no more capable of
making the kind of an United States Sena-
tor that Pennsylvania should have than is
any other man of mediocre ability. Ifa
fight is to be made on PENROSE why isn’t
a man of the KNOX type taken up to rally
about.
—The much talked of election bar’)
fen’t in it for a minute with the one
brought into court from Howard Taesday.
It was a very common bar’l at that, bat it
took the judge and jdry, two lawyers and
twenty witnesses most of the day to find
out who stole it.
—The Chicago man who has brought
action for divorce against bis wife because
she insists on baving the alarm olook go off
every morning at five o'clock has our sym-
pathy. Yes, alter all, there must be some-
thing wrong with him else she woanldn’s
want to crawl ont so early.
~The importance of the criminal cases
in comt this wesk was such as to indicate
that certain justices of the peace might
have saved the county considerable ex-
pense, ae well as inured to their own
reputations for good common sense, by re.
fusing to give the litigants law.
—To Mahanoy City, that is contem«
plating closing the bars on Christmas day,
Bellefonte sends greetings and wishes to
assure our sister town that based on our
own experience nothing she could do woald
add more to the real spirit of the day or
prove more generally satisfactory.
—A French army officer has invented eye
glasses which enable the wearer to see on
all sides, as well as in the rear. It might
not be a bad investment for the borough to
purchase ten of them for the ure of our
councilmen and the solicitor daring the
progress of this allabsorbing water proposi-
tion.
—Ohio is gradually voting dry. County
by county the State is excluding the booze.
The result, of course, is problematical. It
is probable that the papers will be giving
more space to ‘‘boot-leggers,” ‘‘speak-
easies’”’ and ‘‘pigeears’” in the Bookeye
State ere long than is now required to tell
of the dry victories.
—RoosevELT is standing pat again on
“my policies.” The election is over, TAFT
is in and TEDDY once more begins to
brandish the *‘big stick.” Fortunately for
the country the days of his bleffiog and
bluster are numbered and after March he
can beat it for Africa with the same God-
speed from ns that CARRIE NATION got
when she left for the other side.
—The Commoner has been busy ever
since the election, and is still buey trying
to explain the mystery of 1908. Of course
you will understand it means the election.
But wby worry about that? It is over
and there doesn’s seem to be much mystery
about it unless is is regarded as such be-
cause Mr. BRYAN didn’t get as many votes
as we would like to have seen bim get.
—The Sunbury Daily celebrated its
thirty-sixth birthday by issuing a special
edition on Monday illustrative and desorip-
tive of its splendid new building and equip-
mens. The Daily and its parent the Demo-
crat and their owner Mr, DEWART are all
to be coogratulated on so splendid an
achievement for with the facilities now at
band there will be improvements along all
lines and what have been heretofore ex-
cellent journals will become even more so.
—]f you are a parent and bave children
remember that the prettiest, sweetest, most
gladsome days of the child’s life are those
ol the Christmas season. Fravght with
the most captivating legendry, fables of
the purest type, and the always sweet story
of the child Christ these are the days that
she little folks lova and the days when
they absorb more of good than at any other
time in their lives. Don't shatter their
Christmas idols. Encourage their beliefs
in them and long after they are grown to
man and womanhood the dearest memories
they will have of you are the ones centered
about the Christmas-tide when their in-
nooent yonng souls were fall of hope and
love inexpressible.
VOL. 53
su
Years and years ago, when the writer
hereof was a bit of a boy ouching his way
barefooted through a etubble-field in the
upper end of the county, he remembers
witnessing the performance resulting from
placing a chestnut burr unders colt’s tail.
1s was the work of a few mischievous school
boys avd farnished an exhibition that will
never be forgotten. Buffalo BiLL's baok-
ing bronchos weren’s in it with thas colt.
His trained ponies and his howling Indiaos,
as a show, was nothing compared to its
antics. How thas little beast, after the
burr gos to work, olapped down its tail,
humped its back, enorted and kicked and
cavorted round, how it laid down and rolled
and got up and kicked again and then run
and kicked and rolled, and with its back
humped higher and ite tail hugged closer
kept on ranuing and rolling and kicking
until it was eo played out that it didn’t
know whether is was a oolt, or a mule, or
what is wae, can never be described. And
all the time it kept hugging that jaggiog
barr as if is was sometbing it didn’t want
to ges rid of.
A few days later a second trial brought
a repetition of the first day’s exhibition.
At the third trial, about one week follow-
ing, the ools bad gotten onto the job and
when cornered and caught and the jaggery
old barr put in place 1t simply relaxed the
muscles of its tail and down she burr drop-
ped. Try as the boys might it was im-
possible to get that colt to hug that burr
or kick again. So far as that particular
animal was concerned that kind of lon was
ended.
Bus you will ask what had that
to do with anything that is goivg on to-
day ? Nothing, only that it was called to
mind by the excitement, the foss and the
agitation, caused by the foo! announcement
of a few days ago, that BRYAN would
probably be a candidate again in 1912,
among a certain lot of people and papers
that have been cavorting round and kicking
in the political field so long that they, or
no one else, know il they are Demoorate
or not,
For years they have been hugging their
prejudices against, and their dislikes of,
Mr. BRYAN oloser and closer, and have
kept on kicking whenever hie name was
mentioned, Hédnti¥e they always had these
causes with shem. Unlike the colt they
"have never, in the twelve years these polit.
ical burrs have been irritating them, learn
ed that relief will only come when they
are dropped. Let them relax their hatred,
their mistrost and their prejudioe in this
matter, just a little, and see how quickly
they will discover that shere is nothing to
kiok about. That even this report of the
probability of Mr. BRYAN'S candidacy was
started only to put them off again and to
secure a repetition of the political antics
that have so amused and gratified the Re-
publican party for the past twelve years.
Mr. BRYAN will not be a candidate in
1912, nor would he stand a ghost of a
show for the nomination if he should be.
Both he and the Democratic people have
too much sense for that, hence the folly of
going into hysterics,as some people are try-
ing to do,over an unauthorized report of an
unauthenticated interview.
A Bullion a Year,
There was a time when the proposal to
pase an appropriation bill of over one bil
lion of dollars, to pay the expenses of the
government for but a single year, would
have caused such an upheaval and an up-
roar that the party proposing it would at
least ‘‘sit up and take votice.”” Such does
dot seem to be the case now. Congress met
ou Monday, and the only work it is exp-ot-
ed to do during the three months it wil. be
in session will be to appropriate mousy 0
meet the enormous demands now mads
upon the Treasury. The lowest estimate
of these aggregate over one billion of dol-
lars, or more than eleven dollars for every
man, woman and child, including negroes,
Indians, foreigners and inhabitants of
every kind.
It is doubtfnl if one man in ten realizes
the enormity of taxation that this amount
of expenditure entails upon the people. It
is certain that but few understand how
they are robbed and impoverished to far-
pish means to meet the extravagant public
expenditures now prevalent. The system
of raising money for governmental outlays,
is a ‘‘shut your eye’ system. It is on the
principle of “‘what you don’t know don’t
hurt you,”’—and if you don’t realize that
you are being robbed, there will be vo ex-
ouse for making a fues about it.
Bus whether they don’t feel it or don’t
realize it, every cent of the billion dollars
that Congress will appropriate comes ont of
the pookete of the people. They pay it in
the additional price that tariff duties add
to the necessaries they muss bave, and to
the luxuries that some indulge in. Itisa
shrewd way of preventing the people from
knowing what the government is costing
them. It is a slick method of shutting the
eyes of the masses to the enormons cost of
maintaining the government, aod a highly
satisfactory way of robbing the public
Ne
BELLEFONTE. TA
"STATE RIG
without its knowing that a wrong is being
done. [It is specially caloulated to prevent
inquiries as to the need of such extrava-
gaus outlays as we are now experiencing
in every department of the government,
and is one of the greatest sale-guards that
the public thief and a rotten and reckless
administration can bave.
How, or when, or if ever a change will
be made is past telling, and all that we
poor mortals, who boast so loudly and
sing so earnestly about the blessings of this
land of the free and home of the oppressed,
can do about it is to remember that under
the blessed rule of the Republican party it
is costing each man, and woman and child
among us, over eleven dollars a year, when
fourteen years ago the per-capita expense
was less than five dollars,
That, however, was a time when a Dem-
ocrat occupied the presidential chair, and
a Demooratic Congress allotted the money
that could be expended for the upkeep of
public officials, and the mavagement of
publio affairs.
——Have you paid for your WATCH-
MAN? If you haven’t done it don’t you
think you would like to. The post-office
authorities tell us we dare not jend the
paper to you if you don’s. We don’t want
to stop it, but yon see we cau’t help our-
selves.
Mr. Gailty Only Will Object.
Taesday's news dispatobes indicateSthas
the Democrats in Congress purpose de-
manding ao investigation of the charges
made daring the campaign, relative to the
$40,000,000 paid by the government for
what was alleged to be Frenoh claims against
the Panama canal. Reputable newspapers
charged thas of the amount less than one-
half went to actual claimants and that the
larger balance, or over $20,000,000, was
divvied up among a syndicate of Republi.
can politicians, of which President ROOSE-
VELT'S brother in-law was one, and Presi-
dens-elest TAFT's brother . was another
member. These same papers specified the
amounts that went to different persons and
added, that after the facts became known
and were made public, that all documenta-
ry evidence tending to prove or disprove
the truth of she charges bad heen remov-
ad from the departments in which they
were first filed or taken away and destroy-
ed.
There ought not, and we imagine will
not be any trouble in securing an investi
gating committee in a matter like this.
One would think that he President and
she Presidentsclect would both demand it,
at once. At least av ordinarly houest man
would, and in addition would lose no time
in compelling a full retraction of the scan-
dalons story, or proceed to secure justice
by bringing a suit for libel against the
originator and circulater of it.
And there wili be no difficulty in trao-
ing the sources from which these state-
ments were first furnished she public. They
came from a most reputable journal—the
Ivdianapolis News —published as the home
ol, and said to be partially owned and
largely controlled by Vice President FAIR-
BANKS.
During the campaign no attention what
ever on the part of those implicated was
given these charges. When Mr. Roosk-
VELT was asked wisi he had to say about
them he shut up likea clam. When Mr.
TAFT was requested for a statement re-
garding them, he refused to open his
mouth. Now Mr. ROOSEVELT comes out
in a letter to “Dear DUDLEY," denoune-
ing as liars everybody and every paper that
repeated the story, and branding them ae
more untrathful than was old Ananias and
more dangerous to the country than the
unwashed and uvshaven Anarchist. But
be don’t say a word ahout an investigation,
nor promise any proof as to the lalsity of
these obarges.
If they are untrue he will want an inves.
tigation and there will be no trouble for
the Democratic Congressmen to secure one.
It they are true, then the public can ex-
pect that opposition to an inquiry, wheth-
er open or covert, will come from both Mr.
RoosEVELT and Mr. TAFT, and particular-
ly from Representatives in Congress who
are the personal friends of the outgoing
and the incoming President.
No other view can be taken of this mat-
ter and we will all be wiser when it gets
farther along.
—Centre connty had its second snow
of the season on Sunday night when be-
tween three and four inchea of snow fell.
Towards morning the weather moderated
aud instead of snow it rained, readering
the pavements very disagreeable for travel
on Monday morning. By evening of the
same day it was twenty degrees colder and
everything frozen up, and the next day it
was clear and cold.
~———This is the last week for fling ap-
plications for liquor licenses in Centre
county and the list filed numbers Shirty-
seven, the same number as last year. The
date for holding license court will be Sat- | go
urday, December 19th.
HTS AND FEDER
.» DECEMBER 11, 190
AL UNION.
Won't Stand the Comparison.
Some of our contemporaries that are in
the babis of bailing the flag and glorifying
the government (because it is controlled
by Republican politicians) as the only hon-
est governments on God’s green globe are
now pointing to Venezaela as an example
of how other people are robbers, and what
the tax-payers of other countries are com-
pelled to submis to.
Down in that country they bave had a
bad streak with their Presidents of late
years. President CASTRO bas just lefs for
Eurcpe ostensibly to receive medical treat-
meas, but in reality to enjoy the sixty
millions of loot be was able to accumulate
while filling his high office, as well as to
avoid the possibility of paying is back or
being shot. His immediate predecessor
got away with twenty-five millions, and
the fellow who occupied the place prior to
him was satisfied to quit and leave when
he got twenty millions.
These are the horrible examples present-
ed tous! They aggregate ninety-five mil-
lions stolen during their administrations.
Bat how about ourselves? It may not
be our Presidents who get away with the
not in this country but there is no deny-
ing the fact tbat their friends and their
sapportérs who put up the millions that
buy their election, do. Daring the pres-
ent administration, in a single transaction
down in Panama, forty milligns disappear-
ed, and no one knows what for or who got
it. Under forms of law enacted for she
special henefit of those who contribute for
campaign purposes, millions are collected
daily and pocketed by the favored few.
Only two years ago eight millions of mon-
ey belonging to the tax-payers of Pennsyl-
vania was taken from the treasury and dis-
tributed among a gang who claim to be the
bosses, or the backers of the bosees, who
control and manage the affairs of she State.
And every day she stealing and the grafs-
ing goes on, mot only about Washington,
and under our national administrations,
bat in every State and in every munioipal-
ity iu the entire country until it bas reach-
ed such an extent that when we come to
compare the ninety-five millions, stolen
from the Venezuelans during three of their
administrations, with what our people are
robbed of yearly by its Republican meth-
is fu size about like an oyster orack-
er would be beside a ten-cent loal.
And then you will observe that official
thieves leave Venezuela. They bave to or
are hung.
Here it is different. Oar people are rob-
bed of ten millions to every million the
Venezaelans are, and not a one of the
rascals who do it are either driven from
the country, punished by the courts or get
the bounce. Most of them are re-elected
and encouraged to continue in the ssme old
way.
Are we better than the Veonezuelans be-
cause we continue our thieves in office ?
Or would it be more to our credit if pub.
lic sentiment were such that it would de-
mand their panishmens, or drive them
from the country, as it does down there.
The President's Message,
President ROOSEVELT'S annual messages
are very much like annual jokes. At firs
they were interesting on account of their
unconvensionality. All previous Presi-
dents had followed certain fairiy well
beaten paths and in grave and sober lan-
goage detailed the operations of the gov-
ernment in all directions, suggesting ove
improvement here and another chaoge
there. Bat ROOSEVELT adopted a different
course. He rushed into the matter like a
foot ball team hits the lineand we own
that while it was novel it seemed interest.
ing. This year, however, he is neither
interesting nor amusing. He is simply
tedious and tiresome.
ROOSEVELT recognizes no incident in
the history of the country that ococurred
previous to that sad tragedy which elevated
him to an office he was unfit to fill. “The
financial management of the nation’s in-
terest by the government during the last
seven years,” he remarks at the outcast
“‘has shown the most satisfactory results.”
The financial management of the country
during that period bas revealed a measure
of imbecility that would bave been dis-
graceful it it bad not been worse. But
submerged in his insane vanity ROOSEVELT
doesu’s know but thas it was admirable
and probably imagines that the industrial
paralysis and commercial distress of the
past year is an evidence of wise administra-
tion.
President ROOSEVELT would ‘make the
national government supreme over all rail-
roads and other instruments of interestate
commerce,” he informs us in the message.
In fact he would completely subvert the
government ‘‘of the people, for the people
and by the people,’’ and put in its place an
oi y, sometimes as wild as a tornado
as unstable as hie own storm-tossed
brain, His message contain nothing that
is informing and no thought that is endur-
ing. Asa matter of fact it is of no value
greth ur go far as it may serve to admon-
ist se people the election of a man
ow Pretidency who hae no weotal or
908.
NO. 49.
“ie and God."
Rear Admiral J B. Coghlan, whose
satirical verses ieph der Kaiser” set the
whole conntry laughing several years ago
and aroused such feeling am: German
officiale that is toreatened to an
international incident, died suddenly on
the 5th at New Roobelle, N.Y., aged 64
years. The following are the verses that
caused the world to roar, and made Ger-
many so mad.
Der Kaiser von Jes fatherland,
Und Gott und 1 all dings commands.
We two—ach! Don't you understand ?
Meinself—und Gott.
Vile some men sing der bower divine,
Mein Soldiers sing “Der Wacht am Rhein,”
Und drink der health in Rheinish wine,
Of me—und Gott.
Der's France, she swaggers all areundt ;
She's sugespieldt—she's no aggonndt ;
To much we think she don't amoundt,
Meinself—-und Gott.
She will not dare to fight again,
But if she should, I'll show her blain
Dot Elsass und (in French) Lorraine
Are mein—und Gott,
Der's grandma, dink's she's nicht small beer,
Midt Boers und such she interfere ;
She'll learn none owns dis hemisphere
Bul me—und Gott.
She dinks—good frau—from ships she's got
Und soldiers midt her scarlet goats, '
Ach! We could knoch dem, pouf! Like dot
Meinself—und Gott,
In dimes for peace brebare for wars,
1 bear der helm and spear Von Mars,
Und care not for den tousant czars,
Meinself mit Gott.
In fact, I humor efray whim
Mit aspect dark und visege grim,
Gott pulls mit me and I mit Him,
Meinsel(—und Gott.
A Minority’s Power,
From the Pittsburg Post.
Everybody probably has heard of the
stubborn juryman, who stood out against
his eleven colleagues until one by one,
they came to his understanding ol the case
and rendered a unanimous verdios, accord-
ing to his judgment. Il the truth were
known, that occurrence is more apt to be
the rule than the exception. And it may
be accepted as a token of the power of a
minority. Not thas it is stubborness alone
that wins the battle. Quite frequently,
perhaps oftener, the minority is right and
the majority is not.
Isis nos supposed for ove little instant
that the minority in the House of Repre-
sentatives can be compared to the stubborn
juror, nor shat, under existing ociroamstan-
ces, i$ could obtain the results
to him. Nev De
minority in the House would do well to
keep the comparison in mind against that
time when it shall not be a minority.
Much can be accomplished through unity
of action on their part, by fidelity to the
principles they represent ; in short, by
comporting themselves as though they
were not outnumbered by the enemy.
Coogressman Clark, on his election to the
leadership, made clear to his colieagues
what might be expeoted of them during
the forthcoming session. In effect, it
spelled ‘‘unity,’’ all in capital letters.
Let the minority not forget that it repre-
sents a great political party. May it and
its leaders be found always working in con-
junction and with perfect barmony for the
best in terests of the whole people.
Milked But Don't Know It.
From the New York San, Dec. 5.
The Hon. Edgar Dean Crumpacker, Rep-
resentative in Congress from Tenth Indiana
Distriot and a member of the Ways and
Means Committee, is a protectionist of the
right kind. On Thursday be listened at-
tentively to a witness who described from
his own knowledge the shifts and tricks of
some in the wool trade that put
cotton and sizing ob the backs of those in-
nocents who ask and pay for woolen
clothes. The story of petty fraud moved
Mr. Crumpacker. He asked :
“What's the difference if they (the
buyers of fake woolen goods) don’t know?”
Here is the unanswerable argument I
the high degree Scmetimes
‘the forzigner pays the tax.” Sometimes
an “infant indostry’’ needs pap. Some-
times a trade asking no favors bas them
forced on it that the contrast with others
may not be too glaring. But at the bottom
of all the srae philosophy of the ve
dootorine is: ‘‘What's the difference it
they don’t knew ?”’ Under hanners bearing
this inspiring motto she milking of con-
sumers is carried on joyously and with
great profit to the milkers ; nor will it be
abandoned or moderated until its victims
give positive and unequivocal evidence
that they do know and are determined thas
their exploitation shall cease.
Will Get Better Clothes.
From the Jonnstown Democrat.
The tariff committee has announced a
farther continuance of its hearings. There
is no telling just what kind of a tariff bill
will be ted, much less what kind of
a bill will be passed after it has heen de-
bated and amended, but there is strong
hope among tariff reformers thas there will
be large additions to the free list in the
way of raw material, such as wool, hides,
lamber and coal. Itis well known that
we cannot have the best woolen fabrics
made in this country the finest
fleeces of Australia and th America go
to she looms of England and Germany and
France, while American manfactarers, on
account of high tariff, are obliged to eke
out their scansy supply of wool with cot-
ton and shoddy. :
——The Manufacturer’s Outlet Clothing
company in the Bush Arcade are now of-
fering clothing at big out holiday prices.
Some of the biggest bargains ever heard of
are shown at this store. See their prices as
advertised on the sixth page of today’s
paper then go and see what they bave to
offer therefore.
Spawls from the Keystone.
~There were twenty-eight cases of diph-
theria in Latrobe during November.
—At Harrisburg State Dairy and Food
Commissioner Foust announces that all Phil-
adelphia firms engaged in the oleo traffic
will be prosecuted.
—Somerset has practically been accepted
as the site of the next encampment of the
Second brigade of the National Guard, says
the Somerset Herald.
~-Fifteen brakemen ou the Beech Creek
were ordered to report at Williamgport this
week to take examination for promotion to
positions as conductors,
~William 8. Ober, of Somerset county, an
operator on the Baltimore and Ohio line, has
Just returned from an 8,000 mile trip through
twenty-two states of the union.
~—Fresh laid Berks county eggs are a
scarcity in the Reading markets and the
farmers have raised them to 45 cents a dozen.
Cold storage egus are selling at 30 cents,
~—There is a bad outbreak of hog cholera
near Eagle's Mere. State veterinarians, oa
the lookout for aphthous fever, discovered
the disease and took measures to prevent its
spread,
—Taxidermist Eldon, of Williamsport, has
a busy season ahead of bim, having to date
the heads of 118 deer tc mount and fifty bear
skins to dress, with a prospect of more of
each kind
~—Hastings, which has been scourged with
typhoid fever, has secured a fine never-fail-
ing supply of water from a well 540 feet
deep. A remarkable fact in connection with
the well is that it is soft water.
—A case of aphthous fever was discovered
on the farm of Clarence Winters, a dairy-
man, vear Newberry, Williamsport. The
disease is traced toa Buffalo shipment. Other
new cases have been discovered in Clinton
county.
~The Methodist Episcopal chareh at Mun-.
son, Clearfield county, of which Rev. C. H.
Campbell is pastor, is having a wonderful
revival meeting. Seventy-eight were added
to the church in one day, and the interest is
unabated.
—In the fall Pottstown residents became
frightened over the fear of potato rot and
paid $1 per bushel for the tubers. Now
hundreds of bushels of good potatoes are be-
ing shipped in and are being sold at seventy-
five cents per bushel.
—Judge Kooser, of Somerset county, in a
recent decision takes the ground that a wom-
an may not be prosecuted for an act of as-
sault and battery committed in the presence
of her husband. The husband is responsible
for what his wife does in his presence.
—Recently a conference was held by the
members of the council of Mechanicsburg
and officials of the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road company, and it is now asserted that a
freight line will be built from the west shore
of the Susquebanuna through Mechanicsburg.
—Farmers in Berks county who have been
ploughing report that they have found
worms, beetles, toads, grasshoppers and
snakes, which they say forecasts a mild
winter; because when there is a severe
winter approaching these all go deeper into
the earth.
—William Weaver recently shot a gray
| eagle in Hare’s valley, hear Huntingdon,
which measured 85} inches from tip to tip of
wings. The bird bad swooped down upon a
chicken which it had caught under a fence
and was chewing the chicken's leg when
shot. It had deveured the leg up to the
body.
~Miss Dahl Allen, aged 21 years, of Lew-
istown, a former companion of Nan Patter-
son, the actress, is in West Penn hospital,
Pittsburg, bravely fighting for her life after
an attempt te klil herself recently. A bullet
perforated her intestines in seven places and
her recovory will break records in surgery.
She probably will live.
~An excitement was raised in Clearfield
last week by the supposed discovery of
trachoma, the contagious Russian eye disease,
among the school children. Dr. C. M. Hos-
ner, a Philadelphia specialist, examined a
large number of children aud pronounced
the disease conjunctivitis, a disease resemb-
ling trachoma, but neither contagious nor
dangerous. ’
—Ju the Washington county courts there
is a case on trial which includes a claim for
damages by Robert Ashmer against the
Southwestern Pipe Line company for the
loss of eighty-one hogs which, it is alleged,
died from drinking oil that leaked from the
pipes of the defendant company. The de-
fense is that well behaved hogs will not
drink oil and that the drove died from other
causes.
~The usual thing has come to light in
Berks county. There are now 500 cases of
typhoid fever in Reading and the state au.
thorities have turned their attention to the
waters of Maiden Creek. Despire fall efforts
a number of the rural residents continue to
pollute the stream and give asa reason that
that they have always allowed their drain-
age to go into the creek and do not propose
to be interrupted in the practice now. If
this charge be true it is time the state board
of health gets real busy.
~The state armory board will ask the
state legislature to appropriate $900,000 for
the building of armories throughout the
state, considering that this amount is neces-
sary because of the numerous demands for
such buildings which have come from almost
every county in the commonwealth. Among
the towns for which armory propositions are
now pending are Doylestown, which is in
the hands of the First brigade committee;
Altoona, Hollidaysburg. Johnstown, Sun-
bury, Lancaster, York, Pottsville, Allentown
and Warren.
~The Chestnut Hill Coal company ina
unique suit obtained a verdict Thursday
against the Pennsylvania Railroad company
for $13,937.66 damages for not placing a sid-
ing at its mines in Gulich township, Clear-
fleld county, in the big anthracite coal strike
of several years ago. The mining company
brought this suit for $100,000, alleging dis-
crimination when the railioad company vas
farnishing sidings to other mines in the
same territory. They alleged ithat they suf
fered great loss because they could not mine
and market their coal. The plaintiff bas
filed a motion asking the court to enter
judgment for triple damages under the law,
and this motion will be argued this week.