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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—By the way ! Has anyone heard any-
thing of one SAMUEL PENNYPACKER
lately ?
~—In New York the courts bave ruled
that eighty cents is all that can be charged
for gas. In Bellefonte! Well—.
—CHARLES DICKENS left an estate of
four hundred thousand dollars which goes
to prove that MicAwBER couldn’t have
been the favorite of his character creations.
—Mrs. CLAYT ERB wrote that ‘‘if it
wasn’ for fear of hell I would kill mysell,”’
bat her sister didn’s give Crayr much
time to relieve any fears of the same place
he might have bad.
—The old gaog is in the saddle again,
sure enoagh, and what the Country Mem-
bers get at Harrisburg daring thie session
of the Legislature will be what the Phila-
delphia and Pittsburg Members don’t
want.
—Dr. W. E. EVEREIT, government
geologist, who is just now investigating the
causes and probable fields of earthquakes,
makes unwelcome announcement that the
Atlantic coast States are in for a shaking
up some of these days. He basn’t set any
time for the upheaval, but it might ocoar
about the tiroe TEDDY gets home from
Africa.
—Out in Illinois the Legislators are wad
as hop toads because they think the Gov-
ernor is getting too bossy. A fanny sitna-
tion it must appear to be to Pennsylvanians.
Governors don’t nsurp any such powers in
this good old Commonwealth. They are
held in trast for the political heirs of the
late M. 8S. Q. and Mr. PENROSE has just
been reappointed trustee.
—Wouldn't it be a wise plan for the
Bellefonte school board to make Mr. J. E.
WAGNER the acting supervising principal
until June and let it stand at that. If he
bas the qualifications for it Mr. WAGNER
is certainly entitled to the position and
such a plan would give him the opportu-
nity of showing without committing the
board or embarrassing Mr. WAGKER.
—A portion of the Bellefonte fire depart.
ment hastened to the aid of burning
Millheim, but before they arrived on the
soere with an eugine the fire had burned
about everything in ite path. The fact
that our firemen rendered no great service
is not the question. The fact that they
were ready and eager to go is what should
be remembered when the incident is dis-
cussed.
~—It just took Jim McNICHOL about five
minntes to sew the Senate up. The first
aot of the new session was to pass his reso-
lation requiring that that body should
_oonsider no resolutions that had not been
sent to a committee first, You know what
that means. Sending them to committee
is the easiest thing in the world, bat is
beats h— how hard it is to get some of them
out again.
—A scientist, who muss have been from
Missonri, went to investigate the assertion
that there are absolutely no microbes on
the Swiss mountains above an altitude of
two thousand feet and found the statement
to be a fact. To the lay mind the settle
ment of the question doesn’t amount to
much other than to let us know fora cer-
tainty that the Swiss cheese is not made
that high up.
—Of course it is only heresay with us
but the story goes that SAM GUISEWHITE,
single handed and entirely alone, rescued
two women and an orphan child from
the eighth-story of the Musser houee,
during the great fire in Millbeim on
Tuesday. SAMULE is one of the veteran
firemen of our department and was the
hero of many a thrilling rescue before
hie eyes got bad.
—A news item from Allentown chroni-
oles the fact of a woman, at her death, bav-
ing bequeathed her fortune of $10,000 to
her daughter, with the exception of one
dollar which was to be given in the onsto-
dy of a trust company and the interest
thereon paid annually to her eon, a well
known minister. And the will made no
stipulations or placed no bar npon how the
reverend should spend the income thus be-
queathed him.
—The part of Governor STUART'S mes-
sage that insists that the Legislatore shall
make appropriations only eo far as the
revenues of the State will warrant is one
thas all will applaud. Bat the Governor
might bave reassured the people of the
State a little by selling the Legislators that
he intended to force a fair and equitable
apportionment of the moneys available for
obarities. It is all very well to keep with-
in she limits of the revenues but what in-
stitutions will be called upon to do is?
Not those of Philadelphia and Pittsburg
we'll bet.
—The power of the boss in Pennsylvania
politics was never better demonstrated
than in the defeat of FRANK MoCLAIN, of
Lancaster, for Speaker of the House. Dar-
ing previous service in the chair he bad
proven himself far more capable than the
average Speaker and even tried to be fair
and partially impartial with the Members.
The experience was so novel and pleasing
that personally there was probably uot a
ball dozen of the old men iriihe House
who did not want to vote forhig re-eleo-
tion. Bot because MoCLAIN fried to be
fair and partially impartial shiwbosses did
pot want him in the speaker's shair and
there wasn’t enough manhood in the orea-
tures who are Pennsylvania's Representa-
dives to vote for the man most of them
preferred as their presiding officer.
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Good News If True.
People hereabouts who know, or at least
think they know, assure us that a two-mill
reduction in the tax-rate of the county will
be made very shortly after the new board
of County Commissioners get down to busi-
ness. We hope they are rights. Nothing
would be more gratifying to the tax-
payers. Certainly nothing would better
please the people than to understand that
for the future Centre county is to get along
on a three-mill rate of taxation and that
economy in county expenditures is to be
the rule that will be followed by the new
management.
That we can get down to a three-mill
rate is due to the good work of the late
Democratic board of Commissioners. Their
carefuloess made this possible. Their wan-
agement wiped ous the forty-two thousand
dollars of indebtedness, and the unexpect-
ed claims presented against the monument,
that was loaded onto their shoulders three
years ago, and put us down again, to
the simple matter of providing only for the
ordinary county expenditures. Is will, of
course, take wise and economical manage
ment to get along on a shree-mill rate, bat
that was the rate up to three years ago, and
general county expenditares should be no
heavier now than prior to that time. The
five-mill rate that had to be resorted to
temporarily was not because legitimate
county expenses were increasing, but be-
canse of the reckless and extravagant man-
agement that obaracterized county affairs
from 1902 to 1905, and as we understand,
was promised to be taken off just as soon
as the indebtedness that bad accumulated
was paid. If the forthcoming statement
shows, as it is wenerally believed it will,
that there is a surplus of assets over liabil-
ities, then the time is here for the promise
made the people to be realized, and the
new management will be but fulfilling the
general expectation of the people by put-
ting them on this basis.
If masters are as generally anticipated,
the incoming board will start under most
favorable auspices—no debt, no outstand-
ing claims against the county on account
of the monument, the public buildings in
good repair, the larger and more costly
bridges all bails, tarnpikes condemned and
paid for, our cous growing shorter and
shonld be less expensive every term, and
without any unusual or excessive oatlays
necessary in any line for several years, they
oaght to he able to get along with a less
aggregate county expense than bas been
known for years.
Will they? Can they ?
Anent the gratifying report referred to
above, comes another later, that tells us
that a movement, on the part of a lew po-
litical managers, is already well nuder way
to inflaence the new board of Commission-
ers to les the millage stand as it now is for
two years at least or until a considerable
surplus is accumulated, and it is proven
that the coanty can get along with a less
rate. Very plansible argument, can be
wade on this side, and it is possible they
may be listened to by the Commissioners.
But will not a surplus tempt to extrava-
gavce, and may nos this move to prevent a
reduction of taxation mean that there are
schemes ahead that will need mouey to
carry them out, or expectations of johs that
will not be undertaken if there is not an
excess of money in the treasury?
Wait and you will see.
Let Us Have a Change of Election
Laws,
Whether or not the Legislatare that has
just adjourned for a two week’s rest and
recuperation, after the arduous work of a
two-day’s session, will have either the de
sire or the disposition to so change our
complicated, costly and frand producing
election laws, that we will in the future be
able to have honest elections at a rea-
sonable expense, noone cau say. That it
should is the belief of every honest citizen.
That it will is the hope of every one who
cares for either the honor of the State, or
the bonesty of our elections,
That we have the worst election laws
that disgraces any of the Commonwealths
of the country can neither be denied nor
disputed. That they breed venality, pro-
teot crime, [foster bribery and encvuiage
rasoality and wrongs of every charaoter, is
equally true. That our system, besides
being as rotten and unfair as it is, is peed-
lessly and excessively complicated aud ex-
pensive, is known and ackoowledged by all.
Why then not chaoge it ?
It would be an easy matter to go hack to
our old, simple and satisfactory, vest pockets
system. A few changes in it, that would
preserve the secrecy of the ballot and pre-
vent the espionage of the citizen while cast-
ing his vote, would secure us as fair eleo:
tions, with as little expense as it is possible
todo. It would do away with the busi
ness of the briber. It would take from
money the power to control our elections,
and it would puta stop to both the de-
baunchery and bull-dozing of voters.
Two years ago a bill providing for a bal-
lot somewhat similar to the old vest pocket
ticket that was used prior to 1891, and that
continued the present booth into which the
voter was required to go and place the
tickes he proposed voting into an envelope,
unseen or unassisted by any ove, and then
depositing it in the ballot box, was pre-
sented in the House but was smothered in
the committee, because the ringsters and
ballot box manipulators were opposed to
any change.
The same bill, with such changes as
would do away with some minor objections
thas were made to it, ought to be introduo-
ed and pushed from the first day that bills
can be presented. There should be neith-
er delay in starting nor les up in the fight,
for a law and a system, that will save our
State from she disgrace and debauchery,
that the law and the system, we now lave,
have brought upon it.
Aud we hope that the honest members of
the House and Senate will take this matter
up, immediately upon their return to Har-
risburg, and push it persistently and de-
terminedly until the ringsters and roosters,
the bosses and the boodlers, are compelled
to permis the changes needed, or the peo-
ple have demonstrated to them, in such a
way as to leave no doabs in the mind of
any one, who is responsible for a continua-
tion of Pennsylvania’s disgrace and the
evils and expenses that grow out of our
rotten election laws.
Good Saggestions,
If the Republican party in this State is
wise it will see that its Representatives in
the Legislatore adopt the soggestion of
Guvernor STUART as to public road system
aud the preservation of the water supply of
the State, without delay. His 1ecommen-
dation for a State thoroughfare from Phil-
adelpbia to Harrisbarg and from there to
Pittsburg, to be built and waintained at
the expense of the State, should certainly
meet the approval of the people, as well as
his suggestion that there be such changes
in the present system as will secure the
maintenance of such roads as are built
jointly by the State, the county and the
township. “‘It is useless,’’ as the Govern.
or says, ‘‘to waste money in building
roads,’ if after they are built they are not
properly maintained or kept up, and itis
simply squandering the publio fands, to
grade and make foundations for roads that
are to be neglected and uncared for until
they become no better than the common
highways.
There is no nse to whick the money of
the State could be put that would give
greater returns, afford more comforts and
pleasure to the people, or add greater to
the wealth of the community, than in mak-
ing good public roads. In this we will not
even except such improvements as would
probably be made in our public school sys-
tem were greater appropriations made for
that purpose. We have now reachod the
point in school matters where every obild
in the State is enabled to secure a good
common school education, if ita parents so
desire. Further than shat it is questiona-
ble if she public should go in educational
matters,
But in road laws, road systems, or efforts
to have good roads, we are away behind the
times and most lamentahly lame. Even
the State system that has been in force for
the past six or eight years, bas proven a
public sink hole where public funds are
dumped for the benefit of the few who are
favorites of the machine, and from which
neither better roads nor benefit to the pub.
lic have acorued. A few rods of fairly
good highways, bere aid there, and =o far
apart aud in snob varied directions that no
connection can be bad between them,
bas resulted, but for all the money that has
been expended, no general good to the pub.
lic has been returned. Such is the case at
least in thie section and we presume it is
the same in all other parts of the State.
If the Legislature, now in session, will
stop the patch work, expensive and we
might say spotted system of road making
now in vogue, and get down to the work of
building public highways—Dbeginning some-
where and ending somewhere—we might have
some benefit from the money expended, but
as long as we go onjwith a patch here aud a
patch there and with neither pach long
enough to be of any particular advantage
to any partionlar section or community, the
money put into this work will be prac-
tically waated.
“
~The weather this week has been
variable—that is, sunshine and cloudy, ain
aod heavy fogs in She beginning of the
week, then a sudden change ou Wednesday
to cool, cooler and cold by Wedueulay
night and yesterday moroing with heh,
shifting wind —especially shifuicg. But
don’t get discouraged ; if the weatier man
kas any other kinds of weather on nand he
will likely deal them out to ux hefore the
end of the week.
~——Landlord H. 8. Ray en erained
eighteen friends at a supper at the Brook:
erhoff house on New Years eve, tue entire
party being gathered around the festive
board to weloome the incoming of 1808,
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA, JANUARY 8, 150
Wrong Man Condemuned.
Mr. HENEY, the lawyer who managed
the prosecution of RUEF, the San Francisco
boodler, declares that EnwaArD H. HARRI-
MAN, the railroad magoate, is responsible
for the grafs in that city. He, Mr. HENEY
adds, began the bribing business, and by
packing thecoarts with corporate emissaries,
made the punishment of corruptionists in
public life practically impossible. A year
or more ago LINCOLN STEFFENS attributed
the venality of the public life of the ocoun-
try to what are called the captains of
fnance and it is now alieged that the ex-
posure of graft in Pittsburg was in conse-
quence of the importunities of the council
men for boodle from the corporations and
wealthy individuals who were constantly
striving for special privileges and valuable
franchises.
This is unquestionably true. The story
goes thas HENRY C. FRICK bas grown tired
of paying Pittsburg councilmen for favors
which he bas received at their bands. He
didn’t object to dealing with them when
he needed their votes. AS that stage of the
game paying councilmen for their votes
was preoisely the same to him as paying
the boiler-maker for a boiler, or the car-
builder for a car. Bat baving received the
boiler and the car and paid the price agreed
upon, that settled the accounts between
Mr. Frick and the manufacturer. One
payment was all that was required and if
the councilmen had been equally amenable
to the rules of business, there would have
been no trouble between Mr. FRICK and
them. Whenever he needed votes he would
have continned to patronize them and pay
whatever was agreed upon. Their capidity
gob the better of them, however, and they
offended, not Mr. FRICK'S moral principles
bus his business instincts, and be tarned
against them.
The truth of the matter is that the busi-
ness element of the country is rotten. The
captains of industry speak disrespectiully
of politicians because they acoept bribes.
Bat the politicians wounldn’t accepts bribes
if there were no bribes to accept. The
mavufacturing barons and the Napoleons
of finance want favors and express a wil-
lingness to pay for them. They koow the
councilmen are betraying their public obli-
gations by engaging in this wretched com-
merce. They understand that they are
violating every principle of human and
Divine law by enticing pablic officials to
favor them at the expense of the public.
But as long as it is cheaper to bribe council.
men than to get what they want in a legiti-
mate way, the bribery goes on. Mr. HENEY
is right. HARRIMAN ought to have been
convicted instead of REUF.
Democrats and Tariff Revision,
Representative RANDALL, of Texas, one
of the Democratic members of the House
Committee on Ways aud Means, oan dis-
cern no hope of genuine tariff reform in the
actions of that committee. ‘‘The scheme
of revising the tariff,’ he observes, ‘‘is, as
usual, fall of deception, aud it is quite clear
that the toiling masses in this country will
be Jeft to the tender mercies of incorpor-
ated wealth. With the Republican party,’
Mr. RANDALL continues, ‘‘the first con.
sideration is to satisfy the trust magnates
who keep it in contro! of public affairs.
The party is drnok with power and the
trasts, confident of their new lease upon
the resources of the country are exaultantly
defiant toward all opposition.”” He could.
hardly bave put the proposition in fitter
terms. He gave a volnme of factsin a
couple of sentences.
For these reasons the Demoorats in the
next Congress have practically decided to
prepare a tariff bill for consideration. It
is not enough to take the tariff off steel
and iron and leave it on wool. As Mr.
CARNEGIE has emphatically declared the
steel and iron men oan undersell the whole
world without tariff taxation and maintain
prices at home because of the cost of car-
riage of foreign product. Bat is is differ-
ent with wool. Only a meager part of the
wool used in this country isgrown here
and the tax on wool is not only a burden
to the consumers but it is a menace to the
public health. There is mighty little sense
in fighting tuberculosis on a small scale
while we are disseminating the germs of
the malady by making it impossible for
other than the wealthy to get proper cloth-
ing.
The House Committee on Ways and
Means proposes to put hides on the free
™ as another ‘‘sop to the whale.” Bat
the Republican majority on that com-
mittee will nos listen to a proposition to
pus shoes on the free list and thus give the
public a «hare of the advantages of the re-
form. Every intelligent observer of af-
fairs knows thas shoes are made in this
country cheaper and better than anywhere
ele in the world. Bas the price is kept up
by the taiiff tax on the product of the shoe
factories and it is now proposed to ine
orease the graft by giviog the manulactar-
ers free hides and maintaining she tax on
shoes. The Demoorats will insist on free
hides and shoes and that will compel a
decrease in to the consnmer without
impairing the profit of the manufacturer.
9. NO. 2.
When the Wrong Was Domne.
From the New Orleans Times-Demoerat.
Mr. Taft wants a straight educational
and property qualification with no excep-
tions. No objection could be raised toa
law of thie kind, he says, although it
would as a matter of fact, disfranchise 10
or 20 times as many negroes as whites, and
thus accomplish the purpose aimed at.
Such legislation, it is needless to point out,
in opposed to the dootrine contained in the
Fifteenth Amendment, and would subject
the States to a reduction in their represen-
tation in Congress and the electaral college,
if Mr. Crowmpaoker were insistent and
could get action on his resolution.
It is evident thas Mr. Taft has not given
the subject the attention and study it de.
serves. Had he doneso, he would have
seen that it is not as simple and easy as he
imagines. No matter has received more
consideration than this in the Sooth, and
the greatest minds of this eeotion have
sought to reach a correct and practical solo.
Hon ok hay takao years to do so, and
while the plan generally accepted, aod
which has been adopted in most of the
Southern States, is confessediy faulty, it
was the hest that could be devised to meet
all the conditions found to exiss.
The tronble is due to the basty and un.
wise legislation contained in the war
amendmeats, the Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth. Conceived in a spirit of bitterness
engendered by a long civil war, these
amendments were intended to oripple the
South politically, and did ori it, not
only politically, but financially, industrial-
ly and in vearly every other way. There
are few to-day, North or South, who do
not admit that the amendments werea
grievous mistake and did incalculable
harm. Mr. Lincoln himeelf bad opposed
the idea of universal negro suffrage, but
thought a few negroes of the class
might be granted the franchise, as they
proved themselves fis for it.
But although the grant of a ballot to
the negro is now, with almost unanimity,
recognized as a mistake, the North will
not allow that mistake to be corrected. It
is a matter of sentiment, that it wonld be
a surrender of what was won in the civil
war.
How the “Old Thing Works."
(Adapted from the French of Bastiat.)
A poor farmer of Pennsylvania raised
with great care and attention, a fine crop
of wheat, and forgot in the joy of bis eno-
cess, how many drops of sweas the precious
grain had cost him. ‘I will sell some,”
said be to his wife, ‘‘and with the proceeds
I will buy carpet for our bare floors.”’ The
honest countryman, arriving in Philadel-
hia, there met an American and un
ishman. ‘‘Give me your wheat,’
American, “and I will give you'l Suds
of carpet. The Englishman said : “Give
itto me, and I will give you ahundred
yards, for we Englishmen can make cheap-
er carpets than Americans can for our wool
is not taxed.” Bat a custom house officer,
standing by, said to the countryman :
“My good fellow, make your exchange, if
you choose, with the American, but my
duty is to prevent your doing so with the
Eoglishman.” “What! exclaimed the
countryman, ‘‘do you wish me to take 75
yards of American t, when I can have
100 yards from England ?"’ “Certainly.
Do you not see that America would bea
loser, if you were to receive 100 yards in-
stead of 75%’ ‘‘I can scarcely understand
this,’ said the laborer. ‘‘Nor can I ex-
plain is,” said the cunstom house officer,
‘bat there is no doubt of the fact, for
Congressmen and editors all agree that a
people is impoverished in proportion as it
receives a large compensation for any given
quantity of its produce.”
The countryman was obliged to conclude
his bargain with the American. His wile
earpeted three rooms instead of four.
These good people are still puzzling them.
selves to discover how it can happen that
le are rained by reveiving four instead
of three, and why they are richer with 75
yards than with 100.
The next year the farmer voted for
“Protection’’—as usual. He wondered
why he could not make ends meet—as
usual —SAMUEL MILLIKEN.
The Man Higher Up.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Itisa confession of our own weakness
that we stand in open-mounthed amazement
before the statement of Francis J. Heney,
that Edward H. Harriman is respousible
for the graft in San Francisco. We are
simply astounded shat this man has the
temerity to make the declaration openly
and without equivocution. It is no oredis
tous to say that we have known it all
re ee
erhaps we only e guiding
force of an noseen hand that worked all
things and all men to its own ends—
through the power of bribery.
Bus, as Mr. Heney has clearly pointed
out, the canses of on are alike in
all cities. Those of ns who bave reasoning
powers and make use of them muss have
realized that public officials conld not have
heen bought had there not been a paur-
chaser ; that there could bave been no
purchaser bad there not been something to
purchase ; and that that something must
save beso in the nature of a franchise or
other favor, which would cost the
chaser more if bought in the open es.
Very simple logie, is it not? We must have
conned it over in onr minds almost uncon
soionsly.
Let the political boss, the agent for the
briber, be rooted out. His presence be-
fouls theair. Butlet us not forget to
unish the factor in the equation, which,
v addition to our own apathy and indiffer-
ence, is most guilty in giving the boss his
license and privilege to briber.
~——**Three-of-Us’’ is the name of a play
which will be at Garman’s next Friday
evening, January 15¢h. It is under the
management of Cohn, Coleman & Co., and
bas been receiving favorable notices
wherever it appeared. From the fact that
the prices are from 25 to 75 cents it ought
to be above the ordinary show.
Spawils from the Keystone,
—Altoona berbers are advoeating raising
the price of a hair cut from 20 to 25 cents.
=H. D. Seely, of Jersey Shore, while in
Williamsport last Thursday, lost his pocket
book containing $102.
About 26,000 Red Cross stamps were sold
in Philipsburg during the holiday season to
help along the crusade against the white
plague.
~There are at present 1,300 prisoners in
the western penitentiary, at Riverside, Pitts.
burg, and of this number over 200 are from
Cambria county.
—An epidemic of searlet fever is prevail-
ing at Titusville, over fifty homes being
under quarantine and public schools and
Sunday schools are closed.
~Nearly 3,000 nomination papers have
been placed on record in Wilkes-Barre for
the various local offices to be filled through-
out the county at the ensuing election.
~The people of McCounellsburg, the coun-
ty seat of Fulton county, which has no
railroad, are petitioniag for a morning
mail, from the east, so they can get a reply
off the same day.
—Dr. J. C. Biddle, for twenty five years
superintendent of the Ashland hospital,
Schuylkill county, and noted as a skillful
surgeon on limb amputations, has during that
period made 2,500 amputations, all with the
SAO SAW,
—After experiminting for two years with
the system of paying their road taxes in cash
the farmers of Union township, Lawrence
county, will, at the election in February,
vote for a return of the old system of work-
ing out their taxes.
—The large purchase of heavy 1zils by the
East Broad Top Railroad company has start-
ed the report thatthe road isto be made
wide or standard gauge ; also that it is to be
extended to Burnt Cabins, McConnellsburg,
and Hancock, Maryland.
A gas well that is being drilled on the
Campton farm, near Clarksburg, Indiana
county, is now 2,000 feet deep but it is said
the project will not be given up until a
depth of 3,000 feet is reached unless gas is
struck at a lesser depth.
—Bids were received on Wednesday even-
ing by the borough council of Latrobe, for a
new bond issue of $57,000 bearing five per
cent. interest, and the bid of the successful
bidders, Kountz Brothers.of New York, was
$60,237.60. Quite a flattering premium.
—A quarantine to last 100 days has been
placed over Springboro, Conneautville, Mead-
ville, Brookville, Linesville and other towns
in Crawford and adjoining counties, because
of the prevalence of hydrophobia and. the
presence of dogs said to be affected =ith
rabies.
—John Dietrick, watchman at the silk mill
in Shamokin, early on Saturday morning
discovered three men trying to set the mill
on fire. He opened fire with a revolver and
they also fired at him. He wounded one of
the men but his companions aided him in
escaping.
~—Mrs. Eliza A. Steinmetz, who died re-
foently in Allentown, leaving an estate of
$10,000, bequeathed all to her daughter
except one dollor, which is to be placed in
est paid annually to her son, the Rev. C. H.
Steinmetz, during his lifetime.
~The fiftieth annual meeting of the State
Horticultural association of Pennsylvania
will be held in the board of trade rooms,
Harrisburg, on January 19 and 20. A very
interesting programme has been prepared
and it is quite likely that some of the fruit
growers of Centre county will be in attend-
ance.
—Henry Miller, an old and esteemed resi-
dent of Union township, Huntingdon coun-
ty, died at his home near Mapleton Depot,
last Saturday in his 75th year. Senile gan-
grene resulting from an injury received on
the great toe last winter by wearing a boot
that was too short was the cause of his
death.
~The partly decomposed body of Harry
Kinsey, the young bartender who disappear-
ed from the Hotel Brenizer at Ligonier, om
December 22, was found lying in some un-
derbrush near New Florence on Wednesday
afternoon, two houods having led their mas
ter, Harvey Clark, to the remains. Death
it is believed was due to exposure.
—Jackson Green, colored, the oldest resi-
dent of Bedford county, died in Everett on
Christmas, in his 102nd year. Deceased was
born at Romney, Hampshire county, West
Virginia, on July 15, 1807, and was a slave
for many years. At one time he was sold
for $40.50 to satisfy the creditors of his mas-
ter. He was a local preacher in the African
Methodist Episcopal church, :
—On January 1, 1908, two hundred and
fifty talents were given to the members of
Trinity Lutheran church, Chambersburg, a
talent in this case being one sent. The mem-
bers having the talents all put them to use
and on New Year's night, when they came
to render an sccount, the result showed a
return of $784.84, with a few yet to hear
from that may run the total up to $300.
Quite a good return from $2.50.
—Hundreds of people in Westmoreland
county were surprised on New Year's day
by the appearance of an immense aviator or
balloon, which finally landed on the farm of
A. 8S. Stover, near Ligonier. It was the
“Ohio” carrying Dr. H. W. Thompson, of
Salem, O., and Dr. J. G. Woltz and William
Most, of Canton, O. They had come from
Canton and made the flight of 151 miles sues
cessfully in less than three hours.
~The Pennsylvania railroad has broken a
long standing precedent in promoting John
8. Considine, of Columbia, Pa., but formerly
of Lock Haven, to become assistant super
visor. Mr. Considine had previously been a
track foreman, which may be considered the
highest rank of non-commissioned officers on
the road. An ordinary laborer could event-
ually become a track foreman, but it has not
been the policy of the company to promote
track foremen to a higher rank. There are
some 150 tiack iorémen on the Pennsylvania
railroad, and this removal of a long standing
barrier will make it possible for any one of
them to be promoted to the company’s high+
er ranks. The sctual effect of the new
policy is to open to every man in the service
the privilege of promotion to any place for
which he may be fitted. :
the hands of a treet company and the inter,
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