MITCHELL QUITS CIVIC FEDERATION Obeys Mandate of United Mine Workers. PRAISED BY SETH LOW | President of Federation Highly Com- | pliments Labor Leader and Ex . presses Regret at His Forced Action. John Mitchell has obeyed the man- date of the United Mine Workers and resigned from the National Civic Fed- eration in New York. President Seth Low accepted his resignation in a highly complimentary letter, to take effect Marcn 31. In his letter to Mr. Low, offering his resig- nation, Mr. Mitchell said: “My Dear Mr. Low—At the recent international convention of the United Mine Workers of America an amend- ment to the constitution of that organ- ization was adopted, providing that any member of the United Mine Workers of America accepting a posi- tion as representative of the National Civic Federation shall forfeit member- | ship in the union. “The amended constitution of the | United Mine Workers of America fhe comes effective on the first day of | April, 1911, ans as | am a member of that organization, as well as a = sentative of the National Civic Feder- ation, it is necessary for me to decide whether | shall retain my member- skip in the miners’ union or my mem- bership and position with the National Civic Federation. “It is needless to say that I regret | the action of the miners’ convention, | not so much because it requires me to | choose between the two organizations | as because of the unjust and gratui | tous attack upon the National Civie | Federation, which, in addition to its | many other useful public activities | has stood consistently as an advocate | of righteous industrial peace. “Under these circumstances | re- | spectfully request that you release me | from my contract to serve as chairman | of the trade agreement department of | the National Civic Federation and ac: | cept my resignation as a member of | the executive council and as a mem- ber of the federation itself, the same to become effective at any time prior to April 1 that is agreeable to you.” In his reply President Low dwells upon Mitchell's valuable services in| promoting industrial peace and says: “] greatly regret that action taken | at the international convention of the United Mine Workers of America, | which has constrained you to make this decision. Under the circum-! stances, however, | think the course | you have taken is both natural and | proper. On behalf of the National Civic Federation, | therefore accept’ your resignation from the executive | council and from the organization it-' self and release you from your con- tract as chairman of the trade agree- | ment department of the federation. All to take effect on March 31, 1911. It | should be known, however, that you | have offered your resignation from the | National Civic Federation in the face | of a specific proposal! on the part of | the federation to renew its contract | with you for another term of three! years. | “My regret for the necessity of our separation is personal as well as of- \ ficial. You will carry with you into whatever field you enter the best wishes and cordial regards of all your colleagues in the Nationa! Civic Fed: eration.” rolsing on Nothing. ! Away up in the afr, far beyond the mountain tops, the great condors will | hang poised as motionless as if perch- | ed on solid rock. True, their wings | are outstretched, but even through | glasses not the slightest motion is per- | ceptible. They remain in this position ! for many minutes, sometimes for an’ hour, making a careful scrutiny of ev- ervthing below them in thelr search | for prey. Then, with a slight tilting | of the wings, they flap slowly away, | or, having found what they were seek- | ing, dart like a bullet toward it. The | | eagle, hawk and other species have this same faculty of poising apparent. | ly on nothing. Banked Rails. In rounding a curve the tendency | of the weight of a train Is invariably | to shift to the outside wheels. i counteract this tendency the outer rail of a curve is raised on a higher level | than the inside, the elevation being in an exact proportion to the sharp-! ness of the curve as determined by the | | principles of engineering. If both rails of a curved track were of exactly | the same elevation a train would not | dare round it at high speed. Tender Hearted Youths. Sympathetic Old Lady—You're kind hearted boys to help that poor fellow up. Here's a quarter for some candy. Enthusiastic Small Boy (helping fat man worse for liquor)—Thanks, missus, but jest hang around a minute and watch th’ fun when he falls ag'in. | —New York Times. i | Comic Opera Milkmaids. ! “I thought I would Introduce a real ; cow into my comic opera.” “How did it work?" “Didn't work at all. The milk. maids frightened the cow."—Washing- ton Herald. { should help SAW ms STRONG POINT. | Story of Harriman's First Purchase of a Railroad. One morning in the early aightios Harriman walked into his office and without any previous warning an- nounced the purchase of his first rail- road. “Where'd you get the money for it?” asked his partners, “Never mind; 1 got it,” sald Harri man. The road was the Sodus Bay and Southern, running from Lake Ontario to Stanley, N. Y. It was thirty-four miles long and owned two crippled lo- comotives, two passenger cars and sev- en freight cars. “It isn’t even a real good streak of rust,” said a man who looked over it for him. Harriman pulled out his map. He was studying railroad maps even then. “It's got the best harbor on the lake,” he said. “The Pennsylvania road has got to buy it.” He started to build a big grain ele- vator and to fmprove the track. A few months later he disappeared from his office for several days and returned with a check for $200.000. He had sold his road to the Pennsylvania rail- road. “They had to have it” he sald “They saw it as soon as I showed it to them.” “But 1 saw it first.’ he added.—Mec- Clure's Magazine. THE SOUP PLATE. Seventeenth Century Cookbook Tells Why It Was Invented. A valet of Louis XIV. published a cookbook in 1635 In which he gives as follows the reason for the invention of the hollow soup plate: The plates of the guests will be hol- low in order that they may help them- selves to as much soup as they may want without being obliged to take it spoonful by spoonful because of the: disgust they may have for one another on seeing the spoon go from the mouth to the tureen. Guests, it will be seen, used their | own spoons to fill their plates. the FOUGHT IN THE TREES. Curious Duel Between a Pair of Fire Eating Frenchmen. In the swashbuckling days of the early part of the nineteenth century the dueling hero in France was the Marquis Merle de Sainte-Marie, whose affairs of honor were almost incessant. One of these is said to have been so ridiculous that it helped to set in mo- tion the current of feeling that has since made dueling so much less hou orable than it once was. It appears that one day there called upon the marquis ome Pierrot d'Issac. himself a famous duelist. Now, in French plerrot means sparrow and merle means blackbird. D'Issac struck himself on the chest with emphatic dignity. “Marquis.” sald he. “1 am a Bonapartist and you are a royalist. Moreover, | sm the sparrow and you are i'. hiackbird It seems to me hn there ix one bird of us too many.” “I quite agree with you. wousienr” politely replied the marquis, “und my cholce is pistols, and, us is appropriate for birds of our species, let us fight in the trees.” Plerrot d'lssac was agreeable to this unique suggestion, and as if it were not n sufficiently ridiculous thing that one man should challenge another be- cause his name was Sparrow and the othef Blackbird the duel wes actually fought from trees. The seconds stood on the ground below. At a given signal the pistols were fired, und there was a rustling amoung the leaves of one of the chestnut trees. Plerrot d'Issac came tumbling to the ground “like a ripe chestnut.” as one of Sainte-Marle’s seconds expressed It, whereupon Merle de Sainte-Marie In a facetious mood begun to chirp tri: umphantly in imitation of the song of the blackbird. D’Issac waited till he had recovered from his wound and then challenged Sainte-Marie for the chirp. This time there was nothing amus- ing about the encounter. It was fought with swords. and Sainte-Marie was badly wounded. The sparrow had avenged himself oun the blackbird.— large spoon to be used for serving the | New York Herald. soup not being invented till some time | later, Yet even a hundred years after the invention of the soup plate (1749) a work on civility advised that all the | | dishes should be so placed on the table | that every one could reach thypm with his spoon and that if the soup was served in a dish (tureen) every one himself with his own spoon without seeming to be in a hurry. A work on manners that appeared just before the French revolution deemed it best to advise its readers that it was lmpolite to pass the spoon back and forth between the month and ' the tureen. Difficult Horseback Feat. $ There are no better horsemen in the | world than the cavalry officers of the Italian army. yet even among them there are very few who could perform | the feat achieved by one of them. To run an ordinary foot race is easy enough, but to run at full speed for several hundred yards holding in one ! hand a spoon on which rests an egg ! and to reach the goal without dropping the egg is a feat which must be prac- | ticed carefully a long time before it can be performed successfully, and as a result there are not many who can be sure of accomplishing it whenever they try. Great, therefore. was the surprise when an Italian officer mount- ed on horseback performed this difii- cult feat. Moreover, he selected a course in which there were two or three high fences, and these he cleared at full gallop without losing the egg. Time For Stillness. Mrs. MacLachlan was kind to her American boarder, but she did not pro- pose to allow her to overstep the limits of a boarder’s privileges, and she made it very clear. One Sunday the boarder returning from a walk found the win- dows of her room, which she had left wide open, tightly closed. “Oh, Mrs. MacLachlan, 1 don't like my room to get stuffy.” she said when she went downstairs again. “I like plenty of fresh air.” “Your room will na’ get stuffy in one day,” said her landlady firmly. “Twas never our custom, miss, to hae fresh air rooshin' about the house on the Sawbath.” Too Strong. “My boy tells me you discharged i " him,” said the late office boy's mother. | “You advertised for a strong boy, and 1 certainly thought he was strong enough.” “Madam,” replied the merchant, “he was too strong. He broke all the rules of the office and some of the furniture in the two days he was with us.” mm— His Fishing Trips. “Pa, where do you go fishing?” “My son, I never go nehing nowa- days.” “Well, Mr. Snarler said Inst night | you were always throwing a sprat to | ‘satch a mackerel.” Courage. Courage that grows from constitu. tion often forsakes the man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.—Addison. Made Up by Herself. . Sillicus—We hear of many self made men, but seldom of a self made wo- man. Oynicus—How about the wo- man whose face is her RO a adelphia Record. The man who owes everything to his wife seldom pays it back.—Life. FORBES’ _ GREAT FEAT. His Newspaper Story ot the Last Days of the Commune. One morning after the siege of Paris, when the city was believed in London to be still in the hands of the com. mune. Sir John Robinson. manager of the Daily News of London, reached his office to find the late Archibald Forbes | Iying on the floor asleep. bis head on 2 postofiice directory. while the printess were hard at work on his manuscript. the story of “Paris In Flames,” a most i vivid description of the last days of the | commune, “Forbes had telegraphed from Dover announcing his coming.” sald Sir John Robinson, “the printers had been wait. | Ing, and thus the country heard of those terrible days for the first time. “London was ablaze with excitement Bouverie street was impassable through the newsboys shrieking for copies, and In parliament Mr. Gladstone was ques- tioned that afternoon and could only say he hoped the story was exagger ated. “When Forbes wakened from his slumber amid all this turmoil what a spectacle he was! [Is face was black with powder, his eyes red and in flamed, his clothes matted with clay and dust. He was a dreadful picture. Ye had heen compelled to assist the communists in defending a triangular space upun which three detachments of the Versailles troops were firing and had actually taught the citizens how to build a barricade.” By nid of dummy dispatches address- ed to Lord Granville and the queen Forbes escaped from this threatening triangle and wrote all the way to Eng- land, being the solitary passenger on the mail boat. Must Have Been a Storm Scene. “As perhaps there may be some one who has not heard the story of the Dutch painter, 1 tell it,” says Elihu Vedder in the Atlantic. “A person calling on this painter heard a most infernal uproar in his studio. Things seemed to be faillag and brass plates fiying about, and there were loud shouts. “The servant came to the door in a state of greet anxiety and told the vis- itor at once that the master could not be disturbed. *¢1 should think he couldn’t be much more than he is,’ said the visitor. ‘But what under the sun is the matter? “ ‘He is painting a sky.'” A Student of the Drama. It was at a performance of “Mac- beth,” and the three weird sisters had just made their first appearance and chanted their uncanny incantations when a handsomely dressed, intelli- gent looking woman in the third row turned to her escort and inquired. “What's the idea In having those witches? —New York Press. Deserved to Get it. “1 want to ask you for a bit of ad- vice,” said the insinuating man, “What is it? “] want you to put yourself in my place and me in yours and tell me how you would go about it if you wanted to borrow $10 from me.”—BEx- change, Rays and Raise. "Everybody emits rays. An angry man emits violet rays: a contented person emits pinkish rays." “Reound- interesting boss would emit n ten dollar ralse of salary "Louisville Courier-Journal. 1 wonder if my | ROBIN IS GUILTY BY HIS OWN PLEA Bank Wrecker Creates Sensa- | tion in New York Gourt. wrecker, pleaded guilty to an indict ment charging him with the larceny of $27,000 from the Washington Sav- ings bank, of which he was formerly president. Seven indictments against bim re main. He was remanded to the Tombs untii March 27, when he will be sen- tenced A jury to try Robin had been, with great difficulty, selected when he en: tered his plea The collapse of Robin's defense of insanity, put forward by his sister, Dr. Louise Robinoviteh, and his counsel, William Travers Jerome, former district attorney, had been foreshadowed when it was reported that Robin said he was “tired of all this fooling:" but it caused a stir in the court room none the less RUEF BACK IN JAIL Former Politica! Boss of San Fran. cisco Must Serve Sentence. Abraham Ruef, former political Loss of San Francisco, who has been cut on bail of nearly $250,006 for some time, pending the result of certain ap peals, is back in jail He was taken into custody just be- fore midnight, alter the state su. preme court announced that a recent order granting him a rehearing had been vacated. An order committing Ruel to San Quentin penitentiary, where he wil! serve a term of fourteen years for the bribing of Supervisor Furey, was made by Superior Judge Lawlor. FIRST BASE BALL ACCIDENT Batter's Nose Broken and Both Eyes | Bruised. | Hugh J. MacWilliams, a Cornell i student, of Wilmington, Del, was struck in the face by a base ball n practice at the university armory in | ithaca, N. Y., and severely hurt MacWw illiame, who was a likely can. didate for the Cornell nine, steppe! up to bat when his turn came. He didn't gauge the throw properly and was struck squarely in the face The bridge of his nose was broken and both eves badly bruised and cut. MacWilliams won't be able to play base ball this year. | MINER FELL 400 FEET Pittston Man's Body Found In Mine Shaft. Richard McCue, a resident ot Pitts. ton, Pa., was killed by a 400-foot fall down a new shaft o! the Pennsylvania Coal company. Whether he teli down accidentally or committed suicide will never be known. He was seen near the shaft and was warned away by the engl neer, who told him he might fall in He was not seen again, but when men came to work his body was found at the bottom of the shaft. Twenty-six Outlaws Killed in Cave. The notorious outlaw, Kakim Khan, who for many years has been a thorn in the side of the Northwest {ron tier forces in Pashawur, British India, was surprised with thirty of his fol lowers in a cave by a British force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Roos-Keppel, chief commissioner and agent to the gover- nor general of the Northwest frontier province. Hakim Khan refused to sur render and a machine gun hailed lead into his den until ali but ove of the party were killed. She Won. He was a _hilosopher and a talker. She was a woman of action. They stood together on the bridge and watched a tug that was hauling a long line of barges up the river. “Look there, my dear.” said he. “Such is life. The tug is like the man, working and tolling, while the barges, like the women, are”— His wife gave him no time to finish the sentence. “I know,” she sald. “The tug does all the blowing and the barg>s bear all the burden.” Not So Bad. “What's the worst you can say about him?" | “He hasn't an honest hair in his i head.” “Well, that's bad enough.” “Oh, not so bad as you think. 1 mean he wears a wig.” —Birmingham Age-Herald. A Dining Hint. Fletcher says you should “hold your face down" when you are eating, so that your tongue will bang perpendic- ularly in your mouth. To do this most comfortably get down on your bands and knees when you eat. explains the Chicago Record-Herald There is but one virtue—the eternal sacrifice of 326i —George Sand. Joseph G. Robin, the New York bank | James he decision of t pee imaries t er a sunt oni i SF the coutty ox the primaries to be held Saturday, June 3rd, are authorized to announce John Miler of Walker will nt Jor County reasurer, decision voters ihe: Sou A re, fon. We are authorized to announce the name of County Treasurer. LF Beef on of th to Democratic of the county at the general —— - — Dio got. give eggs 10 an early broody hen until she is surely broody, as like the weather at this season of the year, arc rather changeable. i New Adverti-ements. XECUTOR'S NOTICE.— Estate of Sarah Collins, deceased. Letters Ty oti Die Stiegl, Sarah Coffs, deceased. re Pennsylvania, been granted & Dt ets ae hereby notified a De without icated for set t to me delay, and those having cl said estate will present them ET aut tiomens, M. D. KITTELL, Executor. Ebensburg, Pa., Feb. 25th, 1911, 56-9-6t voters primaries to be held June 3, 1911. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY. requested nounce ro of Bellefonte, ill be a a Jor ay trict Attorney, o the decision of the Democratic voters as expressed at {he Kneral a Thess he county 2 Saturday, June We are requested to announce t Kennedy Johnston ci be a candidate he I District Attorney, the decision of the Demo- Yulers 00 coun fr el, the’ ty at the primaries to be the ic voters of oo at the pri. maries to be held June 3rd, 1911. Ww authorized to announce © vn, fn rian to te that John R. for County ? sublet io he decision he Democratic voters presesd I he nie. une 3, 1911. . Dunlap will candid for Couniy = at. 2 to the e or Count s JoASTE of the county a8 Expres wed a the primaries We are authorized to anno of Potte rt Comm T, unce John H. Runkle, oe Sr Democratic voters of the pressed at the primaries fe 3rd, Yon. ny. 48 eX We are authorized to i announce H. Noll Jr., of Spring t Jr., ol Sn ng oven, will be Be rin date Jor © _ to decis mocratic_vot: county Se at the primaries ein a of the cc Sat- urday, June 3rd. We are requested to annou Stover, of Penn n township eo Wa for {ounty omwsion oy er, subject to the decision of he Democ ers, jo Te June 3rd, 1911. > " pri We are authorized to announce D. A. Grove, of College township, as a candidate for County Com- m subject to the decision of the Demo- cratic voters of the Sounty as shown at the pri- maries June 3rd, 191 RECORDER. I hereby announce myself candid I Ths et cratic ers at t ma to be 3rd, 1911. Ebpwarn i MCKINLLY, ie township. We are authorized (0 announce that W. F Speer, of Bellefonte, is a ANOATe JOT Mis nation for Recorder by the Democratic party; subject to the primaries on June 3rd, REGISTER. We are requested to annouw that J. F Smith: of Cates Tall ol he a diate or Register sub to the decision of the Democra ic voters of the county as expressed at the Dolla . toh primaries to be held on the 3rd day of June ‘fhe First National Bank. "SNE STL ih rte 56-82t * "ali Furnace, Pa. Repairing. D. 8, CLEMENTS (WEST BISHOP ST., BROWN CORNER.) Repairs al] all makes of Sewing Machines. Has a fi fine of Repairs. Call Commercial ‘Phone. : | | » < s New Departure sin Business Surely, you must think well of any plan that will save you some on a set of Single Harness. Now it is up to you to make us make good. 4 » < » SCHOFIELD'S MAIL ORDER DEPT. send hen Why TO Dien money, with a A Set of Harness in Nickle or Imi- tation Rubber, at.. . $12.85 This harness is eal Jo. any v $15 set on the Genuine Rubber............ $14.85 which has no equal for for less than $17. roe, Rew of the harness Address all communications to E. N. SCHOFIELD, Mail Order Dept., Bellefonte Pa. to which he will cheerfully give his prompt yy GUARANTES The e above goods are as rep- resented or money refunded. James Schofield, SpringStreet 55.22 Bellefonte, Pa. TA VA TAT AT LST ATL. 4 » ‘ ; 4 b ; ; < » 3 ' < ; 3 » < » 4 » ‘ ’ < * 4 ’ 3 ‘ q { rr It is Habit that Counts. Why not try the saving habit. day is One Hundred dollars per year. Young man, You will find the second 56-46-1y have you ever had this much money? If you have not try the saving habit and see how easy it is to get it. easier, and by the time you have a thousand your fu- ture will be assured—for the saving habit will be fixed. The First National Bank, Bellefonte, Penna. Thirty cents a hundred will come much The ¢ Centre — Banking Company. “Store Robbed” “House Burned”, “Valuable Papers Lost.” These are newspaper headings you see all too fre- quently. But, fortunately, absolute protection for val- uables is not difficult to obtain. A Box in our Fire and Burglar Proof Vault is where your valuable pa: pers, gems and jewelry should be. It will cost you nothing and as you carry the Key it has all the Priv- acy of your own house with the security against fire and robbery that you cannot give it. If you're wise, you'll attend to this matter at once —now—today. be too late. Always a chance, that tomorrow may 3 per cent. paid on Time Deposits. The Centre County Banking Co. Bellefonte, Pa. EF
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