Deora fata
BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
SHARE.
Ink Slings.
~The dog days ended on Sanday.
—Justice MuxsoN would sound very
nice indeed.
— Remember to get registered il you
want to vote.
~The “lid” at Atlantic City is a plain
case of ‘on again, off again HARRIGAN."
—Why should the standing army be in-
creased ? To inorease our taxes, to be sure,
—Mr. HARRIMAN is still well enough
to take a few of them over during his con-
valescence.
—Seein’ as how it has been in the cellar
before the sensation is not movel to the
Bellefonte baseball club.
—~ WALTER WELMANS' expeditions to
the Norsh pole consist chiefly of starting.
Then coming back to start over again.
—Mr. HARRIMAN evidently bad anoth-
er slight attack of the ‘‘pipp’’ yesterday
aod Union Pacific was so sympathetio that
is grew alarmingly weak.
~The Wilkesbarre Judge who refused a
woman a divorce from her fourth husband
must have considered the rights of the oth.
er eligible ladies of that community.
—When she return of prosperity is mark-
ed by such slaughter of men as was made
at Sohoenville on Monday it looks as if the
prosperity is only for the undertaker.
—That Russian colonel who is in New
York looking for work wouldn't do as a
baseball umpire. It requires brave]{men
to administer the national game these
days.
—CANNON'S reply to FOWLER is charac.
teristic. And, sad to say, it will probably
be an action characteristio of the Republi.
can organization thas will retain CANNON
in power.
~— Eat hard food if yon wish to keep
the teeth clean aud preserve them'’ says
Dr. George CUNNINGHAM. We have
heard of people biting on a nail for other
purposes, also.
—80 Mr. JEROME would like to sucoeed
himself as District Attorney of New York.
Bat if he doesn’s succeed at that any bet.
ter than be bas in making good some of his
promises he won’s succeed himeelf.
—Now Dr. WILEY doesn’t wank mar.
riage licenses given to girls who don’s
know how to cook. How ornel of the doc-
tor to want to deprive love's young dream
of the cook book stage of matrimony.
—Mr. HARRIMAN is home again ; thin.
ner and weaker. He is still strong enough
to stir up a few gallons of water with a pa-
per railroad and make values that the pub-
lio seem to scramble alter as il they were
government bonds.
—The new definition for life which is
“Just one damn thing alter another’ is so
trite, that it seems to express to the fall
est the existence of humanity in these
strenuons days of baseball games, pionics,
bridge parties and ice oreans cones.
—1It looks like the simple life for Ala-
bama. Her Governer has signed the Pro-
hibition code whioh prevents the sale or
distribution ol liquors in that State, the
use of soreens in the window, electric bells,
domb waiters or other such mashinery.
~The popularity of C. LA Rue Mux.
80N, our candidate for Supreme Court Jas-
tice, was nicely demonstraced at Williams.
port Wednesday when a splendid demon.
stration was made by his lriends and neigh-
bors in honor of his formal notification of
nominatien.
—The flying machines at Reims, France,
are certainly flying. When they make
eighty-three miles in alittle less than.
three hours without killing a soul it be.
gins to look as if, after all, the air ships
will be a less fatal toy than the aatomo-
bile.
~The Johnstown Democral most perti-
nently asks the Connelleville Courier why :
“It a tariff makes prosperity why doesn’s is
keep prosperity with us all the time?’ We
fancy the Courier will bave trouble answer"
ing that question unless it admits that the
tariff is not the alpha and omega of pros-
perity.
—While there is probably no doubt of
the truth of Mr. FOWLER'S scathing attack
on Speaker CANNON it looks very much to
the public as if it had come too late. Pos-
sibly if Mr. FOWLER bad said some of the
things be now says abous the Speaker,
while Congress was in session, it might
have stiffened up some of the others who
slunk to cover at the last minute.
—Let us tay $0 the Look Haven press
right here that Bellefonte isn’t appropriat-
ing any special glory to herself because her
team plays clean baseball and is in the
sport for sport's sake. That is, thefapirit of
all Bellefonte’s athletic undertakings and
that is as it should be. Bellefonte is in
the game as long as it represents the clean
wholesome spirit of pure out offdoor sport,
bat it it is to deteriorate into ‘‘shoe-string”’
aod ‘‘tin-horn’’ methods then she will sup-
port it no longer. There is no reason why
the Central Pennsylvania League should
not live to afford much pleasant amuse-
ment to the towns represented, but its per-
manenoy depends entirely upon the meth-
ods resorted to by the various teams and
their followers and so far as Bellefonte is
concerned we can say thas she wounld rath.
er cheer a losing team in a clean contest
thas encourage any other kind of baseball.
VOL. 54
nu Tex Policy.
The Repu aan
Hon. A. MircHeLL PALMER, Represen-
tative in Congress for the Twenty-sixth
distrios of this State, pointed out some of
the ‘jokers’ in the new tariff bill, ina
speech at the county meeting of the Le-
high county Demoorats, the other day. Mr.
PALMER direoted bis attention, especially,
to the maximum and minimum features of
the measure and illustrated his point by
citing the effect of that bill on the lumber
schedule. Is will be remembered that
under the DINGLEY law the tariff tax on
lumber was two dollars a thousand feet.
Under the pretense of reducing that rate
the ALDRICH-PAYNE bills fixes the rate at
one dollar and a-half a thousand. Bas be-
cause of some tariff regulation in Canada
lumber from that country will be subject
$0 the maximum tax after March 31, 1910,
and she rate will be $5.25 per thonsand
feet.
O! course thie is io pursuance of the pol-
icy of the Republican party to discourage
home building. Every material which
enters into the construction of a house has
been increased in the tax rate. Strucsar-
al steel, for example, which was taxed at
the rate of about $6 a ton under the old
law, is scheduled at $16 a ton under the
present act. Glass, pains, nails, carpets, in
fact everything essential to a home is taxed
at ruinously increased rates, the obvious
purpose being to prevent the acqunirement
of homes by mechanics and workmen.
Owning homes make men self-reliant and
independent. The sense of ownership in-
spires a sense of responsibility and respon.
sibility is the antithesis of servility. A
citizenship made up of men who own their
own homes creates a community that can-
not be controlled by a political boss or
machine.
The Republican party requires a citizen-
ship of paupers. Take ao individoal paun-
per as the measure. He is necessarily ser.
vile and obedient. His lite depends upon
hie servility to those who provide him with
food, shelter and clothing. Paupers col-
leotively are precisely of the same tempera.
ment. They are as poor in spirit as in
puree and yield complacently so every out-
rage and indignity imposed upon them.
The polioy of the Republican party ie to
reduce the citizenship of this conntry to
that state of abject slavery and then is will
be an easy matter to control them. The
tax system of that party has always aimed
in that direction. It discriminates in favor
of the rich aud against the poor and when
ite purpose is fulfilled there will be a few
billiouaires and vast hosts of paupers in
this country of phenomenal wealth and
productiveness.
Our Candidates Notified,
The Democratic campaign in Pennsyl-
vania has been most anspicionsly opened.
“The notification meeting held at Williams.
pots on Wednesday was in every respect a
success. It nos only brought together a
great number of the party leaders from all
sections of the State, but it revealed a spirit
of earnestness and confidence which is most
gratilying. There are no laggards in the
ranks this year and no drones in the hive.
All are enthusiastic and confident and un-
less the signs are misleading there will be
a viotorions battle waged [rom one end of
the Commcnwealth to the other. The pub-
lic conscience is thoroughly aroused.
The speech of Mr. C. LARUE MUNSON,
nominee for justice of the Supreme court
was the feature of the meeting. The gen.
erous hospitality of the people of Williams-
port bestowed upon those in attendance
challenged attention avd was thoroughly
appreciated, of course. Bat hospitality is
characteristic of the prosperous and pro-
gressive citizenship of our peighboring
county and the garden city which is ite
metropolis. The speech of Mr. MUNSON,
however, was such a declaration of prin-
ciples and such an exposition of conditions
#2 0an bardly fail to ses the people to think-
The campaign thus suspiciously begun
ought to be continued with zeal and energy
until the end and we have no doubt it will
be. Itis a orucial pericd for the people of
Pennsylvania. The Supreme court will be
called upon in the near future to pass upon
some of the iniquitous legislation of recent
years and the learning, courage and in-
tegrity of Mr. Muxsox will serve the pub-
lic interests. There is only coe minority
member of the court a present and he bas
achieved much good. But be ought to be
reinforced and the party bas offered the
people an opportunity to achieve this re-
sult in the nomination of so fis and ad-
mirable a candidate as Mr. MUNSON,
Facts Abont Personal Reglotration.
Residents of cities of the 1st, 20d and
8rd classes must personally register or they
cannot vote at all. ‘There ie no way by
which they can get upon the Registry only
by personal application on the following dates:
In cities of the 1st and 20d olasses—Phil-
adelphia, Pittsburg, and Soranton—if they
bave no tax receipts they mus! register on
the 20d of September, or lose their votes.
| It thoy have a tax receipt, for tax paid
DELLE
Es
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
, PA., AUGUST 27. 1
EONTE
20d or 14sh of September or on the 20d day
of October.
In cities of the 3rd olass—whioch means
all other cities within the State—il they
bave no tax receipt they must register on
August 31st. If they have a tax receipt
dated within two years they can register
either on the 31st of August or the 14th of
September or the 16th of October.
Senator Dewalt's Inside Information,
Senator DEWALT, obairman of the Dem-
ooratic State committee, predicates hopes of
Democratic victory at the coming election
on ‘‘ineide information’’ to the effect that
“‘in both Philadelphia and Allegheny the
Republican machines are in such desper-
ate straits that they are willing to sell out
the Republican State ticket to save their
local tickets. In Philadelphia,’ Chair.
man DEWALT continued, ‘‘the machine
would sell out everything, even the ress of
neyship.”” Chairman DEwALT further
startled hie aocdience, according to the
press correspondents, by declaring that
‘‘outside of Governor STUART and State
Treasure: SHEATZ, the Republican wma.
chine, headed by Senator FENROSE, is now
more corrupt than it bas ever been before.”
With respect to the latter proposition,
why the invidious distinction? In bis
speech on Pennsylvania day, at the Seattle
Exposition, Mr. HexsEL, of Lancaster,
also absolved Governor STUART from blame
for the iniguities of his party, and we are
at a loss for a reason. The Governor is not
blind, or deaf. He sees aud hears what is
going on about him and enters no protest.
He is a part of the machine or at least a
product of it, and if he doesn’t participate
in she profits of the corrupt practices, he is
at least exceedingly careful not to disturb
those who do. If he deserved the implied
eulogiums cf Senator DEWALT and former
Attorney General HeNSEL, he would long
since have stopped the iniquities of the
macoine and spuroed from his councils
those responsible for them.
What Senator DEWALT says of the Re-
publican machines in Philadelphia and
Pittsturg is literally true and out of the
resultant confusion it will be a crime to
fail of a complete Democratic victory nos
only for the State bus for the focal tickets
in both counties. The anxiety of the Re.
publican machine to elect its candidate for
District Attorney in Philadelphia is attrib.
utable to the fact that the election of the
reform candidate will send numbers of the
machine managers to the penitentiary.
Bat the machine candidate can be defeated
without trading votes with the machine
managers in the interest of any candidate.
We bave sufficient faith in the integrity
and intelligence of the people of Philadel-
phia to trust them in this orisis in their
political afiairs.
Taft's Corporation Tax.
Judge ALTON B. PARKER, whose keen
mind interprets with singular acouraoy,
expects little ultimate good from the ocor-
poration tax featare of the ALDRICH-
PAYNE law. Judge PARKER appreciates
the value of publicity a8 a mediam of sor-
resting corporate abuses and concurs in the
proposition thas corporations ought to pay
a just share of the burdens of government.
Bat with the memory of the operations of
CORTELYOU, at the instigation of Roose.
VELT, in 1904, he apprehends that more
evil shan good may come from the exercise,
by the general government of the iunquie-
atorial powers conferred by the aot in ques-
tion.
Under the aathority of the act oreating
the bureau of corporations Mr. CORTELYOU
first ascertained the secrets of certain in-
surance aod other corporations in New
York and elsewhere, during the campaign
of 1904, and then forced them to contribute
to the Republican corruption fund under
penalty of exposure. No highwayman ever
more deliberately or culpably ‘‘beld up”
his victims, and yes, for the reason that the
proceeds of the crime were to be used for
the election of ROOSEVELT, there was neith-
or prosecution nor punishment after the
outrage bad been discovered and confessed:
Judge PARKER probably apprehends a
repetition of this piece of scandalous hie-
tory under the shelter of Tarr's corpora.
tion tax scheme.
There are better ways than those ex-
pressed in the corporation tax feature of
| the ALDRICH-PAYNE bill to achieve the
result which it pretends to aim for. In
other words the rich corporations can be
compelled to pay their share of the burdens
of government without jeopardizing the
lives of useful and helpful corporations that
bave not attained a measure of opulence.
An income tax, for example, would accom-
plish the result with absolute certainty and
would enjoy the additional advantage of
being fair. One of these measures is about
as inquisatorial as the other, but the income
tax is impartial and the other is not.
FO —
~The bricklayers began work on
Wednesday laying brick on the wing of the
Bellefonte hospital.
within two years, they can register on she |
the local ticket, to eave the District Astor.
Reform in Schuylkill County.
A% might have been expected, the ballot
reform movement in Sohaylkill county bas
degenerated into a farce. The ballot frauds
of which Judge BRUMM complained so ve-
bemently were largely perpetrated by Re-
publican voters at the inatance of the Re-
publican machive. The parpose of those
concerned in them was to nominate a Re-
publican candidate for Sheriff who would
be servile to the machine leaders aud the
evidence indicates thas moss of the elestion
officers who violated she law were Repub-
licans. Bas only Demooratic members of
the boards are being prosecuted and of the
tbrze Connsy Commissioners eaid to be in-
volved only the minorisy member, who is
a Demooras, has been indicted.
We are earnestly in favor of punishing
the perpetrators of electoral frauds. Con-
fidence in the integrity of the vote and re-
turns of elections is essential to conteat-
ment with she results. But reform move-
ments which are inspired by partisan prej-
adices aud are conducted for partisan el-
fect, accomplish no good and the Schayl-
kill county ballot reform movement: is of
that variety. If the Republican machine
managers even imagined thas corruption
might be checked by their activity in the
direction of reform, they would avoid is as
a pestilence. Geonine ballot reform and
honest prosecution of electoral frands
woald eend moss of she Republican leaders
of Schaylkill connty to prison.
We bad no faith in the sincerity of she
Sobuylkill county reforms movement from
the beginning and yes we oherished a fee-
ble hope that it might ges beyond the oon-
trol of those who originated it and develop
some practical good. Bas in the face of
recent movements we are compelled to
abaodon thas hope. The movement was
began, uot to purify the polisios of the
county or improve the morals of the poli-
ticians. Is was to exploit certain sinister
political interests and the pity is that it
has accomplished the result. As veoal the
Democrats ges the wore of the affair bat
Democrats who will engage in political
traffic with she Schuylkill Republican ma-
chine deserve all they get.
Ne Decrease of the Army.
Wa are not surprised shas President 08
TAFT denies the report shat he contem-
plates a decrease in the numerical strength
of the army. That be would like to re-
duce the expenses of the government may
be accepted as true. Unless something is
accomplished in thas direction in the near
futare disaster is inevitable for the revenue
deficit is assuming alarming proportions
aud the new tariff bill promises no relief.
Bat there will be no cutting of expenses as
the expense of the army. TAFT is even
more eager than ROOSEVELT for a large ar-
my and bas given it as his opinion that the
force of enlisted men ought so be 300,000
instead of 88,000, the presents complements.
Oo the subject of the army aod navy
TAFT is not a reactionary. Ever since the
Spanish war the polioy of the dominant
leaders of the Republican party bas been
toward militarism. The idea is to make
the government so strong, from a military
view point, that discontent may alwaye be
kept down by force. With this purpose
in view the control of the State militia bas
been practically assamed by the govern-
ment at Washington and even the brigade
encampments of the National Guard are
dominated by officers of the regular army.
To recede from this policy even in so far
as might be necessary to prevent the bank-
raptoy of the treasury wounld involve the
subversion of the ROOSEVELT policies.
For a considerable period after the close
of the Civil war the regular army was com-
posed of 25,000 enlisted men and sufficient
officers to discipline them. At thas time,
however, the State militia was ineflicicens
and, eo far as military service was oonoern-
ed, useless. Now we have 88,000 enlisted
men and a fall complement of officers and
the organization of the force bas been com-
plete.y Earopeanized. There is no more
reason for a large army now thao there
was then except as a mediom of wasting
money and keepiog the tax burdens of the
people ruinous. Bat President Tarr will
not recommend a changelin the force that
will in any way diminish is. He is in fa-
vor of adding to it.
——]If you have a Democratic friend or
neighbor who is sick or away from home,
or negligent in such matters, see to it that
bis name is upon the Registry before the
list closes on Wednesday, September 1st.
This can’t be attended to alter that date.
— Don’t fail to see that your own son,
or your neighbor's son, who voted on age
last fall, is registered. He cannot vote il
he is not. And Wednesday, September
1st, is the last day that this important
matter can be attended to.
~The form for the ballot to be voted
at the election next November bas been
made up at the state department in Har-
risburg and without the local sioket it will
be twenty-two by Sweuty-six inches in
size.
909.
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NO. 34.
The Mighty Harriman.
From the Lancaster [utelligencer,
Edward H. Harrimao—maoy times mil.
ad Dugas <1 Sie pro
“wan
earth,” sud who certainly wants what
any a pens fav bas, rdbust health, and
contentment thas generally goes with
it—Edward H. Harriman TE oe home
from across the Atlantic reassuring anxious
stock speoulstors with confidens deolara-
sions as to his own health and with equal-
iy confident reaffirmations of the cheerful-
uess of the business outlook.
The health of an American railroad king
has come to be a master of as vital interest
oo this side of the sea as the health ofa
crowned monarch oo the other side. When
a man controls so many railroads it may
make considerable difference whether he
aleo coutrols his d and other vital
tanotions with a degree of comforts calon-
lated so prolong his life so tbat he will be
likely to carry through bis projects. That
is where the life insurance business comes
in, and often it is where the accumulator
of millions goes out like a souflfed candle,
leaving his fortane to he scattered and all
bis baogers-on in the dark. Y
Therefore it is a relief to hear that the
great and only Harriman claims $0 have
recovered health if not weight, and is just
as sure as he was three months ago that
the farmers will realize for all the pation
that retarn of proaperity for which pre.
paratigne have so long and elaborate-
y e.
We hardly needed a Solomon, nor yeta
Harriman, to tell us this about the crops
aud prosperity, but it sounds pleasant, and
we may be glad to bear is, and tbe other
things be tells abous the past and fatare.
The conolusion of the whole matter is
that we have been, are and shall be a great
people, with great snd also great
Srotble; among the latter being our Har.
mans.
On Fall Time.
From the Pittsburg Post.
There is weeping and wailing aod gnash-
ing of teeth in Philadel a the
acting direotor of one of the city depart.
ments bas established a much-needed re.
ivasily andes ha” supeerivion shall Work
u su work
during the foll time for which they are
~—n0 more, uo less. Which means that
& is of no avail for shem to apply for leaves
of absence i ste week-end or 4% bane bt
games, or er special leges to
whioh they have hitherto deemed thém-
selves entitled. t
This is a course thas will appeal strongly
to the business instincts of the taxpayer.
How much of the great cost of
the municipal machinery is due to loss si
rough the granting of these favors v
be computed. Directly, it would amount
to a great deal. Indirectly, it would
amonut to hardly less in breeding a spirit
of indifference to the pablia good, in de-
stroying thas conscientious devotion to duty
which makes for the greatest efficiency.
Petty officeholders are too much disposed
to regard shemeselves as privileged persons,
entitled to special concessions, and under
no compulsion to give value received for
their emoluments. Political pull is largely
responsible for this erroneous belief. The
same standards should apply in the public
service which control the organization of
private business.
The Same is True im Bellefonte.
From the Shamokin Dispatch.
The complaint of some of Shamokin’s
merchants that the large mail order houses
are taking away hondrede and thousands
of dollars of Shamokin money every year
that ought to be spent with bome srades-
men is nos withous foundation. Is is un-
questionably true. Is is also true that
liberal and judicions advertising is the
method whioh they employ to take the
trade away from Shamokin merchants and
some of those who complain the most about
losing trade are the ones who are doing the
least to offset the efforts of the mail order
houses. Any Shamokin merchant can get
aud keep his bome trade if he will offer the
same inducements as the mail order houses
and Spend a few dollars in advertising the
tact that he does so. If people are told
that a home merchant will duplicate any
article in a mail order catalogue, thereby
savivg the Sustomer the fra, the trade
will stay at home. The only practical way to
tell this faos to the le, is by newspaper
advertising. Regular advertisers in the
Dispatch are not sumpiaigiug about mail
order houses og their e away from
them and there is no occasion for any
Shamokin merchant letting home trade go
ous of town. Mees the prices of competi-
tors and liberally advertise the fact that
you will do so and Shamokin money will
ctay in Shamokin.
The Same Old Confidence Game,
From the Chicago Public.
“From every section and nearly ev
trade comes a report of confidence SD
and the eager looking forward $o the good
times that are sure to come with the re.
sumption of business after summer.” This
PE ody viel Rai
to the ne
ohorus of prosperity flim-flam, whioh ~
broken oat every month or two for the past
ear and a ball. “‘Optimism,’’ they ocall
6. Itisa ‘“‘new thought'’ method applied
to business depressions. If yon don’t see
Pp ty, say you see it and she fools will
think you do. Yoa will come to think so
Foal! 4 ou are one of the fools. And
f you think youn see something you don’t
see, you do see it alter all, don’t yon? as
the lunatio said to his keeper.
DF Sept. Ist
Do you ask why we point to that date?
It you are not registered on or before that
time, your vote may be lost. It is the last
day that you can register, if you are a vot.
er in a country or borough district. Don’t
fail to attend to this matter at once.
~—You miss a good thing it you don’s
take the WATCHMAN.
spawis from the Keystone.
—Mauoy Clearfield county cabbage growers
bave bad their ~rops suffer this year asthe
result of the depredations of the cabbage
worms,
—Carrolitown council decided to purchase
8 pew steam water pump with a eapacity of
10,000 gallons an hour, It will be ready by
September,
—Farmers near Lewistown state that last
week's rains meant much to the mid-sum-
mer crop of vegetables, although they came
too late to help potatoes,
—Wallace Bratton Record, one of the old-
est and most esteemed citizens of Clearfield
county, died at his home in Grabam town.
ship, at the advanced age of 97 years.
—All the mines at Madera over which H.
B. Swoope has charge sre ranning to their
full capacity. This is the first time all these
‘mines have been working for fifteen months.
~The DuBois iron works, even during
the business depression, worked straight
ahead are now increasing their market. The
shops are preparing to ship a car load of ene
gives to New Orleans.
—The Indiava Gas company has transferred
its holdings in the vicinity of Indiana to the
American Natural Gas company of Pittsburg.
The consideration ie thought to be about
$200,000. The new owners take possession at
once.
—From the coal fields comes the news that
a general advance in the price of coal, both
bituminous and anthracite, is expected in
the next few weeks. The first increase will,
it is generally thought, be in the neighbor-
hood of 25 centy a ton.
—Labor Day in Clearfield this year is
going to be one of the biggest events the
town has ever seen. The Odd Fellows’ te-
uaion and the business men’s picnic will be
the big features of the day. A fine program
of sports and amusements has been prepared.
—John Mitchell, former president of the
United Mine Workers of America, will ads
dress the miners at Philipsburg on September
13. The mivers of that region have been on
a strike for some time, and the talk will, it
is thought, have direct bearing on the issues.
—Miss Marggaret Kauffman, a Coatesville
printer, was climbing a paper cutter to get
some stationery when her long hair caught
in the shafting overhead. She was suspend-
ed in the sir until her hair pulled out by the
roots. When she fell to the floor she was
unconscious. °
~The Shensudoah Water company sank
an artesian well to the depth of 363 feet and
it gushed water at the rate of 86,400 gallons
daily. Now the company will sink the well
to a depth of 600 feet and expects a propor.
tionate increase in the output. This will
solve all water dificuities.
~The strike of the 400 workmen employ.
ed on the new Oliver building of Pittsburg
is settled. The laborers quit first, demanding
an increase of wages and the engineers and
plumbers quit in sympathy. Both sides
rade concessions and as the men got their
incrsase everything was settled in a manner
satisfactory to all.
—@George Papavero, a cobbler of 8heflic 1d,
was visited by a couple of men who asked
0g | him to put up his life savings of $1,200 to
ir $7,000 to invest in the shoe business.
“They agreed to put all the $8200ina box
and give the whole thingto him to keep.
The box was given to him, and after they
had left he found that it was empty.
—Steam railroads of the state killed a total
of 141 employes in the six months ending
June 30, 1909, and in the same period injure
ed 2,736 employes, as shown by a report
jssued by the state railroad commission.
Within three months ending March 1, 74
employes were killed and 1,369 injured,
while in the quarter ending June 30, 67 were
killed and 1,367 injured.
~The state department of public instruce
tion bas issued a pamphlet showing a list of
the high schools in the State and classifying
them according to their grade. The Lewis.
town high school is shown to be the only
firstelass school of this class between Harrise
burg and Altoona. This school will therefore
receive an appropriation of $450. The second
grade institutions receive $337.50 aunually,
while the third grade receive only $225.
—Work will begin in ashort time ona
new federal building for Johnstown. The
appropriation made by the government for
the purpose of a site aud the erection of the
structure is $210,000—850,000 of which it was
thought, would be sufficient for the buying
of the ground. But Johnstown property is
very dear and it will cost over 830,000 for
the site alone, which prompts Congressman
Reynold to try and get au increased appro-
priation.
—Jacob Kammerdiener has started pro-
ceedings in Kittanning to recover $35,000
damages from Reyburn township for the
death of his bride of a few weeks. The cou-
ple were driving in the township when their
horse scared at a train. It dashed down over
an embankment, and in spite of all efforta
made to save her the woman was drowned in
the Allegheny river in which she landed.
Kammerdiener says that the township is re
sponsible for her death on account of the
parrowness of the road and the fact that no
guard rail protected it.
—Prisoners who were discovered to be dig-
ging a tunnel at the Pittsburg penitentiary,
and who at the (ime they were caught had
eight feet excavated, are short term men and
are thought to have been in the employ of
certain persons imprisoned in the place om
financial charges. It bas been thought that
the subway may also have bee iniended as
a roadway to freedom for Boyle, the kid.
paper of Willie Whitla. The diggers are in
solitary confinement, and the authorities
bope to get a confession from them. Out.
siders are alleged to have aided in the at.
tempt.
=J.T. L. Haire, a prominent socialist of
Flemington, Clinton county, is alleged to
have ordered goods through the mail from
well known eastern firms and not to have
paid for them. He was given a bearing on
the charge of using the mails for fraudulent
purposes and held in $500 bail for appearance
before the United States district court at
Williamsport on the second Monday in Jan.
vary, 1010, The accused is said by his
friends to have acted in good faith and the
accusing firms are just trying to force a pay-
ment of the bills through the government,
according to them.