BY RP. GRAY MEEK.
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—Whenever eversthing elve fails there is |
always that ABRUZZI-ELEINS affair to drag
out again. |
—1t Cook's two Esquimanx didn’t know |
anything aboas the pole how much more
did PEARY'S one.
—Straw hats have been called in, but
whas is the fellow to do who basn’s she
price of auvother oue.
—Even the Grangers seem to have lost
their little kink of bringing rain every
time they get together for their ausnual
picnic as Centre Hall.
—Colleges have opened and already the
likely candidates for the line and back eld
positions are of more importance than she
ourriculoms cr the professors.
~The performance of the stock market
for the past few days seems to indicate thas
Mr. HARRIMAN'S going dido's sake all of
the bullishness out of it anyway.
—A snow storm in Colorado and beat to
105° in Texas in the same day larnishes a
variety of olimate that ought to please both
the pole sharks and the ice cream fiends.
—Was it envy or emulation of Mr.
HuUxsTER'S feat of Killing a cow with his
automobile that prompted Mr. WAGNER
to knook one of his lights off on a hovine
head ?
~The Board of Pablio Grounds and
Buildings ie atill wrestling with the Quay
statue. Even the effigy of ‘‘the old man”
seems a most difficult thieg for some of
them to tackle.
—The Standard Oil Co. paid a goarterly
dividend of six dollars a share on Wednes-
day. Whatever may be the condition of
other concerus is is evidens thas she Oe-
topas still octopes.
—We hope chairman HOWARD SARGENT,
of ove of Philipsburg’s *'Old Home Week"
committees, is feeling better than be looks
in the piotare the North American publish-
ed yesteaday morning.
—*The North Pole Hat" is the new
thing for the fall in women’s head gear.
We baven’s seen it yes, bot we presume it
will look like an inverted ice cream cone,
with a few cookies on is.
—Another American girl bas married
into the nobility. Miss ANITA STEWART,
of New York, is the bride of the Portugese
Prince of Braganza. While she was after
the BREAGANZA be was probably after a
"bonanza and be got it.
.=It will cost one hundred avd eighty-
four million dollars to ran the government
of New York city next year. Twenty-five
years ago it didn’t cost that much to run
the United States government. We Amer-
ioans are going some, though.
~The President’s trip is to cover 12239
miles. In every inch of it he will see sights
that should convince him that a tariff that
promised revision downward, when it
actually revises upward, is not making the
land blossom like he probably hoped is
would.
—The deposed Sultan of Tarkey is writ
ing a history of his reign. If he should de-
vote a chapter or two to telling how he man-
aged his hundreds of wives lots of poor fel-
lows we know ol who can’t manage one
would bail it asa light ip their wliderness
of darkness.
—Mr. and Mrs. ANTHONY PETLIN, of
Rice's Landing, certainly bad a hos time
the first night of their married lite. Their
house took fire and burned down giving
them merely time to escape in their night-
ies. Of all times, what an unpropitions
one for a fire.
—PEARY is gettiug entirely too gabby
abous his trip to the Pole. Is is well that
Dr. Cook has sense enough to keep quiet ;
elee the public would soon put them in the
olass with the pugilistic pugs who fight
most of their battles by calling each other
names through the sporting pages of our
metropolitan papers.
—The postal business of the world is in-
creasing at the rate of seven per cent. per
year. Bt is not a surprise. The population
is increasing at nearly the same ratio and
as education advances and the postal serv-
ice expands there cannot bat be a constant
ly increasing use of the mails for social,
educational and business purposes.
~The President had five pounds of candy
with him when be boarded she train at
Utica, N. Y., for his long journey around
the country. Possibly he has some gum
drops io the package. Cook is said to have
used gam drops with good effect on the
Esquimanx and it would be just like Tarr
$c undertake to keep the dissatisfied west.
erners in 8 good humor with candy.
—United States Senator OLIVER was at
the Granger's picnic yesterday and while
there may not have been any surface in-
dications as to the rivalry among local Re-
publican leaders for hie smiles, the rivalry
was there all right enough. And the long
political prophet looks forward toa time
when another Republican editor in Belle-
fonte might think tbat he is entitled to the
postoffice. The seed is planted. Wateh is
grow,
—That Saratoga conference of] promi”
nent Demoorats of New York was a fine
gathering. The principles enunciated were
traly Democratic and all that,but the tron.
ble with it was that the fellows who can be
depended on to get out the vote when eleo-
tion day comes round were not there. "Tis
true thas our leaders would help much by
together but the greatest results
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Falae Pretense of Candidates,
Io opening the Repablicac campaign at
Allentown, she other day, both the candi-
dates of that party who parsicipated in the
meeting ealogized the administration of
their respective offices by Governor STUART,
Auditor General YoUuxG and State Treas.
urer SHEATZ. “Vote for Vox MoscH-
ZISKER, SrssoN aud STOBER,” they said
substantially, *‘is order to guarantee the
continaance of the wise policies of the pres.
ent officials.” Because the presens officials
have not been as bad as shey might bave
been S1ssoN and STOBER ask the people to
elect in their places men who are certain
pos to disappoint the worst expectations.
RoseRT K. YOUNG, the present Aaditor
General, wae a Representative in the Legis.
latare during the session of 1899 and J. A.
STOBER was a Senator in the Geoeral As-
sembly daring the same session. Mr.
YouNG was among the leaders of what
were then known as ‘‘the insurgents,” and
STOBER was a servile follower of the regu:
lars. It is safe to say that they dido’s vote
on the same side of any political question
daring the entire session, though professing
to represent the same party. Every legis-
lative day for nearly four mobths they eat
together in joint session and never in a sin-
gle instance voted for the same candidate
for United States Senator. Daring the ses-
sions of 1902 to 1906 JoHX O. SHEATZ sat
in the House while STOBER occupied a seat
in the Senate and the records show that in
nine times ous of every ten they voted on
opposite sides of party measures. Mr,
SHEATZ was not a consistent reformer. He
was not always able to assert his inde-
pendence of the machine. But in most
oases he defied the authority of the bosses
whiie STOBER was invariably the most serv-
ileand obedient creasare in either branch
of the Legislature.
Sevator S1ssoN, the Republican nominee
tor Auditor General, hecame a Senator in
the General Assembly with the beginning
of the session of 1901 and from 1903 until
the close of the session of 1907 sas in that
body while Mr. SHEATZ occupied a seat in
the co-ordinate branch. Daring that time
much of the iniguitons iegirlation which
brought shame aud disgrace to the Com-
monwealth, was enected. As we have al.
ready stated SHEATZ was not always moral.
ly strong enough to vote against the man-
dates of the machine bat SissoN was al.
ways sufficiently subservient to sapport the
most infamous measures. In private ocon-
versation he freely deplored the degeneracy
of the body of which he was a member,but
whenever he was called so vote or give
public expression to bis views on questions
in issue, he obeyed the orders of the hosses.
The railway franchise bills, tbe ripper bills,
the PUBL and other measurea designed to
protect the white-slave trade in Pbiladel-
phia, aud in fact all legislation which the
machine desired, was supported by Sisson,
He koew better, He may have been asham-
ed of bis work but he performed it ander
boss orders.
What right have these recreants to hide
bzhind the persons of Governor STUART,
Auditor General YouxGg and State Treas:
urer SHEATZ? Even they bave been de-
linquent. They lack the militant integrity
which is needed in the offices they occupy.
If there bad been a genuine reformer io the
office of Governor duriag the pass two years
and a-balt for example, there would be no
question now as to whether or not the cap-
itol grafters should be punished. It ie
noticeable that since the retirement of WiL.
Liam H. BERRY there bave been no ex-
posures on ‘The Hill.” It is not because
there is nothing to expose, but for the reason
that exposures hurt the party. Therefore
the present officials are not models bat they
are far better than the present candidates
of their party would be if elected and Sis.
soN and STOBER ate impudent false pre.
tenders when they ask voters to support
themeelves in order to prolong the policies
of the present officials.
Mr. Peary and Mr. Cook.
Commander RosERT E. PEARY may
have beew at the North Pole on that day of
April, 1908, upon which he claims to have
discovered that important pars of the globe,
But be doesn’t act Mke a man who had
achieved such a resnlt in the interest of
science or hamanity. Men of great hero-
ism and achievement are usually unselfish,
As a rale they care less lor the pecuniary
side of their enterprises than for the altruis.
tic consequences. They strive for the bet.
terment of mankind and the world. They
are sustained in their perils and privations
by the enthusiasm which flows from a heart
throbbing with benevolent emotions.
Commander PEARY appears to be differ-
ent. His impulses are purely commercial.
He reveals more the spirit of Chatham
street than the hopes of s hero. Before he
started ou his journey he sold the informa-
tion which he hoped to acquire, largely at
other people's expense, and hedged the
good he might accomplish so completely
that it was certain to give him the greatest
smonnt of pecuniary advantage and the
public the least usefal information and at
would come il our workers were to get
together
the highest price. DR. Cook didn’t pursue
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
so selfish a course. He proceeded with his
work notil it was finished and then gave
his information to she public as free as air.
Then Commander PEARY might not bave
been at the North Pole at all. He might
bave beep some piace in the direction of
the pole where the information of Cook's
achievement could bave reached him and
when be heard of the discovery by Cook he
might bave hurried back to present his
claim and organize his absurd quarrel with
the real discoverer. There is nothing in
his statement inconsistent with this conjeo-
ture. The data be bad acquired in pre-
vious attempts to reach the pole and thas
be is alleged tp have seized ip COOK'S camp
on his last trip might easily make up bis
story. Men who achieve great things don’t
act as be has acted.
False Hopes of Prosperity.
A short time ago Mr. James J. HiLL,
the best authority in the country on in-
dustrial conditions and crop prospects,
admonished the public against false hopes
of prosperity. There has been some im-
provements, he said, in consequence of the
vast orope of this year. Lahor was em-
ployed in barvesting and marketing the
fraits of the s0il and generons wages paid
for the work. Bat there bas heen no sub-
stantial or enduring improvement in the
industrial conditions of the country, and
there can be no snch improvement while
wages continue low and the necessaries of
life high. The margin between the receipts
aod expenditures of the average family,
where there is any margin at all, is too
small to build bopes upon.
It is all weli enough to read in the
metropolitan papers of industrial activity
in one section and another and we have no
doubt the improvements relerred to are
actual. But with eggs, meas, vegetables
aod clothing at record prices even the
workingmen who get the benefit of the em-
ployment in question are unable to save
anything ous of their wages to meet the
exigencies of sickness or other forms of mis.
fortune. The price of olothing is to be ad-
vansed from $2.50 to $10 a suis, we notice
in the commercial columus of our city con-
temporaries. The price of shoes will be
increased from fifty cents to a dollar a
pair, we learn through the same source of
information and in view of these facts we
can’t see how the average workingman can
view the approach of winter with con.
fidence.
There ought to be abundance in this
country for every industrions man. With
a yield of eight billions of dollars from the
fertile soil the prices of necessaries of life
ought to be so reasonable that every work-
iugman would have a safe margin between
his receipts and expeuditures. Bat the
policy of the Republican party has created
trusts and fostered such combinations to
regulate prices that while the producers ges
comparatively little out of their abund-
ance, the consumers are ground hetween
the upper and nether millstones of cor-
porate greed until there is nothing before
them except dispair. The remedy is in
voting those responsible for the conditions
that weigh so heavy upon the great masses,
when everything is in such great plenty,
out of power and this year is the time do is.
Tatt's Unhappy Campaign Speech.
President TAFT started on his 13,000
mile dectioneering tour the other day wish
a speech in Boston which must bave great-
ly discouraged his friends. The features
of his address were first an eulogy om Sep-
ator ALDRICH, secondly a plea for central-
ization of the money power of the country
and last a puerile attack upon Govervor
Jouxson,of Minnesota, whom he imagines
may be his competitor in the next Presi-
dential campaign. Neither of these fea-
Jura will appeal to intelligent popular
avor.
Probably the most important of these
features is his attempt to popularize the
Wall Street proposition ofa central bank
of issue with absolute authority to control
not only the but the volume of
the currency. ith euch an institution
in operation it wonldn’t be worth while
for anybody to run against TAFT if he hap-
pened to be the candidate of the ‘‘financial
machine.” HARRY Traw or HARRY
ORCHARD would ke equally certain of
election under such circumstances for the
*‘Central Bank’ would have power to cre-
ate. prolong or stop panics at ite pleasure.
Alter his election and before his inauga-
ration President TAFT declared in a speech
delivered in New York that umless Con-
grees fulfilled its obligation to reviee the
tariff downward in purenance of the
pledges of the Republican party, he would
be ashamed to hold the office to which be
had been elected and the party would be
unworthy of future popular confidence.
Congress didn’t revise the tariff downward
and TAFT not only approved the violation
of the pledge with indecent haste but now
fulsomely enlogizes the man responsible for
the reoreancy.
His puerile attack on Governor JOHN-
SOX may easily be dismissed as the poison-
Me Bp lei
r dinoer es are nently
digested and apprehension of she future
appears to have inflamed the President's
spleen to such an extent that he can’t be
exactly just to Governor Jomxsox. In
any event, bowever, there is nothing in
what Governor JOHNSON bas said abot
the east and west to justify the bad-tem-
pered criticism of the ent.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 17, 1909.
Popular Education Menaced.
The Philadelphia schools opened on
Monday with 15,000 children ‘‘outside of
the breastworks.”” That is to say there
are that many children of school uge and
entitled to the privilege of attending the
public schools of the city who are unable
todo so because the scbool facilities are
inadequate. The council chambers are
models of elegance and luxury. According
to the local newspapers there is nothing to
be desired with respect to shem. There
are marble galleries and alabaster railings
everywhere and luxuriously (furnished
rooms for the members of municipal legie-
latare and their friends to lounge in. The
Mayor of the city bas been provided with
a room in which every modern convenience
is present. Bus 15,000 school children of
that city are withoant the facilities to exer-
cise not only their natural right to attend
sohool bat their legal right to the oppor-
tunities of she school system.
Mayor REYBURN is urgently in favor of
expensive boulevards for the use of owners
of automobiles and she machine which is
responsible for his administration is ever
ready to borrow money to invest in snch
luxaries. Philadelphia business men and
bossés, raise yearly hundreds of thousands
of dollars, to debauch elections and protect
the villians who commit she crimes, but
any proposition to appropriate public fands
to provide essentials for the primary edu-
cation of the children of the community is
frowned upon as a waste of materialjand
opportanity. Popular education contrib.
ates nothing toward the maintenance of
the machine. In fact the public schools
are a menace to machine government. The
moment people acquire sufficient education
to reason from cause to effect the citadel
of the political boss is threatened. Ignor-
ance and servility go baad in band. Iilit-
eracy is the source of partisan supersti-
tion and providing funds for public schools
is equivalent to contributing support to a
movement to abolish partisan political ma-
chinery.
Until recently the infamous municipal
machine which bas misgoverned Philadel-
I
: gs >
it may be said that thelate Senator QUAY
would not permis soch a usurpation of
power. Loos the city to your heart's con-
tent, he said substantially, to DURHAM,
MARTIN, MCNICHOL and the VARES, bat
keep piltering fingers ont of State aflairs.
Upon bis death, however,conditions chavg-
ed, and the Philadelphia bosses began ae-
serting themselves in State conventions
and assumed anthority to direct the busi-
ness of the Legislature. In the recent State
convention which nominated Vox Mosca
ZISKER, S1ssoN and SroBER, Senator Mc-
NicHOL was the directing force and the
people of the State may soon expect to see
the educational policy of the city, which
leaves 15.000 children without sohool
facilities, extended to all parts of the
State.
on Faise Pretenses,
In his speech at Allentown last Satur.
day, Senator S1ssoN, Republican candidate
for Auditor General, attributed the com-
wercial and industrial improvemens, which
is said to have set in, to the ALDRICH tar-
iff law recently enacted. The ALDRICH
tariff law, according to tbe experts who
have been wrestling with it, increased the
DINGLEY schedules on a great number of
articles and reduced them on a few. Al-
together, however, the ALDRICH bill made
Claims Based
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a considerable increase in the tariff rates of
recent years, and il thas polioy bas worked
av improvement in industria! and commer:
cial conditions, President TAFT must have
been mistaken when he advocated tariff re-
vision downward before and after his elec
tion.
At the same meeting former State Sena-
tor STOBER, machine Republican candidate
for State Treasurer,spoke of the freedom of
the Ssate from debt and asked for a vote of
confidence in the Republican party,
through his election and that of Sissox, as
a reward for wise financiering. Yet during
their terme of service in the General As.
sembly both Sissox and StoBer did dll in
their power to delay the payment of the
state debt, by voting for every profligas.
expenditure that was proposed in the in-
terest of the machine. The policies under
which the State debt have been paid were
adopted long before the Republican party
came into power in the State and the Re-
publican machiue had nothing to do with
the achievement.
Thes both the Republican candidates
have predicated their claims wpon popular
favor on false pretenses. If there have
been any real improvements in the indus.
trial and commercial conditions of the
country they are ascribable to other causes
bry pai tap Ag CE Rig
aggregate value t ons
dollars it bie be cally impossible
to keep industrial life inactive and though
the overtaxation of the people will impair
the advantage of such a yield of the soil to
some extent, it cannot entirely destroy it.
With respect to the state debs the Repub-
lican machine would have multiplied it if
conditions oreated belore it got control had
not prevented. This is induced by the fi
nancial condition of every county and
y
every municipality in the State that ite
creatures ol.
X0.3%.
Prosperity is Returning.
From the Omaha Herald,
From Chicago comes the cheeriog news
of a radical advauce in the price of meats.
This advavce follows similar advances,
made with monotonous regularisy every
three or six months ever since the famons
“‘smav<hing of she Beef Trust’’ by Roose:
velt, Sag 9a Stal. Avan nieans greater
prosperity for poor ers.
Recently the price of milk was radically
advanced in Omaha. When the city an:
thorisies, however, sought to prevefs, by
enforcing the strict letter of the law, she
sale of milk from suherculous cows, a com-
plaisaot jadge stepped in with a writs of
wojuoction. Itis all right for the milk
men to cowbine to raise prices. Thecourts
bave nothing 10 say as to that. Bat when
the city officials insist that their dear milk
must be reasonably free from filth and poi-
son and disease, the ready writ of injunc-
tion elips easily into place. This means
greater prosperisy for the poor milk men.
Immediately following the passage of
the Aldrich tariff bill it was aopounced
that the average suit of clothes will cost
some §5 more this coming winter than is
cost last winter. This means greater pros-
geri for the poor woolen mill proprie-
It is also aunounced that cotton and
woolen goods generally, of she kind used
to make dresses for mother aud the little
girls, are already started for a long march
up the incline of higher prices. This means
greater prosperity for a lot more of poor
mill owners.
The prices of provisions of all sorts, in-
cluding butter, eggs, poultry and all re.
frigerated products, though they have held
up at unprecedentedly high prices daring
the summer, are ex to olimb this
winter $0 new notches, that will make
even Dr. Cook’s North Pole record look
sick by comparison. This means more
prosperity for the combine, which the Beet
Trust is backing, if indeed it does not con.
trol is, that bandies practically all farm
products except the staple grains and
cereals.
All along the line prosperity is return:
ing. Its other name is High Prices. It is
a prosperity produced by trusts and com-
binations for the exclusive benefit of the
owners of those trusts and combinations. Is
isa’ ty’ produced in open and in-
solent defiance of she anti-trust laws on the
federal statute hooks and on the state
statute books.
Bat for the man who has to pay for this
prosperity, who bas to furnish is, not much
of it is returning. We mean the
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salaries, maintained a pretty even
level, being lower on theaverage, however,
than they were a couple of years ago. If
the wage-earvers anywhere try to assert
their right to some share in the general
prosperity, as in Pennsylvauia recently,
they are likely to be evicted from their
homes, shat out from their jobs by stook-
ades and left to starve with their families,
while cheaper labor is shipped in from
other places to work under a guard of re.
peativg rifles and gatling guns. This
cheaper labor is paid ‘‘high American
wages,’’ ranning from 60 cents to $1 20a
day.
Owmaba wage-earners may rejoice in re-
tarning prosperity. It means much to
them, with Sheir wages at the same old
figure, to be permitted to pay a cent a quart
more for milk, several cents a pound more
for meat and butter, several centsa dozen
more for eggs, a few dollars more for a
cheap sait of clothes, a few ceats a yard
more for dress goods for the wife and ohil-
dren, and perbape a few dollars more rent
‘‘because e thing else is higher.” It
means a great deal !
It means smaller Suanta io we
means a poorer equipment for the obil-
dren as they start the battle of lite. Is
means more skimping and self denial. It
means more worry and sleepless nights. It
means more heart-ache for mother.
Bat, at the other end of the line—it
means more multi-williovaires, bigger
dividends, more water in the stocks, a
wilder satarnalia of flanuting extravagance,
a dissipation, moral, social and financial,
run riot.
Prosperity is returning—by the simple
process of running the bodies of the poor
through the cider will, while privilege
stands ready and expectant with a bigger
dipper.
be ed
A Gigantic Lottery.
From the Portland (Ore.) Journal.
Io railroad fare'and other expenses, §3,-
000,000 was paid out hy those who recent
Ivy played bands in the gigantic land lot-
tery oondacted by the government on
vorth west Indian reservations. The same
authority estimates that an additional §1,-
000,000 will he similarly expended by
those who drew prizes. Further informa.
tion is shat in many cases the lands drawn
are of little value as an asset for remunera-
tive endeavor. The upshot of the whole
incident is a wide conviction that a ocolos-
sal blunder has been made by those who
were in charge of affairs for she govern-
mens. It has mes, as it ought to, with
condempation by the press throughout the
country.
The enormons sum extracted from the
people makes of the prooess one of the most
Siilatie games of history. Eight million
ollars us a part of the stakes, and waie
than 300,000 people in the list of the
players, puts this government lottery in a
class by itself and places the government
officials who sat as ‘‘dealers” at the head
of class in any known game of obance. It
is a proceedings of which all those who rep-
resented the goverument ought to be
ashamed. The government of the United
States should be in better business. Pri:
vate citizens accessory to a lottaty of one-
thousandth the magnitude would be sent
to jail or be made to pay a heavy fine,
or both. What of the statesmavsbip that
this bosiness upon the ocoun-
try? What,of the officialdom that insists
that the only way to equitably distribute
Indian laude is to entice the people into
playing a game of chanoe for them?
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~Subsoribe for the WaTcHMAN.
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spawis from the Keystone.
~The man hunters who were searching
Lewistown Narrows for the lone bandit whe
eld up the Peunsyivania railroad train were
paid §3 a day aud their meals. Many Lewis
towners availed themselves of the op~
portunity.
~The Spangler Water company has let
the contract for the building of a large reser.
voir on Brown's run to supply Barnesbore
with water. Polo Azra, of Barneshoro, was
the successful bidder, his consideration be-
ing $23.000,
| =—Nine families bare moved to Williams-
vort from Reedsville during the past week,
| on account of the removal of the plant of the
| Smith Printing Co., from Reedsville to Wil-
liamsport. The company employs about
thirty five hands.
~As the result of the recent raiding of slot
gambling machines in Johnstown fifty are
rests were made. Some of the merchants are
going to fight the thing out in court. Three
warrants have been issued for men who are
charged with distributing the machines.
~The plant at Yeagertown, Miffiin coun~
ty, of the Yeagertown Water Power com-
pany, is vow completed. It is along the
Kishacoqnillas creek and is one of the most
ap to-date electric power plants in the State.
There is a total invested capital of $100,000.
— The new Frankitn and Clearfield branch
of the New York Central gives that system
access to the bituminous coal district. One
wile cost $2 500,000 to complete. The reason
for the high cost of this was that it contains
three bridges aud two tuunels of 1,000 feet
each.
=Ou Sept 20 next, Rt. Rav. Eugene A.
Garvey, bishop of the Altooua diocese of the
Roman Catholic church, will have completed
forty years of service in the priesthood, and
the event will be celebrated in an wppropri-
ate manuver by the clergy of the Altoona
diocese.
—While excavating ou the land of Charles
Ferguson, about two miles out of Blairsville,
the bones of fifty Indian warriors were dis-
covered. Among them were arrowheads,
spearheads, lanceheads and articles made of
flint and obsidion. The whole collection will
be sent to the Smithsonian institute.
—Fravk Falkeuostive, of near York, saved
$750 by carelessness. He put the money
into a drawer avd forgot to lock it up. The
family went to a picnic and when they came
back all the locked drawers in the house
were pried oper and valuables taken from
them, but the money was undisturbed.
—Two new kilns are very uearly come
pleted at the Silica Brick company's works
in Mouut Union. The demand for the pro-
duct of these works is so great that two
more kilns are to be built, adding fifty per
cent. to the capacity of the institution. This
will make it possible to put on the market
60,000 bricks a day.
~=During the past twoand a half years
Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust has
been in charge, 330 prosecutions for viola~
tious of the oleomargarive law have
Con i FYB RIE we
cases have enriched the treasury $33,
—John Wheeler, a wealthy farmer of
Dixonville, Indiana county, received threats
ening letters from blackmailers who threat.
eued to blow up his house if he did not put
$15.000 under a certain bridge. He put the
money there and put detectives to watch the
place. Nobody turned up to take the money
and the sleuths are unable to ind any clew
to the culprits.
«Ail hopes of ever running down the ban.
dit who held up and robbed theexpress train
in Lewistown Narrows, almost two weeks
ago, has practically been given up and Mon.
day the last of the force of men stationed
about the mountains, were recalled. The
Adame Express company has also given up
hope and the lonely mountains along the
Juniata have returned to their nsual calm
and peacefulness.
—JIu his barry to catch Philadelphia ae.
commodation, at Petersburg, to go to his
home at Huntingdon, Monday afternoon, ex.
Sheriff Balzer Rumberger, of Huntingdon
county, rushed across the railroad tracks at
thatstation in frout of a westbound freight
train and was fatally injured, dying ou the
train as he was being taken to his home. He
was born at Gatesburg, this county, and was
seventy six years old,
—Tweuty five widows, all dressed in the
deepest mourning, filed into the Uaited
States circuit court of Pittsburg and satinas
row, with several rows of children
behind thew. They were the plaintiffs in
damage suits for from $10000 to $50,000
against the Pittsburg Coal company. The
women's husbauds were killed in the Darr
mine disaster. The verdicts awarded were
from $500 to $1,000. There are thirteen more
like cases to come up for trial,
Four through passenger trains a day will
be run on the new Franklin aud Clearfield
railroad, starting on Sunday, September 26.
Two passenger trains a day will run from
Chieago to New York city over this new di-
vision and about seventy miles or more will
be saved in the distance between these two
big cities. The Lake Shore officials have
decided to run a through and a local freight
daily, over the new road. Freight traffic
starts on the same day as does the passenger
traffic.
—Encouraged by the success attained by
the students who have gradua from its
school of telegraphy at Bedford, , the
Pennsylvania Railroad is to endeavor to se-
cure this fall the largest earollment the
school has enjoyed since it was established
in 1007. Located at the headquarters of the
Bedford Division, the telegraph schoo! has
the personal supervision of practical railroad
men, while Mr. J. B, Fisher, superintendent
of telegraph at Philadelphia is in charge of
its operation, with ©. F. Emerick as resident
mansger. The time required to complete
the course is from six to eciznt months, and
immediately upon its completion graduates
are provided with salaried positions in direct
line of prom The bulk of the expense
of the school is assumed by the railroad com.
pany, as the cost of the course to the student
$2.00 monthly, is merely nominal. Since the
ia railroad established its school
of ‘telegraphy there have been enrolled a
of 218 students, of which number 117° -
ve graduated.