a TITAS
INK SLINGS.
—It may be pronounced revolt up in
Maine, but down this way it spells revo-
lution.
—The “harvest is past, the summer is
about ended,” and many a Republican
Congressman feels that he is not yet
saved.
—Pennsylvania can do as well as
Maine, if its people are as wise. But it
can't elect three Governors and defeat
the Machine, all at one time.
—Vice President SHERMAN'S presiden-
tial boomlet must have been tagged
wrong, when it left Missouri three weeks
ago. It hasn't turned up anywhere yet.
—The stand-patter, also, found some
consolation in the Maine election. It re-
tired the ROOSEVELT head lines so effect-
ually while the returns were coming in.
—The short and sure way to defeat
Mr. PENROSE'S plans this fall is to vote
the Democratic ticket. And it oughtn't
to require a prophet to convince you of
this, either.
—With all of the hubbub that TEDDY
has kicked up is there anyone who can
point to a single idea or suggestion that
he has advanced that Mr. BRYAN did not
promulgate years ago.
—Senator TEMPLETON'S honesty seems
to have been much akin to ARTEMUS
WARD's patriotism. The kind that was
ready to sacrifice every relative he had
rather than go (poor) himself.
—Anyway President TAFT will not need
to order out the army to quell the “insur-
rection” in his own party. Every “regu
lar” that he has command of has beenon
duty on that job for some time. The war
still progresses, however.
—Organized labor has umpired Mr.
TENER'S last game and decided that it
was a very foul ball he pitched for the
workingmen when he ran the regularly
accredited organizer of labor out of Char-
leroi, a few weeks ago.
—An exchange that thinks it knows
what it is talking about. says that “Mr.
PENROSE has ordered a WRIGHT aeroplane
to be delivered at the earliest moment
possible.” He wants it, we presume, to
aid him in raising Republican hopes.
—The regulation step of the British
army is one hundred and twenty to the
minute. Large numbers of the men have
been known to far exceed that, however.
It was especially noticeable at certain
times in South Africa a few years ago.
—Mr. SIBLEY’S “getting down and out”
is attributed now, by those who know the
most about it, to an acute case of lost
heart trouble. Which, by the way, seems
to be a malady that is both epidemic and
contagious among Republican Congress-
men this season.
—In the presentation of Mr. STEWART'S
name for Senator our Clearfield friends
have shown that while they may have
forgotten much about what it takes to
win they still know a good thing when
they see it. There is no SHORTage in
their Democracy in this case.
--So far President TAFT hasn't been a
bit more successful in getting Secretary
BALLINGER out of his cabinet than Gov-
ernor STUART has been in getting the state
capitol grafters into the penitentiary. In
both cases, however, the results seem to
be about equal to the efforts.
—Really we are beginning to fear that
if their candidate—Mr. BERRY—keeps on
with the same kind of talk and in the
same tone, that has characterized his
speeches so far, the people generally will
come to the conclusion that our Keystone
friends, in piace of running a campaign,
are content and satisfied to “rush the
growler.”
—Qut in Chicago they have a new
health rule that forbids children running
to school. It may be for their good, as
science believes, but why provide so fine
an excuse for the tardy boy when the
moment school is out he will run his
legs off in a game of ball, skating,
coasting or any of the other sports of the
school children.
—The withdrawal of Governor PATTER-
SON from the race for re-election in Ten-
nessee was a wise and unselfish act. He
felt that his administration had not been
satisfactory to his party and rather than
encumber it with his further aspirations
he voluntarily withdrew. Would that we
had more men of this type, because so
few are able to see their own failures.
—Mr. ROOSEVELT hasbeen back at Oys-
ter Bay since Monday. And yet the
world keeps going round just as it did be-
fore he made his 100 speeches and the ne-
cessaries of lite continue at the same al-
titude they occupied before he wert away.
Really we don’t see that his hot air efforts
effected anything except the cap I cases
in the printing offices that undertook to
set up what he had to say.
~Col. HENRY WATTERSON is of the
opinion that ROOSEVELT will succeed in
his efforts to BRYANize the Republican
party and by doing it will slip into the
Presidency again after he has worked the
Republicans up to such a point of con-
sternation that they will fall over them-
selves in a panicky petition to him to save
their party. Col. WATTERSON has doped
the plan out all right enough, but will
TEDDY be able to throw enough dust to
blind the Republicans until 1912? We
think not.
VOL. 55.
A Corrupt Conspiracy
—
Defeated.
When the Congressional committee to
investigate the charges against secretary
of the Interior BALLINGER was appointed,
the WATCHMAN expressed an opinion that
it was organized to “whitewash” the ac-
cused. During the progress of the inquiry
we called attention to the fact that every
witness who gave evidence against BAL-
LINGER immediately became a target of
the malice of the President and the enmi-
ty of the majority of the committee. Mr.
GLAVIS was put upon the rack and pur
sued with a malignity without parallel in
the history of the country and every other
employee of the government called to tes-
tify was dismissed from the public service
unless he consented to perjure himself in
the interests of BALLINGER.
The culmination of this conspiracy to
defeat justice occurred in Minneapolis
last week when the committee refused to
sit for the purpose of promulgating its re
port. Three months ago the taking of
evidence was completed and after each
member had been provided with a copy
of all the testimony, the committee ad- |
journed to meet in Minneapolis on Sep-
tember 6th, for the purpose of formulat-
ing and issuing its report. On the day
fixed eight of the twelve members assem-
bled at the place designated inthe resolu-
tion for adjournment, but when it was
found that a majority favored the expos-
ure of the facts, the others asked for time
to get other members present, the absen-
tees being Senators Roor, of New York,
FLINT, of California, and representatives
DexBY, of Michigan, and OLMSTED, of
Pennsylvania. The majority consented
to an adjournment from Tuesday until
Thursday.
At the time fixed the committee reas-
sembled but none of the absentees had |
put in an appearance and five members,
being a majority of a quorum, determined
to proceed and complete their work.
Thereupon two of the mincrity vacated
their seats with the view of breaking the
quorum. The remaining “stand-patter,”
Senator NELSON, of Minnesota, a servile
slave of “the system,” was in the chair
and as ghere was nobody on the floor to
raise the point of no quorum, the four
Democrats and one insurgent Republican
issued a report condemning BALLINGER
and declaring him guilty of the offences |
charged by GLAvisS and PINCHOT. The
minority of the committee in attendance
at the meeting immediately issued a
statement that the action was illegal and
calling a meeting for the next day for fi-
nal action. Next day brought forth noth-
ing. The absent members remained
away.
There could be no other object in this
trifling with public duty except the pur.
pose of delaying the report until after the
election and then issuing a report which,
ignoring the testimony and perverting
the facts, would vindicate the recreant
public official. The GUGGENHEIM conspi-
racy to rob the government of the rich
resources of Alaska forced the appoint-
ment of BALLINGER and is determined to
keep him in office until its purposes have
been consummated and the publication of
the truth in advance of the election will
have a damaging effect upon the party.
Happily, the courageous minority of the
committee could not be driven from its
just purpose and the report and testimony
will be given to the public before elec-
tion.
Roosevelt’s Sinister Methods.
The “Coinel” appears to have treated
the country to a free exhibition of that
phenomenal achievement of ‘chokingona
gnat and swallowing a camel.” That is to
say he refused to sit at a banquet with
Senator LORIMER, of Illinois, during his
recent tour in canvassing for subscribers
for a magazine, and took boss Cox, of
Cincinnati, into a fond embrace. Un®
questionably LORIMER is a “bad egg" and
is accused of doing a year or so ago
in his own behalf precisely what President
ROOSEVELT urged “Dear HARRIMAN" todo
in his behalf nearly five years ago
But at his worst LORIMER “has nothing”
on boss Cox in the matter of political in-
iquity.
Some three years ago, and just before
the confidential correspondence between
ROOSEVELT and HARRIMAN was exposed,
President TAFT, then Secretary of War
in the ROOSEVELT administration, went
and, according to common understanding
with the consent of his chief, into Ohio to
participate in a pending campaign. In a
speech at Dayton he paid his respect: to
boss Cox. He denounced him as a polit-
ical pirate and moral degenerate. Hetold
the Republican people of the State that
they would better be defeated at the polls
than help Cox to put one of his servile
tools in the executive office at Columbus.
In fact he pictured Cox as a most atro-
cious beast in human form.
Now as a matter of fact Cox hasn't
changed even a little bit in his political
methods and morality. He is the same
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
SELLEFONTE DA, SEPTEMBER 16 A010
coarse and forbidding figure now that he
was then. Neither has LORIMER changed -
in any respect in recent years. He was The best expectations of the Democrat-
the same reprobate when, as a member © leaders were more than fulfilled in the
of Congress, he maintained confidential A cciebration of “Democratic Campaign
relations with ROOSEVELT in the White Da¥» last Saturday. In nearly every
H } titi I y | county in the State large and enthusias-
Sous, But do nobody ere good or | tic meetings were held and the issues of
harm now while Cox can elect or defeat the campaign eloquently discussed. In
Mr. ROOSEVELT'S son-in-law, NICHOLAS
LONGWORTH, who is a candidate for re-
election to Congress. In other words,
icy, the largest meeting took place and
| the Democratic candidate for Governor,
: Hon. WEBSTER GRIM, was the principal
ROOSEVELT is not influenced by morality
or patriotism in anything. He is selfish speaker. But exceptionally good meet.
sordid aud unclean. , ings occurred in Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
——— : Harrisburg, Allentown, Altoona, Williams-
An Esteemed Contemporary’s Fault.
ii | larger towns of the State and it may be
The esteemed Johnstown Democrat, the ' cid that Democratic Campaign Day has
. most ardent and absurd supporter of the '.. established as a permanent institu-
‘ Keystone party ticket in the State, says It will be observed I .
that its only complaint against the Allen- | ope i OEuyel Aum alent
town convention is "that it was controll- with this auspici i
spicious beginning the
red. It was not a representative body in| pemocratic campaign of this Democratic
| any sense,” continues our CONteMPOTArY | year has been inaugurated in Pennsylva-
(and increasing in vehemence as it goes .. Ac the WATCHMAN suggested when
deeper into the subject it adds: “It was |... plan was adopted, it was an ambi-
| dominated absolutely by a special inter- ys enterprise and extremely hazardous.
est and the nomination made was not dic- | The people of P Ivania, especiall
| tated by the Democratic sentiment of the | the DE yan ED
i
State nor even by the members of the (ive ang reluctant to indulge in radical
convention.” It is easy to see from that ; vations. But when the utility of a
| that political bossism is not only abhor: ovement is proved in practice it is free-
| rent but absolutely intolerable to our es- ||, ang enthusiastically supported. The
teemed but absurd contemporary. very general success of Democratic Cam-
The other day EUGENE C. BONNIWELL, paign Day is more than likely, therefore:
of Delaware county, GEORGE E. MAPES, | 1, commend it to the thoughtful and
of Philadelphia, and WiLLIAM T. CREASY, | practical minds of the Democratic peo-
of Columbia county, assembled in a Har- ple and hereafter the movement will be
risburg hotel and after the fashion of the 1 De .
“Three Jailers of Tooley street,” resolved Sheuraged by all Democrats throughou
themselves into a body politic and in the | The success of Democratic Campaign
name and by the authority of the people Day, however, puts an obligation upon
nominated candidates for Congress in| he pody of Democratic citizens which
Erie county, Representatives in the Leg- | nat not be disregarded in the future.
islature for Crawford county, State Sena- | That js to say a successful opening must
tors for Philadelphia and other candi | pa followed vi prosecuti
dates for other sections of the State. The Be ollowel By a Vitveaue omit
active spirit in this preposterous transac |i that there is no abatement of effort
tion was a political mercenary who has and energy in the work until the polls
been known to draw salaries from three | cjoee in November. The future of the
parties in one campaign and who is con- | party js radiant in promise. The next
stantly gathering crumbs from the tables Congress will be Democratic beyond the
of politicians, good, bad and indifferent. | gpadow of a doubt and that result will be
| porary it makes a vast difference “whose | 304 improvements in administration as
| ox is gored.” If the editor of that very .. 3
" ) i guarantee the continuance of the
| able and interesting newspaper were per- | party in power for a long period of time.
The share of Pennsylvania in the fruits
of this result will depend upon the vote
this year.
| mitted to pick out the candidates of the
party all the time it would probably sup-
port the ticket invariably. But the trou- |
ble is that in order to get the favor of |
the editor of our contemporary a candi-
date must be thoroughly immersed in
some Populistic heresy that makes him
impossible to men of rational minds, so
that his nomination not only makes de-
feat inevitable but makes support of such
a ticket out of the question to self re- |
specting citizens. It is not bossism that
repels our Johnstown contemporary. It
is the bossism of the other fellow.
Revealed as
Roosevelt a Humbug.
In a speech delivered by Col. ROOSE-
VELT, in one of the western cities recent-
ly, visited by him in his capacity as adver.
tising solicitor, he boasted of what “we”
had done to the Sugar trust. That was
a most fortunate incident. Generalizing
is all right. Along those lines any sort of
a claim can be set up and while people
were prone to wonder what trust ROOSE"
VELT had ever busted or even dinged, no-
body could contradict his assertions that
he was the greatest smasher of trusts
ever. But when he specified he got in
wrong. In that act he made himself
amenable to the rules of evidence. In
other words, he opened the way for proof
that he is the most consummate fraud in
public life.
While ROOSEVELT was President the
Sugar trust absorbed and dismantled the
The High Cost of Living.
The apologists for the ALDRICH tariff
iniquity can discern no cause for the in-|
creased cost of living other than the en-
hanced prices of foodstuffs. The reasons
for this are obvious. The ALDRICH bill
has not increased the tariff rates on food-
stuffs because there are practically no
foodstuffs imported and the DINGLEY
rates on such commodities were prohibi-
tive. Besides, the farmers of the country | most complete sugar refining plant in the
share to some trifling extent in the bene- | United States in pursuance of its policy
fits of the high prices of foodstuffs and | of restraining the output of the product.
the machine Republicans pretend a great | When the company which owned the
tenderness for the farmers. Asa matter | plant became insolvent as the result of
of fact, however, the prices of foodstuffs | this disuse of its property, Mr. GEORGE
are a small part of the increased cost of | i ERLE, of Philadelphia, was appointed
living. | receiver. He instituted an investigation
meats and cereals are affected by the tar. | covered the facts. With the proofs in
iff because the tariff shelters the beef hand he appealed to President ROOSEVELT
trust and the flour trust in manipulating | to dissolve the illegal combination and re-
them. If there were no tariff tax on |store the dismantled property to its own-
those necessaries of life there could be no (ers. But Congressman PARSONS, of New
trust control and the price would soon | york, and his father, solicitor of the Sug-
find the level justly established by com. ar trust, were ROOSEVELT'S personal
petition. But the greatest burden comes | friends and he refused to intervene. In
from the tariff tax on woolens, cottons fact he sheltered the monopoly in itslaw-
boots and shoes, implements and lumber’ | joss operations.
The tariff tax on woolens is 105 per cent., Failing to get the support of the ad-
so that every dollar's worth of blanketsf | yinistration in an effort to get justice for
wearing apparel or other articie made of | the robbed shareholders of the insolvent
wool costs the consumer in this {country ! sugar refining company Mr. EARLE began
$2.05. And no part of this increased cost | 3 private proceeding in the courts against
goes to the support of the government. | the Sugar trust. With the support of the
If the increased cost of products of the | government in such proceedings his suc-
farm went into the pockets of the farm-' cess would have been complete and cer-
ers and there was no tariff tax on other tain. Without the support of the govern-
necessaries of life, we could contemplate | ment he forced the Sugar trust to a com
the condition with considerable equanimi- | promise by which it paid out of its vast
ty for by saving on blankets, clothing, , stolen horde $3,000,000 by way of restitu-
medicines, rent and other charges it | tion and restored the property toits own-
would be easy to find the money to pay ers. ROOSEVELT'S absurd boast of what
the greater charge for potatoes and beans, | “we,” meaning his administration, had
Besides, the farmers being justiwould soon | done to the Sugar trust enabled Mr.
volunteer to share with the consumer of | EARLE to reveal these facts and expose
their products the money saved by his ex- | RoosevELT as a humbug.
emption from the tax on blankets, cloth. |
ing and implements. In other words, the —At least Mr. BONNIWELL'S farewell to
high cost of living is not in the price of | the Democratic party didn't seem to dis-
cabbages so much as it is in the tax on | courage the Democrats of Maine to any
woolens and cottons. ' observable extent.
| Berks county, the Gibralter of Democra-
| port, Erie and in fact all the cities and |
With our esteemed Johnstown contem- | followed by such exposures of iniquity
Certain agricultural staples such as gq to the causes of insolvency and dis. |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Harry Carlisle, of DuBois, recentiy sustained
a broken thigh and other injuries when he was
thrown out of a buggy in a runaway.
—After they had poisoned four dogs belonging
to John Lock and killed them, robbers chloro-
formed the owner and his wife and robbed their
home at DuPont of $360.
—Lynn Hodges, of Warren, the day he was
paroled from an indeterminate prison sentence
for trying to murder his father, beat his wife
senseless because she would not live with him,
then drank carbolic acid and killed himself.
~While Mrs. W. W. Ritchie, of Lock Haven,
recently was engaged in canning beans, and was
sealing a can, it exploded and threw the scalding
contents in her face, withthe result that she was
badly burned. Luckily she was wearing glasses
and thus her eyes escaped.
—After he had speared a carp with a pitchfork,
Robert Rohrer, aged 13, of Quarryville, was drawn
by the fish into waterup to his neck. Rohrer is
an exprrt swimmer and succeeded in getting to
shore with his prize, which weighed thirteen and
—Abram Hostetler, of Richland township,
Cambria county, has brought suit at Ebensburg
for $20,000 damages frota the Berwind-White Coal
Mining company, for alleged damage inflicted to
his farm by negligence of the defendant cor-
poration in mining coal.
=H. H.Cassler, a well known Holsopple mer-
chant has brought suit at Somerset against the
Johnstown Telephone company, asking for $2,500
damages on the charge that the company sur-
reptitiously cut trees from his land and appro-
priated a right-of-waycver his property without
his consent.
—The Ladies’ Aid society of the Lock Haven
hospital is raising money to pay off the $6,000 debt
on the furnishing of the new hospital, which must
be met in October. One of their plans isto col-
lect a mile of pennies from the school children
and teachers. Each teacher and pupil is to be
given an envelope that is to be returned to the
society as soon as eighteen pennies are placed in
it. A mileof pennies will amount to $844.80.
—Thompson Hanna, living near Oxford, is
mourning the loss of $300. Hanna went to a bank
in Oxford and drew the money to pay off the
mortgage on his farm and placed it in a bag in
which he carried chewing tobacco. While walk-
ing along the road on the way home he was met
by a stranger who asked him for a chew of to-
bacco and when Hanna pulled the pouch from his
pocket the man snatched the pouch and ran away
—After coolly trying several spark plugs ona
big automobile standing in front of the Duquesne
club, Pittsburg, a fine-attired thief drove away
with the car and escaped. William H. Henderson,
owner of the machine, was inside the club with a
friend dining. The men had removed the spark
plug to prevent thieves from leaving with the
auto. The thief, in front of many people, calmly
tried a number of plugs he had with him, until he
found one that fitted.
—After attacking Mrs. Jennie Pringle, aged 38,
with a razor and so injuring her that she died
shortly afterwards, William M. Williams, well
known in Johnstown, tried to murder Laura
Stonebraker, his alleged wife, and cut his own
throat. The Stonebraker woman escaped, after
an exciting chase, with a slight wound on her
; who isbeing guarded day and
night in the Memorial hospital, will recover. The
LR
| National Joy Riders.
| From the New York World.
| Three ships of the United States Navy
| habituaily used for personal and social
{ have cost for maintenance dur-
; the last five years:
|
|
Total
_ A bad habit grows. The bad habit here
| indicated had small beginnings. Mr.
i Cleveland went Bening aecasionally on a
Mr. -
| lighthouse tender. enjoy
| ed a few excursions down the
| on the Sylph. Mr. Roosevelt boldly con-
: verted the Sylph to his own uses and in
oe ne
ower,
| by common consent into the hands of
| the gecretary of the Navy.
| Ey ery och Sere
| s u
j2Jine of law and no waiiant whatever
ta precedent. theory t
| the President as Commander-in-Chief may
ido as he pleases with public
goes sot SPPIY, aiid In aniy case J cannot
De Pleage? in behalf the Secretary,
e extraordinary powers o Com-
mander-in-Chief are not active in time of
peace. If they ula We Should have a
m espot instead of a constitution.
al a,
proposition to authorize the additional
expenditure for the same purpose of al-
I Lo, 3 hoe b
ese vessels are not em in pul
lic service. They are on call at Hortiern
summer resorts in the summer. They
cruise in subtropical seas in the winter.
They meet favored relatives and friends
at Quarantine. They furnish a delightful
means of entertainment for visitors who
have Weatied S ihe Jand. They are
manned, equipped n repair from
the naval funds. r officers and
Saws Ste Sallops of the United Siatag Na.
vy. 0! expense r
up is due to the personal and social
ends that they serve.
There will be no effective check to ex-
es. no scru murderer claimed his victim was the cause of all
for law in official circles while Chief Mag- | his domestic unhappiness.
istrates ves it. —A mail pouch, containing between 700 and 800
The salary of the t should be | letters on their way to residents of Sunbury from
New York and Philadelphia, was stolen from the
Pennsylvania railroad station at Sunbury early
office
from his pri-
Shou Be sharply gd one morning recently. It came in on the mid.
C 0 might train and had been placed in the baggage
| tution, ke should receive no oa room. The railroad police and postal inspectors
: ment, whatever. are trying to locate the thieves or their booty. In
1 _— = the pouch were letters to the local banks, con-
i Why Prices Are High. taining checks for collection and in exchange
| From the Johnstown from city banks. Their loss will mean immense
Democrat.
When a woman purchases $10 worth
! of woolen dress goods, $4.87 represents
| the value of the goods and $5.13 the
‘ amount of the tariff.
I This is because of the Taft-Aldrich ad |
, valorem tariff of 105 per cent. Or in
| other words, on each $1 worth of woolen
| dress imported, the Taft-Aldrich
i law levies a tax of $1.05. The consumer
| must pay the $1 value and the $1.05 tariff,
| or $2.05 for one dollar's worth of goods.
This is but one of a thousand illustra-
{ tions that could be submitted to show
how the tariff affects the cost of living.
| Here is another sample illustration for
the tariff arithmetic class, which is com-
posed of some 90,000,000 American con-
sumers, all of whom are more or less dis-
satisfied with the awful increase in
prices :
A suit of clothes having an im
| price of $10 and which costs an ish-
| man $10 when ready to put on, all wool
and tailor made, pays at the custom house
an ad valorem tariff of 80 per cent. or $8
per it ping ihe it OR ue Ameri-
can when it is put on isregarding
| transportation and retail profits.
{| Another comparison: An English! g
woman a room 18 ft. square | careless electric crane, John Close, was merely
with i carpet two ply No re- | turned into a human die, instead of being crush-
quire yards at a dollar a yard flat, or | ed, at the Standard steel works at Burnham Sat-
would pay $36. An American woman us- | urday night. Close was wheeling a barrow of
! tariff at the custom house, ay would | fell, and being crippled in one leg and rather ad-
i vanced in years, he was unable to get outof the
{ make the carpet cost her $59.76.
| The following table shows a number of way, The flask slammed him intoa bigbed of
{ sand and then held him down until fellow work-
common articles of comsumption, the ad
valorem tariff rate under the new . men could remove it. Instead of beholding a
| lican tariff law, the real value of the arti- | ®hastly, crushed form, they found Close stamped
i cles and the tariff additions on a basis of | down inthe sand, sufficiently hurt to require his
amount of confusion and readjustment.
—Clarence W. Lindauer, of Washington, form.
erly of Tyrone, died in the Williamsport hospital
on Friday last after suffering for two weeks from
a fractured skull and ruptured blood vessels of
the brain, the result of an automobile accident
near Jersey Shore. The unfortunate man was
the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lindauer, of Wat-
sontown, and for several years he was a wel)
known employee of the Tyrone Shoe factory. He
was married to Miss Ida Hewel, of Tyrone, who
survives him with one son. Interment was made
at Watsontown.
—Shortly after the death Wednesday of Henry
Beckman, a bachelor, in the aimshouse at Sha-
mokin, a lawyer informed Peter Drumheiser, a
life-long friend of Beckman, that! he had in his
‘possession a will made by the deceased in which
he bequeathed all his earthly belongings to Drum-
heiser. Several months ago Beckman entered
the almshouse, where he died. Drumbheiser, with
the will, went to that institution and claimed the
body and belongings of Beckman. The warden
turned over several hundred dollars and a bank
book showing deposits cf §2,000. This, together
with a property in Springfield, brings the value of
the estate up to about $3,500.
—With a two-ton flask dropped on him from a
i
'
! $10 purchases: | dispatch to the hospital, but not killed, the soft
Amount of tariff rate. Real value. Tariff | Ded having saved him.
| Sugar, 60.80 per cent $6.00 $3.75 | —Samuei ligen, a prosperous farmer of Sugar
: Giaw ae per Sent ont gn Fy | valley, died at his home in Logan township, Clin-
i 46 per cent 6.84 3.16 | ton county, Thursday of that dreaded malady,
Machinery, 45 per cent 6.89 3.11 | tetanus, more commonly known as lock-jaw.
Tinware, 45 per cent 68 $1 | About two weeks ago, while at work about his
ockings, $1 doz. 8 per cent 5.31 4.69 farm, Mr. ligen tred on a rusty nail sticking up in
Shirt por cont oz L{3 1 3 viace of wood. The nail penetrated the bottom
Fi Is. 40c a yard, 144 per cent 4.09 of his foot to a considerable depth, and the wound
A littlestudy of this table by the house- | wer, SUL PU week later a stiffness of the
wives might help them to figure out why | joints became apparent, with contracting of the
the cost of living is so high. It tells an... jes Dr. Wycoff, of Loganton, was called
eloquent story and it is absolutely true. | ang the ohysician pronounced the malady tet-
Roosevelt Rooseve! { anus. Antitoxine was liberally injected into the
wy it. | system of the unfortunate man who, despite all
From the New York Evening Post. | the efforts of the physician, continued to grow
Col. Roosevelt's “new-nationalism” plat- | worse. His jaws became firmly locked, so that
form was filled with eternal truths in | nourishment administered with difficulty,
which he had always believed. One of | adden pak wied He wflerrars. He wor
these related to purity in the methods of | 76 years old.
political cam e use of “corpo-| ry. pair Silica Brick com
am 1 — pany is the name
rate funds” in politics should be Probie of a strong corporation chartered on Wednesday
ed by law, now that Cortelyou and Bliss at Harrisburg for the purpose of engaging in the
Rooscectt, That being sotiid, the news | manufacture of silica fre brick at Claysbur.
thing is publicity Se : he next | Bar count, on the line of the uew Midland rail-
At Ossawatomie it was roundly declared: | ou rennin om Altoona to Cumberland. Me
x is particularly important that allmon- | p, Ross Wynn, the well known fire brick men, of
Purpose shoul Le publicly account or | PRLS: Willer I Shae snd Job ta
not only after el but before election | ;'y.ei- Sandy Ridge fire brick plant, and David
ist has spoken. But can he be the same |. “®H ey pany
Theodore Roosevelt who, less than two | yt CJ
years ago, took directly the te |
und ? From a letter to Mr.
ated at Washi
| and signed * t,
i learned at the time that it would be -
{ly improper to make public cam
i contributions before elections.