Sh a
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The Republican State Convention stood
in Harrisburg and beard the orders from
Boss PENROSE read.
—The Hox. Boise PENROSE met in
Harrisburg. The fanction was once known
as a Republican State convention.
—The Philadelphia to Pittsbarg eandar-
ance runpers probably prayed for air ships
while they were passing over some of the
roads in Centre county.
—Dayton, Ohio, has temporarily lost
sight of ite pride in being the home of the
National cash register in the deluge of
glory the WRIGHT boys have wou.
* —=Commencement is over at the colleges.
It is now real commencement for the grad-
uates and is will not be all flowers and
musio and glittering geveralities, either.
—Well, we are not to bave the carnival,
after all. Is is evident that the people who
wanted it did not want it enough to over-
come the opposition of shose who did nos
want is.
~The advent of another good live Re-
publican paper in Bellefonte will probably
not strike as much terror to the Democrat.
jo heart as it will to the one good live one
already here.
—We hope to have asale Fourth of
July. Ofcourse it can’s be expected to be
sane, because everyone will be expeoted so
be orazy fall of enthusiasm if there is
nothing better to be had.
—One of the largest lobsters taken in
Maine waters in years was caught recently
pear Biddeford Pool. We hado’s heard
that the bathing season for the fashion-
ables down east bad opened yet.
—Testimony in their divorce case
brought out that in eight years HowaRrD
GouLn paid bis wile $775,980.00 for her
personal aseonnt. Nob much evidenoe bas
been developed to show thai she waa worth
is.
—It any of the graduating class at State
this week bave heads big enough to fill the
hats worn by some of the girls who attended
commencement some wounderfal achieve.
ments may be looked for from the class of
1909.
~]If Congress doesn’s harry up business
will be revived before thas new tariff bill
is passed. It really doesn’t matier much,
however, for CANNON and ALDRICH will
lay such a dasy on the glory that no one
oan afford so take any of is but them-
selves.
—With a forty thousand dollar water
plant, seventy thousand dollar school
house aud a sixty thousand dollar addition
to the court house all going at the eame
time ought to be something doing bere-
abouts before fall. The wages thie fall;
the taxes next.
—Those Seattle burglars who sent back
fifteen thousand dollars to the party from
whom they bad stolen is for the reason that
they ‘‘didn’s need the money’’ mast have
been burgling just for fun. Suppose they
were! It wouldn't bave been so funny had
they been caught.
—Mrs. HOWARD GouLD swore she re-
quired three costume every day in order to
maintain ber standing as a lady. Straoge
as it may seem while she was spending so
much money to keep up her standing ehe
was drinking enough liguor to knock it
out from under her.
—Women prisoners have been put to
work on the public rock pile at Fort
Worth, Texas. Is is a little tough to think
of a woman breaking stones, but we are
afraid to express any particalar indignation
for fear some of our friends will think we
are furninst women’s rights.
—The agreement to impose a two per
cent. tax on the capital stock of corpora-
tions has probably elmiminated the in-
heritance tax as a featara of the forth-
comiog tariff bill. As a revenue prodncer it
might prove of advantage if the tax should
be collected, but there is the rab; the ool:
lection.
~The Nebraska mao who bad so much
faith in an air ship he bad bails that he
‘carried it three thonsand feet high with &
balloon and then ous loose didn’t have
much time to discover why it wouldn’s
fly because it fell to the earth at once, but
as be wasn’t killed by the fall he still has
aoether chance to have his neck broken.
~—While the JoEN ROBINSON circus ie
in town next Wednesday remember they
are not going to sell you an elephant or
the steam piano wrapped up in a five dol-
lar bill, all for a quarter. Is is a fine show,
worth seeing, but remember that it ie the
show and pot the shell games—if there
should be any--that yon are there to see.
—A jodge in a Kavsas City court dis-
charged a prisoner the other day with the
statement: ‘‘Your red bair is your salva-
tion.”” The judge believed the fellow’s
story because be said be invariably f
red-headed persons to be truthfal. Al-
though most of ours is gone weareina
position toadd an Amen! to this verdiot of
the bench.
~The Republican State convention suec-
ceeded in doing just what it bad been or-
dered to do aud just what boss PENROSE
ordered it to do, so everybody is ocorres-
pondingly happy. Of course those Repub-
licans who happen to be independent
enough to think that they should have an
opiaion of their own concerning party al-
fairs are probably not happy, bus they
don’s amount to anything to PENROSE ex-
on election when he their
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“VOL. 54
There are people who argue that the dif-
ference between the Republican avd the
Democratio parties is not sufficient to cause
them to care which one wins. In some
things the differing may not be much bus
in others they are far—wondrously far—
apart. Take for instance the recognition
snd treatmeat of their pablic men who
have failed to do right.
It is but a lew years ago that the Legis.
latare, in defiance of one of thejplainest
prohibitions of the constitution increased
the salaries of the Judges of the State. The
unconstisusionality of the act was so ap-
parent that the State Treasurer refused to
pay the proposed increase until a judicial
decision was secured thas wounld{{aathorize
bim to do so. The tool selected to do this
job wae one Ror Vox MOSCHZISKER, an
unknown and obscure Philadelphia judge,
whose only reputation at the time wassa
willingness to obey the bosses who had se-
lected him. Legal proceedings were in-
stituted and in less time than a skunk
could befou! the atmospherefabout it, a
decision was handed down that the con-
stitution dido’'s mean what it said, or say
what it means, when it declared thas ‘‘no
law shall extend the term of any public officer
or increase or diminish his salary or emol-
ument after his election or appointment. In
shors, Vox MoscHZISKER decided that this
constitutional prohibition didn’s—that it
only prevented a deorease—prohibis an in.
erease and that the State Treasurer should go
abead and pay to all judges, whether eleot-
ed before the law was enacted or nos, the
entire salaries named for them.
Sach was the feeling against shis ontrage
on the constitution that those having the
matter in charge found that Vox MoscH-
ZISKER'S opinion was vot of sufficient
weight to reet their case upon and they
appealed the matter to the Supreme court.
Here another tool was needed and SAMUEL
GusTIiN THOMPSON, avcther Philadelphia
lawyer, who bad loudly professed bis
Democracy, but who had been put upon
the bench by Governor PENNY
keep a vacancy open u
warrant himself in beir
selected to do the job. In due time THOMP-
SON'S opinion was haoded down and it
sustained Vox MoOsSCHZISKER in determin-
ing tbat constitutional prohibitions where
applied to certain public officials was not
to be recognized and that matter so stands
today.
No more outrageous, infarmons or selfish
opinion was ever promulgated by any court
or by any judge in any land.
Shortly after this decision SAMUEL Gus.
TIN THOMPSON lefs the bench and no
Democratic convention has since recognized
him as worthy of endorsement nor has any
member of the party had the gall so pro-
pose him as a candidate for any honor.
He bas since lived in deserved disgrace
aod enforced political retirement.
Oo the other hand Vox MOSCHZISKER
was on Wednesday last unanimously made
the candidate of the Republican party for
the highest jadicial position in the State.
MorAL—Do wrong as a Demoorat while
a publio official and the party will denounce
and repudiate you. Do wrong as a Repub-
lican while a public official and thas party
will bonor you for the dirty work, and
when opportunity offers give you a better
position. Here, at least, is some difference.
The Republican Ticket.
The Republican State convention has
shown the courage of ite iniquities. It bas
nominated the worst ticket ever preseated
for the suffrages of the people by any
party. It is the ticket selected by Senator
PENROSE some weeks ago. It was be-
lieved by many that recent events would
admonish the Senator against the folly he
contemplated. Bat the action of the con-
vention reveals the steadfastness of his pur-
pose in evil. Nothing could divert him
from his plans.
The candidate for Justice of the Sapreme
Court, RoBERT VON MOSCHZISKER first
won the favor of ISRAEL W. DURHAM by
sinister service in local polities. He earned
the favor of the machine politicians
throughout the State, subsequently, by
officially declaring the constitution un-
constitutional. That is, sitting on the
bench of the Dauphin county court he de-
cided that the act of she Legislatare in-
creasing the salary of the judges in com.
miesion was valid, notwithstanding the
explicit declaration of the fandamental law
that the compensation of no official may be
either increased or diminished during hie
term of office.
Senator S1ssoN, the nominee for Auditor
General, may lay some claim to respecta-
bility. Hig private lite has been clean but
be bas always been a servile slave to the
machine. Bat the “crowning atrocity’ of
recent politics ie the nomination of former
State Senator J. A. STOBER, of Lancaster
county, for the office of State Treasurer.
That machive oreature hasn't a single
thing to recommend him to popular sup-
port and his entire record is against him.
EE ——
~ Subscribe for the WaAToRMAN.
fraud? He will be bound to serve
A Republican lawyer of Potteville de-
clared, the other day, that be ‘“‘intends to
ask the cours to investigate fraud at the
primaries on June 5 and if possible secare
au indictment against the County Com-
missioners for misdemeanor in office.”
The cause of hia complaint was in she pri-
maries of his own party. In she borough of
Shenandoah, it is alleged by this legal
luminary, thas ‘‘the legal vote was swell.
ed by 500 additional bailots.”’ In another
place one of the candidates for Jury Com-
missioner got many more votes than he
was entitled to and is is also charged that
the returns were altered in his favor after
they bad reached the Commissioners’ of-
fice. This condition of affairs has become
‘intolerable, the lawyer in question states,
and the proceedings be contemplates are to
be undertaken in the hope of correcting
the evil.
Within a few weeks litigation which bad
been pending in the criminal courts of
Schuylkill county for several months, in
relation so frauds in the interest of the
Republican candidates as the general elec:
tion last tall, was terminated by some
sort of a compromise which approached
perilously close to compounding a felony.
The candidates for Congress, Judge and
several other offices were involved. Dar-
iog the hearings the gravest acousasions
were made, not only against the candi-
dates but against the chairman of the
county committee aud other party man-
agers. Bat the moment thas the prooeed-
ings brought the accused within the shad.
ow of the penitentiary, the zeal lor pure
politics oozed out at the finger tips of the
reformers and they were taken with whai
may be properly characterized as ‘‘cold
feet.’’ They didn’t want to punish any-
body or even ocorreot the fanlts of their
party.
those
who procured his election by such methods
aod they will be constantly on the watch
for opportunities to reimburse themselves
for the money spent in procuring the traud-
ulent votes and corrupt results. Besides
Schuylkill county is becoming infamous
on account of its corrupt politics and it is
the duty of every citizen to join in an el.
fort to purge it of this shame. We eannot
believe that the people of that county are
in sympathy with such processes but un-
less something is done to prove the con-
trary the suspicion will be justified.
An Obvious Subterfuge.
The obvious parpose of the Republican
managers in Washington to adopt a resolu-
tion proposing an amendment to the con-
stitution authorizing Congress tolevy a
tax on income, is delay. Itissaid shat
this proposition comes from the President
but we can hardly credit that statement.
During the campaign President TAFT de.
clared that no change iu the constitution is
necessary to make an income tax law valid.
For some reason ‘‘the interests’ | have
eset their faces against an income tax. They
seem willing to accept any alternative, and
various methods of raising revenue have
been proposed with the view of diverting
the public inclination from that form of tax,
Thus far little result has heen achieved in
this direction, however. The advocates of
the income tax have continued the agita-
tion and the purpose has been multiplying
in popular favor. .
Bus there is grave danger inthis last
scheme. The late Mr. BANUM said the
people like to be fooled and he was right.
This attempt to lool them, therefore, may
succeed. I¢ holds out a vague promise
which will dandle in the pablic view for
some years and then be forgotten. If the
Democratic and ineurgent Senators are
wise they will not be deceived by such an
apparent subterfuge.
~——A8 anaounced in the WATCHMAN
last week Charles E. Dorworth will today
end his career as political writer on the
Philadelphia Press. With Mrs. Dorworth
and their little son they will go to Atlansio
City for a week prior to coming to Belle-
fonte and on July first he will take posses-
sion of the Daily News and Bellefonte Repub-
lican which be recently purchased from E.
C. Tuten. Thereisa possibility thas the
plant will be moved into rooms up town.
~The remodeling of the present Cen-
tre county cours house and the building of
au addition thereto, is now an assured
thing and just as soon as a few minor alter-
ations, as suggested by the county com-
missioners, oan be made in the plans as
prepared by Newman & Harris, a letting of
the contract for the work will be made
and it is expected that work will be started
by about the middle of July.
ET —
~Monday was flag day bay it was not
very generally observed in Bellefonte.
In the case in point, however, it is to be |.
hoped that Lawyer Winrniam WILHELM |
Congress has been in session for more
than three months tinkering she tariff and
the result is still problematical. Ove bill
bas passed the House of Representatives
and another, widely different in all es.
sential particulars, is pending in the Sen-
ate. Meantime the industrial life of the
country bas been in a state of paralysis be.
cause of the burdens aud incongruities of
the DINGLEY law. Nearly two years ago
the conntry was planged into a onrrency
famine because of the faults and infirmities
of the currency laws. Congress sat for six
months monkeying with financial legisla-
tion and finally adjourned withoas achiev-
ing any results shat afforded reliel. A
make-shifs measure was finally enacted and
approved by RoosgveLr but even its
sponsors langhed at its absurdities. It
neither restored confidence nor afforded re-
lief of any kind.
The lesson to be drawn from these facts
is that the Republican party is nsterly and
absolutely incapable of governing the counn-
try. Oars is a governmens of parties. Party
organization is necessary to achieve the re-
suits of governmens. The people are in-
telligent and patriotic. If the representa-
tives of the party in the places of power are
trae to their obligations we will have juss
and safe government no matter which party
is in power. The failure of the Repabli-
oan party, therefore, to fulfill its obliga.
tions to the people is evidence of the in-
capacity of the party to govera for the rea-
son that it is incapable of selecting fit men
to represent is, This is a eell-evident prop-
osition and needs no argument So support
is. If the representatives o! she party in
Congress were capable of performing the
daties whioh their election devolved upon
them they would be able to enact such
legislation as is necessary in every emer-
genoy.
The people suffer from the delinquencies
is their =
of the country are robbed of a million dol-
lars a day by tbe excessive tariff taxation
as expressed in she DINGLEY law. Presi.
dent TAPT is authority for the statement
that the industrial life of the country is
losing ten million dollars a day because of
the failure to enact new tariff legislation.
The Republican party is responsible alike
for this robbery and this vast loss and we
submit that it is time to taro such a party
out and pus io its place one the competency
of which has been amply proved. Ib is not
only a right to do thie but is is the duty of
the people. :
Tax on Corporate Dividends.
That the Republicans in Congress intend
to put a considerable tax on dividends of
corporations is now obvions. The pending
tariff bill will be a flat failare as a revenue
meaeure, though it vastly increases the
tariff tax rates,and the necessity of inoreas-
ing the revenues has driven them to this
expedient. The suggestion was made by
President TAFT some time ago bat received
little attention. This gave the advocates
of an income tax the arguments they want-
ed. The alternatives of curtailing expenses
or adding to the revenues being present, the
so-called senatorial insurgents pressed their
points with suoh vigor and pertinacity, that
even Senator ALDRICH was compelled to
take notice. His adoption of the Tarr
notion to tax dividends is the result.
As we have frequently pointed oat, an
income tax would be the least burdensome
levy that could be devised, for the reason,
mainly, that it isa fax on wealth rather
than one on poverty. The same result
might be achieved, it is true, by imposing
a graduated tax on corporation dividends.
By that we mean such a tax as contained
an exemption clause of say $200,000. Such
an exemption would limit the operations of
the measure to the large and wealthy oor-
porations, and save the struggling indus.
trial concerns from a burden which must
necessarily be oppressive and in many ia-
stances might prove oconfiscatory. But Sena-
tor ALDRICH has no ‘“‘bowels of compas-
sion’ for the small concerns. His idea fis
to make the tax upon them so burdensome
as to compel an early repeal and thus re-
lieve she larger concerns from a tax they
could easily pay.
In every community there are small
manufacturing corporations which are es-
sential to the social and indastrial life of
the people. They are capitalized at small
amounts but even at that they are too large
for individual undertakings. The propos.
ed tax on the dividends of such concerns
would simply rain them and the thousands
of men and women who are dependent op-
on their activities for employment and
revenues would be left in dispair. This
would be oruel beyond expression and in
every respect unwise. But Senator AL.
DRICH and his Republican associates in
Congress are willing to impose this outrage
upon the in order to shield the
multi-millionaires from a fair share of she
bardens of government.
Partyism Assailled by its Friends.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, did she coun.
try a notable service yesterday in submis.
ting a resolution coached in the very words
of the Republican Plattors, willcn ia
standpat reactionary colleagues
repudiated. We have seen all bus about
ten Democrats in the Senate repudiatiog
their party platform in voting on schedules
in which their districts are supposedly in-
betedled. Bat aged si bave commit-
© brazen perfidy of squarely repadiat-
ing the exact of iy They
bave merely violated its spiris.
The service rendered by Commins, the
chie! good, in fact, of all the oratory and
recrimivation in both Houses, bas been the
conclusive demonstration to the people
that the majority of the politicians of both
parties have no regard whatever for plas.
forms or pledges.
It bas long been demonstrated in oity
and state affairs that there is little differ-
ence between the * " men of the
two parties when they once into office.
There is no party io graft extravagance
with them, as in Congress there seems to
be 80 party lines where privilege is con-
Government by party, the prestige il not
the existence of a wholesome partisanship,
is now uudergoing the severest shocks is
has ever bad to encounser. Party platlorms
ere becoming lengthy, hollow sonndiong
Do the people want this sors of thing to
£0 oo to its logical end ? Will shey permit
themselves, without resenting it, to be de-
nied, defied, disdained as they now are by
men like Aldrich and Cannon, conspicuous
ee of ring and rotten borough
rale
Are the traditions and usefulness of the
two great parties to be thus secretly de-
a a ie dsuaor, to
uild up an vilege, a sys-
tem whereby the few may win profligate
wealth off the many ?
These are questions which the sariff de.
bates provoke. These are issues which
machine rule in States aod cities bas pre.
oipitated.
Is the country content to into a
itical chaos of revolt and fluctuating,
independence, and hence irregu-
lar ical action, or will she people
gL edge themselves
plioies and then sam-
i ra of those pub-
forms on
From the New York American.
In iw | average the Payne house
tariff bill was higher than the existing law.
According to Mr. Payne's own figuers the
house bill raises she tax on luxuries and
necessities combined from 44.16 to 45.72.
According to Senator Aldrich’s own figures
the senate bill will leave the necessities
about where they are, from the standpoint
of the general average, but he has raised
the equivalent ad valorem tax on luxuries
from 52 07 to 55 49.
There is no visible prospect of any ma-
terial reduction in the tariff on the things
to wear, either for men, women or obil-
dren, with the single exception of shoes.
The conference of the two houses will
have jariediotion only of the things in
dispute between the two legislative branch-
es. Therefore, it may be put downasa
moral certainty that the tariff bill which
will be ad in conference and sent to
President for hie signature will ocon-
tain, on ao average, higher rates than the
existing law.
ad-
Mr. Tate, according to Washington
vices, while displeased with the existing
tariff sitoation, is privately expressing oon-
fidence that a satisfactory bill will be fixed
up in conference. There appears to be no
basis toraels ope: Has Mr. Taft been
bypootized by Senavor Aldrich, or is is
possible thot Mr. Taft is Juapated to ap-
¢ as ‘‘satisfactory’’ a bill which will
a virtual repudiation of the party’s plat.
form promise and the president's own
pledge?
Another Flank Movement,
From the Pittsburg Post.
Senator Aldrich’s appropriation of the
Democratic income oa amendment plank
is not the first of such strategy by Republi-
cans at in their service to privilege.
Evidently the anti-income tax forces in the
are not sure of a majority and hence
resort to anything to escape d
The Democratic income tax
amendment to the constitution is only an
alternative in case the supreme court ad-
heres to ita remarkable wabbling four by
five divided decision on the question the
last time it considered the master. It will
take a number of years to get any amend-
ment th . It need not take a year to
find out whether it is necessary.
If the Aldrich scheme isnot a for
delay, is made in faith, a thing bard
to believe considering ite source, then les
Congress propose an income $ax amend.
ment and in the mean time put the bess
income tax law itis capable of framing
squarely up to the Supreme court. If that
body accepts it, the amendment miovement
woun’t be needed. If not, no barm will
have been done, and much valuable time
will have beer raved.
Tea Farming ta Tiiman's State.
From the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
The protective tariff on tea be-
comes ble wheao it is considered that
there is only one tea larm within Senator
Tiliman’s jurisdiction, and this is kept
going only through the aid of the agricn
tural department, which operates an ex-
periment station in connestion wish is, and
80 lessens the ex of conducting it.
The total output of this farm, after twenty
years of yp a w 80:
proximately pounds ann ;
States is about 100,000,000 pounds s_yeae
al pounds a .
The proposision, is to tax the “mil.
lions of domestic consumers $10,000,000
Jouly in order that the profits of this lone
uth Carolina plantation be increased
one thousand. "Thav's ne
ee ]
Spawlis from the Keystone.
—The Lock Haven lodge of Elks has de-
cided to buy the homestead residence of the
late Simon Scott, and convert it into a pala.
tial club house. It is said to be a most desir-
able location.
~The Geiser shops, of Waynesboro, went
on eleven hours a day yesterday. Last
month more than 100 traction engines, with
a large quantity of other machivery, was
sold by this concern.
~Mrs. Frank David laid a pocketbook
containing $400 down in Uniontown on a
watering trough and walked away without
it. When she returned for it it was gone.
Detectives are tracing it.
—Heury Clay Frick is preparing to pre-
seut to the city of Pittsburg a new park ems
bracing 100 acres. It is known as the Gunn
Hill tract and is located in the eastern part
of the Twenty Second ward.
~The H. C. Frick Coke company is about
to fire 2,000 additional coke ovens in the
Y | Klondyke and Connellsville regions, and it
is expected by July 1 every oven owned by
the company will be in blast.
«Captain Alexander McMichaels, of Port
Perry, Allegheny county, was beaten ta
death and robbed near his bome last Satur.
day night. He had gone out for a short
walk snd was evidently attacked soon after.
—~Lewis C. Corbin, of Juniata township,
Huntingdon county, has bought back the
farm for $3,000, which two years ago he sold
to the Juniata Hydro- Electric company for
$5,500. The company retains the water
right.
~Mayoard Hostrander, an insane inmate
of the county jail at Williamsport, set fire to
hia cell on Monday and was nearly suffocat-
ed, Charles Seitzer, the son of Sheriff Seitz.
er, dragged the man iuto a corridor and
saved his life.
~The annusl meeting of the Pennsylvania
Bar association will be held at Bedford
Springs on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs.
day, June 20th and 30th and July lst. A
number of attorneys from Bellefonte will at
tend its sessions.
—The work on the C. and M. division of
the B. BR. and P. railroad, near DuBois, is
progressing very rapidly, and is being rush-
ed with a double force of workmen. This
work, when completed, will take a mile
kink out of the track.
—D. Ross Gregory, of Petersburg, Satur-
day shipped a car load of wheat to Belle-
fonte, at the high price of $1.50 a bushel. He
tells of about fifteen years ago selling a load
at $140 a bushel, but Saturday's shipment
price was a top-notcher,
—After listening to an affecting address by
the Rev. W. D. Lomison over a score of ine
mates of the Schuylkill county jail, at Potts.
ville, agreed to plead guilty at the approach-
ing term of court, thus saving the county
the expense of trying them,
—The case of Carrie E. Potts, who murder.
ed Lizzie Jones, at Williamsport, on May 13,
will be tried in September. The Potts wom=
an made a statement that she had no money
Diss... | to employ counsel to defend herself, and the
con inted N. M. Edwards to take the wi
~—While climbing a telegraph pole along
the Lewes road, John McGregor, a lineman,
of State College, found himself face to face
with a six foot black snake. He was so star-
tiled that he fell to the ground and while not
seriously injured, is pretty badly bruised.
The snake was shot.
—At a recent meeting of the Business
Men's association at Jersey Shore, it was de.
cided to observe the early closing hour in
their stores, beginuing this week. Every
night excepting Saturday nights and the
three nights following each pay day, the
stores will close at 6 o'clock.
~The Clearfield Water company bas plan-
ned to spend thousands of dollars in the con-
straction of two new reservoirs. The larger
one will have a capacity of 16,000,000 gallons
and will be built within 800 feet of the dam
on Moose Creek. The other reservoir will
have a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons,
~The Woman's Foreign Missionary socie~
ty of the Methodist Episcopal church within
the bounds of the Central Pennsylvania con-
ference has been holding its convention at
Berwick. It was reported that there was
given for missionary work during the last
year $5,670 and that 867 new members have
heen added.
—A monster mushroom was found on an
Allegheny county farm by the farm’s own.
er, Dr. Allen F, Willet, It measured 22} by
32 inches and is inches thick. It weighed
over 33 pounds. Dr. W. J. Holland says it
is of an established species known as the
polyporous, of an edible species and palata-
ble in its raw state.
—Chief Factory Inspector Delaney has just
made public his annual report. He says the
new child labor act, which will go into effect
January 1, 1910, is a great improvement over
previous statutes. The statistical section
shows that last year 611,324 males and 200,-
079 females were listed in the industrial and
mercantile establishments of the state, of
whom 32,043 were minors.
~=Her hair catching in the shaft of a pow-
er driven washing machine at her home near
Portersville, Butler county, on Monday,
Mrs. John L. Marshall was literally scalped.
Her clothes were torn from her body and
she received severe bruises and cuts. Crawl-
ing to a porch she swooned and was fouad
by her father. Physicians were called and
the scalp, found in the cellar, was replaced.
The woman's condition is considered serious.
—The Huntingdon Old Home Week asso-
ciation is bending its energies to making the
week of September 511, one of the notable
ones in the history of the mother county.
That week has been named Old Home Week
and six dars of pleasure are being mapped
out by the different committees. There will
be parades, addresses, music, fireworks,
sports, contests of various kinds and in facta
program will be presented which will be in=
teresting from start to finish,
~The entire stock of the Mifflin County
Gas and Electric company has been purchas-
ed by a firm under the name of the Utilities
Corporation of Philadelphia, composed of
practically the same capitalists who, one
month ago, purchased the stock of the Lew-
istown and Reedsville Electric company, the
deal was consumated in the Philadelphia of
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