nadine
ie
tin RRS
A CRE OR
ble alter the horse is gone.
illness of the Hon. JoHX G. CARLISLE,one
of the few remaining men of prominence
during the ascendenoy of Democracy under
CLEVELAND.
—Let us hope that the government’s in-
vestigation of the Sugar trust will nos
proves purging by bomeopathy. Sagar
coated pills wont do in that case. What is
needed is the old fashioned allopathic rem-
edy.
—S0 Sir THOMAS is to challenge for the
America’s cup in 1911. The Irish Barone
will bave to get something faster than his
three Shamrooks have been if he hopes to
sail away from our shores with the cap
aboard.
~80 Bellefonte is to be in a baseball
league that will be under pational protec-
tion next season. How grand ! Are Lock
Haven, Jersey Shore and Renovo to be in
it also, or is this to be a league with just
one clab ?
—=A blizzard in the west with the ther.
mometer seventeen degrees below 0 in
some places behooves us all to shake the
moth batls ont of those winter flannels and
be ready for the something that is apt to
be doing in the weather line.
==Judging from the vote ou Amendment
No. 7 we are inclined to believe that there
are a great many Republicans in Pennsyl-
vania who believe in fair dealing ; for they
oertainly did snow thas pernicious proposi-
tion nnder a storm of adverse ballots.
~Next Thursday State will close her
football season at Pittsburg. If it shoold
be with a victory it will mark the most
sucoessful year in the sport that the State
athletes have ever bad ; therefor we trust
that they will be able to put it over Pits.
. ~—Jostead of urging President TAFT to
prepare for the campaign of 1912 admiring
journalists of she cities had beiter coax
him into keeping the American hens busier
80 that eggs will not be straggling so bard
to replace diamonds as the most valuable
jeme. :
~=More than 200,000 pounds of buman
bair are exported from Hong Kong to this
country every year. So far as we are per-
sonally concerned in this particular live is
is a foregone conclusion thut she balance of
trade will always remain in favor of Hong
Kong.
~Dr. SAMUEL WICKERSHAM, the Pitta.
burg draggist who is ninety-two years old,
asoribes his good health and present activi-
ties to keepiug busy. It doesn's work in
all cases, however, for ball our savitorinms
are full of people today who are there sole.
ly beoaase they have kept too busy.
—Senator ALDRICH was right iu saying
that ‘ANDREW JACKSON was a grea
man,’’ but he ie all wrong in thinking shat
because he is dead the country has forgos-
ten his wisdom. And the ghost of JACK-
SON will rise up to warn the land of the
great dangers lurking in ALDRICH'S Cen-
tral bank scheme.
~The usual early story about the Pan-
thers having killed a big buok has arrived
by wireless from their camp out on Big
Ran. Jonx KxiseLy and Bruny Cassi.
DY are the heroes, according to the tale,
bat the trophies of the Panther bunts have
been so few in recent years that moss of the
people round here are from Missouri now.
~The Pennsylvania Railroad company
brought a dieorimination suit to an abrapt
end in the Philadelphia courts on Wednes-
day by settling with the Morrisdale Coal
Co., of Clearfield county, for $67,156.00.
The railroad was charged with not baving
given the coal company its fair percentage
of cars and the fact thas it settled rather
than go to trial looks as if it bado’s.
—Sixteen deaths have resulted from
football thus far this season and unforta-
nately a large percentage of the number
bas been from well trained teams. The
argument in defense of the game's danger
has invariably been predicated on the fact
that most of the fatalities in the past have
occurred in cases where the players were
not properly trained to protect themselves
during the gruelling of a game.
———J ust now the courts of various seoc-
tions of the country are keeping themselves
busy punishing people for contempt. Pos-
sibly this may have a deterrent effect npon
public opinion, but the real facts are that it
every citizen who bas a ountempt for the
actions and decisions of some of these tri-
bunals were imprisoned for that feeling,
the greater and better portion of our popu-
lation would be found in the jails and pris-
ons of the country.
—Prof. Joux C. Hystop, of New York,
is of the opinion that Evsaria Parapixo
‘is either a wonderful phenomenon or a
monstrous fake’’' and insists that it will
never be known whioh she is until her ex-
hibitions are made belore scientific men
rant rich.” It
APIA is in en-
sire. with the Professor's opinion
LL LAR
thee dota before she submits herself to
searching investigation of a science that
might onmask fakes.
sen aanibiriaesne
There is hope in the signs of the times
expressed in the utter failure of the recent
effort to oreate an uprisiog of pablio senti-
ment in favor of the nomination of the
“Great Hunter” for President, in 1912.
The enterprise was carefally planned and
systematically promulgated. It would
hardly bave been possible to arrange things
better. TArPT's electioneering tour was
just ending somewhat ingloriously. It had
disappointed all expeciations as a vote pro.
ducer. Speaker CANNON ‘‘was in the
dumps,” for fair, sand there was no name
on the popular tongue to conjure with,
Under euch auspicious conditions the
““hold-overs” in the government service and
the press agents of the last administration
sprung the scheme to bring the Great Hum.
bug ous and it fell as flat as a flounder.
One can hardly help admiringithe in-
genuity of the ROOSEVELT press agents, If
RooSEVELT bad been at home when the
proposition was promulgated be would
have been compelled to call it off. If
TAFT's electioneering trip bad been any-
thing else thao a frost it would have heen
impossible to find an excuse for the Roosg-
VELT propaganda. But peither of these
deterrent influences were present and
nevertheless the scheme failed. This fact
indicates thas the political distemper which
raged through the country duringfshe past
several years has completely subsided, avd
that the Great Humbug is being estimated
vow at his real value. His absurd bloff
bas been called, bis ‘‘four-flush’’ asande
revealed aud there is little, if any, further
davger from the plagne of ROOSEVELTism.
This is indeed a most gratifyingjstate of
affairs. It indicates recovery from the
hysteria that made for the worship of the
most brazen grafter who has ever polluted
the public life of the country. There is
listle to hope for from Tarr. His highest
ambition is the gratification of his animal
appetites and the satiety of his desire to
‘“loat” in luxarious palace cara. Bat be
shows some reapeot for the laws and tradi-
tions of the country and therefore his weak-
nesses are comparatively harmless. Unless
the RoosEvELT propaganda is able to onn-
fuse the public mind in the near future,
therefore, the obances are that Tarr will
be nominated to succeed himself and even
if be is re-elected the permanency of: the
government will not be seriously menaced.
A Note of Warning.
The judicial investigation of charges
against the police and other officials of
Philadelphia, in relation to distarbances
on election, day is revealing some startling
facts. Is bas heen shown shat in a number
of cases watohers of the WILLIAM PENN
party aod other forces in opposition to the
machine were brutally beaten with the
sanction of the police and subsequently
carried off to distant places of detention
where they were held for considerable time
and refused permission to communicate
with their friends. This practice was
especially common in the Tenth ward
where Senator Jayes P. MoNICHOL is the
political autoorat.
When Mr. KENNAN aud other writers
about the outrages in Rossia described
such scenes within the oities of that empire
people in this country were greatly shock-
ed. Even in Philadelphia men and women
protested that the entire human family was
outraged and shat the civilized world was
in duty bound to unite in protest against
such iniquity. Bat when similar outrages
are perpetrated in the leading oity of
Penasylvania there is no voice raised to
punish those responsible. Such things are
necessary to maintain the ascendenoy of
the Repoblican party and perpetuate the
graft of the respectable business men of
that city.
Of oourse there will be vo real prosecu-
tion of the criminals responsible for these
outrages. The benoh and bar aud pulpit
and most of the newspapers in Philadelphia
readily acquiesce in the condition which
exists because it brings busicess to the
community and makes the rich men liberal
in their expenditures for society functions
aud expensive vices. Bat there wiil be a
day of reckoning some time and it will in-
volve reparation. The people of Pennsyl-
vania will not always endure the shame
that is pat upon them at each recurring
election. Thus far they have been silent
but the vote of C. LARUE MuNsox isa
note of wi !
r—
The Time to Speak Out,
Its only about six weeks until a vacancy
on the bench in Philadelphia will occur.
Judge Vox MosCHZISKER quits in January
aud his placé will have to be filled. It
strikes us thas this is just about the date that
the people should hear something from the
press of that city about the beauty, the
benefits and the necessity, of a non-partisan
judiciary. r years, whenever and wher-
ever there has been a Judge to elect in a
Democratic ' district, these journals eould
not say enough about the great wrong there
was in ing a political question in the
elestion of Judges. In Berks and North.
ampton and Lehigh and Sohaylkill and
other disiriote that were vatarally Demo-
oratio, this dootrine was preached with an
earnestness, compared with which St.
Paul’s zeal would size up about as a ten
pound refrigerator would toa North Pole
iceberg. But so far in the Philadelphia
case we haven's heard a word. And if
there is to be anything, it is now about
time that the effort was being made. Phil-
adelphia bas fifteen Common Pleas Judges.
A single lonesome Demoorat is one of them.
Why not begin the work of making non-
partisan judicial appointments where they
are so much needed. A few words on this
subject just now from our Philadelphia
contemporaries would be greatly appreciat-
ed.
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Be A SS
The Judicial Vacancy.
Our Philadelphia contemporaries are
very busy, just now, advising Governor
STUART on the subject of filling the vacan-
oy on the Common Pleas bench of Phila-
delphia caused by the election of Judge
Vox MosCHZISKER to the Sapreme court.
Mayor REYBURN with obaracteristic as-
sininity, has named a favorite for the place
and declared that unless his man is chosen
by the Governor there will be all sorts of
trouble. His man is a rather obsonre law-
yer who has served some time as Assistant
City Solicitor but imagines that he is
amply qualified for any judicial work.
He says he belongs so an old Philadelphia
family and is a specialist on certain kinds
of legal propositions and is willing to accept
the office.
Of course nobady can tell what Governor
STUART will do under such circumstances.
He is himsell a layman and without that
pride of the courts which influenced his
immediate predecessor to refuse to appoint
MosoHZISKER. Bat it is au easy conjeo-
ture that he will name for the cffice any
man picked out hy the Philadelphia ma.
ohine and if Mayor REYBURN is wise he
will nos waste mush time in urging the
Governor to his* way of thinking. If be
will get McNicHOL and the VARES to en-
dorse his candidate it won’t matter much
what the lawyers or the people think. The
Governor is for the machine in suck shinge
and can be depended upon to nominate a
man who will serve the contractor bosses
under all circumstances.
The Philadelphia courts are an asses of
the political machine. Vox MOSHOZISKER
was pus upon the benoh originally because
he bad assisted in the acquittal of SAMUEL
SALTER and he has been promoted to the
Sopreme court as reward for his decision
declaring the judges’ salary bill constita-
tional. Bat it was not intended that in
the distribution of prizes the machine
should suffer by filling a vacancy on the
local bench by appointing a man who
might not serve the machine. In the ordi-
nary course of events such an announcement
as that made by Mayor REBURN in behalf
ol his candidate would be fatal to his
obances. Bat it is not so in this case, It
the machine wants REYBURN’S man he
will be appointed.
Prosecution of the Sagar Trust.
Information comes from Washington to
the effect that the administration proposes
to go after the Sugar trust in dead earnest.
“There'll be nothing left of the Sugar
trust when we get throogh,’” is the way
one of she high officials pus it, in conversa-
tion with a reporter. The friends of
ROOSEVELT way boast about his efforts in
the way of the ocon:ervation of resources.
His scheme to restore forests by planting a
handred trees a year lor every 10,000 that
are cut down sonnde fine to the dilettante
gentlemen who play tennis and jump fences
on horseback. Bat putting trast magnates
in jail and forcing restitution from plan.
derers of the government have thas “‘skin-
ned a mile.”
It is gratifying to hear, moreover, that
there is to be some real ‘‘trust busting’
and a trifle of actual punishment of ‘““male-
factors of great wealth,” by the govern:
ment at Washington. For half a dozen
years there has been talk but no action.
Once or twice proceedings were begun, as
in the ease of the Savta Fe railroad rebat-
ing. Bat before it had gone far the srail
led to some of RoOSEVELY'S friends and
the inquiry was called off. Then there
would be a growl and show of teeth from
the White House and nothing more. The
people have grown weary of this sort of
comedy in official life and the announuce-
ment of a purpose to do something practical
must be exceedingly gratifying.
There is plenty of reason for the propos-
ed orusade against the Sugar trust. Under
the protection of ROOSEVELT that sinister
combination of “undesirable citizens’ has
robbed the goveroment of $60,000,000, ac-
cording to the estimate of the New York
Sun, substantial Republican aathorisy. It
is true that within a few months a couple
of millions have been restored to the treas-
ury, but that reparation was trifling, Jus-
tice demands the punishment of those con-
cerned in the oorrupt operations even
though they did contribate liberally to the
RoosgveLT campaign fund in 1004, and
justice muet prevail. We hope therefore
that the administration will not get ‘‘cold
feet.” :
= =
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 19, 1909.
rr
Senator PENROSE is already looking
about, according to newspaper gossip, with
the view of fixing up the next Legislature
to his own satisfaction. He wants the nexs
body to be as salely Republican and as ser-
vilely obedient as the last, and to secure
that result he is already giving the matter
of the selection of candidates for the Re-
publican party his attention. It isn’t safe,
be understands, to leave such thiogs to the
people themselves. Service in the Legis.
latare is allariog to men of ability and in-
dependence, frequently, and in the absence
of guidance it is just as like as nos thas a
considerable number of that sort might be
nominated here and there. That would he
for the machine.
avoid anything of that kind Senator
PENROSE is now casting his eyes over the |
field and 1ostracting his henchmen whom to
nominate for Senators and Representatives
in the Legislatare. [t is said that many
years ago a different poliey was adopted by
the party managers. They would then
permit the people to nominate and elect
whom they pleased and buy up such as
were necessary for party purposes after they
regohed Harrisburg. Bat that method is
no longer in vogue for the reason that it is
hazardons and nnsasisfaotory. Oaeasional-
ly it is impossible to buy enough and after
eleotion prices are higher than before. For
that reason PENROSE picks his men before
the nomivation aod fastens a mortgage
apon them before the election.
Speaking of that might is not be a good
idea for the penple to he as alert as PgN-
ROSE and taking a lesson from his activity
see to it that the best men are nominated ?
It is not to be expected that such vigilance
would be conducive to the prosperity of the
machine or the mental placidity of PEN-
ROSE. Bot it wonld contribute amazingly
to improvement in legislation and the stim-
ulation of civio virtue. It would, like.
wise, make the Pennsylvania Legislatore
av agency for good and an instrument for
the conservation of public interests. The
people have quite as much interest in snoh
things as Senator PENROSE] can possibly
have aod is would be worth while for them
to take the Senator's hint and get busy.
A New Ananias Club,
Lge
Speaker Caxsos has started aa “ANA |
Nias Club’ of his own and qualified a con-
siderable membership. In a speech deliv-
ered at Bloomington, Illinois, shout mid. |f
night, recently, he deolaredjthat HERMAN
Ripper and HERBERT PARSONS, of New
York; Senators CuMMINS, of Iowa, and
LAFoLLETTE, of Wisconsin ; Representa-
tive CHAMP CLARK, of Missouri ;JP. A.
BAKER, of the Anti-Saloon movement, and
a lot of others are liars. He might bave
goue on indefinitely, and even nominated
a list of undesirable citizens and§malefac-
tors of great wealth, if his secretary had
not improvidently seized himjby {the coat
tails and forced him down into his seat.
Men of the CANNON type are always in-
teresting daring the closing hoars of ja ban-
quet. With listle capital outside of a vast
store of cunning they get into important
places and acquire a vast fand fo! misinfor-
mation. In their sober moments they are
as seoretive as owls}but afterfindalgence in
the flow of an abundant banquet become
as garrulous as a fish monger. That ap-
pears to have been one of the instances of
the Bloomington banker. Speaker CAN-
NON got the floor very late and exercised
the privileges of the occasiou as freely as
he must have previously indalged in the
flaid refreshments served by bis entertain.
ers.
Of course Speaker CANNON has}put upon
some of the distingniched gentlemen to
whom he referred an obligation§of disprov-
ing some of his statements. For example,
he declared that HErRMANJRIDDER bad of-
fered him the support of all the metrapoli-
tan newspapers for Presidentfin oonsidera-
tion of his forcing through Congress legis-
lation that would have proved of consider-
able peconiary interest to them. This is
bighly improbable of Mr. RIDDER himself
bat altogether likely of such newspapers as
favor tariff taxation on every necessary of
life but protest that such a tax on white
paper and wood pulp is an intolerable bar-
dea.
The Fruit of Thelr Own Planting.
The fellow who is compelled to board
himself, feed and clothe his family, pay
rent, pay for his coal, satisfy the tax col-
lector, and meet the many other demands
made upon a citizen who wants to be de-
cent, and tries to live decently, must have
a happy old time doing it on a wage in-
come of $1.10 to $1.25 per day—the ruling
rates we now have, noder the revised Re.
publican tariff bill. With everything we
eat, and wear and use or want, selling at
the exorbitant rates now demanded, and
wages down to starvation point, one would
naturally conclade that the laboring men
would see exactly ho® a protective tariff,
pasted by Republican law-makers in the
interest of the trusts, affects them. But
the ohances are ten to one thas il they do
see it—we know they feel it—that they will
| mil go on votiog the Republican ticket,
and swearing about she kind of times their
own legislation is giviug shem. It is this
fact that lessens the sympathy that labor
would deserve for the pitiable rate al-
lowed under our boasted .
Another Penrose Legislature.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Anvouncemens is made shat Senator
Penrose, as chief of the Machine that mis-
rules the Commonwealth, is going to work
to secure the usual Republican mejority in
the Legislature. That is to yg be and
his adherents will ges together, if they can
another frivolous and subservient body like
thas of this year, which fooled away nearly
the whole session, and then piled up a
buge moantain of appropriations, to leave
the most important doty of legislating
Spon them ‘nu she hands of the Governor
adjournment. Although tie State is
fortunate in a Governor who does not
abuse the power transferred to him, that is
no reason why the Legislature should ab-
dicate its functions.
What the Penrose Machine wauts isa
Legislatare that will mest obediently pro-
mote the personal ends of its unserupulons
management at the expense of the public
welfare. Iss sole interest is in suoh a Legie-
lature as will continue to create salaries
and sinecures of its d ents, maintain
the infamous spoils system in all its ma-
liguity and corruption, and bold in the
Treasury an enormous surplus to be farmed
hy the banke. Above all, what i= wanted
by the Penrose Machine is an obedient
Legislature that will return George Oliver
to the United States Senate.
But there are indications, even in the
November eleotion, of such an awakening
in the Commonwealth as to warrant the
opinion that the Penrose Machine is not
going to beve things its own way in the
Ee ah at rus ae
waotiog of & iza-
tion in State and oity in the near future,
like shat of the famous one-hoss shay. The
evidences of Republican revolt throughont
the interior of the State are too many and
too significant to afford any room for mis-
take. To secure a Republican majority in
the next Legislature it will be iacoutacy fo
4100 sus ot the Peurose-Oliver mem
of last Legislature outside of Philadel-
phisand Allegheny county and nominate
independent and publ
cans in their places. This will mean a Gen-
eral Assembly that will legislate for the
first time in many years for inter-
ests of the Commonwealth. For sacha
consummation the Demooration and Inde-
pendent Republican forces cannot too soou
begin to muster.
EH ————————————
Land vs. Property Taxes
From the Chieago Tribune.
"A misapprehension of the il sa
provisions of the British
unnaturally follows the attempts of Amer-
icans to analyze and comprehend this great
weasare, to which the term ‘‘so-
oialistio’” bas been astached by the privi-
feged class whose privileges it bits.
the abuses which Lloyd —George is
endeavoring to correct existed in the Unit-
ed States and were the endeavors of correo-
tion so moderate and temperate as his,
Americans would stars a revolation. The
budget is condemned as socialistio because
is seeks to extend the application of the
old age peusion system and becanse it
seeks a revision of the land (value) tax.
Through old ege pensions Great Briain is
striving to find a remedy which Germany
bas found Jose llentiy y in industrial in-
surance. Io the increasing erty of the
Eaglish people the British orn Bh find
an alarming danger to the national life,
growing with every year, and Americans
who may be startled by she magnitude of
the tand which is is to devote to
the relief of the impoverished profitably
may consider the that the United
States government annnally pays in pen-
sions to the veterans of the a a sum
far in excess of thas which is contemplated
in the extension of the British e
The land (value) tax is social in the
opinion of the great land owners of Eag-
iand who, with the brewers—also hit by
an increased tax—and the connections of
bath, role in the house of lords. It it
were to be p as a remedy for a kin-
dred ill in Ameriea it would be rejected
with paving stones.
If one man owned all of downtown Chi-
cago, and if three men owned New York
south of Forty-second street and if these
holdings and others like them were sn
to a tax which had not been revised
Cromwell's time, which was a tax merely
in name, and which operated to make land
ownership a weight bearing down on the
prosperity acd development of the coun.
try, Americans would not waste time lis-
tening to an opposition which called the
remedy socialistic.
It 90 per cent. of the land in America
were owned by less than 10.000 persons
something more than the land (value) tax
provisions of the Lloyd —George
woold be used to restore ownership to
people.
The Tariff and the Voters.
From the Chicago Tribune, :
The Massachusette voters, with the Ald.
rich tariff as the direct issue, gave the Re.
publican ticket 16} per cent less votes than
they did last year and the Demooratic
ticket 8 per cent mote. If the Republican
candidates for Congress last year shrough-
out the United States had got 16] per cent
less votes than they got and their Demo-
oratio opponents 8 per cent more, seventy-
seven successful Republicans would have
been defeated. The Honse would bave
stood : Republicans, 136 ; Democrats, 255.
Champ Clark would be Speaker.
Last year the voters antici a down.
ward revision of the tariff. ey did not
for the Aldrich law. When ne
i re ed.
yw on
realities, not ¢ hopes. Is would not
be surprising il they were to behave as they
did in Massachusetts last week. :
——Bear in mind the Tbaoksgiving do-
nation to the Bellefonte tal next
week, and be as generous as your purse
will permis,
ss
Repo bli- ;
of
nos.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Five dead, ten cases on hand and two
recently reported new ones is the condition
of the diphtheria epidemic at Portage.
~Twenty seven rabbits and some qus
were bagged on a hunting trip by the Ladies
Rod snd Guan club at Lippincott near
Wayneburg.
—Reports say work will be started in at
least a part of the steel plant at Hydy City,
near Clearfield, in the near future. The
place has been idle for over a year.
—8ixteen additional firemen were put on
the New York Central lines in the vicin-
ity of Philipsburg. The iucrease was ren-
dered necessary by the heavy coal traffic.
—Beinz hampered for space the Philips-
burg avd Sasquebanna Valley Railroad come
pany is building an addition to its shops at
Ramey, Clearfield county. The work will
be pushed to an early completion.
—It is estimated that 25,000 bushels of
apples were shipped out of Perry county this
year. The average price a bushel was 50
cents. Thousands of bushels were made into
cider, applebutter, ete., for domestic use.
—It was necessary to shut down the mines
at Giass Flat, Clearfield county, on account
of the drought. The men had been having
good work. Water is being hauled from
Winburne so that a little fire can be kept
under the boilers,
—Nearly 1,000 men are affected by the ad-
vance in wages of the laborers of the Dun-
bar, Fayette county, furnace company and
its subsidiary concerns. The common labor-
ers will get an increase of 5 cents a day and
the other men of 10 after December 1.
—A, J. Kerns and Daniel McGee, of
Mapleton, who recently leased the old
Moshannon mines near Houtzdale, Clear-
field county, have completed a new opening
on the tract and will start active shipments
in a short time. The property was leased
from C. H. Rowland, of Clearfield.
~—Alexander Adair and the United States
government have signed the papers that turn
over the site on which the new federal build.
ing will be erected at Johnstown, The
ground is at Market and Locust streets and
the price paid and priviliges given to Mr.
Adair will bring the selling price beyond
$50,000.
~—It has been officially announced that the
Awerican Iron and Steel company is to add
« steel billet plant to its already large works
at Lebanon. It is stated that the new plant
will have an output of not less than 60,000
tous a year and it will give employment to a
large number of men. The work will be
done by electricity.
—An attempt was made during Sunday
night to destroy the home of John § Cane
non, at Locust Gap, and the lives of the
members of his family. Unidentified parties
placed a keg of powder in front of his home,
ignited a fuse and, after rapping on the door,
fled. An instant before Mrs. Cannon reached
the door the powder exploded. This is the
second attempt within a week to destroy
buildings and endanger the lives in Locust
Gap. The force of Sunday night's explosion
went outward, and the blast failed in its pur.
poze.
—A citizen of South Fork says that some
of the officials there inflicted fines of $55.85
on some people for violating the quarantine
law during the present scare of scariot fever
while some people, who committed the same
offenses, were not required to pay at all and
some only $5. The same man said that some
of the officials are spending little time in ine
vestigating couditious and some made state
ments about places that they had not visited.
One man was sent to jail when his wife was
critically and perbaps fatally ill with ty.
phoid fever.
—The extension of the Shade Gap branch
of the East Broad Top railroad, just com-
pleted, opens up vne of the most important
new timber and mineral lands in central
Penusylvania. The road extends from’
Huntingdon county into the northern end
of Franklin county, and penetrates a large
area of valuable timber, iron ore and
coal lands which heretofore have been unde-
veloped owing to a lack of transporation
facilities. A company, abundantly capital.
ized will proceed at ovce to develop the rich
resources of this new region.
~The last February election will be held
four months from now. Since the coustitu-
tiona! amendments providing for the aboli-
tion of the election in February and the
schedule for the extension of terms of office
of mep now holding places are apparently
ratified by vote of the people, the so called
spring primary and election will be done
away with after those held in 1910. There
will be no more standing in the shivering
blasts of January at primaries and no hust.
ling in the keen winds, snows and rains in
February, All elections will be held in No-
vember and all primaries in April in presi-
dential years, and in June in other years.
~The fruits of a revival meeting at Par-
doe, north of Butler, are startliog. One man
who got religion is squaring things in gener:
al. Ten years ago he was given a $20 bill by
A. F. Henelein, of the Greenville National
bank, by mistake, and when asked for it
said the bill was a $10 one. The other day
the convert walked into the bauk, said he
had made a profession of religion and hand.
ed over the $10. He went to a hotel proprie-
tor, paid for a whiskey barrel he had taken
and made & refund on short measures he had
given in selling potatoes. The brand pluck-
ed from the burning also squared grocery
bills he bad disputed, settled with men be
had cheated in horse trades and paid a wid
ow $5 he had fleeced her out of in the sale of
a Cow.
~Clark Brothers, the well known coal
operators, put their Forest mine, at Smoke
Run, in operation on Monday. While some
of their other mines have been working, this
plant has been idle for six months, and as it
is capable of employing over two hundred
men, its resumption is very gratifying ine
deed. It is expected that this company will
soon open & couple of new mines at Glen
Hope. The cole shipments from the One
Mile Run operations last month were the
heaviest of any month since the opening of
the mines, reaching in the neighborhood of
25,600 tons. These mines, on a property
which only a few years ago was in the open
market and virtually condemned, are show-
ing up splendidly and for years to come will
be a big factor in the prosperity of the
community in and around Philipsburg.