—Let us see! Is California really one
of our pacifico States ?
—Evidence bas been accumulating since
Tuesday to prove that the ground-hog is
right on his job.
—To those holding government jobs
February is a regular mullum in parvo.
Three legal holidays in the shortest month
of the year.
—The local political pot is boiling so
that some of the candidates are stepping
mightly lively lest they be scalded when
the spill comes on the 16th.
—If the capitol park at Harrisbarg is to
be extended we hope is will be extended to
some very remote corner where that QUAY
statue can be planted in solitude.
—Aunyway, if the Japs should decide to
make a landing along our Pacific coast they
couldn’s match to Washington before
spring and then oar precious TepDY would
be far away.
~The Panama canal and that new Peou-
sylvania station at Johnstown are both
booked for completion in 1915. Ol course
this will be a listle sudden for the Flood
city for she will scarcely have corraled that
winping ball team by that time.
—What on earth can Senator TUSTIN
mean by wanting to have the necessity of
having paid taxes eliminated as a qualifica-
tion for voting? Sarely a man who will
pay no taxes for the support of his govern-
ment should have no voice in its conduct.
—From oar point of view we woald
rather take chaaoes with thas ‘‘unocivilized"
Jap boy, whom the “‘civilized’’ students of
California University beat up because they
declared him to be “ancivilized’’ than wish
the party of “civilized” boys who did the
beating.
—It is #0 much easier to be a builder
than a despoiler shat we wonder thas there
are nos more people with their sooulder to
the wheel. A genial, optimistio {disposi-
tion in some movements is worth more
than thousands of dollars in cash sub.
scriptions. i
—Nine men have assumed the responsi- |
bility ol the sixteen thonsand dollars neo- |
essary for a two weeks campaign by evan-
geliat Gresy SMITH in St. Louis. Stracge !
We were under the impression that nine of
this kind of men could not be found in
that place.
—Auditor General YOUNG is up on his
high horse becanse Representative BLEW-
ITT wants to vestigate his department.
While we baven't mach interest in their
sorap we hope it continues because the
pablic is boand to learn something that
has been concealed.
—*F. E. B.,” who ever that is, writes
in the Daily News ol yesterday that our
historic old ‘Eagles Nest'’ is not the place
that we have been showing off up Spring
oreek for many years, bus is located a mile
below Milesburg. Right or wrong “‘F.
E. B.” is an iconoclast and so lar as the
general needs are concerned the one up
Spring creek will do quite as well for show
purposes as the real genuine article, if such
it be, below Milesharg.
—Iu a cube of street mad, thas is a hit
aboat one-quarter of an inch square, there
are said to be so many bacteria that if
placed side by side they would cover a dis-
tance of two handred and filty-nine!lileet.
Think of it! And they told us when we
were kids that eating dirt wasjthe health-
fest thing io the world and mud pies—
Well, they were veritable delicatessen in
those days. After oll, we wonder, some
gimes, whether some of the scares that
science gets up are not merely scares.
—Jadg? LANDIS has jast haaded down
an interesting decision in a Lancaster coun.
ty elecsion dispute. Two mean were as-
piraats for a nomination on tha Repablican
ticket in a certain towaship. Oae filed his
name with the township commisteeman and
paid his assessment ; the osher did not,
The one who did not do it received she
most votes in the primaries but Judge
LANDIS ruled that his name shoald not be
printed on the ticket because he had nut
complied with the rules laid down by the
party of whioh he was trying to become a
candidate.
~The federal government expenditures
for Janaary were more than filteen million
dollars in excess of the receipts. This
shoald not be a matter of much concern to
the unthinking taxpayer who was satisfied
lass fall to “let well enough alone,”’ bat
possibly he will begin to think some it
Congress decides to resume some of the
Spanish war revenue raising schemes and
+ even go so far as to put a tax on coffee and
tea. These means of increasing the reve-
pues are being serionsly advocated at
Washiogtou. Of conrse the matter of cus-
ting down expenditares as a means ol sav.
ing some money never enters the head of
the average Republican Congressman.
—A new public school hill shat is to be
presented to she present Legisiatare by the
commission appointed by Governor STUART
last year proposes very radical changes in
the law. Among the most noteworthy
would be the compulsion of di-
reotors to farnish educasion for sue blind,
the dumb and the deaf, as well as to far-
nish trapsportation for al! scholars living
more than a presoribed distance from a
school house. The bill would make it im-
possible to change text books oftener than
onoe in five years and compel all pablishers
to make and maintain one price on their
books. Under shis bill Centre county woald
bave an assistant county superintendent
at a minimam salary of twelve huudred
VOL. 54
BELLEFONIS.PA
Not That Kind of a Change.
* The fool proposition to farther com-
plicate onr miserable and unfair election
laws, and make the matter of voting, as he
desires, more diffianlt and doubtfal for the
ordinary citizen, has already been sub-
mitted to the Legislature. Like all she
other abortion, in the shape of election
laws, that we have tried sinoe the first
tinkering with the ticket began in 1891,
this one comes from Philadelphia and its
sponsor claims to be a reformer.
The change proposed, as we understand
it, is to abolish the square on the present
ticket and require each voter to Lunt ous
and place his mark opposite the name of
each and every candidate he desires to cast
his ballet for, no matter how many offices
there may be to fill or how many different
candidates for each there may be.
Every intelligent citizen knows thas
with a dozen or fifteen offices to be
voted for and with half that may parties
having candidates named for each place,
what a job this would be and how very lew
would be able to exercise the right of
franchise without assistance.
Were snch a law to be enacted we have
doubts if one foarth of the votes would be
polled for any candidate, and if even thas
proportion of the voters could, of them-
selves, mark a ticket so that he would be
voting for each of the offices to be filled.
To resort to suoh a method of voting
would either disfranchise oune-hall of the
voters of the State, lose the different oan-
didates, scores of votes at every polling place
or require the assistance in the booth of
some one who conld show the many and
proper places marks were to be made.
If shere is to be a change in oar election
laws, and every one who knows the many,
many, fanlts and weaknesses of the system
we now have believes there should be, les
these changes be such as will simplify them,
and enatle the voter to cast his ballot with-
out any exoanse for demanding assistance.
For is is from the privilege allowed of
having assistance in the hooth thas nine-
tenths of all the evil of our present method
springs. Is is where the Jdependeuts are
iutimidated. It is the hiding place of the
bull-dozer. It is $he fortress and proteptor
of the briber.
Any measare oaloulated to increase the
excuse that mercenaries, bribe takers, and
boodlers may have for demanding aid
in the booth, is in the interests of the very
wrongs and crimes that the people demand
should be abolish and rendered impossible.
Under any conditions, it this proposed
change in the election law is to be made,
in order that the measure making it would
not be declared unconstitutional for the
reason that she title does not olearly set
forth the purpose of the aot, we wouald sug-
gest that —
If assistance in the booth is to be denied,
then the measure ought to be entitled an
“Act to disfranchise the voters of Penusyl-
vania.”
If aid is to he allowed the voter, then
its proper title wonld be an ‘‘Act to en-
courage bribery and enlarge the oppor-
tanity of debanching voters’.
Where Additional Taxes Could Be
Secured.
It our law makers at Harrisburg bave
convinced themselves that additional reve-
nues muss be had, to meet the necessary
expenditure for State purposes, why not ges
down to work and ascertain if all the oor-
porations privileged to do business within
the State are paying their proportionate
share of taxes. Two years ago this paper se-
cured and published a list of the offices of the
Adams Express company within the State,
and the amount of business done at each,
and when compared with she report of that
compauy as filed with the Aaditor General
it showed thas shis one corporation at least,
was paying bas aboat one-third of the taxes
that aa houest retarn of their basines
would require shem to pay.
There are other foreign oarporasions
benefisting by privileges given them in
Pennsylvania shas are doabtiess makiog
the same kind of returns, and gesting off
with she payments of little or no tax as all.
Hunting these up would be just as easy a
matter as finding new sources from whioh
to demand additional revenues. Take for
instance the Pallman car company aud the
United States Express company, twin brosh-
ers with the Adams Express company in the
exoessiveness of the charges they make
against our people for she little return
made,and neither pay auy tax as compared
to the amounts oar home corporations are
compelled to hand over.
Aud these are loreign corporations, the
owners and benefloiaries of which pay no
other taxes or have no osher interests in the
State {rom which revenues could be de-
rived. They ara protected by our courts.
They are given a monopoly of the business
they are in. They are allowed to charge
our people what they please. Is there is
any reason why they should not pay their
tull share of the Siate taxes ?
They are not doing it now. They never
bave done is. :
To this fact the attention of the Ways
avd Means committees at Harrisburg is here-
dollars.
by o alled.
Criminal Demagogy.
President ROOSEVELT is again foment:
ing the absurd fear of troable with Japan.
He knows as well a3 he knows that he is
alive that there is no such danger menacing
the country. Japan yielded to the terms
upon which hostilities with Russia were
discontinued three years ago because her
financial resources were exhausted and the
vast sacrifices of her soldiery made it neces-
sary to do so. It is estimated that nearly a
quarter of a million of men were killed or |
maimed daring that savage encounter. She |
has not recovered from those losses yes.
She is not either physically or financially
able at this time to engage in war with any
power capable of making a strong resist
ance.
Bat ROOSEVELT starts these preposterons
war soares in order to influence tke public
mind to acquiescence in his imperial policy
ol enlarging the navy.
himself is true. Bat
moral pervert.
liberately misrepresenting facts in order to |
dragoon Congress into carrying out his pro- |
gramme for the navy.
Just hefore the vaval appropriation bill
passed the House of Representatives at
Washington, the President began this agi-
He wrote to the
tation of war with Japan.
Governor of California to intervene to pre-
vent the passage of legislation pending in
the Legislature of that State. It wasa
rank case of impudent obtrusion, but that
made no difference to ROOSEVELT. It bad
the desired effect, however.
passed his naval bill as he wanted it. It
was onfidently expected shat the Sen-
ate would conour and ROOSEVELT sent
oat a bulletin that the differences with
Japan had been adjusted. Bat the Senate
balked and he immediately renewed the
ramors of war. Such demagogy is worse
than criminal.
What Was “the Reason !
Oa Saturday night last former Ohians
who are now resident citizens of Philadel
phin gave their annual dinner as the Ohio
society. Governor HARMON, the newly
elected Demoocratio Executive of that State
was the guest of honor. An invitation to
preside at the banquet was extended Gover-
nor STUART and requests to be present and
participate sent to Senator PENROSE, Sena-
tor KNox and Mayor REYBURN, T's
courtesy was shown these gentlemen, we
presume, on account of the officia! nd
representative positions they hold, and in
accordance with the universal cosvom when
the execative of a neighboring State is to
participate in a semi-public function of the
kind.
Strange to say, not a single one of the
gentlemen invited was present. Governor
STUART gave no reasons for his ahsence nor
did he send regrets ; Senator PENROSE was
not heard from ; Senator KNOX bad courtesy
enongh about him to write thas he could
not find time to he one of the party, and
Masor REYBURN simply refused to recog-
nize the invitation.
The why of thus is the conaniram now
worrying these former citizens of the Buok-
eye State, most of whom are Repablican
voters and have been glorying in the man-
ner Republicaus of Pennsylvania do things.
They are not so vociferous in their praise
jast mow, however. Some of them are
wondering if the absence of these Republi-
can leaders was because HARMON, who was
being honored, was a Democrat,nud through
fear that some decent word, they might he
compelled to say for him would be used in
the campaign of 1912 when there is a possi-
bility of his being the Democratic nominee
for Presidens? This suspicion might be
right, but it would be an awfully narrow
mind shat would be inflaenced hy such
reasons.
Bat shen there are awfully oarrow mind-
ed mer in politics in Pennsylvania.
So Old that It's Moss Covered.
The public should not ges frightened be-
cause of the ery coming up from Harrishurg
shat additional revenues will be required or
a great reduction in the appropriations re-
sorted to. This is a bi-ennial scare that has
grown so old that its whiskers are gray and
the moss has to be shoveled off is every
time the Legislature meets.
At other times than when appropriations
are being considered the State revenues are
asaally believed and admitted to be about
forty-two millions ($42,000,000) svnually.
There is no reason why they shoald be any
less this and nexs year. Aod yet il we are
to pus credence in whats we are told not
half of shis amount will be available for the
institutions and charities of the State and
these will have to get along with much less
than heretofore, unless new sources of reve-
nue can be found.
It was the same thing last year, and after
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
.. FEBRUARY 5, 1909.
He understands
that the people of the United States have a
great veneration for the office he occupies.
He estimates that they will be likely to
imagine that no Chie! Magistrate of the
great Republic would be influenced by
ulterior motives to wilful falsification.
That no other President would so abase |
ROOSEVELT is a
He has been convicted of
falsehoods a dozen times and i= again de- |
The House
the charities were cut and hospitals erip-
pled, and all the appropriations provided
for it was discovered thas the Treasury had
a sarplos of over six millions. And
this was io the bands of favorite bankers in
different parts of the State.
Is the same job to be worked on the peo-
pie she present year?
Are our revenues to be used for the bene-
fis of bankers or are they to he put where
they will bess aid and benefit the people ?
Roosevelt ts Not Disturbed.
1
| The President is not the least bit dis-
| turbed over the developments in relation
| to the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company by the Steel trust, a trifle
more than a year ago, according to the
Wasbiogton correspondents. ‘‘As a matter
of fact,” writes one of these observant
gentlemen, “‘the President is a bit disdain-
fal about the whole business. He takes
the attitude that Boss TWEED used to
take,” continues shis chronicler of events,
‘“‘when be wonld ask what are you going
to do aboot it?’ That the law was vio-
lated is of no consequence to him and he is
equally indifferent to the fact that the
| constitution is subverted and his oath of
| office falsified. There is no way to bring
him to panishmens acd that is all he cares
about,
| This is a most unfortanate attitudelifor
It implies a
i complete moral perversion and an absolute
indifference to the principles of honor and
integrity. No man of proper impulses is
Indifferent to his reputation. Only [re-
creants get into that frame of mind and a
public official who will violate one law
becouse he is immune from punishment
would commit any other crime if he was
equally certain of eseape from the penalty.
Therefore the attitude of the President is
most reprehensible. Is indicates a bad
bears and an evil nature. Sach a man if
brought to account for his unlawful ac-
tions is invariable a moral and physical
coward and will resort to any expedient to
avers the rightfal course of justice.
There ought to bea way of punishing
the Presideps for this manifest conspiracy
to violate the law. Judge GARY and
HeNRY C. FRICKE told him in plain terms
thas the merger which they were going to
andertake was a violation of the anti-
truss law. They conveyed to him, no
doubs, the fall particulars of the transac-
tion. Batis was on the eve of 3 presiden-
tial election in the result of which he was
deeply concerned and as he bargained with
Epwarp H. HARRIMAN for tainted money
to debaunch the ballot when he was a can-
didate himself, he entered into this conspi-
raoy in order-to get fands to buy votes for
his puppet candidate lass year. Under any
circumstances sach action is abhorrent
Bat when the exposure of it only pro-
| vokes disdain it i= atrocious.
| the President to assume.
{ More Commissions,
Really if this thing of appointing ‘‘com-
missions,” so codify, prepare and propose
legislation, continues much longer the per.
sons who are elected as Senators and Mem -
bers of the House at Harrisburg will have
little to do when they meet hereafter other
thao to pass on the report of the differznt
bodies of this kind they bave made, and
appropriate money to pay themselves and
the fellows who are doing the work they
were elected to do.
With a commission to codily and propose
changes in our tax laws, with another to
overhaul oar election laws, with another
that has just reported a 260 page law rala-
tive to the management of our public
schools, and with ‘‘commissions’’ to run
oar roads,oontrol our game, boss our forests,
dictate our water supplies, prescribe our
physio, t2ll us what we shall eat, and in
fact manage and control everything with
which the State government has to do, is is
a question whether is would not be just as
well toabolish the Legislature, burn the
Constitution and allow the courts and these
‘‘sommissions’’ to do with us as they please,
For years, whenever the Legislature bas
had to tackles any particularly knotty ques-
tion, or was up against a duty that would
require some thought or honest work, is
bas shirked she responsibility by naming a
commission, and paying it out of the State
Treasury, for bunting op facts, making
suggestions, preparing enactments aud do-
ing the very work that the Senators and
Members are paid for doing.
It is an easy way lor the 257 men we
have chosen to make our lawe to earn the
fifteen hundred dollars salary, the postage,
she mileage aud other perquisites they are
paid. Bat we submit that it would be
fairer to the State and more honorable io
them, if they bave to hire others to do the
work that falls to their lot as Legislators,
to pay these substitutes out of their own
salaries.
And if they will not do this, or retars to
the old practice of preparing and enacting
suoh legislation as public necessities de-
mand themselves, then the positions ought
to be abolished, and the whole thing turned
over to the tender mercies of the many
“‘gommissions” the State is now forced to
pay for such work as she Legislature is
chosen and paid to perform.
From the Pittsburg Post.
After all, there is nothing amazing in
tbe proposition of a circus promoter to
give Theodore Roosevelt a job as headliner
for 30 weeks at the muificens salary of
$10,000 a week. Of course, no person
believes that Mr. Roovevels will accept, as
he has set his heart on that African trip,
aud not even so allaring an offer as this
could he expected to induce a postpone-
ment of even six months.
Is this proposition so very muoh more
spectacular than jumping seven-bar hur-
dles for the photographer ?
[4 it much more of a circus performance
than shat memorable campaign in which a
certain Rough Rider circles a State in his
Rough Rider togs, making Rough Rider
speeches ?
Isit so much more of acircos than
luring unsuspecting statesmen into the
open and wearing them to a frazzle by
compelling them so ‘‘follow my leader”
over 50-foot precipices and waiss-deep
through icy streams ?
Is it 80 much more unconventional than
a 98-mile horseback ride at top speed ?
Is it #0 much more spectacular than a
huodred things we have gasped at during
the last seven years ?
Indeed, (further suggestions might be
given for Mr, Atlas’ show. Why not rep-
resent the star as she modern Ajax defying
Congress ? But why go farther ?
A dat us not think too harshly of this man
tlas.
A Masterly Retreat.
From the Springfield Republican.
Mr. Jerome's epistolary entrance into the
government's Panama libel suit againes
the New York World suggests, of course, a
masterly retreat hy the federal department
of justice from the case. Newpaperdom
will sypathize, with the World's or-
gent appeal to the government to proceed
on the original lines marked out by Mr.
Roosevelt and his lawyers. Let the case
now be pushed through as the president
conceived it should be. Isis of real im.
portance to the entire press to have defi.
nitely and finally determined by the high-
est judical authority whether the United
States government, as a government can
prosecate for a libel on itself and not on a
particular individoal. The press is anx-
ins to know what hocas pooas of old laws
remains onder which the government
might prosecute a journal uuder the legal
fiction of a libel committed on a distant
government reservation. The press seeks
exact information as to whether jc
tems i
tion over is in libel suits growing ‘on
processes from
huggermugger
federal courts.
Various interesting and exceedingly
importantant issues appear to bave been
raised by this move of the government
agaiust the World, and now that they
have been raised let them he taken before
a tribunal whiob, we have faith to helieve,
will know how to decide them without
violence to the constitutional gaarantees of
the press in republican America.
A Tax on Marriage.
From the Harrisburg Star-Inde pendent.
Marriage ought to be as free as salvation,
and it is eaid thas salvation is free. Where-
fore, the proposed increase of the inarriage
license fee lacks popular support. A bill
introdnoed in the Senate of Pennsylvania
would increase the cost of ths marriage
license from fifty cents to two dollars. The
why and the wherefore of this increase
have not been stated, and the pablic is iv
the dark concerning them.
The license law was uot intended to be a
revenue raiser, but to provide a record of
marriages and to prevent runaway mar-
riages. The fifty cent fee for the issue of
linoenses was intendel only to make she
vew bureau of the government eell-sustaiu-
ing. In tweuty years of its operation the
law kas been satisfactory. The conduct of
license business has not hecome more ex-
pensive than it was in former years, and
there is no real necessity for the increase.
The new bill would impose a tax on the
oldest of industries. It would stand in the
way of happy marriages. Is wonld pre-
vent the union of loving hearts and de-
stroy American home building. It wonld
atop the rearing of families and the in-
crease of population, and weaken the de
fences of the Union. Bat, all this aside,
why should a man he taxed because he
wants to get married ?
Constitation-Makers Not Prophets,
From the Sandusky Register.
Those wise men of a hundred years ago
did not realize that a century later there
would appear on the American stage of
skivn a man, Wis a lawyer in soy Segse of
e word, utterly unpossessed of any legal
qualifications mind or by education,
who would hold that the federal courts
under hie direction could do as they pleased
regardless of the constitution or the people.
They did not foresee a Roosevelt when
they rendered that decision. Marshall
was the greatest supreme justice the
United States court ever bad. He easily
ontranked even Salmon P. Chase, able as
he was, and we will never have his
superior and perhaps never his equal, but
what did he know compared with Roose-
velt and Bonaparte ?
+ The Way itgAlways ls,
From the Philadelphia Record.
There is bardly a member of the General
Assembly at Harrisburg who bas not up
his sleevs some measure involving a new
drain on the Treasury. Yet this is a time
when ail business aud employment is going
forward at a slackened gait, and when the
chiefest concern of men and women is to
adjust expenditure to lessened income.
The real task before the Legislature should
be to devise economies that should help
the people to better bear the burden of
government : but this is a labor for states
men which political buccaneers disdain to
even consider.
~The municipal water plant of Franklin
shows an annual profit of about $15,000.
i
spawls from the Keystone.
—Diphtheria is prevailing to such an
alarming extent in Selinsgrove that the
schools have been closed and religious and
other public meetings prohibited.
~The new Presbyterian church in Phil
ipsburg, erected at a cost of $30,000, was for-
mally dedicated to the worship of God with
appropriate ceremonies on Sunday.
—Throughout the potato belt of Berks
county there are yet large quantities of po*
tatoes in the cellars of farmers, as they have
been holding them for higher prices.
—Although Schuylkill county must pay
$20,000 this year for State rond making done
last year, the tax rate of the county bas heen
fixed at six mills, the same as last year.
—More than two hundred children are ill
and one has died in Avalon, a suburb of
Pittsburg, from drinking polluted water,
and scores of adults are ill from the same
cause,
~The Eldersridge Creamery company, of
Indiana county, during 1908 manufactured
24,000 pounds of butter, all of which was
sold in Pittsburg at an average price of 20§
cents per pound.
—@George Garrahan, an oyster opener of
Wilkesbarre, on Wednesday found nine good
sized pearls in one oyster, several of which
were of large size. Garrahan has opened
oysters for many years but this is his first
find of pearls.
~The Reading Railway cempany on Sat-
urday suspended 250 employees at its car
shops in Reading and about 150 were also
laid off temporarily at other points. The
cause of the suspension is attributed to less
demand for cars.
—A new coke company has been organiz-
ed by Pittsburg men that is to be known as
the Western Coke company, and plans for
the development of 1,000 acres of cosl lands
in Greene county are under way which will
be followed by the building of a new coke
plant.
~The report of the money paid out in
Clearfield county for fire fighting in 1908
shows a total of $12,285.22. Of this $125 was
paid out in February of that year and the
balance during the many fires last Septem-
ber, October and November. The amount is
probably larger than that of any other coun-
ty.
—Dr. John B. Deaver, of the German hos.
pital, Philadeiphia, will be given a dinner
on February 15th, at the University club, by
150 physicians and surgeons, upon, every one
of whom he has used the knife in a surgieal
operation. These doctors will come from all
parts of the United States to honor the noted
surgeon.
—Fanued by a high wind, fire practically
wiped out the town of Patton, Cambria coun-
ty. early Saturday. The fire was discovered
in a skating rink and quickly communicated
to the Central hotel. There was considera-
ble excitement among the twenty guests, but
all escaped uninjured. The loss is estimated
at $50,000.
—Using a flobert rifle which was loaded
residing on the J. B
Bloomshurg, shot and killed Friday after-
noon, bis little brother, Harold, aged about
one year. The shot entered the child’s brain
and death followed in about an hour,
—The Scottish Rite branch of Free Mason-
1y of the Williamsport Consistory, on Wed-
nesday morning of last week, started a class
of sixty candidates through the thirty-two
degrees of that branch. The work was con-
cluded Friday night. The Williamsport
Cousistory of this fraternity has now 1,640
members, and is one of the largest in the
State, & number of Bellefonters being mem-
bers of the same.
—Abraham Miller, of Somerset township,
Somerset county, was driving along a road a
few days ago, when his horse suddenly drop-
ped out of sight, having broken threugh a
thin layer of boards and earth that covered
an abandoned well. The well was twenty
feet deep, and had about eight feet of water
in it, but after considerable work a number
of men succended in rigging up a tackie and
lifting the horse out of his ugly plight with«
out any serious injury.
—With a view to further completing the
four-tracking of its line from Altoona to
Pittsbarg, the Pennsylvania railroad has
asked bids for widening the stone arch
bridge over the Conemaugh river, just west
of South Fork, on the Pittsburg division, to
hold four tracks instead of three as at pres
ent. This is the first piece of new coustrace
tion work authorized by the Pennsylvania
railroad for more thun u year. The addition
to the South Fork bridge will increase its
width from 33 to 58 feet. The work will ne-
cessitate the excavation of 1,500 cubic yards
of earth for the foundations. The construc=
tion itself will require 5,500 cubic yards of
stone musonry.
~The Peunsy!vania Railroad company, in
awarding a contract for the erection at Mt.
Union, Pa, of a “one cylinder” plant for
the treatmant of timber by any standard
process, has taken the initial step toward the
preservative triatment of its cress-ties and
other timbers. In connection with this
plant two creosote storage tanks of 500,000
gallons’ capacity each are to be erected at
Greenwich Point, Philadelphia. These
tanks will have a combined capacity suffi-
cient to receive a tank steamer cargo of oil,
that will be shipped to Mt. Unien in tank
cars as needed. The treating plant will have
a capacity of from 1,500 to 2,000 ties a day,
if day and night shifts of hands are worked.
This will give an annual output of about
500,000 ties.
—About four months ago Isaac Terrell, a
youth of Irwin, Westmoreland county,
found on the street a beautiful pin set with
diamonds and pearls, which a jeweler said
was worth $140. The boy's mother adver
tised the pin twice, but no one came to claim
it. On Tuesday young Terrell, being out of
work, and needing some mouey, took the
pin to Greensburg and offered to pawn it,
but was made an offer of only $5, when he
left the pawnshop. The broker reported the
case to the police, and the boy and a com-
panion were arrested, but at the hearing
proved that the pin had been found and had
been advertised, when they were released.
The pin will be held by tho burgess of Ir-
win for a few weeks, and if no owner comes
it will be given to the boy.
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