~It i+ ban! water for many of the Centre
county faruers just now.
—~Well, we have won a game at last. We
hope it will not be she last.
~Thursday seems so be the only day on
which the rain maker even tries to do any
work.
—Three men in a boat seem to bave run
aground off the Schuylkill couusy bar of
justice.
—Tomorrow you may legally fish for
trout. After that it mast be bass or suck-
ers for yoars.
—The new municipal bhydro-electrio
plant seems to have a bad case of moras-
mus just now,
—Every movement bas ite ups aod
downs, but tariff revision aod that seems
to be always up.
—A rapidly traveling spot bas been dis-
covered on the sun. It hasa’s shat off any
of the heat as yet.
—And somebody told as that there was
a lost of good, etardy backhooe hehind that
genial smile of TAFT'S.
~The price of wheat is gesting back to
a point where it is really possible for a
poor man to put white bread oo bis table.
—HARRY THAW says he is sorry now
that be killed STANDFORD WHITE. But
sorrow doesn’t bring back the dead archi.
tect.
—President REYES, of Colombia, bas re«
signed. At least that ia the polite way of
saying he gave up a job be conld no longer
hold.
—Dr. OSLER has passed bis sixtieth
milestone and it is prohahly because he ie
a spring chicken no longer that no one has
given him the ax.
—A few of the finer points of the game
are all onr team needs to make it ae smooth
a working base-hall machine as ove can
hope to eee in a bush league.
—WiLLiad J. BRYAN is credited with
having determined to move to Texas. If
it is true it means that be really waots to
go to the United States Senate.
—The Democratic State Convention will
meet at Harrisharg next Weduesday and
pame the ticket that everyone should vote
for. A great wany won't do it, how
ever.
—A Frenchman sailed across the Eng-
lish channel in an airship on Sunday and
England is scared silly again. Right away
she has placed orders for four super dread-
noughts,
—A Barrowstown, Lancaster conoty,
farmer lost a leg by getting it caught in
the family washing wachine ou Monday.
He was helping with the washing. The
moral ie plain.
—Talk about it being hot in Washington
just now for some of our vational law.
makers. Why the capitol is a cold storage
warehouse compared to the homes of some
of them when they get there.
—*Pigs is pigs” in Wilmington. The
Board of Health won't even permit educat-
ed ones to remain iu that city. The order
ie very hard on the four footed wariaty hut
the others have not started an exodus from
Wilmingten yet.
—According to the auditor's statemedt
of the horongh's finances the borough is
now $103,017.79 in debt ; conuling every
available asses, good and bad. Daring the
year the water department appears to have
netted $3499.31.
—JoEN W. GATES, once proteotioniss, is
now a free trader. JoHN W. isa man of
affairs, financial and otherwise, and he
may think be is looking a long way into
the future hat he has only seen what
others saw long ago.
—Georgia is to have a new law prohibit.
ing women from riding astride. 1tis very
comprehensive as to what they may not ride
as is inoludes ‘‘horse, mule, ass or other
animal of either sex.” Bat it makes it a
misdemeanor only for women to ride astride
in public places.
—Senator STONE, of Missouri, slapped a
Pallman porter and was arreated bat dis-
charged hy the justice before whom the
case was tried. If the Senator were to
make a general round of the Pallmans slap-
ping all she fresh porters is might add to
the comfort of the traveling public.
—A dealer in a card game onoe remarked
to a foolish player, “Ioan give you the
cards but I can’t give you the brains.”
Someone has given the Bellefonte baseball
team the physicial requisites to play splen-
did ball bus the man who dishes out the
baseball brains hasn’s been ’round among
‘em quite enough yes.
—Rev. Demetrius Silas Constanstin-
stinzoias Vishanhoff, M. D., a Macedonian
missionary {rom Thessalonica, is now in
this country seeking aid for the spread of
the gospel in bis native land. Mr. Coo-
stavstinstinzoias may bea very good mie.
sionary at home but to be compelled to
speak his name would make the average
Ameriosn say swear words instead of a pious
supplication.
—With fitseen splendid places for spirit.
ual gatherings in Bellefonte and four com-
modious chapels within half a mile of the
borders of the town it seems almost like
“hauling coals to Newosstle to bring a
tent into our midst for such a purpose. We
are neither so good that we have over-
crowded any of the permanent places of
worship nor are we so bad that we might
not be made attending of
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a LERON TE,
"STATE RIGHTS
AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA., JULY 30, 1909.
Party Men and Morals
No mao io public lite is either better or
worse than bis party. [If he is better, be
fails to fulfill the purposes the managers
had iu mind when he was chosen, and he
is dropped. If worse he becomes a burden
$00 heavy to carry and is abandoned. This
proposition is proved by two notable recent
incidents. When Judge Vox MOsCHZISK-
ER decided, in defiance of the law and the
facts, that Judges in commission hada
right to ao increase of salary, under an act
of the Legislature passed during their term
of service, he expressed she moral measure
of bis party aud bas been rewarded bya
nomination to the bench of the Supreme
court, the highest judicial tribunal of the
State. When SAMUEL GusTISE THOMP-
SON, representing the Democratic party on
the Supreme bench affirmed that obviously
unjust decision, he violated the moral
ethics of his party and was promptly and
permanentiy relegated to ohsoarity.
When Justice ELKIN aspired to she oftice
of Governor a few years ago his ambition
met with the cordial approval of his party,
He bad demonstrated his fidelity to the
wachine and his service to the bosses. But
the late Senator QUAY, cautious as he was
cunning, apprehended that he was too
beavy a burdeo for the party to bear. He
bad been mixed up in some sinister opera.
tions too atrocious to be condoned and he
was dropped. Io otber words QUAY esti-
mated him as worse than his party and
consequently unavailable as a candidate
for Governor. He was subsequently nowi-
pated and elected to the Supreme bench.
He bad shown no signs of repentance or
improvement, bat the boss reasoned that
people take less interest in Judges than
they do in Governors and he coald be
eleoted to the bench though unfit for the
other offiee. Probably Vox MOSCHZISKER
woualdn’t have been nominated for Gov-
enor.
The highest aspirations of the Republi
can party is the spoils of office. This is
shown by the party actions in the cases
cited. If QUAY bad believed it posible
to elect ELKIN to the office of Governor in
1900, Hie would have preferred him to avy
other candidate. In fact he eaid as much
to ELEIX at the time that he served notice
on him that he wouldn’t do. The inigui-
ties which Quay feared would arouse the
public conscience reflected the morale and
purposes of the Republican machine. His
subsequent election to the Supreme bench
indicates that the party bad no objection to
bis record but was afraid of its effect on
the pablic mind. The nomination of VON
MoscHZISKER was made in the same
spirit of defiance of public conscience.
Meantime the public may bave awakened
to the fadt thst there is no office more im-
portant than that of Justice of the Su-
preme court. A corrupt court is the great.
est of all publio evils.
Senator Aldrich’'s Idea.
Daring a discussion of the question of
the tax on hides and leather, the other day,
Senator ALDRICH remarked tbat it would
be necessary for those interests to ‘get to-
gather.” The Republican leader was quite
willing to put hides on the free list but the
cattle men of the west protested that it
would be unjust to do so unless there was
a corresponding decrease in the tax on
leather products, to which the leather men
strenuously objected. The votes of both
the representatives of the cattle men and
those of the leather manufacturers are
necessary to pass the bill finally and ‘‘get-
ting together is ALDRICH’S idea of settle.
ment,
That is precisely what the wool growers
of the west and the manufacturers of
woolens io the east did lass fall. While
the Presidential candidate of their party
was promising tariff revision downward,
they were in conference, or conspiracy, in
Chicsgo, agreeing with the Republican
Congressional committee that there would
be no change in consideration of a generous
eontribation to the campaign fund, which
was sabisequently subsoribed,she DINGLEY
schedules would be incorporated into the
new tariff bill. Senator ALDRICH appears
to be unable to discover anything wrong
in this manifest violation of she coustita-
tion.
Aes ‘matter of fact, however, ities
compleje subversion of that instrument.
All legislative power is vested in Coogress
‘which sball consist of a Senate and House
of Representatives. The ‘‘getting together"
of special interests, therefore, and agree-
ment upon certain scbedules of taxation,
essentially legislation, is a usurpation by
persons unknown $0 the constitution, of
prerogatives which belong to Congress. It
might be olaimed that if Senators and
Representatives are willing to abdicate
their powers in the interest ol representa:
tives of a olass or classes, it is nobody else's
business. Bat that is not the fact. We
are the guardians of our constitution and
it is our bounden duty $o transmis it un.
impaired to posterity
You miss a good thing if you don’s
© The Tax on Hides.
The President's insistence, with respect
to tariff revision downward, bas finally
been refined down to a demand for free
hides. It has been asserted, and practical:
ly proved, that free hides will beneds vo-
body except the manufacturers of shoes
aod other leather goods who compose one
of the great trusts. In fact the shoe mana:
factarers have themselves said that there
will be no decrease in the price of their
products in the evens that hides are put on
the free list. Profits have been very small
in the recent past, they declare, and they
ask for free hides, nos for the public good,
but for their personal advautage. Bat the
President bas substantially said that if the
conference committee will agree upon free
hides, he will be satisfied.
Free hides could only work public benefi-
cence if they would give the people shoes
and other leather products at a lesser cost.
Shoes are essential to public health and
comfort and making them obeaper to the
consumer is a most desirable purpose. Har-
ness and other leather goods are necessities
in agricultural life and decreasing the ex:
pense of them is a consummation ‘‘devout-
ly to be wished.” Bat pultiog hides on
the free list .,nd leaving the present prac-
tically probibitive tariff tax on shoes and
other leather products, is simply mocking
the hopes of the people. As heretolore
indicated, we are very much in favor of
free hides as we sincerely believe in un-
taxed raw materials of all kinds. But free
hides without cheaper leather products are
of no use to the people.
If the President is willing to concar in
the iniquity of overtaxing woolens’aud cot
ton fabrics in consideration of free hides,
be is either a fool or a knave. The public
protest has not been especially against the
tariff tax on hides. Notwithetanding that
tax American shoe manufacturers have
been able to invade the markets of the
world. But the tax on woolens which
prevents she proper and healthful clothing
of the people is the abomination against
which popular indignation justly asserted
itsell. Blankets and wraps made of shoddy
and other inferior materials bave contribat-
ed more to the spread of tuberculosis than
any other cause and the overtaxing of
woolens is the cause of the death of mil.
lions, annually, in this country.
Favors Income Tax
One of our esteemed metropolitan con-
temporaries remarks that ‘‘the western
States are for an income tax.” Naturally.
The western people are for justice. They
ask po special privileges, as a rule, and
prefer to take equal chances with their com-
petitors nuder the inexorable, but uniform
law of the sarvival of she fistest. They
have never been accustomed to unearned
bounties. Such things are for the trusts
and monopolies which bave their homes
and habitations in the east. They are in-
tended to oreate largesses out of the earn-
ings of industry, mostly in the west, for
distribution among the favored of the east,
through the channels of Wall street.
The fairest tax that has ever been con-
ceived in the human mind ie a tax on in-
comes, graduated, of course, so that it will
burden the meagerly recompensed as little
as possible. An income of lese than $1000
a year should not be taxed at all for the
reason that such an amount is required to
pay the ordinary expenses of the average
family. An income law which exempts
amounts less than $3000 would be better,
for under existing conditions the necessaries
and a few comforts of an average family ab-
sorb that amonnt. Bat all over $3000 is
velvet, except in the case of very rich folk
and out of abundance it is easy to pay small
sums. The graduated income tax, with a
limit at $3000, is therefore an ideal tax.
But the east is not in favor of such a tax.
That ie to say the portion of the population
of the east which controls politics and elects
representatives to Congress and the Legie-
lature is opposed to an income tax for she
reason that it would tax wealth instead of
poverty and put a fair share of the burdens
of government upon those who derive the
greatest advantage from government. Sena.
tor ALDRICH admitted during the tariff
discussion in the Senate, that he is willing
0 acoept any alternative, but everlastingly
opposed to an income tax. That is because
be represents the plutocrats rather than the
people and is willing to sacrifice the public
interests.
—]0 the advertising colzmas of today's
Warcamax will be found the ordinance
passed at the last meeting of borough coun-
oil relative to she licensing of livery busses
sod automobiles. For hacks and carriages
the license is $1.00 for one horse and $1.50
for two horses; omnibusses, $2.00 and 2-50;
express, freight or baggage wagons, $1.00
sod $1.50, and motor cars from $2.50 for
four passengers $0 $10.00 for a oar carrying
fitteen or more passengers. Of course the
above only slludee to those hacks, carriages,
omnibueses and motor cars used in omryiog
West
used hy an individual for his own pleasure
aod convenience.
Disconraging Home Ballding.
It is impossible to even conjecture She
reasons whioh influence she Republican
managers to their policy of opposition to
home building. From the beginuing of
civilization she encouragement of home-
building has been a fandamental feature of
social aud political economy. Owning
homes is the sheet anchor of citizenship.
A man who doesn’t own his home may be
as good a citizen and as helplal so she com-
mupity as one who does. Bat the owner-
ship of the home fastens a family to the
locality in which his home is sitnated aod
resident. The home-owner is both inde-
pendent and conservative, moreover, and a
safe guard to she public.
in view of these obvious and admitted
facts it is strange that the policy of the Re-
publican party bas always been to make
the acquiring of homes as difficult as pos-
sible. In other words every material which
is essential t7 the building of homes is tax-
ed to the utmost limit with the result that
the cost is so enhanced that even men of
comfortable fortunes are scarcely able to
build homes, and mechanics and working
men find is absolutely impossible to build
or buy homes. If the taxes on such ma-
terials were necessary to raise revenue for
the maintenance of the government, they
might be endured. But they are for no
other purpose and achieve no other result
than to foster trusts and fatten monopolies.
We have watched with absorbing inter-
est, during the special session of Congress,
the efforts of the Republican managers to
maintain the probibitory tariff taxes on
lumber, glass, nails, roofing materials aod
every other article that goes into the build-
ing of a bome. Ounly the other day the
conference committee on the ALDRICH bill
raised the tax rate on structural steel from
about six to sixteen dollars a ton. It is
said that the Pennsylvania Senators, PEN-
ROSE and OLIVER, are responsible for this
atrocity, but whether that be true or nos
is will greatly enhance the expense of home
building and it is in line with the policies
and traditions of the Republican party.
Democratic Loeal Tickets
The Demoocrate of Pennsylvania never
approached-a campaign under more auspi-
cions conditions than those which now con-
front it. As this time in 1905, the year in
which our candidate for Ssate Treasurer
was elected by an overwhelming majority,
there were no signs of the political revolu-
tion which subsequently developed. Bat
at this time this year, the indications all
point to such a result. Both in Philadel-
phia and Pittsburg the Republicans are dis-
tracted and the element in each community
whiob stands for good government is ready
to join with the Democrats in an effort to
resone the State from the spoliators who
are in control of the Republican organiza-
tion.
Even so auspicious a condition doesn’t
guarantee success, however, unless victory
is deserved. In other words the Democratic
State convention whioh meets 1n Harris.
burg next Wednesday must nominate good
candidates and the Democratic voters must
perform their fall duty in order to achieve
the election of the candidates pominated.
That is to say the Democratic citizenship
of the State mast be both alert and vigilant,
not only daring the campaign but ou elec-
tion day and if they are equal to these re-
quirements, there can be no doubt of the
result. The Democratic candidates for
justice of the Supreme court, Auditor Gen-
eral and State Treasurer are certain to be
elected.
The surest way tc accomplish this resalt
is to form a perfect alliance between the
State aud local organizations. So far as oar
information goes the local tickets of the
Democracy throughout the State are ad-
mirable. This year, at least, so far as the
Democratic party is concerned, the uniform
primary election law bas produced the best
possible results. Candidates of the highest
merit have been nominated in every coun-
ty. That being the case there is no excuse
for indifference as to the result or lethargy
in the campaign anywhere. Active work
for the local tiokes will bring out a fall
vote for she State ticket aod that guar.
aatees victory all around.
~The stone foundation walls for the
pew High sobool building are practically
completed and a large number of the steel
beams and girders have already been
placed in position. ‘Messrs. Miller and
Wallace, the contractors for the completion
of she building, expect to begin work on
the briok pars of the structure early next
week. A large force of bricklayers will be
employed and the building will be rushed
ae fast as it will be possible so do and
‘make a good jobol is. With she bess of
luck and everything in favor of the con.
tractors is take three months at least
to finish the ing, while the
ty ie that id will not be ready oocon-
psnoy much before Thanksgiving day.
J
——A number of farmers throughout
Centre county are already ploughing for
their fall seeding, inssmach as the oats
orop is not yet ripe enough to out.
NO. 30.
When Clothes Were Cheap.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When a Democratic congress aud presi.
dent bad the courage to put wool oo the
free list American mills produced in abun-
dance olotbs rivaling the best fabrics of
Earopean looms. More wool. domestic
and imported, was coosumed then in this
country than now, notwithstanding the ad-
dision of millions of men, women and
children to she population. For pure wool,
cotton and shoddy since ‘then have been
largely substituted in the manolacture of
clothing for the American people. In
spite of doocsored statistics, she domestic
prodanotion is declining more and
makes him a thrifsy as v ell as a permanent
wool growers. Whea is is plain, then,
that the home sapply of wool, from natural
causes that cannot be overcome, does not
begin to keep pace with the demand, the
sobedules of exorbitant daties on the ma.
terials necessary for the production of
warm aod wholesome clothing of the
American people is nothing less than a
legislative crime, no matter what plausible
pleas may be invented for it.
Yet thus far the efforts so obtain some
ahatement of the iniquitous duties on wool
and woolen appear
impression upon President Taft as upon
congress. The wholesale and retail cloth-
ing merchants, who constitute no Trust,
have shown how deleterioas is this barbar-
ous schedule to the interests of their cus
tomers. Manufacturers of woolens with
mills all over the land bave pleaded almost
pathetically for some mitigation of duties
on these materials, and bave been bratally
told to get into some other business. These
barbarons duties more than anything elee
have determined the progressive Republi.
oan senators to vote against the tariff bill
in behall of 80,000,000 consumers, who are
dumb or whose voice is weli-high inartico-
late. In this condition the offer of a re-
duction of 5 per cent. in some of the daties
ie a cruel mockery.
No Exemptions in Income Tax.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
The National Mauafacturers’ association
holds no commission from the workiogmen
of the conntry to speak in their behalf on
such an important matter as taxation. The
indignation that this somewhat militant
body works itself into over the patron.
age of the workingman by politicians is
fanny, indeed, though the evil is all true.
Will the workingman generally welcome
the chance to pay direct taxes in proportion
to his means, as the maoulagturers say ?
+ We hope 20, avd it ae or taxes
on | and real property is auy eri.
terion he will do so far more cheerfully
than his better off fellows.
If there is to he au income tax it will be
well, according to the manufacturer, to
have vo exemptions. They say:
Every man should therefore enjoy a
patriotic sense of citizenship and become
and be a part of this government and one
of its defenders; a condition makiag for
upright, sane and safe manhood and avoid.
ing the present much-to-be-deplored ef-
fort to make supporters of one class and
weak supplicants of another.
Direct taxation of this all-inclusive sort
woald make dodging difficals, dangerous
and notorious. It would spell the doom
of the evil theory of supportiog government
by indirect levies. The poor mau could
then save on shoes, sugar aud clothing
what is now slyly filobed from bim by pro-
teoted trusts.
Moreover, all this light aod airy ex-
pditare of colossal sums for battleships,
nreaucracy and buncombe would take on
new gravity when Coogress would have to
vote the cest of it out of the pockets of the
Pesple.
e taxpayers might be more liberal in
many ways thao they are now. We think
they would be when they were shown and
when they do not have to pay profits to the
trusts to bave their taxes collected.
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Fooling the Crowd.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Dou’t be alarmed hy these little dis-
Plays of temper in congress. Everybody
nows the familiar device by which pick-
pockets get up a fake fight, draw a crowd
Ny i ng sulogkerd, who, absorbed is vo
ostilities, easy prey to astute, 8.
fingered confederates of she fighters. ho
The tariff bill is anspeakably bad. The
only defense of its promotersis: ‘‘We
have the votes.” All through the delibera-
tions in the House and Senate the purchase
of suppers by trading wets bas ben
open. Fierce personalities ween the
conspirators, grandstand attacks and re-
pulses and surrenders may, bat should not,
serve to distract while the general iniquity
moves smoothly on to its expected consum-
mation. All of these rows in conference,
these portentious frownings ty a ent
whose every act in the contiovecsy has
been to help Aldrich shouid not deceive.
Even the little asperities in the House
on irrelevant issues are all to be taken asa
pars of the general acheme to dissemble. It
that So bid Shele Soa be is givi
v who 8
bang abous she general wellare. uy
to have made as little,
spawis from the Keystone.
—Iu spite of the fact that there is much
talk of a falling off in the coal trade, the
Blacklick line of the Pennsylvania railroad
has shown heavy increases in shipments late-
ly in coal, Conditions towards Hastings are
not so favorable.
—~Mrs. Jeau Rich Sterner, of Philadelphia,
while driving vear Lock Haven, was step-
ping from her buggy, when she fell on her
peck and broke it. She died in a short
time. Beside her husband she leaves a tem
woath’s old infant.
—Coleman & Co.. of Williamsport, have
started lumber cutting on a 300 acre plot
pear the Bloom farm, uorth of Ebensburg.
Twenty men are working on the plot. In
other places iu Cambria county much of the
remaining timber is being cut away.
~The trolley tracks between Kylertows,
Clearfield county, and Winburue bave been
taken up. The people of Winburne feel
very badly over this but as the line never
paid well, the tracks are goiug to be used
through some better paying territory.
—Harvey Henderson, a miner employed
in the Bear Swamp district of the Scootac re-
gion, ou Friday killed a rattlesnake five feet
in length and which had 18 rattles. The
reptile put up s gamey fight sud Mr. Hen.
derson bad some difficalty in dispatching it.
—The plant of the Nortbbend Illuminat-
ing company, of Northbend, Clinton coun=
ty, is getting in readiness for September 1,
a 1,000 electric light plant, that will supply
the people of the home town together with
the nearby places, Farwell aud Gleasonton.
—Glasshuruer, the young man arrested in
Philipsburg for forging notes on a couple of
Curwensviile business men, was taken to
Curwensville where he was given his liber-
ty after making good the amount of the
checks. Glassburner had gone to Carwens
ville posing as a base ball player.
—The Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield
and the Geneva, Corning aud Southern rail-
roads were formally leased to the New York
Central road by a vote of ninety-five per
cent of the share holders. It is rumored
that the stations on the Franklin and Clear-
field division of the first road will soon be
officially determined.
—H. A. Orwin, who conducted the Na~
tional hotel at Mt. Union as a boarding
house, and who recently disappeared, has
left behind him bills amounting to about
$500, which will be a total loss. His house-
hold goods had been seized by the sheriff
for other debts. Among those caught in
the trap are grocers, butchers, bakers and
furniture dealers.
—According to the report just issued of
the 150 released inmates in the Haatingdon
reformatory there are 139 serving their pa.
roles in a creditable manner while four
broke the required rules and have been res
turned to the prison. One returned voluns
tarily, for the same reasou, while another
who violated the regulations is still at large=
Another died in the hospital.
—There have been rumors in Huatingdon
that the Saxton shops of the Huntingdon
and Broad Top road are to be moved to
Huntingdon. Officials will not verify the
reports, but they do admit that the Long
Siding shops at Huntiugdou will have to be
eularged, sud to meet the new conditions
mauy of the trainmen now living in Saxton
will have to move to Huntingdon.
~—There are a dozen morphia fiends amoung
the inmates of the Berks county almshouse
and quite a sensation was caused when Coun-
ty Controller Rhoads in withholding the
payment of the bill, brought to light the fact
that 30.000 morphia pills bad been consumed
during the !ast six months. It is estimated
that this is the largest consumption of this
deadly drug by any institution of the same
size io the state.
—The Rittenhouse farm, near Lewistown,
has been bought by the Knights of Malta
and they will erect a hospital and asylum on
the plot. The grounds contain 135 acres and
cost the society $6.000. The proposed home
and bospital, which will shelter aged and
sick members, as well as the orphaas and
widows of deceased members, will cost about
$100,000. This sum will be raised by assess-
ing the different lodges throughout the
state,
~The work of laying track on the Shade
Gap branch to Neelyton, Huntingdon coun-
ty. is pearing completion. The road was
graded in 1884 to a point near Burnt Cabins,
but when work on the South Penn road
stopped, the comstruction was stopped at
Shade Gap. Now, however, the people hope
to see the road extend to Burut Cabins, and
as there are valuable timber tracts, as yet
untapped, along the route, the compauy can
not lose by the extension.
—Jobhn D. Smith, of Jersey Shore, who
was buncoed out of $1,200 by green goods
men while visiting Howe's circus, has had
bis money returned. The man followed up
the itinerary of the circus snd after shaving
off his whiskers took the police into a car
and pointed out the thieves. The men
showad fight but were quickly vauquished
and in the end John Smith not only had his
money back but the officers bad all their
costs aud traveling expenses paid.
—Peter Seel, a resident of St. Marys, met
with au accident, while in a somnambulistic
state, Thursday night, which resulted in his
death. He retired about 10 o'clock that
night. Less thao an hour later it was dis
covered by a member of the household that
he was not in bed. A search disclosed him
lying on the ground outside the houses, dead.
His neck was broken. He had evidently
stepped or fallen out of s window. There
were marks on his forehead showing where
be bad slighed. The distance be fell wa®
pot over six feet.
—The situation in the Hastings—Barues.
boro—Spaungler coal region is very gloomy.
Only about half the mives are iu operation.
The poor condition of business is said to be
caused by the inability of the local operators
to meet tke prices ruling in the markets,
and the fact that many of the best contracts
were gobbled up early in the year by opera«
tors from other districts. There seems to be
no that the miners will consent to a
reduction, although it is esid that
some of the smaller mines may make aun ar-
rangement with thelr men which will
amount to practically the same thing, al.
though it will not have the appearance of »
violation of the scale.