—*I3 it bot enough for you' seems to
be rarely used now-a days, ba it is all the
same.
—Whatever Congress and the Seoate
does with hides it 18 probable thas the pub-
lie will pail a good many political ones to
the barn doors within the next two years.
—A cement mill in Bellefonte employ-
ing more than a hundred men would be a
very welcome addition to our indastries
aod it might not prove merely a dream at
thas.
—Mre. HOWARD GOULD was granted
separation and thirty-six thousand dollars |
a year. Though separated she ought not
to be lonely with nearly a bandred dollars
a day to spend.
| —Who would you soomer be this bot
weather? A United States Senator or
Congressman or a Beilefoate councilman or
school director? There ie very listle dif-
ference in ‘‘the terrible sweat’’ they are all
baving.
—JUHS ZELLMAN embraced a statue of
Venus de Milo in CARNEGIE museum in
Pittsburg on Taesday alternoou and was
arrested as a disorderly person. Poor JOHN.
If he could he satisfied with squeezing cold
marhle he should bave been left andistar-
bed in his ecstacy.
—While fire members of the Bellefonte
council are wrestling with the new maniei-
pal electric light plant question the other
four might endeavor to find out what has
become of that application for a state high-
way through Bellefonte. One job is about
as easy as the other.
~The EASTMAN —WO0ODILL tragedy on
the Eastern shore, Maryland, is anotber
sad commentary on the foolishuess of wom-
en. Happily married, surrounded by all
that fashion and caltuare could desire this
woman fell under the spell of a fugitive
from justice and met her death while on a
clandestine meeting iu his lonely banga-
low.
—With Senator DURHAM dead in Phila-
delphia, and Senator CRAWFORD gone in
Allegheny the Republican organizations in
those two cities have lost two olever politi-
oal workers whose abaence will be felt, bat
others trained in the schoo! of peculiar
politics of the two great cities will take the
helm and the practices of old will go on as
usual.
—The Independent Republicans who
are so busy just now talking fasion with
the Democrats should be informed, very
promptly, that if they want to fuse they
must do it on a good, clean Democratic
nominee. We have had abous enough of
endorsing Independent Republicans whom
the Independents forget to support when
election day comes round.
~President TAFT said daring the course
of bis speech to Yale graduates at New
Haven on Wednesday, “if our party fails
to live up to its promises and the expecta.
tions of the people it woald be relegated to
the position of a minority opposition.”
Why did the President use the conditional
“if,” Hasn't ‘‘our party’’ already failed ?
Didn't it promise to revise the tariff down-
ward aod bas it done is ?
~The new automobile which the Amer-
joan Catholics recently presented to the
Pope bas vo charms for him. He says he
will never use it because be must set ao
example $o the cardinals, whom be bas for-
bidden the use of motor cars except for
long journeys. Then, too, the Pope is a
holy man and automobiles have an insidi-
ous way of making very good men lose
their mental poise at times.
~The Democrats have a chance to elect
one man to the Supreme court bench this
fall. Certainly she party is entitled to
some representation on thas tribuoal and
we oan see no good reason for endorsing
Judge RicE. We have many able lawyers
in our own party ; men as equally quali.
fied as Judge RICE aud since be has been
turned down by his own party we should
not feel called upon to take up his cause.
-~A fourteen foot black snake was kill.
ed by a train near Williamsport on Mon-
day and the story builders have it thas for
days belore the reptile ventured onto the
railroad track train men had seen itfelid-
ing about with its head two feet higher in
the air than the grass. What do you think
_of that for a hot weather black snake story.
And right in the same pews columns we
get a story to the effect that the sun was so
bot in Colorado on Monday that it twisted
the iron on a railroad and cansed the
wreoking of the San Francisco Limited.
Barely the excessive heat has been twist
ing the minds of some news writers.
~The next great economic adjustment
in this country will be that of bringing
wages nearer to & pariy with the pritoes
of commodities. Everything has gone to a
new high level except the returns for labor.
There is no prospect of a reduction in the
prices of the present becaase the produe-
tion of gold bas inoreased so wonderfully
and is reqinres more of it to equal the
value of commodities than it did when the
yellow metal was soarcer. Aes gold con-
tinues so increase inthe world prices of
everythiag will increase and labor will not
be able to exist unless there is a readjuet-
ment of ite wage. In the sapposed hard
times of '93, when men in this section were
working for eighty-five cents a day they
could buy more for that wage than they
oan to-day for a dollar and a half,
| _VOL. 54
san Waiting a
Well, you bave patiently waited now for |
almost $wo years and what have you got.
ten ? How much better off are you and
how much more promising are your pros-
peots ?
After the rich man’s panic struck the |
country, in 1907, you were told at first |
that is was the fear of Democratic success |
that paralyzed bosiness and closed up in- |
dostries. Then you were asked to wait,
and aswared shas it TAFT conld be nomi-
pated that business would revive at once.
TAFT was nominated and shen you were
told thas as soon as his election was assar-
ed business woald boom. Yon may not
have voted for him bus enough of other
men did to elects bim, and then you were
told to wait notil Congress would convene
and legislation, that would insure the im
mediate starting of she mille and mines
aod maoufactories, would be enacted at |
once. When that promise vanished you
were then asked to wait again until the
pew Presidents was inaugurated aod bis
polioy declared, when prosperity would be
certain. The inaugaration came and what-
ever of policy Mr. TAFT proposed was
made public, bat the same old conditions
gontinaed. Then you were assured that it
was the tariff that was makiog the trouble
in the country and shat if you would only
wait uotil Congress coald be convened
everythiog would be made right. You
waited, and Congress met and has been
meeting ever since, and you know how it
is now?
And after all these months upon months
of patient waiting without result or better-
ment, you are vow told that as soon as
Congress adjourns matters will right them-
selves and trade and business revive. This
simply means that you shall setile down to
another wait, and bow long a one the good
Lord only knows.
Aod all the time you have waited for
work, the polioy of the party thas many of
you voted for, has kept she prices of every-
thing yon must have at the top notch--
your bread and your batter, your clothes
and your shoes, your groceries and meats,
in fact every necessity that you have been
compelled to purchase, bas cost you more
than ever before, and etill no promise or
prospect of a lessening price for anything.
Was it to wait and waist and shen wait
again for work, and to pay the exorbitant
prices you are charged for the things you
must have all thie time, that you voted for
Mr. TAFT and the continuation of she poli-
oy of the Republican party ?
It so, you are getting just what you
wanted and ought to be satisfied. If not,
it the promise made you bas not been fal-
filled ; if your expectations of plenty to do
and plenty to live on bave not been realiz-
ed, then you have been deceived and obeat-
ed and it is up to you asa man to hold the
party responsible that promised you so
mach and has given you so little.
Will you do it—or are you willing to
continue waiting, without showing maanli-
ness enough to even protest against the
polioy and the party that are responsible
for your long wait and present conditions.
Hopeful Fatare in Pennsylvania
The consternation whioh prevails amoug
the Republicans of Philadelphia justifies the
prediction of a Demooratio victory nexs fall
even greater than that of 1905 when Mr.
BERRY had a majority of over 80,000. The
people of the greas city appear so have be-
come thoroughly aroused to the iniquities
of the machine and as it invariably follows
the courts are taking the side of justice. A
pamber of ballot boxes have already been
opened and she frauds of the primary re-
turns exposed and the indications now are
that the work will be continued to com-
pletion.
That this great State is governed by
fraud is a shame that ought not to be 2zn-
dared by the people. It would bardly be
just to say that no Republican State official
bas been elected in recent years but it is
within the limits of reason to declare that
no Republican State official has been eleot-
ed within a dozen years without the help
of fraudulent ballots, almost if not entine-
ly equal in number, to the majority which
he received. It is equally certain that
several State officials bave been elected by
fraud within that period of time and that
preparations have been made for gross
frauds at the coming election.
If the people of Philadelphia and Pitte-
burg are alert there will be listle, if any,
fraud in the coming election. Ballot boxes
can’t be stuffed and returns can't be
changed if the peopie are active and energet-
io for an honest vote and just return. No-
body sympathizes with a fool who is bun-
coed and only contempt follews a fellow
who is robbed through his own careless-
ness. Why shouldn't the crime of stealing
an election be treated as severely a: that
of stealing something else? There is noth-
ing as valuable to a citizen as his vote and
yet we let the corrupt politicians cheat us
out ol is every year.
——The county commissioners are now
advertisiog for bide for the remodeling of
the Centre conaty court honse.
"STATE RIGHT
“BELLEFONTE, PA.
The President's plan to levy a temporary
tax on corporations, and thus avert a per-
manent tax on incomes, has been modified
in some measure, with the idea of appeas-
ing popular opposition. That is to say, it
is now proposed to place this tax, net on
dividends, as at first proposed, but on io- |
comes of corporations, and it i= to exempt
from its operations all incomes helow
$5000. There is a pleasing sound to the
expression of this idea and a delusive por-
pose. The notion of exempting small cor-
porate incomes is encouraging to those con-
cerned in small corporations, and if is were
on dividends rather than on incomes
there wonid be substance in the proposi-
tion. Bas it may be set down as a certain:
ty that corporations with incomes of less
than $5000 do nos declare dividends at all
aod fiud the incomes scarcely adequate to
pay salaries and wages necessary to opera-
tion.
The maultimilliovaires of the country,
however, will escape all kinds of taxation
under the plan of taxing corporate incomes
of upward of $5000. The CARNEGIES and
Fricks and HARRIMANS don’t botber
their precious heads with corporate shares
any more. They leave to the leaser fellows
such burdens and take the bonds for theirs
Thus the incomes of the corporations first
meet the taxes and other expenses and
what is lefs goes to the bondholders. Or
to be more exact the interest on the bonds
are paid ous of the incomes first and after
the taxes and other expenses are paid out
of the remainder, the shareholders usually
get what is lets and as a rule it 1e0’t very
much. The bondholders bave sufficient
influence with the managers to see that
the official salaries are high enough to pre-
vent the shareholders from getting gay on
account of their incomes from dividends on
the shares.
As we had previously shown a tax on
corporate dividends wounid be practically
ruinous to small corportions for is would
entirely absorb the dividends. Bat we
cau see nothing preferable in a tax on oor-
porate incomes even though it does provide
for a $5000 exemption. Those interested
in corporations who ought to be taxed
are the bondholders, who are the real
“‘malelactors of great wealth’’ and not the
shareholders who depend apon the incomes
of the corporations.
The only way to tax these fortunate, and
mostly selfish, individuals is to tax their
individaal incomes and make provision in
the law whioh will pus them to jail if they
fail to make correct return of their in-
comes. Unhappily, however, thuse are
the persons whom the Republican mana-
gers strive to shield. They supply the
sinews of war whioh keep the Republican
party 10 power and the favor is the recom-
pense for their investments.
—_—
Aldrich Tricks the Senate.
Senator ALDRICH has succeeded in get.
ting she by-products of she Standard Oil
company oo the list ic the pending tariff
measure. The hardest fight that the tariff
reformers in the house encovntered was on
that proposition. The agentes of the Stand-
ard were willing to agree to anything
with respect to orade petroleam and
whether it were placed on the free list as
the independent refiners demanded or were
heavily taxed as the Standard preferred,
made no materia! difference, provided that
the by-products were heavily taxed. Bat
the House refased to adopt thas polioy and
not only put the crude product on the free
list but treated the by-products in the
same way.
The Standard Oil company doesn’t need
care much about the tariff tax on crude
petrolenm for is practically controls the
supply at home and abroad. Bas with the
by-products it is different. There are
thousands of them and with a sufficient
tariff tax all importations can be excluded
and the price of toilet soaps, dye stuffs and
myriads of other essentials of life, made
high enough to satify the avarice of the
monopolists. Bat ALDRICH was equal to
the emergency. He bamboozled the Sen-
ators into the belief that the Standard Oil
company had no interest in the proposition
aud his amendment was adopted to the in-
finite and everlasting disgrace of the
American Congress aud she injury of the
American people.
Happily there is no probability thas the
tariff iniquity which is being perpetrated
in Washington as this time will be endur-
ing. Nothing is more certain than that if
President TAFT bad not solemnly pledged
bis word that the tariff would be revised
downward in the event of his election and
that of a Republican majority in Congress
both he and his party would have been de-
‘eated last fall. This pledge has been
shamelessly betrayed and its renewal will
not be accepted by the people. The next
congressional election will result in the
triumph of the people as against the oupid-
ity of the trusts and insucha body the
tariff will not only be revised downward
but it will be revised on scientific prinei-
ples. ts ————
A —————
~—Bubsoribe for the WATORMAN.
S AND FEDERAL UNION.
JULY 2. 1909.
Where tiie Responsibility Rests.
There is no getting away from the fact
that our Republican friends have gotten
| themselves into deeper water and a more
discouraging situation on the tariff ques-
tion than the most hopeful of the other side
ever prayed for. No matter bow soon or
in what way this question is now settled
there is an assured division of the Republi-
can people that no manipulation can get
together again or no coaxing or promising
gloss over. There are those of course, who
will try to make excuses for the Republi-
can party, as such, for she failure to fulfill
its platform pledges, by charging this fail-
ure to the aotion of the ALDRICH'S, the
CANNONS and the few who bave manipu-
lated the great deception. But it wou’t
work. The party that gave these men the
power to belie every promise made the peo-
ple—that stood back of them in every effort
put forth to defeat such a revision of she
tariff as was solemnly pledged the public,
is the power that will be held responsible
by every voter who feels that he bas been
deceived and cheated. And tbat power
was the Republican party.
Is alone is responsible for the fraud that
bas been successful, and it alone must
answer to the great tax-ridden masses for
the failure in their relief. There is no in-
dividual responsibility abouts this matter.
To Be Dropped in Conferemce.
Washington Dispatch to the New York Evening
Post.
“‘Progressive’” Repuoblican senatois to-
day predioted death for President Talt’s
net earnings tax amendment to the pend.
ing tariff bill. They asserted shat it would
he assassinated in the house of its reputed
friends, meaning Senator Aldrich and oth-
er opponents of their income tax plans. As
explained by them, their statement being
based largely on the attitude of the eastern
press, the attitude of Wall street, which
the ‘‘progressiveness’’ olaim Senator Al-
drich and bis friends exclusively represent,
! and the attitude of the Aldrich crowd in
| general, the corporation tax will be killed
in the conference bet-veen the two houses
of congress on the tariff bill before it is fi-
pally passed. As for the enpsti-
tutional amendment permisting the levy-
ing of an income tax, they fervently be.
lieve it will pass congress only to be de-
feated in enongh of the states controlled by
toe Aldrich Senators and their friends to
sign its death warrant.
‘With the tendency to revise the cus-
toms tariff upward and the d tion to
throw every other proposed substitute or
supplemental revenue raiser overboard,
what on earth will the common people get
out of this so-called revision of the tariff
downward ?'’ said a leading representative
progressive today. ‘‘The 1 conclu
sion of this question is that the United
States must go on creasing its tariff rates
as the country grows larger, to meet the
inorease in its expenses. In my judgment,
will itself into such a soar!
over the inheritance and on taxes,
ALDRICH bosses the Senate because the | gg proposed, thas neither ory be got ous of
Republican party endorses and sustains | conference, and the resuls will be that the
him. CANNON coutrols the House because | revenues of the country will bave to be de-
_| rived from the same old custome tariff,
the same organization supports and encour only raised clear out of sight. Some of the
ages him. Neither of these manipulators income-tax senators think this row may
would have the power to control a single | get so bad thas shey will yet force their
vote outside of their own bat for the assur- | smendment on this bill, otherwise the com-
mon e stand a chance of i
ance their supporters bave that these men | CL PCa pb ih i sight, T wile
are voicing she sentiment and carrying ous | ghose who bave the money will pay no
the wishes of the men who control Repub- | more than they do now in i,
today the
lioan sentiment and dictate Republican | Among the ‘‘progressives’
policies. EE Amis ait etait
’ e
Is is this face, known and recoguized by pov Lm tail a, if such is she out.
the great solid masses that is turning them | come, an attempt will be made to put over
against it, and that bas eo divided ite for. | the ssppleniensal ax questions uo Rez!
mer supporters in the great States of the ou'l 16 grou BY
Eile eh waavit wld gin daie pee) oo DIVAS quaskions'se be estas Fa Yusha
diction to write down that there is nota ——
certain Republican Commonwealth today | What the People Are Up Against.
in all that vast country lying between the | \ i; Philadelphia Record.
western line of Pennsylvania and the States | When the rate reductions of she Aldrioh
aos, Ar 88
bordering on the Pacific ocean. 1 drals of the seviced tariff
It is because of this that there is hope aqrend ee re Subaitted 30 Waghematic.
on people who pay she
forthe Ba Oo the Job hem of tha sa
up against. On the e sohed-
Death of Senator Durham. ules that are revised downward the pro-
es posed reductions amount to about ove:
The death of IskAEL. W. DURHAM, of | sixth of a cent per capita of the population
Philadelphia,came as a surprise to the pub- | ofthe United States. if the Senate shall
lic though he has been ill for several years | be able sucoessfully to usurp the tariff-
. | making power primarily coofided to the
aod critically so at frequent intervals dur- | goo "ho hitrarily diotating its own rates
ing off death as he fought successfully in| will of the closer representatives of the
politics aud his friends had come to the be- | People, the ex desire of the exect-
lief thai be would ultimately triumph over tive and ihe solemn pledge of the party in
bi maldie nd ive 0. he ripe 0d age | Eur” Even if tue cpdenn shal bu
of his father who died recently.
At least | down when the test shall come, the people
no one imagined that he would fall a vic- | will not submis. It is quite apparent that
a majority of the membership of both par-
tum to paralysis. He had nove of pt ele | ion is anxious for tariff reduction no mat.
make up or temperament. He was active | in congress may divide ov consider
aod energetic in health and not lethargio | ations of locality, The tarift question
or stolid in afiliotion. ° will never be settled ently until it
The death of Mr. DURHAM is more im. basis
portant than it otherwise would be for the | The abominable discriminations of
reason that it creates a vacancy in the State | Diogley tariff, whioh sre emphasized in the
Senate at a time when political conditions Aldrich scheme of revision, will remain a
are uncertain. It is important, moreover, sontee of ehionis diseiaaiy.
because it deprives the Republican ma- Two Notable Movements.
chine of its most efficient and probably eu
moat capable leader. It is no exaggeration td ew blab Dien an io
to say that during the last ball dozen years | ii; nyo pobre aia Prisoner ASarm:
of the late Senator QUAY'’s party control | gus of 1910 is going to show a vast move-
DURHAM rather than QUAY was the dom- | mens of southern negroes northward. They
inant fore in the contentions. Yet it wae | 41¢ 801 Sunstanily,, bop in great hordes
not because DURAN loved QUAY. It was | pid (LO INIO BE on Ae ovement ng
for the reason that he literally worshipped | set in on a southward flow of whites
PENROSE and sacrificed his health and | is one of the most noticeable facte of the
day in the southern states, and bl
seo in the foternt of tbe poliinl| 0rd “Sens Tmigrint. appa in
appear
greater numbers than in ‘Louisiana aod
That DURHAM was a man of great abili- | Texas. But the two on
ty is beyond question. He had been gifted
are ocourring everywhere in the south.
by nature with a genius for polities and _
within the environment of the Philadel- An Additivna). Burden.
phia machine cultivated the talent to the | From the Pittsburg Sun.
limit. He bad a wrong conception of pub- | An additional barden of blame of the
lic duty, however, and believed tbat pub hebvient doi} will be, placed vn she, Routes
lio office is a source of individual profit. | yuon; trust in the Penusylvania refinery
To sshieve party sucoess, therefore, he re- | case is dropped on account of the statate of
sorted to every expedient, legal or other- | limitations. Mr. aod the then
wise, that became available and would President both to prosecute the
stuff a ballot box or bribe a voter With 88 | from’) tana ul aid. o heavy Boe
little compunotion as he would contribute t to trial by the
to a church fair. His redeeming feature | Philadel interests which it had wrong-
vas iv SAAT to tritads nud Bri i irimpeing ras tuning D naiearahons
ous care in the fulfillment
obligations. | His’ word: washs goull na bie | do to dosworn duty. Shielded
bond and if be bad been as faithfal in pub-
lio life as he was in private matters, he
The
would have been a citizen of great value.
OE ————
——Potato rust is quite noticeable in
many potato fields in fhis section and far.
mers are at a loss how to account for it.
In fields where the tubers are from six to
¢ight inches high at least one-fourth of the
plants are blighted by rust. And the pe-
ouliar part of it is that in most cases it is
confined almost entirely to even rows
across the field. Spraying would go along
ways toward destroying the blight.
—Lock Haven and Bellefonte will
play on Hughes fleld to-morrow.
ed
Dingley Kite With an
Tail.
From the New York Sup.
The tariff bill bas disappeared, so to
speak. It is moving along, but it bas been
rather elbowed out of sight by proposals of
a new excise tax. The imposition of a new
tax like the corporation tax would be a
surprise, not to say a fraud, upon the coun.
try. The has been waiting to
bave the tariff re and uncertainty and
suspense removed from business. The
country seems likely to wait. Instead of
the relief to business which was promised,
a burden upon business is tbreatened. The
virus of Rosseveltism still infeote.
a !
———Quite a large crowd astended the Old
Home week exeroises in Milton this week.
Excise
spawils from the Keystone.
—There were 1,500 people presect at the
0dd Fellows’ picnic, beld recently at Fern-
wood pstk at Philipsburg. The whole affair
was a great success. ET
—Governor Stuart has promised to be
present ou Thursday during “Old Heme
Week’ at Huntingdon. He will be the guest
of superintendent Patton of the reformatory.
—The Montgomery County Rapid Transit
company went into the hands of a receiver.
The capital stock is worth $300,000 and the
property is encumbered with a $500,000
mortgage.
—Announcement is made that owing to
the large amount of work on hand at Sharon
the Carnegie Steel company will not close
any of its mills this summer unless absolute
repairs are ueeded.
—An examination of applicants for twelve
places on the state police force will be held
at the office of the department in the capitol,
at Harrisburg, July 6th. More than 200 ap-
plications are on file.
—The party of young men traveling by
cance from Clearfield to Harrisburg, is creat~
ing almost as much of a sensation in the
towns through which it passes as the Quaker
City Motor club racers did.
—Paul Schilling, a Conemaugh hotel
keeper, left $200 in a cigar box and returned
in a few minutes to get it. Both the money
and a new bartender were among the miss-
ing. The thief has not yet been caught.
—Uncle Sam is looking for a man to take
charge of his fourth- class postoffice at Cook-
port, near Saltsburg. The job paid the enor-
mous salary of $20 during the last fiecal year,
Somehow there are not many applicants.
—Owing to no work at the mines uuntil
July 6th, scores of miners, many of them the
sons of Pennsylvania German farmers, bave
hired out to assist in cutting hay and grain
and become cherry pickers near Pine Grove.
—Realizing the highness in the price of
wheat, Columbia county farmers are selling
their surplus stock as quickly as possible.
The hot wave is ripening the grain so quick.
ly that the crop will be ripe enough to cut in
a few days, weeks ahead of time.
~The Carnegie Museum at Pittsburg has
daring the past week received 11,000 speci-
mens of South American fish all packed in
jars of alcohol. The collection was msde by
Professor C. H. Eigenmaun, who with an
assistant has been in South America for two
years.
—During a terrific storm in Columbia coun-
ty Saturday the rain came down in torrénts
on one side of the Sharpless’ coal digger,
while on the other side there was not a drop
of rain. The workmen merely transferred
their operations from one side of the boat to
the other and continued work.
—A bold and daring daylight robbery was
committed at the office of tax collector C. C.
Melvin, of Bradford at the noon hour Thurs.
day. While Mr. Melvin was at lunch, a
sneak thief eutered the office and extracted
$100 in coiv from the money drawer in the
desk and made good his escape.
—Dariog the storm on Sunday a number
of men were in a gambling den at Pittsburg,
| sud the tree partly hiding the cave in which
it was situated, was struck by lightning.
Twenty-five inmates were shocked and
burned. All others who were found in the
cave were placed under arrest and the far-
nishings were confiscated.
Jacob Stutzman, street commissioner of
Rosedale, Cambria county, who bas been
using a King split log drag for several days,
is very profuse in his praise of it asan im-
plemeut for keeping the roads in good con-
dition. Mr. Stutzman stated that the ma,
chine crowns the road and by continuous
use, will soon put the road in fine shape.
—The Page Reighard Mining company,
has discovered a three and one-half foot vein
of fine flint fire clay on its tract of land just
south of Mineral Point. The mine was driv.
en through nearly 1,000 feet of rock and clay
of inferior quality before the good vein was
struck. The company is now arranging to
have a fire brick plant at that place in the
near future.
—Jobn L. White, a wealthy Williamsport
.-| man, recently received a letter supposed to
be from the Black Haud society stating that
if'he did not put $500 in a certain place, one
of his children would he kidnapped. A trap
was arranged to catch the Black Hauders,
when they came for the money, but they did
not show up. Now the Whites are very
much afraid one of their little ones will be
stolen.
—The Miller Construction company, of
Lock Haven, Pa,, has been awarded the con-
tract for the construction of eleven miles of
railroad for the Pittsburg, Shawnut & North.
ern Railroad compsuy, which kas completed
plans for the extension of its line to Pitts-
burg. This is the first contract of 60 miles
of road to be built this year between Brook-
ville, Pa., and Angelica, N. Y. The total
cost of the 60 miles of road is estimated at
gbout $4,000,000, an average of more than
$65,000 a mile.
—The annual gathering of Methodists at
Lakemont park, Altoona, falls this year on
Thursday, July 20th. Leading features of
this reunion are exceptionally fine musical
numbers, ample refreshments, provisions, and
addresses by the Rev. Don S. Colt, D. D., of
Brooklyn, N. Y., a very eminent and inspire
ing preacher ; the Rev. Robert Forbes, D.
D., secretary of the board of home missions
and church extension, a strong, popular,
piquant platform orator,and the distinuguishe
ed paster of St. James church, New York,
Rev. Allan MacRossie, D. D. District su
perintendent B. C. Conner, is perfecting
other important arrangements.
—General orders were issued by Adjutant
General Stewart on Taesday for the govern-
ment of the camps of the National Guard of
Pennsylvania—the First brigade at Mt.
Gretna, July 24th to 31st; the Second bri-
gade at Somerset, July 24th to 31ss, and the
Third brigade at Mt. Gretna, July 10th to
17th. Half a dozen officers of the United
States army have been detailed by the war
department fer duty at these camps and
Troops B and D of the Fifteenth cavalry and
Battery D of the Third fleld artillery, as
well as a detachment of engineers of the
regular service, will participate. The orders
issued contain the detailed rules and regula~
tions laid down by the inspector general and
the surgeon general for the government of
the camps.