BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—There are lots of Democrats who will
be eager to lend a hand in every depart-
ment of the reorganization of the party
except paying the bills.
—Inasmuch as there will be twelve
Democrats in the next Pennsylvania Sen- |
ate probably Dr. STEWART is just as well
satisfied that he didn't make the thir-
teenth.
—If it is really true that Japan is com-
ing over to lick us we must admit that
she has been half way decent in giving
us the advantage of fighting on our
own dunghill.
—The wholesale price of beef has
dropped about twenty per cent within
the week. Pork is going down also, but
not far enough yet to be within the reach
of many of us.
~It would be a very simple matter to
decide to sell the Philippines. Quite
another thing to find a purchaser. There
is only one Uncle SAM in the world and
he always has been the “easy money”
artist.
—The election being over, the foot-ball
season about ended and the corn nearly
all in nothing remains to interfere with
your beginning work on that Christmas
present you are going to make for some
friend.
—Isn't it a pity that the Republican
newspapers that are now telling the
Democrats just what they ought to do
with the tariff didn't think of giving their
very excellent advice to the last, their
own, Congress.
—The women of Bellefonte are getting
so actively interested in so many forms
of club endeavor that we wonder who will
be left to darn the stockings and sew on
buttons if a few more traveling organ-
izers happen to come this way.
~The time is drawing nigh when the
man with the twenty-five foot front
won't look with envy at the two hundred
foot property of his neighbor. There
will be a vast difference in the amount of
snow to be shoveled at the two places.
—That Linn St. tragedy, Wednesday
night, must have been as thrilling as a
LiNcoLN CARTER melodrama. Anyway,
it was like most of the Carter productions
because all of the principals were killed.
Larry ate Bobo’s head off then Larry
was sent to dog heaven by the chloroform
route.
—After all there appear to be some
other sons of Yale who know how to
snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat
better than the Coinel was able to do.
We would suggest that he surround him-
self with TED Coy, RICHARDSON and a
few others before he goes into his next
political fray.
—Now that the Democrats are begin-
ning to plan what they will do when they
organize the next Congress we do hope
that they will remember that Democratic
principles and personal opportunities and
claims are very different things. It was
the former that the country voted for on
November 8th.
—Anent the talked of candidacy of the
Hon. GAssAwAY DAvis for United States
Senator from West Virginia, that State
nor the Nation do not need rich old men
nearly as much as they do strong young
men with ability to develop into states-
man of another type than has predomi-
nated in the United States Senate so
long.
—State Dairy and Food Commissioner
FousT is to start a war on the vendors of
wormy chestnuts. This move will meet
with the hearty approval of every person
who has crunched some of those nice big,
fat,juicy white worms while eating chest-
nuts in the dark, but we imagine brother
Foust will have his hands full if he hopes
to spy out all the inhabited chestnuts that
are offered for sale in Pennsylvania.
—From all parts of the county come
reports that the price of meat and food-
stuffs have started on a sharp decline.
Hogs are selling for a marked percentage
less than the top notch price and in some
places the retail price of pork has drop-
ped three cents. While live hogs are
bringing less money in Centre county
now than they did some time ago there
is no appreciable difference in the price
of pork to the consumer.
—ANDREW CARNEGIE made another gift
of a million and a half dollars to the Pitts-
burg schools bearing his name a day or
so ago. So much to his credit. But
should the measure of it be any greater
than that accorded the poor laborer who
gives a dollar or a dollar and a half to
the Bellefonte hospital. We are inclined
to believe the latter to be entitled to the
most credit because his small gift means
far more to him than Mr. CARNEGIL's.
—In speaking of the reorganization of
the Democratic party in Pennsylvania the
Harrisburg Patriot says: “There will be
no reorganization that will command the
respect and supprrt of real Democrats
that has any dealings with the men who
betrayed the party this year and who have
done so every year since they have had
it in their power to do so.” Very good,
but we would like to ask the Pairiof a
very pertinent question. Were the men
who betrayed (?) the party this year—
because they could—any worse than the!
men who could have prevented them
from doing so but would not?
! SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
© —As a result of yawning too vigorously Miss
ie Anna Ayers is now in the hospital at Connellsville
9 with her right jaw bone dislocated.
sn? has the contrac for faprisngtheseauctural
| pany contract
| iron for a new railroad station at Northumberland
| and already has made a shipment of material.
; —The next annual encampment of the Second
£ brigade, National Guard of Pennsylvania, may be
5 held at Indiana next year. Prominent officers are
% “RE Tavardble to the site und Indium business men
are pulling camp.
— ~The board of directors of the Annie H. Ross
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. - | Wbrary at Lock Haven, have decided to throw the
gp institution open to the public on Thanksgiving
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The Question of Reorganization. Great Victories Menaced. | Value of Mr. Morgan's Friendship. | Where Credit is Due. —Alexander Best, a well known resident of
Sane —— : ———e FR thie Hutvisbusy Star Independent. Danville, was burned to death Saturday afternoon
The proposition to “reorganize” the The recent Democratic victories in| The recent campaign revealed a good VF arohody fo you fan the corpora. | "hen his house bumed. He tried to start a fire
Democratic party of Pennsylvania de- Ohio and West Virginia are glorious but | many surprises and none of them was tions in this State “pay all but an incon- in a iichen range withthe 3ié of esioucse Which
serves the gravest consideration. Sena- 'can be spoiled. In Ohio the re-election more startling than the letter written by | siderable portion of the State taxes" and asloted unin unable
tor DEWALT, chairman of the State com. Of Governor HARMON, in itself a grand | THEODORE ROOSEVELT, then President of JR Piz kes from debt ow- Clinton leur Mobic: u'lanigpter county lads
mittee, urges it in forceful terms and achievement, was supplemented by the | the United States, to his Attorney Gen- | [78 © °F ecouoiiial ical slo wasshot and killed by a companion who was
JOHN CADWALADER, of Philadelphia, ex- conversion of the Legislature into a Demo- | eral, in which he asked the question Sutin 1. Republicans’ and | shooting at a mark. The lad was kicked in the
presses the opinion that "a new organiza. cratic body, thus guaranteeing the elec- | “whether we can afford to throw away you can give excellent Republican av Jase by a bore tHe Vise Wl 4 Sev do%s
tion of the Democratic party should be tion of a Democratic United States Sena- the great influence of the MORGAN inter- Shorty for so doing. There is no better later a heavy bel divgck Hi on , ren
made” ‘There i to tor in the event that the majority is just ests which have been so friendly to us.” | Republican authority in this State Merit bith unCORICIous $08 HOUS,
promptly 13 no room : : | former State Treasurer Sheatz. He was| —Moses Millington, a well known farmer of
dissent from this view except the diffi to itself and to the party it represents. The thinking public was aware that ,, honest and capable State official and | Siocum township, Luzerne county, and his &-year-
culty there would be in adopting a plan | In West Virginia there was no election . ROOSEVELT is a falsifier, a traducer and | he Sid fot wean s Collar, He old stn Joseph,died Monday from poisoning. They
' for Governor, present Republican in- ' a hypocrite. 1 read and | was official placed - | ate buckwheat cakes which were supposed to
that would be acquiesced in by all. for . » the t R na Se. AN men wie . ela. | esty and honor above factional OF party | have contained the poison. Two other members
In the recent campaign the party was Cumbent’s tenure running to 1913. But flect had information of his sinister {od aH yo a
defeated though it had an unassailable We got four out of the five Congressmen | tions with HARRIMAN and his secret con- | Gevera| times while he was Treasurer | recover.
candidate and occupied an impregnable and a majority of the Legislature on joint | spiracy to rob the insurance companies Mr, Sheatz said that the tions | Alonzo Meyers, of Rohersburg. Clinton coun
position in I of the Com. ballot, making the election of a Senator of campaign funds. Everybody was fa paid less of the State tax than they were ty, had a fine fat porker that died. To ascertain
ealth. Senator G i. | in Congress to succeed SCOTT, one of the ' miliar with his utter contempt of law | with paying. Forexample, he | ha wasthe causeof its death, a pig post mortem
monwi tor GRIM was nomi- | : | | addiessed the State bankers in session at ‘wat Jourdini the hag's
: i ! and the of his oath. But i was held, and this is what was
nated just as other candidates of the Worstin the lot, possible. i obligations NO- | Bedford Springs last year, and in the | go. A half pound of rustyiron nails, three
party have been chosen from the begin- A These splendid results can be neu- body even suspected his estimate of the | course of his remarks he said: tin cans, baking powder size, and several links of
ning. If an independent candidate had | tralized, however, if not entirely defeated, | value of the MORGAN friendship. D gi a little more than |
run against ROBERT E. PATTISON in 1882 by the election of improper candidates to | It has cost the country immensely, how. , one-half the revenue collected by our |“ _, "yyy car inspector in the employ
or 1890, that sterling chief magistrate | the Senate. In Ohio, for example, JOHN | ever, not only financially but morally. It| “ar Banker and Mr. Workingman, do | of the New York Central Railroad company, was
would have been defeated. Yet in both | R- MCLEAN, of Washington, D. C., is a | was this friendship with MORGAN which | you believe Mr. Sheatz, then State Treas. | Under a car in the yard at Avis, Lycoming coun-
: i | i i - 1 urer, who had no interest in distorting | ty: making some repairs, when a draft of cars
those years Mr. PATTISON was nominated | candidate. He owns property in Cin- | impelled ROOSEVELT to revoke an act of WhO rad re bg crashed into the cars and Hinkle was caught. His
precisely as GRIM was nominated this | Cinnati, claims a residence there and | Congress in order to enable the Steel them? Or do you believe the Machine | body wascut almost in two. Deceased was 40
year. His majority was much less than | Probably votes at long intervals. He also | trust, MORGAN'S greatest achievement, to organs and spellbinders? Go back to | Years of age and is survived by his widow.
Mr. GRIM’S would have been had there claims, now that the State has gone | absorb the Tennessee Iron and Coal com- Jour sdwshaper file for last September | —Raymond Brant, the 2.year-old son of Mr.
i Dem but he is and a of the ore | and read the address of Treasurer Sheatz. | and Mrs. H. Brady Brant, of 635 Grove avenue,
been Keystone organized. ocratic, to be a Democrat, but pany acquire a monopoly
no ys party organ: | ’ beds f the It will make you think. Johnstown, was the victim of a remarkable ac-
unable to hold the Democratic voters to | Years. On the contrary he is among the | try for all time. It was this friendship (he State debt is due to Republican leg: window of his home and alighted on his head on
the support of Mr. Grim. Either the most offensive and pestiferous trust | which supplied the corruption fund that | islation was entirely destroyed by Mr. | a concrete sidewalk. His fall was broken to some
organization is inadequate, therefore, or | emissaries in the country. His father was | purchased the election of ROOSEVELT in | Sheatz, who said: "The statement of | extent by hisstrikinga porch. The remarkable
. : : : : the sinking fund at the end of the fiscal | thing about the affair is that he escaped with the
the Democratic voters are perverse— a Democrat and left him as a heritage a | 1904. This friendship has been at the November 30, 1909, shows $7,117.94 ion of a few bru
largely the latter as shown by recent acts. | Democratic newspaper. But he has pros- | bottom of every iniquity that has been i oF te Common indebt-| washington Tressler, night watchman at
But in either event, there exists a condi- | tituted it and betrayed his party in dozens | perpetrated under the administration of | adness, a most satisf condition due | Eiklick No. 1 tipple of the Consolidation Coal
tion which requires a remedy and the | Of ways. ROOSEVELT and TAFT from the moment | to the orsign: Ziv by the mem- | company near Meyersdale, Somerset county, was
ult doug : | bers of the Assembly in the ses- | gnot 10 death by some unknown person Wednes-
concensus of opinion appears to be that| In West Virginia HENRY C. DAviS has | that an assassin elevated ROOSEVELT to | sion of 1858 who ted the sinking, gu Joe pe pes
the remedy lies in “reorganization.” That | announced himself as a candidate for | the Presidency of the United States nine | fund law, and to Gov. William F. Packer, SE body. No motive is assigned
being the case let the work proceed. In | election to the Senate to succeed SCOTT. | years ago. | who approved their acts. The people of | (or the murder and the murderer is unknown.
the language of SHAKESPEARE “if 'twere
done 'twere well 'twere done quickly.”
But how?
The Democratic organization is a
body chosen by the Democrats of the
several counties of the State, each one
acting under the written rules that they
have made for their own government and
which are now recognized and enforced
by the law of the State. It can neither
make nor unmake itself. As a body it
has not the power to choose or change a
single member no matter how unworthy
or unqualified he may be. Jt simply has
to accept as members, whoever the indi-
vidual counties indicate and do the best
it can with the kind of men that are
chosen under the rules of the different
counties. :
This official or that might resign but
the action would involve no change. The
chairman of the State committee is elect:
ed by the chairmen of the several county
committees, acting as a central commit-
tee, and in the event of his resignation
the same men who elected him would
choose his successor. What reason is
there for expecting that they would elect
a different man or a different type of
man?
The Democratic State Executive Com-
mittee is composed of the chairmen of
the Democratic Division Committees and
its members are elected by the County
Committees within the several divisions.
If they should all resign the same per-
sons who elected them would select their
successors unless all the chairmen of
Ceunty Committees should resign simul-
taneously. And even if that improbable
event should happen the vast majority
of them were elected by members of the
County Committees who would, in the
nature of things, proceed to re-elect the
same men or to elect other men of pre-
cisely the same type, so that little change
and no progress would be made by the
complex operation. Each of these com-
mitteemen are, moreover, protected in
the title of the office they hoid by the
letter and spirit of the law and the courts
are bound to support them. Haif a dozen
men in each county could, therefore, de-
feat any plan of reorganization that has
been or may be proposed.
So far as we are concerned any plan of
“reorganization” or any scheme of re-
juvenation of the Democratic party which
conveys a hope of improvement will be
most cordially welcomed. It is a shame
that in this year of Democratic triumph
Pennsylvania alone should stand out as
reactionary. We can’t see, however, that
it is the fault of the organization. The
State Executive Committee, the State
Central Committee, and the officers of
those bodies in the organization have ful-
filled their obligations to the full meas.
ure, or, at least a large majority of them
did. They exhausted every resource, in-
voked every expedient and bent every
energy to achieve a reconciliation of the
differences which divided the believers in
civic righteousness in the campaign.
But their efforts were defeated by selfish
ambition supplemented by the voice of
irreconcilable malcontents who have been
fighting the organization for years.
These are the forces of evil to coms
bat.
~The Bellefonte Academy will clcse
for the regular Thanksgiving vacation
He is the father-in-law and business
partner of STEPHEN B. ELKINS, who oc-
cupies the other seat in the Senate for
that State. He was a Senator some years
ago and betrayed the party whenever his
corporate interests and those of his son-
in-law required therecreancy. He did as
much as any other man in the State to
convert West Virginia from a Democratic
stronghold into a sure Republican State
and it is a safe guess that any Senator or
Representative in the Legislature who
votes for him for the office at the coming
session is bought by his money or that of
some corporation. |
The Democrats of Ohio and West Vir-
ginia must prevent the election of Mc- i
LEAN and DAvis at any hazard. There |
are plenty of capable and courageous !
Democrats in both States to choose from
and neither of these political mercenaries
will do. The Democrats in all sections
of the country feel deeply upon this
subject. Ohio and West Virginia must
be true to the traditions of the party and
faithful to the obligations of their con-
sciences.
Not a Good Suggestion.
Auditor General SissoN has discovered,
as he thinks, a new source of revenue, or
at least one which has hitherto been
practically neglected. It is the savings
bank deposits. Most of these are in the
names of children or working people of
meagre incomes. Wash women, servant
‘men are willing to pay as much. But
girls and in some instances young men
and women who have been prudently
saving their earnings "with a view to
matrimony,” have been depositing their
wages in saving institutions on time de-
posits. Auditor General SISSON imagines
that a great hardship is imposed upon
the State by this operation. At the rate
of a few mills on the dollar the taxing of
this increment would add considerably
to the treasury surplus farmed out to
favored bankers.
We have not the exact figures at hand
but presume that in this State there are
several millions of dollars of that sort of
money invested in that way. But it looks |
to us like 2 mighty poor way of raising
revenue, especially as we can see no rea-
son for adding to the revenues of the
Commonwealth. There is at present a
surplus of eight or ten millions of dollars
deposited in the various banks of the
State and it is safe to say that this vast
sum might be increased considerably
without reaching out for a portion of the
savings of widows, orphans and children.
Taxes that are levied on poverty are too
expensive even though they might be
easier to collect than those levied upon |
wealth. i
The expenses of the State government
|
ter of a century while the population has ,
not increased in that ratio nor has the
efficiency of government improved in!
the Auditor General might better cudgel |
his brain to find out how to diminish the |
expenses of the government rather than
In other words it would be infinitely bet-
ter for the people if less monev were |
industrious to meet the profligacies
administration. In the last analysis all
taxes come out of the pockets of wage
earners and there is no use in seaching
for new devises to extract more
next Wednesday.
from.
It has worked automatically both ways
during the years that have elapsed since |
the assassination of WILLIAM MCKINLEY. |
On the MORGAN side it has supplied the,
corruption fund necessary to finance any
infamous transaction that ROOSEVELT'S |
turbulent mind fancied and on ROOSE- |
VELT'S side it has given MORGAN control |
of the domestic as well as the foreign
policies of the government since the fa-
tal shot was fired at Buffalo. MORGAN'S
partners have dominated the Department '
of State in Washington and the Embas- |
sies abroad at every seat of government |
in which MORGAN had financial interests.
It has cost this country millions in treas-
ure, vast numbers in human life and
great oceans of shame. But it has serv-
ed the purposes of ROOSEVELT and MOR-
GAN.
1
v aml gwtmn |
Tariff Tax and Expense of Living.
The tariff adds to the cost of every ar-
ticle precisely the amount of the tariff
tax. If it happens to be a foreign prod-
uct the expense to the American con-
sumer is the market price abroad plus
the tariff tax and the cost of carriage. If
it is produced in this country the price is
fixed by adding the tariff tax and the
cost of carriage to the value in the for-
eign market. No reasoning man will pay
more for the domestic product than the
price of the foreign commodity, but most
the tariff tax figures as much in fixing |
the present day rest under a lasting obli-
gation to those officials for that wise bus-
iness precaution which has slowly led the
{ Commonwealth from an indebtedness of |
$39,488,243.07 into an excess of $7,117.94
over gid, above all liabilities November
The f ph will be found
in the he ate Treasurer for
1909, ch was printed and distributed
some months ago. The ture and
the governor mentioned the State
were
Democratic. t
of the claim that he Faying of the public
debt was due to Republican legislation.
Tariff Taxers and the Home.
From the New York World.
The table is being laid for a meal. It
is a pleasant
the operation but has received the eager
attentions of the Payne tariff tax law. It
Te
begins right with the table itself, which
is tariff-taxed 35 per cent.
_ The table cloth, if a cheap cotton one,
is
damask it must never be tariff-taxed less
than 50 per cent.
Should it be of drawn work that is
made in a little European village or a
convent it pays 60 per cent. tax.
The plates for each member of the
family are tariff-taxed 55 per cent. if they
are plain white; if they are ever so slight-
ly decorated the duty is 60 per cent.
The knives at each place are tariff
taxed 14 cents each in addition to
that 15 per cent. of their value.
The forks are tariff-taxed 14 cents each
and in addition to that 15 per cent.
The spoons are tariff-taxed 45
cent.; the wooden salad spoon only 35
around; it's cheaper.
The carving knife is tariff-taxed 10
sight. And not a stage of
tariff-taxed 40 per cent; if it is of linen
| Tressler was aged 50 years and is survivedby a
widow and a number of children.
i =The Altoona Motor Club announced it had
received a communication from J. D. Dysart, a
wealthy resident of Blair county, saying he wil]
| again offer $600 in cash prizes to the township
| supervisors making the most improvements on
| their respective roads during the year. The offer
| last year proved an incentive to road building.
| It is said the Judges will inspect the 802 miles of
| pubilc highways in the county within a few days
' and award the prizes.
| =Three dwelling houses, all the property of
1 J. H.Steele & Co., of Dagus Mines. Clearfield
| county, were destroyed by fire Sunday last. The
| loss on the buildings will amount to about $1,800.
+ The fire originated in the residence occupied by
| Frank Broscus. His wife and himself were pain-
fully burned and they lost all their household
goods. The other two houses were occupied by
Thomas Walsh and Jacob Mosenmiler, and Mike
Shinkinger, the two latter “batching.”
Buried beneath tons ¢! flaming cinders and
red hot ashes, stunned by the flow of clinkers
upon his head and shoulders, Frank Myers, an
, employe, of the Mosser tannery, Williamsport,
{ whose home is on Water street, in the West End,
, was horribly burned Sunday morning as he was
superintending the cleaning out of the tannery
, boilers. Myers was imprisoned beneath the
| molten crust for nearly five minutes before
Clarence Bernstine and George Kirk dug him out.
! ~The brick industry at Watsontown is sur-
passing all expectations. While the projectors of
the plant were fully aware from the very start
that they had a most valuable proposition in the
, vast acres of raw material and that the product
| must prove satisfactory, not one of them enter-
| tained the idea that the product would so soon
per | forge tothe front as a real leader in the local
| brick world. It has reached that point, and the
| per cent. Better use wooden spoons all | perplexing question is what to do to supply the
| orders pouring to the office from every quarter.
| =Totally ignorant of the danger that surround-
the price as the cost of labor or the cents, the carving fork 10 cents and the : ed her and under the impression that she was
charge for raw materials. - All elements |
of expense must be taken into account in
regulating prices.
In the economy of the household the
expenses of all articles used must be tak-
en into account in reckoning the cost of |
living. There must be furniture, carpets, '
kitchen utensils, cutlery, crockery, i
bed. |
ding, linen and various other articles to |
make up a home. If these articles are |
tariff taxed from forty to one hundred
per cent. the expense of procuring them |
is increased in the ratio of the tar- |
iff tax. A stove to cook on and a bed to Sent. and
sleep in are quite as essential to comfort- '
able existence as food to eat or clothing
to wear. Necessarily, therefore, the tar-
iff tax on these essentials increases the :
price and enhances the cost of living to
that extent. Nobody outside of an asy- |
lum will dispute this. {
If a husband buys a Brussels carpet,
upon which the tariff tax is sixty per
cent,, and the entire cost fifty dollars, he
pays twenty dollars for the carpet and
thirty dollars for the tariff tax. If it is.
an imported carpet, which is rare, the
tax, less the cost of collection, goes into |
which is usual, twenty dollars are for the !
wholesaler and the retailer have already |
had a profit, and the thirty dollars go as |
unearned bounty and unjust tribute to
that proportion. Therefore, to our mind, ‘the manufacturer who subsequently con- | to acquit the tariff as it was,
tributes part of it to the Republican cor-
ruption fund. But the purchaser of the
carpet is robbed mercilessly in either !
in discovering new sources of revenue. ' event. }
{ —The first consignment of granite M
taken out of the earnings of the State's | tiling for the court house porch and steps |
of | was unloaded on Monday. Whether the
tiling and steps will be put in place this
i fall will naturally depend entirely upon
there- | the condition of the weather after the
- granite has all been received.
steel 10 cents, and in addition to that
are all taxed 15 per cent.
th
The salt cellars are tariff-taxed 45 per
cent.
The cruet for oil 60 per cent. and the
cruet for vinegar also 60 per cent.
Or do you still combine them all in a
castor?
Payne tax law taxes metal castors 45 per
cent. and glass ones 60 per cent.
The water jug or decanter is tar-
iff- 60 per cent. and the wine or
water glasses also 60 cent. If they
are cheap pressed tumblers it is 45 per
cent.
The meat platter is tarifi-taxed 55 per
e cups and saucers 55 per
cent. If there is soup, the soup plates
are taxed 55 per cent. That is, if they
are plain; any decoration makes them
taxed 60 cent.
The or tea pot is tariff-taxed 40
per cent. The straw mat it rests on 35
per cent.
Are you setting the table for dinner?
The candelabra is taxed 45 per cent. the
Sandles 25 Per cent. and the little shades
cent.
cotton napkins are tariff-taxed 40
per cent.,or napkins of linen never less
than 50 per cent., so says the Payne tar-
iff tax law—never less than 50 per cent.
The Only Thing They Could Do.
| the treasury. If it isof domestic make, . From the Philadelphia Record.
The Massachusetts commission which
have nearly doubled within the last quar- | carpet upon which the manufacturer, the made a report on the increased cost of
's |
State, by a Republican A odges
livi uitted the tariff, of course.
pi created in Senator
could not do otherwise. And yet,
it admitted
enable Henry Wade
dean of the Yale Law School, to refute
ar a tha clas
0 ng van
therefore our tariff can have nothing to
do with it. Dean Rogers quotes from the
assachusetts report that the cost of
food in Massachusetts has increased 60
per cent., while- in England it has ad-
vanced half of that or less. If the cost
of living has increased under conditions
that exist all over the world, why, asks
the dean, has the cost increased in Mas-
It makes no difference—the |
| carrying water, 11-year-old Mildred Anderson
| Monday tripped along, having in each hand a pail
| of nitroglycerine, which had been prepared for
| shooting an oil well on the Cameron farm near
| washington, Pa. As she carelessly swung the
; pails half a dozen oil drillers stood breathless a
| hundred yards away fearing every moment to see
the child hurled into eternity. At a command
| from her father, the child sat the pails down, and
| was taken out of danger. The men, unnerved,
| suspended work for the day.
{ =8, M. Heisey, of Lock Haven, had an odd
! experience recently while in the orchard of his
| brother at Haneyville, Clinton county.
| by a strange noise in the bushes. Suddenly a doe
{ leaped to its feet and stood gazing at him. Then
| a fawn followed and took its stand by the side of
| the doe. Last but not least a large buck was
| aroused and when it saw Mr. Heisey started
| leisurely away, followed by another fawn. The
| quartette passed along the fence for some dis-
| tance, did not appear to be at all frightened and
| iy dissppeated in the Wools,
i —Wilmer Mears, aged 24 years, of Dixonville,
| on Saturday was out hunting when he was ac.
| cidentally shot and perhaps fatally injured. With
i his father, two brothers and a brother-in-law he
| left his home and the party had considerable good
! luck, but late in the afternoon when preparations
| were being made for the return home, the
yuung man accidentally knocked his gun against
the teeth and burying itself at the base of the
| nose. The paper wad was located near the left
‘eye. Mears was removed to the hospital at Dixon-
—By the will ot the late Hon. Simon P. Wolver-
| ton, the First Presbyterian church, of Sunbury,
| receives a legacy of $1,000, which is to be placed
| on interest and the income devoted to church
| needs. At the time of his death and for years
| previous, Mr. Wolverton was president of the
i board of trustees of the church. The Rush
and | Presbyterian church, which he attended when a
| received a similar bequest. The Rush Baptist
| church received a legacy of $500, which isto be
used for the care of the graves of the grandpar-
ents of the deceased man, which are in the church
cemetery. The rest of the fortune remains in
. the family, which consists of his wife, his son
| and two daughters, after a few other legacies are
! given to others of his relatives. Senator Wolver-
Saciiusetis so much more than in Eng: 'ton's fortune is estimated at from $300,00 to
$500,000,